20 years ago, what is now Theatre Bizarre got kicked out of the Russell Industrial Center — today, it’s Detroit’s biggest freak show
By Jeff Milo
Vol. 40, No. 1
The First Crime Family condemns crime families
By Clay Jones
The fish rots from the head, but everyone around Trump stinks
By Jeffrey C. Billman
Some Black leaders are frustrated with Gretchen Whitmer’s urban policy
By Tom Perkins
Michigan police chief fired after alleged sexual assault on a party bus
By Steve Neavling
Judge puts Michigan’s ban on flavored nicotine vaping on hold
Rep. whose Detroit house was mysteriously demolished did not tell police she requested a bid to have it demolished
By Lee DeVito
Michigan’s ban on flavored nicotine vaping intact — at least for another day
Vaping-related lung illness shows no signs of letting up as deaths surge to 26
Black Detroiter whose group fought housing segregation to have street named for her
By Sonia Khaleel
Bill aims to end painful experiments on dogs at Michigan public institutions
Michigan bill aims to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day
Racial bias in facial recognition technology the focus of bill introduced by Rep. Lawrence
Street named for Black civil rights activist whose group fought Detroit housing segregation
By Brooklyn Blevins and Lindsey Yucha
'White Boy Rick' may finally be a free man sooner than expected
Shri Thanedar is officially running for State House
Ferndale becomes third city in Michigan to ban gay conversion therapy
Dumbfellas
By Tom Tomorrow
Savage Love: Food for vaginal play, relationships with an expiration date, and other quickies from Savage Love Live
Detroit artist Sydney James is set to debut her first solo show
Harry Potter-themed Wizard Fest is coming to Ferndale's Magic Bag
Detroit Free Press/TCF Bank Marathon will go the distance for 42nd year
Staff Pick
Detroit blogger and model Leah Vernon releases memoir 'Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim'
By Jerilyn Jordan
Perfect your pelvic thrust before 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' screening and shadowcast at Michigan Theater
Historian Ibram X Kendi to bring latest book, 'How to Be an Antiracist' to Detroit's Wright Museum
National treasure and culotte-loving author David Sedaris brings 'Calypso' to Detroit's Fisher Theatre
Live entertainment announced for Shuck Yeah!, Metro Times' oyster-tasting party on Sunday
By Metro Times editorial staff
Eddie Murphy is dynamite in ‘Dolemite’
By Corey Hall
'Birth of the Cool' is an uncensored analysis of jazz genius Miles Davis
Horoscopes (Oct. 9-15)
By Cal Garrison
Heidelberg Project announces 'Heidelburgers' pop-up and tour
Olga’s Kitchen extends Strike Relief Program for UAW employees
By Marisa Kalil-Barrino
Detroit Cookie Co. details metro Detroit expansion, acquires commissary kitchen in Ferndale
Cheers! Michiganders have second-highest beer tolerance in nation
Papelon Arepa Bar gets Southwest Detroit acquainted with a Venezuelan staple
How London-pop trio Kero Kero Bonito went from trampolines to wildfires
Elton John returns to Detroit for another round of farewell shows
Crowdfunding campaign launched to fix Grande Ballroom roof
No, Elton John and his husband haven't used Eminem's intimate wedding gift... yet
Edgefest returns to Ann Arbor's Kerrytown Concert House to celebrate out-of-the-box jazz
Rapper IDK contemplates God's existence at Detroit's El Club
Detroit jazz royalty Joan Belgrave heads to Ann Arbor's Blue LLama Jazz Club
Detroit's Electric 6 celebrate 20 years of high-voltage jams at Small's
Glow up at Bevlove's monthly dance party at Deluxx Fluxx
Detroit's Paint Thinner release second record of the year at Outer Limits Lounge
Michigan Supply & Provisions launches in Morenci with Detroit and Ann Arbor stores on the way
Michigan marijuana testing lab reaches settlement to eventually reopen