Update: Woman drops lawsuit against ‘celebrity’ for giving her herpes in Royal Oak
This woman needs to read Savage Love.
Michigan group aims to change misconceptions about Syrian refugees
Samir Alrashdan owned two businesses in Syria. One dealt in carpentry, and they built furniture and other residential goods. The other, a roastery specializing in nuts. In college, he studied manufacturing and Arabic literature. He’s married to Intisar who, on a recent Saturday morning, is busy serving an array of cookies, fruit, tea, coffee, fresh…
Here’s some drone footage of the Campus Martius ice skating rink
If you haven’t gotten your holly jollies on already at the annual tree lighting or Showcase D Holidays, then dig this aerial footage taken several years ago by our pals at Detroit Drone. And if you haven’t made it down there yourself yet, go. The tree, of course, is up through the holidays and skating continues…
Why ISIS loves the Detroit Lions
How did one of the NFL’s biggest losers become associated with ISIS?
Enjoy a nose to tail pork dinner by Republic butcher Larissa Poppa, support the local farm-to-table movement
The funds go to help Melo Farms buy a new tractor to help keep up the land where their swine frolic.
Women busted for stealing $800 worth of lingerie from Somerset Mall
Two women hailing from Akron, Ohio were arrested last weekend after allegedly stealing $800 worth of lingerie from Victoria’s Secret at Somerset Mall. WXYZ reports that a 20-year-old woman and a 29-year-old woman had removed the security sensors from dozens of undergarments and stuffed them into booster bags, before making their getaway. Police caught up…
Here’s an endless loop of Matt Millen apologizing for his stint as Lions GM
How many times do you need to watch it on repeat to forgive him?
Everyone’s talking about that strip club in the UP, but what do people who’ve actually been there think?
A charming (I think that’s the right word) article in today’s Detroit Free Press follows the uptick in business for the Upper Peninsula’s only strip club during deer hunting season. “We probably do 20 to 30% of our business during firearm deer season,” Lisa Storti, the owner of Big Bon’s in Rock told the Detroit Free…
Ron Scott, foe of police brutality, dead at 68
Ron Scott, leader of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality, has died.
Food truck features locals in 2016 Michigan’s grooviest vegetarians calender
Do you know one of Michigan’s grooviest vegetarians?
Flier of the week: This one here, for Chicago band Running at UFO Factory this Fri., Dec. 4
Looking like a crazed Roz Chast cartoon, we are enamored by this flyer for a very fun show, this Friday at the UFO Factory in lovely Corktown.
Dusty McFly and Neisha Ne’Shae join Valid and Pierre Anthony on a remix
The only thing better than your favorite hip-hop jam is a remix of your favorite hip-hop jam — check it out!
Ferndale’s GreenSpace Cafe vegetarian restaurant and bar opens to the public tomorrow
Vegetarians: your moment has arrived.
Home for the sprawlidays
Sprawl has helped turn Thanksgiving in metro Detroit into a 200-mile, two-day journey of isolation, tension, and lots of driving.
This Detroit Doritos commercial could be shown at the Super Bowl
After hundreds of submissions, the semi-finalists have been announced for the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl competition which seeks to find the three most creative, original 30-second Dorito advertisements. From the three, a grand prize winner will be chosen for a $100,000 cash prize, plus air time for their clip during the game. In the running…
Here’s where you can sign the MILegalize cannabis reform petition
MILegalize’s cannabis legalization petition has only a few weeks left. Here’s where you can sign it.
Read for a good cause this coming Sunday
You can help benefit childhood reading at Book Beat’s special event this coming weekend.
Planned Parenthood cancels Detroit event in wake of Colorado shooting
In light of the terribly tragic Thanksgiving weekend shooting and stand-off at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado which left three people dead and nine others injured, an event scheduled to take place this morning in Detroit was canceled. MLive reports that today’s event was on the books before the shooting took place and intended…
Detroit Pistons fans have a plan to help Shepard Fairey with his legal troubles
The plan could help both Fairey and Detroit settle their differences once and for all.
Watch: Jack White toasts Third Man Records Cass Corridor
White called for a toast to the Cass Corridor — “from the sculpture of Gordon Newton to the music of the Gories and to the sounds that came out of the Gold Dollar.”
Show preview: Detain, Breaking Wheel and more at the Sanctuary this Sat., Nov. 28
regularly hosts shows by Michigan straight edge acts like True Love and Freedom, regulars seem to have only picked up the important stuff about self-awareness, self-respect, and most crucially, self-organization.
The story of a Christmas basket
The spirit of charity that returns with the holidays is noble. But you’ll help more people by preserving and strengthening public assistance.
FIRST LOOK: Hamtramck’s Atlas Bar finally reopens as Polka Dot
Altas Bar in Hamtramck will never be the same.
Zack Sklar opens his newest restaurant Arthur Avenue in Birmingham
Zack Sklar is on his way to restaurant domination.
Icewear Vezzo to give away free turkeys today at noon at Chicken Talk
Rapper Icewear Vezzo gets in the holiday spirit.
Don’t drink and drive tonight, Detroit
The night before Thanksgiving is one of the biggest bar nights of the year and 2015, it seems, is no exception with a slew of Thanksgiving Eve parties and choice musical acts, including Danny Brown and the Codgers, all slated for this evening. But it’s also one of the biggest drunk driving times of the year, with DUI…
Vaporcraft offers a smoking alternative
Vaporcraft opened their doors in 2013 by a husband-and-wife team, both with medical backgrounds, who were smokers. Seeing the progress they received from vaping, they turned the store into a community, helping others quit smoking and sharing the benefits of vaping. Vaping has become a popular trend in the last year. Upon their opening, Vaporcraft…
Feedback: Weekly reader responses
Class dismissed In our Nov. 18 feature story, Allie Gross took a look at charter school development teams that were awarded federal planning grant dollars from the state of Michigan but failed to open schools (“Did Michigan waste $3.5 million on charter schools with questionable futures?”). Of the 87 teams that received funds, over half…
Make the right choice: Support MILegalize
We’re heading into the final rounds of the petition drives to legalize recreational marijuana here in Michigan. The MILegalize petition drive is expected to round things up by the end of December. The competing petition circulated by the Michigan Cannabis Coalition (MCC) is expected to finish up in January. In case you were wondering, the…
Horoscopes (Nov. 25 – Dec. 1)
ARIES (March 21 – April 20): As one thing goes to another all you can do is watch the show. If this fact is lost on you, you are probably totally impatient with 1) the pace, or 2) the people who are unable to get on with it. Don’t go nuts trying to strategize. Too…
CJ Mahoney’s has it all
The hallmarks of a great sports bar are a great beer selection, a good burger, and lots and lots of TVs. If we’re judging CJ Mahoney’s in Troy by these three traits, they pass with flying colors. Located in a strip mall off Livernois Road in Troy, the bar and restaurant is the laid-back answer…
Drink up
Roca Patron Anejo 44% ABV When you think of tequila, you probably think of Patron. The beautifully crafted agave-based liquor pembodies the term “top shelf.” But the folks behind Patron weren’t satisfied with just making perfectly delicious large batch tequila that people the world over enjoy. That’s why they started Roca Patron. Employing an artisanal…
Politics & Prejudices: Syrians and our shame
When I was growing up, America had many flaws, but we were a strong, confident nation. We knew who we were and what we stood for. After the Hungarian uprising, we opened our doors to tens of thousands of refugees, without quivering in fear lest hidden secret KGB agents were among them. We gave asylum…
Mudgie’s goes from sandwich shop to elegant night spot
Greg Mudge was onto something when he opened Mudgie’s seven years ago in Corktown. Previously a waiter at rough-around-the-edges Eph McNally’s, which had occupied the same space, he took over and rebranded it into an inviting neighborhood gathering place where the ingredients are local and the waitstaff is friendly. This year Mudgie’s has evolved from…
Country-rap pioneer Uncle Kracker brings his pure country-rock shine to Royal Oak Friday, Nov. 27
There’s nothing complicated, convex, complex, or convoluted about the music of Uncle Kracker, aka 41-year-old Mount Celemens-born musician Matt Shafer. If you want binging and bonging synthesizers, complicated time signatures, or the kind of lyrics you need to own a dictionary in order to know what the heck the singer is even saying in the…
South African trumpet legend Hugh Masekela performs with Larry Willis
South African musician Hugh Masekela is beloved across the world for his work as a composer, trumpeter, flugelhornist, bandleader, and singer, as well as his defiant political voice. Pianist Larry Willis met Masekela when they were both students at the Manhattan School of Music some 50 years ago. Since then, Willis has performed or recorded…
Beekeepers celebrate the release of their second album
This Friday, Nov. 27, local musicians Beekeepers host a record-release party for their second full-length album Beekeepers II. It goes down at Kelly’s in Hamtramck, where they will be joined by the Sros Lords and Deadbeat Beat. You can pre-order the LP on their bandcamp page for $10. This is not an easy group to…
Black Friday, ponytails with leather gloves, the Sonics, and more
We haven’t done a “record store spotlight” in a few months, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lack of news on the Detroit record store front. First, to the rumor mill: We hear there is a new store on Woodward Avenue, somehow adjacent or above Roby’s Shoes on Woodward at Milwaukee, at the north…
‘Michael vs Prince’ dance night this Saturday, Nov. 28 at Northern Lights Lounge
It is not inconceivable that at some point in your life you will be presented with the question “Who do you like better, Michael Jackson or Prince?” And while both of their music looms heavy over the latter part of the 20th century, you will be expected to answer decisively. Quite often, in fact, we…
What an artist learned filming Detroit weather for a year
Susan Goethel Campbell is a Huntington Woods-based multidisciplinary artist. In 2011, she completed a video project that documented a year of weather in Detroit. The work caught the eye of the Detroit Institute of Arts, which recently acquired the video as part of its permanent collection. We caught up with Campbell by phone to learn…
Savage Love: Fresh air
Q: A couple of months ago, I got candida (a fungal infection) under my foreskin. I went to the doctor, picked up some cream, and used the cream as directed. The infection went away for about a week and then returned. I got this idea that maybe the cream didn’t work the first time because…
