RAVERS UNITED WILL NEVER BE DIVIDED.
These are words I live by. As a new resident of The D., they keep me grounded and sane in a city gone wild. I thank you all for reading this. As we embark upon festival weekend, I hope to keep everyone up to speed on my rave activities, leading up to and possibly including…
Talking techno on Detroit Today
Subterraneans columnist Walter Wasacz sits down for a roundtable with Detroit techno gentry Carl Craig and Kevin Saunderson this Friday (May 22), 1-3 p.m., on WDET’s Detroit Today. Moderated by Essential Music host Ann Delisi, the talk ranges from 1981 to this weekend’s Movement Festival to the future of electronic dance music. Dial in at…
Party Multiplication
After-parties are multiplying, as happens every year around Movement festival time, before our blurry eyes. By popular demand, here is a sneak preview of some of the hotspots we’re marking with a big, fat TIP! Starting with Friday, May 22, with more to come in the following days: FRIDAY, MAY 22 Pre-festival BBQ: Featuring James…
Ride the rush
Bike to Work Day participants take a break on the way in. Two wheels good: Cyclists ride together to make a point. As he thought about his late afternoon appointment today, Michael Beaton had a big decision to make: Should he take his bicycle along on his sales call at the RenCen to head home…
Policy summit at Cobo: Buck up, buckaroos
Dean Baker will be among the speakers at Saturday’s event. Sometimes it takes hitting bottom before people are motivated to initiate the kinds of changes they should have made all along. Which is why, despite the bleak economic news that just keeps coming and coming, there’s also reason to hope. And if you’re among those…
Ribbon-cutting for Dequindre Cut
Dignitaries cut the ribbon opening the greenway. A marching band is among the first to “legally” walk the track. We weren’t around for the opening of the world’s first mile of concrete road on Woodward in 1909. But we figure that the hoopla couldn’t have exceeded Thursday morning’s ribbon-cuttiing for the Dequindre Cut Greenway, what…
Couch Trip
A Galaxy Far Far Away: 10th Anniversary Collector’s Edition Cinevolve If there’s anything that we should’ve learned from Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, it’s that some things are best left un-revisited. Ironic, then, that this film — which chronicles the unusual species of fans who lined up to see George Lucas reintroduce his…
DREAM’s hope
The first time Ramon came to the United States, he was 9 years old and had a tourist visa. His mother was the only member of her large family remaining in Mexico, and she brought Ramon and his brother to Detroit to visit her parents and siblings here. After their visas expired they returned to…
Energize!
Yeah, it’s more slam-bam space opera than brainy social science fiction and, sure, it could use some breathing room to make its characters more human, but Star Trek is fun — something the franchise hasn’t been since 1986’s goofy The Voyage Home. We’re not sure if JJ Abrams’ clever inclusion of the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage”…
The Eminem interview
When it comes to Eminem, a lot of backstory probably isn’t necessary. Especially in Detroit. But, really, that’s pretty much true anywhere in the civilized Western world (and I’d be surprised if he hasn’t been used by al-Qaeda or some organization like that somewhere along the way as a symbol of Western decadence; God knows…
Tyson
Ever wanted to get caught in a stare-down contest with Mike Tyson? Well, that’s pretty much the effect of this absolutely gripping documentary; the conflicted and infamous fighter eyeballs the camera like it’s an opponent at weigh-in. Yet those dark, beady orbs contain galaxies of rage, regret and wounded pride, as Iron Mike recounts his…
Mad, mad, mad, world
When it exploded on the scene, nobody gave it a Mine That Bird chance of winning TV’s popularity derby. Its network had a biblically horrific record in late-night programming, its competition was too entrenched — legendary, even — and the branding device upon which it decided to hang its identity was as passé as the…
Mexican high
Though it’s fairly simple to locate a Mexican restaurant in metro Detroit, it’s not necessarily as easy to get good Mexican food. After you get past the complicated question of authenticity there lie plates and plates of bland and forgettable fare with a side of beans and rice. But at Rojo Mexican Bistro in Novi…
Night and Day
WEDNESDAY • 13 ADAM’S CASTLE THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN You may remember this psychedelic, moody, piano-driven instrumental trio from the early aughts, when pianist Sami Jano, drummer Zach Eichenhorn and bassist Eric Adams and their jestingly described "heavy metal piano" band were fixtures of the local scene. In 2004, the trio disbanded when…
Coming from Reality
Artists have an entire life to create their first album … and then a year or less to make their second. Or so goes the old cliché. It’s sometimes called the sophomore jinx. There are exceptions, as there are to every rule. But I’m disappointed to report that Rodriguez’s second album — which the Detroit…
Bing and beyond
Why we must hope he’ll be the best mayor ever
Forward
Here’s the thing — usually, when a journalist receives a CD, it’ll be accompanied by a sheet of paper upon which is scrawled the band’s biography, condensed into around 300 words. Tagged alongside will often be quotes from past reviews, from which the writer anticipates gaining information and influence for a review. Sometimes, though, we…
Around the outside
Burnt Sugar Making Love to the Dark Ages LiveWired Code Zero The Frequency of Nothing Weightless Language Press As a writer and critic for The Village Voice and other outlets over the years, Greg Tate has surveyed a creative diaspora that spans the science fiction of Samuel R. Delany and the Nigerian juju music of…
Motor City Rides
The Henry Ford Museum is all music on wheels
Mental help
Not all therapists understand open relationships
Jeffrey Morgan’s Media Blackout
I never can say Jeffrey Morgan’s Media Blackout #216, boy! Little Stevie Wonder — Tribute To Sister Ray (Blowtown) :: I wish … SIZZLING PLATTER OF THE WEEK: Isaac Hayes — Juicy Fruit (Disco Freak) (Hot Buttered Stax) :: Hello there, children! After the well-deserved reaming that I gave the mis-mastered Black Moses last week,…
Letters to the Editor
A clear picture Re: “Tangled up in cable” (May 6), congratulations to Sandra Svoboda and Metro Times for explaining why my local (Birmingham) cable service is so expensive and poorly delivered. I was especially interested in the discussion of the issues surrounding PEG channels, especially the placement of these community channels. In return for the…
Into the fire
What will Detroit do with its big burner?
Comics
The Boiling Point – by Mikhaela Reid
Food Stuff
Full plates for local foodies
In the flesh
Sex Pistols Guitarist Steve Jones (left) and former Detroiter and Raw Power guitarist James Williamson met for the first time ever on Friday night, May 8, at the MusiCares tribute to Anthony Kiedis in Los Angeles. Jones performed with Iggy on a rendition of “Search & Destroy” as one of his childhood guitar heroes watched.…
Get weird on it
Behind a working-class neighborhood bungalow, just steps from Detroit’s city limits, painter, sculptor, photographer, videographer, musician and sometime crust-punk Daniel "DeMaggs" DeMaggio is working on his latest piece: landscaping and gardening. See, the twentysomething has been rolled up in the cuff of society since his teens, so, yeah, he’s kinda rebellious. He’s also off-kilter, intellectually…
Don Was returns to Concert of Colors
We don’t know the full lineup yet, but the folks at Concert of Colors have announced two headliners of note for the July 18-19 affair. From Mali, there’s Vieux Farka Touré, the son of the late Ali Farka Touré. The elder Touré, who died in 2006, was one of the African musicians who caught the…
SSHHH … MOTOR CITY BREWING WORKS HOSTS SILENT ART AUCTION TO RAISE FUNDS FOR ALLIED MEDIA CONFERENCE
What are you doing tonight? With the annual Allied Media Conference coming up in a couple months (July 16-19 to be exact), I thought I’d head over to their Web site and see what pre-conference events were in the works. But first, for those not familiar with the Allied Media Conference: AMC is the cornerstone…
