Vol. 34, No. 40
Detroit Tours to host scavenger hunt for Detroit's 313th birthday
By Lee DeVito
There is a Michigan gubernatorial race. There are polls.
By Ryan Felton
Detroit residents continue protest to remain in homes
Gratiot McDougall project causing a massive headache in court
By News Hits
Ponyride hosts Makers Market
Here is (mostly) everything you need to know about M-1 Rail and its construction in Detroit
ICYMI: How the Stroh family blew $9 billion
Metro Times appears on Fox2 to promote Pig and Whiskey
By Alaina Nutile
Watch Now: Al Jazeera's 'Informants'
Shop Talk: Harvard and Duke students moderate panel discussion in Detroit
How's the women's healthcare on your college campus? MT wants to know!
By Metro Times editorial staff
Meet Tom Nardone of the Detroit Mower Gang
When the city of Detroit said it wasn't going to maintain more than 100 parks, a gang of renegade lawn mowers rose up to do the job
Protests, arrests, and spin sessions mark shutoff battle
Wayne State expansion had local businesses crying foul
A look back at what was happening this week in Metro Times...
TIME profiles Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy
Beau's to host job fair July 21-22
Anna Clark comments on RDW-MT merger for CJR
Navin Field (Old Tiger Stadium) gets a Little League Field
More than 1,000 people demonstrate in downtown against Detroit water shutoffs
Henry Cavill and Amy Adams spotted at Pig & Whiskey
Detroit bankruptcy judge: DWSD water shutoffs causing 'bad publicity' for city
Final Motor Signal Reading of 2014 this Thursday
National Nurses United to host march Friday against Detroit water shutoffs
MT seeking parents enrolled in college
Is our democracy broken beyond repair?
The bottom line: Congress is totally corrupt.
By Jack Lessenberry
State denies company permit to store petcoke along Detroit River
Michigan’s Iraqi refugee crisis
The Iraq War’s displaced still flow into Michigan and struggle to find employment — what should the government do about it?
By Robert Guttersohn
#HailYes: Nissan offers free cab rides in Royal Oak and Ferndale this weekend
Bumbo's announces Polish pop-up at Nancy Whiskey
Spider-Man at Oakland Mall
By Brett Callwood
Just to clarify, Olympia hasn't 'finalized' financing details on promised Detroit ancillary development — yet
Detroit Public Schools EM shifts funds
Starving our schools
Are straight guys allowed in gay clubs?
Also, a woman is jealous of her boyfriend's dog and a man is dating an escort.
By Dan Savage
Reader responses to Detroit's incinerator, DPS, breast feeding
Metro Times readers weigh in
By Metro Times readers
Shakespeare in Detroit in New Center Park
The play’s the thing
Jeremy Deputat makes solo hometown debut at Inner State Gallery
Straight outta Detroit
Saverine Creek Heirlooms
Rather than expensive jewels, this jeweler uses heirloom beans and seeds
By Alysa Zavala-Offman
Frank Lloyd Wright Turkel House and Palmer Woods Garden Tour
Palmer Woods gardens will be open to the public
Inside Eastern Market's Blue Velvet
Owner Kory Trinks purchased her collection from Dan Tartarian of Showtime and has made it her life’s work to clean, repair, and restore the goods
Cara Lundgren has an eye for color and composition
Think you're all dolled up?
Reports from Willie Nelson at Freedom Hill, Red Bull Creation
The word on the street.
Al Jazeera examines FBI undercovers in new doc
'Informants' airs on Al Jazeera English’s YouTube channel
By Valerie Vande Panne
Film review: Wish I Was Here
Despite a successful crowdsourcing campaign, Zach Braff and friends deliver a perfectly mediocre dramedy.
By Jeff Meyers
Horoscopes (July 16 — 22)
Your weekly readings.
By Cal Garrison
Comet Bar likely to be demolished for new Detroit Red Wings arena
Better now to enjoy the cheap drinks at this Cass Corridor watering hole
Melocoton from Imperial
You’ll find this drink this weekend at Pig & Whiskey’s Cocktail Corner
Restaurant Review: Atwater in the Park
On Pointe
By Aaron Egan
Jim Beam rye whiskey
A tasty beverage
By Michael Jackman
Pig & Whiskey performers talk booze, bbq & bands
What is it that makes that perfect summer recipe so great?
Big Gov wants to take his Black Guvernment nationwide
Power and politics
Record Review: Strange Desire — Bleachers
Fun lead guitarist's side project might even be better than the nationally known band
Staff picks: Repo Man soundtrack, Step-Dad, Girl Talk
The albums we've had on repeat all week
Building Birds — Swirling Among the Stars
Flint band taps the sounds of mid-career Radiohead — with success
Niko Pittman has a 'rhythm player’s mentality'
Guitar player talks working with Wendell Harrison’s Detroit Swing Ensemble, Brunswick Brawlers, the Raw Dealers, and more
‘Michael Jackson’ to perform at Comerica
The trailer to Passalacqua+Flint Eastwood's new project gives us goosebumps
Check out Dretraxx's old-school techno and house choice cuts
Sidewalk Festival of Performing Arts comes to Artist Village Detroit
Kid Rock ordered to produce dildo in ICP sexual harassment lawsuit
Cops against the drug war
The War on Drugs creates a new class of people to be discrimined
By Larry Gabriel
