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A group of Detroiters is getting Black and brown people outdoors for hiking, kayaking, and camping adventures
“This has to be it,” my friend says as we pull into a parking lot at Proud Lake Recreation Area. We’re looking for a cookout and kayaking meetup called Browns, Blacks, and Kayaks. This is undeniably the spot, because everyone getting out of their cars carrying lawn chairs and blankets under their arms is Black,…
What Is CBG Oil, Its Benefits, and What Does It Feel Like?
CBD oil might still feel like a relatively new phenomenon, but it’s already accompanied by other hemp cannabinoids that have recently risen to popularity. Chief among them is CBG, a cannabinoid that’s a lot like CBD even though it’s entirely unique. Learn what CBG oil is and what it does, and find out where to…
Tina Turner Musical headed for Detroit Opera House this December
The “Queen of Rock ‘n Roll” will come alive at the Detroit Opera House for TINA — The Tina Turner Musical this winter. The Tony Award-nominated musical is being presented by Broadway in Detroit and will hit the stage from Dec. 6 through Dec. 18. Turner needs no introduction, but the musical retells her journey…
Best CBD Creams and Lotions for Pain – Autumn Overview 2022
Here comes fall! And how can you prepare as we enter the colder months? Most stow away the breezy lightweight outfits and finally whip out those dark snuggly clothing to layer. Some keep a fall home maintenance checklist to ensure the coziness of their home. However, what most take for granted is finding the best…
Metro Times Whiskey in the Winter to return to Detroit Shipping Co.
Mark your calendars: Whiskey in the Winter, Metro Times’s annual whiskey-tasting event, is set to return to Detroit from 7-10 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 18. As usual, the event will be held at the Detroit Shipping Co., the Midtown food hall made from repurposed shipping containers. Also as usual, this is your chance to sample…
Here’s how to score tickets to Lizzo’s invite-only SiriusXM show at Saint Andrew’s Hall in Detroit
It’s about damn time Lizzo returned to her hometown Detroit. While already slated to perform at Little Caesars Arena on Oct. 6, the Grammy award-winning singer will also present an intimate invite-only gig at Saint Andrew’s Hall on Oct. 5. The evening is part of SiriusXM’s Small Stage Series, and Lizzo will be performing songs…
TEDx announces first confirmed speakers for 2022 TEDxDetroit series
TEDx is returning to Detroit and has announced its first set of speakers for 2022. On Oct. 26, TEDxDetroit will take center stage at Detroit’s Music Hall Center for Performing Arts with an initial roster that includes some familiar faces. Confirmed speakers include Rochelle Riley, former Detroit Free Press columnist and the City of Detroit’s…
Detroit’s Murals in the Market festival returns with scaled-down version
After a two-year pause amid the pandemic, Detroit’s Murals in the Market festival returns to Eastern Market this week — although organizers 1XRun announced Monday that this year’s fest will be a scaled-down version of the one they launched in 2015. This year’s festival will largely concentrate on just two sets of murals, 1xRun says.…
11th Starbucks store in Michigan votes to unionize as coffee workers continue to organize
A Starbucks store in Mount Pleasant voted overwhelmingly to form a union on Monday, becoming the 11th Starbucks store in Michigan to so. Baristas at the 5655 E. Pickard Rd. store voted 10-1 in favor of unionizing, joining a growing labor movement sweeping across the country. “This union win is a show of the care…
Chief Justice McCormack to resign from Michigan Supreme Court
Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Bridget McCormack intends to retire later this year, the Democratic-nominated justice announced in a letter to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Monday. McCormack is roughly two years into an eight-year term. She first won election in 2012, was sworn in as an associate justice in January 2013 and has served as…
A Michigan QAnon follower shot his wife and daughter
The daughter of a Michigan man who allegedly shot his family with a shotgun on Sunday, killing his wife and dog and wounding his other daughter, says his personality changed after he became a follower of the QAnon conspiracy theory. The man, 53-year-old Igor Lanis of Walled Lake, was shot dead by police after he…
Coppola’s Detroit auto drama ‘Tucker: The Man and His Dream’ is a wild ride
Sly, big-hearted Tucker: The Man and His Dream brings a self-reflexive but inviting style to what might have been a dry did-you-know biopic: one getting a revival screening at the Detroit Film Theatre this weekend. A longtime passion project for Francis Ford Coppola (initially intended to be a hybrid musical, it still jangles pleasantly), Tucker…
PJ’s Lager House going out with a bang with free show by heavy rock ’n’ roll acts
As rock ’n’ roll bar PJ’s Lager House continues to move to sell its business to the owner of the next-door James Oliver Coffee Co. building, it has been hosting a series of free “End of an Era” concerts celebrating its motto, “Live Life Loud.” Next up might be the loudest, heaviest night of the…
JoJo’s ShakeBAR is coming to downtown Detroit
Boozy milkshakes topped with cookies, marshmallows, and ice cream cones are on the menu at JoJo’s ShakeBAR. The Chicago-based diner will open its first Michigan location in downtown Detroit on Sept. 24 with a swanky outdoor patio. Along with spiked shakes, the restaurant will offer non-boozy “Biggie Shakes,” burgers, mini Chicago-style hot dogs, a loaded…
The Concours d’Elegance auto show has been retooled as the new Motor City-centric Detroit Concours d’Elegance
Metro Detroit’s long-standing tribute to the most exquisite automobiles has been retooled as a weekend-long event with a new set of dates and location. The annual car show, now dubbed Detroit Concours d’Elegance, has a new home in the Motor City. “We’re incredibly excited about the event’s new home in downtown Detroit,” McKeel Hagerty, CEO…
Prominent Republicans join coalition to support Whitmer for reelection
More than 150 Michigan Republicans banded together to launch a group supporting Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s reelection bid, her campaign announced Monday. The group includes business leaders, former state lawmakers, an ex-congressman, and top staff from the Republican administrations of Gov. John Engler and Rick Snyder. Jeff Timmer, the former head of the Michigan Republican Party,…
The Trumpified courts can’t be trusted
On Sept. 12, 2021, Justice Amy Coney Barrett assured an audience at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center — named for the Senate majority leader who both introduced her that night and secured her place on the Supreme Court a year earlier — that “this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks.”…
Michigan GOP co-chair Maddock attacks Buttigieg with homophobic tweet
The co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party tweeted out a homophobic attack Sunday against U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “We’re so blessed this weak little girl moved to Michigan!” Maddock wrote in response to Buttigieg’s interest in a move away from gas-powered vehicles. “Looks like he’s bringing all his California Dreaming here with him.” Buttigieg,…
Set-in-Detroit horror flick ‘Barbarian’ is one of the year’s best
Like some bastard abomination that escaped from captivity, Zach Cregger’s first solo venture, Barbarian, is the craziest, goriest, most what-the-fuck-iest theatrical release thus far in 2022. I still don’t know exactly what I watched, but I know that I would watch it again. This is a movie that opens on Tess (Georgina Campbell) as she…
Michigan GOP canvassers finally certify abortion rights, voting access petitions for November ballot initiatives
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Biden isn’t Trump. Why do political journalists keep acting like he is?
Speaking on a recent CNN panel, Francesca Chambers, a White House correspondent at USA Today, responded to a question about Donald Trump inviting a Nazi sympathazier who said he “wished Hitler would have finished the job” with this doozie: “Optics are everything as you know in politics, John. As you can see there, the former…
Rats in a kitchen are only fun in a Disney movie: The top 10 Metro Times headlines
This week the iconic Lafayette Coney Island was forced to close after rat droppings were found during an inspection by the Detroit Health Department . Our readers were most interested in the heated exchange between Eastpointe’s mayor and residents at a council meeting on Tuesday. All of that and a little more. Here are the…
Judge rules for tribe in Line 5 suit, says Enbridge is trespassing and must pay damages
Short of an order to decommission the Line 5 pipeline, an Ojibwe tribe on the south shore of Lake Superior secured a different legal victory Thursday in its federal lawsuit against Canadian pipeline company Enbridge. The Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians has been locked in a legal battle with…
Inaugural Falling Leaves Fest will combine cannabis with a farmer’s market in Muskegon
An event that bills itself as a cross between a cannabis consumption festival and a farmer’s market is planned for Muskegon’s Historic Marsh Field. The event, called Falling Leaves Fest, describes itself as “the state’s largest licensed and regulated cannabis fall fest and farmer’s market ever staged in Michigan.” It’s scheduled for 9 a.m.-7 p.m.…
Detroit chef turns soul food truck Krazy Kravings into brick-and-mortar restaurant
An up-and-coming Detroit chef claims his food brings “Krazy Kravings” that people can’t ignore. After launching a soul food truck last year, chef Kourtney Coleman — aka “Celebrity Chef KC” — opened his brick and mortar Krazy Kravings restaurant earlier this year. “What makes my food Krazy is the flavor is just right, not too…
Michigan Supreme Court orders abortion rights, voting access initiatives on ballot
High-profile initiatives to amend the state constitution to affirm abortion rights and extend voting access must appear on the November ballot, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. The state’s high court ordered the initiatives to appear on the ballot, saying that Republicans on the Michigan Board of Canvassers erred when they refused to certify…
Pure Roots opens cannabis dispensary at its Lansing cultivation and processing facilities
Cannabis company Pure Roots is opening a dispensary on the same site of its 16,000-square-foot cultivation and processing facilities in Lansing. The 4,000-square-foot dispensary, the company’s first Lansing retail store, is located at 515 N. Larch St. It will celebrate its grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony starting at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 20. Grand…
Detroit’s Atwater Brewery celebrates 25th anniversary with party on Saturday
Atwater Brewery, Detroit’s largest craft beer brewer, is celebrating a quarter century with a birthday bash at its 237 Joseph Campau St. location on Saturday, Sept. 10. The celebration is scheduled for 1-10 p.m., and is free and open to all ages, with a cash beer bar available to those 21 and older. According to…
Omicron-targeted bivalent COVID-19 boosters are now available in Michigan
Updated COVID-19 booster vaccines that target the previously vaccine-resistant “Omicron” mutation of the virus are now available, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday. The shots are known as “bivalent” boosters because they have been retooled to offer protection against the original strain of the virus in addition to the genetically similar…
Tattooed Flint man pleads guilty to assaulting police at U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6
A Flint man who assaulted police officers with a baton during the Jan. 6 insurrection pleaded guilty Wednesday and now faces up to 20 years in prison. Justin Jersey, 32, was part of a mob that attacked law enforcement officers at the archway leading into the U.S. Capitol building. He grabbed the face of one…
The Joker’s real name is ‘Jack White,’ DC Comics reveals
With his famously pale skin, a penchant for colored suits, and a new blue hairdo, rock star Jack White has never looked more like the Batman bad guy the Joker. So it’s perhaps no surprise what DC Comics chose to be the “real” name for the iconic supervillain. According to issue No. 5 of the…
Your Pet Has Chakras Just Like You!
There’s a not-so-new service in metro Detroit for people looking to grow closer to their four-legged friends — and maybe even heal them, too. Reiki Euphoria in Rochester is back with in-person healing sessions for humans and pets. Located in Downtown Rochester, Reiki Euphoria services both people and pets, and offers training sessions for those…
Detroit’s Lafayette Coney Island closed after rat poop found in restaurant
Lafayette Coney Island has temporarily lost the Detroit coney dog war with neighboring American Coney Island. Not because their dog doesn’t measure up, but because the Detroit Health Department reportedly found rat poop in the restaurant. Lafayette voluntarily closed after a failed health inspection Tuesday, then reopened briefly before being issued an official cease and desist…
Eastpointe mayor has meltdown over First Amendment during public meeting
Eastpointe Mayor Monique Owens didn’t want to hear it. The first-term mayor shouted at residents during the public comment period at a city council meeting on Tuesday and insisted they did not have the right to criticize her. The city’s attorney corrected her, saying residents have a First Amendment right to address a public official.…
Judge rules Michigan’s 1931 abortion ban can’t be enforced
The Michigan Court of Claims ruled Wednesday that the state’s 1931 abortion ban law is “unconstitutional” and cannot be enforced. Court of Claims Judge Elizabeth Gleicher, who issued an injunction in May that barred enforcement of the 91-year-old abortion ban, ruled in the Planned Parenthood of Michigan lawsuit to “permanently enjoin” the attorney general from…
Ford’s Garage to open second Detroit-area restaurant in Novi
Auto-themed restaurant chain Ford’s Garage is expanding with a second Detroit-area location, and announced plans to open a total of five locations in the area in the coming years. According to a press release, the chain is planning to open its second metro Detroit location in Novi’s Fountain Walk mall at 44175 West 12 Mile…
‘If The River Could Sing’ event celebrates the Detroit River with poetry and other activities
If the Detroit River could sing, it would probably sing a song that goes something like “please stop polluting me humans, both for my sake and yours, or else you’ll be sorry.” In reality, the river’s song is more like soft rolling water and gentle waves. InsideOut’s poetry and music event, dubbed If The River…
Hey Republicans, Michigan residents want stricter gun laws, poll shows
When it comes to gun laws, Republican lawmakers in Michigan are woefully out of touch. The GOP-controlled state House and Senate have blocked even modest gun control measures proposed by Democrats, even after the November 2021 massacre at Oxford High School, where four students were killed and seven others injured. According to a new poll…
Detroit’s Motown Museum is looking fresh in newly dropped renderings of expansion plans
After a successful reopening in August, Detroit’s Motown Museum is ready for the next stage of its $55 million expansion. Renderings of plans for the museum show a golden building that looks like grand movie theater behind Hitsville, U.S.A. The nearly 40,000-square-foot structure will house interactive exhibits, the Ford Motor Company Theater, expanded retail space,…
Free Will Astrology (Sept. 7-13)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries-born Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was one of the greatest basketball players ever. He excelled at most aspects of the game. Some experts say his rebounding was only average for a player his size — seven feet, two inches. But he is still the third-best rebounder in National Basketball Association history. And he…
The pandemic couldn’t stop Blackberry Smoke from performing
Throughout Blackberry Smoke’s two-decade career, playing live has been the lifeblood of the band. So being forced off of the road by the pandemic wasn’t easy for the group. “It’s a tough habit to kick, playing music in front of people,” Charlie Starr, singer, guitarist, and main songwriter for the band, says in a recent…
Film Blast spotlights – and funds – a rising slate of Detroit filmmakers
Local opportunities to make, screen, and watch movies can often feel inaccessible, cutting off filmmakers and audiences both from sources of engagement and support. But Film Blast, a Detroit-centered festival of local work opening this Friday at Hamtramck’s Ant Hall, is aiming to address those concerns. The event aims to bring audiences and creators together…
