Mar 6-12, 2002

Mar 6-12, 2002 / Vol. 22 / No. 21

2002 Blowout

What, are we crazy? Yeah, but in a good way. The bigger and better-than-ever Hamtramck Blowout takes over Jos. Campau and environs for four nights this week in our wildest outpouring of Motor City sounds yet. You want different? We got different. You want excitement? We got 168 live acts at 12 venues upping the…

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Bloody Holly’s

A bass-needy boy/girl duo whose sound is reduced to its essential grind, the Holly’s play archly strutted blues with revisionist elements of Stax, the Standells and Link Wray, reminding us of the lesson the Stooges and the Velvets hammered home eons ago: That all rock ’n’ roll really is, and all it ever should be,…

Brian Smith

Abandoned Shelter of the Week

Tyree Guyton has been polka dotting abandoned homes and buildings in the city for more than a decade in an attempt to nudge city administrators to do something about them. Maybe Guyton’s hand graced this 1908 structure on Dubois near Chene with his signature mark. Or it could have been a Guyton wannabe branded the…

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Letters to the Editor

Shattered vows Polyamory ruined my marriage. I was the classic “reluctant spouse” that Sharon Linzey describes ("Lovers leap," Metro Times, Feb. 13-19). Three years into our marriage, my husband told me he’d found someone special on-line. Pretty soon, the three of us were hanging out all the time. He slept at her place sometimes, at…

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40th Ann Arbor Film Festival

If you’ve ever yawned, even a little, at the formulaic, interchangeable filler that Hollywood churns out week after week, then give the A2 fest a look. Six days of screenings will showcase a final selection of 125 independent 16 mm films from among roughly 450 entries submitted to the jury.

George Tysh

Killers’ kiss

Screenwriter-director Randall Wallace is a romanticist of war in every sense of the word. His film is a love story between war-going men and their wives and children, their country and — tragically — their heroic brothers-in-arms, offering us graphic horrors never seen before on screen — with Mel Gibson.

James Keith La Croix

Under the Sun

This cozy Swedish production directed by Colin Nutley, a transplanted Englishman, transplants a simple straight-faced romance from mid-’30s rural England to mid-’50s rural Sweden — a lush setting of verdant fields and clear blue skies, of nature as a huge hand in whose palm the tribulations of tiny humanity unfold.

Richard C. Walls

Juliet of the Spirits

What form would the monsters of your mind take, and would they look much different from your reality? They would if Federico Fellini directed them, with his signature id, fashion- and commotion-propelled cinema. Standing true to his characteristic love of eccentricities and performance is this 1965 film — with Giulietta Masina.

Anita Schmaltz

40 Days and 40 Nights

Matt Sullivan (Josh Hartnett) decides for the next 40 days no sex, fondling, nibbling or sucking, not even the big "M." Director Michael Lehmann keeps his project at eye-level with a right-on sense of timing and a grasp on clever visual detail revolving around the "things boys like to do."

Anita Schmaltz

Free will astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19): This horoscope is adapted from a manual used to train special troops in all-climate, all-terrain survival techniques. It has been researched and tested by experts. Now it is being made available to you — just in time for the last few miles of your crawl across the wasteland. With the help…

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Scotland, PA

Shakespeare’s Macbeth played out in the setting of a fast-food joint in New Jersey in the early ’70s? Not bad, but the trick is to flesh out the concept for 102 minutes, to build on it rather than expose its basic thinness. And though director Billy Morrissette gives it a game try, this concept starts…

Richard C. Walls

In search of the G-spot

Q: I have a question which I ask not only for my own satisfaction. I’m a straight male, my lover is a straight female. I have discovered that she is only capable of orgasm through her own direct manual or clitoral stimulation. My hand can’t get her off, despite our best efforts. She also claims…

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The cheating kind

In the fictional universe of Richard Ford’s A Multitude of Sins, adultery is the emotional equivalent of the Big Bang — its origins aren’t nearly as important as its consequences. Ford uses the novella and nine short stories within his intriguing new collection to plot the trajectory of adulterous relationships, from the empty lust of…

Frank Diller

Is he or isn’t he?

Is there a surefire way to test someone’s sexual orientation? … Is same-sex sex really cheating? … & Should she break up with a no-good, lazy-ass fool?

Dan Savage

Dot gone

Tyree Guyton has been polka dotting abandoned homes and buildings in the city for more than a decade in an attempt to nudge city administrators to do something about them. Maybe Guyton’s hand graced this 1908 structure on Dubois near Chene with his signature mark. Or it could have been a Guyton wannabe branded the…

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