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All the ways to celebrate New Year’s Eve in metro Detroit
Meridian Motor City NYE Drop @ Campus Martius Park What better way to ring in the new year than by celebrating it in the heart of downtown Detroit. Meridian Motor City NYE Drop will commence at Campus Martius with two atmospheres: The Drop and the Motown Countdown. This staple event not only includes the best…
Updated: Janet Jackson’s entire tour postponed until next year
Janet’s show at the Palace was originally rescheduled for July 23, but now it’s been postponed until 2017.
Updated: Women alleging racism at Detroit’s Punch Bowl Social speak out
The women behind a viral post tell their version of the story.
Metro Times seeking staff writer
The ideal candidate is a passionate, organized, professional writer with some experience who wants to nuzzle into Detroit’s warm embrace and then get after it and dig up stories. (There’s a whole lot of them here.)
Judge who sentenced children to juvie for not speaking to dad withdraws from custody fight
The judge who had three kids handcuffed and put in juvie for not wanting to speak with their dad is withdrawing from the case.
Flint water crisis prompts DEQ resignation, personnel changes
MDEQ director Dan Wyant has resigned.
R.I.P. Lemmy Kilmister
We must all pay personal tribute the way Lemmy would have wanted: play f*&%ing rock and roll LOUD.
Here’s a brand new video from Tone Perignon
Our friend Tone Perignon, who we voted one of the 15 best new musical artists in the Detroit area in a cover story this summer, has sent along a new video, just posted last week. We think it’s excellent, and we can’t wait to see and hear more.
MOCAD’s ‘Fifth Estate’ 50th anniversary exhibition closes Sunday
Free back issues of the Fifth Estate, Detroit’s premiere countercultural magazine, will be provided while supplies last
Bagger Dave’s Greektown location shutters
So long, Bagger Dave’s!
Nick Cave’s “Here Hear” named second best art exhibit in the country
He’s still number one in our hearts.
Tonight at PJ’s Lager House: Alex Chilton tribute night
Alex Chilton’s songs have always been eminently coverable, throughout the Memphis singer and producer’s rocky and storied career. Tonight at PJ’s Lager House, local rockers, folksters and lovable weirdos will tackle his material with aplomb and energy, and you should go. What else are you doing? It’s the Monday after Christmas, and you already saw…
Detroit will forgive late fees on tickets until 2 p.m. tomorrow.
The original fines must be paid, but the late fees will be waived, for a few magical hours, that is.
DIA to screen Martin Luther King Jr. doc
The film is free with museum admission on MLK Day.
Low water levels reveal a Detroit we never knew about
And it’s nowhere near where you think it is.
Detroit on pace to end the year with 300 homicides
The seven-year old became Detroit’s 292 murder victim.
Reminder: Trans-Siberian Orchestra shoots Christmas lasers directly into your soul at the Palace tomorrow, Tues., Dec. 29
We believe tickets are still available for this beyond epic showcase of guitar pyrotechnics compounded by a very elaborate showcase of lights and lasers and people screaming and it’s got something to do with Christmas and 1980s stadium style rock and roll music and you can bring the whole family and you won’t believe how…
‘Keisha vs. Kash Doll’ just dropped
The debut mixtape from Detroit’s Kash Doll dropped at midnight.
The surprising darkness of old-time children’s stories
A Christmas Day story: What happens when you read 100-year-old children’s stories to a contemporary child.
Southfield producer raised over $30K for charity with ‘GRiZmas’ this year
Last weekend, beloved local producer GRiZ held his second annual sold-out holiday fundraising event which he calls GRiZmas. There were also numerous smaller events leading up to the big day. The great news is that the tally is in, and well over $30,000 was raised. for the very worthy nonprofit organization Little Kids Rock, which…
Metro Times seeking full-time web editor
Could it be you?
Mainstream media slow to pick up on Flint water crisis
The state wasn’t the only entity to be slow to acknowledge the crisis brewing in Flint.
Spend “This Christmas” with Elijah Connor
The Detroit native gives a stellar performance with touches of Gospel and R & B.
Neu Kombucha goes brick and mortar in Farmington
Neu Kombucha fans will soon be able to get more of the healthful drink.
Here’s a stack of this year’s police reports about Ferndale’s Motorama motel
A glimpse of life at the motel include 79 police reports documenting death, drugs, prostitution, domestic disputes, car theft, and so much more.
Show review: An Evening with Keegan-Michael Key and the 313 at DIA on Dec. 22
Detroit loves Keegan-Michael Key — and the feeling is mutual!
PETA is offering a $5,000 reward to help nab a local cat killer
PETA is offering a big reward to find whoever killed a local family’s cat.
How Florida Juggalos from the commune Sausage Castle saved Christmas, according to Vice
As the birthplace of Juggalism, we Michiganders are naturally interested in Juggalo-related news, such as this long read on Broadly (one of Vice’s sub-sites) on “How a Juggalo commune saved Christmas” down in Florida.
DIA celebrates 50 years of Friends of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Since its founding in 1965-66 as the Print and Drawing Club, what is now known as the Friends of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs has acquired hundreds of works on paper for the Detroit Institute of Arts. It’s one of the DIA’s many auxiliary support groups — essentially a group of DIA members who are appreciators…
Solo and duo sets all day for free at Trinosophes today, Wed. Dec. 23
The series is called “One, Two, Go,” and like many things at this venerated spot, it seems to have come together last minute.
An archival interview with blind street performer and composer Moondog
In this brief pause between the end of the holiday gift-giving and the start of the New Year huzzah, I thought it would be fun to revisit something I wrote for the defunct newspaper New York Press back in 1997. It’s never been re-run in print, never gone up online, and there simply aren’t a…
Helping Kevin Ransom: Disabled Dearborn journalist falls on hard times
The holiday season is a time for friends and family. But it is also a time for giving, and the time of year when those in need are at their most vulnerable. It is with this in mind that we at the Metro Times feel compelled to turn our attention to one of our own…
Mark your calendar today for these upcoming shows
Tickets are now on sale for these events. Jan. 29-30, 2016, Ann Arbor Folk Fest with Richard Thompson, Yo Le Tengo, Joan Baez, and many more at the Hill Auditorium; theark.org; General public tickets are $37.50 and $50 for a single night; $67.50 and $90 for series tickets. Feb. 12, 2016, Jim Norton at Royal…
Judge calls Detroit’s prosecution of water shut-off protesters a ‘disaster’
Curt Guyette is an investigative reporter for the ACLU of Michigan. He can be reached at 313-578-6834 or cguyette@aclumich.org. In the summer of 2014, as the city of Detroit was shutting off water to thousands of homes a week, a group of activists resorted to civil disobedience in an attempt to draw attention to the…
Politics and Prejudices: They created Trump
Fast-forward to exactly 10 months from now, and imagine that Donald Trump is indeed, as now seems all too likely, the Republican presidential nominee. Hillary Clinton is comfortably ahead in the polls. Not by the immense margins once predicted, but by what looks like at least a solid, 55-45 percent victory. Democrats think they’ve got…
Get your kicks: Wayne bar has something for everyone
The bar now known as US 12 has been in operation for nearly four decades, though it hasn’t always gone by the same name. General manager Scott Gocaj says he and his team took over around 15 years ago and have been working to create a safe, fun, entertaining environment ever since. “We’re a modern-day…
James Rigato dazzles and delights with Mabel Gray
James Rigato has done it again, and in Hazel Park. His second restaurant, little Mabel Gray, is a carefully orchestrated mix of seeming blitheness in the decor and a piling-on of fastidious details in the food prep. The result is nothing but fun for lucky diners, who have filled the made-over Ham Heaven diner every…
Retail Detail: Slip some of these toys under the tree
You’ve perused Macy’s. You’ve hit Target. You’ve exhausted local shopping outlets, and you still haven’t found that perfect thing for that special someone this holiday season. Did you forget about Lover’s Lane? This Michigan-based chain of stores are a one-stop shop for all things intimate, whether you’re looking for ladies’ lingerie, festive thongs for men,…
Savage Love: Cock locked
Q: After spending some years in the doldrums after having kids, my husband and I are now enjoying hot kinky sex and the occasional free pass to fuck other people. We couldn’t be happier. I have a friend who was extremely keen for me to cage his cock with the same kind of locking male…
How not to blow it on New Year’s Eve
Ah, New Year’s Eve. Is there a holiday more irresponsible? For several hours, from coast to coast, the United States becomes one noisemaking, binge-drinking, screaming throng ready to ring in the new. We’ve all had that midnight kiss to the sweet strains of “Auld Lang Syne” and felt good about the future. But it was…
Drink Up
Korbel Champagne Brut 12% ABV Come New Year’s Eve there’s some pressure to pick out the perfect bottle of bubbly. With so many to choose from it’s easy to become confused. Here’s a tip: Stick with Korbel. The Brut is a California champagne that’s smooth and refined, balanced and light-tasting. Spritely aromas of citrus and…
Weekly reader responses
Horror-scopes Cal Garrison is the astrologist behind the immensely popular “Horoscopes” featured in Metro Times. Apparently, it’s tough out there for the modern astrologer, who is expected to not only divine the cosmos but also look fabulous doing it. Reader “R.K.” writes: Dear Metro Times, I read your horoscopes online every week and while I…
Higher Ground: You can’t put the smoke back in the bong
There is little doubt in my mind that marijuana — cannabis, weed, pot, ganja, skunk, bud, herb, sticky icky, mota (in Mexico), le shit (in France), whatever you want to call it — is on the road to legalization. There are a lot of reasons for that. One of them is the changes taking place…
Horoscopes (Dec. 23-29)
ARIES (March 21 – April 20): You are going around the barn with too many things to expect yourself to know what’s going on. Letting go is hardly your strong suit, but it would help you so much to get over needing to keep feeding that idea that you’re on top of any of this.…
