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The 2022 Fiction Issue

Metro Detroit writers and artists take on the theme ‘Conjuring Future Visions’ and meditate on what lies ahead, guest edited by Nandi Comer and deputy editor Zig Zag Claybourne

By Nandi Comer

May 18, 2022

May 18-24, 2022

Vol. 42, No. 30

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Civil war training, a floating bar, and a new ax-throwing facility: The top 10 Metro Times headlines of the week

Here's what our readers were interested in this week

By Alex Washington
May 20, 2022
Metro Detroit

MoGo celebrates 5th anniversary with free bike rides

The bikeshare company will host special events throughout May

By Alex Washington
May 18, 2022
Metro Detroit

Good riddance to the Grand Prix on Detroit’s Belle Isle

The geniuses who oversee Detroit’s island gem clearly can only parse the word ‘park’ to mean a place to put cars

By Michael Betzold
May 18, 2022
Metro Detroit

Finally, the Detroit People Mover is back after a two year hiatus

The People Mover resumed service Friday with fewer stops and free rides until Aug. 18

By Randiah Camille Green
May 20, 2022
Metro Detroit

Michigan private school apologizes for assignment that compares Obama to monkeys

The Roeper School in Birmingham called the incident ‘a disturbing racial offense’

By Lee DeVito
May 20, 2022
Metro Detroit

How promise of homeownership in Detroit turned to an eviction and defamation lawsuit

Tiny homes, big dreams

By Steve Neavling
May 22, 2022
Metro Detroit

Federal lawsuit filed against Oxford High School on behalf of six victims of mass shooting

The lawsuit alleges school officials failed to follow a policy on handling suicidal students

By Steve Neavling
May 23, 2022
Metro Detroit

PETA president: Barack Obama *is* a primate. Here’s why that’s important.

The letter is in response to news that a Michigan private school gave students an assignment asking them to identify primates, with the former U.S. President included

By Lee DeVito
May 24, 2022
Michigan

Report says hundreds of state legislators have joined far-right Facebook groups

That includes 27 Michigan lawmakers, per the study

By Kira Lerner, Michigan Advance
May 19, 2022
Michigan

Report: DePerno met with Trump State Dept. official on Jan. 6, 2021

By Laina G. Stebbins, Michigan Advance
May 19, 2022
Michigan

Michigan Supreme Court will take up Whitmer’s abortion suit, but has questions

By Allison Donahue, Michigan Advance
May 23, 2022
Michigan

Under fire from Congress, FDA chief says baby formula shortage will improve soon

By Jennifer Shutt, Michigan Advance
May 23, 2022
Michigan

Michigan GOP House candidate says birth control should be banned, blasts sex outside marriage

Eubanks claims abortion and gay marriage are ‘outside the Christian moral order’

By Jon King, Michigan Advance
May 23, 2022
Politics & Elections

Critical Race Theory isn’t the problem. The Great Replacement Theory is.

While the GOP has invented panics about CRT, the racist ideology they helped mainstream inspired the Buffalo massacre

By Jeffrey C. Billman
May 18, 2022
Politics & Elections

My testimony to the Senate Budget Committee on Medicare for All

Last week I found myself on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

By Abdul El-Sayed
May 18, 2022
Politics & Elections

Sen. Betty Alexander, election conspiracy theorist Mellissa Carone among 15 candidates booted from the ballot

Eleven candidates were accused of making false statements about their compliance with campaign finance requirements

By Steve Neavling
May 18, 2022
Politics & Elections

Senate bills call for ending state’s nearly decade-long oversight of Detroit

Detroiters ‘deserve to have the city back in control of the people they voted for,’ senator says

By Steve Neavling
May 18, 2022
Politics & Elections

Michigan congressional candidate Carl Marlinga may be a Democrat, but his favorite Supreme Court justices are uncompromising conservatives

With abortion rights in jeopardy, the Democratic frontrunner aligned himself with GOP-appointed justices

By Steve Neavling
May 19, 2022
Politics & Elections

Five GOP gubernatorial candidates could be knocked off the ballot because of fraudulent signatures

The Michigan Bureau of Election said it found an unprecedented number of fraud

By Steve Neavling
May 24, 2022
Savage Love

Are some people incapable of being physical when love is involved?

Freyed nerves

By Dan Savage
May 18, 2022
Comics

Goofball and Galahad

By Tom Tomorrow
May 18, 2022
Comics

Tucker's killer

By Clay Jones
May 18, 2022

Arts

Scott Hocking sculpture headed for Detroit’s Huntington Place

‘The Citadel’ will be unveiled in the convention center's public art collection by late summer

By Randiah Camille Green
May 18, 2022
Culture

The Motown Witch talks upcoming Detroit Hoodoo Festival and the contradictory nature of magic

Yvette Wyatt opened her bewitching shop in 2021 after a 30-year career as a legal secretary

By Randiah Camille Green
May 18, 2022
Culture

Detroit’s Michigan Science Center will reopen its IMAX Theatre

The museum has been closed for nearly a year due to flooding

By Lee DeVito
May 19, 2022
Culture

A new curling and ax-throwing facility is opening in Novi

The HUB Stadium will also include a restaurant and bar

By Lee DeVito
May 19, 2022
Movies

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is only so bold

The sequel is largely drained of voice, subversion, or personality in its direction even as it makes space for its many performers to shine through

By George Elkind
May 23, 2022
Things to Do

The Detroit Women of Comedy Festival brings laughs to Hamtramck

Staff pick

By Alex Washington
May 18, 2022
Horoscopes

Free Will Astrology (May 18-24)

You now have the right and duty to boost your self-worth, Taurus

By Rob Brezsny
May 18, 2022

Drink News

Inspired by a trip to Scotland, Drexel Spirits is crafting whiskey in a former bank in Detroit

The spirit of Detroit

By Mickey Lyons
May 19, 2022
Drink News

Detroit’s former Urban Bean Co. coffee shop rebrands as SPKR BOX bar — but keeps love of techno and espresso

A caffeine boost

By Lee DeVito
May 21, 2022
Food News

Grosse Pointe Park’s Sprout House sold to WDET’s Lisa Brancato and Ann Delisi

Blake and Marie Maconochie had owned the 40-plus-year-old business since 2002

By Lee DeVito
May 24, 2022
Restaurant reviews

Ferndale favorite Public House retools with vegan menu and revamped patio

This Nine Mile spot reopened last year under new ownership, with more hits than misses

By Jane Slaughter
May 18, 2022

Music News

Flying Lotus pulls out of Detroit’s 2022 Movement Festival to attend sister’s wedding

The artist’s Movement set was eventually rescheduled for Monday

By Randiah Camille Green
May 18, 2022
Music News

Russian DJ Nina Kraviz is no longer performing at Detroit’s Movement Festival

The artist had faced calls for her removal due to alleged ‘pro-Putin’ social media posts, but a publicist said they were taken out of context

By Lee DeVito
May 19, 2022
Music News

Ghost-Note, James Carter to headline Detroit’s Jazzin’ at the Vanity festival

Lineup for the Juneteenth weekend festival also includes Tosha Owens and jessica Care Moore

By Randiah Camille Green
May 25, 2022

Canna-Business

Method Man’s weed brand TICAL is now available in Michigan

TICAL’s ‘Sweet Island Skunk’ pre-rolls land at select Black-owned dispensaries

By Randiah Camille Green
May 19, 2022
Canna-Business

Kalkushka Cannabis Lounge set to open to the public

Guests can BYOB (bring your own bud) or receive a discount for products purchased at The Botanical Co.

By Lee DeVito
May 24, 2022

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The Fiction Issue

The 2022 Fiction Issue

Metro Detroit writers and artists take on the theme ‘Conjuring Future Visions’ and meditate on what lies ahead, guest edited by Nandi Comer and deputy editor Zig Zag Claybourne

By Nandi Comer
May 18, 2022

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