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In Print: The Art of Zines
What is it about zines? They simply won’t die. In an era of instantaneous communication and high-resolution computer graphics, it’s surprising how people stubbornly embrace these handmade magazines created by passionate individuals. Zines, you may remember, had their moment in the sun about 20 years ago or so, when national media zeroed in on the…
Elektricity’s Amir Daiza knows how to run a club
Elektricity There’s no denying that Amir Daiza knows how to run a good club. The dude has his finger on the pulse of what’s happening musically in Detroit at any given time, and he’s skilled at creating prime venues for those genres. In the early ’80s, Daiza owned the notorious club Bookies, Detroit’s answer to…
The Clean Plate Club, Drinks X Design and more
Exurban Vegan — Food doesn’t have to be flavorless slop to be good for you. A new generation of restaurateurs is coming into its own showing that healthful, life-giving food can taste a lot like, well, gut-pleasing comfort food. That seems to be what’s driving business at the Clean Plate Club in Shelby Township. It’s…
Reviews of Wild Cub, Tower of Power and more
Club Thunderbolt City of Salt Chieftown This album from Club Thunderbolt, a Windsor band, was recorded at High Bias Recordings in Detroit and mastered in Toronto, making the record a true cross-border affair. A few Detroit musicians popped in to play horns too. You’d think, then, there would be plenty of imagination on offer —…
Film Review: August: Osage County
August: Osage County | C+ We hope dinnerware is cheap in Oklahoma, as an awful lot of it is broken by the angst-ridden characters in this labored screen adaptation of Tracy Letts’ 2008 Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play. The immensely talented cast also chews through any and all scenery, stopping just short of gnawing through…
Celine Dion is far more poisonous than One Direction
Every right-thinking adult knows that boy bands suck. We know that this music is mass-manufactured by corporate money-men, and that the image is think-tanked to the point of pristine. We know that teams of people work on the songs until they are polished enough to satisfy the most dollar-hungry desk pig, and we know that…
City Slang: AntiFreeze before the freeze
This Monday morning, people are taking snow days left, right and center and planting themselves firmly in front of a warm fire and an old movie, cupboards safely stocked with comfort food. On Friday night, we knew that a storm was a-coming, but it was still a little ways off and what better way to…
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Album of the Year | Danny Brown Old The votes have been counted and the results are in. The 2013 Metro Times Album of the Year is Danny Brown’s Old, and now we’re feverishly assembling a trophy with a little gold joint on top. In all seriousness, Brown fully deserves this. He’s had a tremendous…
NY Times Bestselling Author Malcolm Gladwell To Speak At Michigan Theater
The New Yorker staff writer and New York Times best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell will speak at the Michigan Theater Monday, Jan. 27 to read from his new book, lead a Q & A and sign autographs. According to a press release: In the spirit of his new book, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the…
The creepiest search terms used to find Metro Times
We decided to take a look at the Google Analytics for metrotimes.com to see what popular search terms people were looking up to arrive at the our site. While most of the top searches were pretty obvious (“metro times,” “metrotimes,” “metro times detroit,” “metro time blowout,” “pig and whiskey,” etc.), some just left us scratching…
Traits – Exhibiting Nine Singles
Traits. So here’s the thing. Zingy guitar phrasing spanning surf, boogie, space-rock to reggae (…there’s definitely some fine flicks of early aughts-era Modest Mouse on those riffs), with dual vocal melodies harmonized nicely by the bands founders (Michael Seger and Sean Shea) that sound like a mash-up of Bloc Party and Clasp Your Hands Say…
Superman vs. Batman has $131 million budget in Michigan
According to The Inquisitr, the forthcoming Man of Steel sequel, dubbed Superman vs. Batman, which will be partly shot in Detroit, will have a Michigan budget of $131 million, making it the largest production shot in Michigan to date. The movie will be filmed in several locations within the state, including Michigan Motion Pictures Studio…
The Top Ten Best GIFS Of The 2014 Bowl Season
The 2014 Bowl Season is pretty much all over with the exception of the 2014 National Championship Game, which Auburn and FSU will play on Monday night. Needless to say, it’s been an eventful week full of amazing plays, funny gaffes and a boatload of tears from model-esque girlfriends of Alabama players. Check out some…
City Slang: Coming up at Trinosophes
Blackman Revue Trinosophes reopens on Friday, January 3 for the first of its Detroit avant jazz series of the new year, with Skeeter C.R. Shelton’s Spectrum 3 with Maxie Arthur and Khaleelah performing. “One of the great musicians of the Detroit creative music scene, Skeeter C.R. Shelton is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and uniquely emotive saxophonist…
10 Internet plagues we want to die in 2014
10) Think pieces about Miley Cyrus. And think pieces about think pieces about Miley Cyrus. She’s not worth a fraction of the ink bloggers have spent while analyzing and overanalyzing the implications of the cultural apropriation of twerking. ;p 9) The word “facepalm.” You’d think everyone on the Internet was sitting alone at their computer, smacking their own face…
City Slang: Detroit School of Rock and Pop in 2014
The new year is upon us, and the Detroit School of Rock and Pop wants to remind us that these winter months are a great time to knuckle down and learn an instrument. Enrollment is open. They say, “January is a great time of year to learn that instrument you’ve always wanted to be able…
