Blogs: Reckless Eyeballing

Friday 10th AK, SA the Abolitionist It’s a hip-hop double bill as Ann Arbor locals AK and S.A. the Abolitionist team up to bring the tight rhymes and booming beats, not to mention their initials, to the double-A. S.A. is a particularly…  The Strange Interesting little bill, this. Brent McKay’s the Strange is...
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The annual Collin Hubbell ride is held in honor of the late Detroit advocate, known as a lover of all things Motown. To continue the work Hubbell did for the city, funds from the ride benefit the Colin Hubbell Fund, which provides grants to projects and businesses that contribute to the physical infrastructure and...
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It’s official: Hollywood needs to give the Philip K. Dick adaptations a rest. Really. Stop. You’re embarrassing yourselves. The Total Recall remake starring Colin Farrell (from the short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale”) got a batarang, right in its face — audiences either chose to see The Dark Knight Rises for...
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Friday 3rd Crownival Crow Manor in Detroit plays host to the fourth annual Crownival Friday, which appears to be a celebration of fire-breathing and great underground music. It’s like a backyard festival, and the entertainment…  Taproot When nu-metal bands like Linkin Park were threatening to take over the world, Ann Arbor’s Taproot were...
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This evening, metro Detroiters will have a rare opportunity to meet with and see the work of one of the city’s more interesting artists — and residents — Carl A. Nielbock, head honcho at C.A.N. Art Handworks, Inc. Nielbock’s story is so unusual, and dovetails so neatly with the history of his adopted hometown, it...
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In the not too distant future… Talking back the movie screen, a practice once shunned by all good and decent folk, has been elevated to an artform of its own in recent years, largely thanks to the efforts of the relentlessly snarky squad of cinema snipers now calling them selves Cinematic Titanic, who will...
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After 25 years downtown, Opus One is going to close at 11 p.m. this Saturday, though it’s apparently not closing for good. An announcement today said the management plans to make some changes, renovate the interior, and re-open in November under a slightly different name. The reasons cited include declining corporate accounts and changing...
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A key component of any high school social circle is the strange friend. For most us, the worst that happens is that “friend” goes on to send the occasional Facebook invite to their embarrassing art installations. For graphic novelist Derf Backderf, that friend went on to become one of the more infamous killers of...
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The Detroit Beautification Project continues in Hamtramck, with new murals seemingly going up every week. Last weekend, we were fortunate enough to meet artists Dabs and Myla, hard at work on the western wall of Composite Lodge on Caniff near Lumpkin, thanks to a heads-up from DBP co-organizer Matt Eaton. Their work was cartoonish...
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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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