Raw and Rare
Live records, by definition and track record, haven’t been the best way to meet a band. But over the years they’ve provided career-defining moments for many a rock ‘n’ roll outfit — Cheap Trick’s Live at Budokan and KISS Alive both spring to mind. Raw and Rare might be that strange example of both ideal…
Teeth For Pearls
So if Jack were Meg and Meg were Jack, and, as long as we’re at it, if six turned out to be nine, you just might have L.A.-by-way-of-Frisco band the Dagons. That’s honeysuckle-throated Karie Jacobson (early Siouxsie meets the Cardigan’s Nina Persson) on vocals and guitar and Mo Tucker acolyte Drew Kowalski on skins. With…
One-week wonders
Spirited MC battles at Lush are a land of hip-hopportunity….
Taking on Taylor
Over the past 25 years, Hugh Davis has made a career of suing hundreds of police officers accused of misconduct. Now the 60-year-old civil rights attorney is taking on the Taylor Police Department. Davis represents four people who allege that, in separate incidents, they were beaten or otherwise abused while in the custody of the…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): This horoscope is a collaboration between me and Rumi, a Sufi poet who died 730 years ago. “All disquiet springs from a search for quiet,” Rumi would like you to know. “And so the best way to cultivate inner peace,” I add, “is to learn to love the way everything keeps…
Gruesome stew
Hell and the House of Atreus at the Stratford Festival….
Microminiature Love
By way of bringing you up to speed, this is a long-lost garage-psych artifact hailing from the war- and dope-challenged year of 1968. Michael Yonkers, a Minneapolis guitar whiz and gear geek, had landed his band a contract with Sire records, but when the deal went south the tapes wound up going unreleased — until…
Champion of the Arena 1976-1977
As reggae historian and archivist Steve Barrow’s Blood & Fire label as been proving for the last six years or so, reggae’s heyday was concurrent with America’s lapse into disco and overblown AOR rock. On this latest Blood & Fire comp, attention turns to former Skatalites keyboardist Jackie Mittoo, best known for his victory-charge keys…
Making art their business
As a budding art writer in the 1980s, I went to the unveiling party for the art collection at the newly opened Riverfront Towers in downtown Detroit. Over a glass of cheap white wine and a sparse spread of munchies, I met Paul Cornwall-Jones, director of Petersburg Press, which had published the Frank Stella, Tom…
Agents, gadgets & glasses
Geezer: 3 stars Weezer: 1 star Tex-Mex director Robert Rodriguez shook up the movie world in 1992 by making his hit shoot-’em-up debut, El Mariachi, for a grand total of $7,225 — particularly since it was full of jolting action, blood, sexy ways and a wicked sense of humor. Within a few years, he…
Northfolk
Northfork is the third feature by twin brothers Mark and Michael Polish, the two acting as dual screenwriters with Michael directing. In their debut, Twin Falls, Idaho, the brothers also starred as conjoined twins, one of whom was slowly dying, and the film established their singular and oddly unsatisfying cinematic style which consisted of a…
Seabiscuit
For those who feel dubious about seeing a plucky animal film, be assured that there’s plenty of human suffering here before the main character, who happens to be a horse, even shows up. Seabiscuit’s owner, Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges), rises from a humble bicycle repair shop owner in 1910 to a self-made millionaire industrialist some…
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
The season’s second sequel to a girl-power moneymaker arrives in the form of Angelina Jolie’s flawless, superhuman body. The good news is that Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life is actually better (not that that’s saying much) than Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, the console-to-celluloid adaptation of the best-selling video game series of the…
Bad news News
Detroit News top brass is ducking questions about two veteran journalists who have been quietly canned. One of the two admits his firing was due to an ethics breach, but won’t disclose what he did wrong. The other would neither confirm nor deny that ethical questions played a role in his firing. Columnist George Cantor,…
How to lose a fetish
Q: I’ve got an incest fetish and while I don’t plan on acting on it, it’s still very annoying. I was also raped repeatedly by a sibling as a child. At first I was upset by this, but I eventually began to enjoy the sex. So I hate myself. Is this common? I’m seeing a…
The wags try Kobe
I was at the bar between sets at Sindbad’s on the Detroit waterfront when I heard that Kobe Bryant had been charged with rape. “What?” I said. “Are you serious?” The bandleader nodded. Oh, yeah, he was serious. “They charged Kobe Bryant with rape, man,” he said. That’s when the horn player piped up, saying…
Suicide machinery
Band matures with new album and spot on Warped Tour.
July 30-August 5, 2003
31 THU • THEATER Much Ado About Nothing — The Waterworks Theater Company has been rehearsing diligently for months, and the costumes have gone through their final nips and tucks … bring on the Shakespeare. This 1930s take on a slightly abridged version of the classic Much Ado About Nothing has put the sport back…
TRTL 4 profit
It was only a matter of time before capitalism would wrap its greedy fingers around the unholy Detroit graffiti image known as TRTL. Freelance artist Jeremy Harvey of Oakland County has trademarked the design — a simple outlined profile of a turtle that’s spray-painted all over metro Detroit, causing controversy due to its unwanted presence…
Reporting rape & other follies
Women are, as we all know, delicate creatures who cannot be exposed to the harsh glare of public scrutiny. Their main value lies in their unspoiled sexual purity. If this is lost, even against their will, and it becomes known, they are tainted for life. Do you believe that? I hope not. That kind of…
Songs to suck by
News flash: Bat child found in cave. If you’re a tabloid reader (and who doesn’t scan the Weekly World News while the checkout clerk’s scanning the Froot Loops?), this will come as no surprise. After fleeing his hometown of Hope Falls, W.Va., Bat Boy has led federal agents on a cross-country chase, gnawed on innocent…
Just deportees
Two beautiful, perfectly wrinkled women in flowered dresses with straw hats and fiery eyes, part of a group known as the Raging Grannies, were among about 50 people who turned out Monday to protest the deportation of Salma Al-Rushaid, who was put on a plane with her four children that day and sent to her…
The dirt on Supagroup
Unsnap the shiny new leather cuffs, take a razor to the $75 haircut and tell the A&R man to take a hike — Supagroup has entered the bar. Formed in the seedy rock ’n’ roll underbelly of New Orleans in 1996, these four longhairs are burnouts on the high road — and all they want…
Dudley doobie
As Metro Times reported previously, marijuana has become a hot topic in the coldest third of North America. To make a long story fit: Because of a judge’s ruling, the Canadian providence of Ontario technically has no law against possession of small amounts of marijuana (under 30 grams). It seems the government ignored court orders…
Slipped discs
As a kid with no life, I would often spend long, fatiguing hours at used record stores scouring bins for that one album title that couldn’t be found in any mall or chain store, one that wasn’t uttered on a schoolyard, or scribbled on some notebook. The hunts became a musical tutoring, a visceral and…
Letters to the Editor
What’s in a name? Thank you, Keith A. Owens, for your column on Ward/Wardell Connerly (“Warding off race,” Metro Times, July 16-22). You nailed it perfectly — what is the man trying to prove by avoiding a name that would easily identify him as probably being black? That probably says more than an hours-long psychological…
Beaten down
Abandoned Shelter of the Week The weatherbeaten American flag hanging limply from the flagpole beside 1300 18th Street bears testament to the home’s present state of duress. Built in 1885, the careful woodwork and scalloped trim suggest the large colonial might have once been quite a looker — a vision in cream with delicate accents…
Mostly marine
There’s plenty of fish bric-a-brac about, some lovely, some kitschy. The broiled seafood platter comes with crab cakes, scallops, shrimp and tilapia; it’s plenty for two. Parmesan-encrusted sole suffers from too much crust and too much cooking. There’s a small wine list, divided into four categories (such as “light and crisp”), making it easier to…
Payday for Defects; Royce and Proof eat beef
Road dogs Hit Singles fave teeth-gnashing quartet, the Clone Defects, have just returned from a gushy-press-fueled US stomp that included stops in the South, Midwest and on the West Coast. “Uh … all the shows were great except for some of the weekday shows,” says bleary-voiced Defect yowler Tim Vulgar, who, at 1 p.m., has…
How to lose a fetish
Q: I’ve got an incest fetish and while I don’t plan on acting on it, it’s still very annoying. I was also raped repeatedly by a sibling as a child. At first I was upset by this, but I eventually began to enjoy the sex. So I hate myself. Is this common? I’m seeing a…
Savage Love
How do you get rid of a sexual fetish? I’ve got an incest fetish and while I don’t plan on acting on it, Dan, it’s still very annoying. Second, I was raped by a sibling as a child. Repeatedly. And while at ?rst I was upset by this, I eventually began to enjoy the sex.…
How to lose a fetish
Q: I’ve got an incest fetish and, while I don’t plan on acting on it, it’s still very annoying. I was also raped repeatedly by a sibling as a child. At first I was upset by this, but I eventually began to enjoy the sex. So I hate myself. Is this common? I’m seeing a…
Lisa Marie is everywhere
Just ask her dad, Jacko and Nick Cage….
