http://www.metrotimes.com/ Recent Metro Times Content. en-us Copyright 2010 Metor Times http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14769 by News Hits staff. Seeing as how the hale and hearty crew here at News Hits hasn't yet found a way to qualify for a state-issued medical marijuana card, we made a beeline for the Marriott Hotel bar in Ypsilanti and ordered ourselves two or three (or was that four?) white Russians in honor of Jeff "The Dude"... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14768 by News Hits staff. Whether they're suffering as relatives pilfer money from their Social Security checks or experiencing outright physical beatings, Mary Cay Sengstock knows the state could do more to protect its elderly citizens from abuse and neglect. The state even said so, says Sengstock, a Wayne State University... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14767 by Curt Guyette. You haven't seen Carrie Guzman on the television shows hosted by archconservatives Bill O'Reilly or Glenn Beck. Her name hasn't appeared on the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal. And she hasn't shown up in any surreptitiously videotaped sting operations conducted by youthful right-wing zealots. ... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14766 by Doug Coombe. It seems fitting that the roar from the Hounds Below should be a stone's throw from Ferndale's Alcoholics for Christ meetings. The band is, you'll note, Von Bondies' frontman Jason Stollsteimer's new band, and they rehearse in the attic of the bungalow he just moved into a couple of months ago. Stil... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14765 by Metro Times readers. Strike a pose I appalud Mr. Gabriel for wishing to practice his tai chi in public spaces. This gentle and useful art is practiced around the globe by countless millions of people and has health benefits too numerous to mention here. Whatever the reasons the security guards had for stopping him, it... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14764 by Leslie Savan. You know how you can tell the Age of Reagan has ended? Because at his State of the Union address, Barack Obama didn't do any of those ordinary-folks-who-make-a-difference shout-outs to the gallery, as every POTUS (that is, Populist of the United States) has since the Gipper's first SOTU in 1982. But... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14763 by Jack Lessenberry. Last week Gov. Jennifer Granholm actually did blow me away for the first time since she took office more than seven years ago. What's more, she did so in a positive way — twice. First, she came out strongly in favor of holding a convention to rewrite Michigan's now-broken Constitution. More t... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14762 by Metro Times food staff. Tuscan son — At 6:30 p.m. Feb. 11, winemaker Michele Scienza, from the Podere Guado al Melo estate in Italy, will host a winemaker's dinner at Modern Food & Spirits. The small, 42-acre vineyard is in a hilly, stream-crossed part of Tuscany, under grape cultivation for centuries. Have a tas... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14761 by D'Anne and Laura Witkowski. When faced with Michigan's bitter winter nights, you basically have two choices — down a bottle of Wild Turkey and clutch its empty husk to your chest while curled up in a snow drift, or head somewhere warm where you can rock with good bands and good beer. On a recent Thursday, the Wonder Twin... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14760 by Detroitblogger John. Her grandfather was a slave.  So was her grandmother, who had white features she inherited from the man who'd raped her mother. When Bettie Birch was growing up in Jim Crow Mississippi, these were the kinds of stories the family would tell the children. For her, as it was for many others, black hi... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14759 by Dan Savage. Q: Let's say, theoretically, I'm a pedophile. I'm not stupid or evil, so I'm not gonna do anything. I'm not even gonna look at porn, because the production of it involves child exploitation. Hell, even porn that's just drawn pictures — perverts drawing smut for perverts with no kids or anyone... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14758 by Travis R. Wright. Two weeks ago we looked at four metro-Detroit organizations competing for a cool million, thanks to an innovative, Facebook-fueled grant giveaway ("Chasing the buck," Jan. 13). Facebook votes propelled Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, Friendship Circle and Sikhcess, both from West Bloomfie... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14757 by Michael Corbin. Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men by John A. Rich Johns Hopkins University Press, $24.95, 232 pp. Tayvon pulls his shirt back down after showing me the scar that extends below his waistband to his groin and up to his sternum. About an inch wide, raised,... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14756 by Brett Callwood. The word "duende," often used by flamenco musicians, describes that soulful time when, after hours of jamming, the music becomes less together — more instinctive and loose. It's the joy to be found in formlessness. A duende is also a Latin-American goblin or elf. When considering the... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14755 by Metro Times staff. 22 years ago in Metro Times: Almost the entire week's paper was devoted to talking about "Detroit's Strategic Plan." City council members, professors from three different Michigan colleges, a pastor and several journalists are all asked for their take on the city's $750,000 plan to rejuven... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14754 by Metro Times food staff. Al-Ajami 14633 W. Warren, Dearborn; 313-846-9330; $: Al-Ajami is comparable to a slew of other Middle Eastern restaurants in the area, but is much less expensive than most of them. Chef and co-owner Stephan Ajami offers 15 seafood dishes. Also good are the chicken lemon, which combines grilled chick... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14753 The Boiling Point - by Mikhaela Reid ... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14752 by Megan O'Neil. THURSDAY FEBRUARY 4 Earl Lloyd Reception BASKETBALL JONES In 1950, the four-year-old National Basketball League saw the first of its teams drop the bar on African American players. Of the season's three integrating pioneers, Earl Lloyd of the Washington Capitols gets a special place in hi... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14751 by Brian Smith. His fans know it's astounding what he can ring off inside four minutes. Besides pop hooks and tender epistles, you get literary gibes and folk-derived strolls through suburban dreams, slacker ennui and barstool tragedies that can simultaneously take the piss out of hipster totems and yupster self-gr... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14750 by Metro Times staff. How Many Licks? (or, How to Estimate Damn Near Everything) by Aaron Santos, Ph.D. Running Press; 175 pp. In your entire life, how many times will you poop? And if you collected it all, how much would it weigh? Would it all fit in a train car? What about an Olympic-size swimming pool? I think abou... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14749 by News Hits staff. News Hits went to court Tuesday morning to continue covering the case of Diane Bukowski, a freelance reporter for The Michigan Citizen convicted last year on two felony counts involving charges that she either resisted arrest, obstructed justice or endangered an officer. Bukowski was arrested on El... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14748 by Sandra Svoboda. Editor's Note: When staff writer Sandra Svoboda said the clashes over public education were a Shakespearian-level drama unfolding, we said, "go forth, our muse, and tell the tale in the bard's vernacular." The result unfolds before thee, dear reader. Miss Juliet and Mr. Romeo are fictional... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14747 by Chris Handyside. You wouldn't know it to scan the room, but the four dudes gathered in the living room of a rented Woodbridge house on a recent Sunday evening are the core of one of the most productive, dynamic and vibrant gangs of sound and vision this city has birthed in the last few years. They operate under the... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14746 by Metro Times readers. Sierra Club on Moroun's plan Whoa, Jack! Before you do the whack job on the Canadian Sierra Club ("Unstoppable Matty," Jan. 20), you should know that the Sierra Club on this side of the border also doesn't support the new bridge. Along with other eco-whackos — such as Michigan Envir... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14745 by Metro Times staff. 21 years ago this week in Metro Times ... Frank Provenzano investigates the incinerator after employee Bernie Labowitch scooped an empty coffee can of ash out of the incinerator. Later test results showed high levels of lead, cadmium, nickel and mercury, all in the face of the city's refusal to analyz... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14744 by Doug Coombe. Even futuristic techno isn't immune to the march of time — Juan Atkins' pioneering Metroplex label is having its 25th anniversary this year. And the (tongue-in-cheek) "janitor" of Metroplex, Anthony "Shake" Shakir, is celebrating the 15-year anniversary of his own Frictiona... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14743 by Jim McFarlin. Think being the centerpiece of a TV reality series sounds like a ton of fun? Having a gaggle of cameras recording your every move as if you were some kind of Kardashian appeal to your fantasies of fame? Consider the other side of the picture, as presented by vinegar-tongued comedian Eddie Griffin. ... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14742 by Metro Times food staff. Winter warmers — At Royal Oak's Bastone, chef Robert Young has dreamed up a new winter menu to help shake off winter's chills. Enjoy steaming-hot pasta paired with a favorite award-winning craft brew. Still hedging? Everything on the menu costs less than $15. Drop in at 419 S. Main St., Royal... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14741 by Walter Wasacz. Five years might as well be an eternity in the here today, gone tomorrow underworld of dance music culture. Raise your hands, clubbers and ravers — who can remember what made you sweat 'n' shout during the dark winter of '05? Well, if you were in Cologne, Berlin or Detroit, it was probably som... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14740 by Larry Gabriel. I stopped in at the office of Project BAIT the other day. No, I wasn't looking for worms or minnows. BAIT stands for Black Awareness in Technology. At least that's what it stands for today. In 1970, when BAIT's For My People black public affairs television show first aired on Channel 50, it stood fo... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST