The Music Issue 2012
This year, we look at a handful of the artists who represent Detroit music's promising future
By Metro Times editorial staff
Vol. 33, No. 4
Shea’s Lounge: My year in medical muddle
By Dennis Shea
Letters to the Editor
Comments range from socialism to our redesign
By Metro Times readers
A survivor's song
Shahida Nurullah a symbol of beating adversity with grace intact
By Larry Gabriel
The morning after
Now that the election's over, heed calls to reform the next one
By Curt Guyette
The problems that remain
From Detroit to across the nation, there is much to be done
By Jack Lessenberry
Hurricane Sandy's wake-up call
Climate chaos rears its head even as pols look away
Bored by blow jobs
I want more than hit-and-run oral from my new friend
By Dan Savage
Detroit Beer Festival 2012
By MT Admin
No show
Without a ride to gigs, one Detroiter's puppet show remains obscure
By Detroitblogger John
Skyfall
Bond reborn — New creative team makes a hero anew — and relevant
By Jeff Meyers
The Loneliest Planet
Unhappy campers —It's what's left unsaid in director Julia Loktev's latest
Smashed
Seeing double — Modest 12-step drama shows the hard road to recovery
The good life
Magdaleno Italiano offers Downriver low prices, big portions and high quality
By Jane Slaughter
Upper crusts 3
Pizza is an American classic. This is our third and final installment of listings of prime places to slice into.
Gestalt-country
Songwriters collaborate to become greater than the sum of their parts
By Brett Callwood and Doug Coombe
City Slang: Weekly music review roundup
By Brett Callwood
City Slang: Savage Grace man sings opera
City Slang: Boldy James at clothing launch
City Slang: Sheefy McFly’s Air Up There
City Slang: Battlecross to tour
City Slang: ICP get chainsaw crazy
Dial.81~Luminous Stasis
By Jeff Milo
Preposterous!
City Slang: Todd’s reunion
At Willoughby (11.17.12)
All about the song
Ashaki Zeigler's winning way
By Charles L. Latimer
Kickstand & deliver
Like the Cramps and the Beach Boys trashed on Boone's Farm
‘Beyond the blasé'
Jamaican Queens' rap-pop-alien hybrid
Rhythm king
Karriem Riggins has a record under his own name — at last
By Jonathan Cunningham
Rock 'n' roll chaos
How Bars of Gold got its ‘heartbeat'
Rituals & celebrations
Talking with the visual and auditory freedom fighters of the Black Opera
By Doug Coombe
Fifth Beatles
Two of Detroit's hottest producers explain their art
