Best Collagen Powder: Top 7 Products for 2022
Collagen is the main protein that forms our body’s connective tissue, including bone, skin, and tendons. When collagen is ingested from outside sources, like oral collagen supplements and powders, it can improve skin elasticity and hydration. It will also help to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. There are a number of companies…
Best THC Detox: Top-Rated THC Cleanse Product Kits & Methods to Pass Drug Tests 2023
THC is a psychoactive ingredient found in marijuana. Users can feel high when using it, and an overdose can cause serious health problems. If you use marijuana, you may want to detoxify your system to avoid being caught. You might have a positive result on a urine drug test after using cannabis products, but it…
Russian DJ Nina Kraviz breaks silence on Ukraine crisis ahead of Movement Festival: ‘I am praying for peace’
Russian DJ Nina Kraviz is scheduled to play this year’s Movement Festival in May, but the techno artist has recently come under fire for past social media posts labeled by critics as “pro-Putin,” and calls for her removal from the festival lineup have grown. The controversial social media posts in question include a 2014 photo…
Michigan judge grants injunction against 1931 abortion ban if Roe is overturned
Updated, 3:50 p.m., 5/17/22, with comments from Planned Parenthood A Court of Claims judge granted a preliminary injunction in a suit brought by Planned Parenthood against Michigan’s 1931 abortion ban law. Court of Claims Judge Elizabeth Gleicher ordered the injunction Tuesday, writing that “forced pregnancy … contravenes the right to make autonomous medical decisions.” Planned…
Detroit native takes over city’s Department of Civil Rights, Inclusion & Opportunity
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan appointed a new director of the Department of Civil Rights, Inclusion & Opportunity (CRIO). Anthony Zander will be in charge of the city’s efforts to promote equity, inclusion, and business opportunities in Detroit. That includes overseeing the community benefits ordinances and mediating civil rights complaints. Zander also will oversee the city’s…
White supremacists are convicted of training for a civil war in Michigan
Three members of a militant white supremacist group were the first in Michigan to be convicted of conspiring to train with firearms for a civil war, state Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Tuesday. The men belong to The Base, a pro-Hitler movement that advocates a race war against non-white people with the goal of using…
Keto Protein Powders Rated 2022
Protein remains one of the best macronutrients to consume if you are trying to lose weight. According to research, consuming more protein leads to better control of one’s appetite, fewer cravings, and healthier body composition. Protein consumption also helps to speed up your metabolism and improve your body’s overall health and wellness. In recent years,…
Detroit boxing legend Thomas Hearns partners with Premier Grow to launch ‘Hitman Cannabis’
Mike Tyson isn’t the only boxing great entering the cannabis game (although his pot gummies shaped like human ears are pretty ridiculous). Now, Detroit heavy hitter Thomas “Hitman” Hearns has teamed up with Premier Grow to bring us Hitman Cannabis. The seven-time world champion entered a 10-year licensing deal with Premier Grow for the Hitman…
Best Collagen Creamers Ranked 2022
Collagen is a type of structural protein found in the human body. From your skin to your muscles to your bones, collagen is incredibly important for maintaining your body’s youthfulness and energy. Research shows that oral collagen supplements, like powders and tablets, can be powerful treatments for skin, hair, and joint health. Thankfully, there are…
Best Low Calorie Coffee Creamer 2022 – Ranked
Coffee creamer is the thing that usually tops off that morning cup of coffee. While delicious, coffee creamers can be quite fattening and may contain a lot of calories. This can cause a series of problems to your long-term health. That’s why healthier coffee creamer choices have been introduced to the market. These healthier creamer…
Keto Coffee Creamers 2022 – Top Rated
The ketogenic diet, also known as the keto diet, is a high-fat, low-carb diet. This means that instead of getting energy from carbohydrates, your body relies on protein and fats as its main energy source. The diet is known to support weight loss, improve blood sugar levels, and provide other health benefits. For the diet…
Michigan water advocate: Pipeline expansion puts tribal fishing rights at risk
It’s been a year since Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s order to close the Line 5 pipelines was supposed to take effect – but the pipeline system is still operating, and its company Enbridge Energy is proposing an expansion. The expansion would route Line 5 through hundreds of waterways in Michigan and Wisconsin, and the company also…
‘Dangerous’ moth not seen for 110 years is discovered in passenger’s bag at Detroit Metropolitan Airport
A moth not seen since 1912 was discovered in a passenger’s bag at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists discovered seeds during an inspection of an arriving passenger from the Philippines in September 2021. The passenger claimed the pods were for medicinal tea. But CBP specialists spotted what appeared to be…
Rashida Tlaib introduces resolution to commemorate Palestinian Nakba
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib introduced a House Resolution on Monday calling for the U.S. government to officially commemorate the Nakba — the Arabic word for “catastrophe,” or the expulsion of Palestinians from what is now Israel, following its 74th anniversary on Sunday. “This Sunday was a day of solemn remembrance of all the lives lost,…
Dominique Morisseau’s ‘Detroit ’67’ will make you cry, laugh, and want to sing
The national guard is being sent to quell protestors. Innocent Black men are being shot dead in the streets by police with no regard for their humanity. Small businesses are being burned to the ground in the chaos, but who is setting the fires — rioters or the police? Is this 2022 or 1967 we’re…
Students walk out of Birmingham school to rally against anti-LGBTQ+ bills
More than 70 students walked out of a Birmingham school Monday afternoon to protest the wave of anti-LGBTQ+ bills in state legislatures. “We stand at a choice: Will we embrace the values of liberty, equality, and fraternity or fall back into ignorance and reaction?” 16-year-old Phillip Rabinovich told students at the beginning of the protest…
‘Lux Æterna’ explores ideas of gender, power, and spectatorship on a witchy midnight movie film set
Witches provide the central thread of Lux Æterna, a 51-minute experimental French-language work by Gaspar Noé that opens at Cinema Detroit this weekend. (Produced in 2019, it seems to have scored a U.S. release in conjunction to his more recent feature, the dementia-centered Vortex, which is currently playing in a brief run at the Historic…
More than ax-throwing, a new entertainment facility opens Downriver
A new “eat-tertainment” venue has opened in Taylor. Kudos Taproom and Fieldhouse is a nearly 60,000 square foot indoor/outdoor family-friendly entertainment space. Located at 14100 Pardee Rd. across from Southland Center, Kudos has football bowling, ax-throwing, cornhole, a retro arcade, kids’ learning center, and much more. “We wanted to create a safe, fun and secure…
Grand Rapids Starbucks is first to unionize in Michigan as labor movement gains steam
A Starbucks store in Grand Rapids has become the first in the state to vote to unionize as the labor movement continues to gain momentum nationwide. Employees at the store at 2480 Burton Street voted 15-3 to unionize Friday. In a letter earlier this year to Starbuck’s then-president and CEO Kevin Johnson, employees complained of…
Bird flu infects 3 baby red foxes in Southeast Michigan
Three baby red foxes have been infected with a strain of the highly contagious avian influenza in three separate southeastern Michigan counties, state authorities confirmed. The kits in Macomb, Lapeer and St. Clair counties died from the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. The infections are the first…
Bruce Campbell’s BruceFest at Detroit’s Masonic Temple has been canceled
Sorry screwheads, Bruce Campbell will not be heading to Detroit’s Masonic Temple for BruceFest this June. The celebration of all things campy Campbell has been canceled, and the organizers are looking for a new location and date. The fest was originally slated for June 17-19. “Dear Bruce Fans, we have a less than groovy announcement…
Shakespeare in Detroit returns with new home at Marygrove Conservancy
A Shakespeare performance is coming to Detroit, but this time it’s not all about the Bard — it’s about the audience. “Shakespeare in Detroit is about breaking down barriers that exist for people in our beloved Detroit,” says Sam White, the founding artistic and executive director of the nonprofit theater organization. White says she started…
Mike Tyson takes a bite out of the cannabis industry and a giant bear slide is coming to Detroit: The top 10 Metro Times headlines of the week
This week our readers were most interested in a Livonia school that is back in the news after two elementary students were taken to the hospital after eating a THC gummy. Speaking of gummies, our readers were also interested in former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson entering the cannabis industry with gummies in the shape…
GOP resolution seeks to abolish Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission
Just months after the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (MICRC) completed new maps for each of Michigan’s new congressional, state Senate and state House districts, a resolution has been introduced to abolish the commission and return the state to a partisan process. The resolution was introduced Wednesday by state Rep. Beau LaFave (R-Iron Mountain) and…
Kendrick Lamar announces Big Steppers Tour with stop in Detroit
Kendrick Lamar made fans wait five years before releasing his latest album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers but isn’t wasting any time with his next tour. Just hours after the album was released, Lamar announced his Big Stepper Tour, which will stop at Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena on Aug. 14. Baby Keem will open the show.…
CDC recommends wearing a mask in metro Detroit as COVID-19 rates climb
If you thought we were in the clear from COVID-19, think again. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommend people in 16 Michigan counties, including nearly the entire metro Detroit area, to mask up again when visiting indoor, public spaces. The counties are Wayne, Washtenaw, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston, St. Clair, Chippewa, Mackinac,…
‘Ghetto’ remark by Flint city councilwoman prompts ‘thorough’ investigation by school where she teaches
A Flint city councilwoman who called the actions of a Black council member “ghetto” is now under investigation by the charter school where she teaches. Stride, the private company that runs Michigan Virtual Charter Academy, tells Metro Times it’s investigating Eva Worthing, who is white, after she made the remark about Councilwoman Jerri Winfrey-Carter at…
Boutique hotel with floating barge bar opening in Port Huron in nearly 100-year-old former bank
A new boutique hotel that describes itself as the first of its kind in the area is set to open in Port Huron next month. The new CityFlatsHotel Port Huron will offer 18 unique boutique guest rooms, with no two rooms furnished alike. The hotel is built inside the former home of the Michigan National…
New app identifies and tracks murals around Detroit
Ever seen a mural in Detroit and wished you knew who painted it? There’s an app for that. The Detroit Office of Arts, Culture, & Entrepreneurship is partnering with art technology company CANVS to create a digital map of murals around the city, with photos and bios of the artists who painted them. The map…
Detroit’s Movement festival announces 2022 set times
It’s hard to believe that Movement Music Festival is almost here, back in Detroit’s Hart Plaza during Memorial Day Weekend for the first time since 2019. Organizer Paxahau revealed the techno-focused festival’s full lineup and set times on Thursday, featuring more than 110 artists across six stages, an increase from the festival’s usual five stages.…
Detroit struck with another lawsuit over ambitious recreational marijuana ordinance
A medical cannabis company filed a lawsuit challenging Detroit’s ambitious new recreational marijuana ordinance on Wednesday, delivering the latest blow to marijuana consumers in the state’s largest city. House of Dank, which operates four medical marijuana dispensaries in Detroit, takes aim at a provision in the ordinance that prevents medical facilities from getting a recreational…
Ghostly International announces new record label parent company All Flowers Group
After merging in 2020, record labels Ghostly International and Secretly have announced a new parent company. The newly formed All Flowers Group also includes the New York City-based culture brand drink sum wtr. The hip-hop-focused label is helmed by Nigil Mack, who previously worked in A&R at Motown, where he signed Kid Cudi. drink sum…
Black Dahlia Murder frontman Trevor Strnad has died
Trevor Strnad, the vocalist of Michigan band Black Dahlia Murder, has died. The melodic death metal band announced Strnad’s passing in an Instagram post Wednesday. Strnad, who was 41, could frequently be seen drinking beer and sharing laughs at Michigan metal shows. It was hard to miss Strnad, a burly dude with glasses who loved…
Michigan utility seeks landowners, communities to site solar arrays
As Michigan aims to reach economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2050, with interim 2030 goals, the state’s largest utility is working to transition its energy sources to renewables. Consumers Energy is seeking partnerships with landowners and communities for siting utility-scale solar arrays. Dennis Dobbs, vice president of enterprise project management and environmental services for Consumers Energy,…
Bills seek to subject Detroit Zoo and DIA to Open Meetings Act and FOIA
A pair of GOP-sponsored bills would seek to bring the organizations that operate the Detroit Zoo and Detroit Institute of Arts under the authority of both the Open Meetings Act (OMA) and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Senate Bill 818, sponsored by state Sen. Jim Runested (R-White Lake), would amend the Open Meetings Act…
Detroit-area musician Dan Miller opens up about late brother’s mental health struggles with ‘Looking for the Light’ series
Dan Miller has had a successful career as an musician and actor, finding fame with his country bands Goober & the Peas and Blanche, and scoring a Hollywood role in the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, in addition to doing voiceover work. But he says his late brother Michael Francis Miller, who he…
Hazel Park’s Frame has a summer outdoor film series starting in June
Frame, everyone’s favorite Hazel Park restaurant pop-up, is kicking off summer with a film series and Pakistani food in June. The series will be hosted in the restaurant’s new “Big Top” space (you know, like a big circus tent). OK, the Big Top isn’t 100% new — Frame used it occasionally last year, mostly in…
Best Delta 8 Gummies : Delta 8 Brands For Strongest THC Edibles In 2022
Delta-8 is constantly growing since it is legal in many parts of the world. Many people are demanding it due to its amazing perks. Delta-8 is more medicinal as compared to other hemp products. If you have anxiety or neurological stress, then delta-8 is the best option for your needs. Delta-8 THC gummies are among…
Nike is suing Detroit’s StockX, says it purchased counterfeit shoes on the platform
Retail giant Nike is suing the Detroit-based company StockX, alleging that it purchased four pairs of counterfeit shoes on the sneaker resale platform between December 2021 and January 2022. “Those four pairs of counterfeit shoes were all purchased within a short two-month period on StockX’s platform, all had affixed to them StockX’s ‘Verified Authentic’ hangtag,…
Sam Riddle runs for Congress to tackle poverty by taxing ‘the rich bastards’
Sam Riddle, a longtime political consultant and human rights activist, joined a crowded field of Democrats running for Congress in Michigan’s newly drawn 13th congressional district. In an interview with Metro Times, Riddle laid out a progressive platform to attack poverty and institutional racism, protect the environment, increase social security payments, forgive student loans, provide…
Detroit playwrights Dominique Morisseau and Michael R. Jackson capture 2022 Tony Awards nominations
Detroit natives Dominique Morisseau and Michael R. Jackson absolutely smashed the 2022 Tony Awards nominations, which were announced Monday. Morisseau received four nominations for her play Skeleton Crew while Jackson dominated the list with 11 callouts for his musical A Strange Loop. Morisseau has always championed her hometown in her work. Skeleton Crew, which tells…
A rotation of 75 food trucks starts serving in downtown Detroit on Monday
Food trucks and pop-ups for lunch in downtown Detroit? Yes, please. Detroit’s Cadillac Square and the Woodward Esplanade will host a rotating fleet of 75 food trucks for Downtown Street Eats, Michigan’s largest food truck experience. They’ll be serving tasty eats on weekdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. starting Monday, May 16 and running…
Smile! Detroit’s Flower Day is back in Eastern Market this Sunday
May in Detroit means Flower Day at Eastern Market, which has been sorely missed after going on a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. (The event pivoted to online ordering in 2020, and then came back as a series of scaled-down events dubbed “Flower Season” in 2021.) Now, everyone’s favorite excuse to head to the Russell…
Michigan has responsibility to provide oversight of animal experiments, AG Nessel says
In a long-sought victory for animal rights advocates, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel called on the state this week to provide oversight of labs that do experiments on animals. In her formal opinion, Nessel said the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has the responsibility to “register entities that keep or use animals…
Motor City Comic Con returns this weekend with cosplay, celebrities, and a ‘Superman’ celebration
Michigan’s longest and largest comic and pop-culture convention is back and bigger than ever. The event, first launched in 1989 and now held across three days at Novi’s Suburban Collection Showplace, features more than 250 comic book creators, writers, and artists, in addition to actors from television and film available for autograph opportunities. At comic…
Michigan Republicans backing LGBTQ+ rights say GOP’s anti-gay push is too familiar
Former State Rep. Lorence Wenke of Kalamazoo had been a Republican his entire life. Then 2004 came along. “Never even considered changing parties or thinking that the Republican Party wasn’t generally the answer to the world’s problems. But then I got to Lansing,” Wenke said. During his first term in the Michigan House in 2004,…
The Supreme Court is overturning ‘Roe v. Wade’ just because it can
Of the five Supreme Court justices about to set women’s rights back a half-century: Four were nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote, and three of them were confirmed by senators who represented less than half the population. Three lied to the Senate about Roe v. Wade being “settled law.” Two were credibly accused…
Now for some real worries
I’m a straight guy, married to a straight woman for 15 years. Several years back, I opened up to my wife about my fantasies of her sleeping with other men. I was nervous about bringing it up. Her views on sex had always been traditional, and she had always expressed a very strict idea of…
Free Will Astrology (May 11-17)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Choose the least important day in your life,” wrote Aries author Thornton Wilder. “It will be important enough.” I recommend that you make those your words to live by in the next two weeks. Why? Because I suspect there will be no tremendously exciting experiences coming your way. The daily rhythm…
The fall of ‘Roe,’ the rise of minoritarian governance, and an impending public health crisis
In medical school, I had the opportunity to sit with a young woman who was making a decision about whether or not to complete an abortion. I remember how she wrestled with her competing emotions — frustration at having gotten pregnant, sadness that she couldn’t carry the pregnancy to term, and fear about what her…
How rapper Blade Icewood’s son Lil Blade is establishing his own legacy
Darnell Lindsay Jr. is sitting in an unused office at Auto Kingz in Dearborn, talking to a mechanic about modifications he wants to make to a CRT he’s acquiring soon. Dressed in a brown T-shirt and Amiri jeans, he patrols the rest of the showroom like a kid in the Hot Wheels aisle of a…
Metro Detroit’s kabob king restarts reign in Royal Oak Farmers Market
For years, to find one of the best kabobs in town, one needed to hit an unlikely spot – the Mobil gas station at the corner of Coolidge and 12 Mile roads. It wasn’t much of a secret that Mr. Kabob chef and manager Kal Al-Amara was rolling up gold as local and national media…
