Two chances to catch the genius Melvin van Peebles in Detroit this week

By Mike McGonigal on Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 3:04 pm

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Two chances to catch the genius Melvin van Peebles in Detroit this week

Melvin Van Peebles — the actor, director, novelist, composer, screenwriter, raconteur, activist, film producer, and absolute stone cold complete and total badass — is in town this Thursday and Friday evening, in Detroit.

First up, on Thursday, Feb. 25, Mr. Van Peebles will be interviewed in person by Greg Baise, a man who's a wellspring of information on everything underground and interesting. It goes down at Third Man Records Cass Corridor — it's free; all information on how to get in is right here.

And then the next day, Friday, Feb. 26, at the Detroit Film Theater inside The Detroit Institute of Arts, there will be a special evening where not only is Peebles' classic film Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song be shown, but he will perform live with the incomparable Burnt Sugar Arkestra. They'll do the score live, and it's bound to be a brilliant experience. All the details are right here.

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Mike McGonigal

Metro Times music editor Mike McGonigal has written about music since 1984, when he started the fanzine Chemical Imbalance at age sixteen with money saved from mowing lawns in Florida. He's since written for Spin, Pitchfork, the Village VOICE and Artforum. He's been a museum guard, a financial reporter, a bicycle...

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