Cannabis businesses in metro Detroit are getting robbed, smashed, and left to fend for themselves

The wave of break-ins comes at a time when Michigan’s cannabis market is struggling

Macomb County high school vandalized with racist graffiti, prompting outcry over school’s response

In an email to families, the school’s principal failed to mention that the graffiti contained racist language

School district in Macomb County admits principal mishandled racist graffiti incident

The principal “failed to communicate this issue properly,” the district said
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Image: Downtown Detroit’s Free People store has an opening date (2)
By Lee DeVito
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By Steve Neavling
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Police respond to an antiwar demonstration at the University of Michigan Museum of Art on May 3.
By Steve Neavling
In Warefare, the men are brave, cowardly, callous, insane, broken, and terrified in equal measure.
By Jared Rasic, Last Word Features
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono in New York during the 1970s.
By Kara Frank
The interior of La Serre in Ann Arbor’s Vanguard Hotel.
By Lee DeVito
Chick-fil-A has opened a new store in the Detroit area.
By Lee DeVito
Cava is slated to open at 636 Woodward Ave., Detroit.
By Lee DeVito
Slows Bar BQ opened in Corktown in 2005.
By Lee DeVito
Jason Moran 2025 Detroit Jazz Fest Preview Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center at Wayne State University Tuesday, April 15
By Ryan Patrick Hooper
Jack White and his band performed two sold-out shows at the Masonic Temple on Saturday and Sunday.
By Ryan Patrick Hooper
Image: University of Michigan’s UMS announces 2025-26 season
By Lee DeVito
Image: Detroit-area dispensaries celebrate 4/20 with cannabis deals (2)
By Steve Neavling
Image: 8th Street Canna Launches First Store with 420 Street Fest in Hazel Park on April 19
By Metro Times Promotions
The Gramz Cannabis Outlet in Romeo.
By Steve Neavling
The Cannabis Regulatory Agency proposes a new rule to collect discarded vape cartridges.
By Steve Neavling
Freaky Tales This passes the vibe check. A batshit-crazy anthology of interconnected stories (set in 1987 Oakland!!) following a goofily animated green lightning that shapes the fates of several disparate Californians. If you’re like me, this movie has it all: punks vs. Nazis, rap battles, narration by Too $hort, fake cigarette burns to give the film that old-school theatrical texture, a deep love of 1980s Oakland and Bay Area hip-hop culture, a deep obsession with genre movies, the Golden State Warriors, kung-fu, cartoonish violence, Pedro Pascal, sword fights, and so very much more. Filmmakers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck take all the tricks they’ve learned in 20 years as writer-directors (including their toe-dipping into studio blockbusters with 2019’s Captain Marvel) and made what feels like a deeply personal and goofball love letter to their youth and the things that make them happy. It’s not perfect, but what is? At the end of the closing credits, there’s a brief moment where the statement “This movie was made in its entirety by human beings” appears. Just a group of people making a movie about Oakland in the 1980s with sword fights and rap music. Humanity at its best. Freaky Tales Grade: B
By Jared Rasic, Last Word Features
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