“Blow me,” Adam Levine, the front man to Maroon 5, said to the crowd that packed DTE Energy Music Theatre Aug 5.  Sure he was impersonating a fan in the crowd that wasn’t singing, but that truly was the highlight of a promising show with a bland ending. Earlier in the summer, Maroon 5...
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On the backside of Cobo Hall, Lizzy Baskerville and a handful of U.S. Social Forum attendees are up with the morning sun, ready to load up a van and head out to three urban farms in Detroit. Baskerville is in charge of the Community Food Security project for the social forum.  Each day, she...
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Members from the Michigan chapter of Restaurant Opportunities Center United along with a number of people in Detroit for the U.S. Social Forum protested Thursday evening in front of Andiamo restaurant in Dearborn — but only from “a First Amendment zone,” as police called it. The less-than-one-hundred protesters that showed up were surprised to...
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“This used to be a great city,” Norris Henderson reminisced as he walked the streets of downtown Detroit for the first time in 40 years.  “Now, it is appalling to see what has happened to it.” Henderson is the organizer of the Greater New Orleans Table Organizers Roundtable.  He and his organization came to...
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