UPDATE Yesterday the BK began serving customers again after the homicide — which is what the cops are now calling it — of 67-year-old Paul Cannon, who was punched in the face by a 20-year-old BK employee. Cannon died from blunt force trauma to the head. From WJBK: Police said that on Thursday afternoon,...
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“My goal in life is to play better tomorrow than I did yesterday,” James Moody told MT’s jazz scribe Charles L. Latimer when they spoke for a January article. “I’m in competition with myself and nobody else.” That Moody vs. Moody competition, that internal drive to best himself as a jazz artist, is over...
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Weird as it sounds, Wednesday, Dec. 22 is, now, officially, Joe Strummer day in the Detroit-Windsor area. Huh? Yup. At least that’s what radio CJAM 99.1 is proclaiming. The FM station is, in fact, planning to spin Joe Strummer music — the singer from the only band that mattered — for 24 hours straight,...
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This Thursday save some cash and come see a free movie at the 2nd Annual Metro Times Film-anthropy event. For one night at Palladium 12, a donation of three canned goods per person equals one free movie ticket. Date: Thursday, December 9th Time: 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. OR first 1,000 people to donate...
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John Sinclair‘s upcoming Higher Ground column to be posted here Wednesday (and, of course, on the street in the “hard copy” as we say) eulogizes the poet and cultural activist James Semark, who was one of the founders of the Detroit Artists Workshop in the ’60s and integral to efforts in recent years to...
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Jim Shaw died this morning. He was 54 and had fiercely, bravely, elegantly fought a nasty cancer of the liver for nearly two years. To the end, he was with family and friends in his Hamtramck home, where he wanted to be. Jim was a humble giant on the Detroit music scene for a...
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