25 years ago, a Joe Louis bloodbath helped propel the Detroit Red Wings into a glorious era
Darren McCarty’s gory vengeance on Claude Lemieux is core hockey lore
By Joe Lapointe
Vol. 42, No. 22
A breadless sandwich shop, Camp Cannabis, and an iconic hockey fight: The top 10 Metro Times headlines of the week
Here’s what our readers were interested in this week
By Alex Washington
Tensions flare over Detroit ordinance to provide lower-income tenants with free legal representation
The ordinance is intended to protect tenants from lawless slumlords
By Steve Neavling
NFL announces Detroit will host 2024 NFL Draft
It's “a huge win for Detroiters," Gov. Whitmer says
Stench from Jeep plant in Detroit prompts fourth air quality violation
Residents in the predominantly Black neighborhood filed a civil rights complaint against the state
Oakland Mall’s new owner takes to TikTok to fill vacant storefronts
“We feel like this is one of the sleepiest sites in metro Detroit, and we are going to wake it up,” the 31-year-old developer says
Single-payer healthcare bill to be introduced in Michigan House
The bill faces a difficult path forward as most Republicans and many centrist Democrats don’t want to dismantle the private insurance industry
By Tom Perkins
Michigan groups seek to break stigma around young parenting
Research shows fewer than half of teen mothers get a high school diploma or GED equivalent
By Lily Bohlke, Michigan News Connection
‘Highly pathogenic’ bird flu found in Macomb County, marking second Michigan case since February
The first was detected in a non-commercial backyard flock in Kalamazoo County in February
Michigan GOP House candidate vows to introduce ‘Don’t Say Gay’ legislation if elected
By Andrew Roth, Michigan Advance
Lucido under investigation for alleged sexual harassment at Macomb Co. office
By Laina G. Stebbins, Michigan Advance
Make renewable energy part of the defense budget
Banning Russian oil and gas is the right move, but it comes with a serious cost
By Abdul El-Sayed
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson defended some bad people. Republicans think that should keep her off the Supreme Court.
In defense of public defenders
By Jeffrey C. Billman
Democrats call on AG’s Office to investigate Shelby Township police over handling of protesters
Michigan Supreme Court strikes down lawsuit that claimed GOP bias in state House map
In a 5-2 decision, the court said the lawsuit failed to make a convincing case that the maps didn’t “comply with constitutional requirements”
Early frontrunner John Conyers III announces bid for Congress in Michigan’s new 13th District
The son of the late congressman is at least the ninth candidate
My boyfriend and I have not had sex for more than two years
The options are staying and enduring a sexless existence or staying and having sex with other people
By Dan Savage
Round and round we go
By Tom Tomorrow
Night and day
By Clay Jones
Jenenne Whitfield of Detroit’s Heidelberg Project stepping down
After 28 years, she's now heading to the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore — but will still work with Tyree Guyton
By Lee DeVito
Detroit’s ‘d.Tree Studio’ exhibit transforms dying trees into intricate works of art
The CCS and Charles H. Wright collab takes a stand on climate change and sustainability
By Randiah Camille Green
Friends of the Main Art plans rally to protest demolition of Royal Oak’s long-standing indie theater
The beloved spot could be demolished and turned into housing and commercial space
Motown Museum is seeking new hires, hosting job fair
Available positions include fun-sounding jobs like creative director, education program manager, senior archivist, and tour guides
A Studio 54 icon, a Betty Davis tribute, a fundraiser for Ukraine, and more things to do in Detroit this week
What's going on in metro Detroit this week
By Metro Times editorial staff
48Hours in...Detroit theatre festival returns this weekend with Sunday performance
Local playwrights and actors will have 48 hours to write and perform new work
Former rivals Darren McCarty and Claude Lemieux will relive their infamous 1997 fight at a Royal Oak watch party
Detroit's Secret Society of Twisted Storytellers is back this Friday
The theme of the first storytellers night in two years is "love hurts"
Comedian Bill Maher is heading to Detroit’s Fox Theatre in October
Tickets go on sale on Friday, April 1
Controversial comedian Joe Rogan is coming to Detroit's Fox Theatre in May
The show goes on, despite recent criticism of Rogan's Spotify podcast
The Ann Arbor Hash Bash is officially back in-person this weekend
Attorney General Dana Nessel and pot activist John Sinclair to speak at this year’s gathering
Free Will Astrology (March 23-29)
You will have access to powers that are comparable to the Snake Spirit's in the coming weeks
By Rob Brezsny
Detroit’s Metropolitan Bar & Kitchen is quite the variety store
All the effort at this West Village spot pays off in some outstanding dishes
By Jane Slaughter
Aretha Franklin Amphitheater announces lineup for 2022 Wednesday Jazzy Nights series
Damien Escobar, Gerald Albright, and Incognito are among this summer’s highlights
Men at Work frontman Colin Hay is still at work
The ‘Business as Usual’ hitmaker performs in Royal Oak
By Alan Sculley, Last Word Features
Renovations at Pontiac’s Elektricity venue mix the old with the new
‘It’s kind of like a Moorish-industrial feel,’ the venue’s talent buyer Tom Pattyn says
jessica Care moore’s ‘Daughters of Betty’ jams to a sold-out crowd at Detroit’s Charles H. Wright
The collective formerly known as Black Women Rock is as unapologetic as ever
Nick Waterhouse talks Motown influences ahead of intimate gigs at Detroit’s Willis Show Bar
“The Motown thing was like a perfection of American popular music,” the California-based performer says
Checking in with Detroit emcee Pariis Noel
By Kahn Santori Davison
Hazel Park gets Michigan’s first official cannabis consumption lounge
Hot Box Social plans to open for private events later this month and to the public later in 2022
Allen Iverson visits Michigan to promote line of cannabis products
Hazel Park becomes third Michigan city to decriminalize natural psychedelics
Hazel Park joins the psychedelic revolution
Detroit City Council votes to increase recreational marijuana dispensaries, but new ordinance is delayed again
The cash-strapped city has missed out on more than two years worth of new taxes from the multibillion-dollar industry
Michigan municipalities to get $42.2 million from adult-use marijuana taxes
The payments will help out local government's budgets — but not in Detroit, which still doesn't allow rec weed sales
A new petition to decriminalize natural psychedelics in Michigan is approved to collect signatures
Over 300,000 signatures needed to appear on November ballot
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