Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): To get what you want in the coming week, you’ll have to be more generous and imaginative. These activities could help. 1) Send a letter expressing your admiration to a person whose good works fascinate you. 2) Dream up 20 new names for God, using ice cream flavors and DJ names…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Steven Forrest, author of The Inner Sky and Skymates, is the most brilliant astrologer alive. And he says the most dangerous life an Aries can live is a safe one. To develop courage is your most crucial assignment, and there’s no better way to do that than by regularly pushing into…
Rekindling the fire
Q: I have been seeing my boyfriend for about three years. I love and trust him; he loves and trusts me. There is no doubt in my mind that he is faithful, as am I. But our sex life is dead. We rarely have sex. In fact, we rarely even fool around. I have tried…
All the world’s a canvas
Inside the colorful subculture of graffiti art….
Edgefest 2002 schedule
Jewels & Binoculars (The Music of Bob Dylan) 8 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 3 Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N. Fourth Avenue, $15 The Other Quartet with Andrew Bishop’s Hank Williams Project 10 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 3 The Firefly Club, 207 S. Ashley Street, $15 Roscoe Mitchell Quintet 8 p.m., Friday, Oct. 4 Kerrytown Concert House, $20…
Wish you were here?
Now, the last thing I want to do is come off like some self-satisfied, smug armchair quarterback of a music hack. The last fucking thing anybody needs is another one of those fellas who blather on inconsequentially about something that required no real legwork and has no meaningful connection to the lives of people as…
Moral equivalent of whores
Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them and examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God…
September song
Who in their kinkiest garage-band wet dream would have thought that the gig of the month would be Jeff Beck? As in “Hi Ho Silver Lining”? The guy who, along with Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, made guitar music exciting for about five years, and then very, very boring for a long time. But before…
Karate’s Geoff Farina gets technical
Geoff Farina is a thinking man with one big problem to solve — and he’s been at it for more than half a decade. The problem isn’t figuring out how to amass throngs of fans, become a household name or even achieve whopping Soundscan numbers through his much-beloved work in Karate or as a solo…
Toys for growing girls
Q: Not long ago, my husband and I came home from a night out and found my 14-year-old daughter “experimenting” with one of my dildos. Needless to say, we were both mortified. My husband quickly exited the room and left me to deal with it. My daughter claims she found it while innocently looking through…
The art of revolution
Well, I thought about writing how Dick Posthumus, thanks to crass posturing on the water issue, has managed to alienate the one group of voters not deeply in love with Jennifer Granholm. Then I considered explaining how ol’ Jennifer’s concept of “thinking outside the box” means, God help us all, adding a “Homeland Security Corridor”…
Charge of the blight brigade
With one hand on the wheel, John George steers a bright red Ford F-250 pickup truck down a narrow street on Detroit’s northwest side, swigging coffee from a foam cup as he drives. It could just as well be jet fuel he’s chugging. Even sitting, the guy is a blur of action. The coffee drained,…
Different strokes
Gallery openings are supposed to be full of surprises. We expect to be lifted out of humdrum habits by the latest work of Sir or Madame X; but too much of a difference between our expectations of a particular artist and the new pieces before our eyes puts us in a quandary. Some artists —…
Comcast cuts the static
Comcast Cable and the City of Detroit arrange legal settlement.
Roasted delusions
ZeitGeist revives Max Frisch’s The Firebugs with an excellent cast….
Politically incorrigible
Bill Maher’s TV show is history, but his wit and insight aren’t….
Hot spot
It was clear from the enthusiasm and festive atmosphere at the grand opening last Wednesday night of the Susanne Hilberry Gallery that the new site is a much-needed addition to the Detroit art scene. There were genuine expressions of affection and celebration for Hilberry and her status in the art community, as well as awe…
Aliens need instruction, too
As many as 15,000 high schoolers in southeast Michigan are denied higher education because they aren’t U.S. citizens.
Letters to the Editor
Bent out of shape It’s very disturbing that a negative "Best of Detroit" selection about my business was likely placed by some irate editor who has a beef because he doesn’t think he’s getting enough money for his (free) CDs that nobody else wants ("Best place to get bent over the counter when selling CDs,"…
Riverkeepers anointed
The Greater Detroit Riverkeeper program will serve to protect southeast Michigan’s waterways.
Beatles boots
For Novi collector Michael Anderson, bigger is better….
You Are What You Own
Question: Is the Nose an Urban Up and Comer? That is, do we fit the demographic of middle-income, 18- to 39-year-old, single-member-household types who use home PCs for online chat and watch “The Late Show With David Letterman”? Or is the Nose part of the Bohemian Mix, 25- to 44-year-olds who shop at the Gap,…
Oct. 2-8, 2002
4 FRI • MUSIC The Greenhornes — Although they are loved by Detroiters as if they were one of our own, the Greenhornes are from Cincinnati. Bona fide rockers and full-fledged babes, we’ll give them a garage rock-endorsed Detroit ghetto pass. The Greenhornes have returned to their Woodward Avenue stomping grounds for the release of…
Declog thy heart
Michigan ranks 37th in the nation for healthy hearts.
Abandoned Shelter of the Week
On the corner of Peterboro and Park is an apartment building that would be apt for a longhaired princess in distress. The enormous stone structure is an interesting combination of neo-Medieval and Renaissance architecture, complete with turrets and octagonal red shingles. The original coal chutes and the carriage-scarred brick driveway remain intact despite neglect. Pigeons…
Tops in truffles
One reason to choose Pasticcio above the many other restaurants along Windsor’s “Via Italia”, is its new terrace. Among the pastas, I liked the mushroom choices: fettucine ai funghi porcini, pungent and simple in a big white bowl, or rigatoni alla boscaiola, musky with long-stemmed mushrooms.
Tomorrow is the question
Bassist-composer John Lindberg brings two pioneering groups to Ann Arbor’s Edgefest….
Diary of an infomercenary
As subcultures go, that of the bike messenger seems to be one with an uncommonly close-up view of the gears that turn inside the corporate world. In his imaginative memoir of the early 1990s, The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power, young writer Travis Hugh Culley is paying attention and taking…
Live
Since they burst onto the MTV scene in 1990 with a robust remake of Otis Redding’s “Hard to Handle” and an electrifying debut (Shake Your Money Maker), the Black Crowes have mastered the art of insta-classic rock, churning out album after album of old-school boogie inspired by the Stones and the Allman Brothers. Now teetering…
Kill the Moonlight
Having been pink-slipped by Elektra just months after releasing the would-be 1998 breakthrough, A Series of Sneaks, Spoon’s Britt Daniel has reason to feel duped by the industry. He’s no Aimee Mann, though, and instead of using the experience to write albums full of thinly veiled critiques of corporate corruption, he’s learned to accept and…
Only the lonely
Though well directed by Gerard Krawczyk, this is indisputably a Luc Besson movie: his script, his themes, his actors, his unwavering reliance on Jean Reno’s affecting skill at playing opposite actresses 30 years his junior. Reach out, Besson tells us, and you’ll be paid back twice over.
Rain
New Zealand director Christine Jeffs’ feature debut is as visually assured as it is dramatically sluggish. It’s a mood piece with a slow accretion of character detail favored over more linear plotting. But the “persons under 18 not admitted” warning posted by the DFT for this film is a little puzzling.
Lan Yu
Lan Yu
modernizes the classic tragic love story and elegantly boxes it in the formal compositions of director Stanley Kwan’s (The Actress) moving pictures. Despite its soap-operatic ending, it’s a remarkable treatment of gay sexuality in China.
Snipes
Does violence lead to rap, or does rap lead to gangs, guns, girlfriends on the side and eternal youth — the hard way? Introducing Snipes, where Mafia, rap stars and hood rats butt their ugly heads in a regurgitation of cinematic violence that gives brutal birth to an unlikely, but likable, hero.
Moonlight Mile
Though the inspiration for director Brad Siberling’s latest movie was the murder of his actress girlfriend, his trauma, once filtered through his conventional imagination, emerges here as an old-fashioned piece of Hollywood uplift — with Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman and Susan Sarandon.
Just a Kiss
Fisher Stevens hasn’t made a decent movie since his turn as evil Iggy Koopa in Super Mario Bros. The streak continues with his directorial debut, which jumps back and forth through the cross-pollinated love lives of seven monogamy-challenged New Yorkers.
Sweet Home Alabama
Is Witherspoon doomed to be Reese Withering-Away in the shallow lands of vacuous blondes? It’s painful to watch her talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like Legally Blonde and Sweet Home Abomination, I mean Alabama.
That Depends on What You Know: The Sirens Return | Keep It Real ’Til It Flatlines
That Depends on What You Know: The Crepuscularium That Depends on What You Know: Fubractive Since Antiquity Suite Trugroid As a longtime contributor to the Village Voice and such, Greg Tate has sung the P-Funk booty electric, led cheers for King Sunny Ade’s royal Nigerian juju and assayed the perfect fusion storms of Miles Davis’…
One Beat
Sleater-Kinney got the blues. There’s no two ways about it and that’s no reason to cry. Let’s remember that the blues is as much a celebration of Friday night as it is a lamentation of “done-wrong.” And on One Beat, the sixth album from the Portland, Ore., trio (aka guitarist-vocalists Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein…
