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Image: University of Michigan’s UMS announces 2025-26 season

University of Michigan’s UMS announces 2025-26 season

Rhiannon Giddens, an acclaimed folk musician who recently collaborated with Beyoncé and was named the inaugural U-M artist-in-residence, is among the 50+ artists slated to perform

This Week's Issue

April 16, 2025

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Image: Detroit-area dispensaries celebrate 4/20 with cannabis deals (2)

Detroit-area dispensaries celebrate 4/20 with cannabis deals

By Steve Neavling

Image: If you were in the room with Trump, what would you do? (2)

If you were in the room with Trump, what would you do?

John Lennon and Yoko Ono in New York during the 1970s.

‘One to One: John & Yoko’ keeps the spirit of revolution alive

Things To Do

Today

Image: Techno: The Rise of Detroit’s Machine Music

@ Michigan State University Museum (temporary location) -- Through April 30

Techno: The Rise of Detroit’s Machine Music

Tomorrow

Image: Bill Rauhauser: A Retrospective

@ Coup D’état -- Through May 1, 5-8 p.m.

Bill Rauhauser: A Retrospective

Events

Warp and Weft: Technologies within Textiles

@ The Shepherd

Through May 3, 5-8 p.m.

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News & Views

Image: Macomb County high school vandalized with racist graffiti, prompting outcry over school’s response

Macomb County high school vandalized with racist graffiti, prompting outcry over school’s response

By Steve Neavling

Police respond to an antiwar demonstration at the University of Michigan Museum of Art on May 3.

U-M fires employee, suspends 4 others over pro-Palestinian protest

By Steve Neavling

Former state Sen. Adam Hollier, D-Detroit, is running for a congressional seat held by Shri Thanedar.

Hollier launches third bid against Thanedar for Detroit congressional seat

By Steve Neavling

Image: More than 40 women sue University of Michigan over stolen private images

More than 40 women sue University of Michigan over stolen private images

By Steve Neavling

Arts & Culture

We’re not even going to try to explain the plot of A Minecraft Movie.

‘A Minecraft Movie’ is a cynical cash grab

By Jared Rasic, Last Word Features

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Free Will Astrology (April 9-15)

Carol Teegardin, left, wrote Strawberry — What Party?, a stage play about ex-Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

A play about the rise and fall of a Midwest mayor is back in the spotlight

By Jim McFarlin

Food & Drink

Cava is slated to open at 636 Woodward Ave., Detroit.

Mediterranean restaurant Cava is coming to Detroit

Slows Bar BQ opened in Corktown in 2005.

Detroit’s Slows Bar BQ is expanding to the ’burbs

Drifter Coffee’s original location.

Ferndale’s Drifter Coffee is moving to a bigger building

“Davezempic” sliders from Dave’s Hot Chicken served with a fake medical syringe filled with hot sauce at a recent promotional event.

Dave’s Hot Chicken releases ‘Davezempic’ mini sliders

Music

Jack White and his band performed two sold-out shows at the Masonic Temple on Saturday and Sunday.

Jack White comes home

By Ryan Patrick Hooper

From left to right: Zekkereya El-Magharbel (trombone), Erinn Alexis (baritone saxophone), Jonathan Muir-Cotton (bass), Marcus Elliot (saxophone / bandleader), and Dwight Adams (trumpet).

Marcus Elliot arrives with Big Motifs

By Ryan Patrick Hooper

Trombley, left, and Zacharias spin at Macho City.

Macho City DJs are having ‘Big Fun’ with new dance night

Weed

Image: 8th Street Canna Launches First Store with 420 Street Fest in Hazel Park on April 19

8th Street Canna Launches First Store with 420 Street Fest in Hazel Park on April 19

By Metro Times Promotions

The Gramz Cannabis Outlet in Romeo.

First 24-hour cannabis dispensary to open in metro Detroit

By Steve Neavling

The Cannabis Regulatory Agency proposes a new rule to collect discarded vape cartridges.

Michigan may become one of the first states to recycle cannabis vape cartridges

By Steve Neavling

The group Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior launched a pilot program to collect discarded nicotine vapes.

Michigan’s obsession with disposable vapes is creating a toxic waste crisis

By Steve Neavling

Detroit in Pictures

Freaky Tales This passes the vibe check. A batshit-crazy anthology of interconnected stories (set in 1987 Oakland!!) following a goofily animated green lightning that shapes the fates of several disparate Californians. If you’re like me, this movie has it all: punks vs. Nazis, rap battles, narration by Too $hort, fake cigarette burns to give the film that old-school theatrical texture, a deep love of 1980s Oakland and Bay Area hip-hop culture, a deep obsession with genre movies, the Golden State Warriors, kung-fu, cartoonish violence, Pedro Pascal, sword fights, and so very much more. Filmmakers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck take all the tricks they’ve learned in 20 years as writer-directors (including their toe-dipping into studio blockbusters with 2019’s Captain Marvel) and made what feels like a deeply personal and goofball love letter to their youth and the things that make them happy. It’s not perfect, but what is? At the end of the closing credits, there’s a brief moment where the statement “This movie was made in its entirety by human beings” appears. Just a group of people making a movie about Oakland in the 1980s with sword fights and rap music. Humanity at its best. Freaky Tales Grade: B

April indie movie roundup

By Jared Rasic, Last Word Features

Image: Thousands protest Trump in Detroit as part of nationwide ‘Hands Off!’ rallies [PHOTOS]

Thousands protest Trump in Detroit as part of nationwide ‘Hands Off!’ rallies [PHOTOS]

Image: Everything we saw at Astronomicon 8 in Ypsi [PHOTOS]

Everything we saw at Astronomicon 8 in Ypsi [PHOTOS]

By Josh Justice

Image: All the Detroit Tigers fans we saw on opening day 2025 [PHOTO]

Detroit Tigers fans celebrate opening day 2025 [PHOTOS]

By Mike Pfeiffer and Joe Maroon

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