HANGING WITH BLAKEY: A DETROITER REMEMBERS
by: W. Kim Heron on 10/30/2009
Former Detroiter Linda Jones (her byline graced The Detroit News once upon a time) on her new blog at Open Salon remembers the great drummer Art Blakey, who passed away 19 years ago this month. Not your typical musician profile, Jones, now based in Dallas, recalls what it was like being hit on by a ... [MORE]

LOCAL CLUB & SHOW NOTES
by: on 10/28/2009
Well, nothing like having to post an entire entry all over again because some stupid jackass hacked the site. Bastards! Anyway... *Local heroes the Dirtbombs are playing a last minute show in the cozy confines of the Majestic Cafe tonight (Wed., Nov. 28th). The show is being filmed b ... [MORE]

ONE MAN’S PARADISE VALLEY: MARSHA MUSIC ON JOE VON BATTLE
by: W. Kim Heron on 10/23/2009
From for MT blogsIn this week’s MT, arts editor Travis Wright writes about the Arts League of Michigan and the move to put Paradise Valley back on the map of Detroit — and the current vocabulary of Detroiters. And it reminded me that I’ve wanted for some time to pull a few coattails for the blog Mar ... [MORE]

TECHNO MEETS JAZZ IN PARIS (WITH CARL CRAIG AND TRIBE)
by: W. Kim Heron on 10/19/2009
Fusions, like politics, make strange ... no, let's just say interesting bedfellows. And as lots of jazz and techno fans know, Carl Craig is at the fused intersection of their genres.One of his projects of the last couple of years has been reuniting the surviving members of the cutting-edge Detroit j ... [MORE]

THE SIGHTS: NEW LINEUP, NEW ALBUM IN THE CAN, AN EMAIL AND A FREE SHOW TODAY.
by: Brian Smith on 10/13/2009
We just got this email from the lovably impish Eddie Baranek. We couldn't put it better ourselves:Hello,as part of United Way's Blocktoberfest, The Sights will be kicking it on the back of a flat bed truck from 5pm til 6:30pm today. Where the hell is that?-- Lafayette between First and Third Stree ... [MORE]

DETROIT CITY COUNCIL: THE END OF LIVIN’ AT LARGE
by: on 11/4/2009
Concurrent with an election that produced the biggest rearrangement of Detroit City Council in memory, city voters also put a stake in the long-maligned at-large council system that held for most of the last century. This council sea change included the retirement of two council members (Barbara-Ros ... [MORE]

DETROIT ELECTION: LESSONS IN CLOUT
by: on 11/4/2009
What are the lessons of Tuesday's city election? Well, for one thing, we’ve seen how much influence endorsements by the city’s daily papers don’t have. Both papers, after endorsing Pugh, withdrew those endorsements after his home went into foreclosure. It wasn’t just the problem with personal financ ... [MORE]

WORTHY AGREES EVIDENCE WAS WRONGLY WITHHELD
by: on 10/30/2009
Attorneys for Dwayne Provience will ask a Wayne County judge to release him from prison at a hearing on Tuesday after Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy on Friday dropped opposition to having his conviction overturned.Provience, convicted in 2001 of murdering Rene Hunter, is serving a 32- to 62-yea ... [MORE]

RIVER TALK WITH BILL MILLIKEN
by: Sandra Svoboda on 10/22/2009
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HOW GREEN ARE THE DETROIT COUNCIL CANDIDATES? FIND OUT WEDNESDAY!
by: on 10/19/2009
Candidates for Detroit City Council are keeping busy racing from one forum to the next as Election Day approaches. But there’s only one event that we’re aware of that will focus on the many crucial environmental issues facing the city.Thirteen local environmental, community and social justice organi ... [MORE]

G.I. JOE: SHOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE
by: Corey Hall on 8/5/2009
In perhaps the least shocking surprise of the year, Paramount has declined to pre-screen G.I Joe for reviewing press. This, of course, is the international symbol that a movie is not only lame or not good, but likely bad enough to cause severe birth defects for generations to come. G.I Joe has been ... [MORE]

MCG HEARTS THE MITTEN.
by: Corey Hall on 5/21/2009
A few hundred eager area moviegoers were treated to a nice bonus on Monday night, when an advance screening of Terminator Salvation turned into a meet and greet with the film's director, the man know as McG.  Kalamazoo born and bred Joseph McGinty Nichol has made a splash in Hollywood with his ... [MORE]

ALL HAIL JACKIE EARLE HALEY
by: Brian Smith on 3/10/2009
I was a pup when I first saw Bad News Bears; developed a heady childhood crush on Tatum O’ Neal, as a matter of fact. Be that as it may, what really got me was the anti-heroics of 14-year-old Jackie Earle Haley — as Kelly Leak— the smirk-y, cigarette-pack-in-sleeve badass whose manner bucked all kid ... [MORE]

MORONS AT THE MOVIES.
by: Corey Hall on 2/11/2009
The president has been pushing for more civility lately, but it can't come soon enough to the multiplex. Last night I attended an advance screening for a hard R rated slasher movie, one held at a later time of night than usual. Exactly the sort of event where you wouldn't expect to hear the cries of ... [MORE]

MITTEN MOVIE NIGHT
by: on 1/29/2009
Every month for the last few years, the Mitten Movie Project has taken to the screen, showing some of the best short subject films from around the state and beyond. It happens the first Tuesday night of every month, half-screening, half-party, a way to showcase local talent and bring local movie fol ... [MORE]

DETROIT ARTS PATRON JAMES PEARSON DUFFY, 1923 - 2009
by: Travis R. Wright on 11/6/2009
    James Pearson Duffy, longtime Detroit businessman, consummate patron of the arts, and champion of the Detroit arts scene, died on Tuesday at his home in Grosse Pointe at the age of 86. He was the only child of James F. and Helen Pearson Duffy.     &nbs ... [MORE]

LITERARY & PERFORMING ARTISTS, KRESGE'S GOT $25K WITH YOUR NAME ON IT
by: on 11/4/2009
As of Sunday, November 1,Detroit area artists working in the realms of performing and literary arts could apply for the Kresge Arts in Detroit fellowship grants. The $25,000 fellowships provide support for 18 artists living and working in metropolitan Detroit (Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties ... [MORE]

A NEW CASS CORRIDOR ZINE?
by: on 10/29/2009
Cover of the October-November 2009 Cass Rag, drawn by "Elle."HEARD OF THE underground publishing explosion? You know, the one that began in the late 1960s and churned out tens of thousands of passionate, self-made, low- and no-budget publications for a generation? The scene hit its zenith around the ... [MORE]

TUNE INTO WDET NOW FOR A LOCAL MOTH SPOTLIGHT!
by: on 10/23/2009
As part of their pledge drive, WDET produced a special Moth Radio Hour comprised of performances recorded during the Moth StorySlam, which premiered in Detroit on Thursday, October 1st at Cliff Bell's. It starts at noon and you can listen here.StorySlams go down the first Thursday of the month at Cl ... [MORE]

SOUPY SALES, R.I.P.
by: Bill Holdship on 10/23/2009
We lost a true Detroit legend yesterday when Soupy Sales died in a Bronx hospice after years of declining health at the age of 83. Sales -- who was born Milton Supman in Franklinton, North Carolina -- was years ahead of his time in that he delivered a children's show (complete with puppet friends) t ... [MORE]

DAN DEMAGGIO: 100 PERCENT GENTLEMAN
by: Michael Jackman on 3/9/2009
After just barely getting to New Dodge Lounge in time to see the end of the Meltdowns, I got to catch Dan DeMaggio of his City Chicken Orchestra before he went onstage. Dan, quite rightly, gave me a hard time about the description I used of his group in the paper ("Boozy spoken-word blowhard Dan DeM ... [MORE]

STICK YOUR WOODSTOCK UP YOUR ASS.
by: Brett Callwood on 3/8/2009
Holy shit, I love the Blowout. I may have only just arrived home (at what I thought was 2 a.m. but what my computer clock is telling me is 3 a.m. – damn) and therefore still be enjoying the memories that are very fresh in my mind, but I think that this year's Blowout is the best festival ever put on ... [MORE]

WONDER TWINS BLOWOUT REPORT: FRIDAY
by: Laura Witkowski on 3/7/2009
Laura: We started off day three of Blowout right with pierogies at Polish Village.D'Anne: Those were some good pierogies. Definitely not on my diet.L: Diets are for housewives. Only a fool would go to a multi-day event in Hamtramck and NOT partake in good Polish food.D: I know. When in Rome, d ... [MORE]

THREE DOWN, ONE TO GO...
by: Bill Holdship on 3/7/2009
Man, I felt exhausted going into Blowout after putting all the editorial stuff together. and, today, finally, I'm an absolute zombie. But I figured I'd better scribble down a few random thoughts from these last three nights of my second-ever Blowout, which Brian Bowe once described to me on the phon ... [MORE]

THURSDAY NIGHT BLOWOUT HITS
by: Doug Coombe on 3/7/2009
Started out by checking out the amazing guitar heavy pop of Citizen Smile at Small's. Reminiscent of early Teenage Fanclub and bass player Adam Padden is arguably the Paul McCartney of Detroit. Besides, any band with a singer named James Brown is cool with me.Keeping the ridiculously good guitar po ... [MORE]