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Vol. 40 | Issue 52 | Sept. 30-Oct. 6, 2020
Publisher - Chris Keating Associate Publisher - Jim Cohen
News & Views Feedback ............................. 14 An interview with Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen ..... 18 Informed Dissent ................ 20
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NEWS & VIEWS Feedback We got a lot of responses to Violet Ikonomova’s story about Hakim Littleton, the 20-year-old man who was killed by Detroit Police after he shot at them in July. This is sad. I don’t want anyone to die especially so young but unfortunately when you play stupid games you win stupid prizes. —Larry Smashey, Facebook Only those invested in Black folks or who have any empathy will take the time to read the article. The piece doesn’t excuse or justify Hakim Littleton’s wrongdoings. But it does explain the circumstances regarding how he got there. (And those circumstances are very familiar.) Privilege
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means not having to personally deal with (or think about) the issues and circumstances Hakim had to deal with. — Stephen Harvey, Facebook Apparently nobody read the article. Let’s be honest, there aren’t a lot of opportunities for young Black men in the city and it’s very easy to turn to crime just to get by. Once you get in the system its an endless cycle. When I was his age I could have easily ended up in his situation after dropping out of college but I ended up joining the military just to get away and experience something beyond the eventual dead end of the streets. —Marcus White, Facebook We know you have opinions! Contact us at letters@metrotimes.com.
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Dr. Jo Jorgensen.
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Libertarian Jo Jorgensen has never smoked pot
But she would still defend your right to do it in her longshot bid for president B y Lee DeVito
In the Libertarian Party,
presidential candidates don’t pick their running mates; instead, they’re chosen by delegates at the nominating convention in a separate vote. This year’s presidential ticket resulted in the odd- couple pairing of D r. J o J orgensen, an academic from S outh C arolina, and J eremy “ S pike” C ohen, a podcaster prankster who promises “a Waffle House on every corner” and to fund time travel research to kill baby Adolf Hitler. “ All I can say is that I was the one who was nominated for president,” J orgensen says, diplomatically, when asked about her running mate’s more out- there ideas. “ And so I’m not campaigning on any of those things. I do have a different platform, and so that’s the one that I’m pushing.” Metro T imes caught up with her before a campaign stop in D etroit. That platform is that “ government is too big, too bossy, too nosy, and too in-
trusive,” J orgensen says. “ And the worst part is they usually end up hurting the very people they try to help.” In a political system where D emocrats and R epublicans dominate, third- party candidates like J orgensen, who made a campaign stop in D etroit on M onday, have their work cut out for them — and especially this year, with the coronavirus pandemic, civil unrest in the streets, and the all- consuming contest between President D onald Trump and D emocrat J oe Biden, which has been cast as no less than a battle between authoritarianism and democracy, the top issues of the day. E arlier this year, U .S . R ep. J ustin Amash of Grand Rapids briefly considered seeking the Libertarian Party nomination after defecting from the R epublican Party and becoming the lone Libertarian in C ongress, but backed out after just three weeks, citing the “ extraordinary challenges” of 2 0 2 0 . J orgensen, however, remains unde-
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terred. “The path of course is very difficult, but I still say somebody has to run,” J orgensen says. “ We have to get the word out there. And so many people are realizing that the two parties just aren’t working.” F our years ago, the Libertarian Party ran a high-profile ticket featuring two former R epublican governors, G ary J ohnson of N ew M exico and William Weld of M assachusetts. It wound up being the Libertarian Party’s most successful presidential run to date, earning nearly 4 .5 million votes nationally. (F or perspective, Trump and C linton received more than 6 0 million votes each, while the G reen Party’s J ill S tein earned just 1 .4 million votes.) The Libertarians did so well in M ichigan in 2 0 1 6 that the party qualified to hold a primary in the 2018 governor’s race — the first time that a third party did so in almost 5 0 years. The margin between Trump and C linton was just some 1 0 ,0 0 0 votes in
M ichigan, meaning that third- party voters got plenty of blame for helping Trump win. E ven Bill G elineau — who helped campaign for J ohnson in 2 0 1 6 and won M ichigan’s Libertarian Party gubernatorial nomination in 2018, where he came in a distant third — told us earlier this year that he was going to put his party aside and vote for Biden in N ovember. “ It’s not because I don’t believe in the party — I worked my ass off for people in the Libertarian Party — but the fact that M ichigan is going to be a critical state,” he says. “ I believe that Trump is a clear and present danger.” (Amash, meanwhile, has endorsed J orgensen.) S till, J orgensen thinks there’s an appetite for a third choice this year, claiming that most of her campaign’s volunteers have come from outside the party. Trump, she says, appealed to many because he was an outsider who promised to cut spending, balance the budget, and bring our troops
home. “ And he did none of that,” she says. “ And so what I would like to say is that for all the people who wanted a true outsider, I’m that outsider. I think people do deserve a choice, and right now they don’t have much of a choice between Trump and Biden.” Of course, plenty of Biden supporters will say there is a clear choice, and point to Trump’s move to fill the S upreme C ourt seat vacated by the late R uth Bader G insburg as proof that liberal third- party voters should have just pinched their noses and voted for C linton; even if you don’t love a particular candidate, you have to look at the four- dimensional chessboard. But J orgensen believes the D emocratic Party deserves to be critiq ued. “ The D emocratic Party that I grew up learning about in the ’6 0 s was against the war, and they were for free speech, and they basically thought that people should be making their own decisions,” she says. “ And that’s not the party of today. The party today is very pro- war. And of course they don’t believe in free speech.” J orgensen says she wants to “ turn America into one giant S witzerland, armed and neutral.” S he also points to the D emocratic Party’s slow, reluctant acceptance of gay marriage as an example of a lack of leadership and principles; they accepted it only once the popular culture did. “ Both Hillary C linton and Barack Obama said that gay marriage should be illegal,” she says. “ I don’t for a minute think that they agreed with that, but they’re just going after the votes. They’re not standing up for what’s right.” Another issue that she thinks that the Libertarian Party has long been ahead of both major parties is the right to use marijuana — neither Trump nor Biden have come out strong in support of cannabis, despite the fact that the majority of states have legalized it, and most voters support it. S o has J orgensen ever smoked pot — and did she inhale? That gets a laugh out of the self- described “ goody- two- shoes.” (“ The nice thing about me running for president is I have no dirt,” she says.) “ I somehow managed to get through high school and college in the 1 9 7 0 s without ever having tried marijuana,” she says, adding that she got a graduate certificate in drug and addiction studies. “ What I do is I tell people that my drug of choice is bourbon, which is actually more dangerous than marijuana. I tell people that the only way marijuana kills you is if a bale of it falls on your head. However, I think that we should be able to be free to use whatever drugs we choose. And so I choose to use the more dangerous drug of bourbon.” N evertheless, J orgensen says she
would remove marijuana from the federal list of controlled substances on her first day in office. “ I’ve had a lot of people say, ‘ Well, I don’t use drugs, so I don’t care about the drug issue,’” she says. The problems associated with drugs — violence, crime — “ aren’t drug problems; those are prohibition problems,” she says, adding that cannabis is a safer alternative for pain relief than the opiates that so many Americans have become addicted to. We admit, it almost feels silly to be asking about pot in the middle of a pandemic that has completely upended life around the world. But J orgensen believes there is a Libertarian solution to the pandemic, as well: S he says Trump could have used his emergency powers to streamline the F D A and approve more C OV ID - 1 9 tests; then, the U .S . could have avoided much of the long economic shutdowns by implementing a large government- run mass testing program, as other countries have done. R egarding the Black Lives M atter protests against police brutality, J orgensen agrees that the problem is institutionalized racism, a problem made worse by the federal government militarizing police departments with weapons and tanks. “ Instead of having the kind of community with the beat cop who knows everybody’s name, now instead what you have is kind of an usversus- them mentality,” she says. “ If you look at, for instance, R osa Parks, the heroic Black woman who refused to sit on the back of the bus, a lot of people don’t realize that was a government- run, government- owned bus,” J orgensen says. “ And 6 0 % of the bus ridership at the time were Blacks. What if U ber were to discriminate against 6 0 % of their customers? They would go out of business, as well they should. But the government doesn’t go out of business — the government can discriminate without any accountability, just like with J im C row laws, just like with redlining, S o we’ve got the government who has basically set up this broken system.” D espite the Libertarians’ gains in 2 0 1 6 , we’re not sure 2 0 2 0 is the year to make the case for a smaller government and a free market, with the push for reopening the economy making the U .S . the top coronavirus hotspot in the entire world. S o we have to ask: K nowing that the Libertarian Party faces a long shot, does J orgensen have a preference as to who will win — Trump or Biden? “ N ot really,” she says. “ Because both of them want to spend our money. Both of them want to make decisions for us. N either one wants to bring the troops home.”
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Either Amy Coney Barrett understands why Trump picked her, or she doesn’t. I’m not sure which is worse.
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Informed Dissent
Get in on the fix By Jeffrey C. Billman
In 2016, Notre D
ame law professor Amy C oney Barrett opined that it would be inappropriate for M errick G arland to replace her mentor, Antonin S calia, on the S upreme C ourt during an election year because doing so would “dramatically flip the balance of power. On S aturday, the same Amy C oney Barrett accepted D onald Trump’s nomination to replace R uth Bader G insburg on the ourt. er enate confirmation, which seems all but certain, will not only alter the balance of power days before a presidential election. t will cement right- wing control of the judiciary for a generation. With Barrett on the bench, R epublicans believe they’ll have the votes to overturn Roe v. Wade, roll back environmental regulations, and block labor protections. f they can confirm her by N ovember 1 0 , she’ll hear arguments in a case that could overturn the ffordable are ct. While nearly every reputable legal scholar has dismissed the underlying theory as preposterous, Barrett has made clear she’s no friend of the AC A, and she’s not that worried about precedent. s she wrote in a law review article (emphasis mine): “ The S upreme C ourt’s constitutional mistakes are e tremely difficult to correct one can hope only for a change of heart, a change of personnel, or a change by
constitutional amendment. F or Trump, seating Barrett q uickly is about something more important than undoing the him. e needs a ninth justice in place because — well, ’ll let him tell you “ think this election] will end up in the S upreme C ourt, and think it’s very important that we have nine ustices. is allies have been even more e plicit. enator Ted ru “ ne of the biggest reason sic we will confirm the nominee BE F OR E E lection D ay is to ensure a full 9 - J ustice majority to resolve any (inevitable) election disputes. enator Lindsey Graham “ S upreme C ourt is not a good deal for merica. ow, we may have litigation about who won the election, but the court will decide. N ever mind that having eight justices didn’t bother them in 201 . The important thing is that they’re talking about the C ourt deciding elections like it’s normal — something to expect rather than something that’s happened once in 8 presidential elections. The math is simple: According to this weekend’s Washington Post/ ABC N ews poll, J oe Biden is winning voters who plan to vote early or absentee by 3 6 points, while Trump is up among lection ay voters by 1 . o Trump has spent months raising doubts about
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mail-in voting. e’s amassed thousands of lawyers to contest absentee ballots in swing states where Trump is behind, while R epublican apparatchiks lay the groundwork to turn an election Trump is likely to lose into a legal contest he can game. Last week, the epartment of J ustice announced an active investigation — something it never does — into nine discarded military ballots in Pennsylvania, highlighting the fact that some contained Trump votes, thus fueling the president’s conspiracies. t turned out to be a temporary contractor’s administrative error. M eanwhile, Pennsylvania R epublicans have refused to address the issue of so- called naked ballots, which election officials fear could disenfranchise 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 absentee voters on a technicality. t the same time, they’ve asked the S upreme C ourt to overrule the Pennsylvania S upreme C ourt’s decision to extend the state deadline for absentee ballots. The Trump campaign previously challenged N evada’s move to expand voting by mail. t lost, but ttorney G eneral Bill Barr then claimed in an interview that N evada’s change would lead to fraud: “ S omeone will say the President ust won evada. h, wait a minute! We just discovered 1 0 0 ,0 0 0
ballots! E very vote will be counted! ’ Y eah, but we don’t know where these freaking votes came from. n hio, a udge ruled that the Republican secretary of state’s directive to allow each county only one absentee ballot drop bo was unreasonable the secretary of state plans to appeal. The Trump-aligned onest lections Pro ect is suing to block absentee ballots that arrive soon after the election but lack postmarks from being counted in innesota. F lorida, which slapped an impossibly confusing poll tax on hundreds of thousands of ex- felons who were given the right to vote by a constitutional amendment, now wants the to investigate ichael loomberg for paying $ 1 6 million toward 3 2 ,0 0 0 e -felons’ fines and fees, almost as if restitution was never really the point. Then there’s N orth C arolina, where the Trump campaign and state R epublican leaders have sued to block changes that make it easier for absentee voters to correct ballot deficiencies — in other words, to have their votes counted. The lawsuit came after the two R epublican members of the S tate Board of E lections resigned “in protest of an agreement with voting rights advocates that they’d agreed to, then said they were misled about. The meeting minutes showed they weren’t. The goal isn’t to win outright so much as to muddy the waters. s one of Trump’s legal advisers told The Atlantic, “ There will be a count on E lection N ight, that count will shift over time, and the results when the final count is given will be challenged as being inaccurate, fraudulent — pick your word. As Trump put it last week when he refused to promise a peaceful transfer of power, “ G et rid of the ballots and you’ll have a very peaceful — there won’t be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation. The plan is to delegitimi e vote counts, challenge ballots, and clog the courts with lawsuits. ow enough chaos, and R epublican legislatures might bypass voters and directly appoint electors to the lectoral ollege. s The Atlantic story makes clear, the Trump campaign is eyeing the possibility. This much is unambiguous: S hort of a blowout, the election is headed to court, which means the S upreme C ourt will have the final word. o is this n arrett, Trump found a ustice he thinks will get in on the fi . E ither she understands that, or she doesn’t. ’m not sure which is worse. Get the Informed Dissent newsletter delivered straight to your inbox. Subscribe today at InformedDissent. net.
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the best of
detroit in the worst of times
Nothing stops the Motor City With the coronavirus turning the world upside
down, we debated whether we should even do our annual Best of Detroit issue this year.
On the one hand, it felt too painful not to be able to celebrate some of our favorite things in 2020, like seeing live music at our city’s wonderful music venues or eating out at the bars and restaurants that are elevating our local dining scene. Even though we saw it coming, it hurt every time we got a press release announcing that an event that we’ve been looking forward to all year, like Movement Electronic Music Festival and the Halloween extravaganza Theatre Bizarre, were canceled.
The businesses we have been able to enjoy have been forced to adapt to the virus, like how Kuzzo’s Chicken & Waffles installed plexiglass panes and pivoted to carryout mere days after reopening from a remodeling, or how Detroit Jazz Fest switched to a broadcast format. And then there are the many businesses that could not weather the storm and were forced to close up shop forever. We paused our online poll and braced for the worst as Detroit became
one of the nation’s top COVID-19 hotspots, and even the mighty North American International Auto Show was canceled as the newly renamed TCF Center was transformed into a field hospital. Things got even worse when armed protesters stormed Lansing, demanding an end to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s pandemic restrictions. But Detroiters put on their masks and took the social-distancing measures seriously. Cases started to drop, and Detroit was no longer declared a hotspot for the virus. Detroiters rallied behind Whitmer, dubbing her “Big Gretch,” and rapper Gmac Cash even raised enough money to
bestow her with a pair of Buffs (though she turned the gift down, instead encouraging Cash to return them and give the money to charity). For now, Detroit has settled into a new normal. People are still dining out, ordering beers on patios or enjoying cocktails-to-go. Local brands pivoted to manufacturing masks, which some fashionistas simply incorporated into their outfits. Bands and DJs have kept the party going, performing outdoors or on livestreams. So earlier this summer, we decided to relaunch our poll, and see what Detroit was digging. Here are the results. —Lee DeVito
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Arts & Entertainment BEST COMIC CONVENTION
BEST PEOPLE WATCHING
astronomicon.com
youmacon.com
BEST COVER BAND
BEST PHOTOGRAPHER
mega80s.com
joshjusticephotography.com
BEST DJ
BEST PLACE FOR LIVE LOCAL THEATER
facebook.com/djgodfatherdetroit
358 S. Water St., Marine City; 810;278-1749; riverbanktheatre.com
Astronomicon Mega 80s
DJ Godfather BEST DRAG SHOW
Five15 Bingo
cinetopiafestival.org
BEST FOLK VENUE
511 S. Main., Royal Oak; 248-216-1112 | 260 N. Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-940-3260; themorrie.com
316 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; 734-761-1818; theark.org
BEST PLACE TO SEE A JAM BAND
Andy Isaac
BEST LOCAL COMEDIAN
mibeer.com/events/summer-beerfestival
BEST ROCK CLUB
28949 Joy Rd., Westland; 734-513-5030; tokenlounge.com
4114 W. Vernor Hwy., Detroit; 313-279-7382; elclubdetroit.com
BEST MULTI-SPORT COMPLEX
Dally in the Alley
BEST MUSIC FESTIVAL
theannarborartfair.com
Movement.us
3863 Rochester Rd., Troy; 248-435-3726; framingart.net
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Cinema Detroit
BEST METAL CLUB
BEST ART FAIR
The Art of Custom Framing
BEST PLACE TO SEE AN INDIE FILM
facebook.com/jason.a.jamerson
1500 N. Stephenson Hwy., Royal Oak; 248-546-7275; modernskate.com
Michigan Brewers Guild Summer Beer Festival
Otus Supply
345 E. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale; 248-291-6160; otussupply.com
4126 Third Ave., Detroit; 313-482-9028; cinemadetroit.org
Modern Skate & Surf
BEST ART GALLERY
The Morrie
Jason Jamerson Token Lounge
BEST ANNUAL BEER FESTIVAL
Youmacon
BEST PLACE TO SEE A COVER BAND
@faturdayisaac
detroitjazzfest.org
BEST PLACE TO BE A GEEK
BEST FILM FESTIVAL
BEST INSTAGRAM FOOD PORN
Ann Arbor Art Fair
Riverbank Theatre
youmacon.com
The Ark
Detroit Jazz Festival
Josh Justice
600 S. Washington Ave., Royal Oak; 248-515-2551; five15.net
Cinetopia
BEST ANNUAL FESTIVAL
Youmacon
Movement
El Club
BEST STREET FAIR
dallyinthealley.com
BEST VENUE TO SEE HIP-HOP
Saint Andrew’s Hall/ The Shelter
431 E. Congress St., Detroit; 313-961-8961; saintandrewsdetroit.com
BEST VISUAL ARTIST
BEST MUSICAL ARTIST
Michelle Thibodeau
facebook.com/Twiztid
BUSINESS WITH BEST WALL MURAL
Twiztid
HopCat Detroit
4265 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-769-8828; hopcat.com
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Bars & clubs
BEST ARCADE BAR
Offworld Arcade at Checker Bar
128 Cadillac Sq., Detroit; 313-961-9249; poppizzabar.com
BEST BAR (MACOMB)
Dooley’s Tavern
32500 Gratiot Ave., Roseville; 586-296-2739
BEST BAR (OAKLAND)
Fifth Avenue
215 W. Fifth St., Royal Oak; 248- 2 - 42 ; fi t ve .
BEST BAR (WASHTENAW)
The Wurst Bar
705 W. Cross St., Ypsilanti; 734-485-6720; wurstbarypsi.com
BEST BAR (WAYNE)
Kiesling
449 E. Milwaukee Ave., Detroit; 313-638-2169; kieslingdetroit.com
BEST BAR AT MIDNIGHT
BEST BAR FOR CLASSIC COCKTAILS
BEST BOTTLE SELECTION (WASHTENAW)
141 W. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale; 248-336-8077; orchidferndale.com
220 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; 734-369-6070; nightcapbara2.com
3685 Jackson Rd., Ann Arbor; 734-585-7300; sessionrooma2.com
BEST BAR ON THE WATER
BEST BOTTLE SELECTION (WAYNE)
2482 t. et t; 313-964-1575; harrysdetroit.com
2903 Biddle Ave., Wyandotte; 734-720-9738; whiskeysonthewater.com
14915 Charlevoix St., Detroit; 313-824-1030; taproomdetroit.com
BEST BAR BEFORE A TIGERS GAME
BEST BAR TO TRANSPORT YOU TO ANOTHER TIME
BEST BOTTLE SERVICE
Orchid
BEST BAR BEFORE A RED WINGS GAME
Harry’s
Elwood
300 E. Adams Ave., Detroit; 313-962-2337; elwoodgrill.com
BEST BAR BEFORE LIONS GAME
Nemo’s
Nightcap
Whiskeys on the Water
Lost River
15421 Mack Ave., Detroit; 313-720-0673; lostrivertiki.com
BEST BOTTLE SELECTION (MACOMB)
Hamlin Pub
1384 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-965-3180; nemosdetroit.com
Multiple locations; hamlinpubs.com
BEST BAR BEFORE PISTONS GAME
BEST BOTTLE SELECTION (OAKLAND)
Harry’s
2482 t. et t; 313-964-1575; harrysdetroit.com
Pernoi
310 E. Maple Rd., Birmingham; 248-940-0000; pernoibirmingham.com
The Session Room
Ye Old Tap Room
Exodos Rooftop
529 Monroe St., Detroit; 313-962-1300; exodosrooftop.com
BEST COMEDY CLUB
Go Comedy! Improv Theater
961 E. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale; 248-327-0575; gocomedy.net
BEST FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX
Lexus Velodrome
601 Mack Ave., Detroit; 313-265-6725; lexusvelodrome.com
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BEST DANCE CLUB
Marble Bar
1501 Holden St., Detroit; 313-338-3674
BEST DAY DRINKING (MACOMB)
Shores Inn
23410 Greater Mack Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-773-8940; shoresinn.com
Mr. Miguel’s Mexican Grille & Cantina
26837 Ryan Rd., Warren; 586-754-1500; mrmiguels.com
BEST HAPPY HOUR FOR DRINKS (OAKLAND)
Rock on Third
BEST DAY DRINKING (OAKLAND)
112 E. Third St., Royal Oak; 248-542-7625; rockon3rd.com
1110 W. 14 Mile Rd., Clawson; 248-435-2494; hideoutclawson.com
BEST HAPPY HOUR FOR DRINKS (WASHTENAW)
BEST DAY DRINKING (WASHTENAW)
209 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; 734-562-1954; jimbradysdetroit.com
The Hideout
Hell Saloon
Jim Brady’s
4095 Patterson Lake Rd., Pinckney; 734-648-0669; hellsaloon.com
BEST HAPPY HOUR FOR DRINKS (WAYNE)
BEST DAY DRINKING (WAYNE)
Multiple locations; barlouie.com
612 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-961-3043; grandtrunk.pub
BEST IRISH PUB (DETROIT)
Grand Trunk Pub
BEST DISTILLERY TASTING ROOM
Two James Spirits
2445 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-964-4800; twojames.com
BEST DIVE BAR (MACOMB)
Goldie’s Saloon
45330 Romeo Plank Rd., Macomb; 586-286-6991
BEST DIVE BAR (OAKLAND)
Gusoline Alley
309 S. Center St., Royal Oak; 248-5452235; facebook.com/gusoline-alley
BEST DIVE BAR (WASHTENAW)
The Wurst Bar
705 W. Cross St., Ypsilanti; 734-485-6720; wurstbarypsi.com
BEST DIVE BAR (WAYNE)
Old Miami
3930 Cass Ave., Detroit; 313-831-3830; oldmiami.business.site
BEST DRAFT SELECTION (DETROIT)
HopCat
4265 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-769-8828; hopcat.com
BEST DRAFT SELECTION (SUBURBS)
CK Diggs
2010 W. Auburn Rd., Rochester Hills; 248-853-6600; ckdiggs.com
BEST JAW-DROPPING INTERIOR DESIGN AT A BAR
Candy Bar
1509 Broadway St., Detroit; candybardetroit.com
BEST GAY BAR
Soho
205 W. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale; 248-542-7647; ferndalesoho.com
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BEST HAPPY HOUR FOR DRINKS (MACOMB)
Bar Louie
McShane’s Irish Pub
1460 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-961-1960; mcshanes.business.site
BEST IRISH PUB (SUBURBS)
Danny’s Irish Pub
22824 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 586-546-8331
BEST ELECTRONIC MUSIC CLUB
Marble Bar
1501 Holden St., Detroit; 313-338-3674
BEST JAZZ CLUB
Blue LLama Jazz Club
314 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; 734-372-3200; bluellamaclub.com
BEST KARAOKE BAR
Sneakers
22628 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248545-8243; sneakerspubferndale.com
BEST MARGARITA
Mr. Miguel’s Mexican Grille & Cantina
26837 Ryan Rd., Warren; 586-754-1500; mrmiguels.com
BEST MARTINI
Willis Show Bar
4156 Third St., Detroit; 313-788-7469; willisshowbar.com
BEST NEIGHBORHOOD BAR (MACOMB)
Eagle’s Bar and Grill
5 4 te e . e te fie ; 586-949-9600; eaglesbargrill.com
BEST NEIGHBORHOOD BAR (OAKLAND)
Renshaw Lounge
210 E. 14 Mile Rd., Clawson; 248-616-3016; renshawlounge.com
BEST NEIGHBORHOOD BAR (WASHTENAW)
Alley Bar
112 W. Liberty St., Ann Arbor; 734-662-8757; alleybarannarbor.com
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BEST NEIGHBORHOOD BAR (WAYNE)
Woodbridge Pub
BESA
5169 Trumbull Ave., Detroit; 313-4624754; woodbridgepub.com
600 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-315-3000; besadetroit.com
BEST NEW BAR (DETROIT)
BEST WINE BAR (SUBURBS)
3105 Holbrook Ave., Hamtramck; t efi .
23810 Woodward Ave., Pleasant Ridge; 248-544-2675; corkwinepub.org
The Film Lab
BEST NEW BAR (SUBURBS)
Brewligans Public House
2385 Fort St., Trenton; 734-675-2300; brewligans.e-tab.com
BEST NIGHTCAP
Cork
Best Bet BEST CASINO BUFFET
MGM Grand Detroit
Queens
1777 Third Ave., Detroit; 877-888-2121; mgmgranddetroit.mgmresorts.com
BEST PATIO FOR DRINKING
MGM Grand Detroit
35 E. Grand River Ave., Detroit; 313-285-8019; queensbardetroit.com
Como’s
22812 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248-677-4439; comosrestaurant.com
BEST ROOFTOP BAR
Monarch Club
33 John R St., Detroit; 313-306-2380; monarchclubdetroit.com
BEST SALSA NIGHT
Vincente’s
1250 Library St., Detroit; 313-962-8800; vicentesdetroit.com
BEST SPEAKEASY
Bad Luck Bar
1218 Griswold St., Detroit; 313-657-9177; badluckbar.com
BEST SPORTS BAR (MACOMB)
Art and Jake’s
Multiple locations; artjakes.com
BEST CASINO HOTEL
1777 Third Ave., Detroit; 877-888-2121; mgmgranddetroit.mgmresorts.com
BEST CASINO RESTAURANT
Iridescence
2901 Grand River Ave., Detroit; 313-237-6732; motorcitycasino.com/ Iridescence
BEST CASINO TABLE GAMES
MGM Grand Detroit
1777 Third Ave., Detroit; 877-888-2121; mgmgranddetroit.mgmresorts.com
BEST CASINO TO SEE A SHOW
Sound Board at MotorCity Casino Hotel 2901 Grand River Ave., Detroit; 313-309-4700; motorcitycasino.com
BEST PLAYERS CLUB
Greektown Casino
BEST SPORTS BAR (OAKLAND)
555 E. Lafayette St., Detroit; 313-223-2999; greektowncasino.com
22726 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248-398-4070; jspenaltybox.com
MotorCity Casino Hotel
J’s Penalty Box
BEST POKER
BEST SPORTS BAR (WASHTENAW)
2901 Grand River Ave., Detroit; 313-309-4700; motorcitycasino.com
203 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor; 734997-5399; haymakerpublichouse.com
MotorCity Casino Hotel
Haymaker Public House
BEST SPORTS BAR (WAYNE)
Thomas McGee’s
1408 E. Fisher Service Dr., Detroit; 313-263-4342; thomasmagees.com
BEST TIKI BAR
Lost River
15421 Mack Ave., Detroit; 313-720-0673; lostrivertiki.com
BEST TRIVIA NIGHT
Drag Queen Trivia At Five15 600 S. Washington Ave., Royal Oak; 248-515-2551; five15.net
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BEST WINE BAR (DETROIT)
BEST SLOTS
2901 Grand River Ave., Detroit; 313-309-4700; motorcitycasino.com
BEST SPORTS BETTING
Sportsbook at Greektown Casino
555 E. Lafayette St., Detroit; 313-223-2999; greektowncasino.com
BEST UP NORTH CASINO
Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort
6800 Soaring Eagle Blvd., Mount Pleasant; 989-775-5777; soaringeaglecasino.com
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Drinks BEST BEER
Journeyman
Pabst Blue Ribbon
109 Generations Dr., Three Oaks; 269820-2050; journeymandistillery.com
BEST BEER SELECTION IN A STORE
Sage Creek Winery
Pabstblueribbon.com
Red Wagon Wine Shoppe
1613 Livernois Rd., Troy; 248-404-9999; redwagonshoppe.com
BEST MICHIGAN WINERY
35050 Bordman Rd., Memphis; 810-392-5007; sagecreekmi.com
BEST BLOODY MARY
BEST MICROBREWERY OR BREWPUB (MACOMB)
2460 Market St., Detroit; 313-393-1711; viviosdetroit.net
57695 Van Dyke Ave., Washington; 586-697-3300; browniron.com
BEST CHAMPAGNE
BEST MICROBREWERY OR BREWPUB (OAKLAND)
Vivio’s Food & Spirits
Korbel
korbel.com
Brown Iron Brewhouse
Urbanrest Brewing Company
BEST GIN
2615 Wolcott St., Ferndale; 586-945-5121; urbanrest.com
6056 N. Telegraph St., Dearborn Heights; 313-551-4164 | 78 W. Adams Ave., Detroit; 313-782-4751; rustedcrowspirits.com
BEST MICROBREWERY OR BREWPUB (WASHTENAW)
Ginstache (Rusted Crow Distillery)
BEST HARD CIDER
Blake’s Hard Cider blakeshardcider.com
BEST MEADERY
B. Nektar
1511 Jarvis St., Ferndale; 313-744-6232; bnektar.com
BEST MICHIGAN BEER
Arbor Brewing Co.
Multiple locations; arborbrewing.com
BEST MICROBREWERY OR BREWPUB (WAYNE)
Jolly Pumpkin Pizzeria & Brewery
441 . nfie t. et t; 1 262-6115; brewery.jollypumpkin.com
BEST MOCKTAIL LIST
Castalia at Sfumato
Bell’s
3980 Second Ave., Detroit; 313-305-1442; castaliacocktails.com
BEST MICHIGAN BOURBON
Captain Morgan
bellsbeer.com
Coppercraft
coppercraftdistillery.com
BEST MICHIGAN BREWER
Stroh’s
strohs-beer.com
BEST MICHIGAN MEZCAL
Two James Dos James twojames.com
BEST MICHIGAN RUM
Davy Jones Rum (Rusted Crow Distillery)
6056 N. Telegraph St., Dearborn Heights; 313-551-4164 | 78 W. Adams Ave., Detroit; 313-782-4751; rustedcrowspirits.com
BEST MICHIGAN TEQUILA
BEST RUM
captainmorgan.com
BEST TEQUILA
Maestro Dobel Diamond Tequila maestrodobel.com
BEST VODKA
Tito’s Handmade Vodka titosvodka.com
BEST WHISKEY
Jack Daniel’s jackdaniels.com
BEST WINE
Sage Creek Winery
35050 Bordman Rd., Memphis; 810-392-5007; sagecreekmi.com
Teeq Tequila
BEST WINE SELECTION IN A STORE
BEST MICHIGAN VODKA
912 S. Old Woodward Ave., Ste. 100, Birmingham; 248-792-5452; oldwoodwardcellar.com
Teeqspirits.com
Valentine Distilling
965 Wanda St., and 161 Vester Ave., Ferndale; valentinedistilling.com
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BEST MICHIGAN WHISKEY
Old Woodward Cellar
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Food
313-962-9106; eatdimestore.com
BEST BAGEL
BEST BAR FOOD (OAKLAND)
BEST BARBECUE RESTAURANT (WAYNE)
23316 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248548-2580; newyorkbagel-detroit.com
345 E. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale; 248-291-6160; otussupply.com
Food truck, various locations; 248-974-5745; smokeringdet.com
BEST BAKERY (MACOMB)
BEST BAR FOOD (WASHTENAW)
BEST BOTTOMLESS BRUNCH DEAL
1030 Woodward Heights Blvd., Ferndale | 15124 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe ; 248-5 -8555; fie t e.
52588 Van Dyke Ave., Shelby Twp.; 586-262-4548; thebakehousemi.com
705 W. Cross St., Ypsilanti; 734-485-6720; wurstbarypsi.com
110 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; 734-222-9841; vinologya2.com
Frida Batitos
BEST BAKERY (OAKLAND)
BEST BAR FOOD (WAYNE)
BEST BREAKFAST/BRUNCH (MACOMB)
741 E. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale; 248-545-7295; facebook.com/fritterman
2385 Fort St., Trenton; 734-675-2300; brewligans.e-tab.com
29100 Dequindre Rd., Warren; 586-806-6002
BEST BAKERY (WASHTENAW)
BEST BARBECUE (MACOMB)
BEST BREAKFAST/BRUNCH (OAKLAND)
14 N. Washington St., Ypsilanti; 734-489-4707; 24thcc.com
Multiple locations; badbradsbbq.com
BEST BAKERY (WAYNE)
Woodpile BBQ Shack
203 Pierce, Birmingham; 248-258-6278 | 23144 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248-398-0444; eatattoast.com
New York Bagel
The Bakehouse
Apple Fritter Donut Shop
24th CheeseCakerie
Avalon Bakery
Otus Supply
The Wurst Bar
Brewligans Public House
Bad Brad’s BBQ
BEST BARBECUE (OAKLAND)
422 W. Willis St., Detroit; 313-832-0008; avalonbreads.net
303 S. Main, Clawson; 248-565-8149 | 630 E. 11 Mile Rd., Madison Heights; 248-565-8149; woodpilebbqshack.com
BEST BAR FOOD (MACOMB)
BEST BARBECUE (WASHTENAW)
16780 21 Mile Rd., Macomb Twp.; 586-226-3399; thehubsportsbistro.com
207 W. Michigan Ave., Ypsilanti; 734-340-2381; redrockypsi.com
The Hub
Red Rock Barbecue
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SmokeRing
Vinology
Plato’s Coney Island
Toast
BEST BREAKFAST/BRUNCH (WASHTENAW)
Angelo’s
1100 E. Catherine, Ann Arbor; 734-761-8996; angelosa2.com
BEST BREAKFAST/BRUNCH (WAYNE)
Dime Store
719 Griswold St., Detroit;
BEST BUTCHER SHOP
Farm Field Table
BEST CUBAN
117 W. Washington St., Ann Arbor | 66 W. Columbia; Detroit; fritabatidos.com
BEST BURGER
Brome Modern Eatery
607 Shelby St., Detroit; 313-403-1200 | 22062 Michigan Ave., Dearborn; 313996-5050; bromemoderneatery.com
BEST BURGER (MACOMB)
Spagburger
17275 E. Nine Mile Rd., Eastpointe; 586-872-2501; spagburger.com
BEST BURGER (OAKLAND)
Parker’s Hilltop Brewery 6110 Dixie Hwy., Clarkston; 248-383-8444; hilltopbrew.com
BEST CARRYOUT (DETROIT)
Bucharest Grill
Multiple locations; bucharestgrill.com
BEST CARRYOUT (SUBURBS)
Greenspace & Go
32867 Woodward Ave., Royal Oak; 248-850-8500; greenspaceandgo.com
BEST CHINESE (MACOMB)
Leong’s 23 Chinese Restaurant
54 2 e . e te fie ; 586-949-3443; leong23.com
BEST CHINESE (OAKLAND)
Peking House
215 S. Washington Ave., Royal Oak; 248-545-2700; pekinghousemi.com
BEST CHINESE (WASHTENAW)
Lan City Hand Pulled Noodle
2612 Washtenaw Ave., Ypsilanti; 734-896-3888; lancitynoodles.com
BEST CHINESE (WAYNE)
Shangri-La
4710 Cass Ave., Detroit; 313-974-7669; midtownshangri-la.com
BEST COFFEEHOUSE (NON-CHAIN) (MACOMB)
The Dovetail
29200 Hoover Rd., Warren; 586-576-0317; facebook.com/dovetaildetroit
BEST BURGER (WASHTENAW)
Zingerman’s Roadhouse 2501 Jackson Ave., Ann Arbor; 734-663-3663; zingermansroadhouse.com
BEST COFFEEHOUSE (NON-CHAIN) (OAKLAND)
Red Hook Cafe
220 W. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale; t e e ee.
BEST BURGER (WAYNE)
Checker Bar
BEST COFFEEHOUSE (NON-CHAIN) (WASHTENAW)
BEST CAJUN (MACOMB)
307 N. River St., Ypsilanti; 734-210-9365; cultivateypsi.com
124 Cadillac Sq., Detroit; 313-961-9249; checkerbar.com
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BEST CAJUN (OAKLAND)
Cultivate Coffee And Tap House
BEST COFFEEHOUSE (NON-CHAIN) (WAYNE)
Morning Glory Coffee & Pastries
Howe’s Bayou
85 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe Farms; 313-647-0298; morningglorygrossepointe.com
BEST CAJUN (WAYNE)
National Coney Island
22848 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248-691-7145; howesbayouferndale.net
Fishbone’s
400 Monroe St., Detroit; 313-965-4600; fi ne .
BEST CHICKEN AND WAFFLES
Kuzzo’s Chicken & Waffles
19345 Livernois Ave., Detroit; 313-3402 ; en n e .
BEST CONEY (MACOMB)
Multiple locations; nationalconeyisland.com
BEST CONEY (OAKLAND)
National Coney Island Multiple locations; nationalconeyisland.com
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BEST CONEY (WASHTENAW)
BEST DINER (OAKLAND)
629 E. University Ave., Ann Arbor; 734-998-3647; raysredhots.com
27302 Woodward Ave., Royal Oak; 248-808-6244; owlwoodward.com
BEST CONEY (WAYNE)
BEST DINER (WASHTENAW)
Ray’s Red Hots
Lafayette Coney Island 118 W. Lafayette Blvd., Detroit; 313-964-8198; facebook.com/ Lafayette-Coney-Island
Fleetwood Diner
300 S. Ashley St., Ann Arbor; 4- 5-55 2; t e eet ne .
BEST DINER (WAYNE)
Karl’s
BEST CORNED BEEF
Bread Basket Deli
1509 Broadway St., Detroit; 313-855-2757; karlsdetroit.com
Multiple locations; breadbasketdelis.com
BEST DOUGHNUT SHOP
Apple Fritter Donut Shop
BEST DEEP DISH/DETROIT PIZZA
Buddy’s Pizza
Multiple locations; buddyspizza.com
741 E. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale; 248-545-7295; facebook.com/fritterman
BEST DELI (MACOMB)
BEST FISH & CHIPS
New York Deli
Cornerstone Barrel House
25008 Little Mack Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-779-5665; originalnewyorkdeli.com
1456 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-338-3238; cornerstonedetroit.com
BEST DELI (OAKLAND)
BEST FOOD HALL
Stage Deli
6873 Orchard Lake Rd., e t fie .; 248-855thestagedeli.com
Detroit Shipping Company
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BEST DELI (WASHTENAW)
Zingerman’s Delicatessen
422 Detroit St., Ann Arbor; 734-663-3354; zingermansdeli.com
474 Peterboro St., Detroit; 313-462-4973; detroitshippingcompany.com
BEST FOOD TRUCK
Detroit BBQ Company
711 E. Eight Mile Rd., Ferndale; 586-855-9012; detbbq.com
BEST FOOD TRUCK FOR FOODIES
Brother Truckers
BEST DELI (WAYNE)
Mudgie’s
1413 Brooklyn St., Detroit; 313-961-2000; mudgiesdeli.com
BEST DESSERTS AT A RESTAURANT (MACOMB)
Andiamo
248-320-9278; facebook.com/ brothertruckersamericana
BEST FRENCH CUISINE
Cuisine
670 Lothrop St., Detroit; 313-872-5110; cuisinerestaurant.com
7096 E. 14 Mile Rd., Warren; 586-268-3200; andiamoitalia.com
BEST GREEK RESTAURANT
BEST DESSERTS AT A RESTAURANT (OAKLAND)
525 Monroe St., Detroit; 313-962-7093; en ee e et t.
La Strada
243 E. Merrill St., Birmingham; 248-48 - 4 2; t e e.
BEST DESSERTS AT A RESTAURANT (WASHTENAW)
La Dolce Vita
Golden Fleece
BEST GYRO (MACOMB)
Eagle’s Bar and Grill
50640 Waterside Dr., New Baltimore; 586-949-9600; eaglesbargrill.com
BEST GYRO (OAKLAND)
17546 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-865-0331; ldvrestaurant.net
BEST DESSERTS AT A RESTAURANT (WAYNE)
Selden Standard
Kouzina
121 N. Main St., Royal Oak; 248-629-6500; gokouzina.com
BEST GYRO (WASHTENAW)
Kouzina
3921 Second Ave., Detroit; 313-438-5055; seldenstandard.com
332 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; 734-997-5155; gokouzina.com
BEST DINER (MACOMB)
BEST GYRO (WAYNE)
Firenze
11 28 . en e . 586-757-5400; fi en e e t nt n e
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Athens Souvlaki
645 Griswold St., Detroit; 313-265-3178; athenssouvlaki.com
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BEST HAPPY HOUR FOOD (MACOMB)
BEST LATE NIGHT/24-HOUR RESTAURANT
Multiple locations; barlouie.com
BEST HAPPY HOUR FOOD (OAKLAND)
5458 W. Vernor Hwy., Detroit; 313-554-3076; facebook.com/Dulys-ConeyIsland
324 S. Main St., Rochester; 248-608-2537; oconnorsrochester.com
BEST JAW-DROPPING INTERIOR DESIGN AT A RESTAURANT
BEST HAPPY HOUR FOOD (WASHTENAW)
600 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-315-3000; besadetroit.com
Bar Louie
O’Connor’s Public House
Jim Brady’s
209 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; 734-562-1954; jimbradysdetroit.com
BEST HAPPY HOUR FOOD (WAYNE)
Mootz Pizzeria + Bar
1230 Library St., Detroit; 313-243-1230; mootzpizzeria.com
BEST HOT DOG
Laika Dog at UFO Factory 2110 Trumbull St., Detroit; laikadogdetroit.com
BEST ICE CREAM SHOP
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Treat Dreams
BEST CORNED BEEF
22965 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248-544-3440 | 4160 Cass Ave., Detroit; 313-818-0084; treatdreamsde.com
BEST INDIAN RESTAURANT
Grill and Curry
3354 12 Mile Rd., Berkley; 248-677-4345; grillncurrymi.com
BEST ITALIAN RESTAURANT (MACOMB)
Da Francescos
$1 OFF
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ONE COUPON PER CUSTOMER, PER VISIT. NOT VALID WITH ANY OTHER OFFER.
$1 OFF
ANY REGULAR SANDWICH
ONE COUPON PER CUSTOMER, PER VISIT. NOT VALID WITH ANY OTHER OFFER.
$4 OFF
2 REGULAR SANDWICHES W/ PURCHASE OF 2 DRINKS ONE COUPON PER CUSTOMER, PER VISIT. NOT VALID WITH ANY OTHER OFFER.
49521 Van Dyke Ave., Shelby Twp.; 586-731-7544; dafrancescos.com
BEST ITALIAN RESTAURANT (WASHTENAW)
Gratzi
326 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; 734-663-6387; gratzirestaurant.com
BEST ITALIAN RESTAURANT (WAYNE)
ROYAL OAK
Al’s Famous Bread Basket Deli 32906 Woodward Ave.
248-549-3663
EASTPOINTE 20709 Kelly Rd. Eastpointe, MI
586-285-5450
DETROIT
3242 E Jefferson Ave. Detroit, MI
313-262-6393
REDFORD
LINCOLN PARK
313-387-4767
313-386-3354
MADISON HEIGHTS
LIVONIA
26667 W. 8 Mile Rd. Redford Twp., MI 48240
29151 Dequindre Rd Madison Heights, MI 248 439-3354
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2011 Southfield Rd. Lincoln Park, MI 48146
11320 Middlebelt Rd. (SE Corner of Plymouth Rd.) Livonia, MI 48150
734-422-1100
DETROIT
15603 Grand River Ave. (SW Corner of Greenfield)
313-836-DELI
ICON WINNER:
BEST CORNED BEEF • BEST DELI
La Dolce Vita
17546 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-865-0331; ldvrestaurant.net
BEST ITALIAN RESTAURANT (OAKLAND)
Tratoria de Luigi
415 S. Washington Ave., Royal Oak; 248-542-4444; trattoriapizzeriadaluigi.com
BEST JAPANESE RESTAURANT
Edo Ramen
4313 W. 13 Mile Rd., Royal Oak; 248-556-5775; edoramenhouse.com
BEST JUICE BAR
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BEST MAC AND CHEESE
The Captain’s Table
226 S. Telegraph Rd., Pontiac; 248-682-4400; mycaptainstable.com
BEST MIDDLE EASTERN RESTAURANT (MACOMB)
Ishtar Restaurant
3625 15 Mile Rd., Sterling Heights; 586-698-2585
BEST MIDDLE EASTERN RESTAURANT (OAKLAND)
Phoenicia
588 S. Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-644-3122; phoeniciabirmingham.com
BEST MIDDLE EASTERN RESTAURANT (WASHTENAW)
Caspian Mediterranean Grill
1334 Anna J. Stepp Rd., Ypsilanti; 734-219-0505; caspianmedgrill.com
BEST MIDDLE EASTERN RESTAURANT (WAYNE)
Leila
1245 Griswold St., Detroit; 313-816-8100; leiladetroit.com
BEST NEW RESTAURANT (MACOMB)
Spagburger
17275 E. Nine Mile Rd., Eastpointe; 586-872-2501; spaburger.com
BEST NEW RESTAURANT (OAKLAND)
Pernoi
310 E. Maple Rd., Birmingham; 248-940-0000; pernoibirmingham.com
BEST NEW RESTAURANT (WASHTENAW)
Bellflower
209 Pearl St., Ypsilanti; e e .
BEST NEW RESTAURANT (WAYNE)
Savant
51 W. Forest Ave., Detroit; 313-285-9294; savantmidtown.com
Beyond Juicery and Eatery
BEST NOODLE RESTAURANT
BEST KOREAN RESTAURANT
2015 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-502-5959 | 4870 Cass Ave., Detroit; 313-833-9788 | 32203 John R Rd., Madison Heights; 248-781-0131; imanoodles.com
2501 Russell St., Detroit; 313-818-3502; beyondjuiceryeatery.com
New Seoul Plaza
WWW.BREADBASKETDELIS.COM
Duly’s
2 5 t e te n . t fie ; 248-996-8922; newseoulplaza.com
Ima
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BEST OYSTERS
BEST RESTAURANT (MACOMB)
Tom’s Oyster Bar
318 S. Main St., Royal Oak; 248-541-1186; tomsoysterbar.com
BEST OLD-SCHOOL RESTAURANT
Firenze
11028 E. Ten Mile Rd., Warren; 586-757-5400; fi en e e t nt n e .
Firenze
BEST RESTAURANT (OAKLAND)
Hazel, Ravines and Downtown
11028 E. Ten Mile Rd., Warren; 586-757-5400; fi en e e t nt n e .
1 Peabody St., Birmingham; 248-671-1714; hrd.kitchen
BEST PATIO (MACOMB)
Tavern at Tina’s Country House
BEST RESTAURANT (WASHTENAW)
50870 North Ave., Macomb; 586-949-2288; thetavernattinas.com
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Como’s
22812 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248- -44 ; e t nt.
Leila
1245 Griswold St., Detroit; 313-816-8100; leiladetroit.com
BEST PATIO (WASHTENAW)
BEST ROMANTIC RESTAURANT (MACOMB)
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Forest
660 W. Baltimore St., Detroit; 1 -8 -1 ; n t e n t n e.
735 Forest Ave., Birmingham; 248-258-9400; forestbirmingham.com
BEST PET-FRIENDLY RESTAURANT
BEST ROMANTIC RESTAURANT (WASHTENAW)
1820 E. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale; 248- 11; et t e t.
121 W. Washington St., 734-994-0211; theearle.com
BEST PIZZA (MACOMB)
BEST ROMANTIC RESTAURANT (WAYNE)
Detroit Fleat
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BEST PIZZA (OAKLAND)
Loui’s Pizza
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558 Monroe St., Detroit; 4- 8 ; e t ve n .
BEST SEAFOOD
NeoPapalis
Streetside Seafood
500 E. William St., Ann Arbor; 4- 2 -222 ; ne .
273 Pierce St., Birmingham; 248-645-9123; streetsideseafood.com
BEST PIZZA (WAYNE)
BEST SHAWARMA
17125 Conant St., Detroit; 313-829-9001; 1565 Broadway St., et t; 1 - 5-15 ; .
588 S. Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-644-3122; en n .
BEST POLISH
BEST SLIDERS (WAYNE COUNTY)
Buddy’s Pizza
Polish Village Cafe
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Green Dot Stables
2200 W. Lafayette Blvd., Detroit; 313-962-5588; greendotstables.com
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Joes’s Hamburgers
3041 Biddle Ave., Wyandotte; 734-285-0420
BEST SLIDERS (MACOMB COUNTY)
Seeburger’s Cheeseburgers
26756 Gratiot Ave., Roseville; 586-3628585; ee e ee e e .
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BEST THAI (MACOMB)
Beans & Cornbread
Kit Chen Thai
29508 Northwestern Hwy., t fie ; 248-2 8-1 8 ; e n n e .
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Taqueria Mi Pueblo
BEST WINGS (OAKLAND)
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2 2 248-
BEST TACOS (SUBURBS)
Condado Tacos
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Peepo’s Subs
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BEST SUB SHOP
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BEST STONER FOOD
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Diamond Jim Brady’s 4 2 1 e ent 248- 8 -84 ;
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BEST STEAKHOUSE (WASHTENAW)
The Chop House
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BEST STEAKHOUSE (OAKLAND)
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BEST STEAKHOUSE (MACOMB)
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Retail & Services BEST ADULT ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY
The Royal Delivery Company
22511 Telegraph Rd., #213; 248-270-5973; strippersdelivery.com
Cirilla’s
242 W. Marshall St., Ferndale; 248-541-2500
BEST BANK
Multiple locations; zealcu.org
Multiple locations; cirillas.com
BEST ADULT VIDEO STORE
Uptown Video
16401 Eight Mile Rd., Detroit; 313-836-0647 | 16541 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313869-9477; uptownadult.com
BEST ANIMAL SHELTER
Detroit Dog Rescue
313-458-8014; detroitdogrescue.com
BEST ATTORNEY
Geoffrey Fieger
.1 e . 248-558-2 15; fie e
O’Brians Automotive
Zeal Credit Union
BEST ADULT STORE
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BEST AUTO REPAIR
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Detroit Barber Co.
2000 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-285-8092; detroitbarbers.com
BEST BARBERSHOP (SUBURBS)
Gentlemen First Barbershop
949 S. Military St., Ste. #1, Dearborn; 1 -5 5-8 ; ent e nfi t.
BEST BICYCLE SHOP (DETROIT)
Downtown Detroit Bike Shop
412 Peterboro St., Detroit; 313-818-0075; downtown-bikeshop.com
BEST BICYCLE SHOP (SUBURBS)
Downtown Ferndale Bike Shop
248-549-7500; bowlerodetroit.com
BEST CIDER MILL
Franklin Cider Mill
163 W. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale; 248-439-1892; downtown-bikeshop.com
45 n n . fie ; 248-626-8261; franklincidermill.com
BEST BOOKSTORE
BEST COMIC/COLLECTIBLES SHOP
John K. King Used & Rare Books
901 W. Lafayette Blvd., Detroit; 313-961-0622; johnkingbooksdetroit.com
BEST BOUTIQUE
Hotel Siren
Comic City
Multiple locations; comiccity.com
BEST CRYOTHERAPY
CryoSpa Detroit
32828 Woodward Ave., Royal Oak; 248-591-4418; cryospadetroit.com
1509 Broadway St., Detroit; 313-277-4736; thesirenhotel.com
BEST DOWNTOWN SHOPPING DISTRICT
BEST BOWLING ALLEY (DETROIT)
romi.gov
Garden Bowl
4120 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-833-9700; majesticdetroit.com
BEST BOWLING ALLEY (SUBURBS)
Royal Oak BEST EDIBLE
Kushy Punch
Exclusivebrandsmi.com
Bowlero
4209 Coolidge Hwy., Royal Oak;
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BEST PLACE TO BUY A WEDDING RING
Tapper’s
6337 Orchard Lake Rd., West fie 248- 2; 28 . e ve . 248- 4 -2 ;2 1 v . v; 248-4 5-18 ; t e .
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BEST MARIJUANA PROVISIONING CENTER CONCENTRATE
BEST LOCAL NONPROFIT 821
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BEST EYEWEAR (BOUTIQUE)
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BEST LOCAL T-SHIRT COMPANY
Grow Show
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BEST NEIGHBORHOOD RETAIL DISTRICT (WASHTENAW)
BEST PLACE TO BUY SNEAKERS
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Black the Salon
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Eternal Tattoos Livonia 2 5 t . v n ; 4-425- 428; ete n t tt .
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BEST RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY (WASHTENAW)
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BEST NEIGHBORHOOD RETAIL DISTRICT (WAYNE)
BEST THRIFT STORE
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CULTURE Q : I’m a thirty-something gay man
married to a thirty-something gay man. For almost two years, we’ve been seeing another pair of married gay men around our age. They were our rst ex perience with any sex ual or romantic interaction outside of our relationship. The rst six months were hot and heavy. We were together constantly and having sex almost every night. A fter the “ honeymoon phase” ended, one member of the other couple ( “ R oger” ) wanted to slow things down. R oger and I had some con ict over this and I have to admit that I showed a pretty bad side of myself while grappling with insecurity. E ventually, R oger pulled me aside to talk one-on-one. He wanted us to be “ friends who have sex sometimes.” T hen, right after the CO VID-1 9 lockdown started, R oger and I had another heart-to-heart on my birthday. A fter many drinks and a lot of making out, we both said we loved each other. R oger walked it back the nex t day. “ I don’t know what you thought you heard last night,” he basically said, “ but I’m not in love with you.” I was devastated. T his isn’t what I want. I am in love with R oger and his husband. I don’t want to be “ friends who have sex sometimes.” My husband is O K with j ust being friends with R oger and his husband, especially since their large friend group has adopted us and he worries we’ll lose all these new friends if I end our friendship with R oger and his husband. I would really like to talk this out with R oger, but I’m not sure I can get through that conversation without DT MFA ing him. I mean, which was it? Were we a fun sexy ing and nothing about the last two years mattered? O r was he in love with me but decided the con ict and complication of this relationship wasn’t worth it? Which was it? —T rouble In T he Q uad
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oger doesn’t want what you want. That sucks and I’m sorry. But we’ve all been there. F alling for someone who doesn’t feel as strongly for us as we do for them, whether we’re dating as couples or singles, is always painful. But that pain is an unavoidable risk. And while it may seem unfair that you can only have R oger in your life on his terms, that’s the reality. That’s everyone’s reality, TITQ , because loving someone doesn’t obligate that person to love us back or love us in the same way that we love them or want the same things we want. But R oger can’t impose his terms on you. If being “ just friends” feels like an
insulting consolation prize after what the last two years has meant to you, if that’s not good enough, then R oger doesn’t get to be in your life. Y ou can have terms, too. Backing up for a second: Y ou seem to believe that if the relationship mattered — if R oger and his husband loved you and your husband and vice- versa — then it wouldn’t have ended. That’s false. S omething can matter and still end. S omething can also matter more to one person than it did to another person. (Or couple.) Y ou don’t have to dismiss or minimize what the four of you had because R oger has decided, for whatever reason, that being in a q uad with you isn’t what he wants. And if you’re hoping to get this q uad back together … and it’s entirely up to R oger … you’re going about it wrong. If R oger got cold feet due to the “conflict and complication of being in a poly relationship, TITQ , then your best move is to avoid conflict and complication. If you think R oger told the truth on your birthday and lied to you the next day, then you need to demonstrate the kind of emotional maturity that makes you a more attractive partner to a person like R oger. And provoking a confrontation with R oger — staging a scene where you’re likely to dump a guy who has already dumped you — will have the opposite effect. t will only confirm for Roger the decision he has already made. Y our best bet — your best strategy — is to accept Roger’s offer of friendship and refrain from blowing up at him. Y ou should also tell him, just once and very calmly, that you and your husband would be open to getting back together with him and his husband. Best- case scenario: The q uad gets back together. Worst- case scenario: Y ou have some great memories, a whole bunch of great new friends, and maybe once in a while a hot foursome with R oger and his husband. Two last things… I would love to see video of you showing the “ bad side” of yourself to R oger. G iven the way people tend to minimize their own shitty behavior — all people do it, myself included — I’m guessing it was/ you were ugly. If you’re prone to blowing up when you don’t get what you want, well, it’s understandable that someone who dislikes
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cares about. We q uarantined together and he felt CO VID-1 9 had forced us to rush things. We decided to spend less time together to focus on our careers, which had both taken a hit. N ow we only see each every two weeks or so. I thought it could be fun to reconnect and do some more threesomes. He agreed but asked me to handle things. I found us some amaz ing girls. B ut as in the past, our threesomes led to problems. I feel threatened, he feels j ealous. We ght I cry he gets angry and acts like an asshole. I’m very insecure, depressed, and have spent years in therapy. T he threesomes feel like too much, but we have great sex when we talk about other women. Is there any way we can make this Joe Newton work? conflict and complication would start —Lost In My E motions getting cold feet once the honeymoon phase ended. I’m not suggesting you’re I feel really sorry for the women toxic or unbearable‚ TITQ , only that you two are having threesomes with — different people have different tolereven if you’re doing your very special ance levels for romantic conflict. ut if guest stars the courtesy of waiting what you want is for R oger to reconuntil they leave to break down in tears, sider the decision he’s made, well, you LIM E , and even if your boyfriend is might also wanna let him know you’re polite enough to wait until they’re working on your approach to conflict. gone before acting like an asshole, If you don’t want R oger to regret getthese women are most likely pickting the q uad back together and then ing up on the tension and may feel q uickly end things again, TITQ , or for conflicted about the se after they the next R oger or R ogers who come go. If you’re having these meltdowns into your life to head for the hills after and blowups in front of these women, their honeymoon phases end, you’ll L , they definitely leave feeling tertalk with someone who can give you rible and may worry they did somethe tools to better handle conflict. thing wrong when it’s you two who are nd finally, T T , the other two doing something wrong: continuing to men in this q uad feel strangely have threesomes despite knowing they inert — more like houseplants than never end well. husbands. I mean, you have nothing to While I don’t think a woman should say about how R oger’s husband feels waste her time (or pussy) on a man and very little to say about how yours who tells her he can’t have “ that kind does. Is R oger’s husband interested in of sex,” i.e. sex she enjoys, with a keeping the q uad together? Besides woman he cares about, I can undernot wanting to lose some new friends, stand why you might want to keep does your husband give two shits? seeing this guy. (C OV ID - 1 9 is makBecause even if R oger decides he ing it hard to find new partners. ut wants back in, TITQ , and that’s a big you should stop doing the thing that if, your revived q uad won’t last for long doesn’t work — having threesomes for if your houseplants — sorry: your — and do the thing that does work husbands — aren’t just as invested as instead: talking dirty to each other you are. about other women. And if you still want to get with women, LIM E , do it solo. He doesn’t need to be there for The man I m seeing is the rst person I ever opened up to about my bi- you to enjoy an amazing girl. sexuality. ver our rst year together Q uestions? mail@savagelove.net. we had several threesomes, but we Follow Dan on T witter @FakeDanSavboth became uncomfortable with them age. savagelovecast.com. and one day he told me he could not have that kind of sex with a woman he
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CULTURE ARIES: March 21 – April 19 “ I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself,” wrote 1 6 th- century author Pietro Aretino. By J anuary 2 0 2 1 , Aries, I would love for you to have earned the right to make a similar statement: “ I am, indeed, a royal sovereign, because I know how to rule myself.” Here’s the most important point: The robust power and clout you have the potential to summon has nothing to do with power and clout over other people — only over yourself. Homework: M editate on what it means to be the imperial boss and supreme monarch of your own fate. TAURUS: April 20 – May 20 “ The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love. uddhist teacher ack ornfield made that brilliant observation. It’s always worth meditating on, but it’s an especially potent message for you during the first three weeks of ctober 2 0 2 0 . In my view, now is a highly favorable time for you to extract uplifting lessons by dealing forthrightly with your knottiest dilemmas. I sus-
pect that these lessons could prove useful for the rest of your long life. GEMINI: May 21 – June 20 “ M y business is to love,” wrote poet E mily D ickinson. I invite you to adopt this motto for the next three weeks. It’s an excellent time to intensify your commitment to expressing compassion, empathy, and tenderness. To do so will not only bring healing to certain allies who need it; it will also make you smarter. I mean that literally. Y our actual intelligence will expand and deepen as you look for and capitalize on opportunities to bestow blessings. (P.S ., D ickinson also wrote, “ M y business is to sing.” I recommend you experiment with that mandate, as well.) CANCER: June 21 – July 22 “ I’m the diamond in the dirt that ain’t been found,” sings C ancerian rapper C urtis J ackson, also known as 5 0 C ent. “ I’m the underground king, and I ain’t been crowned,” he adds. M y reading of the astrological omens suggests that a phenomenon like that is going on in your life right now. There’s something unknown about you that deserves and needs to be known. Y ou’re not getting the full credit and acknowledgment you’ve earned through your soulful accomplishments. I hereby authorize you to take action! Address this oversight. R ise up and correct it. LEO: July 23 – August 22 The author bell hooks (who doesn’t capitalize her name) has spent years as a professor in American universities. Adaptability has been a key strategy in her efforts to educate her students. S he writes, “ ne of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we’re in.” That’s excellent advice for you right now — in whatever field you’re in. ld reliable formulas are irrelevant, in my astrological opinion. S trategies that have guided you in the past may not apply to the current scenarios. Y our best bet is to twirl around and around as you e periment to find out what works. VIRGO: August 23 – Sept. 22 “ Y our relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have,” says motivational speaker R obert Holden. Hallelujah and amen! Ain’t that the truth! Which is why it’s so crucial to periodically take a thorough inventory of your relationship with yourself. And guess what, V irgo: N ow would
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Free Will Astrology B y R ob B rez sny be a perfect time to do so. E ven more than that: D uring your inventory, if you discover ways in which you treat yourself unkindly or carelessly, you can generate tremendous healing energy by working to fi the glitches. The coming weeks could bring pivotal transformations in your bonds with others if you’re brave enough to make pivotal transformations in your bonds with yourself. LIBRA: Sept. 23 – Oct. 22 In her high school yearbook, Libra- born S igourney Weaver arranged to have this caption beneath her official photo “Please, God, please, don’t let me be normal! ” S ince then, she has had a long and acclaimed career as an actor in movies. S creenPrism.com calls her a pioneer of female action heroes. Among her many e otic roles a fierce warrior who defeats monstrous aliens; an exobiologist working with indigenous people on the moon of a distant planet in the 2 2 nd century; and a naturalist who lives with mountain gorillas in R wanda. If you’ve ever had comparable fantasies about transcending normalcy, Libra, now would be a good time to indulge those fantasies — and begin cooking up plans to make them come true. SCORPIO: Oct. 23 – Nov. 21 S corpio- born Prince C harles has been heir to the British throne for 6 8 years. That’s an eternity to be patiently on hold for his big chance to serve as king. His mother, Q ueen E lizabeth, just keeps going on and on, living her very long life, ensuring that C harles remains second- incommand. But I suspect that many S corpios who have been awaiting their turn will finally graduate to the next step in the coming weeks and months. Will C harles be one of them? Will you? To increase your chances, here’s a tip: M editate on how to be of even greater devotion to the ideals you love to serve. SAGITTARIUS: Nov. 22 – Dec. 21 Inventor Buckminster F uller was a visionary who loved to imagine ideas and objects no one had ever dreamed of before. ne of his mottoes was, “ There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. recommend that you spend q uality time in the coming weeks meditating on butterfly-like things you’d love to have as part of your future — things that may resemble caterpillars in the early going. Y our homework is to envision three such innovations that could be in your world by ctober 1, 2021.
CAPRICORN: Dec. 22 – Jan. 19 D uring World War II, Hollywood filmmakers decided it would be a good idea to create stories based on graphic current events. F or example: American M arines waging pitched battles against J apanese soldiers on outh Pacific islands. But audiences were cool to that approach. They preferred comedies and musicals with “ no message, no mission, no misfortune.” In the coming weeks, I advise you to resist any temptation you might have to engage in a similar disregard of current events. In my opinion, your mental health req uires you to be extra discerning and well- informed about politics — and so does the future of your personal destiny. AQ U AR IU S : J an. 2 0 – F eb. 1 8 “ Pretending is imagined possibility,” observes actor M eryl S treep. “ Pretending is a very valuable life skill, and we do it all the time.” In other words, fantasizing about events that may never happen is just one way we use our mind’s eye. We also wield our imaginations to envision scenarios that we actually want to create in our real lives. n fact, that’s the first step in actualizing those scenarios: to play around with picturing them; to pretend they will one day be a literal part of our world. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to supercharge the generative aspect of your imagination. I encourage you to be especially vivid and intense as you visualize in detail the future you want. PISCES: Feb.19 – March 20 “ M y own soul must be a bright invisible green,” wrote author and philosopher Henry D avid Thoreau. N ovelist Tom R obbins suggested that we visualize the soul as “ a cross between a wolf howl, a photon, and a dribble of dark molasses.” N obel Prize– winning poet Wislawa S zymborska observed, “ J oy and sorrow aren’t two different feelings for the soul. Poet E mily D ickinson thought that the soul “ should always stand ajar” — just in case an ecstatic experience or rousing epiphany might be lurking in the vicinity. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I invite you to enjoy your own lively meditations on the nature of your soul. Y ou’re in a phase when such an exploration can yield interesting results. This week’s homework: Make up a song that cheers you up and inspires your ex citement about the future. It doesn’t have to be perfect.
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