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The Blue Black Hours, one of many awesome local bands about to invade Hamtramck next week, shot us over a promo for  Blowout 2011. Blue Black Hours will be performing at Baker’s Streetcar, Hamtramck, MI on March 3.  Check ‘em out. Blue Black Hours for Blowout
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This Thursday save some cash and come see a free movie at the 2nd Annual Metro Times Film-anthropy event. For one night at Palladium 12, a donation of three canned goods per person equals one free movie ticket. Date: Thursday, December 9th Time: 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. OR first 1,000 people to donate...
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Imagine giving the best kind of gift this holiday season: apparel inspired by countries from around the world that match your purchase with a donation to the country that inspired your purchase. 24-year-old Mallory Brown, founder of World Clothes Line, is the visionary behind this local start-up and her Farmington Hills company  is poised...
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Check out this video of The Posies playing live at Metro Times yesterday. They stopped in around lunch to play a few of their songs and with two guitars they managed to leave a great impression with their bright voices.  Some pretty enthusiastic Blue Cross Blue Shield workers  found out about the last minute...
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We giveaway free stuff every week from local advertisers, sponsors and hot spots. Occasionally one comes along that we feel requires extra love and this is one such giveaway. The local area Ford Dealers are offering a chance to win a free iPad now through 9/15. This is a local giveaway, so the chances...
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The poster says it all.  Join Metro Times on Saturday night at the Royal Oak Music Theatre during Arts, Beats and Eats for a great night of local music! This year’s Arts, Beats and Eats has a great music lineup, new location and tons of great local businesses involved.  Metro Times is happy to...
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Not all Mondays are created equal. This morning while diligently working on this week’s edition, one of our daydreaming coworkers noticed what appeared to be another movie set nearby.  It seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary at first. We saw big lights and cameras and could only assume there would soon be...
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…just kidding, it’s really a mannequin our coworkers spotted yesterday while they were out to lunch downtown.  Is this some kind of new parking strategy? Has anyone else seen this, anywhere? How successful is this at getting people to park? More importantly, this mannequin (well all mannequins really) are kind of creepy. Looks like...
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Detroit Restaurant Week is back for another year of celebrating Detroit’s finest dining hot spots. The week will kick off the fall week on 9/24 and will again offer a three course meal for the set price of $28. Our mouths are already watering…we can’t wait to see who is participating and their menus....
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A few weeks ago MT ran an ugly dog photo contest on our Facebook Fan Page. We were discouraged at first because we didn’t think we received any entries. Then, our intern revealed to us that she had accidentally checked “read” on all the entries. Tsk Tsk, intern (sigh of frustration). Either way, thank...
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