Tranny space
Parking requirement raises legal suspicions.
Hear us knocking
MT joins suit against Terri Lynn Land.
CREEM crop
LESTER BANGS: Often called, even during his lifetime, “the greatest rock ‘n’ roll critic in the world.” The native of Escondido, Calif., was a CREEM editor from 1971 through 1976 and is probably most responsible for the magazine’s legendary status. He died from a Darvon overdose in 1982. DAVE MARSH: Michigan native who became the…
Letters to the Editor
American ruse I am writing in response to Robert Scheer’s piece on Charlie Wilson’s War (“Charlie Wilson’s War — and ours,” Metro Times, Jan. 9). If it is true that we are lied to and fooled, then is there no solution for the United States’ relations with the Muslim world? Are we “infidels” doomed to…
Reality bites
January may not be the coldest month in television, but in 2008 it promises to be the strangest. In the wake of resurrecting Bionic Woman, NBC has exhumed American Gladiators for Monday nights (8 p.m., Channel 4), proving conclusively that the hoary programmers at 30 Rock stumbled upon Heroes completely by accident. (Coming next month,…
Drawing outside the lines
The trash bin in the alley behind Golden Hill, in Hamtramck, belongs to Al Capone. It’s tough to say how long he’s been there, maybe about a year. That coy gal probably came with him. A little ways down the alley is Honest Abe with a broken nose. You’ll find George “Eat Shit” Bush across…
Comics
The Boiling Point – by Mikhaela Reid The Perry Bible Fellowship – by Nicholas Gurewitch
Geezer pleaser
Should I help my 72-year-old father get with a younger woman?
Dante’s journey
Vanelli Express maestro’s classy carryout.
Food Stuff
Full plates for local foodies.
Main attraction
Serving the omelet’s open-faced Mediterranean cousin, which is finished under the broiler and served unfolded, Frittata is upscale and family-friendly. The $7 house frittata is a blend of three eggs, caramelized shallots and white wine topped with Asiago cheese and roasted potatoes — simply delicious. For a bit more zest, try the delectable honeybee frittata…
Night and Day
Thursday • 17 White Williams GLAMSTER ELECTRONICA Clever self-promotion deserves respect. Joe Williams, of White Williams, writes: “Nurtured in the arson-prone fatalism of Cleveland’s DIY scene, 23-year-old Joe Williams, noise-rock dilettante and White Williams’ mastermind, made a name for himself twice touring with Gregg Gillis (Girl Talk), Andrew Strasser, Frank Musarra (Hearts of Darknesses) and…
The Orphanage
Laura (the lovely Belén Rueda of The Sea Inside) and her husband (Fernando Cayo) have reopened the orphanage of her youth with plans to provide handicapped children with care and teaching. With them is their 7-year-old son, Simon (Roger Princep), a fragile little kid with an entourage of imaginary friends. When a strange old woman-ghost…
Dazed and confused
Blood Car Fake Wood Wallpaper Productions Though the idea of a no-budget quasi-horror cult film designed around the no-budget quasi-horror cult films of Roger Corman might sound like a project running on empty, Blood Car is a full-throttle bit of high-octane comic blood and brilliance that lends itself not only to a damn good viewing,…
Gushing over
Daniel Plainview is an oilman; it’s how he repeatedly defines himself. Love, community, camaraderie; all these things are irrelevant. He cares about no one, possibly not even himself. He’s the kind of guy who, when a colleague dies in the oil field, he adopts his infant son, not out of love or duty, but because…
Blame the Dems
Democratic party bosses blew it — big time.
First Sunday
Surly Cube and goofy Tracy are best pals Durell and Lee John, dimwit bumblers who want to go legit but can’t quite shake their petty crime habits, like boosting flat-screens from their jobs at an AV store. Their attempts to make a quick buck fencing stolen wheelchairs only gets them in even deeper with the…
Detroit, foreclosed
Housing crisis hits the hood hard.
Youth Without Youth
The movie concerns Dominic Matei (Tim Roth), an elderly linguistics professor who describes himself as a failure. One stormy day in 1938, he plans his own suicide, but is struck by lightning before he can follow through. Badly burned, he survives the hit and wakes up in the hospital a changed man. He has changed…
Big bop for Dilla Dawg
Mos Def leads a big band tribute to J. Dilla.
For the Bible Tells Me So
By tackling a hot-button issue in a calm and deliberate manner, director Daniel Karslake defuses the heated rhetoric surrounding homosexuality and Christianity, and allows the voices of reason to quietly, powerfully speak out. For The Bible Tells Me So is unabashedly activist filmmaking, but Karslake believes in confronting hostility with dignity, and using education to…
Jeffrey Morgan’s Media Blackout
You say hump and he’ll jump.
The ‘bumblefuck model’
It’s not every day that you encounter a successful business that relies on “the bumblefuck model.” But it’s not every day that you encounter a business as idiosyncratic as Ann Arbor’s Quack! Multimedia and an owner as simultaneously pragmatic and philosophical as Al McWilliams. You may not have heard of Quack! (the name simply struck…
Green horizons
If this year’s big North American International Auto Show had to be summed up in just one word, that word might be schizophrenic. But that doesn’t quite get it. If the auto doctor practiced psychiatry, chances are good he’d diagnose this patient as having multiple personality disorder. You have the past and future jumbled together…
