Vol. 31, No. 22
Shea's Lounge! New Poem!
By Dennis Shea
Shea's Lounge on free lunchers and trash collecting in the Cass Corridor.
Game-changers ahead
With labor challenged, where will tomorrow's radical awakening come from?
By Larry Gabriel
Consent and dissent
Day of Inquiry highlights hopes, limitations for community-police relations
By News Hits staff
We should be ashamed
In the Age of Charlie Sheen, H. Ross Perot looks absolutely statesmanlike
By Jack Lessenberry
Letters to the Editor
A reader writes with praise for 'Fingertips' review
By Metro Times readers
It takes three
Questions about threesomes, the good, the complicated and the bad.
By Dan Savage
Bonobos, germs and the Kama Sutra
So, you think you know osculation?
By Bret McCabe
It's all Hebrew to me
A scientist blogger, a Jewish music fest, and a 90-year-old synagogue
By Travis R. Wright
Lots of mazel!
Downtown Synagogue celebrates 90 years in Detroit
Book of DAG
David Alan Grier talks shootings in Detroit, his first Jag, and why the old Cass Tech building should go
By Corey Hall
Kaboom
Gregg 'Doom Generation' Araki's lastest yarn sticks to his formula, the old in-out, in-out
The Lincoln Lawyer
Taut, well-made entertainment supported by Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei and Ryan Phillipe
Budrus
Where a nonviolent protest in the Middle East seems like a fantasy
TV dinner
What will talking heads choose as the next great restaurant in the country?
By Jim McFarlin
Limitless
Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro put the 'high' back into 'high concept' and better living through drugs
Paul
Confusing Seth Rogen show has its shiny moments under so much Star Wars referencing
Food Stuff
Berry-growing classes, wine dinners, gardening times and more
By Metro Times editorial staff
Real food
In Ypsi, Beezy's shows just how delicious a sandwich can be
By Evan Hansen
From Belfast to Blackthorn
How Irishman Richard McMullan rambled to Detroit and started his band
When album was king
Joe Boyd and Robyn Hitchcock step back in time to revisit a musical heyday
By Chris Parker
Neighbors - Puros Exitos
That's unusual: Four dudes writing solid songs on guitars, bass, keys and drums
By Michael Ross
Spun
Sure, it's Fred Rogers, but the voice on this LP screams 'John Wayne Gacy' and sample the latest tribute: Detroit bands bow to the Jack and Meg
Over the Rhine - Long Surrender
With new release, Ohio's Over the Rhine earns the right to relax a bit
By Nathan Phillips
True to himself
With a new solo album, a full-time gig and a baby en route, just call him humbled
By Brett Callwood
Motor City Five
United States of Mind leaps on the mic for five shout-outs
Ill beats
Hanging in Hamtown with Brian Gillespie; plus, trash talkin' Movement, and the Detroit Techno Militia in Euros
By Walter Wasacz
Wye Oak - Civilian
This Baltimore duo's third album is straightforward, not slick
SXSW'11: Alex Winston, Third Man Rolling Record Store
By Lee DeVito
SXSW '11: Happy Birthday Danny Brown
By Jonathan Cunningham
SXSW '11: Jon Connor Rolls Deep
Top 5 Shows of SXSW '11
SXSW '11: Dispatch From Austin -- Invincible at Victory Grill
SXSW '11: Michigan Made The Mixtape
SXSW '11: JYoung The General and Red Pill -- "Austin F#%@ing Texas"
SXSW '11: Dispatch From Austin Day 2
SXSW '11+Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill 'Em All + Video
Life on the road
A bit of thievery leaves our correspondent free and easy
By John Sinclair
