Vol. 31, No. 13
Arizona and the deadliest gun states: Michigan isn't top 10!
By Brian Smith
Call to laughter: The guys behind 'The Ed & Moe Show'
By Michelle Styczynski
Letters to the Editor
In which our readers sound off
By Metro Times readers
Liberal think tank sees state's green prospects
By Sandra Svoboda
Bridge company twofer? Riverside Park case back in court
By Curt Guyette
Crazy tolerance for guns
And for the rhetoric that tells people to aim and reload
By Jack Lessenberry
When innocence is pink
Wrongly convicted women fight for recognition, support, remedies
Lowering the boom
Dan Stamper spends some hours in the slammer
By News Hits staff
Third parties
Your boyfriend has a girlfriend - and you don't know her
By Dan Savage
Quentin Tarantino's First Film
By Jeff Meyers
Causes of action
Detroit-born author, federal sex-crimes prosecutor tackles domestic abuse in her debut novel
By Travis R. Wright
Cheat Code
The cut scenes hurt, the tasks are groaners, but AC is still damn playable
By Josh Sexson
The Dilemma
Howard's end: A chick flick with dicks
Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Public Enemy
DFT kicks its new season off with a harrowing and brisk cinematic shot
Oprah, please
Plus, the 2011 season (in) bites!
By Jim McFarlin
Somewhere
Showbiz is a drag: There's substance (abuse) and then there's self-pity
By Corey Hall
Blue Valentine
Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling soar as doomed lovers
Green Hornet
What happens when a stoner and a visual genius team up to make a blockbuster? Exactly.
Downtown heat
Orchid Thai raises Detroit's spice levels
By Jane Slaughter
Go downtown!
With the auto show hitting Detroit, here's a sampling of some worthy restaurants in and around downtown
By Metro Times editorial staff
Food Stuff
Cookbook author speaks, new coffee roasters in town, and more
Wire - Red Barked Tree
No matter which Wire albums you liked, there's a track or two for you here
By Nathan Phillips
Motor City Five
Grilled Cale: Brooklyn trio Brahms' Cale Parks on music and Brooklyn
Lubec - Nothing is Enough
Richmond quartet's impossibly pretty soundscapes
Trash rock
The Ashleys dudes say their music is the sound of sex in a Dumpster. Who are we to argue?
By Brett Callwood
Hometown heroics
Detroit scrapper's daughter is the next big thing
By Chris Handyside
Friday night lights
Little runts, fatty blunts and velvet peanut butter at the DIA. WTF?
By Laura Witkowski
Feel sad, don't be sad
Laurie Anderson on her latest work, her Grammy nod and a Buddhist teaching
By W. Kim Heron
Encore for Encore!
One of the country's best record stores is about to retire, unless employees can pony up
By Tyler Kane
Spun
A couplet, a 'mystery' and a good scare.
Danny Brown Interview on FADER TV
By Jonathan Cunningham
Lemmy! Motörhead! Ferndale!
Ro Spit on a Billboard for New Detroit Initiative
Mike Posner Hosts DJ GQ's Juice Mixtape
The secret equation: 33+45=78 rpm
Live Review: High Dials w/Oblisk and Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor. Friday, Jan. 14 at the Magic Stick Lounge
By Kent Alexander
Up for auction: Historic Baker's Keyboard; asking $450,000
Eminem signs Slaughterhouse and Yelawolf to Shady Records. Detroit Cheers.
Bettye LaVette does Zeppelin on Leno last night. Watch.
When science goes to pot
Poring over the tens of thousands of scientific papers on pot
By Larry Gabriel