Farewell
A farewell to friends … Sarah Zeidan & Eric Markiewicz leave a legacy of love and music
Oh (big) Brother
CBS’s "Big Brother" could be the first TV show that actually works better online.
Read and rock on
Revolution is the new electro-mag for techno music and culture.
Easy Doesn’t It and Easy does it and Solitary Entwinement
Q: My girlfriend and I broke up two months ago, after being together for two-and-a-half years. Two weeks after we broke up, s…
Underground vibe
Sterling Heights native and Michigan State grad Greg Harrison documents life below the mainstream in his new film, Groove.
Liz’s Law
All-night radio jock and club DJ Liz Copeland connects the wires of Detroit electronica at Sonic Boom – MT’s local music extravaganza.
Single-celled sell
Chlorella (aka pond scum) is touted as a perfect food; nutritionists beg to differ.
Nader gets up to speed
The Green Party’s candidate, Ralph Nader, wants to wake America up … and force the other two candidates to address some major problems.
A soul never seen before
Detroit is full of individuals doing things their own way, like Theo Parrish, easily one of the area’s hottest rising stars, and the raw perfection of Slum Village, hip-hop’s most elusive act. PLUS: New tracks, new parties, new clubs … & more.
Where the heart is
They say you can’t go home again, but Keith A. Owens thinks that’s a lie. The part that matters most is always there.
Beads, ponies, trash and pop
Shopping, drinking and outsider art at the Tastefest … A Euro-style circus in Southfield … The Trash Brats make it through the night … Rick Manore’s leaving C-Pop … & more.
Hard and fast
Local women play real baseball on a team of their own, experiencing the sheer joy of doing what they love best.
Summer Fiction 2000
Light Among Clouds The weather for writing is always right. Whether you’re holed up in a cabin up North or relaxing from a hard eight on the job or steaming in a club downtown, when the feeling hits, the need to write that poem or story makes hot or cold, rain or shine, day or…
Mall protest on the Web
Web-based protests of Dearborn’s racial discrimination
Catchy and clean
Treblehead plays consistently catchy and clean power pop tunes that would sound completely natural directly after a Foo Fighters track on alternative radio. On first listen, they have an eerily familiar, “this is my new favorite song” quality about them. The band members performed at the 2000 North by Northwest Music Festival and have been…
It’s not over till…
For newspaper trade unionists, it’s still not over.
Soup in the melting pot
The Grille is part diner, part family restaurant, promising “Good Food” and “Good Time.” The spot has a quintessentially melting-pot menu, which includes veal Parmesan, tuna plate, lasagna, meat loaf, fish and chips, vegetarian stir-fry, BLTs, chopped sirloin dinner, chili fries, omelets, chef’s salad. When stacked up against other restaurants that serve a similar menu,…
How to curb globalism
Two Congress members offer sweeping proposals to reorient the global economy to sustainable development, not corporate greed.
Main brain
With Q-Tip off on a jiggy rock-star mission, his "abstract poetic" title is up for grabs, and Ypsilanti’s own SUN is a top contender to do the grabbing. His lyrics switch subjects at a rapid pace, weaving together themes and styles, from battling weak MCs to social commentary, but all coming together to make perfect…
Iraq sanctions in focus
Seized photos of Iraq finally returned to peace activist.
Copper alloy madness
Remembering the days of fist-on-fist combat is much too difficult. The past has been erased by a more techno-enhanced fighting genre, with games incorporating various modes of gameplay and thousands of complicated combos, eliminating the days of basic street brawls forever. Enter Tech Romancer, a metallic-clad Dreamcast fighter inspired directly by the futuristic Japanese animes…
What would you do?
Should Congress slash social services, or just snip taxes?
Songs with secrets
Let’s skip the film and go right to the sound track. It’s a catchy idea that could easily crash and become a one-joke wonder if this Dutch dance-pop duo weren’t smart enough to execute Music for Imaginary Films absolutely brilliantly. Arling and Cameron whisk the listener from blaxploitation to French B-films in "Le Flic et…
Mad about Harry
Harry Potter takes over the book lists.
Groove
One thing writer-director Greg Harrison does exceedingly well in Groove is thrusting the audience into the mind-set of a San Francisco rave. From scouting out a warehouse and transforming it into a party space to e-mailing invites to the rave cognoscenti, there’s a palpable feeling of anticipation. Something is going to happen tonight – quite…
Fashion yarn
Retro crochet clothing is hot.
Better Living Through Circuitry
The sight and sound of the mother beat – a thousand flashing lights, a thousand pumping speakers. Technocratic shamans – DJs – lay hands on turntable altars, turned on, tuning in, dropping that beat. This ain’t your papa’s trip. It’s a brand new bag. And what’s in it? The beat. And it descends like the…
Homegrown lather
Yummy local homemade soaps.
Disney’s The Kid
Disney’s The Kid, which could easily have been psychobabble claptrap about confronting a pesky inner child, is instead a surprisingly adroit tale about the never-ending process of growing up. In this sentimental yet clever fable about thwarted expectations, adulthood isn’t magically bestowed at a particular age, yet some very odd things are happening to Russ…
New dimensions in e-tail
Online shopping goes 3-D.
Scary Movie
Carmen Electra runs from a ghost-masked slasher. Tree branches, strategically placed, snag her clothes which rip away, stripping her to a moving parody of her Playboy playmate lingerie shots. Cue the lawn sprinklers and slow the motion: It’s an instant lampoon of the actress-model’s “Baywatch” days. The writers, Shawn and Marlon Wayans of WB Television…
