High-voltage mastermind
“Every music is electronic music right now,” says Carl Craig, CEO of Planet E Records, world-renowned producer, DJ-at-large and artistic director for the first Detroit Electronic Music Festival.
Three to get ready
They’re making new waves in Detroit techno – Carlos Souffront, Fanon Flowers and Theorem – and helping to broaden what’s meant by the “Detroit sound.”
Kiss me deadly
MOT excels with Puccini’s grandly tragic Tosca….
Center Stage
A cross between Fame and The Turning Point, Center Stage follows a group of students during their first year at the prestigious American Ballet Academy. All the movie clichés about backstage life are front and center in the screenplay by Carol Heikkinen (The Thing Called Love), from the small-town girl proving herself against all odds…
Leave them all behinds
New York DJ-production team and junkyard junglists Ming + FS get back to party rocking on the “Deep Concentration” tour.
Rock mask replica
A journey into the talking heads of a band of crackers….
Dinosaur
On a strictly technical level, Dinosaur is an amazing advancement for animation. These majestic creatures, who exist today only as bones, are brought vibrantly to life and romp in a three-dimensional landscape. Directors Ralph Zondag and Eric Leighton have fashioned an exciting adventure film which supposes that the meteors, which (in theory) wiped out all…
Depict yourself
A shade here, a tone there, with Tiffany Palizzi’s new line of makeup….
Mission Impossible II
Forget (and it’s not difficult) Brian DePalma’s frantic, confused Mission: Impossible, the first movie based on the 1960s television series about a crack team of superspies. All that remains in John Woo’s supercharged Mission: Impossible II is star-producer Tom Cruise, the always marvelous Ving Rhames, impossibly elaborate gadgetry and screenwriter Robert Towne, who has streamlined…
Heaven is in the details
What sets the Century Club apart is the attention to detail. The menu features solid favorites, heavily weighted toward meat-lovers, as well as vegetarian crepes and two fish entrées. A word of warning though: There are two theaters in the same building (the Gem Theatre and the Century Theatre), which can jam up the reservations…
Civil disobedience
OK, OK, if we must have an entertainment-obsessed culture, with its incumbent proliferation of glossy mags enough to make even the most fertile of rabbits jealous, at least let them all be as cover-to-cover engrossing as Mean. Better still, let them all be as in touch with situationist politics and able to nimbly undermine the…
Cafe De Marquis
Know what you’re in for at Café de Marquis, an independent coffeehouse in downtown Royal Oak–one does not get assembly-line service here. It’s the perfect place to enjoy specialty selections, such as coconut latte, banana frappe, or ice cream while the relaxing and artistic atmosphere conjures images of an extravagant tropical vacation.
Road Trip
Here’s the not totally unpromising premise: Josh (Brecklin Meyer), a college student in Ithaca, N.Y., is having his first protracted separation from his longtime sweetheart, Tiffany (Rachel Blanchard). The relationship seems to have hit a damp spot as Tiffany, who is matriculating in far-off Austin, Texas, hasn’t been returning Josh’s calls. So, in a moment…
Small Time Crooks
Done in a manner similar to, but not as good as Take the Money and Run and Bananas, Small Time Crooks will still delight most audiences. In Woody Allen’s latest comedy, the emphasis is on Ray (Woody) and his wife Frenchie (Tracey Ullman) fronting a cookie shop in a ridiculous bank robbery scam. Ray, a…
