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Dove tales: CIU interview casts doubt on Detroit firefighter death conviction
Fire wall: The case of Mario Willis Part I: How a Detroit firefighter’s death might have sent an innocent man to prison Part II: After a Detroit firefighter died on duty, prosecutors looked for someone to blame. Did they get it all wrong? Part III: Dove tales: CIU interview casts doubt on Detroit firefighter death…
Ann Arbor celebrates 200 years with a restaurant week and 12 months of special events
It’s Ann Arbor’s 200th birthday, and the city is celebrating with special events all year long. Festivities will kick off from 6-8 p.m on Friday, Jan. 19 with an event at the Michigan Theater featuring a silent auction, snacks, cocktails, music, and bicentennial poetry recited by resident poetjournalist Aaron Dworkin. Dworkin was chosen in 2023…
A visit to Donald Calloway’s new studio at Detroit’s Irwin House
Donald Calloway is busy in the kitchen, paying me no mind as I peruse his studio. He’s tending to a tall pot of peanut soup packed with strips of kale and baby corn. Then he crafts an elaborate tray of fresh rolls stuffed with oyster mushrooms atop a bed of spiralized carrots. Around them, he…
Nandi’s Knowledge Cafe wants to build an ‘Agri-hood’ in Highland Park
Highland Park could be home to an extensive urban farm and outdoor classroom next spring. It’s being called an “Agri-hood” and would be located on three vacant lots next to neighborhood staple Mama Nandi’s Knowledge Cafe. Plans for the Argri-hood include a micro orchard and berry patch, greenhouse, pollinator garden, and an outdoor kitchen with…
Attorney Mike Morse is giving Detroiters free Uber rides for New Year’s Eve
While you’re figuring out where to celebrate New Year’s Eve in metro Detroit, don’t forget the most important thing of all — how to get home. To that end, the Mike Morse Law Firm is bringing back its “Ride Free NYE” campaign for a second year to help metro Detroiters ring in 2024 safely. The…
Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari’ gives us the man and the legend, but it’s not quite a triumph
Ferrari gives Adam Driver a second chance to give an award-worthy performance as a real person with an Italian accent. Some of you may remember when Driver slapped on an accent to play doomed fashion magnate Maurizio Gucci in Ridley Scott’s biopic House of Gucci a couple years back. Performing alongside Lady Gaga, Al Pacino,…
A look back at Detroit’s art scene in 2023: a year of firsts, censorship, and murals
Yeah, yeah we know these year-end recaps are all over the internet this time of year and it can feel like kind of a cop-out, but actual humans are writing the content on this screen and we need time to slow down at the end of the year, too. Plus, if you don’t know where…
Le Suprême brings a French flair to downtown Detroit
French food has long been hard to come by in Detroit or southeast Michigan. The reputable Standard Bistro and Larder in Ann Arbor blessed us for a few brief years before closing in 2020, and there was little else to speak of until Bar Pigalle opened in Detroit’s Brush Park last year. And yet Detroit…
Michigan is bringing back 1960s green and white ‘Water Wonderland’ license plate
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Detroit vs. Everybody’s new flagship opens just in time for the holidays
Detroit vs. Everybody dusted its shoulders off and opened its new flagship location on Wednesday. The new store is located at 44 W. Columbia St., around the corner from the Fox Theatre, in a building owned by Olympia Development of Michigan. The 1,800-square-foot space joins JoJo’s Shake Bar, Frita Batidos, Sahara Restaurant and Grill, and…
Majority of Detroit-area voters support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, poll finds
In Michigan, the state with the largest Arab population in the nation, most voters strongly support the U.S. calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, according to a new survey conducted by Data for Progress and We the People-Michigan. The findings follow the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Palestinian Gaza Strip that…
U.K. man busted smuggling $4M worth of ketamine into DTW
Authorities say they prevented a United Kingdom man from bringing about 110 pounds of the drug ketamine into Detroit Metropolitan Airport last week, a haul which they estimate has a street value of $4 million. U.S. Customs and Border Protection say the incident happened on Dec. 13, when an X-ray scan detected suspicious packages in…
Cornel West calls for end to Palestinian occupation at Dearborn visit
Independent 2024 presidential candidate Cornel West made his first campaign stop in Michigan on Tuesday evening. A crowd of dozens roared with applause and cheers at Dearborn’s Greenfield Manor banquet hall as West condemned the Israeli occupation in Gaza and called for all cultures and faiths to stand together. West spoke at “Gaza Endures,” an…
Local femme singer-songwriters to perform at concert fundraiser for Girls Rock Detroit
Some of Detroit’s hottest femme singer-songwriters will perform at the Tin Roof for the first ever “Music Mavens of Michigan,” a concert fundraiser benefiting Girls Rock Detroit. The local lineup includes Audra Kubat, Julianna Ankley, Maggie Cocco, Coko Buttafli, Fay Burns, Gwenyth Hayes, Julia Rose, Jacki Daniels, and more. These musicians have over 45 awards…
Dance night Macho City celebrates 15 years with holiday party
Fifteen years ago DJ Mike Trombley launched a disco party dubbed Macho City in Philadelphia, where he was living at the time. As an indie rock kid, Trombley said he started digging into dance culture due to his interest in the New York label DFA in the early 2000s, which was heavily inspired by the…
Cyrus Tetteh hosts ‘Only in Detroit’ book signing
Only in Detroit will you see a police chapman wearing a pair of Cartier buffs at an award ceremony. Moments like these — along with Aretha Franklin’s funeral and Big Sean getting the key to the city — were captured by local photographer Cyrus Tetteh and compiled in his Only in Detroit book. Tetteh will…
The big box with my name on it
Chowhound is a weekly column about what’s trending in Detroit food culture. Tips: eat@metrotimes.com. Any gift given has some thought behind it. Choosing one for someone is part expression of how we see ourselves in the relationship. That’s the trick when it comes to presents: finding the right ones to communicate connection. No wonder we…
Free Will Astrology (Dec. 20-26)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries educator Booker T. Washington advised us, “Do the common thing in an uncommon way.” That’s a useful motto for you in the coming months. If you carry out ordinary activities with flair, you will generate good fortune and attract excellent help. As you attend to details with conscientious enthusiasm, you…
