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At Hoopfest, Detroit’s Northwest Goldberg community unites
A stiff leg doesn’t stop Fallyn West, 42, from chasing victory. The longtime Detroiter had fantasized about the moment the week before. West stands atop a fresh basketball court illuminated by summer sunshine. Since the dreamy years of girlhood, basketball has been a compass for her life. “I always was an athletic kid, always played…
Buy Instagram Likes: Best sites to Buy Instagram Likes (Real)
Did you know that Instagram has over a billion active users in a month? About 1,000 photos are uploaded every second. More influencers and brands are leveraging the platform, highlighting its importance in the marketing industry. But it takes work to grow engagement on Instagram – which is why many opt to buy Instagram likes.…
The Wine Grotto to open in Saint John’s Resort as part of renovation project
Plymouth-based Saint John’s Resort has announced the grand opening of the Wine Grotto, a new bar and restaurant that’s part of a multi-million-dollar renovation of the 200-acre former seminary. A news release promises that the Wine Grotto will provide guests with “an unparalleled experience of luxury and leisure, complemented by an enchanting ambiance that evokes…
Detroit’s Firebird Tavern is ready to open second location in the suburbs
Greektown’s Firebird Tavern plans to soon open a second location in Troy. The new bar and restaurant is expected to open in mid-September at at 4845 Rochester Rd., Troy. The 5,000-square-foot space will seat around 130 people. “After nearly seven years of searching for the perfect second location, we are beyond excited to open our…
Novi ammo store under investigation after selling bullets promoting a Democrat’s recall
A Novi ammunition store appears to have violated state law when it sold bags of bullets advocating for the recall of a Democratic state representative from downriver, according to the Michigan Department of State. In a social media post last month, Fenix Ammunition posted a picture of the bag of .223 ammunition, which included the…
HouseParty comes to Detroit’s Belt alleyway for Labor Day weekend
On Saturday, HouseParty will take over The Skip with sets from resident DJs Măsquenada and JHOUSE plus special guest Blaaqgold. Expect all the hip-hop, R&B, and Afrobeats you can handle (in case the recent Afro Nation festival wasn’t enough for you). With summer wrapping up and (hopefully) cooler temperatures upon us, we’re savoring any final…
Detroit’s Lincoln Street Art Park is crowdfunding for a pollinator garden and youth learning center
Lincoln Street Art Park reopened earlier this month with its first Full Moon party after years of construction on its adjacent Dreamtroit apartment complex. Now the art park hopes to restore an environmental learning center, install solar panels, and build pollinator gardens onsite. Lincoln Street Art Park has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $25,000…
Here’s how to attend a secret cannabis party in Detroit
You can say goodbye to the summer with a cannabis party featuring DJs and a scenic view of downtown Detroit on Thursday. The event is organized by Cannababe, a new experiential marketing company that regularly holds marijuana-related events intended to connect cannabis brands with weed consumers. The event, dubbed “High in the Sky,” will include…
Detroit hardcore collective the Armed is getting buzz for new LP ‘Perfect Saviors’
Got a Detroit music tip? Send it to music@metrotimes.com. The Armed chisels away at the fourth wall: If you haven’t heard about the newest album from The Armed that came out last week, where have you been? The band has recently graced the covers of some of the most esteemed music publications in the biz,…
Annual Detroit Month of Design kicks off in September
September means we’re closer to trading blazing heat for crisp fall weather, apple picking, and pumpkin spice (I don’t care how basic it is, I love it). It also means it’s Detroit’s annual Month of Design, and this year there are over 80 studio tours, exhibits, activations, workshops, and panels around the city. Detroit is…
Red Bull Unlocked Transformed Detroit’s Russell Industrial Center into a cultural playground
Warning: Reading beyond this point may result in severe FOMO and/or the desire to craft a time machine so that you can snag a ticket to what was the hottest Detroit event of the summer because if you weren’t there, well, you did, in fact, miss out, like, on a lot. Like most cities in…
Combat Hair Thinning and Dry Skin With Batana Oil: Discover Why Many Use Batana Oil in Their Daily Routine
Life has its challenges, everyday it seems like there is something new for us to face and the last thing we want to see is those challenges having an effect on our appearance. We are not alone in our battle against these challenges. Some of the effects on our appearance that may occur as the…
Michigan activist files legal challenge to disqualify Trump from 2024 presidential race in state
A prominent citizen activist is filing a legal challenge Monday aimed at disqualifying Donald Trump from the 2024 primary and general election ballots in Michigan, claiming the former president is ineligible to serve another term because he had engaged in an insurrection or rebellion against the U.S. Robert Davis, of Highland Park, is urging Michigan…
Michigan must push back on warrantless drone surveillance
Michigan homeowner Todd Maxon had questions when he noticed a drone hovering above his property on May 5, 2018. So he followed the aircraft to a nearby baseball field and found its owner. The man working the controls refused to show his operator’s license, but Maxon learned what was going on when his local government…
Michigan makes electric vehicles. Are Michiganders buying them?
New car prices are dropping, with electric vehicle price tags leading the way. Will more drivers in Michigan decide to buy? Supply chain issues and high prices combined for last year’s slowdown in car sales across the country. Economic factors like high gas prices and high interest rates mean more people are holding onto older…
Pizza Cat expands into Oak Park with fourth metro Detroit location
Pizza Cat is growing. The chain known for its unconventional pizza creations will soon add a fourth metro Detroit location, set to open in Oak Park at 25298 Greenfield Rd. The new spot will host a grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, Sept. 1 at 11 a.m. to celebrate, offering attendees $5 small cheese…
‘Solar grazing’ is a way for farmers and solar companies to use land. But there are challenges.
This coverage is made possible through a partnership with IPR and Grist, a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Along busy M-72 in Traverse City, rows of huge solar panels gleam in the sun. And in the shade underneath them … are sheep. This is “solar…
LeRoy Foster’s 1967 Rebellion painting to be restored for Cranbrook Art Museum exhibition
LeRoy Foster was considered the “Michelangelo of Detroit” for his detailed figurative paintings inspired by his studies in London and Rome. Foster, who was born in 1925 and died in 1993, is perhaps best known for his 1972 “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass” mural at the Detroit Public Library Douglass Branch. One of his…
Wayne County warns of contaminated waterways following powerful storms
Wayne County has declared a state of emergency and issued a public health advisory after severe thunderstorms swept across metro Detroit, causing flooding, contaminated water, and widespread damage. The county warned residents in a health advisory to avoid contact with all rivers and streams because of contamination from flood runoff and wastewater overflows. Residents are…
DSO to perform four free community concerts in Detroit, Farmington Hills, and St. Clair Shores
Not all of us can afford an expensive night out, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be able to enjoy classical music. So the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is bringing it into our neighborhoods with a series of free concerts presented by the DTE Energy Foundation. To kick off its 2023-2024 season, the DSO will perform…
Nessel, Besson accused of violating the election laws they are responsible for enforcing
The top two elected officials tasked with enforcing election laws in Michigan – Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson – broke the law themselves when they failed to file the proper paperwork for their campaigns, an activist alleges in complaints filed with the state this week. Citizen crusader Robert Davis says…
Elonte Davis captures intimate portraits of Black youth in first solo show
Normalize Black joy in Detroit: young girls smiling in their heart-shaped cornrows, teenagers headed to a dance decked out in Cartier glasses with fresh curls and long eyelashes popping. Emerging photographer Elonte Davis captures these moments that may seem mundane in ways that make everyday Black Detroit life look like a high fashion magazine spread.…
Detroit’s Martin H. Solis Jr. and other Tejano musicians get historical marker
A Mexican American musician who helped bring Tejano-style music to Michigan is being celebrated with the state’s first historic marker honoring the state’s Mexican community. In the 1950s, Martin Huron Solis Jr. and his cousin Willy Huron formed the group Conjunto Los Primos (“The Cousins”), one of the first groups in the Midwest to play…
New owners breathe life into Kelly’s Bar in Hamtramck with updates — including an up-to-code kitchen and a DJ booth
In many ways, Kelly’s is still the same bar that has sat for more than a century across from the neon glow of the giant Kowalski Sausage Co. sign on Holbrook Avenue. Claimed to be one of the oldest operating pubs in Hamtramck, it was sold to husband and wife Garrett Ragsdale and Kiersten Schilinski…
Arrest and surveillance of Detroit activist raises questions about police conduct
You’d think Peatmoss committed a violent crime. The Detroit climate activist was surveilled by police using GPS tracking devices, thrown in jail, and charged with a felony after allegedly spray-painting a polarizing monument to Civil War General George Armstrong Custer in Monroe in October 2022. Peatmoss, a local organizer who identifies as nonbinary and uses…
How two communities, separated by an ocean, are working together to manage trash better
This story was originally published by Grist and co-published with Rappler, a Philippines-based online news publication. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. On a sunny June morning, Marilyn Lopez Capentes and Maylen Lopez push a metal cart through a narrow alleyway between modest homes in the Filipino city of Malabon, part of Metro Manila.…
Paxahau is celebrating 25 years with anniversary gig featuring Richie Hawtin
Detroit electronic music production company Paxahau has been in the business for 25 years. To celebrate this milestone, Paxahau is throwing a “Pax25” party at Detroit’s TV Lounge on Saturday, Sept. 9. The event will feature sets by Richie Hawtin, Derek Plaslaiko b2b Mike Servito, Recloose, Rimarkable, Fusegrade, and Father Dukes. Paxahau was first established…
Detroit and Philadelphia team up for National Street Art Summit featuring Sydney G. James
Detroit’s Black-led mural festival BLKOUT Walls is fast approaching. In the lead-up to the festival’s highly anticipated return this September, the City of Detroit and Philadelphia will host a National Street Art Summit with art leaders from around the country on Friday, Sept. 8. Detroit and Philadelphia topped USA Today’s 2023 list of “10 cities…
The Eagle Food & Beer Hall fried chicken restaurant to open in Detroit’s Woodward West
A new fried chicken spot is nearly ready to open in Detroit. The Eagle Food & Beer Hall plans to open on Friday, Sept. 8 on the ground floor of the Woodward West building at 3461 Woodward Ave., Detroit. The restaurant says the first 50 customers will get a $50 gift card. It’s the latest…
EMS had difficulty accessing ‘extremely overcrowded’ Moneybagg Yo concert in Detroit, causing it to end early
A Sunday performance by Memphis rapper Moneybagg Yo at Detroit’s Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre was cut short after an emergency medical response crew was temporarily blocked by the crowd from treating someone having an emergency, the city’s fire marshal tells Metro Times — raising questions as to how the show apparently became over capacity. “It was…
A weed-infused ‘Self Care Station’ is coming to Hazel Park’s Hot Box Social lounge
What’s our favorite word? Self-care, especially when cannabis is involved. OK, so that’s more than one word, but what’s important is this “Self Care Station” event put on by Glow My Body Spa includes a dab bar. The event takes place at Hazel Park weed consumption lounge Hot Box Social and includes various self care…
Renowned author Malcolm Gladwell to headline Detroit Auto Show’s new mobility forum
Best-selling author, journalist, and podcaster Malcom Gladwell will be the featured speaker at the North American International Detroit Auto Show’s new Mobility Global Forum on Sept. 13. The two-day forum, which ends on Sept. 14, showcases perspectives from thought leaders and CEOs in mobility, design, and technology at Huntington Place convention center in downtown Detroit.…
Messages of love and hope will illuminate Lake St. Clair at Water Lantern Festival
As the sun sets on Lake St. Clair on Saturday, hundreds of floating lanterns adorned with messages will illuminate the water and drift away. The Water Lantern Festival is an annual gathering that takes place in dozens of locations across the country, and this year the event is coming to Lake St. Clair Metropark in…
The customers are often wrong
Chowhound is a weekly column about what’s trending in Detroit food culture. Tips: eat@metrotimes.com. Karen & Kevin reservations: It’s hard to imagine myself working in customer service these days. Good at it once, I wonder how things would go now. Make no mistake: At 61, keeping up isn’t a concern. My worry is putting up…
Free Will Astrology (Aug. 23-29)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): None of the books I’ve written has appeared on the New York Times best-seller list. Even if my future books do well, I will never catch up with Aries writer James Patterson, who has had 260 books on the prestigious list. My sales will never rival his, either. He has earned…
