Naomi Shihab Nye is no stranger to travel. Raised in St. Louis, Jerusalem and San Antonio by her Palestinian father and American mother, Nye makes regular trips to the Middle East and has crisscrossed the United States visiting the homes of such famous writers as Emily Dickinson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poet and...
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To be sure, the crap economy kills boundaries, human or otherwise. And it’s easy to “hate everyone on an empty stomach.” Proof? Here’s an email sent in-house here at MT headquarters today: to staff I left a wonderful roast beef sandwich in the refrigerator last night from Honeybee la Colmena. Today, it is gone....
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Progressive columnist Jim Hightower gave us a cover story back in November that we billed as Up against the corporations: Here’s how real people can fight back. Now Hightower is advancing the case of human people vs. corporation people alongside The Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel, Ben and Jerry and others in a video...
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With the exception of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, GOP candidates all subscribe to one or more of the following positions: 1) Global warming doesn’t exist. 2) If it does, it isn’t caused or exacerbated by humans. Or it probably isn’t. Or we can’t tell for sure. 3) Carbon dioxide isn’t harmful because it...
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It’s gonna be a dismal Christmas, Most of my old friends are dead, It looks like the mistletoe Was hung by Edgar Allan Poe, And ol’ Santa broke two runners Off his empty sled. Mom ain’t got a job, And Dad’s too big a slob To get one, The tiny apartment is cold and...
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Big news bombshells keep exploding fast and furious around All-American Muslim, the controversial first-season TLC reality series filmed in Dearborn. In the latest salvo, in the aftermath of Lowe’s pulling its commercials from the show under pressure from an ultraconservative Christian group, hip-hop megamogul Russell Simmons says he has bought all the remaining ad...
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Here at Metro Times, people love sending us books. We have stacks of them, spilling over our slush pile shelf and onto the floor. And there are always more, filling up our mailboxes, stacked on top, demanding our attention. So imagine our surprise when a local author wanted editorial coverage of his book —...
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Only halfway into its inaugural eight-episode season, the set-in-Dearborn national reality series All-American Muslim on The Learning Channel (TLC) already is stirring up its own unique jihad. On Wednesday, Nov. 30, a Los Angeles production company called Visionaire Media filed a lawsuit against TLC, alleging the network stole the idea it pitched them for...
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Two Kids One Hall The late ‘80s and early ‘90s were boom times for TV sketch comedy, producing such classic giggle ensembles as the Ben Stiller Show, The State, and Mr. Show; but few proved as enduring and beloved as The Kids in the Hall. A tight, five-man unit forged in the boiling comedy...
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Here’s a way to imagine what happens on Friday when artist Judith Hoffman, visiting from New York as a gallery resident artist, opens her show at the Quark Gallery. Or rather, on the gallery. First, here’s the gallery … … and here’s a picture of what Hoffman’s work space in adjacent Tech Town looked...
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