UPDATED: Black Sabbath (with Iommi, Butler and Osbourne) to play the Palace Feb. 19, and (new date!) DTE on Aug. 31
Sabbath added a new date to the very end of their “The End” tour — they’ll now be at DTE on August 31, 2016. Tickets will go on sale this Sat., Oct. 31.
Michigan cities top list of best sports towns in new report
We had a hunch that Michigan had some of the top sports towns in the nation, and now we have proof.
Just announced: Big Freedia brings ‘Bounce Shakedown’ tour to the Shelter on Nov. 7
Tickets for this show by New Orleans’ queen of bounce go on sale this Friday, Sept. 11 at 10 a.m. They are $20 in advance, $23 day of show.
The New York Times Style Magazine looks at ‘Detroit Food City’
A piece from the New York Times that doesn’t make us angry? Whut?
Nicole Macdonald continues to honor Detroiters with new series
After the exhibition ends in a month, the paintings will be installed in the boarded up windows of the liquor store on the corner of Trumbull Ave. and the I-94 service drive in Detroit’s Woodbridge neighborhood.
Unusual books and ephemera fill Ann Arbor seller Garrett Scott’s latest online catalog, ‘Verify the Truth’
If you love weird old books and have a bit of disposable income, we highly recommend getting lost in some of area seller Scott’s listings and catalogs of unusual printed books and ephemera, much of it from the 19th century and earlier.
A report from yesterday’s Hamtramck Yacht Club Canoe Races
A streetside view from Hamtramck’s “canoe races” yesterday.
Meek Mill and DeJ Loaf respond to death of rapper Dex Osama
According to the club’s security footage, Osama was shot outside the club as he ran to a nearby gas station.
Check out this rare footage of the MC5 in a Paris club in 1972
The tape is blurry, distorts and cuts out periodically, was shot in black and white, and is very poorly lit. But it’s super riveting!
Michigan indie rock act 800beloved to play Milford’s new outdoor ampitheater
It’s perhaps a strange venue for Lynch’s band — better known for tracks with titles like “Show Me Evil” — but then again, 800beloved has always had kind of a melodramatic after-school special quality to their music.
Olga’s One Campus Martius location shutters abruptly Friday
Olga’s Kitchen quietly says goodbye to downtown.
Riding the bus with Gary Winslow: A lesson
Feeling a bit grumpy, Gary dismisses an old man, who then graciously gives him the gift of forgiveness.
Could ‘White Boy’ Rick go free?
Could “White Boy” Rick go free next week?
Coming to Cranbrook Nov. 21: ‘3-D installation’ of Lou Reed’s 1975 feedback masterpiece ‘Metal Machine Music’
Cranbrook Art Museum will present an audio installation called “Metal Machine Trio,” which presents ‘Metal Machine Music’ as an ambisonic 3-D re-creation.
I can’t stop listening to Chrissy Zebby Tembo and Ngozi Family’s 1974 killer ‘Zamrock’ album ‘My Ancestors’
We’re posting this classic 1974 Zambian heavy rock album here for you, because you might like it as much as we do.
Ypsi visitor’s bureau member alleges ‘backroom’ dealings
Convention bureau kerfuffle highlights class divides in eastern Washtenaw County.
The DIA wants you to build an ofrenda
Traditionally, ofrendas pay homage to deceased loved ones — but the DIA gives artists a chance to use the folk art form to get conceptual.
Cuz all the bros need a spot to make their fantasy football draft picks
Make your fantasy football picks in style.
Bottom’s up with new fall cocktails at The Oakland
Because, for some of us, pumpkin-spiced lattes are not the best part about fall.
Legal blogger: Affordability plan for Detroit water doesn’t violate state law
Legal scholar says state law doesn’t forbid affordability plans for Detroit’s water customers. And, no, this isn’t about free water.
TBT: Reel-to-reel DJ performance from 1991 by ‘Mr. Tape from Latvia’
“They’ve adapted two tape recorders; can’t get records like we can get them in Latvia. So they record off radio stations, and things like that.”
Watch out for road closures during the Detroit Jazz Fest
With the Detroit Jazz Fest imminent, downtown drivers should be mindful to avoid Campus Martius, all of the connecting streets to the park are now closed.
Heads-up: The ‘Orbit’ anthology is out now
Yes, the book has juicy details about feuds with rival Metro Times.
Watch: Ronald McDonald hustles his Nae-Nae at a Detroit McDonald’s
Ronald McDonald can do the Nae-Nae. Can you?
See Loveland’s brand-new ‘Detroit: After the Fire’
Now, at a glance, you can see where fires are occurring in Detroit, and how severe they were.
The Peoples Records on Woodward has closed; all those records at the Gratiot/ MAHS spot now
Mountains of great records have moved in the last few weeks, from the old spot on Woodward up to the MAHS Museum location at 1460 Gratiot, right next door to Trinosophes.
Detroit Restaurant Week lineup announced today
El Barzón, Chartreuse, others to join Restaurant Week lineup.
This Detroit student’s response to bad adult behavior is perfect
If this girl represents the next generation, we may very well be in good hands.
Cinema Detroit to move to new location at the end of September
The husband-and-wife-operated first-run art house will move to the Furniture Factory starting Oct. 1.
A Livonia woman is selling her cheating ex-boyfriend’s Batmobile Nitro on Craigslist
Love hurts. Especially when it involves a Batman-loving cheating ex-boyfriend. That’s why one Livonia woman is getting rid of a pimped out Batmobile Nitro she bought for her former beau. “If you are a Batman freak, this is the Batmobile for you,” the Craigslist posting says. Tricked out Nitro, Batman style. Matte black paint job,…
ICYMI: Thoreau’s dream house available for rent (in Detroit)
This Craigslist ad was either written by a charming satirist from their Midtown apartment or by a real estate agent writing the architectural spin of the century.
Show preview: Sweeping video art survey opens in East Lansing at MSU next month
‘Moving Time: Video Art at 50, 1965–2015’ at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University looks to be a great show of rarely seen work.
Feedback: PETA blasts pigeon racing
Think of the pigeons Last week, Michael Jackman dove into the world of metro Detroit’s pigeon-racing scene (“In the face of race bans, dwindling membership, and a low, low profile, metro Detroit’s pigeon racers struggle to keep the sport flying,” Aug. 26). Jennifer O’Connor, a writer at PETA, wrote in to highlight the dark side…
Horoscopes (Sept. 2 – 8)
This week’s Horoscopes are coming out under the light of an Aries Moon, on the Eve of Sept. 1st. According to the prophets and the soothsayers the next 30 days are supposed to be one hell of a time. Many have said that we’re not going to make it through the gauntlet, and that by…
Politics & Prejudices: Standing up for cities
Dan Kildee, the congressman from Flint, cares, really cares about cities, especially older industrial ones like his hometown. “Detroit gets all the attention,” but smaller cities are hurting too, he told me last month in his office in Flint, the city where he’s lived since he was born in 1958. For the past five years,…
Carla Bley conducts the Charlie Haden Jazz Liberation Music Orchestra at the Detroit Jazz Festival
Carla Bley is legendary as not only a pianist and bandleader who’s played with everyone under the sun, but also as a composer and arranger for bands ranging from duos to big bands and orchestras. Crucially, she was there for many pivotal moments in music history over the last 50-plus years. Bley performs at the…
More Michigan festivals throughout the year
Sat., August 22- Sun., October 4 The Michigan Renaissance Festival @ The Village of Hollygrove Do what your mother told you not to do: Devour a Turkey leg, throw knives and drink mead simultaneous. Buy a suit of armor, a longsword and a halberd. If armor’s not your thing, experience the medieval reality of class division…
Republica is a family-run Berkley mainstay
Republica opened its doors in the fall of 2013 with an ambitious menu that featured dynamic flavors and fresh ingredients frequently sourced from local vendors. Owner Petro Drakopoulos referred to it as a “food revolution” and the mantra stuck with the little gastropub, which has now become a Berkley mainstay and a dining destination for…
Mark your calendar today for these upcoming shows
Tickets are now on sale for these events. Sept. 24, Atlas Genius at the Magic Bag; themagicbag.com; $20 in advance, $25 day of show. Oct. 21, Nero at Royal Oak Music Theatre; royaloakmusictheatre.com; $29 in advance, $35 day of show. Oct. 30, Steve Gunn, James Elkington, and Nathan Salsburg at Marble Bar; brownpapertickets.com; Tickets are…
Higher Ground: Let’s do the time warp again
Actress Susan Sarandon recently tweeted a message to rappers A$AP Rocky and Action Bronson, saying, “thx for the shout out on ‘1Train.’ Not sure what it means, but let’s blaze one & talk about it some time.” It comes as no surprise that Sarandon, or Rocky and Bronson would want to blaze one. Sarandon has…
Carhartt launches Detroit flagship store
Carhartt — a family-owned workwear brand founded in 1889 and currently based in Dearborn — opened its first Detroit flagship store in the trendy Cass Corridor last week. Its choice of location in a long-abandoned building on the outskirts of Wayne State University’s campus posed an interesting question: Is Carhartt targeting its wares to the…
Drink Up
Coney Island Brewing/ Hard Root Beer 5.8% ABV Coney Island Brewing Co. puts a welcome twist on an old favorite with their Hard Root Beer, the latest trend in craft beer that no one can seem to get enough of this summer. Hard Root Beer is brewed like a beer, but with the added flavors…
Soul survivor: Motor City Soul Food
In jail, there’s not a lot to do or eat. That leaves a lot of time for talking, and empty bellies dictate the topic of conversation — food. Deep dish or thin crust? Who in town stacks the tallest Reuben? Who in the cell block dazzles behind a smoker? Who can suck down the most…
Welcome to the 2015 Festival Guide
All summer long, Michigan turns into a playground for its residents. On water and land, from Detroit to the dunes and beyond, we hit the cabins and the canoes, go hiking and biking, and ramble around on both peninsulas. Autumn, however, usually finds us back on our home turf, ready to reap a fall harvest…
Brewers Guild Fall Beer Fest offers more than 700 reasons to raise your glass
If you can’t decide what to do for Oktoberfest, look no further. Experience the biggest local beer flight of your life at the Brewers Guild Fall Beer Festival at Eastern Market, the seventh annual event. With admission, you get 15 tokens worth 3 ounces of beer each to go beer crazy with. That is 45…
Brighton’s mix of barbecue and music turns 10
Barbecue and blues are Americana manifest. Not tied down to antique shops, these traditional art forms will remain relevant and unmoved through any century and Michigan has access to a deep pool of talent for each. Brighton’s Smokin’ Jazz and Barbecue Blues Festival is in its 10th year, with an exquisite lineup of live acts…
Cass Corridor’s annual Dally in the Alley lives on
Dally in the Alley calls itself the “free annual celebration of art, music, and life in the Cass Corridor.” It’s unique among street festivals for a number of reasons. For one thing, it’s 100 percent volunteer organized, and has never had any corporate sponsors. Impressively in its 38th year, Dally is a self-sustaining festival run…
Detroit Design Fest draws region’s creative forces
The Detroit Design Festival returns for its fifth year of celebrating Detroit’s “Creative Corridor” — that is, the network of designers, builders, innovators, and other creators that drive the Motor City’s industrial design scene. Headed by the Detroit Creative Corridor Center, the event will once again bring exhibitions, workshops, lectures, open houses, and block parties…
Hamtramck Labor Day Festival will have you dancin’ in the street
How does one describe the Hamtramck Labor Day Festival? “It’s a big party in the middle of the street in the middle of Hamtramck,” says Jeff Fournier, a member of the festival booking committee. “There’s food and beer and carnival rides too. It’s like going to the state fair. But Alice Cooper isn’t playing —…
Why the Detroit Jazz Festival pushes its boundaries
Updated 4:07 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 2: An earlier version of this story listed the wrong set time and date for Pat Metheny Trio. We regret the error. Most music festivals of any stripe are put together with an eye to maximize the youth demographic, or who Pitchfork gave the highest numbers to last year.…
Geek culture goes on parade at Youmacon
The Japanese phenomenon of anime has, at this point, long since taken Americans by storm. What was once a fringe fandom that encompassed Japanese animation, comics, and video games has established itself firmly as part of mainstream pop culture — witness the rise of regional anime conventions, like Detroit’s Youmacon. Now in its 11th year,…
Remaking the Michigan State Fair for everybody
When Gov. Jennifer Granholm effectively canceled the Michigan State Fair in 2009, she ended a 160-year-old tradition that had been a summer draw at Woodward Avenue and Eight Mile Road since 1905. That move prompted a new group, Michigan State Fair LLC, to step into the breach a few years later, organizing a privately run…
How Arts, Beats, & Eats became summer’s classiest closeout
ARTS For the “arts” aspect of Arts, Beats & Eats, organizers have really upped the ante. As in past years, the festival will feature a diversity of artists working in a variety of mediums and disciplines, such as jewelry, prints, paintings, and other items festivalgoers can buy on a whim. But new this year, organizers…
