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Michigan permanently bans cannabis businessman Youssef Barakat, accused of serious violations

One of Barakat’s dispensaries was busted after selling cannabis to a 20-year-old cop

Michigan prison population hits 30-year low as parole expands, fewer offenders return

The decline in incarcerations means more money available to focus on rehabilitation, prison officials say

35 years of Motor City Comic Con

Pop culture icons descend on metro Detroit for Michigan’s biggest fan event
Fewer people are being held in Michigan prisons.

Michigan prison population hits 30-year low as parole expands, fewer offenders return

May 7, 2025

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Motor City Comic Con has grown popular over the years.
By Jim McFarlin
Image: Amp Fiddler to be honored with street name in Detroit’s Conant Gardens
By Lee DeVito
Police respond to an antiwar demonstration at the University of Michigan Museum of Art on May 3.
By Steve Neavling

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A lawsuit accuses Sgt. Jordan Dottor of sending repeated requests for explicit content via Snapchat and text messages.
By Steve Neavling
Women at the Huron Valley Correctional Facility alleges they were video-recorded when they were naked.
By Steve Neavling
A mural by artist Marilyn Rondon outside of El Club in Southwest Detroit.
By Steve Neavling
A former employee of the Michigan Department of Corrections has sued the agency and its spokesman for alleged retaliation, sexual abuse.
By Steve Neavling
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By Rob Brezsny
From left: Thunderbolts* assembles a ragtag team of Bucky (Sebastian Stan), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), Yelena (Florence Pugh), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), and Red Guardian (David Harbour).
By Jared Rasic, Last Word Features
The House of Tarot exhibit gives us major Silent Hill vibes (in a good way). Matt Rozensky’s Judgment installation.
By Randiah Camille Green
Tens of thousands of bees teem inside a hive just placed in the Wunsch Farms cherry orchards on Old Mission Peninsula. May 1, 2025.
By Izzy Ross, Interlochen Public Radio
Image: Kim Nhung Superfood expands in Madison Heights while keeping Vietnamese culture at its core
By Tony Vu
The Franklin Oyster Bar & Eatery is built in a historic 1848 carriage house.
By Lee DeVito
Detroit City Distillery’s Flower Day vodka bottle feature artwork by local artist Ivan Montoya.
By Lee DeVito
Image: 2025 Movement Festival preview: Father Dukes
By Joe Zimmer
Image: The White Stripes earn rightful place in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
By Lee DeVito
Fans at the AfroFuture Festival.
By Lee DeVito
Michigan regulators banned Youssef Barakat from working in the cannabis industry in the state follow several serious allegations.
By Steve Neavling
Image: The future of Michigan cannabis depends on what you buy
By Steve Neavling
Hemp-derived THC is not regulated in Michigan.
By Steve Neavling
Image: Michigan’s struggling cannabis industry pushes lawmakers for urgent reforms
By Steve Neavling
Sturgill Simpson With his 2014 breakthrough Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, Kentucky-born Sturgill Simpson helped rejuvenate the genre with a neo-outlaw sound. He’s spent the rest of his career gleefully defying expectations: tapping Amy Winehouse’s former backing band the Dap-Kings for the Grammy-winning A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, soundtracking an anime film with the hard-rocking Sound & Fury, and releasing a suite of bluegrass albums in 2020 and 2021. When a vocal cord injury seemed like it might end his career, Simpson once again pivoted. Released under the moniker Johnny Blue Skies last year, Simpson’s Passage du Desir exists somewhere between Jimmy Buffet and Pink Floyd, but the live shows are on another level. Simpson and his tight band draw from his entire catalog, interspersed with long stretches of improvisational noodling to give his voice a rest — delighting fans of jam bands. And somehow, it’s still very country. Starts at 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 10 at Meadowbrook Amphitheatre, 3554 Walton Blvd., Rochester Hills; ticketmaster.com. Tickets start at $59.50.
By Lee DeVito
Image: All the colorful characters we saw at Detroit’s Space Dive ‘Star Wars’ fan event [PHOTOS]
By Mike Pfeiffer
Image: AC/DC electrifies Detroit on Power Up Tour [PHOTOS]
By Joe Maroon
With a similar embrace of the natural surroundings, artist James Rodriguez sat painting a landscape, surrounded by his other paintings of the natural world hanging from trees nearby with a Henry David Thoreau-type vibe.
By Erica Hobbs
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