Motown revival
Remembering the Marvelettes and the hit factory's beginnings
By Travis R. Wright
Vol. 32, No. 31
Social worker explores dancing and disabilities
By Larry Gabriel
Hamtramck street art marred by graffiti
By Michael Jackman
Detroit Poet in the War Zone: M.L. Liebler Flying Home from the Kabul Beat #7
By ML Liebler
Walking on
Remembering Ethel Schwartz and honoring her legacy
By Curt Guyette
Crash course
Event shows Detroiters that there’s no painless path out of this mess
Letters to the Editor
MT readers have their say
By Metro Times readers
Sentenced to life by Michigan's juvenile injustice system
'Shock doctrine' to a Motown beat: A lefty take on the consent agreement
The Whole truth
That $5 million spent luring Whole Foods drives city’s independent grocers crazy
By Jack Lessenberry
Fifty Shades of annoyance
At 19 years of marriage, novel stirs up her libido, what about his?
By Dan Savage
Downriver vs. Hamtramck!
When performance artists draw, and an H-town art collective’s new space
By Megan O'Neil
Takin' it to the streets
treet art wars rock Hamtramck!
Malcolm X — still controversial
A recent biography stirs debate as the iconic black nationalist is honored in Detroit
By W. Kim Heron
Darling Companion
Who’s a good boy? — Lawrence Kasdan coughs up more boomer frolic
By Corey Hall
Sound of my Voice
Cult and creeps — A slow-simmer and black Legos bestow a sense of foreboding
By Jeff Meyers
Mansome
Fresh balls — Droll commentary on the idea of male pampering
The Dictator
International despot - A satire involving abduction, some torture, rape and terrorist-themed video games
Peaked
Sherilyn Fenn: A sort of homecoming
Battleship
Sinking ship — Plus, Rihanna plays a stoic weapons specialist!
First Position
Grand jeté — Overdriven parents or overachieving children?
Headhunters
Head first - A frolicsome mix of Hitchcock, Elmore Leonard and Coen brothers that's actually good
Food Stuff
The new old R. Hirt Jr., flower day at Eastern Market and more
By Metro Times editorial staff
True east
Empire Dynasty is an outpost of authentic Chinese fare in Farmington Hills
By Jane Slaughter
Ane Brun - It All Starts With One (PIAS America)
Who’d keep pop-folk alive and kicking? This Norwegian would.
By Chris Parker
Advance Base - A Shut-In's Prayer (Orindal Records)
Owen Ashworth’s exquisite, haunting new record trades in estrangement
By Nathan Phillips
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (Audio Fidelity)
What? This record again? But wait: It never sounded better!
By Brian Smith
Cornershop - Urban Turban (Ample Play/Darla)
Eighth LP is packed with pop hooks, dance grooves and hip-hop beats
By Michael Gallucci
Clear Soul Forces' breakout potential
Red Bull doc, debut disc, group chemistry fuel ascent
By Brett Callwood
Rick Springfield - Beginnings (Real Gone/Capitol)
Before the soaps, there was a kid from Australia learning the ropes
Ambulance Chaser ("Wrap Party")
By Jeff Milo
City Slang: Jazz at the Concert of Colors
City Slang: New John Lee Hooker DVD
City Slang: House Shoes Gets All Comfy with New Album
City Slang: Belita Woods memorial information
City Slang: Weekly music review roundup
City Slang: Movement, Nugent, and Mythics
Detroit's Destroy This Place / Chicago's Hospital Garden - split 2 songs
The Sights! Tour Diary! Words & Pictures! Zany! Entry No. 1: Camaraderie
By Eddie Baranek
Sights Tour Diary Entry No. 2: Jerry Sprinter, Meth Spoons, Satan's Helpers, Gun Battles, Budweiser'd Brawn, Tulsa!
The Sights Tour Diary Entry No. 3: Roadside Diner Food Will Pack on the Chub. Meanwhile, while the rhythm section sleeps...
The Sights Tour Diary Entry No. 4: Starring the Love Me Nots in Phx., A Tom Waits Wink in Nasty City, and the Old In-N-Out, In-N-Out
Jack White's 'Freedom At 21'
By Jarrett Koral
Tribute Thursday for Brainstorm & P-Funk singer Belita Woods
Occupy This Blog Post
Clear Moon
City Slang: Jack White aims to break record
Just Beyond My Headphones
Marijuana mea culpa
Last week, we got some stuff wrong — but here’s the straight dope
