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How Detroit’s ArtClvb app is revolutionizing opportunities for local artists
Inside Newlab at Michigan Central’s building in Detroit, the walls of one office are covered in sticky notes of every color. Buzzing with passion and dedication, the room is where Detroit’s ArtClvb — founded by Dorota Coy, her husband Steve Coy, and Justin Norman — is planning its upcoming Art Fair, set for Sept. 27-29…
A selection of can’t-miss Detroit-area art events and exhibitions this fall and beyond
If you’re an art lover in Detroit, September is heaven. It’s the city’s annual Month of Design, featuring over 80 exhibits, studio tours, activations, workshops, and panels happening across Detroit. This year’s theme, “Creative Currents,” honors Detroit’s legacy of artistry and innovation. It emphasizes the need for collaboration and creating spaces where information, opportunities, and…
Detroit fiber art exhibition showcases political, spiritual, and sustainable installations
Over 15 rooms inside the 16,000-square-foot Boyer Campbell Building in Detroit’s Milwaukee Junction neighborhood are filled with fiber art this month for an exhibit titled Environment + Microclimates. The exhibit, which is part of Detroit Month of Design, features works by over 60 Detroit-area artists. Larger-than-life quilts with political undertones, a hunting blind that examines…
Detroit’s Buffalo Prescott redefines residencies with support for parent artists
At Buffalo Prescott, it’s not unusual to find artists creating alongside their children, Hot Wheels zooming around the studio, or kids running around the backyard. Earlier this year, founder Samara Furlong brought her vision of an artist residency for parents to life. The curatorial researcher moved back to Detroit from New York during the pandemic,…
Mac Saturn resurfaces following controversy
“Mac is back.” That’s the message posted Tuesday on the Instagram account of Mac Saturn, a rising Detroit-area rock band whose future seemed uncertain after its keyboard player was arrested earlier this year, announcing its return from a brief hiatus. In January, Evan Mercer was arrested on charges related to posession of child sexual abuse…
Michigan Central’s first retail tenant is Yellow Light Coffee
The first retail tenant of Detroit’s recently rehabilitated former train station has been announced. Yellow Light Coffee & Donuts is set to open inside Michigan Central this fall. It’ll be its first food-and-beverage tenant since the station closed in 1988. The locally owned coffee shop opened its first location on Detroit’s east side in 2020.…
Pure Options hosts cannabis consumption concert in Lansing featuring Disco Lines and TWINSICK
Michigan cannabis chain Pure Options just announced a cannabis consumption concert headlined by popular high-energy DJ Disco Lines and EDM duo TWINSICK. The event, combining a live concert with a cannabis festival experience, is happening on Sept. 21 at Pure Options’ Frandor Lansing East location. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore a wide variety…
‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ and ‘Sing Sing’ couldn’t be more different — but both show the limitations of the movie industry
My dream format for writing about movies would be to write about one big and one little movie every week. That way I can be a part of the conversation connected to the newest blockbuster everyone is watching while also trying to bring attention to a smaller movie that deserves more eyeballs aimed at it.…
Detroit’s dry spell: On track for the driest, dustiest September ever
Southeast Michigan is facing an exceptionally dry month, possibly setting a record for the driest September since weather tracking began, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). “It has now been 7 days since Detroit has seen a drop of rain,” NWS Detroit posted to X on Friday. “With only 0.06 [inches] so far this…
Jane’s Addiction cancels Detroit-area concert due to band turmoil
Alternative rock bands Jane’s Addiction and Love And Rockets have canceled their co-headline tour, which included a show at Meadow Brook Amphitheatre on Friday. The news comes after the band’s singer Perry Farrell and guitarist Dave Navarro got into an onstage brawl at a Boston gig last Friday, and the concert ended early. In a…
ACLU criticizes Nessel for ‘excessive’ response to student protests at U-M
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan denounced Attorney General Dana Nessel for filing criminal charges last week against nine people involved in peaceful, pro-Palestinian protests at the University of Michigan, saying it was an “unnecessary escalation” that risks “chilling future speech.” “The right to protest peacefully is a cornerstone of our nation’s democracy,”…
Spiritual medium Stacey Lynn Cripps’s stairway to Rock ’n’ Roll Heaven
As she tells it, Stacey Lynn Cripps was sitting at the bar of a West Bloomfield restaurant with a friend one evening. Simultaneously, she was carrying on a side conversation with Glenn Frey. As in Detroit-born Eagles frontman Glenn Frey, who died of pneumonia eight years ago. Suddenly, surprisingly, Bob Seger enters the restaurant to…
Lapointe: Is it mere ‘magical thinking’ to charge parents of school shooters?
Shortly after rifle shots wounded former President Donald Trump and killed one of his fans in July at a Pennsylvania rally, the Republican Party held its national convention in Milwaukee to nominate Trump again with Senator JD Vance as his running mate. One of the creepiest moments in Vance’s awkward acceptance speech came when Vance…
Detroit hip-hop community and leaders come together for ‘Vote or Else’ event
Whether it’s a lack of trust in the U.S. political system or simply not liking the candidates, Detroit has always struggled with low voter turnout in regional and presidential elections. According to a July 2024 report from University of Michigan, about 12% of Detroiters who are eligible to vote reported they were unlikely to cast…
Tlaib calls out Nessel for targeting pro-Palestinian students at U-M: ‘A dangerous precedent’
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib sharply criticized Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel for filing charges against pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Michigan on Thursday, saying her harsh actions could ruin the lives of bright, young students and set a dangerous precedent for peaceful protests. Tlaib, who was born in Detroit to Palestinian immigrants and is…
The Wealthy Store vows to return following fire damage
Since 2018, Rashad Hosea’s The Wealthy Store has been a staple in Detroit’s hip-hop and fashion communities. But on Thursday, the Oak Park store was engulfed in flames, with a posted surveillance video from Hosea’s Instagram account showing an apparent arsonist setting the building ablaze. “I was completely caught off guard,” Hosea tells Metro Times.…
‘Rebel Ridge,’ Jeremy Saulnier, and the ‘Post-Social Next Wave’ era of filmmaking
Last week I wrote about the New Hollywood movement of auteur filmmaking in the 1960s and 1970s and it got me thinking. I spent a thousand words talking about how seminal this period of cinema was and I realized I was lamenting about not living through that era when it was happening and what it…
Metro Detroit’s Eloise Asylum haunted attraction opens for its fourth season of horror
The former Eloise Psychiatric Hospital in Westland was brought back to life in 2021, becoming one of Michigan’s largest and spookiest haunted attractions. Now, Eloise Asylum is getting ready to open doors on Sept. 28 for its fourth season of serious scares. With 48,000 square feet, two stories, and over 120 professional scare actors, guests…
AG Nessel charges 11 over pro-Palestinian demonstrations at University of Michigan
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Thursday that she is filing criminal charges against nine people involved in a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Most of those charged are alumni and students who refused to vacate the encampment on May 21 after police ordered them to leave. In addition,…
Huge Tyrannosaurus exhibit coming to Detroit’s Michigan Science Center
Millions of years ago, the ferocious Tyrannosaurus roamed what is now western North America. Now the king of the dinosaurs will soon visit Detroit. The Michigan Science Center announced that the traveling exhibit Tyrannosaurs – Meet the Family is coming to the museum starting on Sunday, Oct. 6. Sponsored by Ford Philanthropy, construction on the…
AG Nessel shuts down MSU Larry Nassar investigation after document review
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has officially closed the long-running investigation into Michigan State University’s handling of the Larry Nassar sexual abuse case, citing a lack of new information in recently released documents that the university had withheld for years, she revealed in a report released Wednesday. Despite MSU’s eventual decision to release the documents…
Detroit photographer Elonte Davis aims his camera at the ‘Undercurrent’ of the city
Elonte Davis has been one of the hottest emerging photographers in Detroit for the last few years. His latest photography exhibit, Undercurrent, is an alluring photo essay that captures the character of Detroit through its vibrant people and everyday moments. Davis’s work has been known for its engaging imagery of the Black community in Detroit…
Free Will Astrology (Sept. 11-17)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): One of the longest bridges in the world is the 24-mile-long Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana. During one eight-mile stretch, as it crosses Lake Pontchartrain, travelers can’t see land. That freaks out some of them. You might be experiencing a metaphorically similar passage these days, Aries. As you journey from one mode…
