Michigan’s booming cannabis industry helps burned-out workers to turn over a new leaf
Meet the people growing Wonderbrett weed in Kalamazoo, one of the state’s newest grow facilities
By Randiah Camille Green
‘Spark in the Park’ voted down, but still plans to hold home-grown pot-infused music fest in metro Detroit
Hazel Park voted down the festival on Tuesday, but organizers say they will hold it in a different city
By Lee DeVito
Michigan has its first official cannabis consumption lounge. More are coming.
An end to couch-lock
Detroit’s late arrival to the recreational marijuana industry spells trouble
Late bloomer
By Steve Neavling
The 4/20 issue
Our favorite holiday is here
By Metro Times editorial staff
Welcome to the Copper House, a bud and breakfast and community center in Detroit
The space bills itself as cannabis-friendly and a safe haven for LGBTQ+ folks
By Alex Washington
Vol. 42, No. 25
Cannabis and coney dog pasties: The top 10 Metro Times headlines of the week
Here's what our readers clicked on the most
Detroit illegally overtaxed homeowners $600M. They’re still waiting to be compensated.
An estimated 100,000 Detoiters lost their home to foreclosures because of over-assessments
When rookie Jackie Robinson came to Detroit in 1947
A small story about a great man at the peak of his fame
By Gary Gillette
Demolition set to begin this week on toxic industrial site that oozed toxic slime in metro Detroit
The green slime was groundwater contaminated with cancer-causing hexavalent chromium
Report: Mobile health clinics reach vulnerable Michigan communities
What began as testing sites in the early days of COVID-19 over time transitioned to a "vision of patient-centric, portable population health"
By Lily Bohlke, Michigan News Connection
Division, disarray mark Macomb County GOP convention
Party ousts chair amid turmoil, delegates chosen for April 23 state convention
By Laina G. Stebbins, Michigan Advance
Ann Arbor among cities making strong climate commitments
Ann Arbor is committed to achieving community-wide carbon-neutrality by 2030
Soldano floats conspiracy theory that Whitmer staged kidnapping plot to influence 2020 election
Soldano is one of 12 Republicans hoping to challenge Whitmer in the 2022 election.
By Andrew Roth, Michigan Advance
Michigan lawmaker, credit unions: Youth need financial education
A bill before the Michigan Legislature would bring financial education into the state's public schools
‘There is no question what killed this young man,’ says renowned forensic pathologist of Patrick Lyoya, Black man shot by Grand Rapids cop
Results of independent autopsy revealed in Detroit
The GOP’s attack on LGBTQ+ issues in schools is a natural follow-up to the critical race theory bogeyman
It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world
By Jeffrey C. Billman
Medicare for All is on the come up
Not only did the pandemic demonstrate how broken our healthcare system is, but it made it worse
By Abdul El-Sayed
U.S. Rep. Tlaib says she’s improving after testing positive for COVID-19
Tlaib is the latest Michigan politician to get infected with the coronavirus
White nationalism resurgence continues to shift and shape Michigan, U.S. politics
Experts say fringe ideas and racist, misogynistic speech are now mainstream
Democratic senators call on GOP leaders to censure Bizon for assaulting nurse
Bizon was sentenced to a year of probation for inappropriately touching a health care worker
Michigan GOP Senator condemned for falsely claiming Dems want to ‘groom and sexualize kindergartners’
Sen. Theis sounded like a QAnon nut in her diatribe about Democrats
How worried should I be about a gonorrhea outbreak at a sex party?
Clap back
By Dan Savage
Doing his own research
By Tom Tomorrow
Win some, lose some
By Clay Jones
Detroit’s jessica Care moore gets shoutout from Oprah for poem about Ketanji Brown Jackson
The Detroit native is overjoyed to be recognized by one of her longtime idols
Royal Oak's Main Art Theatre is one step closer to being demolished
Royal Oak Planning Commission approves proposal to turn the theater into housing and retail
David Lynch’s newly restored ‘Inland Empire’ still conjures a feeling like nothing else
Feel the Dern
By George Elkind
'You Won't Be Alone' is a gory, gorgeous feminist folktale
Bewitching horror
By Eileen G'Sell
The old Detroit Central Market gets revived, an adult Easter egg hunt, stoner metal in Hamtramck, and more things to do
Select events happening in metro Detroit
Free Will Astrology (April 13-19)
What do the stars have in store for you this week?
By Rob Brezsny
Saffron De Twah and Baobab Fare are offering a limited iftar meal this weekend
You can break the Ramadan fast with a special pairing by these two Detroit restaurants
Hamtramck staple New Martha Washington Bakery is permanently closed
The family-run business and paczki pitstop shuts down after nearly 50 years
Celebration of life planned for Detroit BBQ Company founder Tim Idzikowski, dead at 36
Idzikowski started a popular food truck after honing his craft selling ribs at farmers markets for beer money
Detroit Shipping Co. to host Cass Corridor cleanup for Earth Day
The food hall is seeking volunteers for the neighborhood cleanup
Bon Appetit introduces Ypsilanti to Guinean cuisine
Husband-wife Kenisha Warford-Diallo and Ismael Diallo opened the restaurant in the former Golden Wall space on Cross Street
By Tom Perkins
Wu-Tang Clan and Nas announce NY State of Mind Tour with stop at Pine Knob
The hip-hop icons are coming to Michigan in September
Blues rock guitarist Davy Knowles to perform at Westland's Token Lounge
By Bill Forman
Detroit fan ‘fuming’ after accidentally buying tickets for Red Hot Chili Peppers cover band, Red NOT Chili Peppers
The longstanding funk rock band is coming to metro Detroit, but not the tiny Magic Bag
Lume Cannabis Co. sues the Village of Pinckney for denying its marijuana license — and loses
Despite over 30 dispensaries statewide, Lume sued the small town for denying its license for another
Macomb County community opposes cannabis dispensary’s parking plans
The plot against the ‘pot lot’
By Joe Lapointe
Dispensary? Provisioning center? Making sense of terms for Michigan’s cannabis stores
In Michigan, a number of terms for pot shops are bandied around
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