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None of the applications resulted in a ballot being sent to a voter, Nessel said.Manni lost the election by more than , otes, nishing eighth out of 12 Mannicandidates.wasendorsed by Macomb ounty s top law enforcement officials, rosecutor eter ucido and Sheriff AnthonySterlingWickersham.HeightsCouncilman Michael adt e applauded the wor of the clerk and Attorney General’s ffice. “I appreciate the diligent work by the state attorney general s office and our city cler s office to identify and root out this fraud, adt e tells Metro Times. “This shows that if you cheat in our elections, you will be caught.”
By Monica Williams LIBRARIES, VITAL PILLARS in our community, are increasingly under attack. That’s why as Detroit Public Library gradually opens branches for the rst time since March , it s important that we support them now more than Challengesever.are nothing new to libraries, but now they face pro tests, an explosion of book bans, staffing shortages, and increasing scal challenges stemming from the pandemic. n amestown ownship and Ionia County, Michigan, voters even recently rejected millages that would support libraries, with the Io nia proposal failing by just 36 votes. amestown residents ha e launched a GoFund me drive to keep the doors open.For all of my life, libraries have been my refuge. An only child, I spent many days of my childhood at the Bela Hubbard branch library, a half-mile from my northwest Detroit home, checking out stacks of books. No charge. As an elementary school student, I devoured everything by udy lume, e erly leary, and Laura Ingalls Wilder while my mom discovered Pearl S. Buck. Thanks to my uncle, I had ac cess to more inventory three miles away at Sherwood Forest branch. A voracious reader of everything from engineering books to Encyclopedia Britannica, Uncle Val was always game to walk a few blocks to indulge my passions. I found joy between the stacks of northwest Detroit libraries, but nothing compared to the week ends when my mother would drive us to the stately talian enaissance styled downtown branch, one of the most beautiful buildings in Detroit. Home to one of the largest library collections in the U.S., it housed an endless supply of periodicals. Our trips to Woodward were not just about books, they ignited our love for the performing arts. Mom couldn t afford to fre uently patron ize the performing arts so DPL’s free global music and dance events stood in the gap, exposing me to a vast world outside of Detroit. Today, the library remains a great e uali er, where race, gender, or socioeconomics are irrelevant. I’ve grieved for the welcoming space dur ing the two years the library has been closed. Although Sherwood Forest opened last month, library officials have said the Hubbard branch will remain shut until March. Thankfully, digital books and virtual events have been plentiful during the pandemic. I’ve recently gone back in person to the library, a place of solace amid the chaos, anxiety, and isolation. In recent years, I’ve used the facility to write, greet old friends, research, study for tests, connect to WiFi, use the photocopiers, and organize and attend community events. The library needs more of our community to return, to check out books, in person or via app. Our support matters! Share those books with a friend — or eight — by start ing a book club. DPL will provide the boo s and the discussion uestions. Hunting for a job, or brushing up on personal or professional s ills se the library’s career resources or bor row a laptop, free with a library card. a e down time Show up for the array of performing arts events. Don’t forget to give, through dona tions of books and cash. Funding for DPL operations is primarily generat ed through a tax of 4.63 mills, about $230 on a home with a taxable value of , , but library officials say too much of that funding has been diverted to the Downtown Develop ment Authority. Money has always been a challenge for public librar ies, and helping stretch the budget bolsters the community as a whole. In 2011, library closures dealt a blow to Detroit communities. Of course, the funding needs support through our votes. In 2014, Detroit voters renewed for 10 years the library’s operating millage but turnout for elections statewide has been low. Lastly, be grateful for and gracious toward librarians, who wear mul tiple hats as educator/social worker/ customer service reps/child care provider.Thesesimple steps won’t eliminate the crises libraries face, but they will help alleviate matters. Monica Williams is a Detroit resi dent.
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Earlier this month, Manni was elected to serve as a precinct delegate for the epublican arty. Metro Times couldn’t reach Manni for comment. essel s office also re uested a special prosecutor to investigate al legations that her opponent Matthew De erno and other epublicans or chestrated a coordinated plan to gain access to voting tabulators” that were illegally taken from county clerks.
Libraries like Detroit’s need our support now, more than ever
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By Steve Neavling A FORMER STERLING Heights City Council candidate who was elected last wee to ser e as a epublican pre cinct delegate has been charged with election fraud for allegedly forging signatures on absentee ballot appli cations, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced last week. Paul Manni, 27, lost the November 2021 election for one of six seats on the council.According to Nessel, Manni drew suspicion from the Sterling Heights clerk when he personally dropped off about absentee oter applica tions with his signature on them. He claimed he was delivering the applica tions with permission from the voters. hen the cler s staff called the ot ers to verify if they were applying for absentee ballot applications, nine of them said they were not. The clerk reported the suspected fraud to the Michigan Bureau of Elec tions, which investigated and referred the case to the Attorney General’s ffice. Manni was charged with nine felony counts of forging signatures on absentee ballot applications and nine misdemeanor counts of making a false statement on the applications. e faces up to e years in prison. “These charges prove the state’s sig nature matching standards and other election security checks and balances catch instances of wrongdoing, prompt thorough investigations and result in appropriate action,” Nessel said. “I appreciate our ongoing partnership with the BOE to root out attempts to undermine our elections.”
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By Lee DeVito IF YOU SEE this beautiful red, white, and black polka-dotted insect — kill it, Michigan officials say. t s a spotted lantern y Lycorma delicatula ), an invasive species from Asia that has been spreading across the .S. since . he rst Michi gan sighting of the insect occured in Pontiac earlier this month and was con rmed last wee by the nited States Department of Agriculture. he lantern y is a type of insect nown as a planthopper. fficials believe it hitched a ride on nursery stock brought from an infested state and could have been in Michigan for several months at this point. fficials say if it spreads in the state, it could be devastating to Michigan’s grape industry. In ad dition to grapes, spotted lantern y feed on the invasive tree of heaven, aka the “ghetto palm” ( Ailanthus altissima ), as well as black walnut, river birch, willow, sumac, and red mapleWhentrees.feeding, it produces a sticky li uid called honeydew that can col lect on the ground and can discolor and kill nearby plants. The insect changes appearance during its life cycle, ranging from blob-like egg masses, a black whitespotted beetle that later turns red, and the winged adult form. When its wings are folded, it ap pears gray or brown with black spots. hen its wings open it re eals a ash of red color. f you see one, officials want you to take a photo, noting the date, time, and location of the sighting, and re port it to its Eyes in the Field website. Then kill it, they say. If you see a mass of eggs, scrape it off into a bag of hand saniti er or rubbing alcohol to kill them. he insects were rst detected in the U.S. in southeastern Pennsyl vania, and have since been seen in Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. Michigan Department of Agricul ture and ural De elopment es ticide and Plant Pest Management Division Director Mike Philip says it might be too late, however. “We are in the assessment stage of response, but it is important to note that typical pest management tech ni ues ha e not pro en effecti e for eliminating the pest in other states,” he said in a statement. More information is available at michigan.go spottedlantern y. USDA
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Metro Times came in second place only to… him self. First place went to his designs for our sister paper, the St. Louis Riverfront Times “Bravo! Each of these covers embody the mission of AAN, command attention (in some cases, appropriately, jarringly), and show a level of design craft to admire,” the judges wrote. You literally outdid yourself, Evan! That wasn’t all Metro Times was recognized for. We also earned third place, arts feature for contributor (and long time staffer Michael ac man s story on Detroit s obo op statue. emember that n , someone famously and perhaps off hand edly — tweeted to Detroit’s thenMayor Dave Bing that the Motor City needed a statue of the hero of the s sci cult classic, set in a futur istic, even more dystopian Detroit, because Philadelphia had a statue of oc y, and obo op would ic oc y s butt. The tweet went viral, resulting in a crowdfunding campaign that raised more than , for the effort. Detroit metalworker Giorgio Gikas was tapped to bring the 11-foot-tall bronze monument to life, which was intended to be installed outside of the Michigan Science Center. But more than 10 years later, Detroit s obo op statue remains in limbo. ac man got i as to open up about his cancer diagnosis, which delayed the project, and broke news that the statue would no longer be displayed at the Science Center. Said the judges: “The Detroit obocop statue is legend and this story does a good job of explaining its origins and what it means now that it nears completion.” f we hear any news on obo op, we’ll report back.
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Detroit Metro Times wins 2022 AAN Awards By Lee DeVito LAST MONTH, I drove to Chicago for the 2022 Association of Alterna tive Newsmedia (AAN) convention held at the Intercontinental Hotel, where I met up with my Euclid Media Group colleagues, many of whom met in person for the rst time. There, we attended multiple days of panel discussions, work shops, lectures, and networking with journalists and managers from other alt-weeklies from across the country. But perhaps most importantly, we bonded over burgers and rounds of beers (and Malört) at the “World Famous” Billy Goat Tavern, a haunt favored through the years by journalists from the nearby offices of the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times Oh, and the convention was also capped off with the wards ceremony, where Euclid Media Group, including Metro Times, was recog nized for our work. Our former art director Evan Sult earned second place for his cover design for Metro Times thanks to his expert art direction. That included a spoof of the cover of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) for my cover story about getting vaccinated for D a riff on the adsden ag to illustrate Steve Neavling’s report on in ghting in the Michigan epubli can Party; and an eye-catching cover about the rejuvenated labor move ment in time for May Day.
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“At a minimum, Garland must resign or be impeached,” Hawley continued. “The search warrant must be published. Christoper Wray must be removed. And the FBI reformed top to bottom.” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis: “The raid on [Mar-a-Lago] is another escala tion in the weaponization of federal agencies against the regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic.”
Again, none of these people knew anything about the FBI’s search when they ran their mouths. But they all knew — or should have known — that the DOJ doesn’t comment on ongoing investigations and couldn’t publish a search warrant led under seal, though Trump could have released it whenever heWhichwanted.is to say, the calls for “trans parency” and “answers” were designed to in ame the M masses, nothing more. And they worked: Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who signed the search warrant, is facing death threats. Conservative forums exploded with talk of civil war. Then a MAGA acolyte tried to shoot up the incinnati office and got himself killed in the process. Even after that, reit rt published the names of the two FBI agents involved in the search, which, of course, put a target on their backs.
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It’s not impossible that the FBI and DOJ took a sledgehammer to an anthill. It’s not impossible that they pulled the pin on America’s political grenade over a small-potatoes process crime. Cops are cops, even when they’re going after someone you don’t like. So let’s leave for another day the ques tions we can’t answer. And let’s stipulate that what we don’t know now, a week af ter the search, we certainly didn’t know a few hours after federal agents left the property.Thatbrings us to the most concerning aspect of the last week: the snap judg ments, rendered in absolute ignorance but with absolute certainty, that ooded conservative media, denouncing the search as the end of American democ racy.“The Justice Department is unleash ing political furies it can’t control and may not understand,” e ll Street ourn l’s editorial board warned. “The FBI raid was unprecedented for America but familiar to those in Florida who ed nations where political opposi tion was criminalized,” tweeted Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. “The @FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago is incredibly concerning, especially given the Biden admin’s history of going after parents other political opponents,” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., the head of the Republicans’ Senate campaign commit tee, wrote hours after the search. “This is rd orld country stuff. e need answers NOW. The FBI must explain what they were doing today why.”
The unignorable irony here is that the last time the FBI talked out of school about a politically charged investigation — former director James Comey in 2016 — it got Trump elected. The rest of this temper tantrum, how ever, reeks of projection. Hawley, who played a pivotal role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 elections, purports to lecture Biden on taking the republic into “dangerous waters”? Rubio, who in 2016 said Trump could not be trusted with the nuclear codes, says that investigating Trump for illegally keeping nuclear documents is a junta? Scott, who defended Trump’s attempt to black mail Ukraine into announcing a phony investigation into Biden, believes the Biden administration has a “history” of going after “political opponents”? And not that you’d expect better from DeSantis, but that 87,000 IRS agents canard is a lie.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other far-right types started a “Defund the campaign. aylor reene also led articles of impeachment against Attor ney General Merrick Garland, accusing him of “[overseeing] a denigration of the principles of our democratic republi can by politicizing our Department of Justice, and utilizing the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a Federal police force to punish or intimidate who questions or opposes the current regime.”
Soon, Merrick Garland could face the most difficult choice of any attorney general since the Nixon administration: If the DOJ indicts Trump, Republicans will say the charges are politically mo ti ated, and there s a not insigni cant chance of violence. But if the DOJ lets rump off the hoo because it s scared of the consequences, then the rule of law means nothing. I don’t pretend to know how this will — or should — play out. But it’s very important that we in the media get this next part right. Don’t toler ate politicians who’ve already exposed themselves as craven liars and hacks. Don’t insult your audience by treating them like serious people. A precari ous democracy can t afford to loo the other way while self-serving authoritar ians pour gasoline on the re. Besides, the FBI — which is, historically speaking, a shit institution — deserves better critics. Get more at billman.substack.com.
“The raid by Joe Biden’s FBI on the home of a former president who is also Biden’s chief political oppo nent is an unprecedented assault on democratic norms and the rule of law,” tweeted Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., selfproclaimed constitutional lawyer and Jan. 6 tough guy, the morning after the raid. “Biden has taken our republic into dangerous waters.”
There’s a lot we still don’t know about the FBI investigation of Trump. That hasn’t stopped conservative media from weighing in.
The Republicans are scandalTrump’sweaponizinglatest—asusual effre . illm n There’s a lot we still don’t know about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago last week. What we know, or think we know, comes from a mishmash of anonymous sources, Donald rump s con rmations via protestation, and the fragments of information in the public record. Likewise, there’s a lot we don’t know about where this is headed. It’s safe to say things don’t look good for the former president — he had documents in his possession he wasn’t supposed to have, some of which were highly classi ed and reportedly pertained to nuclear weapons, after his lawyers told the FBI he’d given them back — but we don’t yet know how d they are. We don’t know whether the Justice Department, having retrieved the docu ments, will call it a day, charge Trump with a document- or obstruction-related offense, or if this is a piece of something more insidious. (It’s curious that Trump, who wouldn’t read national secu rity brie ngs if they didn t ha e bright pictures, was hanging on to top-secret nuclear documents.)
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The Incision We CAN do medium-sized things By Abdul El-Sayed Senate Democrats erupted in jubilant cheers as Vice President Kamala Harris announced the results of the nal ote on the n ation educ tion Act of 2022, the pared-down, oe Manchin appro ed nal ersion molded out of the ashes of Build Back etter. t passed by the slimmest pos sible margin, 51-50, requiring Harris’s tie brea ing ote. ut it passed. Ma e no mista e he n ation eduction ct is good policy. he climate, tax, and healthcare bill will in est nearly billion in incen ti es to lurch our energy economy o er to renewable sources. That will focus on consumers, empowering e eryday fol s to ma e more sustainable in est ments in home energy alternati es li e solar and wind, or transit, like electric ehicles. n the healthcare front, it will e tend ffordable are ct subsidies until 2025 to 13 million Americans that originated in the pandemic. t also empowers Medicare, for the rst time, to negotiate prescription drug prices and caps out-of-pocket prescription drug ma imums to , . inally, it establishes a minimum corporate tax on “book” income, which is critical to pre enting ma or corporations from establishing foreign ta ha ens. his is good policy. ut it s not uite the ig ing Deal it s being touted as it s more li e a medium si ed ing Deal.or all the n ation eduction ct does, there’s so much that it doesn’t do. or starters, it does nothing about childhood tax credits, Medicare expan sion, paid family lea e, uni ersal pre and so much more that was in the original uild ac etter bill. ut e en where it does do good, it pulls punches. t offers serious climate carrots, but it doesn t enforce climate stic s. t e tends subsidies, but it doesn t establish a public option. t allows Medicare to negotiate prescription drugs, but only of them. t caps in sulin costs at , but only for Medicare bene ciaries. t establishes a corporate minimum tax, but it doesn’t eliminate the carried interest loophole. can already hear the gri led politi cal eterans responding with callous incredulity at my nai et . f course it doesn’t. This is how politics works.” hey re right, of course. his is how politics wor s. ut that is why our politics aren’t working for millions of Americans. nd they tend to be young meri cans.Take climate for example. Young folks are making life decisions around climate scenarios they see as increas ingly ine itable. o be sure, the n a tion eduction ct is the single biggest in estment in addressing the climate crisis. nd that s e actly the problem. Estimates suggest that this should bring down greenhouse gas emissions by by that achie es of iden s goal of reduction. ut that goal is already a hedge. t doesn t re ect the reality of what it will ta e us to ac tually address the crisis. Medicare price negotiation is great! But rather than negotiating on behalf of all Americans, li e resident iden ran on, this only applies to Medicare bene ciaries. his means that young fol s and by that, mean anyone who s not technically a senior citizen — are excluded. hen there s the ta piece. ight now, the ederal eser e is ogging inter est rates to address s y high in ation. hat s disproportionately pricing young people out of college, cars, and rst homes. The other approach to pulling money out of the economy is to ta the wealthy. nd while the n ation eduction ct does do that to some degree, it dodges others. n particular, the carried interest loophole that Sen. yrsten Sinema sa ed at the last minute will continue to allow nancial ser ices companies — some of the richest com panies in the world — to continue to pay egregiously low ta es. ublic trust in go ernment is near an all time low. ut that topline gure mas s how abysmally low public trust in go ernment is among people under the age of the fol s who ha e the most riding on the future, and whose otes continue to subsidi e the Demo cratic party. After the bill passed in the Senate, Senate Ma ority eader huc Schumer said de antly, o mericans who e lost faith that ongress can do big things, this bill is for you. worry that, in fact, this bill is for them… another demonstration that ongress funda mentally misde nes medium si ed things as big to ustify its failure to achie e actually big things. his is a failure of the system of our politics itself. t s in the ways that con gresspeople are so beholden to political donations that they, aside from rare sit uations, get captured by powerful cor porations and other special interests. t s a failure in the fact that iti ens United allowed those corporations and other special interests to end-around politicians entirely by spending gobs of money to shape election outcomes.
The Inflation Reduction Act offers the single biggest investment in climate in U.S. history… and that’s a sad comment on our politics.
onsider the Medicare drug price negotiations. n his letter to legislators, the president of h M , the lobbying organi ation dedicated to ad ancing the interests of drug companies, said that any legislator who otes for the bill won t get a free pass. t s a testament to the power of h M that they felt they could use this ind of language with impunity. But it’s also a testament to the public will on this issue — and the will of 50 Democratic senators to answer that call that e en the s inniest possible ersion of Medicare price negotiation passed. nd it pro es that we can do medium-sized things. But medium-sized things are still, well… things. And that’s better than nothing. he irony here, of course, is that if we want big things, perhaps the best way to get them is to stac up a bunch of medium-sized ones. And that ll mean that the only way around our bro en political system is through it. nce again, is one of the most important elections in our lifetimes man, get tired of writing that . nd if we want this administration to keep deli ering anything at all, we d better come out and ote. nd maybe, ust maybe, if we can eep the ouse and deli er two more otes in the Senate, they might be able to deli er a few truly big ing deals. Originally published Aug. 11 in The Incision. Get more at abdulelsayed. substack.com.
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12 August 17-23, 2022 | metrotimes.com A photo essay of young love on Detroit’s Belle Isle
This summer, I was reminded again of that song as I was walking through Belle Isle. I started seeing couples all over the place with that fresh love vibe. It was a feeling I felt lucky to still recognize, and I wanted to literally capture it. I began approaching couples that had that look about them — whether they were touching or laughing or sometimes kissing. What’s interesting is that the majority of couples I photographed told me they were new in their relationships, often less than two years in. I started to think about what that says about when and how we show affection in relationships — and how it physically materializes in the space or closeness between couples. I began to see the series “Love Island Detroit” as a metaphor for the place we all go to when we are new ly in love. A space of equal parts romance, mystery and escape — where all you need is a towel, a little sunscreen, and the belief that anything is possible.
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E arly on in my relationship, I sent my boyfriend a song, “Belle Isle,” by Anna Burch. It’s a song drenched in summer love about a place that means a lot to me. Perhaps I was projecting hopes for our budding romance. Maybe I was trying to woo him. It worked. He liked the song, (and me), and here we are two years later.
Belle Isle By Anna Burch I found myself in a new city I met you again fortuitously And you quickly put yourself into my sights I fell so hard my friends swore I was blind And now I’m lovesick and sunburned And summer’s only beginning I’ve done many foolish and hurtful things Twisting myself up into the sheets with guilt And I’ve let loads of men into my life Who smothered me with jealousy and pride But you seem so cool And I’ll bet you do make me feel like a lady I wish you would hold me in your arms Like the night we made out on Belle Isle now there won t always be rewor s But we saw them that night for a while I know that I’m very new in town And I’m so scared my past will run me down for good But when I see you looking back at me I think you see the girl I wanna be And for now this bitter earth is suddenly worth all the trouble We danced to that song twice in a row and I can’t let go all that easy. Amy Sacka is a Detroit-based photographer whose work has been published in National Geographic, The Guardian, PBS World News Hour, BuzzFeed, and others. More of her photos can be viewed at amysackaphotography.com.
14 August 17-23, 2022 | metrotimes.com his isn t the rst time e photo graphed elle sle. bout e years ago did a documentary photo pro ect co ering the entire island. remember photographing a couple who was celebrating their th wed ding anni ersary. hey were renewing their ows by the elle sle fountain. he wife was in her original wedding gown, her lace eil e tending many feet behind her. do wonder if any of the couples photographed for o e sland Detroit will stay together. ne couple was on their rst date and could feel the ner ous e citement. f you get mar ried, ma e sure you contact me. ou ll want this picture, said, curious about how it all would go.
Above center: Charles & Billy Above: Stephanie & Heather Right: Thomas & Hailey
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Top: Gloria & Rez ftentimes when photographing this series, d nd little nods to lo e in odd places. o sprayed on a bridge. lo e Mariana tattooed across a fence. disco ered this noteboo in a bo at the north end of the island near ipster each. was surprised to nd that lots of couples had written messages about their time together on elle sle. his particular note, about the thrill of ha ing new e periences together, captured in words the sentiment was trying con ey through my camera.
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Left: Genevieve & Brandon Since photographing these couples, many of them ha e stayed in touch. ne created an entire collage with the picture too along with ephemera from their relationship. See the man emailed me with a shot of the gift he made for his new anc . see my picture in the middle, the couple leaning up against each other, their arms intertwining with an ease that loo s li e a beginning.
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Detroit ConferencePsychedelic Ayana Iyi believes that natural psyche delics like psilocybin and ayahuasca can bring people all over the world together to live harmoniously. Iyi is an organizer and founder of the Detroit Psychedelic Conference, which will take place at Marygrove College. The weekend is packed with national and international speakers on how entheogenic plants treat anxiety, PTSD, and a variety of otherThisconditions.year’stheme is “The Marvel, Magick, and Mysteries of Mushrooms,” which Iyi calls “an ancient healing technology.”“WhenIspeak of ancient heal ing technologies, that is exactly what [psilocybin mushrooms] are,” she says. “They’ve been on the planet for thou sands and thousands of years. Your mushroom spores are 460 million years older than any other plant or fungi. They’re making a huge psychedelic renaissance right now because we need the help. We are in trouble. A lot of people are suffering from an iety and depression and PTSD, and just life seems to be harder to live as opposed to dying.”Entheogenic plants and fungi were decriminalized in Ann Arbor in 2020 and in Detroit in 2021, with other cities like Hazel Park following suit. Iyi and her late husband Kilindi had been host ing the Detroit Psychedelic Conference since 2014, and since then, they both have traveled around the world educat ing people on the healing and expansive properties of psychedelics. Iyi continues to lead the conference, though her husband passed away in 2020. The conference will include a panel of organizers with Decriminalize Nature Michigan, who have been push ing to legalize psychedelics across the state, an issue they hope to get on the 2024 ballot. —Randiah Camille Green
The Detroit Windsor Dance Academy will perform at the Detroit Parks Coalition Freedom Art’s Festival. COURTESY PHOTO
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The 2022 Detroit Psychedelic Conference is from Friday, Aug. 19-Sunday, Aug. 21 at Marygrove College; 8425 W. McNichols Rd., Detroit; thedetroitpsychedelicsociety. com. Tickets are $250 for the weekend.
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FRI, 8/19-SAT, 8/20 Woodward Dream Cruise If you hate cars, this event is not for you. But if you hold a romance for the automobile, you probably don’t need us to tell you about the Woodward Dream Cruise. First started in 1995, the annual summertime tradition sees auto a cio nados driving class cars along Oakland County’s major thoroughfare for family friendly fun. There’s programming all along and around the avenue, includ ing a classic car parade from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Friday down 12 Mile Road in Berkley, musical entertainment in downtown Ferndale, and a Ford Bronco show in Pleasant Ridge. —Lee DeVito See woodwarddreamcruise.com for the full schedule and map. SAT, 8/20 Freedom Art’s Festival Soon enough, Sarah E. Ray will become a Detroit household name. At least, it ought to be. The unsung civil rights champion helped desegregate the famed Boblo boats in the 1960s and later ran a community youth outreach pro gram where she advocated for racial har mony in the 1970s. She’s often referred to as “Detroit’s other Rosa Parks.” Ray is getting her due with a day of dance, music, and spoken word perfor mances in her honor during the Detroit Parks Coalition Freedom Art’s Festival on Saturday. The festival is a free city wide series of summer and fall events to reconnect Detroiters to neighborhood parks. The next installment is dedicated to Ray and will take over Palmer Park. Featured performances include the Detroit Windsor Dance Academy en semble led by decorated director Debra hite unt, the . Spencer are eld Quintet, and a poetry and music duet by Bill Harris and Rev. Robert Jones. hite unt and are eld will present new works to accompany narratives about Ray written by journalist and his torian Desiree Cooper who helped bring the activist’s story to light with the Sarah E. Ray Project. The project saw Cooper and documentary lmma er aron Schillinger collaborate on an oral his tory initiative about Ray whose story is also featured in Schillinger s lm Boblo Boats: Detroit Ferry Tale. Prior to Coo per and Schillinger s efforts to unco er Ray’s obscure story, many people likely had never heard of her.
Now the house where she once lived on Detroit’s Eastside is considered one of the “11 Most Endangered” sites in the country. The Detroit Land Bank is looking to sell the historic landmark to someone committed to preserving Ray’s legacy.The Freedom Art’s Festival series goes until October across various Detroit parks. More info is available at detroit parkscoalition.com.
Sarah E. Ray’s celebration is from 1-5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 20 outside the Palmer Park Community House; 1121 Merrill Plaisance, Detroit. Entry is free.
—Randiah Camille Green
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By Lee DeVito When Jack White plays in Flint this weekend — the rock star’s rst time e er performing there he ll be part of a tight four piece band whose drummer uses a uni ue setup, with the snare and the toms tilted forward, away fromhehim.drummer is Daru ones, a fellow Michigan nati e with a bac ground in hip hop. ones has been wor ing with hite since the beginning of his solo career a decade ago ma ing him one of hite s most consistent collabora tors outside of Meg hite, his e wife who he played with for more than years in his band the hite Stripes, best nown for her primal, unschooled drumming style. ones, who li es in roo lyn, ew or , says he didn t start out with plans to play roc or any secular music, for that matter. rowing up entacostal in the hurch of od in hrist, ones says he was discouraged from listening to popular music. My mom and dad are both musi cians, he says by phone during a tour brea in ash ille, where hite mo ed to from Detroit in . My dad was my mom s organ teacher. So that s how that all started. is parents encouraged ones to start playing drums at age . e really were not supposed to listen to anything outside of gospel, he says. ut when would go to school, my friends would be tal ing about hip hop and other genres. So snuc records , because wanted to be cool. e started listening to rap acts li e . . ., ribe alled uest, u ang lan, and ang Starr, as well as some a . ust tuned out the lyrics, because of my religious upbringing, he says. ust gra itated toward the music.ones s lo e of hip hop bloomed, and by , he scored a gig drum ming in Detroit group Slum illage s li e band. hen Detroit rapper lac Mil opened for Slum illage at a show at nn rbor s lind ig, he was so impressed by Slum illage s bac ing band that he recruited the players for his nown. , hite in ited lac Mil to cut a record at his home studio in ash ille and to perform at his record label and music enue hird Man ecords the ne t day. here, ones s uni ue drum ming style caught hite s eye. ones says he started tilting his drums forward in the early s ust to ha e a loo ou now, li e rince wearing stilettos, or Michael ac son with the glitter glo es, he says as well as a tribute to a drummers li e uddy ich and ene rupa, who also played on slanted snares. e says playing the drums that way is a challenge. ecause e been doing it for so long, e gotten used to it, he says. t made me play differently. t made me be a lot more intentional when do a ll it has to count, because e erything is not always acces sible to reach because of the angles. e adds, li e to challenge myself and e ol e. fter the show at hird Man, hite s team in ited ones to come bac for a recording session with the u ang lan s . hen the rapper canceled at the last minute, hite said he had some solo songs that he was wor ing on and offered to record those with onesMonthsinstead.later, ones got an email from hite s team in uiring about his a ailability for the ne t year. t the time, ones was uggling wor drum ming for lac Mil and rapper alib weli. hen ones mentioned that, hite then emailed him personally to tell him that one of the songs they recorded together made it onto his rst solo record, Blunderbuss, and he wanted to bring ones on tour, which would feature two sprawling, alternat ing bac ing bands one all male and the other all ecausefemale.mloyal, it was a really tough career decision to ma e, ones says. actually almost didn t e en do it. hen weli decided to tour with a D instead, it made the decision easier. ust felt the uni erse was telling me that need to mo e forward, ones says, adding. t s been nothing but blessings, and a shift for my career. fter spending much of his career as a staunch roc n roll re i alist enamored by the blues and country music, hite has become a ocal fan of hip hop in recent years. ip hop is the new pun roc , he told the Los An geles Times in . appers ha e the dangerous edge of music now what would consider the closest thing to that stuff you might not want your parents to now you re listening to. ones says it wasn t difficult for him to transition into playing roc n roll. ac brought me to bring my ibe to what he s doing, which made me rela , he says.ntour, hite performs songs from his entire catalog, including his solo albums, the hite Stripes, and his other bands the aconteurs and the Dead eather, among others. ones says when they perform hite Stripes songs, he s made a conscious decision to imitate Meg s style in order to reso nate more with fans. She was not the most technical drummer, as you now, but what they did was a ibe, he says, adding. li e it. m a fan. e says Meg s unusual style reminds him of Slum illage producer Dilla, who was also nown for creating per fectly off ilter beats. t reminds me of a Dilla ibe, he says. t reminds me of hip hop, you now what m saying, li e that whole beat brea , ind of sloppy. hen he s not drumming with hite, ones also wor s with producer ete oc s li e band, the Soul roth ers, as well as , a rap roc trio fronted by haroahe Monch. e s also released an instrumental album with e rown called Daru State of Mind and Play the Breaks, a collec tion of sample ready drum brea s and audio commentary from ones about his creati e process. hite s Supply hain ssues our band is a lean, mean ersion pared down from his pre ious touring bands, and also includes fellow ass ech alum Dominic Da is on bass and uincy Mc rary, originally of . ., on eyboards. hite famously doesn t use a setlist, which eeps ones on his toes literally, as he often has to stand up to hit his tilted drums. t ma es e ery night interesting, he says. Sometimes we re playing things that we ne er rehearsed. e adds, li e being thrown into the re.
Jack White performs on Saturday, Aug. 20 at the Whiting; 1241 E. Kearsley St., Flint; thewhiting.com. Event starts at 8 p.m. Daru Jones performing with Jack White.
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I recently attended the Con cert of Colors in the lawn of the Detroit nstitute of rts, speci cally for the Don as tribute to ggy op. wouldn t ha e e en nown about it if my buddy oe hadn t in ited me, but it would turn out to be one of the musical highlights of my summer. t was remar able to wit ness a group of legendary Detroit musi cians performing co ers with such eal, all in an effort to pay homage to one of their hometown heroes op was born in Mus egon and grew up in psilanti, but still . t was also a personal reminder for me about one of the components of Detroit music that sometimes goes unnoticed, often eclipsed by the birth of techno or the reign of Motown. he musical history of Detroit is so ast and comple , you would be forgi en for not nowing e ery part of it. ften our familiarity stems from personal e periences, whether it s the music that our parents listened to growing up or the songs that ha e soundtrac ed our li es, spilling o er us li e a ood of memories. or Smitty . Smitty, founder and co organi er of the Detroit ll Star arage oc un e ue, he can remember the roots of what would e en tually become his lifelong passion. eing a gentleman of a certain age, the rst time got inundated and mes meri ed by roc n roll was the year old ersion of me watching the eatles on Ed Sullivan, he says. o say it blew me away is the understatement of the uni erse, literally on that day my whole worldndchanged.sobegan Smitty s musical our ney, which would see him playing with Detroit based out t igures on a each in the s and currently in pro ects such as ittle illy ost and Smitty . Smitty and the e tones. s a lifelong fan of the music, it s no surprise that Smitty e entually found himself in an organi ing role.ithan impressi e list of friends and collaborators in the scene Don as produced a igures on the each single, for e ample , it was only a matter of time before Smitty would be inspired to get them all together. nter he ll Star arage oc un e ue, which started in to celebrate the rich history of Detroit s independent pun roc from the late s and s. fter an une pectedly successful rst year they had no choice but to do it again, and in the show began bringing in new bands cur rently ma ing their mar on Detroit s pun scene, merging the past and the present in a way that was both nostalgic and forward thin ing. he rst time we did this at s ager ouse, it was almost li e a high school reunion with all my pun roc friends, Smitty says. fter that, reali ed that if was going to do it again, we had to in ect some newer talent in there. Since then, the representation of Detroit s new guard of pun has only increased, e panding the appeal of the e ent and building upon the legacy that inspired it in the rst place. D put a halt on the show, but after a long hiatus the show is bac in action for a two day festi al on ug. and at adieu afe. he enue change both helped the group accommodate for an e panded, two day lineup, and also made sense gi en the nature of the pandemic. wanted to change it up, and adieu afe has an outdoor stage, so thought this is great, says Smitty. or those of us that are feeling funny about D ariants and things li e that, hopefully people will feel more comfort able with an outdoor e ent. e adds, don t ha e a crystal ball, but thin he Detroit ll Star arage oc un e ue will be the biggest and best one yet. hile there will certainly be some nostalgia for the days at s, especially gi en the recent sale of the building, the group is e cited for what s to come. he festi al will be hosted by iconic radio D Michael alloran, former host of D s adios in Motion, and will feature bands across two days. he rst day s lineup will feature a stac ed bill piled into a single night, including Detroit s self proclaimed and often alidated rst pun band inecyde, a new pro ect from the Mary obra of the Detroit obras called i i, and local standouts Sugar radition, who recently opened for ac hite on his tour stops at the Detroit Masonic emple. Day two will ha e programming starting in the afternoon and going all night, featuring music from udra ubat, the mino cids, and more. Smitty himself will ma e a few appearances Saturday, play ing rst with Smitty . Smitty and the e tones and then later with ittle illy ost with special guest and co curator of the festi al, Stirling. n spea ing about his ourney and the e ent itself, Smitty can t help but feel grateful.than my luc y stars that e had the opportunity to tour with a couple bands, and e seen this ind of music all o er the country and e en in parts of u rope, he says. he more got out there, the more reali ed ust how beautiful and uni ue the Detroit music scene is. his is a celebration of the o. roc n roll city on planet earth, and e erybody else is ghting for second place. Doors open at p.m. on Friday, Aug. 19 and 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 20 at the Cadieux Cafe, 4300 Cadieux Rd., Detroit; cadieuxcafe.com. Tickets are $25 at the door. Smitty E. Smitty and the Feztones. 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The Detroit All-Star Garage Rock Punk Revue IV celebrates the scene’s past, present, and future By Broccoli
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The east side’s Rose’s Fine Food is consistently on my short list of favorite Detroit restaurants since it opened in 2014, trading in well-sourced breakfast and lunch “diner” fare, along with its excellent sourdough bread and cakes.Though its hotline and previous menu became COVID casualties as owner Molly Mitchell adjusted to stay a oat in recent years, ose s main tained in its pivot to paninis and salads, and the change presented a new op portunity: dinner service that would allow it to showcase its natural wine selection. With the installation of a proper bakers’ oven, Mitchell had all she needed for a pizza menu. It’s a departure from the diner vibe, but no matter — like everything at Rose’s, dinner rides on simplicity and impeccable seasonal produce sourcing from local growers like Beaverland and Fisheye. The caprese salad, for example, was mixed with incredible tomatoes from Detroit’s Hio Farms, basil grown at Rose’s, chili oil, and creamy moz zarella — no balsamic, because Rose’s knows what it’s doing, and the high quality, sweet, early season heirloom tomatoes carry the plate. The dinner menu is short and changes each weekend — typically two pizzas, one with meat and one without, along with some combination of salads, “snack plates,” soup, and dessert. Each pizza is 12 inches and built from a yeasted dough inspired by an Eric Wareheim recipe that produces a super crisp crust, and which comes out of the oven with just the right level of char. The red pies are made with a bright sauce, and each of the four we tried were excellent, but none were better than that with eggplant, shiitake mushrooms, black olives, and a coating of herbs on a generous layer of moz zarella. What puts it over the top are the pops of umami from the shiitake mushrooms, which were marinated in something along the lines of soy, lemon, herbs, and chili oil. Another substantial pie was one made with squash, pickled jalapeño, peaches, and super creamy goat cheese. The inspira tion came from an Appalchian salad of peaches and jalapeños topped with sugar that a former employee’s mother used to make. We also loved a pizza with pep peroni, black olives, tomatoes, basil, and pickled carrots, the latter of which is an ingenious topping. “It’s so easy to cook this time of year with the produce because you just blend something with something else and it’s always awe some,” Mitchell says. A bit simpler but no less tasty was a pie with prosciutto, red sauce, and plenty of herbs. Among the snacks were bundles of long beans roasted and wrapped in prosciutto on a bed of greens, doused in a pleasant, acidic, brightening inaigrette. n a different isit, cheesy bread made with Rose’s sour dough loaves lightly toasted with cheese melted on top an excellent marinara with the pickled carrots and a side of salami was worth the order. Mitchell’s chilled beet soup was made with braised beets, a basil pesto, creme fraiche, walnuts, pickled josta berries, and small sprigs of dill, all of which achie ed balance in a or and texture. The josta berries are an un usual savory, salty, and sour berry that Mitchell decided to pickle to add to the soup’s Polish feel. Diego Aliste buys Rose’s natural wines, and steadily rotates bottles that are mostly at an approachable price typically under $25. He says he scours inventory lists for gems that sometimes can’t be found elsewhere in Michigan and are effecti ely e clusi e to ose s. Among those Aliste, who was born in Chile, poured was a Chilean orange, Mingaco, made from muscatel grapes that’s heavy on the citrus and apricot notes. Only 2,000 bottles were produced, and though orange wines are having their moment, Mingaco has been making it “since long before the idea of the trend — this was just how they used to make white wine,” Aliste says. We also got a bottle of a Cicada SongAlisterosé.keeps on hand some of Rose’s “greatest hits,” and if you’re not sure what you like, he’s a chill guy who makes sure there’s no shame in ap proaching him with questions or hav ing a con ersation to gure out what you might be into. Note: no corkage fee at Roses, so if you see a $15 bottle of wine on the shelf, pop it open and pay $15.
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Rose’s Fine Food 10551 E. Jefferson Rd., Wheelchair$16rosesfinefood.com313-822-2729Detroitforpizzasaccessible Rose’s new pizza menu, natural wine program shine on Detroit’s east side.
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Hamtramck’s Dos Locos Tacos to expand OUR HEARTS BROKE when Hamtramck paczki fave New Martha Washington Bakery closed down in April. But now that next-door Dos Locos Tacos is going to expand into the former bakery space, our hearts (and stomachs) can rest a bit easier.Dos Locos Tacos owner Mike Petrack tells Metro Times he purchased the bakery in April not long after it closed. He says the Petrovic family, who ran New Martha Washington Bakery for nearly 50 years, owned the building that housed both the taqueria and the Polish sweets spot. “We had been renting from the folks at the bakery, and buying it was something we were talking about for quite a while,” Petrack says. “It came at a time when it just made sense. You know, they were having some issues with the family’s health and we were able to come to an agreement that both parties were happy with.”
FOLLOWING THE ANNOUNCE MENT that long-standing rock ’n’ roll venue PJ’s Lager House is being sold, owner PJ Ryder has announced an “End of an Era” series of free concerts. In a statement, Ryder says: “It is with extremely mixed emotions that am announcing our THE END OF AN ERA FREE CONCERT SERIES! We are planning a series of concerts to salute the musicians and thank the patrons of PJ’s Lager House for 15 great years of music and love. Having a place where musicians of all types could perform their original music is an experience that will never be able to duplicate! All can say is thank you to everyone who has supported us through thick and thin. Thank you to my wife Donna for letting me get away with this! think PJ’s is going to grow in the next number of years and all can say is watch this space. Again thank you to patrons, friends, musicians and everyone who has kept us going all these years.” The shows are slated for Friday, Aug. 26, Sunday, Aug. 28, and Tuesday, Sept. 13.The Friday, Aug. 26 bill features e bands immy s rganism, the Cheetahs, the Chris Casselo Trio, the Firewalkers, and the Vibrations. The show starts at 7 p.m. The Sunday, Aug. 28 bill features soul singer Melvin Davis, who is celebrating his th birthday. he ew rleans inspired Gabriel Brass Band is also on the bill. The show also starts at 7 p.m. The lineup for the Sept. 13 show has not yet been announced. Last month, Ryder announced that he was working toward selling the business to the owner of the next-door building that houses the ames li er offee o. e did not disclose a sale price, though in 2019 he listed the building for sale for $2.2 million, citing the changing nature of the Corktown neighborhood. Ryder says he believes the new owners will operate the busi ness similar to the way he did, as a rock venue with a kitchen that serves brunch on the weekends. He said he expects the sale to become nal by the end of September.
Detroit bar PJ’s Lager House announces ‘The End of an Era’ free concert series
PJ’s Lager House is located at 1254 Michigan Ave., Detroit; pjslagerhouse. com. –Lee DeVito Goodbye paczki, hello (more) tacos. RANDIAH CAMILLE GREEN
f you e e er been to Dos ocos to cap off a night of partying in amtramc , you’re familiar with the ridiculously long line and wait times at the popular hole in the wall. The current space is limited to bar seating, but the new expansion will bring a larger dining and kitchen area. “No more lines out the door and 45-minute waits,” Petrack says. “Eventually we hope to expand the menu to include larger entrees depending on customer demand, but for now the menu will be the same.”
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Dos Locos is still open in the original location while it waits to open the nextdoor dining room, which features a mural by local artist Michelle Tanguay. Petrack tells us everything is pretty much ready, they’re just waiting to get the proper licensing through Wayne County. –Randiah Camille Green
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Cheech and Chong’s Cannabis Company launches in Michigan
AFTER DECADES OF using — and joking about — pot, comedy duo Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong have entered the cannabis business them selves.Cheech and Chong’s Cannabis Com pany launched in the Michigan market last week. ts products, which include ower, concentrates, and edibles, are available at Nature’s Medicines dispensaries. Reached by phone, Chong, 84, says they decided to start the company dur ing the pandemic. When Cheech came on board, “That’s when we really started getting serious about everything can nabis,” he says. The company started selling its products in Colorado, and they’re now available in just about every state where cannabis is legal. t s not hong s rst foray into the cannabis business, but it is the rst time since cannabis has become widely legal i ed in much of the .S. n , hong was sentenced to nine months in federal prison after he was caught selling bongs on the internet, and more recently he started a CBD company. He says he knew one day cannabis would become legal, however. My feeling really was indication, he says.“With Cheech being Mexican, and me being half hinese, we grew up e peri encing racism, you now, in one form or another. .... Our existence was against the law,” he says. “We were always the outlaws.” hong says he rst started using can nabis as a young man, a self described “health nut” who worked out at Gold’s Gym.“Irealized that cannabis was the one thing that all the very strict bodybuilders would indulge in,” he says. eed was ust too e pensi e for me, as a musician, so we always relied on friends you now, fans, he adds. nd so that s where got my weed from. He has credited cannabis with help ing him cope with two bouts of cancer over the past decade, and says he is now cancer free. Chong says they partnered with multi-state operator Nature’s Medicines because they run a good business. “I love working with them,” he says, add ing, “We hooked up because we see us heading for a huge, huge response, and a huge response has to have a huge deliv ery. nd that s as important as anything. You can talk big talk, but unless you can deliver the goods, that talk don’t mean nothing.” More information is a ailable from cheechandchongscannabis.com. –Lee DeVito messierordinancemarijuanarecreationalDetroit’sovergets
THE DETROIT ELECTION Commis sion deli ered bad news to ad ocates of a more robust marijuana industry in the Motor City. The three-member commission last week rejected a ballot initiative that would have given voters an opportunity to overturn the city’s much-criticized recreational marijuana ordinance. But supporters aren’t giving up on their goal of creating a more business friendly ordinance that would wake up the recre ational marijuana industry in Detroit. t issue is the number of signatures col lected by iti ens for etter Social uity, a group pushing to eliminate roadblocks to obtaining a marijuana license under the current ordinance. f the , signatures collected, election officials alidated , of them. nder the Detroit ity harter, , signatures were needed.
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Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong. COURTESY PHOTO But the Detroit Law Department argues the initiati e needs at least , signa tures under the Michigan Regulation and a ation of Mari uana ct. Michael . Di aura, an attorney for the Detroit-based cannabis company House of Dan , tells Metro Times that the group plans to appeal the commission’s decision. dolph Mongo, a spo esman for the group, says the current ordinance, which was passed by the city council in pril, will force many of Detroit s medical marijuana dispensaries to close and will doom the future of recreational cannabis in the city. eryone is as ing, here is the weed?’” Mongo tells Metro Times. “It sure is not in Detroit.” dult use recreational mari uana sales ha e been legal in Michigan since . But in Detroit, the state’s largest city, the council repeatedly delayed enacting an ordinance to allow recreational dispensa ries to open. s a result, dispensaries ha e cropped up in cities outside of Detroit s border. Detroit s roughly medical dispen saries are struggling to survive. Fewer people are getting medical cannabis cards because they cost money and take time to obtain, and consumers can get marijuana at roughly the same price at nearby recre ational“Whydispensaries.wouldyougo to a medical marijuana dispensary when you can go to Hamtramck or anywhere else and walk in without a card?” Mongo asks. “You are going to ha e people going out of business after in esting hundreds of thousands of dollars. ll of those buildings are going to go empty. It’s unreal.” Detroit’s new ordinance is especially concerning for medical cannabis dis pensaries because it pre ents them from opening a recreational marijuana business until at least , a pro ision that drew at least two lawsuits. n one of the suits, a ayne ounty Circuit Court judge issued a temporary restraining order to pre ent the city from issuing licenses for dispensaries, micro businesses, and consumption lounges. he plaintiffs in the suit ouse of Dan and S annabis argue the ordinance violates the state’s recreational marijuana law. Supporters of the ballot initiati e iew the proposed ordinance as a way to nally open recreational dispensaries. The initia tive would enable medical cannabis dis pensaries to get a recreational license and allow for unlimited recreational facilities. Mongo called out Detroit Council ro em ames ate, the author of the ordinance, for refusing to budge on an ordinance that is preventing a burgeoning cannabis industry in the city. “I don’t think he wants marijuana, pe riod,” Mongo says. “James Tate is adamant. It’s like he’s taking this personally. He’s not mo ing. he art of politics is the art of negotiations. He sounds like the obstruc tionists in D.C.” Mongo says Tate should be recalled because he’s single-handedly harmed a fast growing industry that could pro ide much-needed jobs in the city. he city ordinance calls for awarding li censes for up to dispensaries, micro businesses, and consumption lounges. alf of the licenses would go to social e uity applicants, who must li e in a city that was disproportionately impacted by the war on drugs. Mongo points out that social e uity applicants don t ha e to be from Detroit, so the ordinance isn t necessarily a win for residents. Mongo predicts that many of the social e uity applicants will be celebri ties who don’t need additional opportuni ties li e many of the city s residents. “Detroiters get screwed all the way around,” Mongo says. Metro imes couldn t reach ate for comment.Thecity is late to entering the legal recreational marijuana market, and that could be a ma or problem for new businesses. The statewide market is now ooded with mari uana products, grow ers, and dispensaries, causing prices to hit all time lows and forcing some businesses to sell cannabis at a loss. For the past two years, Tate has said he’s in no rush to develop an adult-use ordinance.Thecity began accepting applications for prospecti e recreational cannabis busi nesses on pril , the unofficial annual marijuanaDoghouseholiday.Farms, a brand originally from regon, was awarded the city s rst recreational cannabis license to operate a grow facility in Detroit. You can read the entire proposed new ordinance on the city of Detroit s website. Steve Neavling
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Pushing the legal limits
Emily the Criminal is a crackling Millennial revenge tale that discards societal lies for an escape hatch. COURTESY PHOTO
Endless box stores, dirty windshields, parking lots with zero shade; stalled elevators, eyebrow scars, sputtering uorescent lights security fences, empty fridges, cocaine with strangers in sweaty bathrooms. Emily the Criminal may be one of the most honest L.A. movies — and American movies — of our times, if only for entirely renouncing most of the lies that Hollywood, and mainstream media, happily feeds us. The debut feature of writer-director John Patton Ford, the lm swaps the glamorous trappings of rolling hills and Malibu sands for the wor day malaise and nancial precar ity that affect a much larger swath of the city’s, and our country’s, popula tion. Gone are the blown-out, Botoxed glitterati; they are replaced with a racially cacophonous band of citizens and undocumented workers hustling to get by. Palm trees barely appear; when they do, they sway toward the asphalt. Shot on a low-budget over three weeks during the pandemic, Emily the Criminal follows the titular Emily (Aubrey Plaza), an art-school grad who turns to a life of crime to pay off her mounting college debt. With a snappy Jersey accent and silver nose stud, Em ily scrapes by delivering work lunches to downtown corporations, sketching portraits in her car between shifts. Plaza appears in every single scene of this movie — whether hauling vats of pasta or tasing a black-market boss, her electric, strikingly physical per formance reminds us that she’s always been much more than a quirky comic. At the same time, Ford’s script does something just as rare for a thriller with a badass female lead: swaps out the implausible, reductive “strong woman” trope for a subtle portrait of a distinctly imperfect, yet relatable, human being. i e one in e mericans, mily is buried in debt, and like nearly a third of her compatriots, boasts a criminal record that effecti ely precludes gain ing the means to pay it off. “I need a job, a good job,” she coolly confesses to her college bestie Liz (Megalyn Echikunwoke) at a trendy bar. Whereas her friend’s life is “insane” because she’s headed to Portugal on her company s dime, mily can t afford her rent, let alone the paint needed for making art. When Liz arranges for her boss to interview Emily for a graphic design position, it soon becomes clear that said “job” is merely another unpaid, full-time internship with zero bene ts. don t understand how you feel so comfortable asking people to wor without pay, mily tells the rm s president Alice (Gina Gershon). Fed up with being pedantically schooled on how awful the eld was when lice was “the only woman in a room full of men,” Emily snaps, “If you want to tell me what to do, put me on the fucking payroll.”Given a lead from a coworker at her catering gig, mily nds a different, if much less legal, way to boost her nancial status as a dummy shop per,” amassing pricey electronics and luxury vehicles in little time with fake credit cards for resale. Within un marked warehouses and tinted SUVs, Emily quickly descends into a colorful underworld of immigrants, tough guys, and desperate single parents, all more motivated by the desire to survive than an adrenaline rush or atscreen . “With a purchase of this size, the bank will call the vendor, but that takes eight minutes,” explains Youcef (Theo Rossi), the operation’s soft-spoken middle man, prepping mily for her rst big solo venture. “You have eight minutes to leave, or they know it’s fake.” With a techno score redolent of Tom Tykwer’s exhilarating Run Lola Run, Emily packs more nail-biting sequences into its taut ninety minutes than the bloated Bullet Train, a half hour longer. s much as the lm crac les as a Millennial revenge tale, Emily the Criminal simmers as both a character study and a trenchant indictment of the U.S. carceral system and structural poverty it abets. More obliquely, Ford’s debut speaks to the ongoing Great Resignation, wherein record numbers of low-wage employees have voluntarily quit their jobs. Is it worth working a demeaning job that can’t ever pay your bills? Has our national obsession with meritocratic ad ancement nally reached its breaking point? “Motherfuckers will just keep taking from you and taking from you until you make the goddamn rules yourself,” Emily concludes to oucef at the lm s clima . “Am I wrong? Am I wrong?” y its nal scene a plot twist turned happy ending that upends traditional conceptions of the latter — Emily the Criminal stealthily labors to suggest that escape from the rat race is possible. Just don’t expect to follow the laws of society or acceptable female behavior.
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A: Cockrings are great; I recom mended them to another reader e seconds ago. But while a snug-butnot-too-tight cockring can help keep a penis-haver’s penis hard by gently restricting blood ow out of the penis haver’s penis, cockrings don’t make penis-havers “last longer,” e.g., they don’t delay ejaculation. (Cockring 101: Gentle restriction is good; trapping blood in the penis is not. Cockrings should be snug, not tight.) If you’ve already tried all the standard-issue advice to treat premature ejaculation (which I’ve covered before and don’t have the space to re-re-re-rehearse in a Quickies column), an ED med like Viagra might help (for the reasons mentioned above); a low-dose SSRI is also an effecti e treatment for prema tureP.S.ejaculation.Whenever someone writes “penis-haver” my slightly dyslexic brain reads “penis-halver,” as in, someone who cuts a penis in half — which some people in the body modi cation com munity have done, and bon(e) appetit to anyone brave enough to do a Google image search.
Q For those that like to fuck outside on hikes and while camping… should we be wary of trail cams or go-pros people are hiding in trees for whatever reason? How to spot them? A: If people are doing that — if people are hiding cameras on popular hiking trails — well, then you should indeed be wary. Hike the beaten path, don’t fuck on it.
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:Q An ex-boyfriend is seeing trans prostitutes. Do tell his current wife IF an opportunity to do so should arise? And it will, as we live on a small island. would’ve wanted to know if we were still to et er. S ould s e not e offered the same? A: If you truly live on a small island — small enough that everyone knows everyone else’s business but large enough to have more than one trans sex worker — then your ex-boyfriend’s wife is gonna nd out sooner or later. ut e en if it means she nds out a little later, it would be better if she found out from someone other than you. Assuming your ex’s wife doesn’t already know and approve, if the bearer of bad news is a bitter ex — or someone who can easily be cast as one — your ex-boyfriend will have a much easier time convincing his wife that it isn’t true. Better she should hear it from the vicar.
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A: If he doesn’t want to come, don’t make him. No problem. But if he’s not coming because you want to make him come with your own hand, pussy, or mouth and he can’t come that way, then there is a problem here, and it’s you. Give him permission to enjoy oral and PIV and whatever else you both en oy before nishing himself off with the same skilled hands he’s using to get you off. roblem sol ed.
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Q I’m a 36-year-old man. If get too psyched out to stay hard for (extremely rare) anal with my wife, should just get some Viagra? A: Well, that depends. Does your wife like long anal sex sessions? If the answer to that question is yes, then Viagra could help. Because in addition to helping you get and stay hard, Viagra and other ED meds can delay orgasm. But if your wife doesn’t like long anal sex sessions — if she generally wants you to hurry the fuck up and get the assfucking over with — lasting longer could make those already rare anal sex sessions rarer still. Maybe try a cockring instead?
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CAPRICORN: Dec. 22 – Jan. 19 n her poem alentine, apri corn poet arol nn Duffy tells a lo er she won t gi e her a red rose or a satin heart. nstead, her to en of affection is an onion, a symbol of multi layered comple ity. ts erce iss will stay on your lips, Duffy writes, possessi e and faithful as we are, for as long as we are. She adds that the onion will blind you with tears li e a lo er. . under stand the tough attitude e pressed by Duffy. omance isn t a relent lessly sweet, sentimental romp through paradise. ut don t recommend that you imitate her approach to your lo e life in the coming wee s and months. ppreciate the sometimes shadowy and labyrinthine con olutions, yes, but don t ma e them more important than beauty and oy and lo e. ow about in o ing the symbol of a pomegranate t represents fertility and rebirth out of the dar ness.
SCORPIO: Oct. 23 – Nov. 21 f all the signs in the odiac, you Scorpios are most li ely to regard that old pop tune by the nimals as your theme song. m ust a soul whose intentions are good, croons lead singer ric urdon, h, ord, please don t let me be misunderstood. ut you may ha e less moti ation to e press that sentiment in the coming wee s, dear Scorpio. suspect you will e perience record brea ing le els of being seen and appreciated for who you are. or best results, do this . nform your deep psyche that you ha e no attachment to being misunderstood. . ell your deep psyche that you would ery much li e to be well understood.
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SAGITTARIUS: Nov. 22 – Dec. 21 nless we are creators, we are not fully ali e, wrote Sagittarian author Madeleine ngle. She was referring to e eryone, not ust people in the arts. She belie ed that to be soulful humans, we must always ma e new things, generate fresh possibilities, and e plore no el approaches. he restless urge to transform what already e ists can be e pressed in how we do our obs, our parenting, our intimate relationships, and e ery other acti ity. ou are now entering a phase, Sagittarius, when this initiatory energy will be especially a ailable, needed, and aluable.
TAURUS: April 20 – May 20 aurus poet Sher o e as wrote, ach oy wear, its slee es are either too short or too long, too loose or too tight on me. nd each sorrow wear ts as if it were made for me where er am. ith this as our starting point, aurus, m pleased to report some good news. n the ne t three wee s, you will ha e ero sorrows to try on and wear li e a garment. nd there will be at least three oys that t ust right. he slee es will be the correct length, and the form will be neither too loose nor too tight.
ARIES: March 21 – April 19 ries lmma er ndrei ar o s y wrote, ll my life, e been going around waiting for something as if were waiting in a railway station. nd e always felt as if the li ing e done so far hasn t actually been real life but a long wait for it a long wait for something real. f could spea with ar o s y right now, would cheerfully tell him that his wait will soon be o er. d say that in the coming months, ries people who ha e been postponing and postponing, who ha e been standing by and holding on and biding time, will ha e an e cellent chance to begin in habiting their full, rich destiny. in ite you to imagine what that will feel li e.
PISCES: Feb.19 – March 20 Sometimes, you may feel you re under the in uence of a debilitating spell or hindered by a mur y curse. isceans are prone to such worries. ut here s a secret. More than any other odiac sign, you ha e the power to es cape from spells. en if you ha e ne er studied the occult or read a witch s gri moire, you possess a natural facility for the natural magic that disperses curses. rom the depths of your psyche, you can summon the spiritual force necessary to cleanse the gun and free yourself. ow is a perfect time to pro e to yourself that what e said here is true.
GEMINI: May 21 – June 20 ips on how to get the most out of the coming wee s . reate a big spacious reali ation by wea ing together se eral small hunches. . eep a little angel on your right shoulder and a little de il on your left shoulder. n oy listening to them argue, and don t get attached to anything they say. . Do the une pected until it becomes e pected. hen abandon it and try a new, une pected e periment. . Meditate e pansi ely on the uestion, ow many careers can ha e in one lifetime . nhance your home so it feels e en more comfortable.
VIRGO: August 23 – Sept. 22 n his poem he upil, irgo born Donald ustice spea s of how he spent a whole wee practicing for that moment on the threshold. ad ise you to do the same, irgo. he goal is to be as prepared as you can be for the upcoming rite of transition without, of course, being neurotically o er prepared. t s ne and natural to honor the tension of anticipation, using it as moti ation to do your best. ne other thing s you get ready, please ha e as much fun as possible. isuali e the sense of accomplishment you ll feel when you e reached the other side of the test.
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LIBRA: Sept. 23 – Oct. 22 ne is always at home in one s past, wrote author ladimir abo o . ut encourage you to rebel against that theory, ibra. or now, nd a way to feel at home in your past. uestion it, be curious about it, re e aluate it. My hope is that you will then be moti ated to change how your history li es in you. ow is an e cellent time to recon g ure your life story, to de elop a re ised relationship with its plot twists and e olution. e isit and update some of your memories. e e aluate the mean ings of ey e ents. nchanting healings will materiali e if you do.
CANCER: June 21 – July 22 e uid and e ible while still being rooted and sturdy. e soft and sensiti e e en as you are also rm and resolute. e mostly modest and adapt able, but become asserti e and out spo en as necessary. e cautious about in iting and see ing out challenges, but be bold and brash when a golden challenge arri es. e your naturally generous self most of the time, but a oid gi ing too much. ot all that, ancerian arrying out the multifac eted assignments ust described might be nearly impossible for most of the other signs of the odiac, but they are in your wheelhouse. ou are a specialist in fertile comple ity.
Hey it’s Woodward cruise week, so drive accordingly. A 1995 Taurus is not a classic in my book, SHO or not. Ice Cold Beer
LEO: July 23 – August 22 e swung from ancient ines in the ca es of amaica, e ults oodoo priestess uisah eish. e danced with delight around totem poles and pressed foreheads with Maori war riors. e o ed with the pale fo in the crossroads, then wrestled with the aguar and won. ha e embraced great trees between my thighs and spo en words of lo e to thunder while riding lightning bolts. offer eish s celebra tory brag to inspire you as you formu late plans for the coming wee s and months. hat e hilarating ad entures will you gi e yourself hat e pansi e encounters will you learn from hat tra els outside of your comfort one will you dare he time is right for up surges and upturns and upgrades.
This week’s homework: What injustice are you most motivated to correct? Will
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AQUARIUS: Jan. 20 – Feb. 18 e e tra e pressi e with the people and animals you care about. e e en more amusing and generous than usual. Dare to be abundantly enter taining and engaging and empathetic. Ma e it your goal to draw out your allies dormant potentials and inspire them to lo e themsel es e en more than they already do. ll tell you about the endearing terms that author ladimir abo o called his wife. onsider using them with your dear ones My sun, my soul, my song, my bird, my pin s y, my sunny rainbow, my little music, my ine pressible delight, my tenderness, my lightness, my dear life, my dear eyes, itty in, poochums, goosi ins, spar rowling, bird of paradise.
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