Red and white like me
The White Stripes add color to Rivera Court … The DIA goes wild with a new showcase of local contemporary artists … & Downtown dance club Bleu goes to court.
High Heels and Low Lifes
Put a couple of cute cuckoos — one a curvy American fish-out-of-water — into a gangster-lite setting and comedy comes with the situation, just as it did in "I Love Lucy." As for plot line, it’s slenderer than the high heels of heroines Minnie Driver and Mary McCormack, and feebler than the intellect of most…
Low-protein diet
Q: I am a vegetarian. My boyfriend and I often joke that I get enough protein from him. We wonder what the nutritional content of semen is, in particular, how many grams of protein per ejaculate. Is it in the sperm and therefore nonexistent in vasectomized man? A: Protein is the same, whether there is…
Letters to the Editor
Your decision not to endorse a Detroit mayoral candidate ("An endorsement for neither," Metro Times, Oct. 31-Nov. 6) is an act of cowardice, especially in light of Jack Lessenberry’s prophecy of the City Council election outcome (same issue). It has been clear since the primary that the Detroit electorate is not interested in an out-with-the-old…
The One
The latest Jet Li vehicle is an unrepentant genre piece that clocks in at a very tight 80 minutes. It doesn’t ease you into its high-concept premise of 125 parallel universes connected by wormholes which periodically open and close; it’s just Bam! and we’re off.
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Traditional astrologers fear the planets Pluto and Saturn. Pluto, they assert, brings radical transformation that’s mostly uncomfortable. Saturn enforces constriction and contraction, hemming us in and limiting our options. And when the two are on opposite sides of the solar system, as they are now, their dour dance spoils every party.…
Eminem’s home movie
News Hits takes a peek behind the scenes for Eminem’s big-budget feature film….
Giant in the shadows
Reexamining the rarely seen films of New Wave master Jacques Rivette.
FOX 2’s no comment
The local FOX News Problem Solvers clam up when accused of assaulting a gay Detroiter.
Crème de la crème
Gossip queen Vaginal Creme Davis takes on the (w)hole world….
Blackstone backlash
Renovating the Blackstone Hotel seems like a great idea … unless you live there.
Cho & tell
Comedian Margaret Cho explains how to laugh while you’re blowing up and falling to pieces.
POTpourri
Local proponents for medical marijuana hope for a quick spot on the ballot….
You Cho girl!!
From bummer to book to video, self-esteem diva and Asian-American laugh emissary Margaret Cho bases her career on portraying a woman in great pain.
Hate is blind
Hate crimes are on the rise, and bigots seem to be stupider than ever….
Cole mine
Melancholy songwriter Lloyd Cole digs into the deep and evasive core of himself.
Plugola
A not-so-modest request for votes in the Utne Reader’s online awards poll….
The matchmaker
Master gardener and amateur yenta Marcia Pilliciotti has a knack for hooking up Mr. and Ms. Right. Will you be next?
Red Shirt Brigade
Angular but flexible, quirky but catchy, Red Shirt Brigade provides an all-out post-rock cardiovascular workout — complete with a melodic, upbeat warm-up; a jumpy-fun freak-out section and a soothing pop cool-down. One of the more impressive groups coming out of Detroit’s increasingly visible underground-pop community.
Are you a “connector”?
Learn more about the “six degrees of separation” phenomenon, and whether you may possess a social gift.
Judah Johnson
Lately, it might seem that Detroit’s music scene divides easily into one of two categories: electronic music or garage rock. Such a picture, however, doesn’t account for sightings of DJs at the Godspeed You Black Emperor! show, or the indie rock contingent at Mouse on Mars last June. Truly, Detroit is an amalgam of tastes…
Here comes the son
Femi Kuti carries the sounds of his father, Fela, forward….
Strictly for Da Breakdancers and Emceez
KRS-One may be hip-hop’s busiest living legend. Since going the independent route with the release of The Sneak Attack earlier this year, his career has taken on a renewed energy and consistency. For the Blastmaster, a man as concerned with hip-hop’s responsibility to youth as anyone, these indie projects bring increased creative freedom, at the…
Fourteen minutes left
Ed McMahon comes to town, searching for Detroit star quality….
Monk in Tokyo
How much Monk is too much? Jazz fetishists like myself, collectors of all the great and almost-great sessions by the Spheroid One we can find, might think of resisting yet another reissue from his Columbia years — but this one’s simply essential, a master session. And well-meaning elders seeking the ideal set with which to…
Now for the future
So the election is finally over, and Detroit has a new mayor-elect. Now what? Hopefully, a lot. The city doesn’t have a lot of time to lose.
Tools in the Dryer
Good news for those who’ve never had the pleasure of experiencing the writhing musical mass that is Lambchop: This new rarities compilation will have you up to speed in no time. Tools in the Dryer documents the band’s evolution from a three-member basement-rock project to a 14-member rock-soul-country battalion, and illustrates why fans have had…
The continuing saga of Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor has transformed its burgeoning electronic culture into a full-on growing scene, with a real nightlife and a number of labels and interesting artists. PLUS: Reduction and minimalism revisited.
Open wide the world
In this imaginative, resoundingly quirky French comedy from the original mind of director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Alien Resurrection), a solitary Parisian girl changes the lives of those around her through the simple act of breaking down the walls urbanites instinctively construct around themselves.
Stupid like a Fox
Fox TV’s “high-tech” coverage of the World Series is thoroughly, multidimensionally terrible.
Monsters, Inc.
Fantastically detailed in image and plot, this film is an Easter egg hunt of clever visual jokes and allusions — and a melodramatic roller-coaster ride that tear-jerks and thrills. The laughs come from a classic comedy flip of the script that turns the fish-out-of-water story inside out by filling a familiar world with the oddball.
To kill or convert?
The heinous acts of Sept. 11 demand a response. But it’s difficult to believe in the righteousness of our cause, when it seems so likely to inspire a new generation of terrorists.
Who Knows? (Va Savoir)
Directed by Jacques Rivette, one of the original French New Wave auteurs, this devilishly complicated contrivance is an ambling comedy of manners where everybody seems connected by only one or two degrees of separation.
