AltWeeklies Wire
Collective Consciousnessnew
Collectors are quite generous -- they're scouting the fields, sleeping with the past and saving our history for each of us.
Metro Times |
Arts Staff |
03-22-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
High Stakes Beyond the Gamenew
The Super Bowl itself will not turn Detroit's economic woes around -- the city's residents will still be there after the game to deal with the downturn.
Metro Times |
Keith A. Owens |
02-03-2006 |
Commentary
Honor King, but Not With Symbolsnew
While the 20th anniversary of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday is something to be observed, there's not much to celebrate in black America.
Metro Times |
Keith A. Owens |
01-20-2006 |
Commentary
Just Saying No to Kidsnew
Are the childfree a fast-growing, misunderstood segment of the population — or just a bunch of mean ol' kid haters?
Metro Times |
Sarah Klein |
12-28-2005 |
Culture
Geeks Gone Wild!new
Live-action role-playing, or LARPing, is essentially dress-up and make-believe for adults. Does this hobby blur a critical line between fantasy and reality? Or is it just plain dorky?
Metro Times |
Sarah Klein |
10-26-2005 |
Culture
Paradise Regained: Detroit's Legends of Burlesque Reminiscenew
The most famous exotic dancer in the history of Motown, Lottie The Body, and fellow stripteaser Toni Elling recall the glamourous days of burlesque in the 1960s and the struggles they faced as African-American dancers.
Metro Times |
Sarah Klein |
08-03-2005 |
History
A Grand Tour of Midwest Summer Art Showsnew
This season's exhibits include a collection of outsider art and Art Brut at Buffalo Forum in Milwaukee, and a show of dead human bodies that have undergone a “plastination” process at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland.
Metro Times |
Nolan Simon and Rebecca Mazzel |
07-15-2005 |
Art
Tags: Cincinnati, 4 Under 40: Contemporary Michigan Artists, American Science and Surplus, and the Great Lakes Science Center’s Bodyworlds, Art Institute of Chicago show, Arts Center, Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary, CUT/Film as Found Object, Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michaël Borremans: Hallucination and Reality, Milwaukee Art Museum, Multiple Strategies, Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art’s great show, Out There: Landscape in the New Millennium, Toledo Museum of Art, Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, with current art world darling Olafur Eliasson
