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Arts

Norwest Gallery hopes to secure new location for Womxnhouse Detroit and a bigger gallery space through Seed and Bloom program

The newly announced initiative from the Gilbert Family Foundation gives $150,000 over three years to 10 BIPOC artist-led organizations

By Randiah Camille Green
Mar 6, 2024

Tags: Arts, Local Businesses, Visual Art, Seed and Bloom, BIPOC artists in Detroit, Gilbert Family Foundation, Norwest Gallery of Art, arts
Things to Do

Historic African American film exhibit headed to the DIA this February

‘Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971’ will include nearly 200 historical film posters, costumes, props, and excerpts

By Randiah Camille Green
Jan 9, 2024

Tags: Things to Do, Things to Do, Movies, Critics’ Picks, Detroit Institute of Arts, Things to Do, Detroit art scene, film
Concert Announcements

Arts, Beats & Eats is pre-selling tickets for the first time with early-bird discount

Pending state approval, it would be the first major Michigan festival to be licensed for cannabis consumption

By Lee DeVito
Jun 8, 2023

Tags: Concert Announcements, Music, Things to Do, Arts, Beats & Eats, Royal Oak, Michigan festivals, House of Dank
Cannabis News

Arts, Beats & Eats gets green light for weed

Festival organizers now have to get the appropriate state licenses

By Randiah Camille Green
Feb 23, 2023

Tags: Cannabis News, Weed, Arts, Beats & Eats, Michigan marijuana magazine, Cannabis, Marijuana Media Detroit, Slideshow
Arts

Brooklyn artist brings absurdist ‘Plastic Bag Store’ installation to Ann Arbor

The experience is part-mockumentary, part-performance art, and full-on dystopian future

By Randiah Camille Green
Jan 27, 2023

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Visual Art, Robin Frohardt, The Plastic Bag Store, visual art, film, performant art, Ann Arbor, Arts Stories & Interviews
Movies

The limits of ‘Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody’

Biopic struggles to capture what made the star so compelling

By Maurice Tracy
Jan 26, 2023

Tags: Movies, Movies, Whitney Houston, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, film
Cannabis News

Michael Thompson opens up about being Michigan's longest serving non-violent offender

Heart-wrenching documentary features Flint native who spent decades in prison after selling weed

By Steve Neavling
Oct 28, 2022

Tags: Cannabis News, Weed, News, Michael Thompson, Documentary, MSNBC, Film, Marijuana, justice system, war on drugs
Movies

With Korean thriller ‘Decision to Leave,’ Park Chan-Wook smartly updates classic noir

The ‘Oldboy’ director stages a comeback

By George Elkind
Oct 24, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Decision to Leave, Park Chan-Wook, Tang Wei, Park Hae-il, Korea, film, noir
Movies

Noir City film fest brings a world of classic movies to Detroit’s Redford Theatre

More noir: This year’s fest as a return to basics, with double features of films from the 1930s-50s

By George Elkind
Sep 19, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Noir City, Redford Theatre, Detroit, film, film noir
Festival Guide

Royal Oak’s Arts, Beats & Eats celebrates 25 years with more national music, brand activations

Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort and House of Dank have invested more than six figures into on-site lounges

By Lee DeVito
Aug 31, 2022

Tags: Festival Guide, Music, Arts, Beats & Eats, Royal Oak, metro Detroit, Festival Guide, Cover Story
Movies

Cinema Lamont and Detroit Puppet Company bring a month-long puppet film series

(Some) strings attached

By George Elkind
Aug 3, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, film, movies, puppets, art house, Detroit, Michigan
Music News

Flo Rida, 311, and Montell Jordan to play Arts, Beats & and Eats

Lineup for Labor Day festival is loaded with 1990s and mid-2000s throwbacks

By Randiah Camille Green
Jul 27, 2022

Tags: Music News, Music, Arts, Beats, & Eats, Flo Rida, 311, Royal Oak, Music, Labor Day
Movies

A wide-ranging self-portrait, ‘Beba’ traces its director’s cross-national family history

Filmmaker Rebeca Huntt is fighting for control of her own story — but it doesn’t always land

By George Elkind
Jul 18, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Beba, documentary, film
Cannabis News

No weed at Arts, Beats & Eats this year, Royal Oak votes

City officials say, ‘maybe next year’

By Randiah Camille Green
May 10, 2022

Tags: Marijuana News, Weed, Arts, Beats & Eats, Michigan marijuana magazine, Cannabis, Media Detroit, Cannabis, Magazine, Detroit, Cannabis, Newspaper Detroit, Marijuana Media Detroit
Things to Do

You can catch wacky shorts at the seventh Detroit International Festival of Animation this Saturday

Staff pick

By Randiah Camille Green
May 4, 2022

Tags: Things to Do, Things to Do, Detroit International Festival of Animation, film, Senate Theatre, DIFA, 2022
Things to Do

Jack White kicks off tour, Dearborn’s Ramadan Suhoor fest is back, hip-hop in Eastern Market, and more things to do

Select events happening in metro Detroit

By Metro Times editorial staff
Apr 6, 2022

Tags: Things to Do, Jack White, Arts, Beats + Lyrics, Ramadan Suhoor Festival, The Potency Test, things to do in Detroit, Video
Movies

New documentary explores devastating impact of human sex trafficking industry in metro Detroit

By Steve Neavling
Jan 27, 2022

Tags: Movies, Film, movie, documentary, sex trafficking, prostitution, Men Who Buy Sex – Everyone Pays, Wayne County Medical Society Foundation
Movies

The best films of 2021, quite possibly the last great year of movies

By George Elkind
Dec 22, 2021

Tags: Movies, 2021, movies, film, Procession, Red Rocket, El Planeta, Wife of a Spy, The French Dispatch, Souvenir, Pt. II, Bergman Island, North By Current, France, Worst Person, Memoria, Licorice Pizza, Days
Arts

VH1 spotlights Black Detroit artists, innovators, and culture in YouTube series

By Alex Washington
Oct 27, 2021

Tags: jessica Care moore, Payroll Giovanni, El Club, TwerkxTequila, Cass Tech, Detroit vs. Everybody, Sheefy McFly, murals, arts, rapper
Metro Detroit

Duggan appoints Detroit’s first historian to highlight African Americans’ contributions to the city

By Steve Neavling
Oct 25, 2021

Tags: Jamon Jordan, Detroit, history, Mayor Duggan, arts, culture, Rochelle Riley, race, Underground Railroad, Paradise Valley