Cover Stories
If only I knew …
If only I knew … What do you know now about lust and sex that you wish you’d known before? How easy it is to get caught up in a person and escape reality for a few days, weeks. —Lezgo, 23, 1 partner, gay That the objects of my lust and sex are often evil. …
Is it safe?
How do you keep sex safe? Do you? Don’t bar-fuck, ever. —Ribalda 67, partners: "lol," straight Alwayssss. —Anonymous, 30, 15 partners, straight Use a condom every time. I use one every time. I may tease a little without one, but no penetration without one. —Artemis A, 24, 7 partners, straight Dental dams, gloves, lube, condoms…
The Lust Issue 2012
Valentine’s Day is around the corner, which means it’s time for MT’s seventh annual Lust Issue and our fifth annual Live & Lust Poll. Through the years, dear readers, you’ve shared a lot. You’ve charted the rise and fall of libidos against the ups and downs of the economy, inventoried your toy boxes, your favorite…
The Live and Lust Poll 2012
Valentine’s Day is around the corner, which means it’s time for MT’s seventh annual Lust Issue and our fifth annual Live & Lust Poll. Through the years, dear readers, you’ve shared a lot. You’ve charted the rise and fall of libidos against the ups and downs of the economy, inventoried your toy boxes, your favorite…
Research papers
From the dance of the sexes to child-rearing practices to how we cooperate and clash: These are the kinds of questions pondered annually at the worldwide gathering of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, which held its 23rd meeting last June 29-July 3 in Montpellier, France. The researchers put a decidedly Darwinian frame on things,…
Scared stiff
For the past two and a half years, former Detroiter and Silicon Valley transplant Molly Mounds has been patrolling — "for your pleasure, dismay and horror" — the far edges of the sex toy world for her blog Scary Sex Toy Friday (scarysextoyfriday.com). A tough job, but someone has to do it, right? From the…
Just the tip
What’s the best guide, manual, primer, tips book, website, magazine, etc. for advice on getting it on? Seductivedomination.com. Aahhhhh. … There’s a plethora of delicious T&D techniques and wicked treasures guaranteed to make your li’l pet beg you for release. —Gypsychick, 40, straight Watching old Ron Jeremy, the guy had skills. True artist. …
Location, location, location
Location, location, location What’s the best metro Detroit locale where you can legally have sex? Hotel room at the top of the MGM hotel. —rocket55, 42, 9 partners, straight The Book Cadillac, if you can swing it. The De Lido Motel near the fairgrounds if you’ve got $12, half an hour and…
I was a Dirty Show model
Blame it on the jaded media culture of my generation, but when someone asks me about posing nude for several photos featured in The Dirty Show I just don’t see what the big deal is. It’s just skin, and all the naughty bits are covered. Besides, I’m the girl who showed up to Theatre Bizarre…
Was it good for you?
The condition known as "transient global amnesia" can be triggered by sex. What’s been most mind-blowing for you — if you remember? What was that phrase in Catcher in the Rye about playing a woman’s body like a violin? Yeah, some men can do that. They really can. —That Person Who Won’t Shut Up,…
Sex on the brain
A recent study found collegiate guys thinking about sex a median of 19 times a day (ranging from 1 to 388 times), and women thinking about sex a median of 10 times a day (range 1 to 140). How many times a day do you think about sex? What kind of thoughts? Is this good?…
If looks could kill (your sex life)
"Men who are too good-looking are never good in bed because they never had to be," opined relationship expert Carrie Bradshaw. True? Are not-so-hot men and women actually better in bed? As a really, really, ridiculously good-looking person, I’d have to say, on behalf of the really really ridiculously good-looking people of the world,…
Did I just hear that?
Best and worst things you’ve ever heard (or, fess up, said) at the point of orgasm? "Meow!" —That’s What She Said, 24, straight One time I roared like a lion. I don’t even know where it came from, but she loved it. —Brave Little Lion Man, 33, 10(?) partners, straight "I’m pregnant!" —Ex-oh,…
Oh, the books, they’d write
Oh, the books, they’d write Love in the Shower "I would advise every women to get a pulsating shower head with adjustable settings." —LuvPeaceSexHappy, 37, 20+ partners, straight No Means Not Only No but Get Up, Get Dressed, Get Out of There, Get in Your Car and Go Home —Ron Turgid, 50, 30+…
City Slang: Molly Hunt and American Idol thoughts
When we heard that Detroit native Molly Hunt, a country singer now living in Nashville but still publicly proud of her Motor City roots, had made it through the first stage of American Idol, two very distinct voices could be heard in our head. The first very clearly said, “Good for you, Molly. You go…
PBS special: Huh? U.S slavery ended in 1942?
Multiple choice time: U.S. slavery ended in 1) 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation 2) 1865 with the 13th Amendment 3) 1942 with the first conviction under Circular 3591 of the FDR administration. Wall Street Journal writer Douglas A. Blackmon, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning Slavery by Another Name is the basis for tonight’s PBS special of the…
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island D Journey 2: The Mysterious Island is an attempt to extend the franchise of Journey to the Center of the Earth, a nearly forgotten hit from only four years ago. Both have little plot in common, though they were extremely loosely adapted from totally unrelated novels written by Jules…
Niche upon Niche – pre-Grammy ramblings
Doc Waffles wonders out loud, or maybe tries to trick me, that maybe these early reports of Whitney Houston’s passing might be some hoax and that she’s going to dynamically appear on stage, sometime tonight at the Grammy’s, just as LL Cool J is giving the intro for the Remembrances montage… …a montage that, if they do…
City Slang: Jack White announces festival dates
Jack White has confirmed two festival dates in support of his new Blunderbuss album. According to a press release, “Jack will be headlining the Hangout Music Fest in Gulf Shores, AL on May 18th, followed by another headline slot a week later at Sasquatch! May 26th at the Gorge Amphitheater in Quincy, WA. Tickets for…
City Slang: Winter Blast in the snow
The Motown Winter Blast continues on Saturday and Sunday, with a ton of great bands worth braving the snow to see. Highlights on Saturday include 60 Second Crush, Rachel May & the Difficulties and the Sights on the Flagstar Bank Stage, and Frankie D’Angelo on the Compuware Stage. Highlight on Sunday include the Robin Moore…
City Slang: Adult entertainment at MOCAD
Adult., the local-area ‘dance punks’ play their first show in two years (and their first local show for two-and-a-half years) at MOCAD on Friday night. Former Destroy All Monsters man Cary Loren’s Monster Island and LA’s White Car also play. Performances start at 8 p.m., and cover is $8 (free for MOCAD members) More on…
Safe House
Safe House C There’s a piquant bit of irony on display in the first half-hour of Safe House. After a tense and well-executed game of cat and mouse between Denzel Washington and a cadre of assassins, our anti-hero is dragged from the American consulate in Cape Town, South Africa, where he has sought refuge,…
The Vow
The Vow C Amnesia, long a staple plot device of soap operas and Movie of the Week weepers, gets a slightly updated spin in this achingly earnest, well-intentioned, though somewhat mawkish Valentine’s Day card. Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams are such photogenic, wholesome, all-American cutie pies that they look like the little people on…
Bridge company pledges cooperation, then claims conspiracy in court filing
Officials for the Detroit International Bridge Company showed up in Wayne County Circuit Court on Thursday morning to repeat what they announced during a press conference the day before: They are ready to do everything Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Prentis Edwards says is required to complete the long-stalled Gateway Project in southwest Detroit. With…
City Slang: Karriem Riggins on Sir Paul’s new record
Detroit drummer and producer Karriem Riggins (he doesn’t live here here anymore, but he’ll always be one of us) is featured on Paul McCartney new album, Kisses on the Bottom that was released this week. Quite a cheeky album title that, for one approaching his twilight years. According to the press release, “MMY Award winning…
A.J.’s Cafe to close. But just who is this A.J. character?
Sad news that we’re losing another one-of-a-kind spot: A.J.’s Café, which is set to close at the end of March, reportedly facing the end of a lease and rising expenses. As fans prepare to say their farewells to the Ferndale spot famed for “Danny Boy” marathons and the like, we thought we’d revisit this 2009…
Danny Brown on Carson Daly tonight!
MT fave rapper Danny Brown, who appeared on our cover twice, was our Artist of the Year for 2011, will be on NBC’s “Last Call with Carson Daly” tonight at 1:35 a.m. for an interview and performance. WATCH IT. You’ll note that Brown is also appearing at the J Dilla Day at the Fillmore in…
Bridge company caves, but will seek damages from state
Officials for the Detroit International Bridge Company effectively raised a white flag announcing their surrender to the will of Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Prentis Edwards at a press conference Wednesday. With Ambassador Bridge owner Manuel “Matty” Moroun and DIBC President Dan Stamper facing the possibility of a return trip to jail for contempt of…
In metro Detroit, food trucks are on a roll
With its long winters and car-friendly layout, metro Detroit isn’t the most fertile ground for the nationwide trend of traveling food trucks to take root. But mobile eateries have recently started to take hold here, cropping up both downtown and in the suburbs. Today, from 5 to 9 p.m., seven of them will gather for…
City Slang: Weekly music review roundup
Remember – if you send it, it will get reviewed. That’s the City Slang promise. It doesn’t matter what genre the music is – as long as it has a Metro Detroit connection, it’ll get in. Preferably, we’d like to concentrate on new releases but, while we’re getting warmed up here, feel free to send…
Shelley / Ginkgo and Swimsuit’s Next Show
It’s funny to me, when Shelley admits her apprehension over “branding” herself or her own production company. When, really, around Ypsilanti, she’s practically already a household name in local music. Shelley Salant,…local radio show host, consistent performer/song-writer/recorder, label head, record store clerk, and, yes, show promoter. She’s the spark-plug,…
City Slang: “Ultra Hentch” Revisited
Before the White Stripes, before the Go, and before the Dirtbombs put out a single, there was the Hentchmen, three youthful looking gents who made an incredible ‘60s influences garage noise, before the word ‘garage’ would go on to have greater meaning in the D. The Hentchmen play this year’s Blowout on the Saturday, 11.40…
Political marketplace
What would you think if you learned, say, that Gov. Rick Snyder gave me a thousand dollars to write a favorable column about him? Naturally, you’d conclude that nothing I wrote would ever have any credibility again. Not that you would be reading me any longer; the Metro Times would fire me or any other…
Coming out online
Coming out online Q: I’m a 21-year-old gay male. My friend "Marcelo" is friends with "Chad." Everyone who meets Chad assumes he’s gay. Never had a girlfriend, a dance major, dyes his hair blond/green/purple, got up at 2 a.m. to watch Kate marry William — I could go on. Over four years at college, this…
Chairlift – Something (Columbia)
Four years after riding a hype wave to an iPod commercial spot, versatile singer Caroline Polachek and polite backgrounder Patrick Wimberly have evolved into a more conventional synth duo pushing across a self-consciously arty variation on beat-driven gen-X pop. It’d take considerable willpower to resist "Sidewalk Safari," which sounds like Annie Lennox powering through a…
House of Holes – Nicholson Baker
House of Holes Nicholson Baker Simon & Schuster, $25 hardcover, $15 paperback (released this week), 352 pp. We are awash in raunch, or at least it sometimes seems like it these days. Even if you’re not looking for it, e-mail spam or an unfortunately worded Google search will bring it flooding onto your computer screen.…
D-Day
It’s a cold, wintry night on Detroit’s east side, and Maureen Yancey is packing her bags for the type of overseas trip that normally would make anyone jealous. She’s tying up loose ends and crossing items off her to-do list before she’s set to hop on a plane and travel across Europe on a short,…
Earache in my eye
How loud does a band have to be to get cut off during the first song? Mount Pleasant two-piece Beast in the Field found out last year when, before barely getting past the first fuzzy note at the New Way in Ferndale, the soundman put a stop to the entire show. Drummer Jamie Jahr picks…
Fist fights & harmonies
Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers Charlie Louvin with Benjamin Whitmer Igniter, 320 pp., $22.99 Charlie Louvin’s new autobiography starts with the time he "beat the shit out of" his older brother Ira for calling their mother a bitch to her face. "He was lucky it was just words too," Charlie…
Letters to the Editor
Don’t hate the player While I can see Jack Lessenberry’s point concerning Prince Fielder ("Our values today," Feb. 1), there are several things he didn’t mention that I believe warrant airing. One is that athletes are the labor force of the sports world, and I, for one, have a hard time criticizing any amount of…
Mani Osteria & Bar builds buzz in Ann Arbor
Mani Osteria & Bar 341 E. Liberty St., Ann Arbor 734-769-6700 maniosteria.com Handicap accessible Prices: $15-$40 Ann Arbor has been undergoing something of a renaissance. For its many long-standing independent eateries, plenty of storefronts had been increasingly occupied by chains or places of middling quality. Then a few years ago, something happened: Real coffee shops…
Burying the Bones
What: Michigan premiere of a play by M.E.H. Lewis set in post-Apartheid South Africa. Where: The Detroit Repertory Theatre, 13103 Woodrow Wilson, Detroit; 313-868-1347; detroitreptheatre.com. When: Curtains at 8:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 3 and 8:30 p.m. Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sundays, until March 18. The Detroit Repertory Theatre — often simply called…
Getting carded
The heady atmosphere of the early days of medical marijuana in Michigan seems to have dissipated. Back then, there was a celebratory atmosphere as dispensaries were popping across the state and money from ganjapreneurs in Colorado and California flowed in as they expanded into the newest market to welcome their wares. But Michigan Attorney General…
Just the tip
What’s the best guide, manual, primer, tips book, website, magazine, etc. for advice on getting it on? Seductivedomination.com. Aahhhhh. … There’s a plethora of delicious T&D techniques and wicked treasures guaranteed to make your li’l pet beg you for release. —Gypsychick, 40, straight Watching old Ron Jeremy, the guy had skills. True artist. …
Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas (Columbia)
On the follow-up to 2004’s underrated Dear Heather, North America’s finest songwriter sounds cursed by his pedestal. Once an outlier in his slate of mid-’80s apocalyptic warnings you could dance to, "Hallelujah" has become his signature tune, and an impossible foundation: you get the sense that every new Leonard Cohen song that dissects desire, wickedness…
Moratorium & momentum
The group Moratorium Now, along with its allies in the Occupy movement and others, has been racking up a string of victories since last December. By taking to the streets — or even just threatening to take to the streets — the activists have been able to get big banks to reverse course and halt…
John K. Samson – Provincial (Anti)
teen-a-rama John K. Samson Provincial Anti The lead singer of Canadian band the Weakerthans has gone solo with a pack of jams, and you most likely haven’t heard anything about it. Too bad because it’s extremely easy to listen to and every song’s reminiscent of a good Neil Young album. The first few songs…
Food Stuff
Sublime seafood Congratulations to MGM Grand’s Saltwater, which distinguished itself in the auto association’s annual hospitality industry ratings. The Michael Mina restaurant received a triple-A, four-diamond award for its fourth consecutive year, an honor only six Michigan restaurants have received this year. In search of a fine-dining experience with creative and complex menus, accomplished staff…
California court overturns gay marriage ban. Any meaning for Michigan?
A California federal appeals court confirmed Tuesday what we already suspected: that Proposition 8 — the 2008 amendment to the California Constitution that eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry — is unconstitutional. A three-judge panel consisting of Judges S. Reinhardt, M. Hawkins and N.R. Smith of the of U.S. 9th Circuit Court determined…
Moroun, Stamper headed back to court, maybe back to jail
If we were in the well-polished shoes of Manuel “Matty” Moroun and Dan Stamper, we’d be packing a toothbrush and some soap-on-a-rope in advance of Thursday’s Wayne County Circuit Court appearance before Judge Prentis Edwards. Given Monday’s ruling by a three-member panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals, the stage is now set for a…
Super sleazy
Anyone in Michigan watching the Super Bowl on Sunday was subjected to a particularly disgraceful political attack from Republican Pete Hoekstra, who is looking to challenge Democratic incumbent U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow come November. One some levels, the ad is just lame. Attempting to tar Stabenow as a typical tax-and-spend liberal, Hoekstra slaps the senator…
