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News & Views

• Claytoonz

  Our dystopian future

  By Clay Jones

  Jun 29, 2022
• Metro Detroit News

  Mobile billboard makes baseless, homophobic ‘groomer’ claims about Oakland County Executive David Coulter

  George Brikho, a Trump supporter who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2014, claimed responsibility for the billboard

  By Steve Neavling

  Jun 29, 2022
• Metro Detroit News

  Oakland County Executive mulls legal action over libelous, homophobic billboard

  The most recent billboard labeled David Coulter as a ‘groomer’ who forced children to wear masks during the COVID-19 pandemic

  By Steve Neavling

  Jun 30, 2022
• Metro Detroit News

  Detroit council president lays out conditions for Dan Gilbert’s proposed $60M tax break

  Taxpayers are questioning why the cash-strapped city should provide tax incentives for one of the wealthiest people on the planet

  By Steve Neavling

  Jul 1, 2022
• Metro Detroit News

  Metro Detroit police dept. that used images Black men as shooting targets was sued last year for racial discrimination

  The Farmington Hills Police Dept. has been criticized for implicit bias, though it denies the allegations and is participating in an investigation

  By Lee DeVito

  Jul 1, 2022
• Metro Detroit News

  Activists cover anti-abortion billboard with pro-choice message in Detroit

  The anonymous group vows to ‘aid and abet abortion’

  By Randiah Camille Green

  Jul 1, 2022
• Michigan News

  Supreme Court wipes out ‘invalid’ Flint water crisis charges against Snyder, 8 others

  It remains unclear why Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy recommended using the extremely rare, century-old practice of the one-judge grand jury in the case

  By Laina G. Stebbins, Michigan Advance

  Jun 29, 2022
• Michigan News

  Michigan’s first case of suspected monkeypox in Oakland County

  The infected person is quarantined and not a threat to others, officials say

  By Randiah Camille Green

  Jun 30, 2022
• Michigan News

  FBI arrests Traverse City man accused of 'violent assault' on police at U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6

  Luke Michael Lints is among more than a dozen Michigan residents to be charged for their role in the insurrection

  By Steve Neavling

  Jul 1, 2022
• Politics & Elections

  Duggan throws support behind Hollier in crowded primary for Congress seat in Michigan’s 13th District

  Hollier is among nine big names running for the seat in a newly drawn district

  By Steve Neavling

  Jun 30, 2022
• The Incision

  The Supreme Court just took a sledgehammer to the separation of church and state

  A 6-3 ruling in ‘Carson v. Makin’ will force taxpayers to pay alms to religious institutions

  By Abdul El-Sayed

  Jun 29, 2022
• This Modern World

  The end of ‘Roe’

  By Tom Tomorrow

  Jun 29, 2022
• Savage Love

  How does the ‘bonding hormone’ create emotional attachment to a sex partner?

  Licensed and bonded

  By Dan Savage

  Jun 29, 2022

Arts & Culture

• Arts Stories & Interviews

  2022 Kresge Artist Fellows and Gilda Emerging Artists announced

  Thirty-one metro Detroit performance, film, and music artists will share a combined $550,000

  By Randiah Camille Green

  Jun 30, 2022
• Culture

  Lake Superior is trending on Twitter for defending women’s rights with savage clap-backs

  You know it’s a shame when the social account for a lake has more sense than the U.S. Supreme Court

  By Randiah Camille Green

  Jun 29, 2022
• Movies

  In ’70s thriller ‘The Black Phone,’ suspenseful moments outstrip all else

  Scott Derrickson’s supernatural kidnapping thriller feels better undergirded by its nostalgic setting than it ever does in its narrative

  By George Elkind

  Jul 1, 2022
• Movies

  ‘Neptune Frost’ is an afrofuturist musical in a league of its own

  The film screens at Cinema Detroit this weekend

  By George Elkind

  Jul 1, 2022
• Things to Do

  Queer Detroit pop artist Reginald Hawkins is bringing us a multi-sensory experience called SODOM to Playground Detroit

  This visual and musical performance features emerging LGBTQ+ artists

  By Randiah Camille Green

  Jun 29, 2022
• Things to Do

  Allied Media Conference returns to Detroit with panel discussions, performances, healing spaces, and more

  Scheduled panels include topics like AfroFeministFutures For the World we Want, Queering the Black Gaze, and Reparations: Repairing Harm in the Age of Mass Surveillance

  By Randiah Camille Green

  Jun 29, 2022
• Things to Do

  Michigan Rib Fest will feature performances by Mitch Ryder, Mark Reitenga, Ricky Rat Pack, Melvin Davis, and more

  Bring on the meat sweats

  By Randiah Camille Green

  Jun 29, 2022
• Things to Do

  Royal Oak Taco Fest brings tacos, tequila, live music, and more

  The fest is set for from Friday, July 1 through Monday, July 4

  By Lee DeVito

  Jun 29, 2022
• Things to Do

  Twerk x Tequila is the women’s empowerment event you didn’t know you needed

  The event series will takeover the Aretha Franklin Amphitheater this weekend

  By Alex Washington

  Jun 30, 2022
• Things to Do

  Metro Times United We Brunch returns July 16 to Detroit’s Majestic Theatre and Garden Bowl

  Burnch is back, baby

  By Lee DeVito

  Jul 1, 2022
• Things to Do

  Detroit alternative July 4 event asks, ‘What to the Negro is the Fourth of July?’

  African-centric jazz band In the Tradition will perform in tribute to Frederick Douglass

  By Randiah Camille Green

  Jul 1, 2022
• Horoscopes

  Free Will Astrology (June 29-July 5)

  This week's homework: Make amends to a part of yourself you have neglected, insulted, or wounded

  By Rob Brezsny

  Jun 29, 2022

Food & Drink

• Food News

  The Hungry Howie's pickle bacon ranch pizza launches this weekend

  It’s available for pickup and dill-ivery

  By Ray Roa

  Jun 29, 2022
• Food News

  Buddy’s Pizza opening Chesterfield location

  The Macomb County store will be the Detroit-style pizza chain’s 22nd

  By Lee DeVito

  Jun 30, 2022
• Food News

  People are really trying to cancel Detroit's Cold Truth over refusing to serve police in body armor

  Who’s the snowflake now?

  By Randiah Camille Green

  Jul 1, 2022
• Restaurant reviews

  Southwest Detroit’s El ArteSano serves up healthy smoothies and cold-pressed juices

  The sandwiches and salads are top-notch, too

  By Jane Slaughter

  Jun 29, 2022

Music

• Concert Announcements

  Influential band ESG to play Hamtramck Labor Day Fest

  Hamtown is about to get funky with the South Bronx group’s oft-sampled brand of no-wave dance-punk

  By Randiah Camille Green

  Jul 1, 2022
• Local Music

  It ain’t easy being Peezy

  How a son of Detroit’s east side navigated beefs and federal charges to become one of the greatest rappers in the city

  By Kahn Santori Davison

  Jun 29, 2022
• Music News

  Hamtramck’s New Dodge Lounge under new ownership

  The bar and music venue is now owned by team behind Detroit Shipping Co. food hall

  By Lee DeVito

  Jun 30, 2022

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