Is the doctor prescribing you drugs from, say, Pfizer or Eli Lilly, also raking in thousands of dollars — even hundreds of thousands of dollars — from the same companies in consulting and speaking fees? Probably not. But possibly so. And short of asking and hoping for a straight answer, you have no way...
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The Candy Band has announced that October 1st will see the first annual Bestest Concert Ever at the Royal Oak Farmer’s Market between 5-8 p.m. Admission will be $5 per person. For that five bucks, there will be four bands, food, drinks, crafts, mini bowling, rock star photos (complete with hair stylists on hand),...
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I meet Mister for coffee a couple days after he and Blaksmith rocked a 10 o’clock set at Dally in the Alley, warming up the main stage for Will Sessions. “Jessica Hernandez was just in here,” says Mister (known, by day, as Bryan Lackner), “got some coffee to go. By the way, did I...
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Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, for those that aren’t familiar, were an Ann Arbor-based band that formed in ’67 and soon took the Detroit rock ’n’ roll scene, Grande Ballroom and all, by storm thanks to a cool, combination of country, rockabilly and hard rock. The band split in ’76, but front...
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Today started at 7:00am with profoundly good luck at the box office. Sometimes, additional tickets for a screening go on sale that morning, and I was hoping this would be the case for a screening of George Clooney’s The Ides of March and the gala premiere of David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method. Amazingly, I...
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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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