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Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

May 15-21, 2013 // Vol. 33 Issue 31

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

May 15-21, 2013 // Vol. 33 Issue 31
City Slang, One Hand in the Blog, Charles Boles, Spun.

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Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

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Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

THIS WEEK END

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

THIS WEEK END
Cass City Cinema at the Burton Theater 3420 Cass Ave., Detroit 313-281-8301; casscitycinema.com Curtain at 7 p.m.; $5.

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

POLITICS & PREJUDICES

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

By JACK LESSENBERRY
Catching wind of this, conservationists began gathering signatures on petitions for a ballot referendum seeking to outlaw the hunting of gray wolves. All signs were that they would get enough signatures for the issue to be placed on the November 2014 ballot.

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

NEWS HITS

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

NEWS HITS
The city would be completely out of money already if it weren’t for a combination of deferring payments to pension funds (along with other “obligations”) and massive borrowing, according to the report. At times clouded in bureaucratic jargon, the report is painfully clear on this point:.

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

PENROSE RISING

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

PENROSE RISING
By CURT GUYETTE
Arriving at the age of 11 with his mother, Carolyn Campbell, and his two younger siblings, Hubbard had come from a much nicer area on the city’s west side. Looking around his new neighborhood for the first time, he saw the crackheads and the prostitutes, heard gunshots, and then went to bed — but not to sleep.

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

BLOOD AND VONNEGUTS

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

BLOOD AND VONNEGUTS
By BRETT CALLWOOD
The Vonneguts, composed of Miles Hubbell (vocals, guitar), Phill Dage (guitar), Jake Kmiecik (drums), Joe Myers (bass), and Mike O’Brien (guitar, bass), met at school. “We got together in high school, an all-boys Catholic school on the west side of Detroit,” says Hubbell.

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

ON TOUR

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

ON TOUR
St. Andrew’s Hall 431 E. Congress, Detroit 313-961-8961; saintandrewsdetroit.com Doors at 8 p.m.; $17.50.

ONE HAND IN THE BLOG

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Booze, chicks and banjos are the order of the day. We received a bunch of stuff from the label UFO Factory this week, including three cassette tapes. That means pulling out the Walkman that I had to hunt down on eBay. Oh well. One of those tapes is from LZR, who we believe to be Human Eye and Conspiracy of Owls man Johnny Lzr.

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

ARTIST PROFILE

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

ARTIST PROFILE
By CHARLES L. LATIMER
Ron English, his guitar slung over his shoulder, goes over the set list. He plans to opens with Charlie Parker’s “Quasimodo” and Horace Silver’s classic “Song for My Father,” concluding with a Boles original. Bassist John Dana plucks some bottom notes from his upright.

SPUN

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Aside from introducing the world to major northern European jazz innovators such as Terje Rypdal, Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber and others, the label also brought us the early work of many emerging American artists, including Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett and Gary Burton.

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

THE BOOK IS BETTER

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

THE BOOK IS BETTER
By COREY HALL
That drama, about dirt-poor farm boy Jay Gatsby’s reinvention as the toast of New York at the height of a decade of decadence, and his even swifter fall, has confounded filmmakers for generations.

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

DOUCHE BAG DELIGHT

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

DOUCHE BAG DELIGHT
By COREY HALL
That same wish applies to most of the ensemble, which includes such talented folks as Kerry Washington and S. Epatha Merkerson — even the legendary iconoclast Melvin Van Peebles, who stops by for a cameo. Sadly, all of them are pretty much left to fumble around like drunks trying to find the bathroom sink in the dark.

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Q & A

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Q & A
By JEFF MEYERS
This summer, Shannon adds two more off-kilter characters to his rogues’ gallery of high-profile performances. The biggest is as Superman’s nemesis, General Zod, in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel..

ITALIAN REMODEL

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

By JANE SLAUGHTER
On both a recent Tuesday and a Saturday, the place was crowded with happy diners. They’ve embraced the recent reincarnation of Bella Piatti, which opened Feb. 13 with new owners, Liz and Nino Cutraro and Robert Van Hellemont, a new style, and a completely new menu.

SIDE DISH

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

SIDE DISH
Looking for a good meatball recipe? Grab your iPad with its 4,930,000 meatball recipes. Get the ingredients together and get cookin’. With an olive oil can in one hand and two pounds of ground chuck in the other, grab the iPad to see whether to add the garlic to the oil or mix it into the meat.

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

HIPSTER ART HOUSE LAYS STAKES IN EASTERN MARKET

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

HIPSTER ART HOUSE LAYS STAKES IN EASTERN MARKET
By LEE DEVITO
The next incarnation is called 1XRUN, an online retailer of art prints headquartered at 1410 Gratiot in Eastern Market.

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

HIGHER GROUND

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

HIGHER GROUND
By LARRY GABRIEL
With the University of Michigan, the U-M hospital, the annual art fair, a popping downtown and plenty of people walking the neighborhoods, an abundance of jobs and a low crime rate, Ann Arbor is the kind of place that lots of cities would like to be..

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

FEEDBACK

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

FEEDBACK
I totally agree with Jack Lessenberry except that Bolger is more like Stalin because we live in a communist state. The governor is sickening and his voice is strictly lame. I turn him off on radio and TV. Guess you own bug business at one time you know everything!.

SAVAGE LOVE

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

By DAN SAVAGE
Q: I have a mentally disabled cousin who I haven’t figured out how to help. He’s lived for more than 40 years in the same nursing home in a small, conservative town. His mental age is about 8, there are other mental-illness issues, and he has some physical problems.

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

By ROB BREZSNY
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