Disco D Benefit.
Pitchfork reports on a Disco D tribute show to be held in Brooklyn this Wednesday. Proceeds from the door will be donated to The Neutral Zone in Ann Arbor. In our Jan. 31 issue, Hobey Echlin and Robert Gorell, two Detroit music writers who had known Disco D and covered his career from the beginning,…
Dick in a Heart-Shaped Box.
Girls Aloud “Sound of the Underground” Holly Valance, “State of Mind” Britney Spears, “Oops!? I Did it Again” Janet Jackson, “You Can Be Mine” Alex Cartana, “Hay Papi” Girls Aloud, “Wake Me Up” Sugarbabes, “Red Dress” Girls Aloud, “The Show” Shampoo, “Delicious” t.A.T.u., “Not Gonna Get Us” Girls Aloud, “All I Need (All I Don’t)”…
Bar brawl
The Traffic Jam and Motor City Brewery collide.
The big one
A paczek for the record books.
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Dear Rob: Could you please tell me how I can get the men I like to remove me from the pedestals they put me on? If something doesn’t change soon, I’ll have to obliterate their delusions. It’s just that storms start building whenever I feel cramped by demands disguised as love.…
We are (or aren’t) alone
Does everything in Detroit have to become art to become real? Now more than ever, it sure seems like it. I can’t count the number of artists documenting the lost lives and stories in this city by drawing pictures of run-down neighborhoods, recording anecdotes from senior citizens’ pasts and photographing the homeless, jobless and mentally…
Sign in to dine
Prepare for frustration when searching for the Signature Grille & Bar, tucked away in the Riverfront Towers off Jefferson near the Joe Louis Arena. After stopping at the security gate to obtain permission to enter the complex, you have to master instructions about where to park and how to find the restaurant. Signage is minimal…
Do me, grind me
I hate it when a guy says my name in bed. Hate it. I already know my name. And if I don’t know yours, we probably didn’t come there to talk. So please, whatever you do, don’t say my name. I don’t like to be kissed either, at least not during the act. With the…
Basic instincts
Those of us who haven’t already come to terms with it must: Someday, somewhere, we will be faced with a full-on view of Lindsay Lohan’s snatch. Don’t worry — it won’t be in a movie theater. It’ll be on the other end of a hyperlink in an e-mail emblazoned with the acronym “NSFW,” or blearily…
The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema
A pop culture renegade, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek is like a male version of Camille Paglia with a thick Slavic accent. And, despite its salacious title, The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, Zizek’s 2 1/2-hour exploration of the psychology behind popular cinema, hopes to titillate your mind rather than your nether regions. Bringing his…
Jeffrey Morgan’s Media Blackout
It’s rare that a city gets the singular honor of hosting both the NFL’s Super Bowl and the WWE’s WrestleMania in two successive years, but that’s the impressive coup that Detroit’s managed to pull off. And you can bet that the NFL’s inane decision to hire non-homegrown musicians won’t happen this time around. I promise…
Norbit vs. Hannibal Rising
Two grim multiplex spectacles in the same week could be an omen of the apocalypse.
CINEMA REVIEW
More than 40 years ago, Jean-Luc Godard solved a dilemma that had been vexing filmmakers since the birth of the medium. How do you get moviegoers to pay good money to see a bunch of random, unrelated characters deliver a socio-political treatise on the ideals of communism, the economics of cities and the unreliability of…
Getting hotter
Two weeks ago, students across the United States and Canada put on polar bear costumes, jumped on their bikes, chalked their campuses, threw beach parties, staged cross-campus “energy wars” and packed university auditoriums with students, administrators and community members as part of the largest coordinated climate week of action in North America yet. The Campus…
Night and Day
Wednesday • 14 Hot Tamales Valentine’s Day Art Show ART Tempt your sappy sweetie with a romantic art show — complete with pinks and reds and lots of kisses — and get blissfully tipsy at the same time. Who wants to deal with V-Day, after all, without the comfortable buffer of a beer-filled haze? Local…
Animation Show 3
It sometimes feels like each coming sunrise heralds the arrival of a new festival of inventive, funny and edgy cartoons, especially with the third installment of The Animation Show, hot on the heels of this year’s Spike and Mike Festival of Sick and Twisted Animation. Though the two events are similar, there are significant differences.…
Boxed sex tension
Fetish Fanatic 5 Evil Angel, directed by Belladonna The played-out Jenna Jameson may be the household name, but ask the pros in Porn Valley who’s best and most will say Belladonna. A few years ago, she followed up a tearful performance under the grilling of Diane Sawyer on Primetime Live with a scene in which…
Comics
The Boiling Point – by Mikhaela Reid The Perry Bible Fellowship – by Nicholas Gurewitch
Rules of the Game
It is difficult to write anything about Jean Renoir’s 1939 masterwork without feeling like you are dribbling tiny drops of ink into a vast ocean of praise. Routinely ensconced near the top of any list of great French films, and firmly enshrined in the pantheon of world cinema, it is a tremendously entertaining movie, one…
Tease with tension
How does a successful modern dance choreographer go about convincing songwriting wunderkind Rufus Wainwright to compose a score for a new work? It doesn’t hurt to start with his mom. In the case of choreographer Stephen Petronio, Wainwright’s mother — singer Kate McGarrigle — was performing music by Lou Reed composed for Petronio’s The Island…
Bigger, harder
Hot, but not really. The Money Shot Twins are giving me shit because I stroll past their little alcove without stopping to finger their hole. “Stick your finger in my hole … are you a-fraaaaid?” coos Jaclyn Havoc through her best crimson-kiss power-pout. She swings a milk container full of cash at her pelvis as…
Six-finger feel-up
The PA’s flirting with falling over because its rickety tripod’s been pressed into service as a grind post for the scrum of sweating party kids staked out before the Dorkwave DJ crew’s perch. Every few seconds there’s a blast from the Dollar General strobe box that sits on top of the speaker, and its light…
Partying with the dirty old man
Deep down, I felt like a pervert. As a result, I behaved like a hyperactive 14-year-old in anticipation of having her boobs fondled for the first time. It was 1999, I was 24 years old, and there was actually Something new to do on a Friday night. We’d all heard all about an art show…
All’s well that ends well
Hey, everybody: By now you’ve no doubt heard the news that America’s favorite crystal-meth-snorting, male-escort-blowing evangelical Christian pastor is cured! While 99.9 percent of wannabe ex-gays struggle to overcome their homosexuality for decades, Ted Haggard was pronounced “completely heterosexual” after just 21 days of counseling! Don’t you just love a happy ending? I’d love to…
Lust comics
Age of Sinnocence – by Jeremy Wheeler & Matt Delight
Deep inside the Kinsey Institute
My real, personal adult sex education actually started with an evolutionary study of a tiny insect called the “gall wasp.” In case you missed that day in biology class, gall wasps grow only to 8 millimeters long. They have four wings, eat plants and reproduce when the female lays eggs on leaves. And they were…
The lust issue
Brian Smith Bigger, harder The Dirty Show slithers slowly into mainstream. Eve Doster Partying with the dirty old man Who was I sexually? Was this show too far out? Michael Jackman The last peep show Adult shops face an uncertain future. Wendy Case Do me, grind me A confirmed ‘sexualist’ tackles the ‘sensualist’ beast. Sandra…
Glitter, please!
“I told him I had two words for him: Cod. Piece.” That’s how Sirens vocalist and ringleader Muffy Kroha recounts her March 2005 pitch to drummer and musician-about-town Dave Malarsh (Paybacks, Wolfbait) on joining her band. Malarsh accepted, of course — “I never say no,” he says of becoming the first man since Cameo’s Larry…
Make like a tree and laugh
To moviegoers of a certain age, he will forever be Biff Tannen, the looming jarhead bully who menaced Marty McFly through three Back to the Future movies and multiple time frames. To others, he’s known as the gruff-but-well-meaning Coach Fredricks, the lovable gym teacher, who — despite his curt mien — used his heart of…
Heart Cheeze
The slow-mo episode wrap-up song has been a staple of TV drama since at least summer 2005, when Claire drove off at the end of Six Feet Under to the strains of Sia’s “Breathe Me.” And it’s a (sickeningly) perfect device because the song usually acts as both an amplifier and a mirror for the…
Motor City Rides
Loretta Lucas says skating is bliss.
Just another lust song
Baby, kick your shoes off, relax, and, uh, put on a record. That’s the way Tony Bennett sang it in the old chestnut “What Are You Afraid Of?” That’s the way music and sex have been intertwined since … well, how far back does this stuff go? That’s the kind of question record producer-turned-McGill University…
Gal’s party for one
So I was in bed a couple Sunday mornings ago with a pretty hot guy. It had been a great Saturday night dinner/drinking date that ended with an inspired, creative, exhausting romp back in my bed. I postponed my necessary morning coffee for another go 1’round — hey, you never know when a guy like…
Letters to the Editor
Repairing the damage Re: “Battle cry” (Metro Times, Jan. 31), I’m Chris Killion’s brother, and I just wanted to thank you for writing the article about Chris. It was very touching and I thought that you did a great job getting the word out about what vets are going through. Chris has done exactly as…
Guy’s party for one
Hardly a day goes by that I don’t give my most prized possession a spit shine. The jerking began one summer’s evening when I was 12. While my parents were in the living room explaining to their party guests that their son was years away from any interest in sex, I was in my room…
Real leadership
What could have and should have happened last week in Lansing: Jennifer Granholm faced the television cameras during her state of the state speech. But it was a far different governor than we’ve seen for the last four years. This time, the warm feel-good happy talk had vanished: Citizens of Michigan, I have come to…
Happy endings
From the time I was a teen, I knew I had this "thing" for diapers, most likely stemming from a father who berated me for not being manly enough and a mother who threatened to put me back in diapers. (I was an occasional bed-wetter until age 14.) Somehow those insults and threats worked their…
Lust and thrust
War pimps are unrepentant.
Food Stuff
Full plates for local foodies.
“Onnnnn the WBeeeeeee!!!”
According to Billboard,, the White Stripes have signed a one-album deal with Warner Bros. This comes after the recent fallout from V2’s implosion. I hope this means more guest appearances by Jack and Meg on The CW. They could rock bit parts in Gilmore Girls or Veronica Mars with no trouble at all; shit, Kristen…
