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The psychology of the die-hard Lions fan

Sports franchises traditionally adopt the names of fearsome, majestic, or beloved creatures as a representative of the team on the field. If the Detroit Lions were to have been more accurately represented in logo form for the last six decades, they may have been saddled with the image of Emmett Kelly, the famous sad-faced clown.…

Jimmy Doom

Show Preview: Blackalicious and Lushlife at The Magic Bag.

The “classic” beats of Blackalicious will be hitting the stage at The Magic Bag on October 6th, along with rapper/producer Lushlife. This night All-American Hip-hop will be a show you dont want to miss. Blackalicious, a hip-hop duo featuring Gift of Gab (aka. Tim Parker) and DJ Xcel (aka. Xavier Mosley) tear up the stage with “tongue-twisting…

Kay Sumner

John Krasinski joins Detroit riots film, women everywhere rejoice

We are all aware that Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit riots film is being kept under wraps pretty well, but that hasn’t stopped the news of the films casting. Variety reports that John Krasinski, the recently buff actor who played Jim on The Office has joined the cast. Character descriptions are being kept under wraps, but after…

Jack Roskopp

PETA’s ‘tigers’ will protest UniverSoul Circus at Chene Park

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are at it again.  The animal rights activists will be protesting the UniverSoul Circus performance at Chene Park tomorrow (Tuesday, September 13) night by sending representatives dressed in tiger costumes. The protest is meant to bring light to the fact that UniverSoul subcontracts a man named Mitchel…

Alysa Zavala-Offman

Detroit ranked ‘Most Affordable Market’ by random report

Oh, Coldwell Banker Home Listing Report — thank you for giving us this sweet information. The Coldwell Banker Home Listing released its 2016 report and it turns out that Detroit is ranked the most affordable market in the U.S. to purchase a four-bedroom, two-bathroom home with the average listing price of $64,100.  That is all…

Jack Roskopp

Peter Walker and his exquisite guitar return to Detroit

Peter Walker’s stay in Detroit may have been short-lived, but it was part of a terribly interesting segment of Michigan music history that remains largely unknown to this day. Walker, a folk guitarist known for his skillful approach to Indian classical and Spanish techniques, as well as fingerpicking methods in the vein of John Fahey,…

Ana Gavrilovska

Stir It Up: Coming out of retirement for Education

When I attended Ismael Ahmed’s retirement party and roast last year, I didn’t expect the longtime social activist to disappear from the face of the earth. He has too many irons in too many fires for that to happen. It wasn’t exactly clear to me where he was retiring from. Was it from the University…

Larry Gabriel

Savage Love: Milk money

Q My husband left the picture recently, and I’m now a single mom supporting an infant in Toronto. I work a retail job and am drowning financially. I hooked up with a guy I met on Tinder, and I didn’t warn him that I’m still nursing because I didn’t even think of it. Luckily, he…

Dan Savage

Politics & Prejudices: The right to die revisted

Twenty years ago, Detroit was almost as famous for assisted suicide as it was for cars, thanks to Dr. Jack Kevorkian and his flamboyant attorney, Geoffrey Fieger. Kevorkian wasn’t the only doctor who thought hopelessly suffering patients who wanted out of their misery should have the right to ask a physician to help them die.…

Jack Lessenberry

Horoscopes (Sept. 7-14)

ARIES (March 21- April 20): Hanging between one place, or one way of life and another, every now and then you touch down long enough to feel the intensity that comes from being completely uprooted. In light of your circumstances, with very little left to cling to, thank god that you are so good when…

Cal Garrison

Eat: Essentials from the new food lineup at Ford Field

Each and every year as the Detroit Lions gear up for another season (this year will be different, right?) we in the Bites section obsess over the lineup at the many concessions and eateries at Ford Field. Over the years, we’ve come to expect the wackiest of dining options — from the Detroit-style chili cheese…

Serena Maria Daniels

A contender for the friendliest sports bar in Detroit

We don’t take our sports lightly here in Detroit. Detroit sports fans are passionate and die-hard, which also means that they are passionate and die-hard when it comes to the bars that we chose to watch said sporting events because, unfortunately, we all can’t make it to every home game. There are the classic bars…

Jack Roskopp

Mark your calendar today for these upcoming shows

Sept. 21, Jake Bugg at the Majestic Theatre; ticketweb.com; $25. Sept. 24, the Lumineers at Meadow Brook Amphitheatre; ticketmaster.com; Tickets $29.50- $59.50. Sept. 30, Khalid Hanifi at the Kerrytown Concert House; kerrytownconcerthouse.com; $5-25. Oct. 1, Sigur Rós at the Fox Theatre; olympiaentertainment.com; $31.50, $41.50, $51.50, and $71.50. Oct. 6, Kanye West at the Palace of Auburn…

MT Music Staff

Feedback (Aug. 31-Sept.6)

We received a number of replies to Jack Lessenberry’s column “How about a financial offender list?” Harry Palmer commented: I was just thinking on the way into work this morning, how utterly useless this current crop of political miscreants running Lansing really is. The roads are crumbling, and now even a medium-sized downpour floods the…

Metro Times editorial staff

The case against cheerleaders

I hate to be a killjoy, guys, but I’m having a hard time reconciling these two facts: The Detroit Lions instated their first official cheerleading squad, and it’s the year 2016. Hillary Clinton is a serious contender for the presidency. Mary Barra heads General Motors. Alicia Keys went to the MTV Video Music Awards with…

Alysa Zavala-Offman

DeAndre Levy brings experience, skill to Lions’ defense

Just two years ago, the Detroit Lions featured one of the most fearsome defenses in the NFL. Pro Bowl players Ezekiel Ansah and Ndamukong Suh anchored a deadly defensive line that brought down opposing quarterbacks almost as often as opposing running backs. Veteran safety Glover Quin routinely hauled in interceptions, rising star Darius Slay was…

Andrew Withers

A closer look at the Lions’ 2016 roster

In the offseason, the Detroit Lions hired General Manager Bob Quinn, yet unconventionally retained their head coach in Jim Caldwell. Caldwell knows full well that he’s on the hot seat and will not hold anything back. Quinn, on the other hand, will be afforded the time to inculcate the “Patriots way” to a perpetually broken…

Logan Lamorandier

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