Area activists will gather at the Spirit of Hope Church at 1519 Martin Luther King Blvd. in Detroit on Monday to discuss plans for a protest dubbed “Occupy Detroit.” The planned protest — to begin Oct. 21 — is an offshoot of  the Occupy Wall Street protest that has been continuing in New York...
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“I know I’ve been really quiet, as far as putting stuff out…it’s cuz I’ve been working, just being patient, making sure things are done right. Not to say I didn’t do (the first EP) the right way, but I know, better, how I wanna move, now.” ~ It’s been more than two years since...
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Sitting in court the past few days felt like a Groundhog Day experience, only without Bill Murray to provide laughs. The story has been unchanging since  the summer 2009, when the Michigan Department of Transportation filed a breach of contract suit against the Detroit International Bridge Co. for failing to complete its share of...
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Since I started doing this City Slang “Revisited” blog every Wednesday evening, the band that I have been getting requests for more than any other is the Romantics. So here we are. Don’t say I don’t listen to y’all. The question is then, which Romantics album needs to be revisited? The simple answer is,...
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That Detroit is one of the most segregated metropolitan areas in the country is hardly news. How that came to be is rarely explored. Or what can be done about it. Or the full extent of its ramifications. To that end, urban scholar David M.P. Freund speaks a Marygrove College on Friday. The title:...
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Remember – if you send it, it will get reviewed. That’s the City Slang promise. It doesn’t matter what genre the music is – as long as it has a Metro Detroit connection, it’ll get in. Preferably, we’d like to concentrate on new releases but, while we’re getting warmed up here, feel free to...
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