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The 2003-04 Pistons were the champions Detroit needed
If there is a Mount Rushmore for NBA teams that feel like symbolic soulmates for their city, then the 2003-2004 Detroit Pistons are on it. This was a Motown team in every sense, and they played like an orchestra or jazz ensemble that season. Everyone had a role, but a role constantly being calibrated and…
Now that it’s lit up, people seem to like Detroit’s new I-94 sign
Maybe that new Detroit sign along I-94 isn’t so bad after all. A week after the city was hammered with criticism on social media for spending more than $269,000 on the big, blocky letters, many people warmed up to the sign once it was illuminated Monday night. The city installed the “Hollywood-”style sign last week…
Cypress Hill’s love for Detroit runs deep
It took three decades, but Cypress Hill’s love for Detroit has come full circle. In 1991, the Latino hip-hop stoners dropped their debut album and landed a slot on Lollapalooza the next summer. Motown was the third stop on the tour, and the group wasn’t sure how people outside of California would respond live. Or…
Skymint is giving away free weed for a year
Michigan-based dispensary Skymint is honoring marijuana’s holiday on April 20 by giving away “free weed for a year,” which will grant one lucky winner $250 a month to spend on any Skymint-branded products, merchandise, or accessories. Additionally, 10 second-place winners will earn $100 DoorDash gift cards and 50 third-prize winners will receive a limited edition…
Bombshell Treat Bar readies to open in Berkley
Berkley’s Bombshell Treat Bar is almost ready to open for business. The new ice cream spot plans a grand opening at noon on Friday, April 19. It’s located at 2688 Coolidge Hwy. “Opening a reimagined ice cream store has been a dream of mine,” says owner Jill Kasle. “Ice cream has a way of always…
DOJ thinks Enbridge Line 5 pipeline is trespassing on tribal lands
This coverage is made possible through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan. Those involved in the Line 5 pipeline controversy have been waiting for the United States Department of Justice — and the Biden administration — to come forward with its opinion on a case that involves tribal sovereignty and…
Detroit’s City Winery music venue aims for 2025 opening
Michigan’s first City Winery location is still headed to Corktown, the live music chain’s founder and CEO Michael Dorf tells Metro Times — but he says inflation and high interest rates have delayed the project. “If I had — and this is a technical financing term — a shitload of money, I would start faster,”…
House of Dank Announces $20,000 Giveaway in Celebration of Annual Cannabis Holiday 4.20.2024
MICHIGAN, April 12th – House of Dank is inviting all cannabis connoisseurs across Michigan to show up at everyone’s favorite house to celebrate the 420 holiday on Saturday, April 20th 2024. All House of Dank locations will be hosting parties that will feature $20,000 worth product and prize giveaways. All parties will take place from…
Lapointe: Rashida Tlaib now has a Fox stalker
Along with verbal abuse locally over Detroit radio station WJR (760-AM), U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib now must endure her own national media stalker in the halls of Congress. She is Hillary Vaughn of Fox Business Network who likes to chase Tlaib to ask questions that would seem to be none of her Fox Business Network’s…
‘New Name. New Era’: Michigan Theater Foundation reintroduces itself as Marquee Arts
The Michigan Theater Foundation, established in 1979, initially focused on preserving Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater as a hub for fine arts and cinema. Over time, however, the organization has widely expanded its arts programming, even contributing to the preservation of the neighboring State Theatre in 2014. Now, to better represent its diverse community engagement,…
Wayne County public defender sues judges for alleged bias against lower-income defendants
A young public defender claims in a federal lawsuit that she was pushed out of her job at 35th District Court in Plymouth for passionately fighting on behalf of her lower-income clients. Sundus K. Jaber filed a whistleblower lawsuit in U.S. District Court in late March, claiming she was prevented from representing indigent defendants in…
Ivan Montoya ponders how the past informs the present in ‘Sonde{a}r’
We are born as seeds in soil fertilized by the experiences of our ancestors. For Detroit-based painter and muralist Ivan Montoya, the fertile soil we inherit from our familial lineage is like being given a canoe on open water without a map. To steer the canoe into safe territory — a place that feels most…
Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’ shows us a violent, fractured America — but despite the verisimilitude, needs more specifics
Reflecting the division in the country whose internecine conflict it vividly depicts, Alex Garland’s Civil War splits unevenly in two, alternating brutally effective and disturbing sequences of violence with caesuras of conversation and uneasy respite. The former, with their amped-up urgency and ratcheting suspense, display an impressive filmmaking mastery, but the latter strive for a…
Detroit’s members-only Carbon Athletic Club is opening to the public with live music
Tucked among the train tracks in an industrial section of Southwest Detroit, the old Carbon Athletic Club has been called “Delray’s best-kept secret” by Metro Times and remains in many ways a time capsule of 1947, the year it opened as a hangout for the community’s Hungarian and Polish immigrants. Much of its former neighborhood…
Wayne County treasurer rejects moratorium on foreclosures despite troubling study
Wayne County Treasurer Eric Sabree is defying demands to impose a moratorium on owner-occupied home foreclosures after a study suggested the city is illegally overtaxing houses worth less than $35,000. In a statement to Metro Times on Thursday, Sabree said he will not pause foreclosures amid calls from the Detroit City Council and activists to…
12 Best NSFW AI Apps in 2024
Looking for the best NSFW AI apps to spice up your digital interactions? You’ve come to the right place! We’ve done the legwork to bring you the top 12 NSFW AI apps. In our research, Candy.AI stood out as the top 1 and it’s our editor’s choice. Here are the best of the hundreds we…
Mayor Duggan blames disappointment over Detroit’s new I-94 sign on expectations set by unofficial Instagram post
Social media has been abuzz over a new welcome sign for Detroit erected on I-94 ahead of the NFL Draft, with lots of people claiming the finished product falls short of the grand “Hollywood”-style sign they were promised. Even Mayor Mike Duggan admitted he was confused over what to expect, answering a question about the…
Research into recycling critical minerals gets a boost in Michigan
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. • Michigan is asking colleges and universities for ideas to recycle electric vehicle batteries and other items that contain critical minerals. • It’s putting $4.75 million dollars in matching grants toward the effort. • Researchers and those at…
Detroit Jazz Festival announces initial 2024 lineup
The Detroit Jazz Festival, dubbed the “world’s largest (and best) free jazz festival,” is returning to downtown Detroit from Aug. 30-Sept 2. The renowned Labor Day weekend celebration just announced a partial lineup for this year during a recent livestream event. “This year’s lineup reflects a very dynamic and eclectic combination of next-generation and legacy…
Ferndale’s Secret Bakery elevates metro Detroit’s bread game
Few Detroit restaurant closures in recent memory came as much of a bummer as that of Core City’s Ochre Bakery, which produced as close to perfect plates as you’re gonna find, but shut down in mid-2022. Among the casualties in its all-star staff was breadmaker Max Leonard, who, at the time, was exhausted and hung…
Video: Twiztid’s Paul ‘Monoxide’ Methric talks Astronomicon 7
Astronomicon is back. Hosted by Detroit hip-hop horrorcore duo Twiztid, the pop culture convention returns to Livonia’s Burton Manor to celebrate its 7th year. This year’s event will be headlined by Michael Rooker of Guardians of the Galaxy and The Walking Dead fame, and will feature many other special celebrity guests, including voice actors Billy…
Right-wing fraudsters fined $1.25M for racist robocall scheme in Michigan, other states
Two notorious right-wing fraudsters behind an election misinformation campaign in Michigan and other states agreed to pay up to $1.25 million on Tuesday as part of a lawsuit settlement. New York Attorney General Letitia James reached the agreement with Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, who were charged with multiple felony counts in Michigan in 2020…
Opinion: My father was killed. The man responsible and serving life without parole should not be in prison.
I’m 53 years old and don’t have one family photo that includes my father. I was 13 in 1983 when my family was separated due to escalations in the Civil War in Lebanon. My mother, two brothers, and I fled for America. My father, Hani Zebib, and one brother were left behind to tend to…
Free Will Astrology (April 10-16)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Now is a favorable time to make initial inquiries, ask for free samples, and enjoy window shopping. But it’s not an opportune time to seal final decisions or sign binding contracts. Have fun haggling and exploring, even as you avoid making permanent promises. Follow the inklings of your heart more than…
