Angel Eyes
Even Jennifer Lopez’s beauty and charisma, and James Caviezel’s more than competent acting, can’t lift this movie from submediocrity. It suggests gothic romance with the darkness and violence of its opening sequences, but veers into the sunlight and an all-too-convenient feel-good ending.
Choke hold
Wayne County hands over air quality program to the state….
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Will this be the oddest week of the year? Quite possibly. You may have an encounter with a kind of pseudopregnancy, and you could find yourself praying to a god whose existence you never suspected before. For all I know, Aries, you’ll acquire a mysterious tool and weird treasure, and you’ll…
Hold your applause
Detroit City Council hires help to enforce its Living Wage Ordinance….
Green doo-doo
Ignoring the boundary of the bathroom door … and diving into the bowels and bowls of gross-out comedy.
Freep’s slave daze
Examining the racist history of the Detroit Free Press….
The end result
Q: For the 20 years since I was introduced to anal sex I have been dedicated in the pursuit of it, having both male and female partners. Are there any anal fetish clubs or newspapers or magazines with personal ads? Can you recommend any Web sites for those such as myself dedicated to the derriere?…
Tokin’ trouble
Medical marijuana advocate gets busted, big-time….
Letters to the Editor
The gospel truth A special thanks to Jim Dulzo and the Metro Times for the recent cover story on Marianne Williamson and her work at the Church of Today in Warren ("Radical spirit," MT, May 9-15). I’ll never forget the December night a few years back when church officials announced they had searched for a…
Rock the house
MTV’s “Cribs” shows us the lifestyles of the rich and newly famous….
After-party overdose
Post-DEMF celebrations spread out over the landscape….
Detroit and the dance
An archeology of electronic body music in the city of soul….
While the Democrats sleep
What the hell is going on? George W. Bush is zipping along on course to ruin this planet, and virtually no one seems to give much of a damn.
Wired and juiced
Quick jolts from the 313 and beyond….
Unpolished gem
At Giorgio’s you can get a grilled cheese sandwich or steak Diane. You can also order from the separate pasta menu. It looks like a retro lunch counter, but choose from the “Counterside Gourmet” section of the menu, and you might well be in a little Italian trattoria. This is a tiny eatery, so takeout…
In Vicodin’s grip
First it kills the pain. Then it can ruin lives….
Paper snapshots
Everyone is a critic, but not everyone does the research. The All Music Guide to Electronica is easily the strongest example of people who have done their homework. Brought to you by the handy folks in Ann Arbor who run the online All Music Guide (www.allmusicguide.com), it is easily the best guide yet on these…
Electric heaven
Could it be, would it be, the festival of our dreams?…
Bright future
Despite the clouds of uncertainty that seem to have descended over the DEMF, if we focus on the music instead, then things are, as they say, all good. One object of hope floating around this year’s festival is the first release from Omoa Music consisting of three tracks and simple, very cool packaging. Track one…
Downtown lowdown
The Museum of New Art makes downtown more contemporary … Niagara spotted out during daylight hours … “Celeb” auction benefits Michigan Opera Theatre … & more.
Crispy crème
Composed of three discs, with 36 artists performing as many different tracks, German label Mille Plateaux’s Clicks & Cuts 2 represents the mother lode of crispy electronic minimalism of the moment. Don’t use the word ambient to describe this impetuous, edgy, physically challenging music. It has as persistent a heartbeat — arrhythmic and nonlinear as…
Drinking and driving
The DEMF should inspire future generations with the amazing and pure sounds of Detroit techno – but the changes to the festival so far this year are not so inspiring.
Detroit techno primer
Celebrating two years as creative director at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, Carl Craig is releasing All Access, a CD on his Planet E label, which documents two years of festivals and the energy they’ve created. Featuring 14 scheduled artists of the DEMF from 2000 and 2001, this disc is a testament to the quality…
On the (activist) road
In which four U-M students barnstorm campuses to build a movement….
Startup.com
Anyone who suspected the late-’90s boom in Internet stocks was just a lot of hot air should see this documentary, which chronicles the rapid rise and precipitous fall of the Web site govworks.com. Very much a document of its time, it’s ripe with the optimism of a new information society linked via cyberspace.
DEMF Schedule
Who’s playing and when at the DEMF.
The Golden Bowl
This gilded-age tale, based on Henry James’ 1904 novel, lives up to the Merchant Ivory brand name but doesn’t exceed it. It’s about money, pure and simple, and the complicated maneuvering of those who lack it trying to acquire a piece of great wealth — with Nick Nolte and Uma Thurman.
Costly cops
Detroit Police shell out more money to shooting victims (when will it end?)….
