Vol. 31, No. 18
Kettering's starter motor turns 100
By Michael Jackman
Join us, we'll pay you
Incentive programs for city employees start to pay off
By Larry Gabriel
Letters to the Editor
Our readers sound off on prostitution, hemp and barbecue
By Metro Times readers
Saving DPS
Bobb goes to Lansing, seeking $250 million in loan guarantees
By Jack Lessenberry
That Superbowl ad: Detroit image vs. reality
By Curt Guyette
Paying the price
Right-wingers demanded expensive tax cuts, then cry that Obama's budget isn't 'balanced'
By News Hits staff
Open that marriage
Better to agree on outside fun than to punish the kids by splitting up
By Dan Savage
The last dance
Merce Cunningham revolutionized modern dance, then left a legacy
By Megan O'Neil
East meets West
A peep at the new Cirque du Soleil show at the Joe
By Metro Times editorial staff
A day of rest
The backroom of a little Detroit shop becomes one man's oasis
By Detroitblogger John
Cedar Rapids
Easily amuses without the big guffaws
By Jeff Meyers
Unknown
A good caper with some Euro trash, hot women and a Rod Serling-worthy finish
By Corey Hall
Couch Trip
The dirty old-man of EuroSleaze, and Hilary Swank's got character
By Metro Times film critics
The Housemaid
Stylish compositions and artful performances drive this perverse family soap opera
Trailer Trash
Eerie music, epic explosions, and the imagination of disaster takes wing
By Brian Smith
Food Stuff
Corridor art at Cass Cafe, the Culinary Studio's grand opening and much more
The west-side way
A handy shortlist of restaurants in Dearborn and Dearborn Heights
Good & plenty
Hamtramck's ZamZam' Indian food is so generous you'll need (and want) that box
By Evan Hansen
Paul Williams - Someday Man
The singer-songwriter's beautifully arranged 1970 release gets a fresh listen
Extended family
The Akron dudes return to Detroit
By Eric Gallippo
For all occasions
The Sun Messengers' 30-year journey
By Charles L. Latimer
On the Download
Sample a track from Sam Trapchak's Put Together Funny quartet
Motor City Five
Five things that make Lemmy smile
By Brett Callwood
Game up!
For rapper Danny Brown, it's not the Adderall, the weed or the hood, it's dope skills, cred and the Internet
By Jonathan Cunningham
Anna Waronker - California Fade
Proof that songwriting is in multi-instrumentalist Waronker's blood
The karma bums
The High Strung have battled all the way to Guantanamo Bay, through libraries, dives and homes of crazed Southern wives. It's finally paying off.
Denmark Vessey's New Video -- "Work To Do"
Eminem Casts Porn Star Sasha Grey in New Video
Eminem Headlines Bonnaroo 2011
By Pietro Truba
People Moving With Illy Mack + Concert Tonight
Dennis Coffey and Mayer Hawthorne rock Parliament. Dennis Coffey and Will Sessions rock The Majestic.
By Doug Coombe
Help J Young the General and Red Pill Get to SXSW
Das Hemp-Kapital
A look at the seminal figures behind Amsterdam's thriving marijuana businesses
By John Sinclair
