This 30 minute black and white flick has surfaced on the net, showing us Tarantino’s first effort. On display is the auteur’s motormouth, pop culture obsessions. When he was first starting out, QT thought of himself as an actor first… and he’s clearly the best performer in his no budget cast. And even though...
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You’re five times more likely to die from a gun in Arizona than you are in Hawaii, the Daily Beast reports.  I can believe it, mister. I’ve lived in Arizona and it can be a frightening place to call home, especially Phoenix, a city teeming with pistol-wielding felons, meth heads,  hillbillys, and NRA, Joe-Arpaio-adoring...
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Long in the news for its financial woes*, Baker’s Keyboard Lounge faces a bankruptcy sale at the end of the month. Here are some details from Friedman Real Estate Group, Inc., based in Farmington Hills, which is handling the sale: World’s oldest jazz club. Well known establishment. Possible expansion. Owner retiring. Building, business, inventory,...
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We set it aside when it first came in, but we just got around to reading in its entirety a six-page letter (five pages on 11-inch-by-17-inch sheets, a sixth on 8 1/2-by-11, all front and back, annotated and illustrated, no less) from one Dennis A. Lambiris, written in response to our November Music Issue...
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A SAMPLE OF ED & MOE’S ANTICS There’s a new comedy web series starring two Dearborn twentysomethings — one a Muslim Arab-American and the other an Irish Catholic — who while away their days playing video games, shopping at the mall, and driving up and down Warren Avenue. If this seems to be an...
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Perhaps Southfield, Michigan’s most popular music export of all time, Mike Posner, had a banner 2010. He not only became a household name among listeners of pop radio all across the country (a huge accomplishment) but he also closed out the year by performing on Dick Clark’s annual New Year’s Eve show live. Now...
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