12th Annual Blowout: Band schedules, links and more.
Go here for all updates, etc! https://www.metrotimes.com/blowout/schedule.asp
Detroit Derby Girls kick ass
The Masonic Temple drill room was packed Saturday night with 800-plus fanatics, from babies to blue-hairs, to see the Detroit Derby Girls Travel Team, comprised of the best players from Detroit’s four derby teams, annihilate the St. Louis Arch Rivals 153-91. After a close first half, the hometown team rolled easily into victory in front…
2009 Metro Times Hamtramck Blowout Schedule.
For info on locations, hotel deals, press credentials, buying wristbands, etc check out the headers on www.metrotimes.com/blowout https://www.metrotimes.com/blowout/schedule.asp *lineups subject to change
WHITE STRIPES’ DRUMS FOR JIM SHAW
The benefit show for one of the local music scene’s favorite people, Jim Shaw, is coming up on February 7th at the Magic Stick. Much more on that later. In the meantime, however, we thought it would be cool to post that, among other very cool things, Jack and Meg White have donated the drumset…
THE WONDER TWINS ON VIC CHESNUTT…& ELVES!
In their first review of the new year, MT’s own “Wonder Twins” — Laura and D’Anne Witkowski — comment on Vic Chesnutt’s show at the Pike Room last night, Wednesday, January 28th: D’Anne: Let me start off by saying I think openers Elf Power have the best band name ever. Laura: It is a great…
Mitten Movie Night
Every month for the last few years, the Mitten Movie Project has taken to the screen, showing some of the best short subject films from around the state and beyond. It happens the first Tuesday night of every month, half-screening, half-party, a way to showcase local talent and bring local movie folk together. If you’re…
What’s in a word?
Depending on your point of view, suburban indie guitar rock is either in crisis or healthier than ever. The cynical take would see this most brainy and self-aware of musical genres as a dying star, something once hot and bright that’s lost its fire. Or, to hop to an uglier metaphor, as an artistic family…
For the Dead
As the yellow flower tattoo on her forearm might indicate, Misty Lyn Bergeron wears the heart of her songs on her sleeve. For the Dead, the debut album from one of Ann Arbor’s finest contemporary units, embraces that iconic image in all its seasonal and metaphorical forms. Over the course of the disc’s 11 tracks,…
Detroit Mayoral Candidate Questionnaire: Dave Bing
Dave Bing Q: If elected in the May special run-off election, and, assuming you are among the two finishers in the August primary, what three things can you promise to accomplish before the November run-off election? A: 1) There is a perception that crime is rampant within the city. This view keeps senior citizens and…
Detroit Mayoral Candidate Questionnaire: Nicholas Hood III
Nicholas Hood III Q: If elected in the May special run-off election, and, assuming you are among the two finishers in the August primary, what three things can you promise to accomplish before the November run-off election? A: 1. Place a turnaround specialist team on staff immediately after the May election that reports directly to the Mayor with…
Detroit Mayoral Candidate Questionnaire: Ken Cockrel Jr.
Ken Cockrel Jr. Q: If elected in the May special run-off election, and, assuming you are among the two finishers in the August primary, what three things can you promise to accomplish before the November run-off election? A: As Mayor I already have taken steps to clean up our city and how we operate. We…
Outlander
In the history of cinema, Outlander is the best Viking warriors vs. giant glow-in-the-dark space iguana movie ever made. Star Jim Caviezel plays stoic alien astronaut Kainan who crashes his starship into a lake in Iron Age-era Norway and, as his handy 25th century translating computer explains, earth is a long-abandoned colony worthy of his…
Comics
The Boiling Point – by Mikhaela Reid
Short Order
A local culinary tour of Southeast Asia
Night and Day
THURSDAY • 29 CIRCUS OBSCENE FREAKS’ NIGHT OUT The new home for devilishly dark nightlife is Thursday night at the Ritz, when the sometime rock bar is transformed into the gothic-themed stepchild of City Club known as Circus Obscene. DJ Blayde spins goth and industrial, and resident performer Nizzel captivates audiences with the morbidly titillating…
Fight over the Fifth
Court battle over journalist’s source gets more interesting
Asked and answered
Questionnaires such as the one Metro Times sent to candidates running in the Feb. 24 Detroit mayoral primary can be tricky things. Getting straight answers is often tough because, unlike personal interviews, there is no follow-up give-and-take to clarify vague answers and pin down the evasive. They also have the potential of being deadly dull.…
Detroit Mayoral Candidate Questionnaire: Jerroll Sanders
Jerroll Sanders Q: If elected in the May special run-off election, and, assuming you are among the two finishers in the August primary, what three things can you promise to accomplish before the November run-off election? A: By the November run-off election, I will have accomplished the following: 1. Have developed a comprehensive crime abatement…
Holocaust redux
While far from perfect, Claude Miller’s affecting and intimate family drama captures the complexities and challenges of being a Jew in France in the run-up to World War II. It’s the 1950s and teenager Francois (Quentin Dubuis) discovers that his perfect parent’s relationship — both attractive athletes — isn’t quite what he thought. Not only…
Detroit Mayoral Candidate Questionnaire: Brenda K. Sanders
Brenda K. Sanders Q: If elected in the May special run-off election, and, assuming you are among the two finishers in the August primary, what three things can you promise to accomplish before the November run-off election? A: Because there are so many variables and entities that must be employed in order to accomplish any…
Detroit Mayoral Candidate Questionnaire: Freman Hendrix
Freman Hendrix Q: If elected in the May special run-off election, and, assuming you are among the two finishers in the August primary, what three things can you promise to accomplish before the November run-off election? A: Ethics and Integrity are key values in a well run city. Without these values incorporated at every level…
Detroit Mayoral Candidate Questionnaire: Warren Evans
Warren Evans Q: If elected in the May special run-off election, and, assuming you are among the two finishers in the August primary, what three things can you promise to accomplish before the November run-off election? A: I would: 1) improve the Police Department’s response time by reallocating resources within the department, 2) bring in…
Food Stuff
Full plates for local foodies.
Detroit Mayoral Candidate Questionnaire: Stanley Christmas
Stanley Christmas Q: If elected in the May special run-off election, and, assuming you are among the two finishers in the August primary, what three things can you promise to accomplish before the November run-off election? A: (1.) Reengineer city services. (2.) Create a strong partnership with the Detroit School District and Lansing to require that…
Jeffrey Morgan’s Media Blackout
Ahhhh-haaaa! It’s Jeffrey Morgan’s Media Blackout #204! SIZZLING BOX SET OF THE DECADE: Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys — The Tiffany Transcriptions (Collectors’ Choice) :: Once every 10 years, a box set comes along that definitively redefines the form by best enabling the experience of contextually listening to an artist’s specific body of work.…
Dub, mon!
For a man with such a big reputation, Eric Hoegemeyer’s as humble a local musician as you could ever hope to meet. He’s a man of many faces. For some, he’ll forever be remembered as the animated drummer with the Brit-pop-y Charm Farm. Others might know him as the floppy-haired singer fronting Detroit rock ‘n’…
Lit Up
Dead Dancing Women by Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli Midnight Ink $13.95, 370 pp. Michigan author Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli took the old "write what you know" adage to heart when she set out to write the first book of her Emily Kincaid Mystery series, Dead Dancing Women. The background of protagonist Emily Kincaid practically mirrors Buzzelli’s own…
Couch Trip
The Films of Michael Powell Sony Sony’s double-disc set of Michael Powell movies honors the undisputed master of the British cinema with one movie from his primacy and one from his decline. Fans of such hereafter fantasies as Heaven Can Wait and Defending Your Life can do no better than the enchanting A Matter of…
He shall overcome …
Pete Seeger to folk up Ann Arbor and Dearborn
Odds and ends
Socks, strap-ons, gay sex — and ‘Saddlebacking’ defined
Biggest losers
Like the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815, ABC’s Lost has found the world a very different place upon returning to civilization. The complex, convoluted desert-island serial resurfaced last week (9 p.m. Wednesdays, Channel 7 in Detroit), and possibly no series was more impacted by the long 2008 writers’ strike. Lost is one of those blink-and-you’ll-miss-something…
Eating from the skull of the fallen angel
Detroiter Kim Hunter’s new collection of poems, edge of the time zone, is a winding road lined with imagery, political thought and courageous dreaming. That beautiful stretch of imagination parallels a real-life journey. As much as it represents his own growth as a poet and an advocate of poetry, it charts changes and realities he’s…
Up to us
Despite the Obama victory, there’s still plenty of work ahead
On the Download
I’ve been bummed out that last year’s Pas/Cal record, I Was Raised on Matthew, Mark, Luke and Laura, didn’t get the full-court promotional press it deserved, especially in print, so I’ll take any opportunity to recommend checking it out on the Web … or other means that I can’t legally recommend. However, I come today…
Trouble in mind
City crime may hit hardest in the psyche
Letters to the Editor
Holding the dead hostage Re: “Grave Debate” (Jan. 21), thank you for a balanced, thoughtful piece on a subject people think is taboo but upon which, I find, many very willing to talk and express opinions. Thirty years ago, the Louisiana Legislature substituted the phrase “funeral director or person acting as such” with “Every dead…
Lit Up
Dead Dancing Women by Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli Midnight Ink, $13.95, 370 pp. Michigan author Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli took the “write what you know” adage to heart when wrote the first book of her Emily Kincaid Mystery series, Dead Dancing Women. The background of protagonist Emily Kincaid practically mirrors Buzzelli’s own life: Like Buzzelli, Emily Kincaid…
Detroit Mayoral Candidate Questionnaire: Sharon McPhail
Sharon McPhail Q: If elected in the May special run-off election, and, assuming you are among the two finishers in the August primary, what three things can you promise to accomplish before the November run-off election? A: • Resolve the city’s credit issues by developing and submitting a plan to the rating agencies that will…
Detroit Mayoral Candidate Questionnaire: Joseph Holt
Joseph Holt Q: If elected in the May special run-off election, and, assuming you are among the two finishers in the August primary, what three things can you promise to accomplish before the November run-off election? A: If I win the special election for Mayor, I still plan to run for Common Council next year. …
Blowout tunes are up!
www.metrotimes.com/blowout Click on BLOWOUT BEATS. The official schedule goes up on Jan. 31, but here’s a taste. All My Best!, Eve
