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Abdul El-Sayed joins race for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat with Bernie Sanders endorsement

This Week's Issue

April 16, 2025

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The first measles outbreak in Michigan since 2019 has been identified in Montcalm County.

Michigan confirms the state’s first measles outbreak since 2019

By Steve Neavling

The Straits of Mackinac.

Army Corps to fast track review of Line 5 tunnel project

By Izzy Ross, Interlochen Public Radio

Metro Times is seeking a summer intern.

Metro Times is seeking a summer calendar intern

Things To Do

Today

Image: Techno: The Rise of Detroit’s Machine Music

@ Michigan State University Museum (temporary location) -- Through April 30

Techno: The Rise of Detroit’s Machine Music

Tomorrow

Image: Bill Rauhauser: A Retrospective

@ Coup D’état -- Through May 1, 5-8 p.m.

Bill Rauhauser: A Retrospective

Events

Warp and Weft: Technologies within Textiles

@ The Shepherd

Through May 3, 5-8 p.m.

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News & Views

Image: Downtown Detroit’s Free People store has an opening date (2)

Downtown Detroit’s Free People store has an opening date

Image: School district in Macomb County admits principal mishandled racist graffiti incident

School district in Macomb County admits principal mishandled racist graffiti incident

By Steve Neavling

Image: Macomb County high school vandalized with racist graffiti, prompting outcry over school’s response

Macomb County high school vandalized with racist graffiti, prompting outcry over school’s response

By Steve Neavling

Police respond to an antiwar demonstration at the University of Michigan Museum of Art on May 3.

U-M fires employee, suspends 4 others over pro-Palestinian protest

By Steve Neavling

Arts & Culture

In Warefare, the men are brave, cowardly, callous, insane, broken, and terrified in equal measure.

Alex Garland’s ‘Warfare’ lacks a satisfying narrative by design

By Jared Rasic, Last Word Features

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Free Will Astrology (April 16-22)

John Lennon and Yoko Ono in New York during the 1970s.

‘One to One: John & Yoko’ keeps the spirit of revolution alive

Food & Drink

The interior of La Serre in Ann Arbor’s Vanguard Hotel.

French-inspired La Serre heading to Ann Arbor’s Vanguard Hotel

Chick-fil-A has opened a new store in the Detroit area.

Chick-fil-A opens new store near Oakland University campus

Cava is slated to open at 636 Woodward Ave., Detroit.

Mediterranean restaurant Cava is coming to Detroit

Slows Bar BQ opened in Corktown in 2005.

Detroit’s Slows Bar BQ is expanding to the ’burbs

Music

Jason Moran 2025 Detroit Jazz Fest Preview Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center at Wayne State University Tuesday, April 15

Pianist Jason Moran stuns

By Ryan Patrick Hooper

Jack White and his band performed two sold-out shows at the Masonic Temple on Saturday and Sunday.

Jack White comes home

By Ryan Patrick Hooper

Image: University of Michigan’s UMS announces 2025-26 season

University of Michigan’s UMS announces 2025-26 season

Weed

Jazz Cannabis Club owner George Brikho says his business has been broken into three times in the past year.

Cannabis businesses in metro Detroit are getting robbed, smashed, and left to fend for themselves

By Steve Neavling

Image: Detroit-area dispensaries celebrate 4/20 with cannabis deals (2)

Detroit-area dispensaries celebrate 4/20 with cannabis deals

By Steve Neavling

Image: 8th Street Canna Launches First Store with 420 Street Fest in Hazel Park on April 19

8th Street Canna Launches First Store with 420 Street Fest in Hazel Park on April 19

By Metro Times Promotions

The Gramz Cannabis Outlet in Romeo.

First 24-hour cannabis dispensary to open in metro Detroit

By Steve Neavling

Detroit in Pictures

Freaky Tales This passes the vibe check. A batshit-crazy anthology of interconnected stories (set in 1987 Oakland!!) following a goofily animated green lightning that shapes the fates of several disparate Californians. If you’re like me, this movie has it all: punks vs. Nazis, rap battles, narration by Too $hort, fake cigarette burns to give the film that old-school theatrical texture, a deep love of 1980s Oakland and Bay Area hip-hop culture, a deep obsession with genre movies, the Golden State Warriors, kung-fu, cartoonish violence, Pedro Pascal, sword fights, and so very much more. Filmmakers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck take all the tricks they’ve learned in 20 years as writer-directors (including their toe-dipping into studio blockbusters with 2019’s Captain Marvel) and made what feels like a deeply personal and goofball love letter to their youth and the things that make them happy. It’s not perfect, but what is? At the end of the closing credits, there’s a brief moment where the statement “This movie was made in its entirety by human beings” appears. Just a group of people making a movie about Oakland in the 1980s with sword fights and rap music. Humanity at its best. Freaky Tales Grade: B

April indie movie roundup

By Jared Rasic, Last Word Features

Image: Thousands protest Trump in Detroit as part of nationwide ‘Hands Off!’ rallies [PHOTOS]

Thousands protest Trump in Detroit as part of nationwide ‘Hands Off!’ rallies [PHOTOS]

Image: Everything we saw at Astronomicon 8 in Ypsi [PHOTOS]

Everything we saw at Astronomicon 8 in Ypsi [PHOTOS]

By Josh Justice

Image: All the Detroit Tigers fans we saw on opening day 2025 [PHOTO]

Detroit Tigers fans celebrate opening day 2025 [PHOTOS]

By Mike Pfeiffer and Joe Maroon

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