Where fish are stars
Chef Gary Tottis says he prepares the freshest possible fish in a simple way, then complement it with a light salsa that doesn’t mask the flavor of the fish. A couple appetizers have an Asian edge: tuna sashimi and lobster-shrimp spring rolls. Lemon sole is lightly breaded and served with a lemony sauce flavored with…
Best of ballot
Vote for your faves!…
Steamed
Hedonist dens or havens? Danger zones? Bathhouses clearly stir debate….
Hush life
MC grows up, in and out of Detroit rap….
Detroit vs. Omaha
I’ve said it before (well, if you caught me in my cups and pontificating windily, anyway) and I’ll say it again: Detroit’s rock ’n’ roll scene could pimp-slap any comers. But let’s all put our money where our mouths are. (Bad image. Sorry.) Anyhoo… Why should sports-talk radio have all the fun with barstool arguments?…
Blues transformations
The premise of Paul Garon’s short book about the once popular but now relatively obscure blues singer and pianist Peetie Wheatstraw is that although there’s a dearth of biographical facts about the man, much can be divined from the lyrics of his songs, if properly interpreted. Garon sees Wheatstraw — who was born William Bunch…
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Geezer: H
Weezer: HH
Director Stephen Norrington (Blade, 1998), with very little help from screenwriter James Dale Robinson, wastes the rich potential of Alan Moore’s comic book series. You’d think there’d be more to LXG than crash, bang, shoot, shoot, but there isn’t.
Audioslave butchers Stripes; documentary revisits heady punk days
Low fidelity Raise a glass in celebration to the wonders of vertical integration. That particularly tortured rhyme was made possible by the folks — Dave Buick, Dion Fischer and Warn Defever, most specifically — behind Young Soul Rebels Records (formerly Buick’s Italy Records) and Brown Rice Studios which have now both opened for business on…
Diving into desire
French director François Ozon’s first English-language film reunites him with Charlotte Rampling, the star of his most satisfying feature yet, Under the Sand. It’s a convoluted and interesting story of revenge, though you may have to mull it over a while afterward to figure out who has gotten revenge on whom and why — with…
The Eye
In this stylish and fairly irrational Hong Kong horror film, a young, blind girl undergoes a cornea transplant operation meant to restore her sight. Afterward, it becomes clear that she can see dead people and, as a kind of evil bonus, also seems to be able to foresee disastrous events.
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I hope you decided against participating in that contest in which you would have competed to see who could bang their head against the wall the most times before passing out. I trust you also turned down any invitations to show off your amazing wounds or prove how attractive your problems…
Cunnilingual drift
Q: Now that your readers have successfully coined the term “santorum,” why don’t they co-opt the name of another hate monger? After being fired from his MSNBC talk show for telling a gay caller that he should “get AIDS and die, you pig” and “go eat a sausage and choke on it,” shock-jock Michael Savage…
Warding off race
Poor Ward Connerly. It must be difficult being colorblind in a society so full of color. Imagine a penguin trapped in a valley full of peacocks; no matter how much the little fella tries to tell himself they’re all just a bunch of birds, the evidence is quite to the contrary. A millionaire businessman and…
July 16-22, 2003
16-19 WED-SAT • FUN FOR ALL Ann Arbor Art Fair — It’s easy to be enchanted by Ann Arbor. With its strong sense of community, turnstile of cultural events and welcoming ambience, a day spent in A2 is good for the soul. So after 33 years, it is no surprise that the annual Ann Arbor…
DEMF spin cycle
Nothing is simple regarding the event formerly known as the Detroit Electronic Music Festival. Detroit DJ Carl Craig says he’s celebrating a victory in his case against former DEMF producer Carol Marvin; Marvin’s attorney, Anthony DeLuca, says the jury decision last week is “absolutely” a victory for Marvin. Marvin fired Craig on the eve of…
Punk-rock block party
There isn’t much to say about the Fourth Street Fair that hasn’t already been said. If you’re a lifetime fan of the festival, then you already know just how freakin’ great it is. And if you’ve never been, you’ll simply have to go. End of story. However, let’s extrapolate a bit. For about a quarter…
Garage sale bonanza
Most bargain-hunters missed out on the mother lode of good stuff at the City of Detroit’s garage sale held last weekend at Cobo Hall. There was plenty of junk on hand Saturday, when News Hits found piles of metal car and truck parts, huge tires, dilapidated lawnmowers, busted snow plows and street cleaners, and a…
Through a lens darkly
At Susanne Hilberry, three women photographers trouble the waters….
How the Democrats can win
The thought that life could be better Is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains. —Paul Simon It’s a bit hard to imagine today, but the Democratic Party once realized that people wanted to believe in a better future. Not only that, the party knew people were drawn to leaders who could convince…
Letters to the Editor
An Englishman’s opinion I don’t believe I have read a sillier article than this one, ever (“Dizzy over Lizzie,” Metro Times, July 2-8). Not only is Seagle’s “method” completely unoriginal, it is effectively a pyramid scheme. To, as writer Ronit Feldman says, “Find the two numbers that will multiply to 36 and also add to…
A base in chaos
Adam Winnie doesn’t have a television. He does, however, have a coffeemaker — good thing, because he needs it. While many 21-year-olds are still in bed, trying to sleep off last night’s party and cursing the pounding footsteps outside, Winnie is at work. It’s a beautiful Saturday morning and this baby-faced guy is taking a…
Technical foul
Despite their denials, News Hits suspects that federal prosecutors are secretly kicking themselves over a key decision they made early in the case of basketball star Chris Webber and his father, Mayce Webber Jr. The trial was set to begin on Tuesday. But on Monday the government offered Webber a plea bargain and will likely…
Perseverance
Abandoned Shelter of the Week The Abandoned Structure Squad (known as ASS to fans and critics alike) often zeros in on neighborhood blights unworthy of anything but a wrecking ball. This week’s featured home is a mirror opposite to that scenario. Saneetha Satterwhite has looked forward to moving into 4242 Trumbull since she bought the…
Everyone loves Journey
Everyone loves Journey. And Journey loves America. Hence, if you do not love Journey, you hate America. For concrete proof of this theorum, visit Journey’s moving tribute to America. Obviously, this painfully funny and artfully bad site was not composed by the band itself, but by some wiseassed fan several years ago. See it for…
Dancing machine
Known best for its themed DJ Nights and Mini Cooper-clad exterior, Luna is a club that has seen its fair share of changes. Forever updating its decor, but dedicated to the dancer in you, Luna’s events range from goth gloom-and-doom music nights to White Stripes video appreciation night. Whoever you are, whatever you dig, there…
Speak of the dead
“Strom was a man of integrity and honor, and he helped many people.” — South Carolina State Sen. Kay Patterson, eulogizing former Senator Strom Thurmond, July 1, 2003 “If a guy’s a cocksucker in his life, when he dies he don’t become a saint.” — Morris Levy, music-business pioneer and convicted felon, date unknown Chicago…
