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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

Brightly colored produce made of plastic line neat grocery store shelves. The bakery’s special is tarts topped with bottle caps, and the cereal aisle is filled with Shredded Waste, Yucky Shards, and Caps N’ Such...

Brooklyn-based artist Robin Frohardt. She made the “Baygo Redbag” pop especially for the Ann Arbor performance of The Plastic Bag Store.

At Sheila’s Taqueria in Melvindale, the vessels deliver

Holding it together

By Tom Perkins

At Sheila’s Taqueria in Melvindale, the vessels deliver

Detroit’s long history of evicting Black people for profit

There’s a human cost to the city’s failure to enforce its new right to counsel ordinance

By Eli Day

Detroit’s long history of evicting Black people for profit

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Minimum wage increase in Michigan blocked by appeals court

By Steve Neavling

Protesters have demanded a living wage of $15 an hour nationwide.

Yes, a Flint councilwoman called residents ‘janky’ — but not all residents

By Steve Neavling

City of Flint.

Detroit’s Movement Festival announces initial 2023 lineup

By Lee DeVito

Detroit’s Movement Festival announces initial 2023 lineup

Two Detroit emcees collab for a one-off free performance in Royal Oak

By Kahn Santori Davison

Mahogany Jones and Boog Brown.

Melba Joyce Boyd is the 2023 Kresge Eminent Artist

By Randiah Camille Green

Detroit native Melba Joyce Boyd.

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

By Maurice Tracy

Naomi Ackie as Whitney Houston in I Wanna Dance With Somebody.

Demas: Michigan Democrats can’t buckle on repealing Right to Work

By Susan J. Demas, Michigan Advance

Demas: Michigan Democrats can’t buckle on repealing Right to Work

Michigan’s largest cannabis dispensary is opening in a former Mexican restaurant

By Lee DeVito

Michigan’s largest cannabis dispensary is opening in a former Mexican restaurant

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