Vol. 31, No. 16
Tonight! MOCAD Opens 2 Shows w/ DJ Spooky & Aux-88!
By Travis R. Wright
Sounds of disharmony
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra strike's long-term effects
By Larry Gabriel
... and civil rights
Family that owned bait shop sues bridge baron for taking 23rd Street
By News Hits staff
Letters to the Editor
Praise, potshots and picky parochialism
By Metro Times readers
Border crisscross
A Somali journalist gets to see the U.S. - including two months of a Calhoun County jail
By Sandra Svoboda
Public interest ...
Bridge company lawyer raises specter of terror is bid to hold park
Fix our highest court
The state's supremes work in 'needless secrecy'
By Jack Lessenberry
Spare us normals
If you have a low sex drive, please choose an equally unhorny partner
By Dan Savage
"Tetsuo: The Bullet Man" at the Burton Theatre
By Patrick Higgins
Cheat Code
Dead Space 2 is a zombie-blastin' good time
By Josh Sexson
The best laid plans
How two porn stars turned celebrity homewrecking into celebrity branding
By Laura Witkowski
Another year
Mike Leigh shows there's such a thing in life as 'too late'
By Jeff Meyers
Sanctum
Sodden adventure fraught with disaster-movie clichés and characters you hope drown
By Corey Hall
Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune
How Phil Ochs' song of social injustice, oppression and the horrors of war rose and fell
Howl
So a hipster and a rabbi walk into a courtroom
Vision
A renaissance woman long before thereever was a Renaissance
Exurban legend
The Metropolitan Cafe offers quality and originality uncommon in the townships
By Evan Hansen
Fire it up!
Don't pass up that venerable Detroit barbecue joint a second time
By Michael Jackman
Food Stuff
Karneval at Dakota Inn, serious flavors at Winter Blast, and more
By Metro Times editorial staff
Gerald Cleaver: Uncle June - Be It as I See It
New disc has brash bangs, shouted admonitions, poetic elaborations and more
By W. Kim Heron
For the sake of the song
Three decades in, singer-songwriter Jere Stormer can do what he wants
By Brett Callwood
Tennis - Cape Dory
Colorado husband-and-wife team sing about spending a year sailing? Yes they do.
By Nathan Phillips
Esta Vivo - Together We Step
Folky, sleepy one-man jam filtered through an unabashedly happy pop haze
By Michael Ross
Let it blow
Hamtramck Blowout 14, unveiled!
By Brian Smith
Spun
A Luther "Badman" Keith download and the ultimate meaninglessness of Kansas
Motor City Five
Nervous but Excited on two things that go great together
Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
A new release readymade for teen drama cues and moody car ads
It's about the fans, man
So don't call Umphrey's McGee (just) a jam band
By Pietro Truba
Beats, rhymes and live
Pomp-free hip-hop assembly returns
By Kahn Santori Davison
The Bill Bondsmen are pissed off
Career opportunities are the ones that never knock -The Clash
Bardo Pond - Bardo Pond
Philadelphia sextet unfurls seven monumental songs in 74 minutes
Lincoln Center group cancels: Snow beats swing
Hard Lessons + Baby = Hiatus
By Doug Coombe
The White Stripes call it a day
Live Review: Disappears w/Gardens and Dan Kroha and the Darleans. Thursday, Feb. 3 at PJ's Lager House
By Kent Alexander
Eminem's Super Bowl Commercial for Chrysler
By Jonathan Cunningham
Footage of Big Sean's Toronto Performance
Remembering J Dilla on His Birthday
Read the news ... oh, boy
Still shrill: Opponents of pot as histrionic as ever.
By John Sinclair
