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City Slang: Weekly music review roundup

June 17, 2013
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City Slang: Weekly music review roundup

Send CDs, vinyl, cassettes, demos and 8-tracks to Brett Callwood, Metro Times, 733 St. Antoine, Detroit, MI 46226. Email MP3s and streaming links to bcallwood@metrotimes.com. We had previously received a sampler CD from Funky D Records signees The Royal Blackbirds, and the full album Shot Down landed on our laps this week. Thanks to...
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She Takes the Cake

June 17, 2013
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She Takes the Cake

Like many great business ideas, Cake Ambition started as a hobby. Owner and cake maker Jessica Bouren started out making baked goods for her friends, co-workers and family. Word spread, and requests came pouring in for her increasingly creative cakes. Bouren decided to leave her design job at a major firm in Louisville, Ky., and come...
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City Slang: Betty Cooper says goodbye to singer

June 17, 2013
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City Slang: Betty Cooper says goodbye to singer

All girl rockers Betty Cooper play Smalls on June 28, and the show will be a farewell gig for front woman and song writer Annette Barbara. Barbara is leaving Detroit for San Diego after falling in love and, while the band isn’t necessarily splitting up, they will be on hiatus for a while. Betty...
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Address Absurdity: Rotland Press – ‘Black Eye 2′ (…an interview: Part 2)

June 16, 2013
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Address Absurdity: Rotland Press – ‘Black Eye 2′ (…an interview: Part 2)

Learn to love the bomb.   Strange-love…   An interview with Ryan Standfest “Dr. Strangelove” (1964, dir. Stanley Kubrick)-  was co written by Terry Southern, another key influence upon the multifaceted Ryan Standfest, local  publisher / artist / writer / performance artist… and that startlingly satirical, horrifyingly hilarious film’s subtitle is telling of Standfest’s...
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What Were You Expecting…

June 15, 2013
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What Were You Expecting…

I was initially going to write an addendum to a previous blog-post in which I tip-toed, with an apprehensive heavy heart, around an adhoc eulogy for my once-perceived undying love for Arrested Development, in the “wake” of its underwhelming return, with new episodes (Season 4) streaming on Netflix last May. I was going to...
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Black Eye 2 – Rotland Press (Part 1)

June 14, 2013
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Black Eye 2 – Rotland Press (Part 1)

Part 1 of 3 (…or at least, “…of 2″)   Ryan Standfest is no comedian. Well, technically not. If his art is humorous at all, it’s by no means escapist or some hackneyed stand-up styled ‘Hey–what’s-the-deal-is with airline food’ riffing. No comedian, “by any stretch of the imagination,” says the local illustrator/writer/publisher (operator of...
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