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VOL. 39 | ISSUE 28 | APRIL 17–23, 2019

Reefer for the

Rest of Us!

Pot is legal now — why not give it a try?

The Dos and Don'ts of Dope

Get the lowdown before you fire up

Going Green

Republicans turn over a new leaf

How to smoke, vape, dab, and otherwise get super duper high

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News & Views Feedback/Comics ............... 10 Informed Dissent ................ 12 GOP tries pot....................... 14 Feature: A beginner’s guide to pot Dos and don’ts of dope....... 16 How to enjoy cannabis ....... 18 Guide to strains .................. 22 Canna-business directory .. 24 Food

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NEWS & VIEWS Feedback Readers react to stories from the April 10 issue We got a lot of feedback in response to Tom Perkins’ review of San Morello at Shinola’s new boutique hotel, which some readers felt spent too much ink criticizing the luxury watch company. Ingo Rautenberg: Wow — what a backhanded way to compliment a restaurant! You have a beef with the Shinola brand? Fine. But don’t trash the restaurant and all the locals working there.

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Mark Anthony Sproviero: If you want to write a smear article about Shinola, do that. Don’t work it into a review of an unrelated business venture, you juvenile clowns. Larry Crittenden: We all know the story behind the brand, but it has brought some jobs and recognition to Detroit, even if it has fallen short of saving the city, which was never the intent. And I understand that the new hotel is a nice, upscale addition to downtown. When I read a restaurant review, I want a menu, not an agenda. Have an opinion? Of course you do! Send feedback to letters@metrotimes.com.

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NEWS & VIEWS Informed Dissent

Trump vs. the Rule of Law By Jeffrey C. Billman

In the last few weeks, we’ve learned the following: onald Trump would li e to do away with immigration courts, which he finds inefficient in deporting asylum see ers. ( xact uote “We have to do something about asylum. And to be honest with you, you have to get rid of judges.”) uring a recent trip to the border, Trump told order atrol agents to ignore judges’ orders if they were inconvenient. (The agents’ superiors uic ly told them that, yes, they had to follow the law.) Trump unloaded his secretary of omeland ecurity, irstjen Nielsen, for being insufficiently “tough” on migrants, including refusing his demand for a blan et rejection of all asylum applications, which would have been illegal. Nielsen had unflinchingly enforced Trump’s ero tolerance policy, which led to a humanitarian crisis of thousands of children being separated from their parents and some held in cages. Trump then hired Nielsen’s “acting” replacement, the head of ustoms and order rotection another willing participant in the family separation efforts after assuring him that, should he brea the law, Trump would pardon him. (Inducing a federal official to violate federal law could be construed as an impeachable offense.) uring the shutdown, Trump’s White ouse considered dumping asylum see ers in so called sanctuary cities as a form of political retribution against emocrats. Immigration and ustoms nforcement lawyers rejected the idea as inappropriate, and the White ouse told The Washington Post in a statement that “this was just a suggestion that was floated and rejected.” The White ouse statement was soon contradicted by the president’s Twitter account; on riday, Trump tweeted that he was giving “very strong consideration” to the plan. All of these stories share a common thread frustration. Trump is frustrated at his own fec lessness at his inability to stop

Trump views the rule of law as something that applies to other people, not to him.

migrants from fleeing poverty and violence in entral America, at his failure to fulfill a campaign promise and build a wall, at the legal and institutional impediments that serve as a chec on his power. Trump is suffering the fate of conmen who believe their own bullshit. r, at least, he’s run headlong into the limits of his own tough tal . If anything, his election time rants about “caravans” of “invaders” last year, combined with his failure to stop people from coming, served as advertisements for those caravans; they’ve ramped up significantly in the first part of 2019. ore important, though, Trump has spent his entire term focused on a pointless solution to yesterday’s problem. A wall is designed to stop people from snea ing into the country to settle permanently. y and large, that’s not what’s happening. ather, families are stepping foot onto American soil, see ing out border agents, and declaring asylum their legal right. A wall won’t can’t stop them from doing that. order resources have become overwhelmed because there’s a huge bac log in the immigration court system, which gums up the entire process of adjudicating asylum claims; there aren’t enough judges. There’s also a wee s long bac log at some legal ports of entry, as the administration has been throttling the number of claims it will process at those entry points a day. The idea was to force asylum see ers to cross illegally, while the administra-

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tion enforced a new policy that would prevent illegal border crossers from see ing asylum; a court struc that down in November. Trump has also cut off aid to the three entral American countries l alvador, onduras, and Guatemala where most of the migrants are coming from, under the, well, interesting theory that ma ing conditions there worse will prevent people from fleeing. In short, onald Trump has created a version of the immigration crisis his campaign invented, and he’s proven himself powerless to stop it. o he’s thrashing about, pushing the limits of the law, convinced that if only everyone got out of his way, he could fix everything. And in that sense, those five stories share a common thread with these two, which also came to light last wee The Treasury epartment has refused to release Trump’s tax returns to congressional emocrats, defying a federal law that re uires it to do so. Treasury ecretary teve nuchin has said that complying with emocrats’ April 23 deadline would amount to “weaponi ing” the I . n unday, the president’s press secretary said ongress was not “smart enough” to understand Trump’s taxes, which, well, isn’t exactly grounds for ignoring a legal re uest. Trump’s hand pic ed attorney general, William arr, has not only so far refused to release either the ueller report or the special counsel’s summaries

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of it, but he’s also now investigating the alleged motives of the investigators and accusing federal agents, without evidence, of “spying” on the Trump campaign indulging the tinfoil hat conspiracies of a president who has alleged that the investigation into his campaign was tantamount to treason. Ta en together, these stories should be sobering additions to the ever growing mountain of evidence that Trump views the rule of law as something that applies to other people, not to him. It’s easy to get hyperbolic discussing Trump’s authoritarian inclinations. As much as he’s degraded American institutions and norms, they’re not bro en, just bent. And it’s important, too, to maintain perspective Trump hasn’t (yet) started two decades long wars and nearly tan ed the global economy, as the last epublican president did. The difference is that George W. ush was surrounded by political actors who new how the system wor ed and how to wor the system men li e onald umsfeld and ic heney, who could effectively turn malignant philosophies into catastrophic policy. Trump is surrounded by the people who agree to wor for him that is, hac s and low rent ideologues. Whatever his half ba ed authoritarian impulses, they’ve had a hell of a time ma ing them a reality. In other words, Trump’s incompetence has been our saving grace. et’s hope that continues.

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NEWS & VIEWS Going green

Republicans cash in on the cannabis industry By Steve Neavling

Some Republicans are

scrambling to get in on the ground floor of ichigan’s budding marijuana industry just a few years after resisting it. ured by the promise of big profits, epublicans are becoming lobbyists, consultants, attorneys, and entrepre neurs in a new, emerging mar et that is expected to soon ra e in more than 1 billion in annual sales. “ arijuana is the new auto industry. ou’d be cra y not to get involved,” says ichelle onovan, a conservative and attorney speciali ing in cannabis laws at etroit based ut el ong. epublicans’ support for marjuana didn’t happen overnight. ut times have changed There’s money to be made now.

Foe-turned-consultant

Ta e former state ep. i e allton, a Nashville, ich., epublican who’s cashing in on recreational marijuana just months after he opposed the No vember ballot initiative that legali ed it. The chiropractor now calls himself the state’s “premier consultant” for legal marijuana and is encouraging mu nicipalities to embrace the industry by opening their doors to cannabis shops and commercial growers. “ es, I’m a epublican, but this is what people wanted,” allton says, referring to the referendums that legal i ed medicinal marijuana in 200 and recreational marijuana in 201 . “I wor for voters; they don’t wor for me.” In addition to providing consulting services for local governments, allton, who said he would never “touch” marijuana himself, helps businesses get approval from ansing to operate medicinal dispensaries and grow opera tions. Although he opposed the referen dum to legali e recreational marijuana, he authored the bill that opened the door for medical cannabis dispensaries in 201 . allton said he led the effort because the voters who overwhelmingly approved the 200 ballot initiative to legali e medicinal marijuana wanted a convenient way to buy their medicine. “ eople thought it was political sui

cide, but I believe in it,” allton says.

Arrested with a lot of pot

ormer state ep. oy chmidt, a emocrat turned epublican, not only became a supporter of the industry; he too advantage of it. In une 201 , the longtime Grand apids politician was busted growing and possessing far more marijuana than the state’s medicinal cannabis law allowed. aids turned up 3 pounds of pot and 1 plants at two homes con nected to him, and he was sentenced to days in jail. Then in eptember 201 , chmidt was arrested on a charge of driving while under the influence of marijuana. e called the prosecution “a witch hunt” and an attac on marijuana users. A year later, a ent ounty jury found him not guilty because prosecu tors were unable to prove that the mari juana found in his system indicated that he was high while driving. ince the trial, chmidt has become an outspo en supporter of legal mari juana.

From bureaucrat to lobbyist

ne of the most prominent and prof itable roles Republicans are playing in the legali ed mar et is lobbying. ince ichigan is one of a few states that does not impose a “cooling off ” period between public service and lob bying, conservative lawma ers, staffers, and bureaucrats are wasting no time using their inside experience and influ ence to help clients. ne of the most eyebrow raising moves was in anuary, when in less than a month epublican helly dgerton, appointed by Gov. ic nyder, went from running the state agency that oversees and regulates the marijuana industry to a top lobbying firm wor ing on behalf of clients in the industry. Edgerton registered as a lobbyist and joined y ema’s prominent annabis aw team in ansing, which pledges to help entrepreneurs and others in the pot industry with “administrative law and licensing,” the ey responsibilities

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of the ichigan epartment of icens ing and egulatory Affairs, where she was the director. Neither she nor the firm returned calls for comment.

Husband-and-wife team

Former state House Rep. Eileen owall, a White a e epublican, also wasted no time becoming a lobbyist. ess than two months after term limits pushed her out of the egislature, she registered as a lobbyist and signed a consulting contract with ichigan Green Technologies, a medical marijua na company, in ebruary 201 . owall received 1 ,300 worth of shares from annabis cience, a olorado based company tied to ichigan Green Tech nologies, according to the . . ecuri ties and xchange ommission. ut records show the shares were returned, and owall resigned her services because of a “conflict of inter est” on ec. 30, 201 . At the same time, her husband, en ate ajority loor eader i e owall, also a epublican, revived marijuana bills and shepherded them through the egislature. ohn alaly, president of ichigan Green Technologies at the time, donated 00 to en. owall in November 201 .

Chiefs of staff embrace cannabis

The chiefs of staff for lawma ers who were ey in advancing marijuana legislation left their ansing jobs to join the marijuana industry. In November 201 , rian ierce uit as chief of staff to ouse udiciary hairman ep. lint esto, ommerce Township, and became a lobbyist for the now defunct ichigan esponsibility ouncil, a medical marijuana association. The spo esman for the ichigan e sponsibility ouncil was teve inder, a Republican political consultant and fundraiser for the enate epublican aucus. In the egislature, esto became a champion of the medical marijuana industry, sponsoring some of the bills, and collecting at least 13,900

in campaign contributions from can nabis interests between 201 and 201 , according to campaign finance records. esto’s counterpart in the ouse, ep. ic ones, Grand edge, re ceived at least 1 , 0 from the medical marijuana industry and played a major role in advancing pro cannabis legisla tion. Never mind that he led a failed effort in 2010 to ban “marjuana clubs,” which were designed to ma e medical cannabis more readily available. ones’ chief of staff, andra c ormic , left to become the executive director of the ichigan annabis evelopment Association, which wor s on behalf of businesses see ing marijuana licenses.

Money to be made

Although ichigan voters legali ed recreational marijuana in November, it’s still illegal to buy. The ichigan egulatory Agency, a new entity within A A, will create the rules for rec reational pot shops and commercial growers. y 2020, those dispensaries and commercial growers are expected to begin cropping up, and that means a “green rush” for those involved in the industry. ecreational marijuana is expected to ra e in 1. billion to 1. billion in annual sales in ichigan, according to projections from Marijuana Business Daily. That’s good news for communi ties and schools because recreational marijuana sales will be taxed. Accord ing to an analysis from the nonpartisan enate iscal Agency, cannabis sales could generate 2 .9 million in tax revenue by 2023. ommunities have until 2020 to decide whether they want to allow dispensaries and commercial growers within their boundaries. allton, the epublican who was opposed to the referendum legali ing recreational marijuana, is now encour aging communities to opt in and collect the tax dollars. “There’s no need for a exican cartel now,” allton says. “It’s going to be a several billion dollar industry.”

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420 Guide

Beginner’s Guide to Pot Curious about cannabis? Here, take a hit of this

his year’s Hash Bash in Ann Arbor was a beautiful sight to behold. Instead of being a pro-marijuana protest, as the annual event has been for much of the past 47 years, this time it was a celebration. It was the first held since voters approved Proposal 1 in November, making Michigan the 10th state to legalize recreational marijuana, and the first in the idwest. To mark the occasion, a banner that read “LEGALIZE 2018” last year was edited to say “LEGALIZED 2018” and hung over the makeshift stage on the steps of the Hatcher Graduate Library, where a diverse crowd gathered to celebrate. Ann Arbor guitarist Laith Al aadi ic ed things off by performing “The Star-Spangled Banner” in Jimi Hendrix’s psychedelic style. I must confess it was one of only a few times in my life that I found myself genuinely moved by the national anthem. It felt like democracy was working.

“There’s all kinds of people in this crowd,” organizer Adam Brook, aka Mr. Hash Bash, said at one point. “Most of us wouldn’t to talk to each other, or of each other, unless we had a joint in our hand, and that’s what brings us together. There’s not another substance on this planet. Jesus himself didn’t bring people together.” You could already feel stigmas against marijuana use changing. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell was one of many speakers on hand, and the first federal official to spea at the event. Though she said she has never used cannabis and has no intention of ever doing so, her presence was a hopeful signal of solidarity with the movement. Many speakers addressed the need to now work toward releasing and expunging the criminal records of those who have been jailed for cannabis use and possession, which are disproportionately people of color — some-

thing that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel both campaigned on. The fact that it was the first warm day of the year made it feel like even the heavens were smiling on Michigan. After listening to all of the event’s scheduled speakers, I laid down on the grass in the iag, too a few puffs, and watched the beautiful young stoners hula-hooping and otherwise enjoying the cannabis holiday. I was glad that a new generation would never have to worry about going to jail for possessing a couple of joints. Proposal 1 passed with 2,35,640 votes, or more than 55 percent of the vote. That means there’s plenty of people in the state who didn’t vote to legalize marijuana. As those stigmas against cannabis go away, it’s likely that many Michiganders are becoming, perhaps for the first time, cannabis curious. For that reason, we decided to do a special beginner’s guide to cannabis for our annual 20 issue. Inside you’ll find stories meant to introduce marijuana to the uninitiated, but even full-blown stoners might learn something new.

Dos and Don’ts of Dope A weed attorney clears the air about Michigan’s confusing cannabis laws By Lee DeVito

s of Dec. 6, 2018, the laws permitting the recreational use of cannabis officially went into effect. ut there are plenty of aspects of the new law that are hazy. To help break it all down, we spoke with Detroit-based criminal defense lawyer Matthew Abel, one of 15 people to sit on the drafting committee for Proposal 1, who also serves as executive director of the Michigan chapter of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Who can use cannabis? Any adult 21 or older can use and possess cannabis. People can travel with up to 2.5 oz. of cannabis flower or 1 grams of concentrate anywhere except on a school property, school bus, or a correctional institution. For perspective: A plastic sandwich bag holds about 2 oz. of cannabis flower; concentrate cartridges tend to be .5 gram or 1 gram each. At home, people can possess up to 10 o . of flower as long as anything over

2.5 oz. is locked up. “You could leave 2. o . sitting on your coffee table, but the other 7.5 oz. needs to be locked up somewhere,” Abel says, like a locked room or briefcase. Violations are a civil infraction punishable by a 100 fine. Can I grow my own? By law, people can grow up to 12 marijuana plants per household, and if you grow your own, there’s no limit to how much marijuana you can possess. The 12 plants should be indoors, or outside in a locked enclosure that is not easily visible from public areas. Growing on rental properties is subject to landlord approval. Where do I buy it? That’s the thing — there still technically isn’t any way for the general public to legally purchase cannabis. The state is still working on the structure for issuing licenses, which by law must be available for application by Dec. 6. Abel says the state has indicated it could have a draft by June, but realistically, recreational cannabis stores probably wouldn’t be

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open until the first or second uarter of 2020. That said, by law, people can “gift” up to 2.5 oz. or 15 grams of concentrate for free to another adult. Some entrepreneurs have started businesses that sell curiously priced products (say, a $100 T-shirt, or a $30 chocolate) that just so happen to come with a “gift” of marijuana. Abel says this is legally dubious. “Gifting is only legal without compensation,” he says. “Most of the people who are doing the ‘gifting’ want to get paid.” Plus, physical goods are subject to a sales tax, so that would be two wrongs. “ omeone is better off sell-

We’ve consulted with a weed attorney to guide you through the dos and don’ts of dope. We’ve also got a dosing guide, a guide to finding the best strain for you, a look back at the history of marijuana in Michigan, and a canna-business directory. But this is just the beginning. In the following weeks, we’re planning on ramping up our cannabis coverage even more. Our website has a new “Weed” tab on the top navigation bar. In addition to Larry Gabriel’s weekly Higher Ground column, expect more features to be rolled out, including updates on Michigan’s new marijuana industry, canna-business profiles, product reviews, and whatever other ideas we come up with during our new tradition of editorial department smoke breaks. We’ll be tracking cannabis provisioning centers that are open for business, and compiling them all in our online database. Eventually, when recreational pot shops are finally open, we’ll compile those, too. Plus, you can get all of these stories delivered straight to your inbox with our new marijuana newsletter, which will be sent each Tuesday at 4:20

ing someone a service, like a consultation, where there is no sales tax payable,” Abel says. Until recreational stores open, Abel advises that people get a medical marijuana card. People can get a doctor’s recommendation for conditions like arthritis, cancer, glaucoma, HIV, AIDs, chronic pain, PostTraumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and more. Abel’s law firm, annabis ounsel, has a doctor on site who can recommend medical marijuana cards to patients. Where can I consume cannabis? By law, it is illegal to consume cannabis in a public space, punishable by a civil infraction. However, Abel says it’s unclear what is meant by a “public place.” “Some people are going to argue anything in public view as a public place,” he says. “Well, my front porch may be in public view, but it’s not a public place.” Others argue that refers to public-owned property, like a park or courthouse. Abel advises people consume cannabis in their home or another private

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p.m. (Of course.) You can sign up at metrotimes.com/newsletters. veryone remembers their first time. Well, OK, I don’t exactly, other than I coughed a lot, and didn’t really feel high. (Don’t worry: a lot of people say they don’t get high the first time.) As with anything else, in moderation marijuana use can be a beautiful thing.

Its medicinal qualities have been found to alleviate chronic pain and a host of other ailments. But crucially, it’s also fun. It can be a social thing. It’s relaxing, and it can make people feel creative and philosophical. I can say for certain that marijuana changed my life for the better. Maybe it can improve yours, too. — Lee DeVito

area that allows it. For example, Cannabis Counsel shares a building with a yoga studio, which allows its customers to medicate on-site before class. Perhaps Michigan could permit private cannabis clubs like those in Alaska, which recently passed the first laws in the country to allow dispensaries to have consumption lounges.

operating machinery.

What about driving? It is illegal to operate a motor vehicle while under the influence of cannabis. Abel advises that people store cannabis in their vehicle’s trunk while driving, though the law does not state that. Consuming in a vehicle is a civil infraction, and driving while under the influence could be punishable as a DUI if it could be proven that marijuana consumption impaired one’s ability to drive. The problem is there isn’t yet a roadside test for marijuana. Saliva tests can only tell if cannabis is in someone’s system, not how much or how recently they consumed it. And since cannabis tolerance varies by how frequently people consume it, authorities have decided against setting a legal limit for THC levels. Abel advises people treat cannabis use like some prescription medicines, which simply warn people to understand the effects the drug will have, and how long it will last, before

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What about drug testing? Michigan is an at-will employment state, so that means employees could still be hired or fired because of cannabis use. e thinks employers should be a little more open-minded. “In some states, employers are beginning to not even test for it,” he says. “It reduces their candidate pool markedly, and for no good reason.” Abel advises employees should find out privately, without outing themselves, what their employer’s policy is. What about the federal level? All that said, cannabis is still classified as a Schedule 1 in the eyes of the Feds, which leaves a host of problems unsresolved, such as traveling across state lines, for example. Abel advises anyone who cares about the issue to pressure their members of Congress to support federal decriminali ation efforts. “People should not just sit back and go, ‘Well, should I just wait for Congress to do something?’” he says. “That’s the recipe for stalemate.” Cannabis Counsel is located at 2930 . Jefferson e etroit more in ormation is a aila le at or anna is o nsel. om.

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420 Guide metabolism, and tolerance. How to dose: Flower is perhaps the most straightforward method when it comes to dosing, as the effects are instant. sually dosed in terms of grams ¼ gram=lightweight, ½=casual smoker, 1 gram=pro pothead. Suggested experience level: Novice+ Tips: Always pass to your left, be ready to cough a lot. Cost

A Complete Idiot’s Guide to Weed

Everyone’s doing it — and now you can, too! By Jerilyn Jordan

hen asked in 1992, Bill Clinton, then Democratic frontrunner for president of the United States, said he had, in fact, tried marijuana once in college, but never inhaled. Right. A saxophone-playing politician never inhaled marijuana. OK. So, what does this mean in 2019? Well, for one, the stigma surrounding marijuana use is not nearly as intense as it was when Slick Willie was vying for the presidency. It also means that since ichigan flipped the script on reefer madness by legalizing the recreational use of marijuana, there’s a lot to learn for the novice — and way more options than pinners of sock-drawer Reggie. By now, Aunt Becky has probably heard the ladies of The View chittering about CBD oil for arthritic pets, and your boss may have shown up to wor late after suffering a gnarly third degree burn from a recent amateur dabbing accident. (Ouch!) The long and short of it? Everyone’s doing it. And now you can, too. Welcome to Metro Times’ beginners guide to smoking, vaping, eating, tripping, and, yes, dabbing.

Flower

Other names: Broccoli, chronic, dutchie, ganja, grass, mary jane, reefer, pot, the devil’s lettuce, jazz cabbage, uptown skunk, tree What is it: Once a cannabis plant goes through the stages of flowering, it is then harvested, dried, and cured, thus making it ready to smoke. This is your granddad’s weed. (Though in 2019, has been upgraded significantly, than s to years of selective breeding.) How to take it: Once stems and seeds have been removed, grind it up and pac it in a number of different devices to smoke, each one providing a similar effect. Though grinding isn’t necessary, the oil on your fingertips can strip the viable T crystals (the stuff that gets you high) from the bud, thus reducing its potential potency. Devices: Joints, cones, bowls, pipes, bongs, bubblers, one-hitters, apple bongs, soda cans What it feels like: Ranges from euphoria to paranoia, depending on the strain specifics and class. Indica strains

sleep, sedation, relaxation. Sativa strains energi ing, cerebral, and social. ybrid depending on the strain’s parent plant, hybrid strains tend to be the best of both worlds. Duration of high: 1-3 hours, depending on strain makeup, personal

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Concentrates

Other names: Vaping What is it: Concentrates are created once trichomes (the plant glands that contain the good stuff cannabinoids THC and CBD) are extracted from the plant material and accumulated. When cut with high-viscosity agents like a vegetable glycerine, the product becomes a vaporizer-ready concentrate. How to take it: re filled concentrate cartridges make it easy for anyone to consume. any just fit into your preferred vaping device, or pen. There is nothing to “burn,” as vaping does not re uire a fire element, meaning it is non-carcinogenic, and activated via an internal controlled heat. Devices: There are two main devices portable, rechargeable vape pens and stationary desktop vaporizers. Vape pens often use pre filled, strain specific concentrate cartridges that screw into the heating element, or “pen” portion. Slightly larger and more powerful portable vapes, like the PAX, can convert flower, oil, or concentrate into vapor. Desktop versions (Volcano, HotBox) usually vapori e dried flower and allow users to control temperature. Both devices are offered in push button or inhale sensory variations. What it feels like: Some describe it as being “cleaner” than smoking, and oth-

ers claim that vaping allows for a more robust flavor profile of the strain, as it is not masked by burning. Duration of high: 1-3 hours How to dose: Low and slow, and a little goes a long way. Vape devices do not hit like a joint, but, like smoking, vaping effects are instant. Suggested experience level: Novice+ Tips: nli e smo ing flower which gives you the instant fire in the lungs sensation, which might otherwise stop you from going too hard — vaping is smoother, which means it’s easy to hit too hard if you’re not careful. Vaping is often praised for being odorless. Warning it’s not. The smell of burnt popcorn will give you away at the office.

Edibles

Other names: Medibles, space cakes, magic brownies What is it: Most edibles are made with cannabis-infused oil or butter (canna-butter), which occurs after decarboxylating the marijuana. That’s science talk for heating the weed in such a way as to activate the plant’s psychoactive element. In other words, you can’t just dump dry herb into brownie mix and expect to get baked. Once consumed, the body’s liver metabolizes the cannabis’ delta-9 THC and converts it to 11-hydroxy-THC — in other words, the really fuc ing potent stuff. To be truly effective, though, cannabis needs to bond to fat like butter, olive oil, coconut oil, or hell, even bacon fat. Like fat, cannabis is hydrophobic (repels water) and because your body has fatty tissue

for those trippy molecules to hang out in, this is a happy, fatty relationship. How to take it: If you can eat it, you can likely put weed in it and eat it: Devices: Primarily baked goods, sweets, and candies. What it feels like: Edibles are notorious for supplying a full-body high — brain to toes. Because it takes longer to ta e effect (30 minutes to 3 hours) and lasts longer than any other method ( to hours), it’s crucial to listen to your body. A sign that you’ve ta en too much? Dry mouth, rapid heart rate, and paranoia. A sign that you may have transcended into a state of ultimate highness? Couch lock, euphoria, body buzz, and a general pleasant feeling of “floatiness.” Duration of high: hours. How to dose: Err on the side of caution. Again, low and slow is applicable here, but dosing is still the trickiest part as there are several factors ranging from individual metabolism, what you’ve consumed already that day, environment, and the type of edible. For example, a full stomach might delay the effects of an edible, and an empty stomach might make you trip balls and feel sick. If you smoke a .5 gram joint comfortably by yourself, a 10 mg T edible would be comparable in terms of tolerance. For those with little to no tolerance or are wary of this method, it is suggested to start with 2 mg for your first three edible experiences before ramping up to mg and then level out at 5 mg for your next few trips before hitting the 10 mg, and so on. Ate a coo ie and don’t feel anything Wait at least two hours before grabbing another. If purchasing from a provisioning

center, all edibles will be labeled with T and content to best inform your experience. Suggested experience level: Intermediate+ Tips: You can always eat more, but you can never eat less. While it is easy to take too much, you will be OK,

though it might be very uncomfortable for a while. Keep a best bud on hand to talk you through your new altered state of consciousness. Or just queue up some episodes of The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross and find your nearest domestic feline to stroke. Enjoy the ride. ou’re going to be just fine. Cost: $

Transdermal

Other names: Patches What is it: Thin of it li e a medicated Band-Aid. Considerably the most discreet method, patches come in isolated cannabinoid varieties depending on your needs. Consumers looking to reduce inflammation might benefit from a CBD patch, while patches with N (or cannabinol, another compound found in cannabis) might serve those looking to get some deep sleep. How to take it: Peel and stick onto clean, bare s in, preferably to a venous part of the body (li e an an le or wrist). ody heat will activate the cannabinoids infused within the patch, which releases the T into your bloodstream. Neat! Devices: Adhesive patch What it feels like: Not a high, per se, as the patch works as a slow-timed release so there are no psychoactive effects. atches are commonly used for full-body relief rather than spot treatment as offered by various topical ointments and lotions. Duration of high: Patches are known to alleviate pain, anxiety, and insomnia for upwards of 8 hours. How to dose: Dosing patch usage is very accurate, so it’s best to follow the package instructions. Unlike other methods, you can simply remove the patch if you experience undesirable effects. Suggested experience level: Novice+ Tips: Be sure to remove the patch

after its suggested duration as to avoid skin irritation. Cost: $

Wax, shatter, oil, hash, distillates

Other names: Dabbing, the crack of cannabis, rosin, hash, crumble, T A Crystalline, sauce, and Moon Rocks. What is it: Oil, wax, and shatter are all concentrates or extractions. To get all Bill Nye on you, hydrocarbon extraction strips the T A gland heads from the plant material, resulting in a number of different inds of concentrate depending on input, temperature, and solvent. ash, rosin and other concentrates can be made from the same plant material using water and dry ice to ma e non solvent concentrates. Both wax and shatter are butane hash oil concentrates and provide a similar high, the only major difference is appearance (wax loo s li e honey, and shatter loo s li e shards of glass). Because of their potency, they tend to be the higher price point, often starting at 0 per gram. How to take it: While concentrates can be smoked and ingested orally, dabbing is one of the most popular ways to consume this form of cannabis, as it is the easiest way to reach the cannabinoid ceiling by using very little product (hence the term “dab”). ltimately, dabbing is just flash vapor-

i ation eat is applied to a hot surface, usually by using a blowtorch, before the concentrate is applied to the surface and inhaled. Many people use a dab rig to consume concentrates, which, in most cases, is similar to a water pipe but with a few extra pieces, including a nail (or the surface that gets heated), the dabber (or the piece that you use to place the tiny little crumb of concentrate onto the hot surface), and a carb cap, which is similar to a traditional water pipe slider but is used to cover the “dab” once you’ve begun inhaling. Devices: Dab rig, E-Nail, Nectar Collector, joint/blunt, spoon. Dab rigs range in price and quality and newer devices are being made available that do not require a torch. Remember you can always just wrap wax around a joint and smoke it, though it defeats the benefits, flavors, and ritual of dabbing by eliminating the flash vapori ation process. What it feels like: Extremely cerebral and potentially di ying. nli e flower, you do not have to draw very hard as this can impact what dabbing feels li e. While it is super heady, it is also a heavy high and can ma e your limbs feel weighted, which can result in major pain relief for some dabbers. Duration of high 2 hours How to dose: When it comes to dabbing, a little goes a long way, as concentrates are very potent and can test

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420 Guide as high as 50-80 percent THC, depending on strain and quality — in other words, one hit could feel like 10 joints. Beginners should try 1/10th of a gram which looks like the size of a little baby crumb. The feeling is instantaneous so it will be made very clear as to whether that dose is too much. Suggested experience level: Varsity (beginners should enlist supervision or a dab master to administer first attempts; this shit is complicated). Tips: Sit while dabbing, as it goes straight to the head, and never dab with alcohol-based extracts. Cost: $$$

Tinctures

Nicknames: Happy drops What is it: Perhaps one of the oldest forms of cannabis consumption, tinctures are one of the most effective, discreet, and controllable methods. While a tincture may technically be edible, the process and its effects are different. A tincture, by definition, is “a medicine made by dissolving a drug in alcohol” and in the case of cannabis tinctures, the dissolving of plant material. Now, “brea ing down” by no means suggests a “lessened” effect. uite the contrary. The breakdown means all the good stuff is in the driver’s seat of a tincture. It is also considered one of the most ideal methods for those with gastrointestinal issues, or who may be too ill of health to smoke or vaporize. How to take it: Tinctures come in a glass bottle, which allows for easy consumption. The key is to place drops under the tongue (sublingual) and allow it to dissolve for 30 seconds as tinctures are meant to be absorbed, not swallowed. Also, that gnarly artery under your tongue is one of the fastest paths to absorption to the brain. Devices: Eyedropper What it feels like: Like other methods, a tincture is available in CBD or THC varieties, depending on what the user is treating. With CBD-dominatant tinctures, expect body relaxations, lessened anxiety (if you had any to begin with), and ready for rest. For THC-heavy tinctures, the high is similar to an edible, but with more control and shorter duration and may offer some pain relief. Duration of high: The tincture high can be felt soon after dosing, but is often slower than if one were to smoke and faster than an edible, even if the strain across all three is the same.

imilarly, the effects from tincture will keep you high for longer than when you smo e or vape, but won’t loc you into a six-hour high like with edibles. Two to three drops under the tongue might take 15-25 minutes to notice. If you happen to swallow it, it might take closer to 2 3 hours to notice its effects. How to dose: Two to three drops is an ideal starting point for those with some experience with marijuana or tinctures. After an hour and a half, the full body-mind sensations should have made themselves present as to better gauge if you need to dose more or less. Suggested experience level: Novice+ Tips: CBD tinctures are rising in popularity. But CBD has been known to make it harder for your liver to process other medication, especially medication used to treat heart conditions. Cost: $$

Capsules

Other names: Chill pills What is it: There are three kinds of cannabis capsules or pills that might come up when conducting Google research. One is an expensive FDAapproved and potent marijuana-like synthetic drug called Marinol, which was developed to treat post-surgical pain, as well as nausea and anorexia resulting from chemotherapy or AIDS. The other is THC capsules, which are available through marijuana provisioning centers, contain actual CO-2 extraction from the entire cannabis plant, and, for that reason, often yield high levels of THC (after being mixed with a fat or glycerine because, remember, THC is not water-soluble). Ailment- or effect specific tablets, if extracted from hemp rather than cannabis, can be purchased online. Because Marinol is not technically marijuana, as it lacks the complex cannabinoid and terpene compounds found in the plant, we’ll focus on capsules you’ll encounter while weed shopping — great options for those looking for a discreet method with explicit dosing. They’re also ideal for diabetics, as they don’t contain the sugar that often is associated with other edibles. How to take it: No magic here, nor does one need any tools to consume. If you can take a vitamin, taking a THC tablet will be a breeze. What it feels like: There are capsule varieties that offer THC and CBD, which might

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be ideal for anyone looking to reap all the benefits of the plant (pain relief and a trip) without the intense “my face is melting/are the cops here?” anxiety. Remember: THC and CBD are very good friends. Devices: Precisely dosed capsules. Duration of high: On average, THC capsules may take 45-120 minutes to kick in, sometimes longer because your body is busy converting THC into 11-Hydroxy-THC, which tends to be more intense than if one were to smoke. How to dose: Swallow with a glass of water Suggested experience level: Intermediate+ Tips: Because of the high concentration of THC, the rules for edibles apply here. Cost: $$$

Topical

Other names: Cream What is it: Our bodies are armed with cannabinoid receptors (yes, we were born to get high), which means you can even ingest cannabis through your skin. Many topicals are combined and paired with essential oils such as lavender, peppermint, menthol, or lemon for additional healing effects. How to take it: Unlike transdermal

patches that breach the bloodstream, topicals penetrate deep tissues and interact with the s in’s 1 and 2 receptors, which control inflammation response. Devices: Balms, salves, lotions, creams, bath salts and bath bombs, liniments, lubricants, massage oils What it feels like: Because topicals are non-psychoactive, there is no “high,” as they are used to treat locali ed pain and inflammation ranging from arthritis to menstrual cramps and migraines. When combined with other ingredients, a tingling, warming, or cooling effect could also be present, which provide their own benefits. In addition to pain, topicals have also been effective in treating skin conditions such as psoriasis and eczema. There is also an exploratory market of cannabis-infused sexual lubricants and massage oils, as cannabis has been known to heighten pleasure during intercourse, especially for women. Duration of high: Most topicals, once applied, provide instant results and can last several hours. How to dose: While you may be tempted to bathe in the stuff, it’s not necessary. But you can apply as generously or as little as needed and as often throughout the day. Suggested experience level: Novice+ Tips: Wash your hands after applying to avoid getting it in your eyes. Cost: $$

Other helpful terms for the budding stoner

Blunt: A joint rolled with cigar/cigarette paper. Bong: A water pipe. Dankrupt: When you’re out of weed. Grinder: A device used to evenly grind dry weed. Kief: A dry sift mixture of trichomes, stalks, and plant matter. Often accumulates at the bottom of a grinder and is a great addition to any bowl or joint. One-hitter: An end to end “pipe” that allows for efficiency and, often, just one hit. Also called a chillum. Pinner: A long and skinny joint, usually a result of using a rolling machine. Pre-roll A joint that’s already been rolled and is ready to smo e. Roach: The tail end of a joint, spliff, or blunt. Spliff: Nicotine mixed with marijuana. Twaxing: When one wraps a coil of concentrated wax around a joint or blunt.

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420 Guide

Green guide

Finding the best marijuana strains for you By Steve Neavling

lien OG, Bubba Kush, Durban Poison, Ghost Train Haze, Death Star. There are hundreds of marijuana strains that provide different effects on the mind and body, and eeping trac of them all can be con fusing. To find the right strains for you, we consulted with dispensaries, growers and marijuana connoisseurs to identify the best strains for a host of ailments, moods, and activities. 3 primary types of marijuana: Indica: almness, body relaxation, pain relief, ideal for night time use Sativa: Invigorating, cerebral, increases focus, ideal for daytime use Hybrid: any strains are hybrids of indica and sativa hec weedmaps.com or leafly.com to find these varieties at local dispensaries.

AILMENTS Headaches: ritical ass (Hybrid) Tangerine a e (Hybrid) Platinum Bubba Kush (Indica)

Anxiety & Stress: Lavender (Indica) har (Indica) Granddaddy urple (Indica)

Arthritis: Harlequin (Sativa-dominant hybrid) annatonic (Hybrid) Anesthesia (Indica)

PMS: urple r le (Indica-dominant hybrid) hocolope (Sativa) utch Treat (Hybrid)

Back pain: lac berry ush (Indica) lue Widow (Hybrid) lueberry eadband

Inflammation: Death Star (Indica-dominant hybrid) oo ies ream (Hybrid) Sour Bubble (Indica)

Nausea: lueberry (Indica) G ush ( ybrid) hocolope ( ativa)

Fatigue: ac erer (Sativa) Green rac (Sativa) Super Silver Haze (Sativa)

Insomnia: Tahoe OG Kush (Indica) ywal er (Hybrid) Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gift (Indica)

MOODS & ACTIVITIES Uplifting for a night out: Tangerine ower (Sativa-dominant hybrid) ango ush (Hybrid) our Tangie (Sativa-dominant hybrid)

Watching sports/a movie: Alice in Wonderland (Sativa) Woo ie (Hybrid) aughing uddha (Sativa)

Focus: Tropicana oo ies (Sativa) Afghan ush (Indica) Apollo 13

Motivation: ortune oo ies (Hybrid) Charlotteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Web (Sativa) Kali Mist (Sativa)

Creativity: Lemon Sour Diesel (Sativa-dominant hybrid) A (Hybrid) Blue Dream (Sativa-dominant hybrid

Taking a hike: Willie Nelson (Sativa) Cinderella 99 (Hybrid) Alas an Thunder uc (Sativa)

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420 Guide Canna-business directory Here’s a list of provisioning centers in the Detroit area By

T staff

fter the state repeatedly kicked the can on issuing licenses for medical marijuana provisioning centers, there’s been a lot of uncertainty about the fate of many businesses. Metro Times will attempt to keep track of all of the available provisioning centers (and, eventually, recreational pot shops) on metrotimes.com. Did we miss one? Send tips our way to weed@ metrotimes.com.

Cannabis provisioning centers 1st Quality Medz 286 Burke St., River Rouge, 313-406, first ualitymeds.com 5 & Dime 20561 Dwyer St., Detroit, 313-733-6006, fiveanddimedet.com Amplified 19705 W. Seven Mile Rd., Detroit, 313766-5662

The Flower Bowl 28661 Michigan Ave., Inkster; 734-8958753 Green Care 10 0 W. efferson Ave., iver ouge, 313-406-5617

Motown Meds 18334 W. Warren Ave., Detroit, 313-9142319

Hometown Hydro 11478 Timken Ave., Warren, 888-9433015

Om of Medicine 111 ain t. 1st floor, Ann Arbor, 3 369-8255, omofmedicine.org

HTG Supply Hydroponics & Grow Lights 3914 Rochester Rd., Troy, 248-275-1739, htgsupply.com

Taste Buds 8600 E. Eight Mile Rd. Suite 28, Detroit, 313-733-4114, taste-buds-cannabisstore.business.site THC Detroit Tango Healthy Cannabis

Green Cross 14239 Eight Mile Rd., Detroit, 888-420-2790

Hydo Giant–Southgate 19363 Eureka Rd., Southgate; 734-2818888; hydrogiant.com Hydro Giant–Dearborn 14455 Ford Rd., Dearborn; 313-216-8888; hydrogiant.com Hydro Giant–Detroit 21651 W. Eight Mile Rd., Detroit; 313-387-7700; hydrogiant.com

Green Door Alternative 7304 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-254-9468 The Green Mile 6650 E. Eight Mile Rd., Detroit, 313-826-1479

Hydro Giant–West Bloomfield 7480 Haggerty Rd., West loomfield Twp.; 2 661-0034; hydrogiant. com

Green Planet Patient Collective 700 Tappan, Ann Arbor, 734845-2172, greenplaneta2.org

Hydro King 32000 Van Dyke Ave., Warren, 586-939-0518, hydro-king.com

Greenhouse of Walled Lake 103 E. Walled Lake Dr., Walled Lake, 833-644-7336, greenhousemi.com GreenStone Provisions 338 S. Ashley St., Ann Arbor, 734-773-3075, greenstoneprovisions. com

19533 W. Warren Ave., Detroit, 313-2667738, thethcdetroit.com

Hydro Master Indoor Gardening & Hydroponics 36345 Groesbeck Hwy., Clinton Twp., 586-792-0277

Healing Tree Wellness Center 15308 E. Eight Mile Rd., Detroit, 313466-3366

The House of Mary Jane 19154 James Couzens Fwy., Detroit, 313340-9202, housemaryjane.com

Hydropros–Utica 45410 Van Dyke Ave., Utica, 586-8030966, hydropros.com

Holistic Health Wayne 38110 Michigan Ave., Wayne, 734-7255343

Utopia Gardens 6541 E. Lafayette St., Detroit, 313-3409202, utopiagardens.com

Hydropros 30 0 23 ile d., hesterfield, 741-8805, hydropros.com

Corktown Collective 2101 W. Lafayette Blvd, Suite 106, Detroit, 313-265-3740, corktown-collective. business.site

House of Dank 3340 E. Eight Mile Rd., Detroit; 313-3054040

Hydroponic suppliers

Indoor Garden Superstore 2570 Dixie Hwy., Waterford Twp., 248673-2200, indoorgardensuperstore.com

Curing Corner 1030 W. efferson Ave., iver ouge, 313-436-5616, curingcorner.com

The House of Mary Jane 19154 James Couzens Fwy., Detroit, 313340-9202

Erbacare 8680 E. Eight Mile Rd., Detroit, 313707-0994

Medicine Man of Ann Arbor 2793 Plymouth Rd., Suite K, Ann Arbor, 734-800-4194, mmofa2.com

Far West Holistic Center 21221 W. Eight Mile Rd., Detroit, 313977-9911; farwestholistic.com

Motor City Kush 10 E. Eight Mile Rd., Detroit, 313-7070903, weeddispensarydetroit.com

Arbors Wellness 321 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor, 734-9292602, arborswellness.com Bloom City Club 423 Miller Ave., Ann Arbor, 734-5850621, bloomcityclub.com BotaniQ 2540 Rosa Parks Blvd., Detroit, 313-4501 00, botani .us

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Green Thumb Garden Center 22963 Woodward Ave., Ferndale, 248439-1851 Grow Generation 29220 Seven Mile Rd., Livonia, 248-4730450, growgeneration.com

Northern Lights Hydroponic & Garden Supply 29090 N. Campbell Rd., Madison Heights, 248-439-6269, northernlightshgs.com

Grow Green MI 9197 E. MI State Road 36, Whitmore; 810-299-2900, growgreenmi.com

Premier Hydro 11820 Belleville Rd., Belleville, 734-5890414, premierhydroshop.com,

The Grow Station 5670 N. Telegraph Rd., Dearborn Heights, 313-406-5147

Specialty Growers 4330 Golf Club Rd., Howell, 517-5467742, specialtygrowers.net

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FOOD

Pulled short rib sandwich.

TOM PERKINS

Big and bold barbecue By Jane Slaughter

I never thought I’d be tempted to write that a restaurant has “too much flavor” or “tastes are too intense.” ut I did feel that way one evening at uc y’s, where I couldn’t find any respite even in the side dishes, from umami that came on li e gangbusters. No palate cleansers here. Take that semi-complaint with a grain of salt, of course, or a grain of G. We want big and bold flavors, right nless we’re the fol s whose meal is not complete without a slice of Wonder bread on the side and a plate of wet iceberg lettuce. And none of you ear eaders fit that description. Lucky’s is the latest project of iconic Detroit restaurateur Jimmy Schmidt, who first wowed the locals as a chef at the London Chop House in the 1980s and soon after with the Rattlesnake lub. Now he’s “reimagining barbecue” in a tiny itchen, using his research bac ground to twea both flavor and nutrition. Lucky’s is one of four tiny-kitchened restaurants in the upmarket Fort Street Galley food court downtown. It’s informal, grab your own utensils, with both picnic table seating and chairs; all four itchens share the dining space and the charming, four sided agpie bar. No reservations, of course.

If you haven’t stopped by the agpie first, you might want to start your uc y’s meal with a sinus clearing Northwoods ginger beer, the most powerful I’ve experienced. A Wild ill’s root beer was more normal, uite sweet. ut you do want to visit the agpie. Its cocktails, which include a number of fashionable low-alcohol choices, are imaginative and even gorgeous. “ oves in the Wind,” which includes pisco (a brandy), u e gentian li ueur, citrus cola, pineapple, and more, comes topped with a lovely leaf design that ta es a while to construct. The low A drin s, on the other hand, are on draft; you decide whether to stick with the recipe — like a sweet, not-hot Galley ule made of arenjager (a honey li ueur), ginger, lime, and demerara — or add a shot of harder liquor for an extra . If you want the chance to try a number of different taste sensations while remaining relatively sober, this is the way. chmidt is into nutrition. The reason he serves no por , just beef (and salmon), he says, is that the high omega fatty acids in his Wagyu beef, imported from Nebras a and Idaho, are good for you and easier to digest than por . “It’s a better barbecue you can eat all the time,” he claims. e’s anti gluten and

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has removed all wheat and soy from the menu; the main ingredient in his sandwich buns is sorghum, but the eggs and mil ma e that not a deal brea er. It’s good bread. Without a smo er on the premises, chmidt first cures the Wagyu li e bacon, with prebiotics, salt, and sugar. That curing process enables a cold smo e to stic . Then the precious meat is coo ed at a very low temperature for 2 hours. The results are luscious. The beef in my pulled short rib sandwich was heavy in the hand and practically melted in the mouth. It and other sandwiches are sprin led with sweet potato fries. A hic ory smo ed Angus brat was loaded with caramelized onions and had the satisfying elastic pop that ma es a brat a brat. Tender, smo y Wagyu bac ribs are the pink of corned beef — that’s the curing with just a bit of a rind. They’re served with a slaw that’s way heavy on o uefort thin of it as cheese rather than as a side salad. i e I said, no respite from the big flavors. I thought chmidt’s salmon did and didn’t wor , depending on what it was paired with. In a salmon carpaccio starter, it’s under mustardy greens and a bunch of capers and horseradish; the

Lucky’s Noble BBQ Fort Street Galley, 160 W. Fort, Detroit 313-230-0855 fortstreetgalley.org Handicap accessible 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday Sides $6-$13, entrées $19-$20

delicate flavor gets lost. ut served with a creamy succotash, the fish can shine. I wasn’t as enthusiastic about five onion soup, which is thick, or baked beans, which are spicy, sweet, and too soft. ther possible sides are deviled eggs, pimento cheese, butternut s uash soup, mac and cheese, roasted beets/ cocoa cole slaw ( ), and fries with garlic, smo ed papri a, and cheddar dust. A vegetarian friend called uc y’s offerings for those of her persuasion “painfully limited but extremely delicious.” he loved a Three Apple alad, though I thought it low on apples, and a beet carpaccio with mild goat cheese. Dessert was a deconstructed dark chocolate tart: bits of pine-nut brittle stuc in a thic chile laced mousse. It was fabulous, and would have been even better with more heat. ther desserts are a peanut-butter tart and a barbecue-spiced pecan pie — just so you don’t forget you’re in a barbecue joint.

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THIS WEEK THURSDAY, 4/18 Wannabe: A Spice Girls Tribute @ Magic Bag

MUSIC Sorting out the girl-group drama of the Spice Girls is as messy as say, cleaning out your actual spice cabinet. When news of a possible Spice Girls reunion broke late last year, the spice world waited with bated breath for confirmation. hortly after, it was revealed that Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, would not be joining the tour, though she gave the girls her blessing. Last month, Mel B., aka Scary Spice, dropped the bombshell that she and Geri Horner, aka Ginger Spice, hooked up once back in the day, which has now threatened the possibility of a semi-complete reunion tour. In the meantime, to celebrate the five daring women who empowered a generation with their pop positivity are five women who simply wannabe wannabes. Hailing from Toronto, Wannabe: A Spice Girls Tribute brings spice to life with a live band, choreography, platform boots, and British accents — and a whole lotta zigazig ha. Doors open at 8 p.m.; 22920 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248-544-1991; themagicbag.com. Tickets are $15.

FRIDAY, 4/19 Sorry to Bother You screening with director Boots Riley @ Wayne State Community Arts Auditorium

FILM Nothing says “dystopia” quite like the American dream, which is the unlikely subject of the sharpest — and most underrated — dark comedy of 201 . ffering commentary on race, competition, injustice, profit, protest, and the shallow millennial job pool (thanks, baby boomers), Sorry to Bother You is the ambitious debut from rapperturned director oots iley. The film stars a eith tanfield as the struggling entrepreneur Cassius “Cash” and Tessa Thompson as his artist girlfriend, Detroit, as they navigate the cost of the corporate ladder once Cash accepts a shady telemarketing job where he develops his “white voice” (which sounds an awful lot like David Cross). Following a screening of the film at W ommunity Arts Auditorium, iley will spea on the film and conduct a Q&A with the audience.

Tessa Thompson and LaKeith Stanfield in Sorry to Bother You, Wayne State Community Arts Auditorium, April 19. ANNAPURNA PICTURES

What’s Going On

A week’s worth of things to do and places to do them Event begins at 6 p.m.; 450 Reuter, Detroit; eventbrite.com; Event is free and open to the public with registration.

FRIDAY, 4/19 Countdown to 4/20 with Doug Benson @ Royal Oak Music Theatre

Comedy The verdict is in: comedian Doug Benson is high. Probably. Hell, he may even be as high as he was when he made the parody film Super High Me, during which he smoked weed for 30 days straight (in other words, an autobiographical documentary). This, of course, was in 2007, long before a handful of states like Colorado and Michigan (woo!) would legalize the recreational use of marijuana. While it may no longer be shocking for a comedian to perform stoner comedy, it is still really fucking funny, and more relatable than ever. After a string of successful podcasts, Doug Loves Movies and Getting Doug with High, Benson most recently hosted the Comedy Central series, The High Court with Doug Benson, a court-comedy where he would get ultra-mega high and rule over real-life cases with lawfully binding consequences, and a rotation of celebrity bailiffs. Event begins at 9 p.m.; 318 W. Fourth St., Royal Oak; 248-399-2980; royaloakmusictheatre.com. Tickets are $30.

FRIDAY, 4/19 The Road to a Green New Deal with Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Abdul El-Sayed

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@ Bonstelle Theatre

POLITICS As people across the country step up to demand that our leaders confront the challenges of climate change, a nascent political movement has grown from the Green New Deal. To support its recent momentum, Sunrise Movement is touring eight cities across the . ., including etroit, to raise awareness and empower citizens to support sensible climate policies. In Detroit, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Abdul El-Sayed, Dorthea Thomas of Good Jobs Now, and Natasha J. Fernández-Silber of Democratic Socialists of America will share personal testimony on how climate change has affected them and their communities. The Detroit stop will emphasize sustainable water infrastructure and poverty elimination. Event begins at 6:30 p.m.; 3424 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-577-2972; Event is free with registration.

SATURDAY, 4/20 Backwoods and Bonfires Music Festival @ The Farmhouse

MUSIC Returning for its third wave is the burgeoning midwest hip-hop music festival ac woods and onfires. The CrowdFreak-produced day-to-night fest will take place in Southwest Detroit at a location dubbed the Farmhouse, and will offer adult bounce houses, panca es, live muralists, and firepits. The live music lineup includes headliner Doja Cat, the L.A. rapper who went viral with 2018’s video for “Mooo!” — a trap song about being a cow. Her ascen-

sion was derailed, however, when her homophobic tweets aimed at Tyler, the Creator and Earl Sweatshirt resurfaced. ( he later offered an explanation and, eventually, an apology.) The event will also host sets from five s as well as artists Rocky Badd, B Free, and Ypsilanti native and metro Detroit’s rising queen of R&B trap, Neisha Neshae. Event begins at noon; 3733 McKinley St., Detroit; eventbrite.com; Tickets start at $25.

SATURDAY, 4/20 “Alcoholics Anonymous” Redux by Thelonious Bone @ UFO Factory

ART As a bartender, you see a lot of people in various states of joy, despair, and disrepair. As an artist, you might see things a bit differently. “Alcoholics Anonymous” is a collection of impressionist-style portraits and illustrations by renowned Detroit artist Thelonious Bone, which captures the feeling of “wanting to be unknown and unseen.” The exhibition, which had a successful run at Playground Detroit last year, will be on display once again, this time with selected works from the series that were not featured during its premiere. lurred li e intoxicated vision, “Alcoholics Anonymous” pairs portraiture with boozy iconography and AA adages, resulting in what feels like a collective — and emotional — last-last call. The show will also feature coffee and donuts à la AA, a reggae DJ set by Hello Records’ Wade Kergan, and an after-show dance party with the Shitty Club DJs.

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just got a heck of a lot steamier thanks to Shake That Azkaban, a burlesque tribute to Harry Potter. For the event (that has, in the past, sold-out), all are invited to channel their inner Moaning Myrtle and snatch a snitch as Dish Delish, Dotty Dart, Hermoine Stranger, Darryn Storm, and others shed their muggle skin and robes to pay tribute to the beloved franchise through mischief, magic, and nipple tassles.

backseat, Hell-On is as fiery as ase gets while also doing what she has been so masterful in doing in the past — giving space for both catharsis and rumination.

oors o en at .m. Caniff t. Hamtramck; 313-365-4948; planetant. com. Tickets are $15-$20 and include entry to live concert at Ghost Light following the performance.

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MONDAY, 4/22 Selected work from Alcoholics Anonymous. THELONIOUS BONE

Neko Case

Doors open at 7 p.m.; 2110 Trumbull St., Detroit; facebook.com/ufofactorydetroit. Event is free.

MUSIC On the title track of her quietly anxious seventh solo record, Neko Case discredits God for all of his/her shortcomings and demands respect for the power and frailty of wielded by mother nature. “Nothing quite so poison as a promise,” she repeats, bitingly. Hell-On finds ase syncing up with producer Björn Yttling (of Peter, Bjorn, and John), her old bandmates from the New Pornographers, and collaborators k.d. Lang and Laura Veirs for what is considered one of her most primal records to date. While most of the album puts the 48-year-old singer-songwriter in the

SATURDAY, 4/20 Shake That Azkaban: A Harry Potter Burlesque Tribute @ Planet Ant

FUN Expecto patronum! Wingardium leviosa! Expelliarmus lumos! If these are your bedroom safewords, then you might already know that the wizarding world

@ Majestic Theatre

Doors open at 7 p.m.; 4140, Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-833-9700; majesticdetroit.com. Tickets are $29.50$35.

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MUSIC A year after Chicago rapper Chief Keef announced on Twitter that he was planning on retiring, he released a 17-track mixtape, followed by his third record, Dedication which has been described as being a satisfying and balanced grab-bag. In keeping with his unmatched hustle, which resulted in nine released projects just last year, 23-year-old Keef is gearing up to release his second project of the 2019, Almighty So 2. The first taste comes in the form of the laidback ready-to-pounce single “Boost” — “Almighty don’t like nobody/ Got them nunchuc s, ready to fight somebody/ Glock Tyson ready to bite somebody/ Baby said she quit, but now she back on molly.” Doors open at 8 p.m.; 1600 Clay St., Detroit; 313-872-4000; russellindustrialcenter.com. Tickets are $30.

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THIS WEEK Talking Ear p.m.; liff ell’s, 2030 ar Ave., etroit; 10.

MUSIC Wednesday, April 17 Andy Adamson Quintet 8 p.m.; liff ell’s, 2030 ar Ave., etroit; 10. Dance Gavin Dance p.m.; oyal a usic Theatre, 31 W. ourth t., oyal a ; 2 .

Thrg001 Re-Discovery 9 p.m.; arble ar, 1 01 olden t., etroit;

TV Dinners - Rex Sepulveda & Lobos 9 p.m.; T ounge, 2 Grand iver Ave., etroit; No cover. Ulthar, Mutilatred, Centenary, Throne p.m.; The anctuary, 1 01 uter r , etroit; 10.

Dead American p.m.; ac’s ar, 2 00 . ichigan Ave., ansing; 12 . Delores “Lady Dee” Harris 6 p.m.; Aretha ran lin a afe At usic all, 3 0 adison treet, etroit; 20. Duncan McMillan Organ Trio 7 p.m.; The lue ama a lub, 31 . ain t., Ann Arbor; No cover.

Wannabe: A Tribute to the Spice Girls p.m.; agic ag, 22920 Wood ward Ave., erndale; 1 .

Friday, April 19 AHI p.m.; The Ar , 31 Ann Arbor; 20.

Ella Vos 30 p.m.; The helter, 31 . ongress t., etroit; 1 . JD McPherson p.m.; lind ig, 20 . irst t., Ann Arbor; 20. Kitchen Dwellers p.m.; tus upply, 3 . Nine ile d., erndale; 1 20. The Cactus Blossoms p.m.; l lub, 11 W. ernor wy., etroit; 12 1 .

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The Cadillac Three p.m.; The achine hop, 3 39 . ort wy., lint; 20 . Chaotic Neutral 10 p.m.; eluxx luxx, 12 ibrary t., etroit; . Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio 30 p.m.; tus upply, 3 . Nine ile d., erndale; 20 2 . Girlpool 9 p.m.; lind ig, 20 t., Ann Arbor; 1 1 .

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The Victor Wooten Band and the Wooten Woods Experience 8 p.m.; The Ar , 31 . ain t., Ann Arbor; .

GMSH Tour: Detroit Edition 10 p.m.; or town Tavern, 1 1 ichigan Ave., etroit; 30 .

Thursday, April 18

The Jeff Cuny Trio 30 p.m.; liff ell’s, 2030 ar Ave., etroit; No cover.

American Spirits 9 p.m.; lind ig, 20 . irst t., Ann Arbor; 10. An Evening with Young Supply p.m.; . ontemporary Art, 1 10 Gratiot Ave., etroit; No cover. Black Stone Cherry and Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown 7 p.m.; The achine hop, 3 39 . ort wy., lint; 20 . Brian McKnight p.m.; ound oard, 2901 Grand iver Ave., etroit; 2 . Erno p.m.; tus upply, 3 ile d., erndale; No cover.

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Gunna p.m.; aint Andrew’s all, 31 . ongress t., etroit; 32. 0. Gymshorts p.m.; eluxx luxx, 12 ibrary t., etroit; No cover. Jane Siberry p.m.; The Ar , 31 ain t., Ann Arbor; 2 . Michigander p.m.; The oft, 9 yan d., tica; 10 .

Kid Trunks X Craig Xen 8 p.m.; ajestic Theatre, 1 0 Woodward Ave., etroit; 1 . The Lucid Furs, Krillin, the Scapes, Scissor Now p.m.; mall’s, 10339 onant t., amtramc ; 10. Mark Farner’s American Band with the Guess Who p.m.; The apitol Theatre, 1 0 . econd t., lint; The Mega ‘80s p.m.; agic ag, 22920 Woodward Ave., erndale; 12. Mike Mains & the Branches 7 p.m.; The oving Touch, 22 3 Wood ward Ave., erndale; 1 . MISSIO p.m.; aint Andrew’s all, 31 . ongress t., etroit; 20. Of Virtue, A War Within, Spirit Breaker, Torch Bearer p.m.; i e oom, 1 . aginaw t., ontiac; 12 .

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Pete Siers Trio p.m.; The lue ama a lub, 31 . ain t., Ann Arbor; No cover. Sunn O))) p.m.; asonic Temple, 00 Temple t., etroit; .

Ragnarok! p.m.; To en ounge, 2 9 9 oy d., Westland; 10 . Randy Johnston 9 p.m.; liff ell’s, 2030 ar Ave., etroit; 1 . Sarod Virtuoso Apratim Majumdar 9 30 p.m.; The lue ama a lub, 31 . ain t., Ann Arbor; 20 30.

Wannabe: A Spice Girls Tribute, Magic Bag, April 18.

Wally Pleasant 7 p.m.; Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing; $8+.

lease Party 8 p.m.; PJ’s Lager House, 1254 Michigan Ave., Detroit; $10-$12.

Weedeater, The Skull, High Tone Son of A Bitch, Iron Mountain 6 p.m.; The Sanctuary, 1501 E. Outer Dr., Detroit; $20.

Easter Jazz Spectacular 8 p.m.; Detroit Opera House, 1526 Broadway St., Detroit; $61+.

Saturday, April 20 Alec Benjamin 6 p.m.; Saint Andrew’s Hall, 431 E. Congress St., Detroit; $17. Breaking Wheel, Homewrecker, Detain, Plague Years, Manic Outburst, Hanging Fortress 7 p.m.; The Sanctuary, 1501 Outer Dr E, Detroit; $12. Castle 8 p.m.; Small’s, 10339 Conant St., Hamtramck; $7-$10. Copy of Harry Chronic Jr. 7:30 p.m.; The New Town Pump Tavern, 2233 Park Avenue, Detroit; $15. Dead Again’s 7th Annual 4/20 Bash 8 p.m.; Magic Bag, 22920 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; $15. Dilly Dally 9 p.m.; El Club, 4114 W. Vernor Hwy., Detroit; $15-$20. Dirty Copper, Shallow Stairs, and Rabbit Ears 10 p.m.; Ghost Light, 231 aniff t., amtramc ; . Dirty Mind IV- The Annual Prince Tribute 8 p.m.; Music Hall, 350 Madison St., Detroit; $10+. Duke Charelle 420 Album Re-

Evan Mercer Trio p.m.; liff ell’s, 2030 Park Ave., Detroit; No cover. FORCES 2nd Annual 4/20 Show 6 p.m.; Token Lounge, 28949 Joy Rd., Westland; $10. Paul Keller Quintet 7 p.m.; The Blue LLama Jazz Club, 314 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; No cover. Pop Evil 7 p.m.; The Fillmore, 2115 Woodward Ave., Detroit; $25-$45. Purple Masquerade 7 p.m.; The Machine Shop, 3539 S. Dort Hwy., Flint; $15+. Randy Johnston 9 30 p.m.; liff Bell’s, 2030 Park Ave., Detroit; $15.

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Twiztidã¢Â Â S 7th Annual 420 Show 4 p.m.; The Crofoot Ballroom, 1 S. Saginaw St., Pontiac; WAX MOTIF + NOIZU 9:30 p.m.; Elektricity Nightclub, 15 S. Saginaw St., Pontiac; $20+. Wild Belle 8 p.m.; The Loving Touch, 22634 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; $15.

Sunday, April 21 Aretha’s Jazz Jam 6 p.m.; The Music Hall, 350 Madison Ave., Detroit; No cover. Major Murphy 7 p.m.; Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing; $10. Nadah El Shazly 7 p.m.; Deluxx Fluxx, 1274 Library St., Detroit; $10. Rick Roe Duo 11:30 am; The Blue Llama Jazz Club, 314 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; No Cover.

Recreational Funk 420 with Cap (Sunrise, Romania) 9 p.m.; TV Lounge, 2548 Grand River Ave., Detroit;

Sunday brunch with pianist/ vocalist Jarrod Champion 11:30 am; liff ell’s, 2030 ar Ave., etroit; No cover.

Rockin The New Way! The Sugarpunk Fairies & More! 9 p.m.; New Way Bar, 23130 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; No cover.

Valerie June (Solo) 7 p.m.; Saint Andrew’s Hall, 431 E. Congress St., Detroit; $30+.

Stormy Chromer 8 p.m.; Blind Pig, 208 S. First St., Ann Arbor; $10.

Wolf Eyes, Satanhaus, Wiccans, The Picassos 7 p.m.; The Sanctuary, 1501 Outer Dr E, Detroit; $10.

Thunderwüde 8 p.m.; The Ark, 316 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; $15.

Monday, April 22 Crystal Bowersox 8 p.m.; The Ark,

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Doug Benson, Royal Oak Music Theatre, April 19.

Detroit w/ Annie Bacon 8-11 p.m.; Cadieux Cafe, 4300 Cadieux Rd., Detroit; No cover. Thank You Scientist 7 p.m.; The Loving Touch, 22634 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; $16.50+.

Tuesday, April 23 The Alexis Lombre Trio 8 p.m.; liff ell’s, 2030 ar Ave., etroit; No cover. Artist Spotlight: Tyler Ramsey p.m.; The Ar , 31 . ain t., Ann Arbor; No cover. Deadicated + David Gans 7 p.m.; tus upply, 3 . Nine ile d., erndale; $15-$20. Deerhoof w/ Palm, and Stef Chura p.m.; lind ig, 20 . irst t., Ann Arbor; $15-$18. Dennis Coffey 8 p.m.; Northern ights ounge, 0 W. altimore t., Detroit; Free. OHMME, Primitiv Parts 7 p.m.; eluxx luxx, 12 ibrary t., etroit; No cover. Rival Sons 7 p.m.; The Fillmore, 2115 Woodward Ave., Detroit; $45. Terror Jr. p.m.; The helter, 31 . ongress t., etroit; 1 .

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THEATER All My Sons ondays undays.; urple ose Theatre, 13 ar t., helsea; 1 .

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p.m., aturday, 3 p.m. and, unday 3 30 p.m.; ox Theatre, 2211 Woodward Ave., Detroit; $45.

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Aubrey Thursdays undays.; etroit epertory Theatre, 13103 Woodrow Wilson t., etroit; 20.

Ahmed Ahmed Wednesday 30 p.m.; ar idley’s omedy astle, 310 . Troy t., oyal a ; 20.

Hamilton Wednesday aturday, p.m., riday aturday, 2 p.m.; Through April 21. isher Theatre, 3011 W. Grand lvd., etroit; 1 .

All-Star Showdown ridays, aturdays, 10 p.m.; Go omedy Improv Theater, 2 1 . Nine ile d., erndale; $20.

Popcorn Falls Wednesdays undays.; Through ay . Tipping oint Theatre, 3 1 . ady t., Northville; 3 .

Brian Posehn Thursday, p.m.; The rofoot allroom, 1 . aginaw t., ontiac; $25.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Thursday, p.m., riday, p.m., aturday, p.m. and unday, 2 p.m.; ower enter for the erforming Arts, 121 letcher t., Ann Arbor; $12-$34. The Empire Strips Back: A Burlesque Parody riday, p.m.; The Fillmore, 2115 Woodward Ave., Detroit; $35+. The Michigan Burlypicks riday, p.m.; Tangent Gallery astings treet allroom, 1 . ilwau ee Ave., etroit; $15. Tyler Perry’s “Madea’s Farewell Play Tour” Thursday, 30 p.m., riday

Clinton Jackson Thursday, 30 p.m., riday, 1 9 p.m. and aturday, 9 30 p.m.; ar idley’s omedy astle, 310 . Troy t., oyal a ; 10. Comedy Open Mic Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Trixie’s ar, 2 arpenter Avenue, amtramc ; No cover. Doug Benson riday, 9 p.m.; oyal a usic Theatre, 31 W. ourth t., oyal a ; 30. Fresh Sauce undays, 9 p.m.; Go omedy Improv Theater, 2 1 . Nine ile d., erndale; ree. Name This Show ridays, aturdays, 11 p.m.; Go omedy Improv Theater, 2 1 . Nine ile d., erndale; ree.

Olivia Grace Thursday, 9 p.m.; Rusted Crow Distillery, 6056 North Telegraph Rd., Dearborn Heights; $10.

Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit; Museum admission.

Open Mic Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.; Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle, 310 S. Troy St., Royal Oak; $5.

Global Glass: A Survey of Form and Function Monday-Friday; Alfred Berkowitz Gallery, UM Dearborn, Dearborn; Free.

Reality Check Thursday 9 p.m.; Go Comedy! Improv Theater, 261 E. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale; $10.

Hybrid: Glass + Metal MondaysSundays. Through June 16. Flint Institute of Arts, 1120 E. Kearsley St., Flint; $10.

Sunday Buffet Sundays, 7 p.m.; Go Comedy! Improv Theater, 261 E. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale; $10.

Light! The Fine Art of Photography of Myles Gallagher MondaysSaturdays.; River’s Edge Gallery, 3024 Biddle Ave., Wyandotte; Free.

Thursday Night Live! Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Ant all, 2320 aniff t., amtramck; $5. True Colors: Come Out and Play! Wednesday 8 p.m.; Go Comedy! Improv Theater, 261 E. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale; $10.

FILM Arab Film Series: Wild Relatives + talkback Thursday 7 p.m.; Arab American National Museum, 13624 Michigan Ave., Dearborn; $7-$10. Brew and View: Pineapple Express Thursday, 7 p.m.; Emerald Theatre, 31 N. Walnut St., Mount Clemens; $5. Bye Bye Birdie Friday, 8 p.m.; Historic Redford Theatre, 17360 Lahser Rd., Detroit; $5. Singin’ In The Rain Saturday, 2 p.m.; Historic Redford Theatre, 17360 Lahser Rd., Detroit; $5. Styx Friday, 7 p.m., Saturday, 4 & 7 p.m. and Sunday 2 & 4:30 p.m.; Detroit Film Theatre, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit; $7.50-$9.50.

ART Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s Sunday, 2 p.m.; UMMA, 525 S. State Street, Ann Arbor; Free. Drawing in the Galleries Fridays, 6 p.m., Saturdays, noon and Sundays, noon; Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit; Free. Engaging African Art: Highlights from the Horn Collection Through May 26; Flint Institute of Arts, 1120 E. Kearsley St., Flint; $10 donation. Exposures: Photography ’19 Mondays-Sundays.; Lawrence Street Gallery, 22620 Woodward, Suite A, Ferndale; Free. Extraordinary Eye, Extraordinary Gift: The Legacy of Margaret Herz Demant Tuesdays-Sundays.; Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit; Free with museum admission. From Camelot to Kent State: Pop Art 1960-1975 Tuesdays-Sundays.;

Michigan Regional Glass Exhibition Mondays-Sundays, 1 p.m.; Janice Charach Epstein Gallery, 6600 W. Maple d., West loomfield; ree. Ruben & Isabel Toledo: Labor of Love Mondays-Sundays.; Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit; Free. The Big Picture Guided Tour Tuesdays-Sundays, 1 p.m., Fridays, 6 p.m. and Saturdays, Sundays, 3 p.m.; Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit; Free. Thursdays at the Museum: Highlights of the Permanent Collection Thursdays, 1 p.m.; Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit; Free. Unfurled: Supports/Surfaces 1966-1976 Tuesdays-Sundays.; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), 4454 Woodward Ave., Detroit; Suggested $5 donation. Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing Mondays-Sundays.; University of Michigan Museum of Art, 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor; Free.

LITERARY EVENT Detroit Public Library Author Series: Damon Young Wednesday 6 p.m.; Detroit Public Library, 5201 Woodward Ave., Detroit; Free. Kelly Fordon Dorene O’Brien Thursday, 6 p.m.; Pages Bookshop, 19560 Grand River Ave., Detroit; Free. Polly Rosenwaike Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Pages Bookshop, 19560 Grand River Ave., Detroit; Free. The East Side Reading Series Saturday, 3 p.m.; The Commons, 7900 Mack Ave., Detroit; Free. Valerie Jarrett Monday, 7 p.m.; Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty St., Ann Arbor; $35.

SPORTS Black Historic Sites: Black Baseball in Detroit Saturday, 10:30 a.m.; Detroit Historical Museum, 5401 Woodward Ave., Detroit; $40+.

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Local music picks By Jerilyn Jordan

THURSDAY, 4/18 Double Winter, Craig Brown (solo) supporting Gymshorts @ Deluxx Fluxx

Rhode Island stoner punks Gymshorts have enlisted support from a Metro Times band to watch and a Third Man Records cowboy for the band’s free pre-4/20 blacklight bash. Holly Johnson, Morgan McPeak, Augusta Morrison, and Vittorio Vettraino — aka Double Winter — will deliver their occult-inspired blend of surf rock and etheral garage pop. Appearing solo is Craig Brown of the Third Man Records’ Craig Brown Band, who will bring

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his pared-down country rock debauchery from 2017’s The Lucky Ones Forgot. Doors open at 7 p.m.; 1274 Library St., etroit el . om. ent is ree.

FRIDAY, 4/19 Earth Night benefit with DJ Holographic @ Marble Bar

While everyone is assembling their respective stashes for 4/20, others are ramping up for a productive Earth Day on April 22. A few days ahead of the worldwide day of action and activism, is arth Night, a scored benefit aimed to fund summer camp for Detroit youth through the local nonprofit Green iving cience. eading the bill is one woman funk machine DJ Holographic (aka Ariel Catalina), who has performed at high school proms and international electronic clubs, as well as her hometown festival Movement, where she took the Red Bull Stage last year and where she will return for next month’s event. To pair with Holographic’s nu-disco energy, she’ll be joined by EC Rowe and DJ Beige, who are also performing in cooperation with DJs for Climate Action. Doors open at 9 p.m.; 1501 Holden St., Detroit; 313-338-3674; Suggested $5 donation.

FRIDAY, 4/19 Lucid Furs album release @ Small’s

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Detroit freak-rock outfit the Lucid Furs’ Bandcamp page comes with a warning: “to hold on to your morality, virtues,

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and chastity — do not listen to the Lucid Furs.” Described as music that is unsuitable for children and horses, the Lucid Furs are following up their mystic psych-rock debut, 2017’s This Ain’t No Mating Dance with No God? No Problem. To celebrate their sophomore release, they band has planned a pre-4/20 bash and the kick-off for the band’s 10-date midwestern jaunt. Space rockers Krillin will also be on the bill along with soul-infused funk band the Scapes, and “wacky punk” three-piece Scissor Now! DJ Holographic.

Doors open at 8 p.m.; 10339 Conant St., Hamtramck; 313-873-1117; smallsbardetroit.com. Tickets are $10.

FRIDAY, 4/19 Poor Player album release with the Whiskey Charmers @ PJ’s Lager House

The six-piece Americana band hailing from metro Detroit better known as Poor Player will follow up their 2015 roots rock record, High Holy Hills with Where the Wastelan n s. Described as post-industrial prairie, Poor Player is equal parts James McMurtry with hints of a moonshine drinking Randy Newman. Also joining the release show are seductive alt-country rockers Whiskey Charmers who scored a gamer audience last year thanks to their inclusion on the soundtrack for 2018’s Playstation 4 game, Detroit: Become Human. Jo Serrapere and the Willie Dunns and Mike Galbraith are also on the bill. oors o en at .m. i higan e. Detroit; 313-961-46678; pjslagerhouse.

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SATURDAY, 4/20 Dead Again: 7th annual 4/20 bash @ Magic Bag

The band that has been synonymous with improvisational jams, a loyal gang of fans dubbed the “deadheads,” those tripped-out little dancing bears, and, well, the good drugs, Grateful Dead’s legacy lives on beyond Bob Weir and John Mayer. Paying tribute to Jerry Garcia’s musical legacy for more than 10 years is Michigan’s premier Grateful Dead tribute, Dead Again, who are keeping with their 4/20 tradition at the Magic Bag seven years and running. The seven-piece band is led by Brian Avigne who works to capture Garcia’s vocal and guitar essence, and together they span everything from the Dead’s classic psychedelia to the synthesized later years. Doors open at 8 p.m.; 22920 Woodward e. ern ale themagicbag.com. Tickets are $15+.

Celine Dion Little Caesars Arena, Nov. 5, 7 p.m.; $399+

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Fast-Forward Trevor Noah Fox Theatre, April 26, 7:30 p.m., 10 p.m. $35+

Hugh Jackman Little Caesars Arena, June 24, 7 p.m., $69.50+

Ali Wong The Fillmore, May 4, 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m., $128+

The Lonely Island Fox Theatre, June 26, 8 p.m., $84+

Lizzo Saint Andrew’s Hall, May 15, 7 p.m., Sold-out

Weird Al Yankovic Meadow Brook Amphitheatre, July 5, 8 p.m., $30+

Patton Oswalt The Fillmore, May 18, 8 p.m.; $37.50+

Snoop Dogg, Warren G, and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony The Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre, July 5, 7 p.m., $75+

Fred Armisen Crofoot Ballroom, May 19, 7 p.m., $30 Slayer DTE Energy Music Theatre, May 19, 6 p.m., $29.50+ Tony Bennett Fox Theatre, May 23, 8 p.m., $39.50+ Chromatics Majestic Theatre, May 28, 7 p.m., $30.50+ The Who Little Caesars Arena, May 28, 7:30 p.m., $49.50+ Luke Combs DTE Energy Music Theatre, May 30, 7 p.m., $96+ Wu-Tang Clan Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill, May 31, 7:30 p.m., 29.50+ Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band DTE Energy Music Theatre, June 6, 8, 12, 14, 19, and 21 7:30 p.m., $250+ Coheed and Cambria, Mastodon Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill, June 11, 6:30 p.m., $25+ Jason Isbell, Father John Misty Fox Theatre, June 17, 7:30 p.m., $49.75+ New Kids on the Block Little Caesars Arena, June 18, 7:30 p.m., $79.95+

Dave Matthews Band DTE Energy Music Theatre, July 9, 8 p.m., $45.50+ The Raconteurs The Masonic Theatre, July 12, 8 p.m., $45+ Jeff Lynne’s ELO Little Caesars Arena, July 20, 8 p.m., $49.50+ Alice Cooper and Halestorm DTE Energy Music Theatre, July 20, 7 p.m., $29.50 Mo Pop Festival Ralph Wilson Centennial Park, July 27-28, noon, $75+ Adam Lambert + Queen Little Caesars Arena, July 27, 8 p.m.; $750+ John Mayer Little Caesars Arena, Aug. 2, 7:30 p.m., $59.50+ Beck, Cage the Elephant DTE Energy Music Theatre, Aug. 3, 6 p.m., $29.50+ Bryan Ferry Fox Theatre, Aug. 3, 8 p.m., $39.50+ A Flock of Seagulls, the Motels, Wang Chung The Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre, Aug. 9, 7 p.m., $35+ Carlos Santana DTE Energy Music Theatre, Aug. 11, 7 p.m., $47+

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MUSIC Get ‘Sportee’ Nolan the Ninja signs to Mello Music Group By Kahn Santori Davison

The building on the corner of Custer and St. Antoine is like other industrial spaces in Detroit’s North End — you know lots of folks are using it, but you’re not exactly sure for what. Today, rapper and producer Nolan Chapman, aka Nolan The Ninja, is on the spacious but cold second floor shooting a video for his single “Oranges.” He’s surrounded by 40 candles, 20 oranges, and a sprin le of rose floral arrangements. A giant hanging softbox illuminates him from above, while a woman in a sleeveless sheer top wearing a biblicallooking halo crown sits motionless in front of him. The scene looks more like an ancient sacrificial ceremony than a music video shoot. The film crew shoots five more ta es before the director decides to take a 20-minute break to move around cameras, props, and lighting. Chapman steps away from the scene and pulls out ot ands hand warmers to fight off chill from the heatless warehouse. “I’m just kind of doing what I see in my head, like just bringing my vision to life,” he says. “Now I can do over the top stuff.” Last January the 27 year-old Detroit native signed a record deal with the Arizona-based Mello Music Group. The record deal was a milestone accomplishment for Chapman, who’s been rapping since his early teens. “You know, man, when I started rapping it was something I did just for fun,” he says. “It kind of transitioned into my livelihood. I had never saw myself rapping this long. I was just kind of going with the flow. I had to leave college, and rapping was the next thing I did to fill up my time and then stuff just started happening.” Though Chapman was a diehard Detroit eastsider, he didn’t necessarily get pulled into trap and street music. Whether inside or outside the studio, he’s always been a throwback millennial. The kind of cat who would stay up till 5 a.m. on YouTube going down a Pharcyde or J. Dilla wormhole. “Coming up, nobody from my area was on the shit that I was on,” he says. “I was always in search of that placement of that community that fit me.

When I discovered Detroit hip-hop as a 17-year-old and 18-year-old, I felt at home.” By 2012 Chapman had made a name for himself. His self-produced beats were reminiscent of Beatnuts and Jurassic ive cuts, while his flow was thic with 90a ferocity and wordplay. Even at the risk of being pigeonholed, he stuck with making the kind of music he was inspired by. “That’s the bed I made for myself,” he says. “I’m never going to knock it because it’s helped me lay the foundation. That’s where I come from; digging in the crates and looping stuff and catching samples.” By the time 2017 arrived, Chapman had more than 10 projects under his belt, along with a solid cosign from Detroit vet Royce da 5’9’’. “Royce hit me out of the blue on Twitter, we exchanged info,” he says. “I met him in person a couple of months later. He invited me to a couple of his studio sessions, one of them being PRhyme 2. Premier was there, I was like ‘What the fuc ’ e definitely showed me love.” Chapman had also begun to receive attention from the national media and radio. He was featured on HipHop DX, Ambrosia for Heads, Sway in the Morning, and DJ Tony Touch’s “Toca Tuesday.” Chapman was trending upward as things were organically falling into place. But as 2018 got going, Chapman’s momentum had started to quietly unravel. His singles “Phoenix” and “Numb” were excellent songs, but both deviated from his signature sound. “Around that time I really didn’t know if I felt like rapping,” he says. “It was a weird year for me. Very humbling. … I was in limbo, I had split ties with my management. I was going in a whole different direction.” In the midst of this storm, Mello Music Group — a boutique indie label that operates on a budget bigger than most — reached out to Chapman. They have a history of working with Detroit artists, like Guilty Simpson and Apollo Brown. The deal wasn’t a complete surprise, because he had worked with Mello in the past doing production work. “They were familiar with who I was.

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It’s all about timing,” he says. “When they hit me up it was perfect timing. Things were in limbo. I didn’t know what direction I wanted to go in. That got me back on track to my essence. In fact I don’t think Sportee was even going to come out like that. I was probably going to throw it on a free mixtape.” Sportee is traditional Nolan the Ninja with a touch of mellowness and awareness. e’s reflective and inspirational in cuts li e “ loom” and “ oe,” but fires off lyrical 0s in “ 1200 reestyle” and “Hermit.” He has amped up his wit and charm, but he’s parted ways with the aggressive screams and growls that used to sometimes get in the way of what he was actually saying. Overall, Sportee is his most mature offering thus far. Someone yells out “5 minutes” and people start to get in place. “Sportee is all lo fi and gritty stuff,” he says. “People know the traditional Nolan the Ninja sound. I want to keep doing that, but I want to bring modernized elements to a traditional approach. The

video is going to reflect li e Nic elodeon, PBS programs, the holy trinity, and stuff. ust bringing raw hip hop and dope creative direction, and meshing it together.” Chapman also talks about one day transitioning into doing music video treatments, regaining his confidence, his continued battles with anxiety, and weight loss (he’s down 50 pounds due to better eating and working out). “To be quite honest with you, even as stuff starts to happen, my anxiety is still there,” he says. “But I’m optimistic. It’s just you’re getting older and you realized you’re taking on bigger responsibilities. That’s all that is, but I’m definitely going to do me fearlessly instead of doing stuff to be accepted or approved.” Nolan The Ninja’s Sportee will be released on April 19 on Mello Music Group and features collaborations with Chuck Inglish (Cool Kids), T3 (Slum Village), Jaye Prime, Boog Brown & Charlie Smarts of Kooley High.

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MUSIC

LESLIE KIRCHHOFF

Wild things

Wild Belle create a universe of their own By Sara Barron

Wild Belle — Elliot and Natalie Bergman — are much more than just a brother and sister duo. While it’s charming that the two are siblings, each of them is an accomplished artist in their own right, musically and otherwise, and the duo’s melding of influences makes for a type of delightfully unconventional pop music. The band’s latest album, Everybody One of a Kind, is an amalgamation of their appreciation for world music, doo-wop, and dark rock — part of which they picked up from Elliot’s time working at Encore Records in Ann Arbor while studying at the University of Michigan. “That was sort of a parallel education,” Elliot says. “I worked there with Fred Thomas from Saturday Looks Good to Me, Mike Dykehouse, Aaron Dillaway from Wolf Eyes … everybody would always be like, ‘You need this record.’” Elliot’s time exploring the turntables was supplemented with studying jazz

music, and before long, young Natalie was listening to Bitches Brew, Bob Marley, and Sun Ra records on her portable record player. “Elliot’s been such an influence to me with music,” she says. “He was always turning me on to the cool, eclectic style of the ’70s. He liked obscure music, so, in turn, I started developing a palate for it.” That palate characterizes Wild Belle’s worldly sound, especially when it comes to amaican influence. Their first record, Isles, is a little more outwardly island influenced, but the band says that they carried that flavor on throughout their last two records as well. “Those slower, rocksteady, loversrock kind of sounds ... it feels good,” Natalie says. “We want to create something that makes people dance and makes people feel good.” The band’s music video for “Mockingbird” is a shining example of that feel-good mentality — with a rocksteady beat and plenty of dancing —

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and outrunning the cops. “Have You Both,” the band’s other music video from the record, showcases its darker, American-rock side. Natalie’s gritty vocals are set atop a Breederslike bassline and driving percussion. The collages in the video were made by Natalie herself in a last-minute attempt to get a video together. “It was kind of an emergency video,” Natalie says. “The single was coming out sooner than we had thought … I just hunkered down in my apartment and cut up people and made them dance for about five days, and then, somehow, out came this music video.” Not to be outdone, Elliot also dabbles in other art forms. “We try to create a world we can live in,” Natalie says. “We do that with music, and Elliot does that with his sculpture and I make collage and it’s all an extension of us.” In fact, Elliot currently has an installation on view at the prestigious Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles called “Peace Bells.” The bells are

made by melting down bullet casings and guns found in Chicago, the duo’s hometown. This is an obvious nod to the gun-violence controversy in our nation’s third-largest city. The band also “accidentally” addressed this topic in their 2016 song “Throw Down Your Guns,” which Natalie says was initially meant to be a personal song. “When I wrote that song, it had to do more with my emotional turmoil and what was going on inside my head and in my heart,” Natalie told GQ in 2016. “I didn’t intend for it to be a political song.” Political or not, the duo’s eclectic and multidisciplinary style even has a fan in Beck, who they’ll be touring with later this spring. But before that, the band is bringing their all-encompassing rock ’n’ roll universe to the Loving Touch. Wild Belle will perform Saturday, April 20 at The Loving Touch; 22634 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248-8205596; facebook.com/lovingtouchferndale. Doors at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15.

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MUSIC John Famiglietti is lament-

ing the state of heavy music in the early 2000s while looking out at the Swiss Alps the afternoon before a show in Stockholm. After the demise of numetal, it seemed that to be taken seriously, bands playing aggressive music had to keep getting angrier. The result was bands lost sight of making good music, and the scene became cartoonishly dar before flatlining momentarily, according to the bassist and founding member of L.A.-based noise-rock group Health. “Metal just screwed the pooch,” he says. “Heavy really left the conversation for a while. We came up in the ‘naughty aughties,’ but we were missing a lot of the heavy music.” Health’s self-titled debut album dropped in 2007, rife with machinegun percussion and vocals ranging between syrupy sweet melodies to howling screams, often buried under screeching walls of feedback tied to off ilter time signatures. ince then the band, rounded out by vocalist Jake Duzsik and drummer BJ Miller, has evolved its sound from industrial noise to something more along the lines of a darker, harder take on Tears for Fears. Think: dreamy synths and androgynous vocals punctuated by chugging guitars and sub-bass. Its latest, Volume 4: Slaves of Fear, might be the band’s heaviest yet. But don’t give the modern metal resurgence credit for that. Instead, you can thank SoundCloud rappers. The Suicide Boys, Ghostmane, and ity orgue all play an influence on the band, and in the run-up to Slaves of Fear, Health even collaborated on a track with JPEGMAFIA. While on the surface these influences don’t ma e much sense, it’s a different story if you dig deeper. Famiglietti loves the production of trap music and the raw DIY feel of the SoundCloud scene in general. “What they’re doing is very unfinished a lot of the time,” he says. “It’s like, this song’s one fucking verse, it’s like a minute. That’s really punk and hearkens back to where we came from in the noise days.” It’s why “N 1 ” off of Slaves of Fear sounds the way it does, all distorted bass with a thick, sexy groove running from front to back. “Obviously we didn’t rap on it, but that’s where we were sort of going [musically],” Famiglietti explains. Health’s music has always had an air of anxiousness, but it reaches a fever pitch on the band’s latest. Whereas previous albums would balance out the aggressive industrial songs with major

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Health goes heavy Why we’re all slaves of fear By Timothy J. Seppala key, melodic tracks, the band intentionally eschewed that here to reflect on the times and maintain a singular vision. On Slaves of Fear, the band stuck with the sound-craft it developed on 2015’s Death Magic while looking back to its earlier work to give the new record a heavier edge. The album could’ve been released last year, but because the band had the time to keep tweaking songs, they took full advantage of it. Much of the record went through various permutations along the way, with the band working

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in the studio day after day, then taking a few months off from recording, coming back and cutting a song in half or bumping the BPM by ten. “You’re not like, ‘Ah fuck, if only we could’ve [changed this],’” he says. “It’s like, you could. You could just wait.” Famiglietti knows this isn’t a luxury other bands have, but he’s intent to keep taking advantage of it while he can. “I don’t know if it’s the best way to make a record, but it’s really awesome,” he says with a laugh. Famiglietti stresses that the album

isn’t a political statement, but a meditation on the current social climate as a whole and the way the internet shapes and affects perception. “Things aren’t actually that bad, he says. “It’s just people are on their fucking phone and it’s making them think everything is terrible and they’re whipped up in the psychosis of it.” It might sound like he’s passing judgment, but Famiglietti has fallen victim to it as well. He misses the days when Twitter was about photos of lunch and making jokes, for instance. “Now it’s fucking wall-to-wall angry vitriol, insane politics,” he says. “It makes you so fucking depressed. It sucks.” That hasn’t stopped Health from interacting with fans online or posting life-on-the-road clips to its Instagram story. Social media is just a highlight reel of everyone’s lives, but Famiglietti says the band has as much fun on the road as it seems. “This is our fucking tour and we’re having a great time,” he says. “We got in the game to tour, to live the lifestyle and that’s why we’re still here.” When we speak in March, the band still had a string of nightly European club dates on its calendar, with a few days off before their return to the United States. For the domestic leg, they’re bringing hardcore punk/industrial band and fellow L.A. natives Youth Code along for the ride. The band loves playing Europe, but Famiglietti says coming home is nice because everything works the way you expect it to. He’s especially excited to come back to Detroit. Health last played El Club in September 2016 and Famiglietti fell in love with the venue, saying that it makes the city a destination for them when drawing up tour plans. “Sometimes you play in Grand Rapids, or sometimes you play in fucking Pontiac. And then a lot of times on tour, you wouldn’t even book [Detroit],” he says. For a long time, it was never obvious where the band could perform, despite Motown being right on the way when touring coast to coast. He says a lot of times, had the band known of a club-sized venue in the city that was available, they’d have played it. “With El Club, there’s a place to play in Detroit,” he says. “That’s where we’re going to go.” Health performs with special guest Youth Code on Monday, April 22 at El Club, 4114 Vernor Hwy., Detroit; 313-2797382; elclubdetroit.com. Doors at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20+.

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CULTURE

Director of photography Marte Vold shoots often in calm, symmetrical compositions.

Seeds of change By George Elkind

Wild Relatives, which plays

this Thursday at the Arab American Museum, is largely a study in counterpoints. Tugging at a fraying, ropelike thread that stretches from Svalbard to Aleppo with some detours into Lebanon, Jumana Manna’s documentary explores the collective, cross cultural efforts to preserve seed varieties grown in Syria amid the threat posed by their civil war — a threat, too, to the already-faint hope for a less-industrialized, more locally adaptable form of agriculture. The movement of the seeds is one of the few proper incidents depicted. Wor ing off a premise that sounds li e a plant-based Children of Men, Manna dwells on quotidian contrasts instead of dramati ing heavily or pontificating over her minutes. oving fluidly between a web of intersecting themes and counterpoints, she features: the rifts and exchanges between the rural and (implied) urban; on the work that men and women might respectively do (even on the same broad project); on Norwegian stability and Syrian unrest; on the local seed bank’s vacuum-sealed preservation methods; and a local farmer’s own storage space: a modest pantry of brimming paper bags. These wouldn’t mean much if her camera didn’t remark on commonalities, too — like the similarities between the country’s emptied landscapes, or an

atmosphere that unites both regions — wherein residents of each dream not far ahead, contemplating the innumerable threatening outcomes that will inevitably arrive. This last part — the movie’s and characters’ placid approach to something like apocalypse — seems to be the key to the movie’s thematic air. With director of photography Marte Vold shooting often in calm, symmetrical compositions, the camera moves between journalistic interview, social realism, and landscape photography, cutting wide-angle vistas of farms and mountains together in glacial montages that allow the eye to settle (and the mind to meditate) on shifted-on-cut horizon lines. Fair enough, considering this is a movie about monitoring subtle, barely visible, and sometimes geologic changes and preparing for the future. The specters of war, global inequality, climate change, and displacement of peoples all hover quite close to the film’s proceedings but anna’s reserve in elaborating on them scans as a fruitful statement of its own. (Could she — or anyone — have found a tidier metaphor for the refugee crisis than rescuing seeds? And sending them to well off parts of urope ) By shooting on a topic with such freighted symbolic potential while remarking so scarcely on it, Manna

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dodges crassness, scaremongering, and overt bleeding-heart activism all at once (all of which would be emotionally justified), suggesting uestions in a subtle manner that — all too rare in the kinds of documentaries we tend to see — actually respects her viewer. The movie’s calm acceptance and recording of careful deliberations — of farmers, lab workers, families, and traveling advocates (and, as is inherent to documentary, of Manna’s own work) — suggests an acceptance of a future that just a wealthy few want and which the rest of us must be prepared to stoically survive. Amid this broader canvas, though, there are elements Manna’s suggestive mode alludes to, some elements of social realism her style and running time account for but leave little room to intimately explore. In as editing-driven a form as documentary, it’s usually safe to assume no inclusion or cut is accidental, far less safe to guess what footage has been shot or lost. In Relatives’ case, it’s hard not to wish in watching that we didn’t get to spend more time with certain people, like the woman who shyly mentions she’d rather be tending a farm than with family at home — or with the small-scale organic seed banker mentioned above. As welcome as Manna’s approach might be — of exploring broad, geographic connections, implying more often than she states and as clear as her film ma es it that the large shifts she documents concretely affect so many lives already, her attention to her subjects can feel aloof and too quick in shifting.

Wild Relatives Run-time: 65 minutes Not rated Arabic, Norwegian, and English with English subtitles This tension is inherent in the uncommonly contemplative mode Manna works in and the broad story she’s weaving. Her observant eye for social realism, her calm in the face of apocalypse, and her broad grasp of our world’s politics make clear that empathy’s not lacking in her disposition; Wild Relatives is motivated, plainly, by both a desire to question, by a sense of concern, by an attention to the mysteries that arise in the film’s thematic intersections. Rich as they are, Manna’s intersecting threads are less stirring for their global reach than the ways they tug at the individuals we meet, who are struggling, quietly, to ensure their way of living can survive. Those people are documented and preserved here, those tensions technically accounted for; all the same, it would be nice to know a little better the people we meet onscreen. Wild Relatives has a screening and talkback starting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 18 at the Annex at the Arab American National Museum, 13624 Michigan Ave., Dearborn; 313-582-2266; arabamericanmuseum.org. Tickets are $7 AANM Members, $10 general public.

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CULTURE Higher Ground

Thanks for the change, John Sinclair By Larry Gabriel

Most folks around here

figure that the beginning of the drive for marijuana legali ation in ichigan started in 19 1 with the ohn inclair reedom ally in Ann Arbor. Those with a bit more acumen might waggle a finger and point out that in 19 The Michigan Daily, the student newspaper at the niversity of ichigan, ran an editorial calling for the legali ation of marijuana. ut to loo for the first marijuana legali ation group in ichigan, you really must go further bac all the way bac to 19 , to inclair’s first arrest for sales and possession, after which he started a local chapter of the national group A , which stood for “legali e marijuana.” “I got a flyer in the mail from New or from d anders and Allen Ginsberg where they announced the formation of New or A and the first marijuana demonstration,” says inclair. “I thought what a great idea. ... f course, in those days marijuana was dope. It was a narcotic, and they were terrified of it.” A ran some meetings and spo e to a few groups, but they couldn’t get much traction with most political activists at the time not the etroit Artists Wor shop, which inclair helped found, or with the lac anthers. “The lac anthers said, What the fuc ind of revolutionary movement has got to do with drugs ’” inclair says. “ We li e to get high, but what the hell does that have to do with the revolution ’” A drifted off the landscape, and there was no activity of conseuence until that Michigan Daily editorial. Then, in 19 9, inclair was busted for the third time and sentenced to 10 years in prison. It was his then wife, eni inclair, who ran around and organi ed people to try to get her husband out of jail while his appeal made its way up the legal ladder. When the idea of the ec. 10, 19 1, ohn inclair reedom ally

John Sinclair in Ann Arbor in 1968.

came together, eni and eter Andrews, who produced the concert, went to New or to scrounge up musical talent to play at the concert. The inclairs were friends with activist erry ubin, and ubin was friends with ohn ennon and o o no. “What really tipped the scale was ohn ennon,” inclair says. “When ohn ennon announced he would be coming to Ann Arbor to be on this thing, it turned everything around from public opinion to the legislature to the judiciary.” Aside from ennon and no, most of the rest of the musicians on the poster are less than household names, and little from the local scene. The ontemporary a uartet bac ed up a couple of national figures. tevie Wonder and ob eger, who did play that night, came on at the last minute, too late for their names to be on the poster. Actually, the day of bigger impact to the marijuana scene came the day before the rally, on ec. 9, 19 1, when the state legislature passed big changes to ichigan’s then toughest in the nation marijuana laws. arijuana was reclassified as a controlled substance rather than a narcotic, and penalties for possession and sales were scaled bac . Three days after the rally, inclair was released from prison on bond. is appeal was adjudicated by the state supreme court on arch 9, 19 2. The state court declared the law unconstitutional, thereby ma ing marijuana legal in ichigan for 22 magical days before lawma ers got another law passed. The new law too effect on April 1. As a pushbac , inclair and his compatriots created the first ash ash. “We thought it was an April ool, that’s why we had the ash ash,” says inclair. “If you’re going to have a new law, so what We’re going to get

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with something of a win and a nod. When ill linton won despite his own marijuana “use,” it signaled a changing mood in the nation. “When they passed the medical marijuana law in ’9 in alifornia, I thought that was the beginning of a new period that we had something good to loo forward to for the first time in 20 years,” inclair says. In 199 , Adam roo , who was managing the ash ash, invited inclair to spea there. inclair had been passing up invitations to spea at events, but he had just released an album of his poetry with music, so he too the opportunity to get his name bac out there. LENI SINCLAIR The same thing happened with an opportunity to spea together in public on the campus of at the oston reedom ally. inthe niversity of ichigan and smo e clair was bac around the marijuana marijuana.” legali ation movement, but by now A few hundred people showed up, there was a new army of activists ta ing and the next couple of years saw a lot of things in hand. easing marijuana strictures in the state. The everyday civil disobedience of inclair was recruited to the uman producing and using marijuana fueled ights arty, which garnered seats on city councils in Ann Arbor and psilanti, the new activists, who became bolder and bolder. ainbow arm was a pro and laws were passed in Ann Arbor marijuana campground in southwest and ast ansing that made marijuana ichigan where annual emp Aid and possession a civil offense punishable by oach oast festivals were popular from a fine. 199 to 2001, drawing the li es of Tomep. erry ullard, Ann Arbor, my hong, erle aggard, inclair, and made some headway on the pro marother legali ation activists. The fests ijuana front in the state legislature in even made a High Times maga ine list 19 , but was ultimately bloc ed by the of top worldwide stoner destinations. blac political bloc . inclair, who was ut ainbow arm also drew police wor ing for I N at the time, attention. A tax raid on the place also says that etroit en. avid olmes revealed a basement garden with 200 claimed that his son was a “dope fiend” plants, which led to charges against the who had started out on marijuana, and ep. aisy lliott, who had successfully two owners, Tom rosslin and olland “ ollie” ohm. In eptember of 2001, sponsored the state civil rights act the the situation culminated in a stand off year before, attac ed ullard with an with state police and I agents, during ashtray. which the owners burned the buildings That pretty much ended inclair’s on their property over a three day peactivism on the issue, as he moved on riod and exchanged gunfire with police. to the struggles of trying to provide for oth rosslin and ohm were illed. It his family. If anybody was wor ing to was a tragic blow to one of the state’s legali e marijuana in ichigan as the few identifiable centers of activism. eagan years came on with its “crac ut that didn’t ill the movement, eiattac ” ramp up of the war on drugs ther. Tim ec remembers going to his they weren’t being heard. first ash ash around the same time, xcept for the ash ash, that is and listening to national activist ac which has endured unscathed to this erer spea . erer told the crowd that day. The 19 0s was also the decade during if 300 attendees gathered 1,000 signatures each that they could put medical which growing high uality marijuana legali ation on the ballot. The effort right here in ichigan in fields, in failed, but it put a gleam in ec ’s eyes. houses and buildings became a big “I thought, What the hell,’” says thing, creating the infrastructure of toec . “I began exploring the situation day’s production and distribution sysin the city of etroit. I reali ed how tem, which remains underground. The early 1990s produced more of the same, easy it would be to get something on the ballot in etroit, only ,000 signatures. except with a presidential candidate Nobody was doing drug policy reform ... who claimed he had not inhaled joints

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CULTURE I said medical, that will work.” The second try worked, and in August 2004 Detroiters voted in favor of medical marijuana in the city. Ann Arbor did the same thing in November. “It won and all these activists gravitated to it,” says Beck, who at the time was executive director of MI NORML. They ran successful initiatives in places like Ferndale, Traverse City, and Flint. The elections accustomed people to voting about marijuana, and attracted the attention of the Marijuana Policy Project, a national policy reform organization. The MPP got involved with the Safer Michigan Coalition, and they ran a successful petition drive and campaign for the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act in 2008. Activists continued to run successful initiatives in cities across the state. However, they had switched from medical marijuana efforts to decriminalization, lowering law enforcement priority, and legalization votes in Detroit, Ferndale, Berkley, and Grand Rapids — 14 successes in all. These led to the effort by I egali e, a coalition led by ast ansing attorney effrey

Hank, to get a vote for recreational legalization on the ballot in 2016. That effort was beset by lack of money and a hostile state legislature. MI Legalize gathered enough signatures, but not in the six-month period that opponents argued they had to be collected in. Then, in a cynical move, after the petitions had been turned in the spring of 2016, the state legislature passed a law that retroactively made the petitions ineligible because of the signaturegathering period. The MPP, which had helped the MMMA in 2008, was more concerned with a more sure-thing legali ation effort in alifornia. Marijuana activists geared up for the next election. The , fresh off the California victory, partnered with MI Legalize to create the Coalition

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to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol. Infighting was ept to a minimum, and major players maintained disciplined messaging. Signatures were gathered within the legal time period, and while state officials dragged their feet, in the

end they had no choice but to put the question on the ballot. CRMLA also made the move to back Dana Nessel for Attorney General, helping her score a victory at the state Democratic nominating convention. In return, Nessel strongly supported Prop. 1, the marijuana legalization law, as did gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer. The result was that Michigan voters chose legalizing marijuana by 56 to 44 percent. “It’s the first time in the history of Michigan that we’ve influenced the mainstream since the John Sinclair Freedom Rally,” says Sinclair, who earlier this year sued the state to declassify marijuana as a schedule 1 controlled substance in Michigan. The cast of key activists who turned the tide in Michigan is long and wide, but it pretty much starts with John Sinclair, who kept getting busted for marijuana — so he tried to change the law.

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CULTURE Q : When

rst starte ating my girlrien as e her a o t ast oy rien s an she sai she ha n t met the right g y yet. ter ating or nine years o n o t a o t a ast oy rien an loo e thro gh her emails. o n o t she ate her marrie oss or three years. he ro e ith me or loo ing an or ging her. eel li e she lie an she thin s it as none o my siness. We e een ro en or e months. he s rea he o t t an t get o er my anger or isg st that she as someone s mistress. m a a erson till ngry n isg ste

A : Yup.

“ aven’t met the right guy yet” “Haven’t met any guys ever.” Almost everyone has done something and/or someone they regret doing — although it’s possible your ex-girlfriend doesn’t regret fucking her married boss for three years, SAAD, and it’s possible there’s no need for regret. Sometimes people have affairs for all the right reasons. Sometimes abandoning a spouse and/or breaking up a home with kids in it, aka “doing the right thing” and divorcing, is the worse choice. Life is long and complicated, and it’s possible for a person to demonstrate loyalty and commitment with something other than their genitals. Sometimes people do what they must to stay married and stay sane, and their affair partners are doing good by being “bad.” It’s also possible — and perhaps likelier — that your ex-girlfriend made an impulsive, shitty, selfish choice to fuc someone else’s husband. It’s possible he’s a serial philanderer, a cheating piece of shit, and then, after fucking him that one time, your girlfriend felt pressured to keep fucking him and wound up having a years long affair with her married boss. And then, when it was all over, she stuffed it down the memory hole because she wasn’t proud of it and wanted to forget it. It’s also possible she didn’t tell you about this relationship when you asked because she intuited — correctly, as it turned out — that you are, in your own words, a bad person, i.e., the kind of guy who would punish his girlfriend for having a sexual history, for making her fair share of mistakes, and for deciding to keep some things private. (Not secret, SAAD. Pri ate.) In other words, she correctly intuited that you would punish her for being human. Finding out about a past boyfriend doesn’t give you the right to invade your partner’s privacy and dig through their ancient emails. Your girlfriend was

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right to break up with you for snooping through her emails and judging her so harshly. And she didn’t even lie to you, dude! Her boss clearly wasn’t “the right guy,” seeing as he was married and her boss, and the relationship ended before you two even first laid thighs on each other nine years ago. And from where I’m sitting, SAAD, it looks like she still hasn’t met the right guy. To be perfectly frank, I don’t want to help you get over your anger and disgust — not that you asked me to help you get past those feelings. It kind of sounds like you want your anger and disgust affirmed and I’m going to go with that and affirm the shit out of those feelings: Stay angry! Stay disgusted! Not because those feelings are valid — they’re not — but because those feelings prevented you from taking your ex back when she reached out. She may not know it yet, but she’s better off without you, AA , and here’s hoping you stay angry and disgusted long enough for her to realize it.

m a e months into C i ating an it s going ell e st to t o a tomati ass r les anyone ho mentions my loo s an nothing else in the rst message an anyone ith no a e i . t s or e o t great so ar. B t e noti e that most in sters on C on t ost a e i s. an n erstan this. on e ame a ross a o or er on the site i n t loo asse immeiately an an imagine no o y ants their oss or o or ers to no they re loo ing or y lay an CBT. ot e eryone has the l ry o ta ing a ris li e that. o m tem te to ro my no a e i ass r le or in sters. B t then imagine ho that o l go Chat hat hat. ey an see a a e i h no m not hysi ally attra te to this erson Then ha e to a ar ly n mat h an eel terri ly shallo an g ilty or a hile. o o ee my r le an ass on some ery romising ro les itho t a e i s to a oi h rting someone s eelings r o en the r les m st not loo ing to h rt anyone in a a ay. ot That in a ist

A : Lead with your truth, NTKOS:

“Hey, we share a lot of common interests — BDSM, CBT, TT — but I usually require face pics before I chat. I understand why you may not be able to post your pics and why you would want to chat for a bit and establish trust before sharing pics with me privately. So I’m happy to chat so long as you’re

By an a age

OK with the risk that I might pass after seeing your face pic. Still, even if we’re not ultimately a sexual or romantic match, every kinkster needs some kinky friends!”

o e allen in lo e ith one o my goo rien s. am in gra s hool an e met e a se e are in the same intensi e rogram an e s en a lot o time together. When e rst met ha no interest in this erson. n or the ma ority o the rst year e or e together that eeling maintaine . o e er o er the ast e months e o n mysel alling in lo e ith this erson. Their intelligen e an ea ty is sim ly into i ating. lo e o r rien shi t at times it is a it o er helming eing in their om any e a se e e elo e strong eelings or them. on t thin they share these eelings. r at least ha en t een gi en any in i ation that they share the same eelings. o o go a o t telling them li e them to no this is ho eel t also on t ant to lay the eight o my eelings on them or r in o r rien shi . ro ing omanti tta hment isr ts t ies

A : You have two options: You can be

honest with this person or you can be that unsettling “friend” with an ulterior motive. Personally, GRADS, I think fessing up is better than shutting up — sublimated/unexpressed desire has a way of souring a friendship — but if your grad program is ending soon, I’d encourage you to wait. Most graduate programs are two years (some are less!), and you’ve been working together for more than a year. So there should already be a light at the end of that intensive tunnel. In the meantime, savor the agony and “pray on it,” as Mike Pence would say. (Only you should swap out prayer for masturbation.) And, hey, you didn’t have feelings for them until recently. So who knows? They may develop feelings for you by the time your intensive grad program ends. And, yes, telling a friend you have a crush on them is always a risk — it could ruin the friendship or make things awkward for a while. Just be honest, direct, and unambiguous (“I would like to date you,” not “I hope we can hang out sometime”), and explicitly invite your crush to say no if the answer is no.

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Horoscopes By Cal Garrison

ARIES: March 21 – April 20 Everything is up in the air and ready to pop. If it’s driving you crazy, I can see why; high levels of uncertainty, combined with tons of anticipation and too much excitement can be hard for those of you who thrive on needing to remain focused. Underneath all of this, there are levels of newness and change that you need to do your best to remain open to. You may be totally clueless as to where all of this is leading, but please don’t tinker with the realm of possibilities by thinking that your pea-brain knows more about how to manage it than the forces that watch over you.

LEO: July 21 – August 20 Finding a way to integrate who you are and what you really want into the process of everyday living has gotten complicated. On the one hand, your heart’s desire is clear as a bell — on the other hand, your ability to create a situation that allows you to bring it into being eludes you. This is not unique to you. All of us have to work to shed the past and the projections of others before we can access our core essence. In some cases it’s a matter of patience and time. For those of you who are right on the cusp of living your dream, its unfoldment is only a heartbeat away.

SAGITTARIUS: Nov. 21 – Dec. 20 When we pass our hardest tests, it’s amazing how the darkness fades and life opens up li e a flower. ou are living in the afterglow of a revelation that has absolutely blown your mind. Armed with faith and inspiration, anything is possible. Here you sit with countless possibilities at your disposal, wondering if it’s true that you can have anything you want. It may be too much to suggest that you’ve got the world on a string, but the truth is, you do. Where you go from here is up to you. Open the doors of perception and let the latest clue to the new direction shine through.

TAURUS: April 21 – May 20 It’s enough to know that you’re holding steady in the midst of change. How things unfold in the next month or so depends a lot on who you put your faith in. Part of you is willing to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. What needs to be kept in mind is that not everyone comes to life with the same ethics that eep your world afloat. efore you let people in, give them plenty of time to show you what they’re made of. With what you’ve been through so far, the need to heed the lessons of the past will keep you from being let down by those whose intentions are warped.

VIRGO: August 21 – Sept. 20 You’ve come through a major reality chec with flying colors. till a little shaky from your brush with an experience that totally rearranged your priorities, you see how important it is to stop losing yourself in superficialities. Those close to you may not understand what’s going on. Don’t expect them to. Everyone’s got their own row to hoe. Right now it’s your job to keep things simple. Regain a sense of balance so that you can function at a high level of performance without losing your way. Going deeper into yourself will be your saving grace in the weeks to come.

CAPRICORN: Dec. 21 – Jan. 20 Up until now you could look outside yourself for answers, but not this time. When we get to the place where the sidewalk ends, nothing is written in stone. At this point all of your guidance needs to come from within. This will require you to shut up and listen. It will also require you to trash all of your preconceived notions about “who you think you are,” and consider that there are possibilities that exist outside of your big ideas and your best-laid plans. Whether you now it or not, the future is wide open. It’s time to transcend your limits and let your heart lead the way.

GEMINI: May 21 – June 20 If you’re worried about what the rest of the journey holds, expect the worst and hope for the best. Others are nipping at your heels, doing whatever it takes to test you. The pressure to remain strong in the face of opposition, coupled with side issues that have sapped your confidence, is teaching you a lot about what you’re made of. It’s time to consider the uses of adversity, realizing that the toughest lessons are where we figure out how to turn straw into gold. Everything is the opposite of what it appears to be. Find the light, and the darkness will fade in the face of it.

LIBRA: Sept. 21 – Oct. 20 No one needs to tell you that people have a tendency to take advantage of your goodness and generosity. In many cases, those closest to you are the main culprits. It’s totally OK to keep on giving, but when it gets to the point where it hurts you to persist, it’s best to let the element of discernment kick in. e mindful of how much you give, but be just as mindful of who’s there for you and who isn’t. Other aspects of your reality could use a little pick-me-up; you now what they involve. The outer stuff will keep. Don’t procrastinate when it comes to your inner work.

AQUARIUS: Jan. 21 – Feb. 20 Lots of things are upsetting the applecart, or at least, subject to change. It could be that it’s just your emotional state that is fluctuating wildly. The whole concept of “moving” is not out of the uestion either. Within this maelstrom, it will help to maintain your ability to detach. Elements of surprise will emerge from thin air to offer you bigger and better possibilities. If certain things appear to be falling away, it’s because you’ve outgrown the situation. Don’t be afraid to branch out. Nothing is meant to last forever. Even the safest, securest positions are subject to cyclical shifts.

CANCER: June 21 – July 20 Take your time when it comes to absorbing some of the stuff that’s come down lately. Tons of old memories have been stirred up. Those of you who aren’t prone to confronting the inner planes are shakier than those of you who are tuned in to your deeper issues. Either way, the blasts from the past are intense. e open to all of it. The things that we suppress or cover up with a happy face — or piles of “busy-ness” — wind up biting us on the ass when it’s all said and done. All of us are in the same boat, so don’t be afraid to talk about these things with others.

SCORPIO: Oct. 21 – Nov. 20 You’ve got the right idea, but the need to tie things up with a bow keeps you from being able to actualize your dreams, fully and completely. Everything is partly intention, but the rest of it comes down to knowing how to drop the reins and leave the driving to the power of spirit. The other piece has a lot to do with bringing your inner being to the table; the mind alone is incapable of making magic. Haul back a little and look at the extent to which you need to stop doing things by rote. Your current dreams will come true the minute you figure out how to let things be.

PISCES: Feb. 21 – March 20 When life gets li e this, it helps to remember that “it’s all good,” even when the hard stuff ma es it seem li e we’ve been singled out for punishment. The apparent “downhill slide” and the slow decline of situations will continue to test your patience and your faith, and the presence of lowlifes and scumbags will do the same. The Earth is a weird place. The light only begins to shine in our darkest hour. Now that you’re in the thick of it, the trick is to remember that you’re being guided by forces that will transform all of this in the same way that the lotus blooms out of mud.

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