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Rap-rock Pioneer Everlast Reflecting on That Melee with Eminemnew
Third acts have always been a problem for former House of Pain frontman Everlast. But this third time around might end that streak.
Metro Times |
D.X. Ferris |
09-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Everlast
Detroit Hip-hop Heads Look Back on the 'Hip-Hop Mayor'new
When Michigan Democratic House leader Kwame Kilpatrick was elected mayor of Detroit in 2002, he was readily identified as, for all intents and purposes, a member of the hip-hop community.
Metro Times |
William E. Ketchum III |
09-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
PBS Pres Paula Kerger Talks Big Bird, TV Longevity and Seizing the Momentnew
Although she is a tall woman and came to town dressed in bright yellow, she doesn't appear to be simply parroting Big Bird's obsessive optimism.
Metro Times |
Jim McFarlin |
09-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Poet-performer jessica Care moore Talks Success and Heartbreaknew
She's 36 now, and she's gone from making a big splash as a young prodigy on the stage of the famed Apollo to becoming a real force in the world of poetry and art.
Metro Times |
Norene Cashen |
09-30-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Poetry, jessica Care moore
Katerina Bocci Brings the Whole Detroit Gang to NYC's Fashion Weeknew
As Tropical Storm Hanna turns umbrellas inside out and wreaks havoc on carefully coiffed hair in midtown Manhattan, Detroit clothing designer Katerina Bocci and her crew calmly prepare for her runway show.
Metro Times |
Margaret Hundley Parker |
09-30-2008 |
Fashion
Why Are We Bailing Out Bad Banks with Our Money?new
Here's the truth: Our economy is teetering on the point of collapse. Nobody is telling you the full truth about that -- not the media, not the candidates for president.
Metro Times |
Jack Lessenberry |
09-30-2008 |
Economy
Tax Fact & Fiction: A Closer Look at the Candidates' Plansnew
It wouldn't be an election year without candidates promising tax cuts, right? But who gets them, how much they are, what's the likelihood they can ever be made and what they say about each candidates' priorities are the bigger questions.
Metro Times |
Sandra Svoboda and Curt Guyette |
09-30-2008 |
Politics
Does the Michigan GOP Plan to Use Foreclosure Data as a Weapon?new
Allegations have surfaced that the head of the Macomb County Republican Party had disclosed plans to use lists of foreclosed homes as a way to keep some voters from casting ballots in the upcoming presidential election. But the Macomb GOP Chairman says his quotes were fabricated. What's really going on?
Metro Times |
Staff |
09-23-2008 |
Politics
Glendale Stewart Lives Way Off the Grid in Detroitnew
Six years ago, Stewart took a look at the world around him and decided to drop out of it. He quit working, bought an empty plot of land at a city auction, parked an old trailer on it, built a wood privacy fence around it and made it his home.
Metro Times |
Detroitblogger John |
09-23-2008 |
Housing & Development
Cheech & Chong Talk Motown, Dope and That Palin Chicknew
Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong took several decades off to pursue solo careers (and Chong spent nearly a year in prison for selling a bong on the internet) -- but they're back and ready to light up America.
Metro Times |
Bill Holdship |
09-23-2008 |
Performance
'Operation Filmmaker' is an Engrossing and, At Times, Infuriating Documentarynew
Not only are the connections driven home a little more forcefully than necessary, like the War In Iraq, Operation Filmmaker has no ending. Instead, it falls into a cycle of repetition until Davenport and her subject finally melt down beyond repair and the story, like much of life, goes unfinished. No conclusion is offered.
Metro Times |
Jeff Meyers |
09-23-2008 |
Reviews
The Sarah Swindle: Palin is Like a More Reckless Version of Dubyanew
Last week, I talked about the opportunism and cheap cynicism of choosing the woefully inexperienced and undereducated Alaska governor as vice president. That's all that was merited saying about Sarah Palin, I thought. Then I saw her interviewed by ABC's Charles Gibson, and was incredibly shocked and angry.
Metro Times |
Jack Lessenberry |
09-23-2008 |
Commentary
Bruce Campbell Talks 'Burn Notice,' Detroit, and His New Movienew
Campbell has the steely-eyed, lantern-jawed look of a leading man and has been just that for most of his career. I've been dying to ask him what went into his decision to take a supporting part in the USA series.
Metro Times |
Jim McFarlin |
09-16-2008 |
TV
The Rise and Fall of Kwame Kilpatricknew
The tragic-comic tale of the mayor of Detroit.
Metro Times |
Curt Cuyette, W. Kim Heron and Sean Bieri |
09-16-2008 |
Politics
McCain's Veep Pick Insults Us Allnew
With one single stroke, John McCain proved that he is not fit to be our president. It is the most important and most powerful job in the world, carrying with it the possibility of blowing up the planet -- and the demand that you find a way not to. Sarah Palin is simply not ready to be president.
Metro Times |
Jack Lessenberry |
09-16-2008 |
Commentary
