http://www.metrotimes.com/ Recent Metro Times Content. en-us Copyright 2009 Metor Times http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14524 The Boiling Point - by Mikhaela Reid ... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14523 by Dan Savage. Q: I'm a 20-year-old girl, and I've been dating my boyfriend, who is 23, for two years. From the get-go, he has known that I am bi, and like most straight guys, he's happy to be with a girl who likes girls. The thing is, I am too shy to go out and hit on a girl. Getting a man was the easy part, but... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14522 by Sandra Svoboda. Hours after a judge on Tuesday ordered a new trial for Dwayne Provience — imprisoned eight years for a murder that prosecutors at points have said he didn't commit — he emerged from custody to the embraces and tears of family and supporters. "This is a load off of my back. I want t... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14521 by Megan O'Neil. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5 Ann Arbor Film Festival Screening STOP IN THE NAME OF TIME The Ann Arbor Film Festival takes its 47th annual show on the road, conducting screenings at universities, galleries and art house cinemas across the country, including this stop in Detroit's Midtown. AAFF director Don... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14520 by News Hits staff. The pictures stay on the lawn.  That's the upshot as the city of Grosse Pointe Park withdraws its appeal of a lower court ruling that found its sign ordinance unconstitutional. The Park city fathers had gone after Erica Chappuis, and her husband, Laurent Chappuis, for erecting her paintings in the... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14519 by News Hits staff. For some, downtown Royal Oak's proposed 10-screen theater and bowling alley, with its already-approved liquor license, is the harbinger of suburban ruin. To them it promises parking woes, unwanted traffic and a "big box" operation that will be out of character with the walkable downtown an... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14518 by Metro Times readers. Don't trust Moroun I write regarding your News Hit "There goes a secret" (Oct. 21), about the inspection report finding the Ambassador Bridge in "fair" condition. Matty Moroun, the enigmatic owner of the Detroit International Bridge Company, was hoping you would blindly trust i... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14517 by Larry Gabriel. The 2010 United States Social Forum is planned to be really big. Organizers expect 20,000 to 30,000 grassroots progressive activists to converge in Detroit June 22-26 for meetings, demonstrations and get-your-hands-dirty work around town. Members of hundreds of progressive groups around the world ar... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14516 by Jack Lessenberry. Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed off on the last of this year's state budgets last week, avoiding, for now, a government shutdown. Unfortunately, in the process, she sold out our future, doomed vast numbers of schoolchildren, and betrayed the people who elected her. Then, naturally, in classic fashion... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14515 by Travis R. Wright. The Slasher Killings: A Canadian Sex Crime Panic, 1945-1946 by Patrick Brode Wayne State University Press $22.95, 232 pp. In the mid-1940s, Windsor, Ontario, was a freewheeling incubator of vice. Troops returning from the war were welcomed home with a bevy of booze, houses in which to play... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14514 by Metro Times game reviewers. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 Acclaim Xbox 360, Ps3, Wii, PSP Any comic fan will tell you that comics have grown up, and contemporary ones often make allegories of real-life current events. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 takes foreign policies on terror and civil rights and adds superheroes into the m... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14513 by Metro Times film writers. Stop Making Sense (25th Anniversary Blu-ray) Vivendi As soon as you wrap your head around the fact it has been a quarter-century since Jonathan Demme and David Byrne teamed up to create Stop Making Sense, you may settle into another realization: Despite the intervening years bestowing a sort of cl... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14512 by Metro Times food staff. TV dinner — Celebrity chef, author and television host Anthony Bourdain will be in our area this Saturday, at Ann Arbor's Michigan Theater. Billed as "An Evening with Anthony Bourdain," the star of No Reservations will take the stage that night. In the grand foyer, ticket-holders wil... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14511 by Brett Callwood. It's been, appropriately enough, six years since Detroit's Electric 6 released their Fire album, capturing worldwide attention with their combination of disco, garage rock and tongue-in-cheek comedy. (The disc was especially well received in this writer's native U.K., where the band's camp theatrics... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14510 by Serene Dominic. Recently, I got a chance to see Bob Dylan bring his "never-ending tour" to a state fair. The real show, however, was watching the simple folk who gorged on Indian fry bread, cotton candy and turkey legs (that were only slightly juicier than a 2-by-4) getting to wander into a Dylan concert... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14509 by Metro Times food staff. Al Sultan 425 N. Inkster Rd., Garden City; 734-522-1500: We think this place is a contender for "Best Hidden Gem of Middle Eastern Food," given its generous servings, excellent quality and off-the-beaten-path location. Generous vegetarian plates (falafel, moujadara, and veggie gallaba) don... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14508 by Rebecca Bowe. Peter Phillips, director of Project Censored for 13 years, says he's finished with reform. It's impossible, he said in a recent interview, to try to get major news media outlets to deliver relevant news stories that serve to strengthen democracy. "I really think we're beyond reforming corporat... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14507 by Corey Hall. Be advised, things get messy in Evil Dead: The Musical, a wild night of theatrical chills and subversive musical thrills where the laughs are as plentiful as the gore. If the front three rows of patrons decked in plastic ponchos weren't a strong enough clue, several signs taped up in the Ringwald Th... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14506 by Megan O'Neil. THURSDAY-FRIDAY OCTOBER 29-30 Damned II THE ART OF DEPRAVITY Local and international artists — 140 of them — including Swiss surrealist HR Giger and Marilyn Manson are featured in Damned II: An Exhibition of Enlightened Darkness. More than 200 works explore the depraved and disturbing... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14505 by Jack Lessenberry. Everybody's sick of the state budget crisis, and for good reason. The idiots in Lansing have not only screwed us over, they have bored us to death. We've had pretty much all we can take of droning Andy Dillon, the caveman-like Mike Bishop and our governor. Probably the nicest thing you can say abou... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14504 by Sandra Svoboda. Dwayne Provience is doing 32 to 62 years in prison for the 2000 murder of Rene Hunter, who was gunned down at a northwest Detroit intersection. But now, as Provience attempts to win his freedom, his attorneys are pointing to the fact that, in 2003, the Wayne County Prosecutor's office argued in a s... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14503 by Travis R. Wright. It's just before seven o'clock on a Thursday night in downtown Detroit, and we're making our way toward Cliff Bell's, a legitimate (now revamped and legal) speakeasy in the city's theater district. The club's curved awning crests the street's horizon like some sort of beacon; it's a striking club in... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14502 by News Hits staff. That Bill Milliken has always been an insight guy. As governor from 1969 to 1983, he worked for education reform, urban policy and civil rights. He signed the state's Freedom of Information Act, which allows the public to access governmental records. He ushered through environmental protection meas... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14501 by News Hits staff. With November fast approaching, election season is heating up. No, we're not talking about the Detroit mayor's race or City Council contest. We're talking about the 2010 election to determine who will replace Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who can't run again because of term limits. We bring this up now b... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14500 by Metro Times readers. Death be proud Jack Lessenberry's largely irrelevant regurgitation of Dr. Jack Kevorkian's preoccupation with death, his quirky artwork, etc., ("I did know Jack," Oct. 21) reminded me of the long-ago criticism of Gen. Ulysses Grant's fondness for booze, and President Lincoln's reported ri... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14499 by Bill Holdship. Although there are certainly other candidates, the man born Roger Kynard Erickson 62 years ago in Dallas, Texas, just might be the greatest rock 'n' roll cult hero of all time. But first, some backstory ... It was always a personal pipe dream — to host a panel at South by Southwest or one of... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14498 by Doug Coombe. Lately Detroit appears to be on the verge of becoming Nashville North. To add to our impressive soul, rock, jazz, hip hop, blues, techno and noise scenes, there's now a honky-tonk and outlaw-tinged country music scene drawing inspiration from the hard-working blue-collar towns in our midst. Downrive... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14497 by Paul Knoll. It's time to mutate out of the saccharine sweetness and sentimental nonsense of the mainstream and get all dark. Or, um, something. Or maybe because it's Halloween it's time when a goofy B-movie reviewer gets to dress up as legit film critic and use three-syllable words? At any rate, 2009 has seen a... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14496 by John Thomason. I think we're all getting a bit tired of the same old "Top 10 scary movie" pieces rolled out by lazy newspapers around Halloween. We find it a lot more interesting to find the scariness in films that aren't supposed to be scary. These moments from DVDs released in the past 12 months scare... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14495 by D'Anne and Laura Witkowski. This is the time of year when things get pretty scary in Detroit, and a visit to one of the area's haunted houses is a must for a well-rounded Halloween experience. Over the years, haunted houses — not to mention haunted barns, haunted hayrides, haunted funeral homes and haunted golf courses &... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST