Janice Fialka’s 40-year career as a social worker has been profoundly influenced by the concept of dance. Not as a therapeutic technique but as a metaphor for partners who truly listen to each other in a way that synchronizes and transforms their relationship. She is an internationally recognized lecturer, author and advocate on disability,...
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It all started with an innovative plan to bring more art to metro Detroit. A joint project of the Seventh Letter street art crew, with help from 1XRun (a division of Royal Oak’s 323East gallery), Contra Projects (headed up by Tom Thewes, the guy who directed CPOP Gallery in Detroit for 10 years) and...
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Part of our story-finding gig down here at MT HQ is to explore all roads, low and high, of Detroit culture. Sometimes we find glory and sometimes shits and giggles. When it comes to porn, there’s lots of it in the old Motor City, and not just what’s wired into your homes.  It’s also...
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Normally, we object to any statement that declares Detroit to be a “blank canvas” ready to have new designs imposed on it. Generally, those who make such statements are prone to ignore the very real people, the centuries of heritage, the wealth of architecture that exist here in abundance. But when it comes to...
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Hey, Details. Don’t do us any favors, OK? A “Critical Eye” piece in Details recently offered a handful of breezy, drive-by puff pieces on some of our local movers and shakers. Entitled “The Rust Belt Revival: What’s Happening in Detroit, Michigan,” the brief piece has some photos and profiles of some of the usual...
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Tim Allen must think Thomas Wolfe was full of crap. In a television sense, Allen is proving you can go home again – home to the network where you scored your greatest career success nearly two decades ago, back to the tried-and-true sitcom format, a return to the millions of viewers who loved you in...
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One last chance. That’s all Billy Gardell was willing to give Hollywood two years ago before packing his bags and returning to the three rivers and Primanti Bros. sandwiches of his native Pittsburgh. Had fate not let him claim the winning ticket to a prime-time TV series, the surprising CBS hit sitcom Mike &...
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We were treated to an interesting tirade on our voice mail the other day. It referred to a small item in our March 21 issue entitled “Online? Sweet!” We were pleased to learn that Sanders Candy now had an online source for ordering. Apparently, this drove one of our readers bananas. He called in...
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Around dinnertime on April 3, only two of the Mark’s Carts food vendors were still toughing it out. But Nick Wilkinson, the owner of A2 Pizza Pi, said that at least a handful of food trucks had braved that day’s storm and the weekend cold to feed hungry customers in the open space just...
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Doug Coombe told me that the Detroit music scene keeps on reinventing itself. Sure, certain bands or artists seem to hang around, continuing to sing and slug and strum it out for years on end, but in the grander scope, one can detect nuanced waves, preciously fleeting moments of musical collaborations and creative collectives...
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