Everyteens grown-up
Ever since Weezer fought its way up from the LA club scene nearly a decade ago, Rivers Cuomo has been as much an everyteen figure as Kurt Cobain, his burb-dwelling angst channeled through nerdy classic rock updates back when Nirvana was all about hair-flailing sludge. “Undone (The Sweater Song),” Weezer’s college radio hit-turned-MTV staple, inspired…
Free Will astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I predict that the next 13 months will bring you invitations to grow in unexpected directions. Will you be alert to them? If so, by July of next year you will have grown tougher but kinder. This will greatly enhance your ability to get what you want without offending people. I…
Done deal
Detroit Fire Fighter’s union wins EMS battle…
Recollecting the moderns
Between the 1930s and 1970s, modernist architecture reigned as boxy houses with slit windows popped up around the countryside. Modernism Rediscovered, with text by Pierluigi Serraino, focuses on this prolific period of American architecture and provides a compilation of photographs by one of the most well-regarded photographers of architecture, Julius Shulman. Modernist architects strove to…
Here’s to Mrs. Robinson
Q: I am a divorced woman of 42. Last summer, a neighborhood boy of 19 who was delivering something to my home accidentally caught me sunning nude on my patio. It was obvious that he had never seen a fully nude woman before. One thing led to another and we had sex. It was his…
Ponder us
We did the math for you: Shrub’s tax plan makes the richest even richer….
Overseas in hand
Generally, video games are produced in Japan, translated into English, then sold at American retailers. Yet, the handheld market is saturated with imports that will probably never find an audience domestically — fresh and undiscovered. So expand your worldly senses by indulging in the exclusivity of imports: “Rockman Battle & Fighters” is one potent example…
Low budget
Trying to make it on $6 an hour….
Goin’ nu-kew-lar??
Local anti-nuke activist is busier than ever, fighting the Bushman….
Overseas in hand
Generally, video games are produced in Japan, translated into English, then sold at American retailers. Yet, the handheld market is saturated with imports that will probably never find an audience domestically — fresh and undiscovered. So expand your worldly senses by indulging in the exclusivity of imports: “Rockman Battle & Fighters” is one potent example…
Hot nights and lost loves
Moulin Rouge breaks the rules to update the movie musical….
Who’s John Gillis?
Special guests and pseudonymous visitors hosted by Ko at the Garden Bowl … Why you should turn out for the Trumbullplex benefit … Morsel will (hopefully) soon appear live to support its new record … & more.
Hug a lug
It’s a testament to the clever bait-and-switch strategy of this beguiling animated feature that its ogre hero would hardly bite, let alone eat, anyone — but this is a very canny film when it comes to cloaking its soft heart — voices by Mike Meyers, John Lithgow, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz.
Letters to the Editor
Tolerance for all? Lessenberry, you should be ashamed of yourself for your narrow-mindedness ("Royal Oak: Who really won?," MT, May 16-22). Just because people don’t kowtow to current special interests doesn’t mean they are bigots or Nazis or Ku Klux Klan members. Remember, this country and its morals were founded on the word of God.…
Universal pulse
DEMF Report, Day 1: The DEMF greets all with arms wide open…
Misery loves melancholy
The Lies’ vocalist Dale Shaw recently said that on his band’s impossibly eerie and dreary second full-length, he “decided to write 10 songs about 10 women in my life. I had no idea that results would be so bleak.” Sure enough, Resigned is so emotionally dismal that either he runs with the most downtrodden crowd…
Optimistically Green
The 2000 presidential election was not a disaster — it was a stepping stone to a more powerful and influential Green Party.
City eyes
Local artists take it to the streets….
Unchain my heart
This audacious, euphoric and intoxicating film seeks to do nothing less than reinvent the movie musical. Director Baz Luhrmann encapsulates an ecstatic feeling of being swept away by a whirlwind of emotions too overwhelming to be controlled — with Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor.
Festive menu
This year’s jazz festival lineup vastly improved….
Sound check
Saxophonist James Carter records a live cd with some help from his friends.
Time and Tide
Writer-director Tsui Hark’s action set pieces are explosively gymnastic and he straps us in for a wild ride through a hail of bullets and the fiery heat of blasting bombs. But for all his visual innovation, his McWoo plot is thicker than Chinese gravy and less clear.
Dressing the spectacle
Designer Catherine Martin fashions a vision for the screen….
Collected mind
Day of meditation, inspirational talks, music and poetry attempts to change minds…
Pearl Harbor
Ostensibly about a tragic historic event, the latest gargantuan action flick from director Michael Bay and producer Jerry Bruckheimer is chock-full of their trademark short-hand characters, dramatic clichés, superhuman derring-do and multiple climaxes. Impressive in all the wrong ways, it’s dramatically retarded.
Now come the Democrats
Proof that God reads this column: The Democrats now control the U.S. Senate. Plus, notes regarding David Jaye, the Detroit mayor’s race, and more.
Misery loves melancholy
The Lies’ vocalist Dale Shaw recently said that on his band’s impossibly eerie and dreary second full-length, he “decided to write 10 songs about 10 women in my life. I had no idea that results would be so bleak.” Sure enough, Resigned is so emotionally dismal that either he runs with the most downtrodden crowd…
Fetish fulfillment
Why play outdoors this summer when there are so many fun, geeky things to play with on the Internet? Here’s some random cool stuff to keep you busy.
Local color
Even if you’re just a remote fan of what’s been coined “the Detroit garage sound,” this compilation is a must-have. Each track produced and recorded by the White Stripes’ Jack White in his home studio, with everyone using the same equipment, it’s a stellar representation of the diversity within the “sound,” from trash-blues to raunch-rock…
Pumpin’ Iggy fur
Improv boys jam at the bar … Local film crew plans DEMF documentary … Angie Womann impresses Iggy Pop … & gothgrrls and girl-rockers sign on for animal shelter benefit.
Games people play
Brand-new fun stuff for outdoor summer games….
Sharpton for futility
The Rev. Al Sharpton says he’s considering a run for the presidency. Keith A. Owen’s would rather back an African-American candidate whos not just trying to “send a message.”
Diamonds
For an illustration, consider the $339 Worth PST Powder Shell 2001 (www.bats-softball.com) made with vanadium. According to Worth, U.S. Defense Department technology involving metallic compounds was the source of this advancement in bat production. But maybe you can’t accept softball as the alternative to baseball and long for the good ol’ days of Tiger Stadium.…
Natural selection
Folk remedies for treating pesky summer maladies…
The singer, not the song
Originally released in 1999 on cassette, Dump’s That Skinny Motherfucker with the High Voice? reinvents a Prince we thought we knew — on four-track. As bass player for Yo La Tengo, James McNew (aka Dump) has proved himself as a team player and accomplished pop dreamer. But Dump allows McNew to go even deeper into…
Hoops
Basketball seems like a simple game with few opportunities for commercialization, because supposedly only a rim and a ball are necessary to play. That’s not the case, though. First, consider the shoes; everybody always wants new basketball shoes. Next time you need a fix for new kicks, forget Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan, go back…
Theater of the self
Asa Nagao designs clothes for the scripts in her mind….
Post swan song
Once, seemingly in another lifetime, Michael Gira meted out punishment to himself and his fans like no one else has before or since. In performance, he and his band, Swans, were so loud, the music — played at a crawl, so slow it appeared frozen in time and space — bludgeoned the eardrums and made…
Putts
It’s kinda funny that the most "outdoorsy" of summer sports occurs at golf courses that have been built to look just like regular nature with the bad parts eliminated (you don’t really think grass looks that green by itself, do you?). Since, on the golf course, all golfers tend to look alike (poorly dressed, white…
The sweet twist of success
Jack and Meg White talk about the hotly anticipated third White Stripes album and the three local shows which will celebrate its release. Plus, their favorite colors (take a wild guess).
Slippery slope
The musicians of the Slip are genuine musicians. Let me repeat that: The musicians of the Slip are genuine musicians. They are good at what they do. They play in small, hot, musty venues wearing sweaty T-shirts, faded jeans and torn-up shoes. They don’t play to be looked at; they don’t play for the groupies.…
Rods
The next time you get stuck in a place (doctor’s office, Dad’s car, etc.) where you’re forced to listen to "oldies" music, or the next time you’re stopped at a light right in front of a pseudo-A&W joint’s parking lot filled with classic cars (and don’t think it won’t happen, buster, because as a matter…
Brief victory
Public transit could win – but Mayor Archer appears to have has other plans…
