Community organizers challenged Bedrock’s latest Hudson’s site tax break in Detroit — and nearly won
Making Goliath stumble
By Eli Day
Vol. 42, No. 42
Cheech and Chong in a bong: The top 10 Metro Times headlines
Here’s what our readers were interested in this week
By Alex Washington
Libraries like Detroit’s need our support now, more than ever
As Detroit Public Library gradually opens branches for the first time since March 2020, it’s important that we support them
By Monica Williams
Striking workers at Great Lakes Coffee withdraw from union effort as company closes stores
After a bitter battle to unionize, baristas are forced to move on
By Steve Neavling
Ex-Detroit cop will serve probation for killing attorney Cliff Woodards in a car crash
The officer sped through a red light and slammed into Woodard's car
Michigan officials want you to kill this polka-dotted insect
The invasive spotted lanternfly is spreading across the U.S.
By Lee DeVito
As Michiganders struggle to afford health care, leaders push lawmakers to act
By Anna Gustafson, Michigan Advance
Donations keep Michigan library afloat after conservative backlash over LGBTQ book
A conservative town defunded its library, but donors keep it alive
The Inflation Reduction Act offers the single biggest investment in climate in U.S. history… and that’s a sad comment on our politics
We CAN do medium-sized things
By Abdul El-Sayed
Chaos and infighting break out in Michigan’s Macomb County Republican Party
Republicans are clashing over control of the local GOP, holding competing conventions
Conspiracy theorist Mellissa Carone won’t shut up, so a Republican clerk sued her
The lawsuit marks the latest clash between Michigan Republicans who are turning on themselves before the general election
The Republicans are weaponizing Trump’s latest scandal — as usual
There’s a lot we still don’t know about the FBI investigation of Trump. That hasn’t stopped conservative media from weighing in.
By Jeffrey C. Billman
I like being choked during sex — is that dangerous?
Choke hold
By Dan Savage
To boldly go...
By Clay Jones
The strategists
By Tom Tomorrow
Leave it to Dominique Morisseau to make us cry (again) with Motown musical ‘Ain’t Too Proud’
Broadway musical about the Temptations gets proper Detroit homecoming with appearances by Otis Williams and Shelly Berger
By Randiah Camille Green
Here’s where to find smartphone-enhanced animated works during Michigan’s Augmented Reality Mural Festival
Interactive art by 13 artists will be spread across Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Battle Creek in second annual event
Dan Savage's HUMP! Film Festival is bringing alternative porn to Ann Arbor this September
And we're not talking that boring, vanilla stuff. Think bondage, furries, and sex toys gone wrong.
‘Daron, Daron Colbert’ spotlights Delray actor and his Detroit neighborhood
The 13-minute film is set in Southwest Detroit and is screening in this year’s Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland
By George Elkind
You can tour Detroit’s neighborhoods by bike for a good cause — to help people experiencing homelessness
The NSO Handlebars for the Homeless Bicycle Tour returns Sunday for the first time since 2019
Freedom Arts Festival to celebrate ‘Detroit’s other Rosa Parks’
Activist Sarah E. Ray gets her due with day of dance, music, and spoken word performances in next installment of summer arts series
If you don’t like cars, stay away from Woodward Avenue this weekend
The Woodward Dream Cruise is back
Big Sean reminds us why he’s the ‘Don’ with return of fourth annual Detroit block party
This year’s DON Weekend is set for Aug. 25-27 with a family-friendly carnival, panel discussion, and film screening
Detroit native Chanté Adams talks starring in new adaptation of ‘A League of Their Own’
Inspired by real Black women baseball players, the Amazon Prime Video series expands on the themes of the original feminist movie
By Biba Adams
Free Will Astrology (Aug. 10-16)
What do the stars have in store for you this week?
By Rob Brezsny
Hamtramck’s Dos Locos Tacos to expand into former New Martha Washington Bakery space
Goodbye paczki, hello (more) tacos
Dearborn’s Aliz Seafood House is a great catch
Dishes come from Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf states
By Jane Slaughter
Rock band Dispatch uses the pandemic pause to retool
The band performs with O.A.R. at the Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill
By Alan Sculley, Last Word Features
The Hamtramck Music Festival brings four days of music and dozens of artists
Here’s your chance to catch local artists before some of them inevitably blow up
Charivari Detroit returns to Historic Fort Wayne this week
This annual techno, dance, and house fest celebrates Detroit’s contributions to the electronic music world by featuring local DJs
Detroit’s Ribs and R&B Music Festival comes to Hart Plaza
The fest will feature some of the best in barbecue with more than 20 food vendors
R&B sensation Summer Walker makes Detroit stop on limited tour
Her sophomore record continues in that vein with more songs of love and heartbreak with a throwback sound, with an added layer of intrigue
Jack White drummer Daru Jones on hip-hop, rock ’n’ roll, and filling Meg’s shoes
Jones has been working with White since the beginning of his solo career a decade ago — making him one of White’s most consistent collaborators
Cheech and Chong’s Cannabis Company launches in Michigan
The stoner comedy duo’s products are available at Nature’s Medicines dispensaries
Where to score NBA Hall of Famer Chris Webber’s weed brand in metro Detroit
The former Detroit Piston’s Players Only brand launched at select Michigan dispensaries
Fight over Detroit’s recreational marijuana ordinance gets messier
‘Where’s the weed? It’s not in Detroit,’ a supporter of a new ordinance says
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