Hypocrites
Legal right to an appeal sounds more like an anti-union grudge…
Scooby-Doo
You can always count on Freddie driving, Daphne getting kidnapped, Velma losing her glasses, Shaggy’s empty stomach, Scooby Doo doing anything for a Scooby Snack, and Mystery, Inc. pulling the masks off the mystery. If you can handle a half hour of the cartoon, then you’ll have no problem sitting through the film.
Free Will astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re picking up signals that remind you of where you’ve come from — and how that’s connected to where you’re headed. The voices of your ancestors are growing so loud, they’ll probably wake you up in the middle of the night. While not everything they’ll say is gospel truth, their perspective…
Believe it or not
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick wants media muckraking to end…
Peeping Thomasina
Q: I am a single female, age 33. I live in an apartment building built such that I can see into the windows of the apartments in an adjacent wing. My bedroom is directly across from my neighbor’s bedroom; a very good-looking guy who is nicely shaped and nicely muscled, my age or younger. I…
Freight this
Saving Southwest Detroit from the Michigan Department of Transportation’s industrial disaster…
The sounds of love
Q: I am a 21-year-old college student, sharing an apartment with a guy who’s been my best friend for a long time. We get along well and are very compatible, but an incident two weeks ago has jeopardized all that. I’ve been dating a wonderful girl whom I’ll call Jennifer. Jennifer and I have sex…
Over and out?
Internet radio is dealt a deathblow…
June 26-July 2, 2002
26 WED • FUN FOR ALL International Freedom Festival — There’s no better reason to play hooky on a sunny Wednesday than the children’s carnival in Hart Plaza, which kicks of the International Freedom Festival. The day of pure sensory overload for diminutive Detroiters will feature a giant inflatable playground; it’s the perfect prelude to…
Unlikely jungle
Abandoned house of the week – 6/26/02
Sugar high
Aloha does everything at once….
Smooth & healthy
Atom’s Juice Café could change your mind about healthy food, if you’re of the “it can’t be good to you unless it’s bad for you” persuasion. Owner John Chetcuti says that his food is 100 percent cholesterol-free; he also tries to use organic ingredients whenever possible. Make sure to taste the amazing smoothies, pastas and…
What’s ‘neo’ got to do with soul?
You may have heard this one before. Work with me anyway. A kitten is taken from its litter and moved to a home full of dogs. It develops in a new environment. Canine activity dominates its habitat, but the cat remains a cat. It doesn’t change. Furthermore, when around other cats, it adapts to its…
Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker
If trumpeter Chet Baker had died in 1955, in his mid-20s, he would be remembered as a golden boy cut down in his prime, a player of much promise, unfulfilled. Musically, he would be pegged as an adept exponent of the West Coast cool school, too facile to make it into the pantheon but still…
Eyes dancing
“This summer exhibition is really an extension of one of the original missions of Revolution: A Gallery Project [the original name of Revolution Gallery], which is to slow people down and make them look, and think about other possibilities in art.” That’s the explanation assistant director Sandra Schemske gives about the operating principle of “Pas…
The Last Broadcast
When England’s Doves first emerged with its Lost Souls album two years ago, the group sounded like born-again shoegazers channeling the black metallic anthems of Catherine Wheel and the loping swoon of Chapterhouse. And like those two long-forgotten early ’90s footnotes, there was plenty to like about Doves’ dark, swooning choruses and pale, shimmery guitars —…
Letters to the Editor
View from two sides Jack Lessenberry, the real black mark of September 11 will always be that religious fanatics from other countries made a decision to kill thousands of innocent civilians, not that a very small number of people in our country illegally were held for questioning (“Why we aren’t at war,” Metro Times, June…
Music for the Last Day of Your Life
Dragpipe’s Music for the Last Day of Your Life is the latest entry into the date-rape angst, grunge-metal sweepstakes. Indeed, it’s great shit to break beer bottles to, or smash your head against the wall to, or kick a dog to, or beat your wife to. … Think tuneless: a power drill caught in down-tuned…
A woman right to choose
Just in case you haven’t noticed, one of the most exciting races in years is happening in the Aug. 6 Democratic primary. A woman who has overcome amazing odds to win high office is running against a powerful, long-entrenched male politician with far more money and connections. And the outcome is very much in doubt.…
Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics
After downing some unmentionables one night in college, a friend had a vision involving life force, a river and thrones. The way he explained it, the experience beat the hell out of Philosophy of Religion 101. The next day, he lamented on his inability to go that deep without drugs. “It’s like drugs are the…
Sex, lies and the dharma
American Buddhism faces up to scandals of the spirit….
When The Sun Calls Your Name … or, Ghost World
Is John Nash the “second most bitterest man in Detroit,” as underground scuttlebutt has it, or merely a self-described “dejected psychedelic warrior” from Royal Oak prone to extended bouts with his Scott Walker albums? These are questions you’ll have to pose to Nash yourself, of course (or consult his Web site at www.alphabetband.com for clues).…
Solstice with druids and others.
I marched in a line with more than 20 people to the druid site tucked into the woods of the Botsford Recreational Preserve in Ann Arbor. While singing a processional chant, we followed the senior druid. We were thrice given blessings: one of the spirit, a second of the sea and a third of the…
Vietnam: The Aftermath
You’d think that violinist Billy Bang’s roots in the jazz avant-garde would pay off on an album built around the theme of his Vietnam War experiences. Yet if this disc had been recorded, say, 25 years ago it would probably have drawn more of its thrust and heft from the edgier and even discomforting aspects…
One for the road
When founding guitarist Dickey Betts ushered fellow guitarist Warren Haynes and bassist Allen Woody into the Allman Brothers Band in 1989, it seemed like a marriage made in heaven. The band benefited from an infusion of youth and creative energy it had sorely lacked since the mid-’70s; meanwhile, Haynes and Woody gained a time-tested vehicle…
Rock ’n’ Roll War Vol. II
A rogues gallery of underappreciated rock icons from all over the world, plus mediocre bar-band hacks from some small town in Massachusetts, all on Vicious Kitten, one of the all-time great underground labels. Highlights include a moving, piano-driven ballad by Cheetah Chrome, “Love Song To Death” (mistakenly listed here as, “The Morning’s Gonna Come”); “Blood…
Return of the G.O.A.T.
Back in 1985, before Marshall Mathers had dreamed up the concept of Slim Shady, before N.W.A. had blown the roof off gangsta rap with Straight Outta Compton, before Q-Tip had status and a pager, a brash 17-year-old named James Todd Smith burst onto the hip-hop scene with a hit single (“I Can’t Live Without My…
Marty
In 1956, an unassuming little black-and-white film about an uncomely butcher took off with four Academy Awards — one of those straightforward, no-frills films that embodies a universal, timeless allegory through 1950s working-class vernacular and mundane concerns — with Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair. Friday and Saturday at the Redford Theatre.
Big Brother comes home
After 25 years, the FBI gets a green light to spy on any public meeting….
Lilo & Stitch
What else is left to be Disneyfied? Hawaii and outer space is the answer given by this consistently amusing animated feature. But the mouse roars a different tune, one that’s inclusive not just of race and gender, but of family structures that differ from tradition.
Loathsome Lee
A multimillionaire’s embarrassing feigned angst….
Juwanna Mann
Wouldn’t it be nice if all guys got a taste of what it’s like on the other side of the bra? In Jesse Vaughn’s feature directorial debut an NBA reject transforms himself into the newest arrival to the Women’s Basketball League. Then this comedy turns into a gender lesson, and not a bad one at…
