AltWeeklies Wire
When Will Detroit Take Notice of Malik Alston?new
Detroit has long had a penchant for producing talents who go largely unnoticed ... until you suddenly look up one day and see they've taken off somewhere else. This could well be the future for local producer, songwriter and actor Malik Alston.
Metro Times |
Khary Kimani Turner |
11-13-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Malik Alston
Courting Controversynew
Wayne County's Mary Beth Kelly and her chorus of critics.
Metro Times |
Sandra Svoboda |
11-13-2007 |
Politics
Why a Medical Growth Industry Won't Bloom in Michigannew
Only four small, backward states have stem cell laws as restrictive as ours.
Metro Times |
Jack Lessenberry |
11-13-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
A Hip-Hop Clown Spreads Laughter in Detroitnew
DeMarcus Hughes, aka Smiley the Hip Hop Clown, is a G-rated G, an MC whose MO is to strip hip hop of its violent themes and sexual content and make it kid-friendly for grade school performances and children's birthday parties. At the same time, he tries to keep it from being insufferably corny for grown-ups within earshot.
Metro Times |
Detroitblogger John |
11-13-2007 |
Music
Tags: Smiley the Hip Hop Clown
Gone Battynew
Bat people and the bizarre beauty of the creepy winged creatures.
Metro Times |
Samantha Cleaver |
11-06-2007 |
Animal Issues
Tags: animal issues
The Incredible Shrinking Auto Industrynew
The vote on the Chrysler contract indicates union members are getting weary of concession after concession.
Metro Times |
Jack Lessenberry |
11-06-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
John Dingell's Iraq Inkblotnew
It is odd that a seemingly straightforward piece of legislation could be a sort of political Rorschach test, with different people seeing in it very different things. But that's exactly the case with Dingell's timetable to get U.S. troops out of Iraq.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
11-06-2007 |
Politics
Bye-bye, Democracynew
They're sabotaging our freedom by failing to decently pay the watchdogs of democracy.
Metro Times |
Jack Lessenberry |
10-30-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
The Environmental Justice Movement Hits the Citynew
For a long time people thought an environmentalist was a white guy hiking through the woods hugging trees. There are still plenty of tree huggers out there, but the environmental movement has moved to the city.
Metro Times |
Larry Gabriel |
10-30-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Righting the Wrongful Convictionsnew
A national movement to prevent, reverse or remedy wrongful convictions has swept into Michigan's Legislature this term with six bills that would reform police investigations, change DNA testing procedures, compensate those improperly imprisoned and clear their records.
Metro Times |
Sandra Svoboda |
10-23-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Van Halen vs. Queens of the Stone Agenew
Who best captures the concerns of metal's Cro-Magnon man?
Metro Times |
Serene Dominic |
10-23-2007 |
Music
'Blood Passion' Looks at a Rocky Mountain Lownew
It was the early 1990s when journalist Scott Martelle first read about how more than two dozen people had been killed when National Guardsmen and company detectives opened fire on a tent village of striking copper miners' families in Colorado almost a century ago. The curiosity grew into an obsession, culminating in his new book.
Metro Times |
Michael Jackman |
10-23-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Bruce Egnater, Amp Fiddlernew
He's the tube guru who plugs musicians in.
Metro Times |
Nancy Kaffer |
10-23-2007 |
Music
Better than Being President?new
Around the world, no living American gets the admiration and respect Al Gore does.
Metro Times |
Jack Lessenberry |
10-23-2007 |
Commentary
D. L. Hughley on Angernew
Making his name as one of the Kings of Comedy, Hughley's star has only continued to rise with frequent appearances on Real Time with Bill Maher, his new HBO special, Unapologetic, and a recurring role on NBC-TV's now-cancelled Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
Metro Times |
Bill Holdship |
10-16-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
