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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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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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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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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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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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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Film Review: Man of Steel Watch: This latest Superman iteration is a visual feast but light on character development. By Jeff Meyers 6/14/2013
From Motown to Coketown? Cover Story: Is keeping the petroleum byproduct known as “petcoke” stored, in the open, on the bank of the Detroit River a wise decision? By Curt Guyette 6/12/2013
Film Review: Before Midnight Watch: The Before series earns its hat trick with the release of Richard Linklater's third installment. By Jeff Meyers 6/13/2013
What’s next for Detroit? POLITICS & PREJUDICES : Suggestions for Kevyn Orr By Jack Lessenberry 6/12/2013
Moo Cluck Moo Restaurant Review: A better burger By Jane Slaughter 6/12/2013
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