Blogs: Reckless Eyeballing

We are relieved to learn that Michigan’s outpost of hunting and gun culture, Cabela’s in Dundee, is back open after a small electrical fire on Wednesday, April 24. The incident caused the store to close for cleaning and restocking. After working around the clock for more than a week, the outfitter is back open and back in...
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Hardcore Pawn, the made-in-Detroit reality series that sparks love-it-or-hate-it reactions from Detroiters like no other, achieved a coveted television milestone this week on truTV: the airing of the show’s 100th original episode. The landmark half-hour, which aired at 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 16, on the cable network, also merited a special invitation-only screening Tuesday...
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If the popular cable series My Ghost Story: Caught on Camera was to tape an episode around these parts, where do you suppose they might go? Why, the scariest place in southeast Michigan, of course! Erebus, the fabled four-story Halloween frightfest in downtown Pontiac billed as the world’s largest walk-through haunted attraction, is the...
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Last week, we wrote about Tilted Axes Detroit,  the brainchild of Detroit native Patrick Grant, a New York-based guitarist and composer who has worked with some of the biggest names in avant-garde music. This week, he pulled off a homecoming of sorts , a way to honor the city that he feels has bestowed...
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Wednesday 22nd CHARLI XCX St. Andrew’s Hall:  Synesthesia Red Bull House of Art: Exploring how seven artists who work in both fine art and electronic music during a three-day showcase of full circle creation, cultivation and abstract presentation. disciplin.  Joe Louis Walker Callahan’s Music Hall:  BORN RUFFIANS / MOON KING Magic...
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This edition of long-absent Shea’s Lounge could be called Shea’s Gurney. (Hey, 2012, glad to be here.) Edward Ericson Jr.’s review a while back of Unaccountable by Dr. Marty Makary, asks honesty and humanity of hospitals and doctors. My experience was with a large local hospital where I had thyroid removal surgery last June....
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Late start to the morning… -the Internet’s already way-ahead of me… If you’ve read anything by me, you’ve already read enough rants on the two rappers referenced -really only in authorship of said-song (“Sirens“) featured in the music video “trailer” streaming below. Rapraprap, LacquaLacquaLacqua, you know how it goes…those guys who got the Kresge,...
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How often can you score tens of thousands of dollars — or more — with just 150 words? Put on your thinking caps, Detroit artists. This week the Knight Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting communities through art and journalism, announced a grant of more than $19 million to the arts in Detroit. The...
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Friday 12th Mustard Plug It seems insane that Grand Rapids’ Mustard Plug has been serving up its skanky ska-punk since 1991, but that is indeed the case. The band has gone through members like a starving man goes through flapjacks…  Jason Adasiewicz Sun Rooms Trio We caught Jason Adasiewicz at MOCAD last year...
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Friday 5th Pepper Adams Tribute Gerry Mulligan had those matinee-idol looks, and he made the deep notes of the baritone saxophone seem to float on a cloud of cool. He was a star and a marquee bandleader. Pepper Adams had a standard…  Two Man Gentlemen Band Some wag said these fellows had cemented...
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