Forget about those digital ‘immersive’ exhibits — the DIA has the good stuff with upcoming ‘Van Gogh in America’
Will the real Van Gogh please stand up?
By Lee DeVito
Tunde Olaniran combines comic book lore, BDSM gear, and horror in debut film and exhibit ‘Made a Universe’ at Cranbrook
Every experience is ‘a portal that you can walk through into a new reality,’ the Flint-based artist says
By Randiah Camille Green
Detroit muralist Ijania Cortez paints the city neon
In living color
By Alex Washington
Grungy Detroit T-shirt brand reminds wearers to ‘Be The Light’
Brand owner Blight Hernandez talks meditation, homelessness, and coming out as a trans artist
Young Detroit artists turned former Greektown PizzaPapalis into a fashion pop-up and gallery
Fashion-forward
By Amber Ogden
A selection of upcoming fall 2022 art happenings in metro Detroit and beyond
Preview the season with our fall arts guide
By Metro Times editorial staff
Vol. 42, No. 47
Republicans for Whitmer and cop porn: The top 10 Metro Times headlines
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Detroit cop’s suspension for posting porn online is ‘sexist and dramatically puritan,’ activist says
Officer Janelle Zielinski resigned from the force after her superiors discovered an OnlyFans account where she was posting porn
By Steve Neavling
Officials look to ‘fill in the ditch’ that helped displace Black Detroiters with $105M project
The Black Bottom and Paradise Valley neighborhoods were ‘literally bulldozed’
By Ken Coleman, Michigan Advance
Michigan man sentenced to 5 years in prison after posting about being at the Jan. 6 riot on Facebook
‘Was proudest day of my life lol,’ the Southgate man wrote on Facebook, adding that he has ‘absolutely no remorse’
Detroit’s Masonic Temple celebrates 100 years since its first cornerstone was laid — and we still don’t understand what exactly the Freemasons do
The world’s largest Masonic Temple is as mysterious today as it was when it was constructed a century ago
Trump-loving Warren councilman dodges jail time for handcuffing woman over BLM stickers
Councilman Eddie Kabacinski was arrested three times in a little over a year
Detroit is challenging the U.S. Census Bureau’s population estimates in federal lawsuit
The city claims Detroit’s population grew in 2021, a first in seven decades
Jackson, Miss., water crisis has parallels with Flint and Benton Harbor, Michigan leaders and activists say
‘This is racism — environmental racism at its finest’
The last Monarch
Queen Elizabeth II was the most effective monarch in British history because she oversaw its greatest decolonization. The only way to build on her legacy is to end the monarchy she served.
By Abdul El-Sayed
Meet the Michigan clerk who breaks down election law to candidates in viral Twitter threads
Barb Byrum says officials must take on election lies ‘head-on and aggressively’
By Laina G. Stebbins, Michigan Advance
DeSantis’s cruel political stunt in Martha’s Vineyard is a terrifying taste of things to come
The 2024 Republican presidential primary is shaping up to be the Dickhead Olympics
By Jeffrey C. Billman
My BF sent his male friend nudes and says this is ‘something straight guys do’
Police states
By Dan Savage
Our story so far
By Tom Tomorrow
God save the Queen
By Clay Jones
Cedar Point falls out of top five amusement park rankings for first time in more than 20 years
It still notched awards for some of its rides though
By Vince Grzegorek
Influential Detroit artist Aaron Ibn Pori Pitts honored with memorial
Beloved by the community, the artist and activist died in August
Try not to get offended if you attend Tony Rave’s ‘Michael Jesus Crisis’ exhibit in Ferndale
The Detroit artist paints Jesus Christ and angels in blackface, but there’s more to question underneath the surface
The journey to re-establish Ma’iingan Wildwood Trail in Detroit’s Rouge Park and honor Indigenous journalist Etta S. Wilson
With the help of volunteers, Friends of Rouge Park is working to rebuild an underutilized trail with Indigenous roots in the city’s largest park
DIA launches new collection focused on automotive and industrial design
Automotive drawings from Julie Hyde-Edwards were donated for the collection
Michigan-based Lover’s Lane adult store chain spreads into Ohio after acquiring Ambiance
‘We are really looking forward to serving the Ohio marketplace like never before,’ says co-founder Michael Allmond
Detroit’s Belle Isle Nature Center is finally reopening for the first time since March 2020
The center has been closed since March 2020
Noir City film fest brings a world of classic movies to Detroit’s Redford Theatre
More noir: This year’s fest as a return to basics, with double features of films from the 1930s-50s
By George Elkind
New ‘immersive’ exhibit features glittering work of Gustav Klimt in Detroit
The 38-minute show will run concurrently with ‘Immersive Van Gogh,’ which has been extended to Oct. 16
Memorial for renowned Detroit artist Aaron Ibn Pori Pitts planned for Saturday
Declared by Metro Times to be ‘Artist of the Year’ in 2007, Pitts was a pillar of the community
You can catch free Model T rides this Sunday at the historic Ford Piquette Avenue Plant Museum
The anniversary of the revolutionary car coincides with the new North American Detroit Auto Show — and the final days of summer
Michigan drag queens enlisted to help get Michiganders to the polls in virtual event
‘Drag Out the Vote’ aims to engage more young people, women, and low-income voters in midterm elections
Detroit fashion designer competes on Season 2 of HBO’s streetwear competition ‘The Hype’
(A)lex(Z)ander the great
By Kahn Santori Davison
Free Will Astrology (Sept. 14-20)
What do the stars have in store for you this week?
By Rob Brezsny
Mai Tiki ‘speakeasy’-style bar opens in former office space in Ferndale’s Tigerlily restaurant
The tiki-themed bar serves up Rum Runners, Zombies, Painkillers, and other classics starting Wednesday
Mobile ice cream parlor Bombshell Treat Bar lands Somerset Collection residency
The pop-up will serve up hand-dipped ice cream in Neiman Marcus
High-flying Highlands is worthy of Detroit’s best restaurant space
The prix fixe menu served up by the latest tenant at the top of the RenCen is rich, but you don’t need to be to try it
By Tom Perkins
PJ’s Lager House announces final ‘End of an Era’ show, invites supporters to leave their mark on the Corktown bar
Owner PJ Ryder wants fans who helped the rock ’n’ roll bar weather the pandemic to sign guitar picks to be lacquered onto the bar top
How Americana act Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band weathered the pandemic to make its best record yet
COVID-19 blues
By Alan Sculley, Last Word Features
The Black Dahlia Murder pushes forward after vocalist Trevor Strnad's death, announces Detroit gig
The band will play Saint Andrew’s Hall Oct. 28 with founding member Brian Eschbach now at the helm
Greenhouse of Walled Lake amps up dispensary experience with fresh coffee and doughnuts
‘It’s a whole new wake and bake,’ owner Jerry Millen says
New study suggests people who smoke weed are no more lazy or apathetic than those who don’t
The peer-reviewed study surveyed 274 adults and teens who regularly used cannabis and compared them with non-users of the same age and gender
By Sanford Nowlin, San Antonio Current
White House signals that Biden won’t make cannabis reform announcement before midterms
Progressive Democrats have pushed Biden to address cannabis reform as they struggle to pick up momentum on decriminalization in Congress
You can meet Cheech and smoke his 'Stash' this weekend
One-half of the stoner comedy duo Cheech and Chong will be in Sturgis for the launch of his latest cannabis product
Michigan drug overdose deaths among the highest in nation, according to report
The state ranked No. 10 in a review of overdose deaths between 2013-2020
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