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It’s official: Hollywood needs to give the Philip K. Dick adaptations a rest. Really. Stop. You’re embarrassing yourselves. The Total Recall remake starring Colin Farrell (from the short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale”) got a batarang, right in its face — audiences either chose to see The Dark Knight Rises for...
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A key component of any high school social circle is the strange friend. For most us, the worst that happens is that “friend” goes on to send the occasional Facebook invite to their embarrassing art installations. For graphic novelist Derf Backderf, that friend went on to become one of the more infamous killers of...
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From intern Jeremy Winograd, whose photos are MIA: Henry & June Detroit – Magic Stick Lounge February 11, 2011 Rock ‘n roll has now officially entered its seventh decade of existence. And in such a vast time frame, well, pretty much everything there is to do in the genre has been done. It’s a...
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The culture of people of African descent from Latin America and the Latin Caribbean — in a word “Afro-Latinos” — is the theme of two days of lectures and discussions presented in a collaboration by Wayne State University,  the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation. “Black,...
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The Daily Beast website posted an extremely depressing article earlier this week ranking each of the 50 states on their likelihood of declaring bankruptcy in the near future, the composition of which must’ve been only slightly more fun than ranking one’s family members on their likelihood of an expeditious death. The list was based...
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From MT intern Jeremy Winograd … Robert Plant & the Band of Joy Ann Arbor, MI- Hill Auditorium January 21, 2011 “It’s a wonderful thing, this Band of Joy,” announced a still lion-haired Robert Plant early in the band’s set. “Everyone is smiling all the time … and no one’s had a drug in hours!” Yeah,...
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From our ace editorial intern Tyler Kane: Halloween’s here, and aside from burnt orange and yellows, cider mills, haunted houses, what’ve we got? Oh, yeah … our holiday-warming pals at Psychopathic Records. Hence the news that Psychopathic’s house-producer guy Mike E. Clark’s dropping a new follow-up mixtape, Murder Mix Volume 2, on Tuesday, Nov....
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By Carleton S. Gholz csgholz.org In a recent phone interview, Jeff “The Wizard” Mills told me that he is concerned about the state of dance music culture’s musicians and audiences. With his support of “Techno for a Cause” he is also clearly concerned about and supportive of Detroit. The communicative network that Mills became...
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By Tyler Kane Bob King, president of the United Auto Workers, announced Friday that the union is in the process of withdrawing “hundreds of millions of dollars” from JP Morgan Chase accounts due to the bank’s refusal to freeze mortgage foreclosures in Michigan. The announcement comes three months after several hundred demonstrators gathered at...
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By Bree Kessler Johnny Knoxville can now add “Detroit” to the numerous dangers he has survived. The new short web film, Detroit Lives, part of the “Explorations” series sponsored and hosted on the Palladium Boots website, begins with an ominous voiceover stating: “Detroit is a city of death.” So, who better to show us...
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