Blogs: Reckless Eyeballing

As you may have heard, we’re returning to Motor City Casino again for our not-to-be-missed Best Of Detroit Party on Friday, April 27. “How do I get an invite?” You ask. Simple. Fill out a ballot in our Best Of Detroit poll. We’ll pick five ballots at random for five pairs of tickets. And...
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In a victory for small-minded ultraconservatives everywhere, TLC announced it has canceled the Dearborn-based docuseries All-American Muslim after only one season. Laurie Goldberg, spokeswoman for TLC, the network that provides America with such informative programming as Toddlers & Tiaras, DC Cupcakes and My Crazy Obsession, confirmed March 7 that the show’s eight-episode run, which...
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I’m a mainstream comic book guy, specifically and mainly Marvel Comics. I grew up on Spider-Man, Thor, Captain America and the rest of the Marvel Universe. Don’t get me wrong, I have collected my fair share of DC books, and I dabble in the independent stuff when it catches my eye. But I’m a...
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If a fraction of the fans of Elmore Leonard on the page and screen come to see him in the flesh, it’s going to be hard to get a spot this Saturday (March 3) at the N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art. Quentin Tarantino’s 1997 film Jackie Brown — adapted from Leonard’s novel Rum Punch...
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Friday night saw the opening of Joshua White and Gary Panter’s Light Show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). The impressive, new exhibit presented an unusual audiovisual treat. For instance, when psyche-folk collective Monster Island started the evening off with a performance, as they played, abstract shapes, spirals of light and odd...
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Multiple choice time: U.S. slavery ended in 1) 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation 2) 1865 with the 13th Amendment 3) 1942 with the first conviction under Circular 3591 of the FDR administration. Wall Street Journal writer Douglas A. Blackmon, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning Slavery by Another Name is the basis for tonight’s PBS special of...
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Sad news that we’re losing another one-of-a-kind spot: A.J.’s Café, which is set to close at the end of March, reportedly facing the end of a lease and rising expenses. As fans prepare to say their farewells to the Ferndale spot famed for “Danny Boy” marathons and the like, we thought we’d revisit this...
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With its long winters and car-friendly layout, metro Detroit isn’t the most fertile ground for the nationwide trend of traveling food trucks to take root. But mobile eateries have recently started to take hold here, cropping up both downtown and in the suburbs. Today, from 5 to 9 p.m., seven of them will gather...
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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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