Movement Festival returns to Detroit’s Hart Plaza for the first time since 2019, with a sixth stage and new underground layout
The show must go on
By Ashley Zlatopolsky
This year’s Movement Festival features more back-to-back DJ sets than ever
To b2b or not to b2b
By Michaelangelo Matos
Detroit techno pioneer Juan Atkins reflects on 40 years of music
Four decades of techno
Jeff Mills talks about his early beginnings, new music, and mind control
The Wizard returns
By Kahn Santori Davison
Here are a half-dozen local artists to check out at Movement Festival
Motor City Six
By Broccoli
A selection of Movement Festival afterparties and auxiliary events
Keep the party going
By Metro Times editorial staff
Vol. 42, No. 31
A tiny home eviction, a birth control ban, and still paying for Trump: The top 10 Metro Times headlines of the week
Here are the top stories of the week
By Alex Washington
Thirty-five years ago, in a race-based tempest, the Pistons’ ‘Bad Boys’ trash-talked the Boston Celtics’ star
When the Bird got the Worm
By Joe Lapointe
Michigan leaders must confront digital redlining
It takes private investment and responsible corporate action to ensure that all Americans have access to high-speed internet
By Rev. Lafayette Price, Ph.D.
Audio: Mayor Fouts allegedly mocks person with disabilities in latest leaked recording
It’s just the latest audio recording in which Fouts allegedly made racist, sexist, or ageist remarks
By Steve Neavling
Michigan AG joins coalition fighting to protect school admissions policy that promotes diversity
The case could make it more difficult for Michigan schools to increase diversity
It was a good day for progressives — but the waters are getting choppier
John Fetterman and Summer Lee won victories in Pennsylvania, despite opposition from the Democratic Party establishment
By Abdul El-Sayed
America will be stuck with the consequences of Trump for the rest of our lives
Just as he did with the Supreme Court, Trump packed the federal judiciary with often-unqualified ideologues handpicked by the Federalist Society
By Jeffrey C. Billman
Former state Rep. Sherry Gay-Dagnogo takes lead in crowded field of Democrats for 13th Congressional district primary in Michigan
It’s the latest shakeup in a race that could be a nail-biter
New poll spells trouble for Michigan Republicans peddling conspiracy theories and opposing abortion rights
Most voters said they dislike Trump and oppose a ban on abortions
Tlaib, Dingell to speak out about Texas elementary school massacre at candlelight vigil in Detroit
The Democratic lawmakers are calling on gun control measures
Yes, this is about guns
People kill people… with guns
Pro-Israel PAC spends big money in campaign to unseat Tlaib in congressional race
A coalition of Black and Jewish leaders is supporting Rashida Tlaib's opponent, Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey
My laptop is dead, my phone is broken, and my thumbs are bloodied — but I got this week’s column done
Quickies
By Dan Savage
Owned again
By Tom Tomorrow
Trump, thoughts, and Tops
By Clay Jones
Detroit’s newest art gallery isn’t where you might expect to find it
Glass houses
By Lee DeVito
Detroit’s African World Festival returns to Hart Plaza this year
The festival also will be held earlier than usual, on July 15-17
By Randiah Camille Green
‘Benediction’ winds a path through a wartime poet’s radical life
Director and writer Terence Davies finds intimate proximity with the gay writer and soldier Siegfried Sassoon
By George Elkind
Free Will Astrology (May 25-31)
Welcome to Gemini season
By Rob Brezsny
Detroit’s Traffic Jam & Snug restaurant damaged in fire
The cause of the fire is not yet known
Downtown Detroit Plum Market set to reopen
The revamped market is now strictly cashless
At Detroit’s Freya, Chef Doug Hewitt creates a whole new experience
Oftentimes second restaurants can feel like an extension of the first, but not at this fine dining spot from the folks behind Chartreuse
By Tom Perkins
Anita Baker announces Detroit show at Little Caesars Arena on Twitter
The songstress returns to Detroit proper for the first time since 1995
Detroit’s first recreational marijuana license awarded to a brand from Oregon
Isn’t this what we were trying to avoid in the first place?
Michigan U.P.’s Camp Cannabis music fest announces initial lineup with The Floozies, Afroman, Joe Hertler & the Rainbow Seekers, and more
The event is planned for Oct. 7-9 in Marquette’s Tourist Park
