http://www.metrotimes.com/ Recent Metro Times Content. en-us Copyright 2008 Metor Times http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13463 by Jeffrey Morgan. Look what Jeffrey Morgan's Media Blackout #196 dragged in! Poison — Seven Days Live (Armoury) :: What can you say about an album that actually dares to list one of its eleven songs as: "Drum Solo"? You said it. Walls of Jericho — Redemption (Trustkill) :: Five femme-fueled po... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13462 The Boiling Point - by Mikhaela Reid ... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13461 by Metro Times food staff. SUSHI TOO — Mount Clemens' Fondue Room has long offered diners the chance to dip bite-sized morsels before popping them in their mouths. So it's not much of a stretch to offer sushi as well, and a new sushi menu by chef Michael Chee, who prepares and serves his creations personally to each... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13460 by News Hits staff. News Hits visited last week's big Voices for Action Poverty Summit at Cobo to catch a rousing speech by Martin Luther King III.The son of the slain civil rights leader did not disappoint, delivering a message equal parts outrage over economic injustices that have "families wading through the h... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13459 by Sandra Svoboda. Racquets sweep the badminton birdies across the nets in second-hour physical education class at Carver Middle School in Warren. Some are returned. Others land on the gymnasium's varnished floor. The two-player teams aim for long volleys but don't keep score as they rotate "opponents" every few... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13458 by News Hits staff. If Diane Bukowski worked for the Detroit News or Free Press or any of the local TV stations, everyone would already have known about her arrest while covering a fatal traffic accident that took place following a police chase on Election Day.But, toiling as she does for the weekly Michigan Citize... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13457 by Larry Gabriel. I feel a lot better post-election 2008 than I did the last two times around. In 2004, it was weeks before I could watch the news for fear of seeing George W. Bush and his smarmy smirk.This year, as the euphoria ebbs over electing Barack Obama next president of the United States, talk has moved... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13456 by Doug Coombe. Tim Vulgar's art and music are as avant-garde as they are low-tech. Or more like old-tech. The frontman and guitarist of the punk-performance art ensemble Human Eye (and the fab Clone Defects) has been pushing musical and visual boundaries with seemingly crude tools for years — he might... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13455 by Jim McFarlin. In the afterglow of euphoria (and, let's face it, some bitterness and disgust) over this month's election of our 44th president, we all have been reminded that race in America is still no laughing matter.Few people anywhere can speak to that reality better than Tim Reid.Yes, that Tim Reid. You m... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13454 by Metro Times readers. Mercury: Staff is mixed We were writing to inform you of our concern with Jane Slaughter's review of the Mercury Coffee Bar ("Neighborhood perk," Nov. 12). Jane's introduction was not only inappropriate, it was not factual. She states that we have an almost all-white staff, but only 45 percent... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13453 by Jack Lessenberry. The facts couldn't be more starkly clear. Unless Congress bails out General Motors with a massive loan sometime in the next six weeks, the giant corporation will likely go bankrupt.That may well lead to a ripple effect that will doom Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler too, not that Chrysler really ha... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13452 by Metro Times music staff. The plan was quite simple: Name the top 50 (or in this case, two more for extra measure) people who gave — or are giving — shape to the current Detroit music scene. Similar annual lessons have been around for years, but most of them tend to focus on "power" in sheer financial terms,... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13451 by Megan O'Neil. WEDNESDAY • 19 FUTURE OF MICHIGAN DESIGN GRAPHIC SCHMOOZING The Future of Michigan Design celebrates the mitten's long-standing and (hopefully) continuing contributions to the field of graphic design. The event features artists and graphic designers Edward Fella, Nelson Greer and Ron... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13450 by Dan Savage. Q: I am a straight, cross-dressing male into bondage. That's not my problem. Recently, I began seeing a professional Dominatrix for forced cross-dressing, among other things. She was great, but our last session ended abruptly when She told me that She wanted to start dildo training me. I was a... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13449 by Detroitblogger John. Sleazy acts sometimes beget sleazy settings, and when folks want to act on sordid things they can't practice at home, they can visit places like the Cabana Motel on Harper. The Cabana is a seedy, no-tell motel on Detroit's east side that offers rates for stays as short as two hours.Its custom... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13448 by Metro Times film writers. On the Rumba River First Run Features It's rare for a documentary centered in central Africa to be uplifting, but the story in On the Rumba River is so positive it's joyful. While director Jacques Sarasin doesn't shy away from the political, social and economic turmoil that defines the past an... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13447 by Jeffrey Morgan. Fasten your seatbelts! We're in for a bumpy Jeffrey Morgan's Mediaeval Blackout #192! Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark — OMD Live: Architecture & Morality & More (Eagle) :: Archly melodramatic like an old Bette Davis Warner Bros. weeper populated by ciggy-smokin' automatons. Now, Voya... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13446 The Boiling Point - by Mikhaela Reid ... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13445 by Metro Times food staff. Urban oasis — A recent study proclaimed Detroit a "food desert" where residents buy most of their food at party stores and gas stations. But local activists have been fighting to put fresh food within reach of city residents, and one recent development is a new food store, Peaches &amp... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13444 by News Hits staff. Last week marked the fifth time that the local group ACCESS hosted a national conference highlighting health issues in the Arab-American community.Judging from the attendance and the breadth of topics at the Dearborn Inn, we'd say the event also highlighted the extent to which ACCESS has gained... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13443 by News Hits staff. Riding the wave of community spirit launched by Barack Obama's victory last week, News Hits optimistically attended a discussion about the future of Detroit held at Sacred Heart Church near Eastern Market on Saturday."Look forward at what we can do instead of backward at what we used to do," m... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13442 by Metro Times readers. Voter compassion I'm writing to express my gratitude to the voters of Michigan, who courageously and compassionately made Proposal 1 law. This historic initiative will bring relief to countless friends, family members and loved ones.It's so much the worse for those who so stridently opposed its... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13441 by Doug Coombe. When Detroit gospel-soul-jazz-funk-techno keyboardist-vocalist Malik Alston heads back to his pad after a gig, he really is going home. You see, his south-of-Boston-Edison crib-studio is also the house he grew up in. His maternal grandparents originally owned the home. "When I was growing up... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13440 by Megan O'Neil. WEDNESDAY • 12 BRIAN WILSON FUN, FUN, FUN! The sad fact is that most of pop music's living legends are dead. You can count the living "living legends" on two hands these days ... but Brian Wilson would undoubtedly be near the very top of the list. As the genius architect behind the B... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13439 by Liz Hill. Sex and the end of the world: That's perhaps the best way to describe the music of Octopus (or the Octopus; it doesn't matter which, according to the band). Well, that and a long list of other things that band mastermind Joe Frezza is passionate about: Comic books. Conspiracy theories. Salvia ... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13438 by Jack Lessenberry. Wouldn't it have been something to have been able to bring Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. back Nov. 4, and have sat them down, invisible, in Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church?Imagine sitting them in front of the two giant TV screens the church had put up for this night, a night most... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13437 by Chris Handyside. Gardens — the newest project from the dudes who brought you the joys of the Genders — share a natty urban-underbelly garage savoir faire with '90s NYC heartthrobs Jonathan Fire*Eater, featuring thumping Velvets-y whomp and strum that sounds like a Bohemian amateur dance party night... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13436 by Lisa M. Collins. So Kwame Kilpatrick is in jail and Detroiters are reading about what he ate for breakfast. As a reporter who covered Kilpatrick for this paper and The Detroit News, it's been surreal to watch the scandal from afar. (I live in New York now.)My memory of Kilpatrick is still of a man larger than... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13435 by Lee Gardner. Not long after U.S. Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden learned he was going to be named the director of the National Security Agency (NSA) in 1998, he and his wife went out on a date. The Haydens lived in Seoul, South Korea, where he was stationed with the United Nations Command, and they decided t... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=13434 by Dan Savage. Q: I have to say I'm disappointed.Proposition 8 passed in California, as did anti-gay-marriage amendments in Florida and Arizona. Decency and compassion suffered a horrible blow, and I was hoping to hear a few words from you about it. Some inspiration before I took off from work to go and prot... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST