Jim McFarlin

Jim McFarlin, former media and entertainment critic for the Metro Times and the Detroit News, is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in People, USA Today, Black Enterprise, HOUR Detroit, and many other publications. He was inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame in 2023.

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Metro Detroit

Your guide to the NFL Draft in Detroit

The free event is expected to draw nearly 400,000 football fans downtown from April 25-27

By Jim McFarlin
Apr 14, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Sports, Detroit Lions, NFL Draft, Campus Martius, downtown Detroit, Slideshow
Television

A&E’s ‘James Brown: Say It Loud’ doc explores a complicated genius

Detroit figures notably in the documentary, too

By Jim McFarlin
Feb 17, 2024

Tags: Television, Music, Television, Views & Opinions, James Brown, Motown, Berry Gordy, Black History Month, Video
Michigan Music

Aretha Franklin’s longtime bassist tells all in ‘My Friend the Queen From Her Court Jester Ralphe Armstrong’

Tears of a clown

By Jim McFarlin
Aug 17, 2023

Tags: Michigan Music, Music, Books, Ralphe Armstrong, Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul
Michigan Music

How Detroit saxophonist Dave McMurray became a Deadhead

The Was (Not Was) member celebrates the release of ‘Grateful Deadication 2’ with a listening party at the Magic Bag

By Jim McFarlin
May 16, 2023

Tags: Michigan Music, Music, Dave McMurray, Was (Not Was)
Music News

Detroit journalist Gary Graff pens ‘Alice Cooper @ 75,’ a biography of the Godfather of Shock Rock

The author will sign copies at a release party in Ann Arbor on Friday

By Jim McFarlin
Jan 31, 2023

Tags: Music News, Music, Alice Cooper, Gary Graff, Alice Cooper @ 75, Michigan Theater

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