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Audra Kubat Gives Back AFTER FORGING HER OWN PATH, THE DETROIT SINGER-SONGWRITER IS HELPING THE NEXT GENERATION OF MUSICIANS DO THE SAME B Y

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News & Views Feedback/Comics ............... 12 Informed Dissent ................ 14

Feature Audra Kubat gives back ..... 16 Shop local gift guide ........... 18

White Wolf Japanese Patisserie ............................. 40

What’s Going On ............... 42 Livewire: Local picks ......... 48 Fast-Forward....................... 50

Music The Air Up There ................ 52

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COMING SOON

11/29 BATTERY: A TRIBUTE TO METALLICA WITH BLOODSTONE: A TRIBUTE TO JUDAS PRIEST

12/4 MICHAEL RAY

WITH JIMMIE ALLEN AND WALKER COUNTY

12/6 TYLER CHILDERS (SOLD OUT) WITH LIZ COOPER & THE STAMPEDE

12/7 STEEL PANTHER

WITH STITCHED UP HEART AND IMPOSTERS IN EFFECT

12/13 BRIAN REGAN * 12/21 ZOSO: A TRIBUTE TO LED ZEPPELIN PERFORMING LED ZEPPELIN I & LED ZEPPELIN II

12/27 THE ROOTS WITH PHONY PPL

12/28 RATT 12/31 RESOLUTION BALL (21+) 1/3/20 MORGAN WALLEN (SELL OUT ALERT) WITH JON LANGSTON AND ASHLAND CRAFT

1/10/20 THE PRINCE EXPERIENCE PERFORMING THE PURPLE RAIN ALBUM

1/26/20 SNOOP DOGG 1/30/20 DUSTIN LYNCH WITH TRAVIS DENNING

1/31-2/1 TWO NIGHTS WITH UMPHREYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MCGEE WITH THE NEW DEAL

* denotes a seated show

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coming soon:

coming soon concert calendar:

11/29 – with confidence

@ the shelter w/ seaway, between you and me & doll skin LOW TICKETS

12/3 – waterparks

w/ de’wayne jackson and kitten LOW TICKETS

nov. 27 sponge rotting pinata 25 year anniversary st. andrew’s

w/ voyager, solid frog & crud

nov. 29

helmet

30th anniversary tour

st. andrew’s 30 years x 30 cities x 30 song set

no openers - 18+

12/4 – the spill canvas

@ the shelter w/ juliana theory and cory wells - LOW TICKETS

12/5 – judah friedlander *seated show

12/6 – brother elsey @ the shelter w/ motherfolk, jockamo

12/8 – pop evil -acoustic - moved to sah 12/9 – mongol horde @ the shelter w/ armed for apocalypse & rebuilder

acaciachance strain greyson aug. 30 3 the nov. w/ kublai khan st. andrew’s the shelter low tickets

nov. 30 guided by voices st. andrew’s

12/10 – eric bellinger

@ the shelter w/ ye ali, sy ari da kid, garren

12/11 – xavier omar @ the shelter w/ elhae - low tickets

12/12 – the marcus king band w/ ian noe - low tickets

12/13 – the ultimate 80’s party feat. tiffany

12/14 – boys of fall w/ of virtue,

kaleido, gold route, as we divide

dec. 1

the shelter

baby smoove

dec. 2

issues

st. andrew’s w/ polyphia, lil aaron

& sleep token

12/17 – boston manor @ the shelter w/ microwave, heart attack man, selfish things

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NEWS & VIEWS Feedback Readers react to stories from the Nov. 20 issue We received a number of responses to Lee DeVito’s news story, “Detroit’s multimillion-dollar streetscape investment means short-term pain for small businesses,” which looked at how the project is affecting communities like Mexicantown. Nat M. Zorach: “There’s nowhere to park,” one business owner complains. There is a sea of surface parking and street parking, you just have to walk 25 feet from 24th St. to Evie’s. People

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are so damn lazy. It is disheartening how long it has taken, though. I walk by here every day and many days have gone by with no one working. Megan Owens: Judge it 2-3 years from now. If there are a lot more people visiting that street and spending money at those businesses, a little pain will be worth it. I’d sure spend more time and money in that area if it was more welcoming for people to walk around! It’s got great potential to be a real destination for people to visit and hang out if the street wasn’t so car dominated. Have an opinion? Of course you do! Send feedback to letters@metrotimes.com.

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NEWS & VIEWS

The impeachment of Donald Trump is no longer about Trump. It is instead a trial of the Republican Party.

Informed Dissent

Alternate universe effre

The most incisive moment of the impeachment inquiry’s public hearings came at the very end, on Thursday afternoon, courtesy of Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff, the former federal prosecutor who had spent two weeks methodically constructing the case that Donald Trump had wantonly abused his office only to watch his Republican colleagues bury their heads in the sand. “What we’ve seen here is far more serious than a third-rate burglary of the Democratic headquarters,” Schiff said, referencing Watergate. “… [This] is beyond anything Nixon did. The

illman congressional Republicans are again faced with equally unassailable evidence of their president’s crimes; this time, they’ve closed ranks and chosen willful ignorance and conspiratorial fantasies. Schiff is correct: The impeachment of Donald Trump is no longer about Donald Trump. This is instead a trial of the Republican Party — and of the ability of our democratic institutions to serve as a check on a thoroughly corrupt would-be strongman. And both are going to fail the test. At the risk of beating a dead horse, there’s no ambiguity about what hap-

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Oval Office meeting with Ukraine’s new president — who, while fighting a war with Russia, needed to demonstrate his deep ties to Washington — on the announcement of sham investigations into political rival Joe Biden and a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine had conspired with the Democrats to frame Russia for election interference in 2016. To up the ante, Trump then overruled his advisers and blocked nearly $400 million in military aid to assist Ukraine’s war against Russia. Sondland and everyone else could read between the lines, but there was no need to: In a July 25 phone call, Trump directly linked a request for military assistance to the “favor” of opening the investigations. Again, there’s no real dispute over the essential facts, and those facts show a president who solicited foreign interference in American elections and attempted to extort that foreign

America’s dominant political party is fundamentally broken, an authoritarian cult of personality locked in its own propaganda feedback loop. difference between then and now is not the difference between Nixon and Trump. It’s the difference between that Congress and this one.” Richard Nixon, of course, resigned in 1974 after top Republicans told him that the evidence of his crimes was too great to ignore. Forty-five years later,

pened. As Gordon Sondland, Trump’s ambassador to the European Union — a hotel owner who literally purchased his post with a $1 million donation to Trump’s inaugural committee — had admitted a day earlier, there was a quid pro quo that came directly from the White House. Trump conditioned an

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interference by withholding military aid to an ally. If those aren’t impeachable offenses, nothing is. And yet, when all is said and done, every single Republican representative and senator is likely to vote against impeaching or removing Donald Trump,

in the process both sanctioning his actions and delegitimizing the inquiry as — to borrow Trump’s favorite phrase — a witch-hunt. To be sure, this impeachment is a partisan affair, but viewing it through a red-versus-blue lens obscures a more dangerous reality: America’s dominant political party is fundamentally broken, an authoritarian cult of personality locked in its own propaganda feedback loop. As George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum explains in e tlantic: “Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes, and the others have fenced off conservative Americans from the rest of American society. Within that safe space, insiders hear only what is familiar and comforting.” Within this safe space — which has its own language, a hallucinogenic hodgepodge of names and catch-phrases — the hearings didn’t produce a straightforward narrative of corruption but instead evidence of a Deep State cover-up. There is a “fake whistleblower” and a “Russia hoax” and a “Black Ledger” and collusion between a DNC operative and the Ukrainian embassy and — courtesy of Glenn Beck — a rehash of the (((George Soros)))-aspuppet-master trope. In this alternate universe, the real story isn’t the president abusing his office to further his re-election campaign, but rather of sinister forces conspiring against him. Rep. Devin Nunes and other Republicans on the Intelligence Committee used the hearings to put this alternate universe on full display and then became indignant when witnesses said they had no idea what the hell they were talking about. As Frum puts it: “To those not immersed in the fantasy franchise, people like Devin Nunes sound like crazy people. Which in turn, of course, only drives them crazier.” This would be amusing if the consequences weren’t so dire, if this were just some Bircher fringe, not the driving force of the modern GOP, from the president to Congress to the propaganda machines from which tens of millions of Americans get their information. Being an elected Republican in 2019 means chugging the Kool-Aid — or at least pretending you have. That’s why Republicans are going to give Trump the pass their predecessors didn’t give Nixon. The Republican Party is broken. And the longer it stays in power, the more likely it is to break our entire democracy, too.

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udra Kubat is speaking in a stream of consciousness — but it’s mostly because of the circumstances of this special interview. It’s rare to be able to sit down with an artist and interview them while they listen to their latest creation, and she’s threading her observations along a circuitous path of considerations. “I don’t know if I was always aware of the power of music,” she says, “and the power it has to inspire, and to create self-re ections.” We meet in Hamtramck, utilizing the best speakers we could possibly find, and we’re the only two people in the world, at this moment, listening to the songs on the Detroit singersongwriter’s new album, The Sliver in the Salve, which will be widely available this weekend, after her Friday performance in Rivera Court at the DIA. And it’s not every day I can witness an artist’s profound realizations about the arc of their creation in real time. I first got into songwriting because I needed to heal myself, and early on it was this way for me to find myself, to figure things out,” ubat says. opefully I’ll always be figuring it out, and figuring out how to wield this ama ing gift; but I am closer to it. And I think that I’m still using music for that same purpose: for healing.” With The Sliver in the Salve, Kubat decided “I really wanted to spend a lot more time with each of these songs, and really get in there and get my hands dirty,” she says. “And I have. I feel like I have.” The sun slowly sets in front of us, with an orange glow spilling forth through crinkly, yellow leaves. Two cups of tea waft steam across the dashboard of Kubat’s car as we go through the album on her stereo, track by track. “I feel like the songs on this album are about change, about moving on, about realizing truths,” she says. The record is more personal than 2016’s Mended Vessel, “which was more like these travelogues or these vignettes about people; it was a warmer, comforting album. (Salve) might not be that kind of album, but that doesn’t mean there’s not still hope in these songs.” Kubat is a self-taught songwriter and composer; she grew up in Northwest Detroit in Rosedale Park and started making music on the piano by the time she was 8 years old. As a teenager

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AFTER FORGING HER OWN PATH, THE DETROIT SINGER-SONGWRITER IS HELPING THE NEXT GENERATION OF MUSICIANS DO THE SAME B Y she picked up the guitar (again, selftaught and started hitting the coffeeshop circuit, eventually forming a band called Stunning Amazon, and releasing a debut album in 1999. She got onto the radar of major music tastemakers like NME in 2004 and 2006, when her signature voice, dynamic guitar style, and prevailing lyrical theme of compassion and worldliness came into vibrant fruition with two albums, Million Year Old Sand and Since I Fell in Love with the Music. Along with several Detroit Music Award nominations and wins, her artistic progression has been documented here in the Metro Times, as well as other publications, and there have been several in-studio performances over at D T. ut if this is your first time encountering Kubat, her latest songs could stir the deepest and most universal kind of resonance with new audiences, inclined toward the storyteller aesthetic of traditional folk music that builds narratives with relatable themes, while also mixing in her own personal revelations and recent confrontations of hard to face truths. In many ways, this album is about the difficulty of change, and the ways in which moving on, moving forward, can be both painful and restorative. “Empathy is a gigantic concept for me,” Kubat says. “I often think of the Octavia Butler novel Parable of the Sower, which is about these young people who have this hyper-developed empathy, but they are seen as having a disease. But I look at the main character of that book as being part of evolution. Hyper-empathy could be part of a revolution, as well as our evolution.” When Kubat recalls the plot of this book, which is usually shelved in the science fiction section, she thinks about how the empathy of these characters “would have saved the world.” And just that, saving the world, is absolutely on her mind during one of the album’s stand-out tracks. “The song ‘Oh, Mother’ is the most, I think, globally significant song on the album,” she says. “It is me saying that

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I will sacrifice everything to do this work. I did want it to be an anthem, in a way. These are bold lyrics masked in this lovely melody, and softened by the hymnal sort of vibe that it has. But, yeah, the words are dangerous. I felt like it was time that I wrote something that is not about me — it’s not about you; it’s about us, and beyond that, it’s about just this bigger idea. To me, Mother Earth is god, she is my goddess. I feel similarly about the universe — that it is the proof of my existence in a godly form.” The album art was conceived by photographer Nomadic Madam (a.k.a. Miles Marie), with artist Daniel Land, centering Kubat as a verdant, palegreen life force framed by a violent smog of pollution and industry. It echoes the “Detroit Industry Murals” frescoes that adorn the DIA’s Rivera Court, where she’ll be performing, as muralist Diego Rivera similarly contrasted the disparate and awe-inspiring energies of nature and industry. “I think I wanted to write something akin to ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’’ because it is brash, and aggressive, but, like I said, masked in this beauty, this beauty that was feminine. I didn’t want it to be angry-sounding while I was singing it. I wanted it to be a beautiful ode.” The Sliver in the Salve is also the name of one of its songs; that title track, along with several others, details the quiet and very personal anguish of big life changes, and musters as much inner peace as is possible in times of upheaval. Along with that, this album is one of Kubat’s most richly adorned musical productions: its contributors include Sean Blackman on classical guitar, Chuck Bartels on bass, Drew Howard on electric guitar, and Aaron Markovitz (of Escaping Pavement) on mandolin. It also includes not only touches of pedal steel and mandolin, but also treatments from acclaimed, visionary singer-songwriter Shara Nova (aka My Brightest Diamond). The aforementioned “Oh, Mother” was dazzlingly augmented by a once-

in-a-lifetime alignment of contributing vocalists — a choir-like arrangement of contemporary singer/songwriters such as Anne Erlewine, Annie Bacon, Emilie Rivard, Jo Serrapere, Sodra Jane, and Marbrisa, along with two other singers from a separate Kubat project, the harmony-centric folk trio known as Kubat, Finlay & Rose, i.e., Tamara Finlay and Emily Rose. One comes to appreciate the power of music even more so when the listening is a group experience; it’s quite another level of intimacy when it’s only two people, and one of them is the mind and voice and heart behind the words and melodies. When Kubat mentions “realizing truths,” I ask a bit further about that potentially being the purpose of her artistry. And she answers that she may have found a truth: “that I was meant to roam...” She pauses for a deep sigh. “I feel very much that with my work, I wouldn’t be able to do it if I’d chosen another path. And I feel like I’ve gotten to a place where I’m not struggling with that choice anymore, or wondering or regretting. I’m no longer grappling with that. So it’s been freeing to feel that way and to move away from just the idea that ‘I’m a folk musician,’ or ‘I’m a girl with a guitar...’ I’m a woman with a voice and with abilities to play whatever I want and put it in whatever direction I want. I no longer feel that I need permission. And I’m no longer afraid to ask the tough questions of myself.” This consciousness of her creative process and musical existence was heightened over time through her role as an instructor at the Detroit Institute of Music Education, as well as teaching positions with the iving Arts nonprofit and the DIA’s Inside Out Literary Arts creative writing program. “I’m often teaching about how important it is to be able to step back from a song and really look into it, and until I started teaching six years ago, I wasn’t doing that with my own work,” she says. “So I started practicing that myself. Coming into music education has utterly changed my life on so many levels.

Beyond how important it is to bring songwriting into schools and teach kids performative skills, these organizations have given me a different way to live; I’ve found a place for my artistry to thrive and for me to make a living.” Once she realized she could make a living through music, her next natural impulse was to find a way to give back and expand access to music and song creation. Kubat is deep into the work of renovating a house in the NW Goldberg neighborhood on 14th Street, just north of I-94 — the Detroit House of Music — that will become a community resource for the musical arts, an artists’ residency, and a performance space. “The house was a natural progression,” Kubat says. “And I wanted to be able to live there and record there, and do workshops there. I want it to be exible and continue to change as the needs of people in the community change.”

‘I’m a woman with a voice and with abilities to play whatever I want and put it in whatever direction I want. I no longer feel that I need permission. And I’m no longer afraid to ask the tough questions of myself.’’ It’s notable how “cultivate” is a word Kubat repeats a few times during our conversation; cultivating a house where all ages can familiarize themselves with music, cultivating a steelier sense of self as she worked through these songs, and cultivating the courage to no longer mince words in her own lyrics. “If I don’t start practicing that, I certainly will not ourish,” she says. “I want to continue to embrace and bring people in, but I have to always be strong first, and to be completely clear before I can do that. This album is me practicing that in the face of challenges.” There is a beat, as the last song fades. She takes a breath. “I’m ready.”

Audra Kubat at the future Detroit House of Music.

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Audra Kubat will perform a release show at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 29 at the Detroit Institute of Arts’ Rivera Court, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-833-7900; dia.org. Admission is free for residents of Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne counties.

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GIFT GUIDE

Give it away, give it away, give it away now Unwrapping metro Detroit’s trove of independent retailers for the holidays By Jerilyn Jordan

Gift-giving is supposed

to feel good — like, just found out our weekend plans have been canceled,

so now we can binge The Crown with some Pie-Sci Pizza and bubbly — good,right? So why the hell in 2019 does shopping feel so miserable? Maybe it’s because we spend 85 percent of our day innundated by ads to buy shit from computers that are literally listening to us (Alexa, please fuck right off so that they can curate” our shopping experience — all with a thoughtless swipe, tap, or click of a finger. ell, this year we’re saying eff e -no thanks” to big box bullshit and yes” to all the independent local shops and services located in our very own backyard. e’ve compiled a com-

Detroit-based DIOP recently dropped its third season of colorful African-inspired shirts. COURTESY OF DIOP

Dressing the diaspora Clothing brand creates traditional African clothing for all people Two years ago, the clothing brand DIOP was created when Mapate Diop, a New York City native, was wearing a shirt his mother had made to a barbecue — a tunic-style shirt with a traditional African pattern. Many people told him it would make a great product to turn into a brand. “My mother had bought the fabric during one of her research trips to West Africa and found a tailor to make a custom shirt,” Diop says. But because the process was costly and time-consuming, Diop and a business

partner, Evan Fried, who both then lived in Baltimore, looked into manufacturing their own. They spent about five months buying fabrics in New York and Washington, D.C., making many prototypes based on the original shirt made by the tailor. After Diop distributed prototypes to his friends, they recommended that he launch a crowdfunding campaign to allow people to purchase the shirts and fund production. From there, Diop made seven more prototypes, raised $20,000 from crowdfund-

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prehensive list of where to buy books remember those , records you know, the things that replaced CDs , toys like, real-life toys , and sex toys (not to be confused with the previous category , so that you can give back to those on your nice list, take money away from naughty, tax-avoidant coroporations, and support the local retailers that serve our community all year-round. (If you prefer to use online shopping because of physical or transportation limitations, try calling these local spots to see how they can accommodate your gift-giving needs.

ing, moved to Detroit to join the 2018 Detroit Venture for America accelerators, and the brand was born. Since then, DIOP has been featured in Fast Company, Here Magazine, and BuzzFeed. In October, DIOP released its third season of “diaspora inspired streetwear.” The collection included The Amar, Idris, Qualia, Iggy, Tetro, and Sasan Tops. Each shirt has a different pattern; flowers, shapes, lines, dots, and more. The shirts are bright, durable, and versatile, made in the style of dashikis. DIOP’s products, which also include bandanas, are made from Ankara — a bold, colorful, patterned, and thick cotton fabric widely used in Africa to make clothes and accessories. Diop is a first-generation American whose family hails from Nigeria. Part of his brand, he says, is about preserving a strong cultural connection to Africa. But he doesn’t make clothing just for African people. He says he wants his clothing to be inclusive; when people wear DIOP, he says, he wants them to celebrate the uniqueness of his culture. Regarding the sensitive subject of cultural appropriation, Diop believes it’s acceptable for people of different backgrounds to wear his clothing, as long as they understand and appreciate its history. “It’s not about where they come from, but what they understand,” Diop says. “Though many cultures have a tradition of dyeing and printing fabric, wax print originates from Indonesia and was brought to Africa, where it was popularized by the Dutch,” he says. “What we make wouldn’t exist without the exchange and interest of people from different backgrounds.” — Marisa Kalil-Barrino More information can be found at weardiop.com.

Tears of Possibility and Hope extruded ring, $440 COURTESY OF XENOPHORA

Xenophora 4719 16th St. Unit #1, Detroit; 313-2841844; xenophoraobjects.com The handmade, Detroit-produced jewelry objects of Xenophora are not for your faint-of-heart, Pandora bracelet-wearing aunt. The appointment-only showroom caters to those looking to make an otherworldly, showstopping statement that plays on esoteric mysticism, technology, and history. Created by alchemist and Brightmoor native Karissma Yve, Xenophora designs are one of a kind and made one at a time, mostly out of oxidized .925 sterling silver.

ACCESSORIES/JEWELRY Ahee Jewelers 20139 Mack Ave., Grosse Pointe Woods; 800-987-2433; ahee.com American Jewelry and Loan 20450 Greenfield Rd., Detroit; 313-345-4000; pawndetroit.com Astrein’s Jeweler 120 W. Maple Rd., Birmingham; 248-644-1651; astreins.com Elaine B. Jewelry 22961 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248-565-8758; elainebjewelry.com Henry the Hatter 2472 Riopelle St., Detroit; 313-962-0970; henrythehatterdetroit.com Kitty Deluxe 22202 Harper Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-445-3500; facebook.com Michael Agnello Jewelers 31500 Harper Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-294-7730; michaelagnellojewelers.com Mount-N-Repair 205 Pierce St., Birmingham; 248-647-8670; mountnrepair.com Optik 247 W. Maple Rd., Birmingham; 248646-6699; optikbirmingham.com Rebel Nell 1314 Holden St., Detroit; www. rebelnell.com Shinola 441 W. Canfield St., Detroit; 313-2852390; shinola.com Simmons & Clark Jewelers 1535 Broadway St., Detroit; 313-963-2284; simmonsandclark.com Solari & Co. of Downtown Detroit First National Building., 660 Woodward Ave. Suite 1925, Detroit; 586-991-5953; solariandco.com Steven Bernard Jewelers 22266 Michigan Ave., Dearborn; 313-562-8484; stevenbernardjewelers.com Xenophora 4719 16th St. Unit #1, Detroit; 313-284-1844; xenophoraobjects.com

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GIFT GUIDE BOOKSTORES Another Look Books 22263 Goddard Rd., Taylor; 734-374-5665; facebook.com/anotherlookbooks Black Stone Bookstore and Cultural Center 214 W. Michigan Ave., Ypsilanti; 734-961-7376; facebook.com/BlackStoneBookstore Book Beat 26010 Greenfield Rd., Oak Park; 248-968-1190; thebookbeat.com Bookbound 1729 Plymouth Rd., Ann Arbor; 734-369-4345; bookboundbookstore.com The Books Connection 31208 Five Mile Rd., Livonia; 734-524-1163; thebooksconnection.com The Book Nook 42 S. Monroe St., Monroe; 734-241-2665; facebook.com/BookNook42 Book Suey 10345 Joseph Campau St., Hamtramck; booksuey.com Browns Family Bookstore 27309 Harper Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-773-7370; tinyurl. com/Browns-Family-Bookstore Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and Tearoom 114 S. Main St., Ann Arbor, 734-665-275; crazywisdom.net Curious Book Shop 307 E. Grand River Ave., East Lansing; 517-332-0112; curiousbooks.com John K. King Used and Rare Books 901

W. Lafayette Blvd., Detroit; 313-961-0622; johnkingbooksdetroit.com John K. King Books North 22524 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248-548-9050; johnkingbooksdetroit.com Library Bookstore 169 W. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale; 248-545-4300 Literati 124 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor; 734-585-5567; literatibookstore.com Mayflower Book Shop 2645 12 Mile Rd., Berkley; 248-547-8227; mayflowerbookshop.com Nicola’s Books 2513 Jackson Ave., Ann Arbor; 734-662-0600; nicolasbooks.com Pages Bookshop 19560 Grand River Ave., Detroit; 313-473-7342; pagesbkshop.com Paperback Writer Books 61 Macomb Pl., Mt. Clemens; 586-468-2665; facebook.com/ paperbackwriterbookshop Shaw’s Books 14932 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe Park; 313-824-4932; shawsbooks.net Source Booksellers 4240 Cass Ave., #105, Detroit; 313-832-1155; sourcebooksellers. com Totem Books 620 W. Court St., Flint; 810407-6402; totembooksflint.com

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Lover’s Lane 27246 Woodward Ave., Royal Oak, 19190 Eureka Rd., Southgate, 33225 S. Gratiot Ave., Clinton Twp., 43735 Van Dyke Ave., Sterling Heights, 620 W. Ann Arbor Rd., Ann Arbor; 1527 Washtenaw Rd., Ypsilanti; loverslane. com. Dil-don’t overlook this Michigan-bred chain, Lover’s Lane still has teeth (enter safeword here) in the game. You can take gift-giving to the next level with LL’s selection of plugs, harnesses, wands, vibes, and rings, as well as sexy apparel to set the mood and all the lubricants needed to reach maximum pleasure, including new CBD-infused lubes. Into butt stuff? Is BDSM your bag? What about role play? Ready to introduce pegging in the new year? No one has a higher sex drive than Lover’s Lane. (Psst: they also have a massive online store for the discreet shopper.)

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Fashion, but make it fashion Angela Wisniewski on her new Detroit boutique Coup D’état and why rebellion starts in the closet Newly christened business owner and longtime local trendsetter Angela Wisniewski would like to invite you to partake in what she is calling her “purple velvet jumpsuit rebellion.” OK — so the 35-year-old entrepreneur is referring to the literal $300 purple velvet jumpsuit by Rachel Antonoff prominently displayed on the rack in her shop, Coup D’état, which opened its doors in November. Nestled away in the Albert Kahn-designed Cadillac Place building in the New Center, Wisniewski’s vibrant highend beauty and fashion boutique caters to women who do not shy away from statement pieces, as well as women who may need a push when embracing bold colors, wild patterns, and faux fur — lots of faux fur. “I want to encourage people to think outside of a cookie-cutter outfit that you might see spoon-fed to you in media, in ads, or by big chain stores, which is sort of rebellious,” Wisniewski says. “Thinking independently and buying from independent vendors, that in and of itself is rebellious. Going into a locally owned space, getting off your phone, and closing out your Amazon app — that is considered rebellious now.” For Wisniewski, opening a shop like Coup D’état has been a dream since elementary school. She had been kicking the name and

concept around for a while, too, and jokes that it has nothing to do with the current political climate or overthrowing the government, as the French term suggests. The choice to take the plunge was simple and came down to timing, “if not now, then when?” Unfulfilled creatively by her work with marketing and managing various social media presences for other creatives and businesses, Wisniewski began curating and shopping independent vendors and stocking her apartment shelves well before she had secured the space in New Center, which has seen an interior renovation that highlights its tall ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows, and art deco architectural details that were otherwise lost in the space’s previous incarnation. Wisniewski says she felt it was her duty to both provide a service that complements the businesses already operating in the area while also filling a niche. She lovingly calls it her “little art gallery of apparel and accessories.” “I’m not trying to cover every base,” she says. “I have small selections of what I think people will respond to. I’m not going to have some of the lines that the department stores have and I don’t want that because I’m not a department store. I like to think that I have something for everybody, and I really think I do. I just want women to

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Angela Wisniewski and her boutique, Coup D’état.

feel open-minded when they come in. There’s not a thing in here that I wouldn’t wear or wouldn’t carry or wouldn’t spray on myself or apply on my lips. Forever, my motto has been, if I don’t believe in it, I can’t sell it. I’m a bad liar.” Coup D’état stands out among the Detroit retail landscape for more reasons than just, say, the colorblocked Kurt Lyle Novia dress, which pairs athleisure with bold bridesmaid energy; or the furry Flaming Cheeto bucket bag

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by Primecut, a maker from Oregon that uses responsibly sourced cowhides and shearlings to craft textural patchwork bags; or the Clog Boot by Ariana Bohling Parker Alpine, the perfect shoe for living lodge (ski lodge, that is). The price points are significantly higher than downtown Detroit’s newest tenant, fast-fashion giant H&M, which opened its doors last week. Though Wisniewski jokes that she identifies as a textbook empath who absolutely dresses how she

feels, like a walking mood ring, she reluctantly refers to investment pieces like those offered at Coup D’état as a form of “self-care.” “For me a true self care is about the inner work,” she says. “For so long, focusing on beauty, apparel, and fashion kind of seemed, for many people, superficial or something, and the way I see it, it’s part of a complete package. I’m not saying skip a therapy appointment or don’t go for your annual at the gynecologist and buy a $250 jumpsuit. Use that as an accompaniment to your whole package. Style and your exterior is, often times, a representation of who you are inside, what your brain looks like, and how you’re feeling. That’s the most important stuff. And then it kind of comes out when you put on something you feel really great in.” As for where Coup D’état’s panache fits into the perplexing puzzle that is Detroit’s general fashion aesthetic, Wisniewski is confident it will click with shoppers, though she admits it’s difficult to reduce Detroit style to a single category. She says it comes down to resilience, considering seasons dominate fashion choices in the Midwest and is a healthy hybrid of streetwear and blue-collar working class. “It’s a little bit of everything,” she says. “But I will say this: Though I can’t truly categorize it in one way, it always feels very authentic. I was telling my boyfriend, every time I’m flying home, you can look around the terminal and tell who’s flying to Detroit.” — Jerilyn Jordan Coup D’état is located at 3044 W. Grand Blvd. Suite L-460, Detroit; 313-782-4480; shopcoupdetat.com.

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GIFT GUIDE Blu Jean Blues 412 S. Washington Ave., Royal Oak; 248-291-5237; blujeanblues.com Bra-vo Intimates 29732 Woodward Ave., Royal Oak; 248-582-7286; bravointimates. com Busted Bra Shop 3044 W. Grand Blvd. and 14401 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit; 313-6382078; bustedbrashop.com Carhartt 5800 Cass Ave., Detroit; 313-8311274; carhartt.com Coup D’etat 3044 W. Grand Blvd., Detroit, unit L-460; 313-782-4480; shopcoupdetat. com Dcreated Boutique 19480 Livernois Ave., Detroit; 313-397-9404; dcreatedboutique. com Detroit Clothing Circle 3980 Second Ave., Detroit, unit D; 313-887-1370; detroitclothingcircle.com Detroit Denim Co 2987 Franklin St., Detroit; 313-626-9216; detroitdenim.com Détroit Is The New Black 1430 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-818-3498; detroitisthenewblack.com Detroit vs. Everybody 2501 Russell St., Detroit; 313-502-5840; vseverybody.com DIOP weardiop.com El’s Boutique 17110 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe; 313-571-3044; elsboutique.me Flamingo Vintage 5449 W. Vernor St., Detroit; 214-538-5985; flamingovintagedetroit.com Flo Boutique Co 404 W. Willis St., Detroit; 313-331-4901; flowingflava.com Frida 15 E. Kirby St., Detroit; 313-778-7505; facebook.com/fridadetroit George Gregory 1422 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-285-8345; shopgeorgegregory. com Harp’s Lingerie 265 Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-642-2555; harps-lingerie. com I am Detroit Clothing 450 W. Fort St., Detroit; 313-262-6162; iamdetroitclothing.com Ink Addict 22007 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 855-465-2334; inkaddict.com Label Legends 28801 Orchard Lake Rd., Farmington Hills; 248-591-4554; labellegends.com Lost and Found Vintage 510 S. Washington St., Royal Oak; 248-548-6154; lostandfoundvintage.com Mama Coo’s Boutique 1701 Trumbull Ave., Detroit; 313-404-2543; mamacoosboutique. com Mix Ann Arbor Nickels Arcade, Suite 2, 4, & 5, Ann Arbor; 734-369-6559; mixthestore. com Nojo Kicks 1220 Library St., Detroit; 313656-4402; nojokicks.com Orleans + Winder 1410 Gratiot Ave., Detroit, Suite #102; 313-409-6343; orleansandwinder.com The Peacock Room 15 E. Kirby St., Detroit; 313-559-5500; facebook.com Pure Detroit 70 W Alexandrine St., Detroit; 313-656-4775; puredetroit.com Regeneration 23700 Woodward Ave., Pleasant Ridge, 126 E. 14 Mile Rd., Clawson; regenerationclothing.org RUNdetroit 441 W. Canfield St. #5, Detroit; 313- 638-2831; run-detroit.com Savvy Chic Boutique 2712 Riopelle, Detroit; 313 833-8769; savvychictrends.com Saffron 308 W. Fourth St., Royal Oak; 248565-3983; facebook.com/saffrongirl Scott Colburn Boots and Western Wear 20411 Farmington Rd., Livonia; 248-476-1262; scottcolburnwestern.com SMPLFD 2905 Beaufait St., Detroit; 313-2859564; buy.smplfd.com Spectacles 230 E Grand River Ave., Detroit; 313- 963-6886; spectaclesdetroit.com Untied on Woodward 223 S. Old Woodward ave., Birmingham; 248-792-6828; untiedonwoodward.com

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Mutual Adoration + POST 14500 Kercheval Ave., Detroit; 313-9392172; post-detroit.com Photographer boy meets visual artist girl. Boy takes girl on a date that turns out to be a funeral wake and funeral crasher boy and funeral crasher girl get married and create a super cool place where you can shop handmade wares and make some of your own, too. Enter Clare Fox and Wayne Maki of Mutual Adoration and their adorable POST showroom and workspace, where getting your hands dirty is part of the fun. In addition to shopping home goods and furniture made from reclaimed wood and paint (which is sort of Mutual Adoration’s specialty, along with their picture perfect marbled wood picture frames) folks can peruse textiles, candles, goodies for pets and tots, and paper goods. You can also take gift-giving a step further by signing up for one of their weekly workshops, includingcandle-making, knitting, screen-printing, bookbinding, wreath-fashioning, fabricdyeing, and more.

COMIC BOOKS Big Ben’s Comix Oasis 6711 Allen Rd., Allen Park; 313-382-0700; facebook.com/ bigbenscomixoasis Comics and More 28059 John R Rd., Madison Heights; 248-399-3213; comicsandmoreshow.net Comic City 466 N. Telegraph Rd., Pontiac, 7366 Haggerty Rd., West Bloomfield, and 42727 Ford Rd., Canton; comiccity.com Comix Corner 861 E. Auburn Rd., Rochester Hills; 248-852-3356 Green Brain 13936 Michigan Ave., Dearborn; 313-582-9444; greenbraincomics.com Liberty Comics 27639 Gratiot Ave., Roseville; 586-779-413; libertycomicsonline. com Warp9 Comics 21 W. 14 Mile Rd., Clawson; 248-288-5699; warpninecomics.com Vault of Midnight 219 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; 734-998-1413; 1226 Library St., Detroit; 313-481-2165; vaultofmidnight.com

FOOD Ackroyd’s Scottish Bakery 25566 Five Mile Rd., Redford Charter Twp.; 313-5321181; ackroydsbakery.com Ann Arbor Distillery 220 Felch St., Ann Arbor; 734-882-2169; annarbordistilling.com Astoria Pastry Shop 541 Monroe St., Detroit.; 313-963-9603; 320 S. Main St., Royal Oak; 248-582-9220; astoriapastryshop.com Avalon International Breads and Cafe 422 W. Willis St. and 1049 Woodward Ave., Detroit; avalonbreads.net. Blossom Cake and Bakery 248 E Auburn Rd., Rochester Hills; 248-289-6019; blos-

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GIFT GUIDE somcafeandbakery.com Bon Bon Bon 719 Griswold St., 441 W. Canfield St., Detroit, and 11360 Joseph Campau Ave., Hamtramck; 313-316-1430; bonbonbon.com Cornwall Bakery 15215 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe Park; 313-264-1938; cornwallbakery.com Detroit Institute of Bagels 1236 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-788-7342; detroitinstituteofbagels.com Dilla’s Delights 242 John R St., Detroit; 313-346-3771; dillasdelights.com Germack Pistachio Co. 2517 Russell St., Detroit; 313-784-9484; germackcoffee.com Give Thanks Bakery & Cafe 225 S. Main St., Rochester; 248-601-1542; givethanksbakery.com Hodell’s Cake Shop 31387 Harper Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-294-1100; hodellscakeshop.com Mexican Town Bakery 4300 Vernor Hwy., Detroit; 313-554-0001; mexicantownbakery. com Mid-East Pastry Delight 2097 15 Mile Rd., Sterling Heights; 586-979-3960; mepdelight.com. Mongers’ Provisions 4240 Cass Ave., Detroit; 313-651-7119 • 1030 Woodward Hghts., Ferndale; 248-468-4487; mongersprovisions.com Nothing Bundt Cakes 3074 Walton Blvd., Rochester Hills; 248-319-6901; nothingbundtcakes.com Peoples Brothers Bakery 2765 S. Fort St., Detroit; 313-383-9090; Plum Market 500 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-635-1200; plummarket.com Pop’s 28624 Harper Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-872-2410; facebook.com/popshoppescs Sanders-Morley Candy 23770 Hall Rd., Clinton Twp; 586-468-4300; sanderscandy. com Shatila Bakery 14300 W. Warren Ave., Dearborn; 313-582-1952; shatila.com

Sister Pie 8066 Kercheval St., Detroit; 313447-5550; sisterpie.com Small Batch Detroit 4444 Second Ave., Detroit; 313-855-5052; smallbatchdetroit. com Two James 2445 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-964-4800; twojames.com Zingerman’s 422 Detroit St., Ann Arbor; 734-663-3354; zingermansdeli.com

GIFT SHOPS 16 Hands Market & Shops, 407 N. Fifth Ave, Ann Arbor; 734-761-1110; 16handsannarbor.com Abundant Living Gallery & Gifts 3002 First St., Wyandotte; 734-556-3033; facebook.com/abundantlivinggallery Armageddon Beachparty Lounge 1517 Putnam St., Detroit; 313-704-4407; armageddonbeachpartydetroit.com Aura Aura | Grey Area 4200 W. Vernor Hwy., Detroit; auraaura.co Bath Savy 22801 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 1-884- 237-2889; bathsavvy.com Boston Tea Room 1220 Woodward Hts., Ferndale; 248-548-1415; bostontearoom.com Catching Fireflies 419 Detroit St., Ann Arbor: 734-531-6293; catchingfireflies.com City Bird Detroit 460 W. Canfield St., Detroit; 313-831-9146; citybirddetroit.com Detroit Institute of Arts Shop 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-883-7948; diashop.org Discount Candles and Blessings 1484 Gratiot Ave., Detroit; 313-566-0092; facebook.com/discountcandlesdetroit/ Duffey & Co. 15120 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe Park; 313-469-7050; duffeyandco.com Eldorado General Store 1700 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-784-9220; eldoradogeneralstore.com Five 15 600 S. Washington Ave., Royal Oak; 248-515-2551; five15.net Floyd 1948 Division St., Detroit, unit 101;

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Bon Bon Bon 719 Griswold St., 441 W. Canfield St., Detroit, and 11360 Joseph Campau Ave., Hamtramck; 313-316-1430; bonbonbon.com Warning: This is not your average box of chocolates. Detroit’s Bon Bon Bon is a treat so special they named it thrice — and, most recently, opened up its third location in Midtown. This women-owned chocolate factory churns out bite-sized works of art, in a variety of daring flavor combinations. Hidden away inside the insanely cute and custom packaging (make sure to snap a pic before and after opening, you know, for the ‘’Gram”) are bons in favorite flavors like Bumpy Cake, Killer Cereal, Mustachio, Bour-Bon-BonBon, Beach Bum Berry, Lemon Bar None,

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Creme Brûlée, and Coffee & Donuts. Or take a dive into their pre-selected winter collection box, featuring flavors like Pepper-Mint, Nog, Lou Spruce, Yule Log, Gingerbread, and Polar Vortex. Bon lovers can purchase individual chocolates for $3.50 or $35 for 10 pieces, $52.50 for a box of 15, or a 32-piece bon box for $112. New additions to Bon Bon Bons’ sweet treat roster are a selection of chocolate mix tapes, floppy disks, and records (all edible, of course). For anyone looking to gift an experience, Bon Bon Bon offers facility tours, where folks can take a peek at the behind-the-scenes process, learn about ethical chocolate, and, yes, make and package their own bons.

Mixing it up Santo Santo brings ‘counterculture’ yoga with color therapy, DJs to the east side Santo Santo doesn’t look like a typical yoga studio. A former abandoned car wash on Detroit’s east side, the little yellow building still has hand-painted bubbles on its exterior, causing some recent passersby to ask if they could get their ride cleaned. That’s just as well for Samantha Jameson. “I like things that are so wrong that they’re right, and I love to do things that make people giggle,” she says. “In my class I love to swear and to make jokes, and if I hear a good song I love to sing and dance when I’m teaching.” The studio, which opened Monday, is a collaboration between Jameson and Philip Kafka, the developer behind the restaurants Takoi (a former auto garage) and Magnet (previously a radiator shop), as well as the True North Quonset hut community near Corktown. Like Takoi and Magnet, Santo Santo has retained other elements of its previous identity:

it still has two large garage doors, which Jameson says she plans to open in the warmer months. “In Ayurvedic medicine, the root cause of all disease is disconnection from divine, and the tangible part of divinity is mother nature,” Jameson says. “So why not put yourself outside where you can see the sky and you can touch the earth?” A yoga teacher of 10 years, Jameson says she became disillusioned with the corporate direction western yoga had been heading since it has gone mainstream, with its emphasis on expensive designer athleisure wear and Instagramready poses. With Santo Santo, she wants to change that. “‘Santo’ means saint in Spanish, and ‘santosha’ is one of the niyamas of yoga, and it means ‘contentment from within,’” Jameson says. “So whatever I need I already possess, and I don’t need to look externally for anything.” To that end, Jameson is es-

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Santo Santo yoga studio has color-changing LED lights for color therapy. KRISTIN ADAMCZYK

chewing retail at Santo Santo, with the exception of Medicine Cabinet, an onsite shop set to open next year that will sell oils and lotions, as well as offering Ayurvedic medicine consultations and Reiki healing sessions. “We chose not to sell any retail because when you go into a yoga studio, it’s like, ‘Oh, look at this crop top, and look at this, and look at this,’” she says. “And then you get so out of your spiritual practice that you forget about the class — now I’m desiring, I’m wanting, craving, this thing outside of myself.”

But Santo Santo is far from a strictly old-school operation, however. Another unique aspect about the studio is its four color-changing LED light strips installed along the ceiling, which the yoga teacher can change to create different color combinations to enhance the sessions with color therapy. Some sessions will also feature a live DJ as part of a music program led by Rocksteady Disco’s Peter Croce. And dance-style sessions include Buti yoga classes, which mix yoga with tribal dancing and plyometrics, or jump training, and “Kirtan mash-up” classes, which

mix chanting and movement. On Friday evenings, Jameson plans to host dance nights where people can stop by to get pumped up before heading out to the club, or where early risers can cut loose in an environment without drugs or alcohol. “This is just as much of a dance studio as it is a yoga studio,” she says. Jameson says she envisions Santo Santo to be a “counterculture” yoga studio. “We’re not catering to nine-tofivers,” she says. “Our clientele are creatives, musicians, DJs, industry people. They are the progressive people that maybe they’ve moved here from L.A. or New York or wherever.” Aside from that, Jameson says she’s hoping to create an inclusive space that can draw not only more men to yoga but people of all gender expressions. “This is not just a yoga studio for women,” she says. “This is a dance house for humans.” —Lee DeVito Santo Santo is located at 8700 Mack Ave., Detroit; santosantodetroit.com.

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GIFT GUIDE floydhome.com Gatto’s Place 28311 Gratiot Ave., Roseville; 586-204-5759; facebook.com/gattosplace Green Daffodil 624 Livernois St., Ferndale; 248-547-4172; greendaffodil.com The Himalayan Bazaar 218 S Main St, Ann Arbor; 734-997-7229; thehimalayanbazaar. com Hugh 4240 Cass Ave, Detroit; 313-831-4844; thankhugh.com Little High Flyers 4240 Cass Ave., Detroit; 313-818-3748; littlehighflyers.com Nest 460 W. Canfield St. #101, Detroit; 313831-9776; citybirddetroit.com Nora Detroit 4240 Cass Ave., Suite # 109, Detroit; 313-831-4845; noramodern.com Nothing Rhymes with Orange 20507 Mack Ave., Grosse Pointe Woods; 313-3566796; nrwo-shop.com Pewabic 10125 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit; 313-626-2000; pewabic.org Plain & Fancy Gift Shop 323 S. Main St., Rochester; 248-651-5188; plainandfancyrochester.com Polish Art Center 9539 Joseph Campau Ave., Hamtramck; 888-619-9771; polartcenter.com Mutual Adoration + POST 14500 Kercheval Ave., Detroit; 313-939-2172; post-detroit. com The Rocket Gifts & Candy 23147 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248-556-5084; shoptherocket.com Rodnick Co. 24440 Harper Ave., St Clair Shores; 586-541-4800; rodnick.com The Rustic Root 21501 Harper Ave., St Clair Shores; 586-359-6004; therusticrootmi.com Scout 508 S. Washington St., Royal Oak; 248548-1065; scoutroyaloak.com Sfumato Fragrances 3980 E. Second Ave., Detroit; 313-305-1442; sfumatofragrances. com Silver Quill Antiques & Gifts 22813 Van Dyke Ave., Warren; 586-756-8180; silverquillantiques.com Ten Thousand Villages 303 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; 734-332-1270; tenthousandvillages.com Time Warp 31336 Harper Ave, St. Clair Shores; 586-362-8843; timewarp-vintage. com Tulani Rose 4201 Cass Ave., Detroit; 313832-2477; facebook.com/tulanirose

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Whistle Stop Hobby & Toy Inc. 21714 Harper Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586771-6770; whistle-stop.com One thing is true of the holidays, unless you’re a total Scrooge or Grinch: ’tis the most wonderful time of year … and the most magical, too. Though big-box toy giant Toys R Us may have closed all of its doors last year, the mom-and-pop toy shops of the world are holding it down, keeping the magic alive. St. Clair Shores’ family-operated Whistle Stop Hobby & Toy Inc., has been serving metro Detroit since 1970. Offering a wide array of model trains, dolls, books, musical instruments, fun educational tools, and, yes, Legos, Whistle Stop puts kids in the conductor’s seat.

Well Done Goods 1440 Gratiot Ave., Detroit; 313-404-2053; welldonegoods.com Xochi’s Gift Shop 3437 Bagley St., Detroit; 313-841-6410; facebook.com/xochisgiftshop

HEADSHOPS + MORE 3 Doors Down 5326 Dixie Hwy., Waterford Twp.; 248-618 3554 42 Degrees 615 E. William St., Ann Arbor; 734-665 9600 BDT 21640 John R Rd., Hazel Park; 248-542 6110 Bongz and Thongz 119 E. Liberty St. Ann Arbor; 734-585 5613 Cloud22 22 N. Saginaw Rd., Pontiac; 248481-8600 Gage Cannabis 1551 Academy St., Ferndale; gageusa.com The Head Shop2 717 E. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale; 248-965-2788 Heads Up 50 New St., Mount Clemens; 586-468-2294 Hydro Capital 32211 Mound Rd., Warren; 586-554-7130; gaccebook.com/hydrocapitolwarren LIV Ferndale 2625 Hilton Rd., Ferndale; 248326-2100; facebook.com/livferndale Maison Edwards Tobacconist 11 Nickels Arcade, Ann Arbor; 734-662 4145 Plum Pit 24953 Gratiot Ave., Eastpointe, 586-773-1910 Road Show 28500 Gratiot Ave., Roseville, 586-779-7623 Smokers Only 535 S. Main St., Plymouth; 734-453-5644 Stairway to Heaven 340 ½ S. State St., Ann Arbor; 734-994-3888 The Station 25940 Michigan Ave., Inkster, 313-561-7969 Zazz! 21616 Harper Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-774-0625

INTIMATE Cirilla’s 23400 Woodward Ave., Ferndale, 27620 W. Eight Mile Rd., Farmington Hills, 27144 Gratiot Ave., Roseville, 6858 N. Telegraph Rd., Dearborn Heights, 5421 Dixie Hwy., Waterford, 20085 Eureka Rd., Taylor; cirillas.com Lover’s Lane 27246 Woodward Ave., Royal Oak, 19190 Eureka Rd., Southgate, 33225 S. Gratiot Ave., Clinton Twp., 43735 Van Dyke Ave., Sterling Heights, 620 W. Ann Arbor Rd., Ann Arbor; 1527 Washtenaw Rd., Ypsilanti; loverslane.com Noir Leather 124 W. Fourth St., Royal Oak; 248-541-3979; noirleather.com Pleasure Zone 35806 Van Dyke Ave., Sterling Heights; 586-722-7913; thepleasurezonestore.com Spectrum Boutique Online only; spectrumboutique.com. Uptown Book and Video 16541 Woodward Ave., Highland Park; 313-869-9477; uptownadult.com

MISC. Cass Corridog 4240 Cass Ave., Detroit, unit 110; 313-887-9684 City Bark 1222 Griswold St., Detroit; 313881-2275; citydetroitbark.com Detroit Antiques & Props 828 Fisher Fwy., Detroit; 313-693-5252; facebook.com/ detroitantiquemall Dixieland Flea Market 2045 Dixie Hwy., Waterford; 248-338-3220; dixielandandfleamkt.com Eastern Market Antiques 2530 Market St., Detroit; 313-259-0600; easternmarket. com Eastern Market 2934 Russell St., Detroit; 313-833-9300; easternmarket.org. Hihi 220 W. Fourth St., Royal Oak; 248-6588900; hellohihi.com

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Kerrytown Market and Shops 407 N. Fifth Ave., Ann Arbor; 734-662-5008; kerrytown.com London Luggage Shop 5955 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-831-7200; londonluggage Modern Skate 1500 N. Stephenson Hwy., Madison Heights; 248-545-5700; modernskate.com Rustbelt Market 22801 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248-238-8728; rustbeltmarket. com

MUSIC Ardis 49 N. Walnut St., Mt. Clemens; 586468-0282; ardismusicstore.com Bayberry Music 23430 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248-439-0700; bayberrymusic. com Berkley Music 3039 W. 12 Mile Rd., Berkley; 248-543-3900 The D String 1525 Adelaide St., Detroit; 313-656-4735; facebook.com/thedstringdetroit Huber Breese Music 33540 Groesbeck Hwy., Fraser; 586-294-3950; huberbreese. com GarageBand Music 45101 Cass Ave., Utica; 586-731-7275; garagebandmusic.net Gordy’s Music 3341 Hilton Rd., Ferndale; 248-546-7447; gordysmusic.com Motor City Guitar 1565 Crescent Lake Rd., Waterford; 248-673-1900; motorcityguitar. com. Music Castle 28856 Woodward Ave., Royal Oak; 248-534-5070; musiccastle.com Rock City Music Co. 33425 Five Mile Rd., Livonia; 734-744-5462; rockcitymusicco.com Third Wave Music 4625 Second Ave., Detroit; 313-312-0995; thirdwavedetroit.com

RECORDS Blast in the Past 28071 Gratiot Ave., Roseville; 586-775-3289 Detroit Music Center 7324 W. Seven Mile Rd., Detroit; 313-638-4400; detroitmusiccenter.com Dearborn Music 22501 Michigan Ave., Dearborn; 313-561-1000; dearbornmusic.net Detroit Threads 10238 Joseph Campau Ave., Hamtramck; 313-872-1777. Electric Crown 5225 S. Saginaw Rd., Flint; 810-293-1727; electric-crown-records.business.site Encore Records 208 N. Fourth St., Ann Arbor; 734-662-6776; encorerecordsa2.com Flat, Black, and Circular 541 E. Grand River Ave., East Lansing; 517-351-0838; flatblackandcircular.com Flipside Records 41 E. 14 Mile Rd., Clawson; 248-585-4090; shopflipsiderecords.com Found Sound 234 W. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale; 248-565-8775; foundsoundvinyl. tumblr.com Hello Records 1459 Bagley St., Detroit; 313300-5654; hellorecordsdetroit.com Media Reload 4231 E. Court St., Burton, 4365 Miller Rd., Flint, and 3277 Tittabawassee Rd., Saginaw; mediareload.net Melodies & Memories 23013 Gratiot Ave., Eastpointe; 586-774-8480; melodies-memories.business.site Paramita Sound 1515 Broadway St. Suite C, Detroit; 313-433-6494; paramitasound. com Peoples Records 1464 Gratiot Ave., Detroit; 313-831-0864; peoplesdetroit.com Record Graveyard 2610 Carpenter St., Hamtramck; 313-870-9647 Ripe Records 15212 Charlevoix St., Grosse Pointe Park; 313-469-7479; riperecordsdetroit.com Stormy Records 13306 Michigan Ave., Dearborn; 313-581-9322; stormyrecords.com Street Corner Music 26020 Greenfield Rd., Oak Park; 248-967-0777; streetcornermusic.com

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Meta Physica Wellness Center 1701 Trumbull St., Detroit, unit 3; 313-3037611; metaphysicamassage.com Nothing’s better than giving the gift of a truly zen moment. Plus, we guarantee you’ve got someone on your list that needs to chill the eff out (even if that person is you; then the best gift you can give the people in your orbit is a chiller, calmer you). Anyway, Meta Physica Wellness offers a dizzying selection of specialty massages, infrared sauna sessions, and acupuncture treatments, as well as other bodywork, including craniosacral therapy, myofascial release, and private yoga sessions. Oh, they offer waxing services, too. Don’t forget to throw in some fresh, power-packed juice or smoothie to round out your lucky gift recipient’s treatment. Third Man Records 441 W. Canfield St., Detroit; 313-209-5205; thirdmanrecords.com Trax ’N Wax 26535 Harper Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-218-8188; facebook.com/traxnwaxstore UHF Records 512 S. Washington Ave., Royal Oak; 248-545-5955; facebook.com/UHFRECORDS Underground Sounds 255 E. Liberty St., Ann Arbor; 734-327-9239; ugsounds.com Village Vinyl 5972 Chicago Rd., Warren; 586-838-4992 Wazoo Records 336 S. State St., Ann Arbor; 734-761-8686; wazoorecords.blogspot.com

TOYS Adventures in Toys 250 W. Maple Rd., Birmingham; 248-646-5550; adventuresintoys.com Genuine Toy Co. 550 Forest Ave. Suite 8, Plymouth; 734-414-9500; genuinetoyco. com Michigan Toy Soldier & Figure Co. 1400 E. 11 Mile Rd., Royal Oak; 248-586-1022; michtoy.com Mom & Pop’s Shop 9528 Joseph Campau Ave., Hamtramck; 313-888-9934 Toyology Toys 119 S. Main St., Royal Oak; 248-268-1412; toyologytoys.com Whistle Stop Hobby & Toy Inc. 21714 Harper Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-771-6770; whistle-stop.com

WELLNESS Beach House Day Spa 34645 Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-220-4485; beachhouse-dayspa.com Meta Physica Wellness 1701 Trumbull St., Detroit, unit 3; 313-303-7611; metaphysicamassage.com Om Spa 22070 Michigan Ave., Dearborn; 313-565-9686; omdayspa.com Rouge 23337 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248439-6012; rougemakeupandnails.com Santo Santo 8700 Mack Ave., Detroit; santosantodetroit.com The Schvitz 8295 Oakland Ave., Detroit; 313-724-8489; schvitzdetroit.com Woodhouse Day Spa 1447 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-965-6270; detroit.woodhousespas.com

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FOOD

Yakisoba pan.

TOM PERKINS

Hungry like the wolf By Tom Perkins

Detroit is establishing

itself as a bakery town. Within the span of several years, the list of its excellent bakeries has grown from a few oldschool mainstays like Avalon to include spots like Warda Pâtisserie, Ochre Bakery, and Cannelle, among a handful of new Avalon expansions. This summer, another joined their ranks. How does a new baker carve out a space for themselves in this market? Doran Brooks, president of White Wolf Japanese Patisserie, Clawson’s new bakery that’s under the same ownership as neighboring Noble Fish, seems to have an idea. The modern bakery he opened blends French technique with Japanese appreciation of simple, high-quality ingredients to create a concept that’s original in town. rooks’s r sum is also filled with top restaurants like New York’s Morimoto, and Boston’s and Silicon Valley’s Four Seasons, and he isn’t just baking a few pastries and breads. In the mix are plated desserts that would be at home at a white-linen establishment. One good example of that is the multilayered, rich tiramisu, which Brooks has spent years honing. He says there are two schools of thought when it comes to tiramisu: one that calls for

the avors to be melded together and another that calls for everything to be broken up into distinct, individual layers that can be tasted separately. White Wolf’’s excellent tiramisu is the latter. It’s housed on a foundation of cocoa shortbread that’s pressed into a mold and baked, then topped with a layer of rich Italian mascarpone custard. That’s made with milk, egg yolks, and sugar, and is cooked with vanilla until it turns into a thick, creamy custard, which is then folded in with the mascarpone. That’s topped with housemade ladyfinger soaked in a mix of cold brew, spiced rum, simple syrup, and vanilla. The ladyfinger is topped with a cocoa ganache layer, which sits under a layer of high-fat Guernsey chantilly that White Wolf slowly whips to get a silky smooth texture. Once that’s filled in, the package is set in a white miraglaze. Epic. But while the plated desserts are awesome, there’s range in the menu. Among the best savory dishes is the yakisoba pan, which is essentially a noodle sandwich. The deeply avorful buckwheat noodles are done in a yakisoba sauce that’s sweet and sour and partly avored from pickled ginger and tomatoes, as well as sesame seeds.

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The noodles are tangled with small shreds of cabbage and carrots, and the mix is served on a long, soft Japanese milk bread bun. It’s a light and pretty package. The katsu sandwich comes with a tenderized pork cutlet that’s fried with Japanese panko crumbs, then set between two pieces of slightly sweet shokupan bread with pickled red cabbage, Japanese mayo, and katsu sauce — a rich and slightly sweet umamiladen sauce made with soy and tomato. The tamago sandwich arrives with shokupan bread holding a Japanese curried egg salad with lettuce and thinsliced Japanese cucumber that provide just enough crunch. White Wolf also uses a rich, robust curry in the curry pan, a soft nugget that’s deep-fried and covered in crunchy panko. The curry filling is composed of carrots, potatoes, and onions that are roasted in thick Japanese curry and veggie stock and cooked down to make it thick and strong — it’s one of several vegetarian packages at White Wolf, and one of its most popular items. A similar dish is a soft and slightly sweet Japanese kashi bread encasing gooey gruyere and thick-cut applewood bacon. Back on the sweet side, the chocolate raspberry chiffon cake is much simpler than the tiramisu. It’s what Brooks characterizes as an “old school” apanese chiffon made with fresh rasp-

White Wolf Japanese Patisserie 31 E. 14 Mile Road, Clawson 248-268-3349 whitewolfbakery.com Handicap accessible $3-$11

berry folded into the whipped Guernsey chantilly. Brooks says it’s a good example of simple ingredients doing the talking. Matcha azuki Swiss roll is made with a traditional Japanese chiffon cake and matcha tea powder from Birmingham’s Eli Tea. That’s rolled with coarse red bean paste mixed with chantilly. hite olf also offers a range of breads, including a focaccia that’s a bit more dense than some with a beautiful, simple avor from the olive oil, oregano, and salt. The coffee program revolves around beans from Ferndale’s awesome hite ine Coffee, though hite olf also selects other coffees that rooks is excited about for pour-overs. If the bakery is indeed successful, then we could see a lot more of White Wolf. Brooks says this is a trial run, and they may grow the brand into a local chain. Hopefully it’s a success, as easier access to that tiramisu can only be a good thing.

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THIS WEEK date Pete Davidson. OK, but in all seriousness, the self-deprecating 26-year-old Staten Island native is very funny and has been long before he and Grande adopted a pet pig and got, like, way too many couple’s tattoos in a very short amount of time. — Jerilyn Jordan Event begins at 7 p.m.; 318 W. Fourth St., Royal Oak; 248-399-2980; royaloakmusictheatre.com; Tickets are $150+.

FRIDAY, 11/29 Megan Thee Stallion @ Masonic Temple

Pete Davidson, Royal Oak Music Theatre, Nov. 29.

What’s Going On

THURSDAY, 11/28 America’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

A week’s worth of things to do and places to do them

@ Midtown & Downtown Detroit

HOLIDAY The holidays can be stressful, maybe even emotional. Perhaps, for some, downright depressing. Don’t focus on the Trump-voting family you’ll be bumping elbows — and ideals — with over turkey, stuffing, and pie. Thankfully, there are still many pure things in this world, one of them being the 93rd America’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in Detroit. This year’s theme is “Detroit Shining Bright” and will invite some local stars to illuminate the festivities. Among those slated to appear are 1984

PEGGY SIROTA

Detroit Tigers world champions Lance Parrish and Dave Rozema, Disney star Isaac Ryan Brown, and 2019 Rocket Mortgage Classic Champion Nate Lashley. Former Detroit Mayor Dennis W. Archer and America’s Got Talent sensation the Detroit Youth Choir will serve as this year’s grand marshals. Parade favorites like the “Big Heads” will return with the newly added Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo. Per

usual, Santa Claus will take a break from his busy schedule to serve as the event’s headliner, gift-packed sleigh and all. — Jerilyn Jordan Parade begins at 9:45 a.m., live coverage begins at 6 a.m., and a pre-parade show at 9 a.m.; Kirby Street and Woodward Avenue; theparade.org. Event is free.

FRIDAY, 11/29 Pete Davidson @ Royal Oak Music Theatre

America’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Nov. 28.

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COMEDY How the hell did we get swept up in the life of comedian and Saturday Night Live’s unpredictable fuccboi Pete Davidson’s emotional tabloid ourney, filled with whirlwind romances (Ariana Grande, Kate Beckinsale, and 18-year-old supermodel Kaia Gerber), heartbreak, mental health scares, tales of living with his mom, and his growing tattoo collection? Maybe because the recent Paper Magazine cover dude, who appears there as a dickless Ken doll — Google it — told the publication that he treats every woman he’s with like a princess, which is both a bit unsettling but also low-key charming. Shit. Now we want to

MUSIC Our prayers have been answered now that Megan Thee Stallion is set to deliver her first-ever Detroit performance. We’ve been waiting a hot minute since her “hot girl summer” anthem-fueled debut album, Fever, dropped earlier this year. Known for her interactive, high-energy, twerk-heavy performances, we anticipate a warm welcome for the hottest rapper we’ve seen (and heard) in a while, despite the major Grammy Award snub. (Seriously, no women in the best rap category?) Anyway, Hot Girl Meg will be joined by special guests from the Midwest, YFN Lucci and Calboy, who represent Chicago and Calumet City, respectively. Polo G will join as well. — Imani Mixon Event begins at 7 p.m.; 500 Temple Ave., Detroit; 313-832-7100; themasonic.com; Tickets are $59+.

FRI., 11/29 AND SAT., 11/30 Pulp Fiction @ Main Art Theatre

FILM ong before filmmaker and unabashed foot fetishist Quentin Tarantino gave us Uma Thurman, the vengeful, slaying samurai babe of Kill Bill Volume 1 & 2, he gave us Thurman’s Mia Wallace — cinema’s cocaine-snorting anti-manic pixie dream girl (and a solid modernday, go-to Halloween costume). For Tarantino’s iconic neo-noir sophomore effort, ’s Academy Award-winning Pulp Fiction, he recruited John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Harvey Keitel, and Tim Roth to join Thurman for a cinematic journey through murder, French hamburgers, Ezekiel 25:17, and the art of the adrenaline shot. Oh, and the film made proper use of isirlou” by the late Dick Dale. Screenings begin at midnight; 118 N.

The hiatus also found the members of Brockhampton moving out of their communal home in North Hollywood. British rapper Slowthai is also on the bill. — Jerilyn Jordan Event begins at 7 p.m.; 500 Temple Ave., Detroit; 313-832-7100; themasonic.com; Tickets are $45+.

SATURDAY, 11/30 Devendra Banhart @ MOCAD

Megan Thee Stallion, Masonic, Nov. 29.

Main St., Royal Oak; 248-542-5198; landmarktheatres.com. Tickets are $7.

SATURDAY, 11/30 Brockhampton @ Masonic Temple

MUSIC The idiom “too many cooks in the kitchen” does not apply to selfproclaimed “all-American boy band” and

COURTESY OF ARTIST

15-piece autonomous hip-hop collective Brockhampton. In fact, the more the better, especially in the case of the Texas-bred group’s latest record, 2019’s Shia a eouf-in uenced Ginger. Formed in 2015 through a Kanye West fan forum, rockhampton’s aimless, re ective, and, at times, somber fifth entry is the result of a brief hiatus after the group axed founding member Ameer Vann in 2018 following sexual misconduct allegations.

MUSIC Cue the damn waterworks. Devendra Banhart, the Texas-to-Venezuela-to-California poster boy of freak-folk reckoned with the possibility that he may never have children, which resulted in his 10th output in a decade, 2019’s Ma. “I thought, maybe, I should make a record where I can put in everything I would want to say to them,” Banhart told Apple Music earlier this year, adding that Ma also found the 38-year-old examining the things he wishes would have been shared with him as a child. The record is a meditative s-in ected ourney through soft-spoken hypotheticals that calls to mind Cat Stevens, George Harrison, and mythical bedtime stories being told aboard a landlocked sailboat. — Jerilyn Jordan Doors open at 8 p.m.; 4454 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-832-6622; mocadetroit. com; Tickets are $31 or $26 for members.

SATURDAY, 11/30 Guided by Voices @ Saint Andrew’s Hall

MUSIC It’s been a wild ride for the on again off again unofficial godfathers of lo-fi, uided y oices, the indie rock band which formed in Ohio in 1983. Known for having an, uh, impressive revolving door of membership, which is eclipsed only by the band’s prolific output as illustrated by three full-length records released ust this year, uided y Voices returns to their brand of combative minimalism on Sweating the Plague, the most recent of the three releases and the band’s 29th to date. Led by Robert Pollard, who has released, like, 100 albums since GBV’s formation, Sweating the Plague is the band at its most cohesive, which is a feat considering they split in 2004, reunited in 2010, split again, and are now with a lineup of longstanding players, which makes us a gaggle of very “Glad Girls.” — Jerilyn Jordan Doors open at 7 p.m.; 431 E. Congress St., Detroit; 313-961-8961; saintandrewsdetroit.com. Tickets are $25.

Brockhampton, the Masonic, Nov. 30.

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OUR PATIO NIGHTLY BONFIRES ON WISHING EVERYONE A SAFE TURKEY DAY!

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH THANKSGIVING EVE WARHORSES, DAMIEN DONE, COSMIC LIGHT SHAPES

(STONER ROCK, SPACE ROCK, PSYCH POP)

9 PM DOORS / $5 COVER ~HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MATT RODRIGUEZ! ~

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH THANKSGIVING OPEN REGULAR HOURS

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH

THIS WEEK MUSIC Wednesday, Nov. 27 6th Annual Bruiser Thanksgiving with Danny Brown 7 p.m.; Majestic Theatre, 4140 Woodward Ave., Detroit; $30. Friends-Giving Eve 8 p.m.; Boogie Fever Cafe & Disco, 22901 Woodward Avenue, Ferndale; $5. Hamtramck Unplugged 2 p.m.; Trixie’s, 2656 Carpenter St., Hamtramck; John Kay & Who’s To Say 7 p.m.; Pike Room, 1 S. Saginaw, Pontiac; $10. Koffin Kats 9 p.m.; Token Lounge, 28949 Joy Rd., Westland; $12. LSDREAM, Shlump 9:30 p.m.; Elektricity Nightclub, 15 S. Saginaw St., Pontiac; $20+.

PROJECT 206, KOLTAY, AFTER OURS

Ski Mask the Slump God 7 p.m.; The Fillmore, 2115 Woodward Ave., Detroit; $55+.

9 PM DOORS / $5 COVER

Sponge–Rotting Piñata 25 Year Anniversary 7 p.m.; Saint Andrew’s Hall, 431 E. Congress St., Detroit; $21.

(EXPERIMENTAL, ATMOSPHERIC, COMPOSED)

MONDAY, DECEMBER 2ND FREE POOL

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5TH

CARLOS G B-DAY! DON DUPRIE, FISHGUTZZZ & HIS STINKIN ORCHESTRA, DA ILLAZ, NICK SPEED

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6TH

DEEP RED PNEUMATIC, WASABI DREAMS, DARK RED, JOE PIZZO

Summer Walker 7:30 p.m.; Royal Oak Music Theatre, 318 W. Fourth St., Royal Oak; $39.50+. THANKSGIVING IS STILL MURDER: The Smiths United with Music For The Masses and Bedbugs & Ballyhoo 8 p.m.; Magic Bag, 22920 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; $17. The Edgar Winter Band 7 p.m.; The Crofoot Ballroom, 1 S. Saginaw St., Pontiac; $39.50.

Friday, Nov. 29

Woodward Ave., Detroit; Free with museum admission. Hard Luck Pete & The Wrong Way Streets, The Brown Bottle Boys 8 p.m.; The Loving Touch, 22634 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; $15. Helmet 8:30 p.m.; Saint Andrew’s Hall, 431 E. Congress St., Detroit; $28. John Summit at Grasshopper Underground 9 p.m.; The Grasshopper Underground, 22757 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; $$10. Luddites’ Thanksgiving Friday 9 p.m.; New Way Bar, 23130 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; No cover. Papadosio, Spaceship Earth, Night 1 9 p.m.; Magic Stick, 4120 Woodward Ave., Detroit; $20-$30. The Accidentals 7 p.m.; Flagstar Strand Theatre for the Performing Arts, 12 N. Saginaw St., Pontiac; $25-$35. With Confidence 5:30 p.m.; The Shelter, 431 E. Congress St., Detroit; $16.

Saturday, Nov. 30 Bass Project: Detroit 9 p.m.; 17410 E Warren Ave, 17410 East Warren Avenue, Detroit; $8. Big B & the Actual Proof, The Magnificent 7, All Seeing Eye 8-11:59 p.m.; PJ’s Lager House, 1254 Michigan Ave., Detroit; $10. Brockhampton 7 p.m.; Masonic Temple, 500 Temple St., Detroit; $45. Chosen By Fate 9-11:59 p.m.; Cobb’s Corner, 4201 Cass Ave, Detroit; No cover. Class of 98 Band, the 90s Party Palooza 8 p.m.; Magic Bag, 22920 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; $7.

EASERS, TWEEG & THE BOUNDERS

Battery: A Tribute To Metallica 7 p.m.; The Fillmore, 2115 Woodward Ave., Detroit; $15-$25.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13TH

BJ The Chicago Kid 7 p.m.; El Club, 4114 W. Vernor Hwy., Detroit; Sold-out.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14TH

Black Friday Holiday Bag 7 p.m.; Masonic Temple, 500 Temple St., Detroit; $59+.

The Detroit Blues Heritage Series presents “ Detroit Acoustic Blues” 2 p.m.; Scarab Club, 217 Farnsworth St., Detroit; $10.

Dee Dee Bridgewater and the Memphis Soulphony 7 & 9:30 p.m.; The Blue LLama Jazz Club, 314 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; $65+.

Devendra Banhart 8 p.m.; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), 4454 Woodward Ave., Detroit; $26-$31.

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Dee Dee Bridgewater and the Memphis Soulphony 7 & 9:30 p.m.; The Blue LLama Jazz Club, 314 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; $65+.

DISCIPLE TAKEOVER 9:30 p.m.; Elektricity Nightclub, 15 S. Saginaw St., Pontiac; $20+.

GAMMER–MONSTERCAT UNCAGED TOUR 9:30 p.m.; Elektricity Nightclub, 15 S. Saginaw St., Pontiac; $14.99.

ELSIE BINX, Reign of Z, Liz Ivory, Nopeseti, Paige Elizabeth 7 p.m.; Token Lounge, 28949 Joy Rd., Westland; $8.

Greyson Chance 6 p.m.; Saint Andrews Hall, 431 E. Congress St., Detroit; $18.

Friday Night Live! Audra Kubat 7 p.m.; Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200

Guided By Voices 8 p.m.; Saint Andrew’s Hall, 431 E. Congress St.,

Guided by Voices, Saint Andrew’s Hall, Nov. 30.

Detroit; $28.

No cover.

Horton’s Holiday Hayride 8 p.m.; Majestic Theatre, 4140 Woodward Ave., Detroit; $25.

Rittz, Dizzy Wright 6:30 p.m.; The Crofoot allroom, S. Saginaw St., ontiac; $20.

Kill Paris at Grasshopper Underground 9 p.m.; The Grasshopper Underground, 22757 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; $$10.

THE WILLOW & ERYS TOUR 7 p.m. oyal Oak usic Theatre, . Fourth St., oyal Oak .

Papadosio, After Funk, Night 2 9 p.m.; Magic Stick, 4120 Woodward Ave., Detroit; $20-$30. Rob Crozier Jazz Ensemble 9:30 p.m. Cliff ell’s, ark Ave., Detroit $10.

Monday, Dec. 2 The Noise Presents ISSUES: THE BEAUTIFUL OBLIVION TOUR 5:30 p.m. Saint Andrew’s all, . Congress St., Detroit; $25.

Tuesday, Dec. 3

See Dick Run 8 p.m.; The Loving Touch, 22634 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; $10.

Dennis Coffey 8 p.m.; Northern ights ounge, . altimore St., Detroit; Free.

The Pineapple Thief 7 p.m.; The Crofoot allroom, S. Saginaw St., ontiac; $30.

Waterparks p.m. Saint Andrew’s Hall, 431 E. Congress St., Detroit; $25.

Sunday, Dec. 1 Baby Smoove 7 p.m.; The Shelter, 431 E. Congress St., Detroit; $23. Band Of Friends–A Celebration Of Rory Gallagher p.m. agic ag, 22920 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; $20. Eric B and Rakim 7:30 p.m.; Sound oard, rand iver Ave., Detroit $42-$55. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis 4 p.m.; Hill Auditorium, 825 N. University Ave., Ann Arbor; Jena Irene Asciutto 7:30 p.m.; Jim rady’s, S. ain St., Ann Arbor

THEATER A Christmas Carol Friday, 8 p.m., Saturday & Sunday, 2 & 6:30 p.m.; eadow rook Theatre, ilson all, ochester . A Drag Queen Christmas: The Naughty Tour Friday, 8 p.m.; The Music all, adison Ave., Detroit . A Very Golden Christmas Saturday, 8 p.m., Sunday, 5 p.m., and Monday, p.m. ingwald Theatre, oodward Ave., Ferndale . Disney Junior Holiday Party! Wednesday 6 p.m.; Fox Theatre, 2211 Woodward Ave., Detroit; $15. Every Christmas Story Ever Told

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(And Then Some!) Through Dec. , p.m. Tipping oint Theatre, . Cady St., Northville; $47. Hello Dolly Wednesday-Friday, 8 p.m., Saturday, 2 & 8 p.m., and Sunday, 2 & 7:30 p.m. Fisher Theatre, 3011 West Grand & Fisher, Detroit; $39. Mo Amer Saturday p.m. oyal Oak usic Theatre, . Fourth St., oyal Oak . . Puppet Performance: National Marionette Theatre presents Pinocchio Friday, 2 p.m.; Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit; Free. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer The Musical (Touring) Sunday, 2 & 5:30 p.m.; Fox Theatre, 2211 Woodward Ave., Detroit; $25-$60. Vertex Battle: Detroit w/ Tsuruda, Supertask, Frequent, & More! Saturday 5 p.m.; Tangent Gallery astings Street allroom, . ilwaukee Ave., Detroit; $25. We Will Rock You Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday, p.m. Caesars alace indsor Augustus allroom, . iverside Dr., indsor - .

COMEDY 313 Comedy Night Sunday, 8 p.m.; Detroit Shipping Company, eterboro St., Detroit; Free. All-Star Showdown Fridays, Saturdays, 8 & 10 p.m.; Go Comedy! Improv Theater, . Nine ile d., Ferndale $20.

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THIS WEEK Brewing For Comedy Every other Tuesday, 9-11 p.m.; Craft Heads Brewing Company, 89 University Avenue West, Windsor; Free. Cocktail Comedy Hour Fridays & Saturdays, p.m. lanet Ant, Caniff Ave., Hamtramck; $10. Fresh Sauce Sundays, 9 p.m.; Go Comedy! Improv Theater, 261 E. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale; Free. Maybe It’s Cold Outside Through Dec. 21. Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Go Comedy! Improv Theater, 261 E. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale; $20. Monday Night Improv Mondays, 8-10 p.m.; Planet Ant Black Box, 2357 Caniff Street, amtramck . Name This Show Fridays, Saturdays, 11:45 p.m.; Go Comedy! Improv Theater, 261 E. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale; Free. Open Mic Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.; Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle, 310 S. Troy St., Royal Oak; $5. Pete Davidson Friday, 7 p.m.; Royal Oak Music Theatre, 318 W. Fourth St., Royal Oak; $150. Sunday Buffet Sundays, 7 p.m.; Go Comedy! Improv Theater, 261 E. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale; $10; 248-327-0575. Thursday Night Live! Thursdays, - p.m. Ant all, Caniff St., amtramck; $5.

DANCE The Nutcracker Saturday, 2:30 & 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, 2:30 p.m.; Cadillac Cafe, 1526 Broadway, Detroit; $25+.

FILM Charlie Chaplin in “Modern Times” Saturday, 8 p.m.; Senate Theater, 6424 Michigan Ave., Detroit; $5. Planetarium show: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.; Cranbrook Institute of Science, oodward, loomfield Hills; $5. Pulp Fiction Friday & Saturday, midnight; Main Art Theatre, 118 N. Main St., Royal Oak; $7. The Redford Classic Cartoon Festival Saturday, 2 & 8 p.m.; Redford Theatre, 17360 Lahser Rd, Detroit; $5.

ART Chris Moore: Lyrics and More Lawrence Street Gallery, 22620 Woodward, Suite A, Ferndale; Free. Drawing in the Galleries Fridays, 6 p.m., Saturdays, noon and Sundays,

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Pulp Fiction, Main Art Theatre, Nov. 29-30.

noon; Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit; Free. Humble and Human: Impressionist Era Treasures from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Detroit Institute of Arts, an Exhibition in Honor of Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Through January. TuesdaysSaturdays.; Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit; Admission is free with museum admission to residents of Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties. Michigan Watercolor Society: 72nd Annual Award Recipients Exhibition Alfred Berkowitz Gallery, U of M-Dearborn, Dearborn; Free. SMALL WORKS Juried All Media Exhibition Through Nov. 30. Saturdays, 12-4 p.m. and Tuesdays-Fridays, 12-5 p.m.; Northville Art House, 215 W. Cady St., Northville; 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. The MATI Group: Tipsy Tinsel 4 Friday, 7 p.m.; Tangent Gallery & Hastings Street Ballroom, 715 E. Milwaukee Ave., Detroit; $5. Thursdays at the Museum: Highlights of the Permanent Collection Thursdays, 1 p.m.; Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit; Free.

COMMUNITY Charivari Detroit 2020 Black Friday Launch Party Friday, 9 p.m.; TV Lounge, 2548 Grand River Ave., Detroit; $10.

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Detroit Had Slavery: The People & Places That Tell The Story Bus Tour Saturday, 10 a.m.; Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren Ave., Detroit; $50. West Park Winter Social Saturday 4 p.m.; Grosse Pointe Park, Kercheval Ave. between Wayburn and Maryland, Grosse Pointe; Free.

FUN FOR ALL A Drag Queen Christmas–The Naughty Tour Friday 8 p.m.; The Music Hall, 350 Madison Ave., Detroit; $35. America’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Thursday, 9:45 a.m.; Midtown and Downtown Detroit; theparade.org. Free. Detroit City Chess Club Open Play Fridays, 4 p.m.; Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit; Free. Eastern Market Walking Brewery History Tour Friday 12:30 & 2:30 p.m.; Eastern Market Brewing Co, 2515 Riopelle Street, Detroit; $30. The Illusionists–Magic of the Holidays Friday, 7:30 p.m. & Saturday 3 & 7:30 p.m.; Fox Theatre, 2211 Woodward Ave., Detroit; $30-$65.

SPORTS Toronto Maple Leafs at Detroit Red Wings Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Little Caesars Arena, 2645 Woodward Ave., Detroit; $57. University of Michigan vs Ohio State University Watch Party Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; Beacon Park, 1901 Grand River Ave, Detroit; Free. Washington Capitals at Detroit Red Wings Saturday 7 p.m.; Little Caesars Arena, 2645 Woodward Ave., Detroit; $43+.

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spoken-word track that collapses much of what makes Mollywop great — poetry you can dance and protest to. Doors open at 9 p.m.; 660 W. altimore t etroit northernlightslounge.com. Tickets are $10.

SUNDAY, 12/1 Tylr and DJ Holographic @ Deluxx Fluxx

Mollywop, Northern Lights Lounge, Nov. 30.

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Local music picks By Jerilyn Jordan

FRIDAY, 11/29 Eastside Elvis and the Motor City Mafia @ Cadieux Cafe

It’s been 42 years since Elvis Presley, the “King” of rock ’n’ roll, died. And yet, some people still find themselves all shook up — so much so that since his funeral in 1977, people have had very active suspicious minds and have cooked up wild conspiracy theories alleging Elvis is still alive. One such theory originated in Kalamazoo, a city he performed in, in the months leading to his death, in which a woman named Louise Welling claims she saw the King at a local supermarket and scarfing down hoppers at a Burger King sometime in 1988. Anyway, one thing is true of Elvis — he lives on through Detroit’s ultimate tribute group, astside lvis and the otor City afia. The band, which formed in 2002 after a

spirited and costumed karaoke performance, features guitarist Bruce Bryson, Tim Taebel, Tim Suliman, and Paul Misuraca as Elvis-ish. Doors open at 9 p.m.; 4300 Cadieux Rd., Detroit; 313-882-8586; cadieuxcafe.com. No cover.

FRIDAY, 11/29 Deadbeat Beat, AM People, and Book Lovers @ Outer Limits Lounge

Just as the summer of 2019 was taking a bow, Detroit’s complex pop trio Deadbeat Beat dropped its sophomore record, How Far, which is equal parts peace, love, and “Baphomet.” Vocalist Alex Glendening met Maria Nuccilli back in middle school, where they shared and swapped art-rock avors, namely the elvet Underground and Television. Bassist Zak Frieling joined in 2015 and since then,

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DBB has honed its surfy and garage-y musings on friendship, the future, exes in a little big town, and Baby Spice. Joining D are Ann Arbor-based five-piece Book Lovers and Detroit-based fuzzy punk threesome A.M. People. oors open at p m aniff t Detroit; 313-826-0456; outerlimitslounge. com. No cover.

SATURDAY, 11/30 Mollywop @ Northern Lights

Detroit’s Mollywop has been funkin’ up the stage since 2014. Led by guitarist and vocalist Malik Yakini, the 10-piece ensemble, known for its energetic peaceand love-infused live shows, released its debut record, tan p this past summer. The record serves as a celebration (“Rock that Funky Beat”) and a call to action (“No Justice No Peace”), with moments of sharp-tongued levity packed with Mollywop’s seamless blend of hip-hop, funk, soul, and reggae. “Everyone is struggling to survive/ this hard times it ain’t right/ Fighting day after day/ like we’re still slavin’/ I’ here to tell you, you and you/ this shit is over/ dumb fuckery,” Yakini declares on “Dumb Fuckery,” a short

Two of Detroit’s hardest-working beatmakers are teaming up for what is billed as a “Kosmic Night.” Detroit-born, onewoman funk machine DJ Holographic (aka Ariel Catalina) has performed at high school proms and international electronic clubs — and, as of recently, has become a Movement Electronic Music Festival staple. Having grown up in the scene, DJ Holographic infuses her mixes with Motown, hip-hop, and nu-disco for well-rounded, otherworldly house energy (which will pair well with Wajatta’s Reggie Watts and John Tejada, when she supports the duo next month at the Magic Stick on Dec. 14). Holographic will be joined by Toledo transplant Tyler Yglesias, who blends nostalgic and soulful house music with contemporary techno as TYLR_. Since moving to Detroit in 2006, TYLR_ has embedded himself in a regular rotation of electronic music greats and has made repeat appearances at Motor City Pride Festival. This year, he joined DJ Holographic as one of the local avors at ovement, making his debut on the Red Bull stage. usic egins at etroit No cover.

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MONDAY, 12/2 Koltay, Werewolves in support of Luggage @ Outer Limits Lounge

Chris Koltay, though not a household name, is a vital vertebra in the spinal column of Detroit’s music scene. Koltay, who moved to Detroit in 2001 and relocated his Cincinnati-based studio High Bias Recordings to an abandoned liquor store in Corktown, is a gearhead by day, sound engineer by night, and, some days, he exercises his penchant for drone music via rich modular synths as Koltay. Joining Koltay is Flint-based proto-punk foursome Werewolves, which released Path, the band’s sophomore EP, earlier this year. Minimalist rock trio out of Chicago, Luggage, is also on the bill. oors open at p m aniff t Detroit; 313-826-0456; outerlimitslounge. com. No cover.

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Grizmas Masonic Temple, Dec. 13-14, 7 p.m., $85+

Tove Lo St. Andrews Hall, Feb. 18, 7 p.m., $28

Atmosphere St. Andrews Hall, Jan. 15, 7 p.m., $27.50+

Tim & Eric Masonic Temple, Feb. 19, 7 p.m., $47.50+

Snoop Dogg The Fillmore, Jan. 26, 8 p.m., $57+

Sturgill Simpson Masonic Temple, Feb. 29, 7:30 p.m., $49.50+

Cold War Kids Majestic Theatre, Jan. 28, 7 p.m., $27.50+

Blake Shelton Little Caesars Arena, March 21, 7 p.m.; $64+

Umphreyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s McGee The Fillmore, Jan. 31, 6 p.m., $25+

Billie Eilish Little Caesars Arena, March 23, 7 p.m., Sold-out

Too Many Zooz El Club, Feb. 4, 7 p.m., $20

Elton John Little Caesars Arena, May 1-2, 7 p.m., $245+

Dr. Dog Majestic Theatre, Feb. 4, 7 p.m., $28+

Bikini Kill Royal Oak Music Theatre, May 23, 7 p.m., $56

Chance the Rapper Little Caesars Arena, Feb. 6, 7 p.m., $59.95+

Journey DTE Energy Music Theater, July 5, 7 p.m., $35+

Earth Gang St. Andrews Hall, Feb. 6, 7 p.m., $22.50

Billy Joel Comerica Park, July 10, 7 p.m., $120+

King Princess Royal Oak Music Theatre, Feb. 7, 7 p.m., $29+

Harry Styles Little Caesars Arena, July 17, 7 p.m., $59.50+

The Lumineers Little Caesars Arena, Feb. 7, 7 p.m., $37+

Green Day, Weezer, Fall Out Boy Comerica Park, Aug. 19. 7 p.m., $59.50+

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MUSIC Catching air

Celebrating a decade of Detroit hip-hop showcase The Air Up There By Antonio Cooper

Simply calling Sheefy

McFly an artist would only pigeonhole the Detroit native. He illustrated the Jit dance-inspired cover art for the cover of last week’s Metro Times. But he’s a rapper, too. McFly remains both a figurehead and an anomaly within the Detroit underground community: one who can lead the newest wave of talent, while molding the shift in underground culture. This is evident in his event “The Air Up There,” a now bi-annual hip-hop showcase featuring some of Detroit’s most prominent up-andcoming artists that celebrates its 10th anniversary this week. “I started The Air Up There when I left College for Creative Studies,” McFly says. “I became independent with music, and I did shows at Bob’s Classic Kicks because I’ve been cool with the owner since high school. We did one show a month. That’s when I called it ‘The Air Up There.’ I reached out to friends to perform with me — from there it went to people reaching out to me. It kind of just expanded on its own.” For those unfamiliar with The Air Up There, McFly describes it as a hip-hop showcase meant to nurture Detroit’s underground scene. “It’s where you can be yourself,” he says. “It opened a lane for the cool kids, people that wanted to just dress fresh. It was never negative. This event was a real positive light on hip-hop that we needed. It was my generation’s Hip Hop Shop,” he says, referring to the former Seven Mile clothing store where the late Proof hosted rap battles and where the likes of Eminem cut their teeth. Like The Hip Hop Shop, The Air Up There has become synonymous with showcasing the origins of some of Detroit’s now premier talents with McFly at the helm. “The entire 10 years has been memorable, but watching people become superstars has been the most memorable experience,” McFly says. “Dej Loaf had her first show at The Air Up There. Danny Brown used to come rock there all the time. Fat Cat and Clear Soul Forces had some of their first shows there. So actually seeing them start off to becoming a global phenomenon, that’s the most memorable part of it. It started off as a hip-hop show in a shoe

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store, which made superstar artists.” Several of Detroit’s powerhouse artists will be featured this year, including ic helps, ilfie, and SupercoolWicked. “Some artists I’ve known for a while, and some artists I’ve been watching for, hearing their name around different shows,” he says. The selection goes off

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what I hear is happening, who I hear people talking about, along with my own personal selects. It’s a lot of handpicks. “I’m looking forward to hearing everyone,” he says. “SupercoolWicked of course, Mic Phelps has been killing it lately, Scumbag Fred — I’ve been hearing a lot of good stuff about him. That’s

why I wanted to reach out to him. veryone on this show has a specific reason why I want to see them.” For those in attendance Saturday night, McFly has an additional surprise up his sleeve: He’s planning to debut his new album, a collaborative effort with Chicago-based EDM producer DJ Earl. “For the last few months, I’ve been working on it,” McFly says. “I had DJ Earl come for a show — he stayed over for two weeks. He made the beats on the spot, and I spit to them. We went to a studio to re-record the tracks, and we’ve been mastering them for the past few weeks.” “I felt it would be good to tie it in with the 10th anniversary,” McFly says. “It’s really the same feel as “The Air Up There” event, so I’m just excited about both of them.” McFly says Saturday’s event is more of a milestone celebrating The Air Up There’s longevity, but he already has his eyes on the future and has big plans for the next 10 years. Someday, he says, he’d like to take The Air Up There on the road. I want to hand-select different artists and go to different cities with this event,” he says. “I want to make more projects where you have to come to the event to purchase. Music is so accessible; people can stream it and give away so much for free. I want to bring the art form of demand back into it. I want to make this more exclusive, taking it around the world, shedding light on the Detroit gems.” But McFly says guests should be prepared for a show like no other. “This is the best underground showcase Detroit has to offer,” he says. There’s never been anything like The Air Up There, and I’m [grateful] to do it another year. Ten years is a monument — so if you’ve never been, you should be there to get the feeling. “We have an all-star underground lineup,” he says. “This will be something to end the year off right.” The 10th anniversary of The Air Up There takes place Saturday, Nov. 30 at 10 p.m. at Bob’s Classic Kicks, 4717 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-832-7513. Tickets start at $10.

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CULTURE Poetry slam New book sees Detroit musicians as poets By Jim McFarlin

Have you — or has anyone, for that matter — ever thought of Marshall Mathers, his eminence Eminem, as a poet? Or Jack White? Stewart Francke? Champtown? Martin “Tino” Gross? Three of the five members of the C Well, perhaps a poetic paradigm shift may be on the hori on. ecause those illustrious made-in-Detroit musicians, along with such notable outliers as illy ragg, aul Simon, ordon ightfoot, and obbie obertson, are all contributors to an extraordinary, historic new collection titled Respect: The Poetry of Detroit Music . , ichigan State University ress compiled by . . iebler, the poobah of Detroit poetry, and prolific fellow poet and author im Daniels. More than two years in the compiling, the book showcases over versifiers, from ohn Sinclair to Fred Sonic” Smith, Fats Domino to the Electrifying Mojo, all with one connecting thread: a fascination with and admiration for the city of Detroit and our diverse, wondrous musical heritage. Consider these re ections from the late ob Tyner, who once kicked out the jams with Smith and Wayne Kramer for our iconic rock renegades the C , and how the lyrics to his song “Grande Days” in memory of Detroit’s legendary rande allroom land like poetry when committed to the printed page: Now the allroom stands empty Nobody ever comes to play. They took out the A system, and ut the light show away. ut, if the rande could talk What stories she would tell, Of when the music rolled and thundered ike fireworks from ell Of the violence out in the parking lot, and The cra iness backstage When the Detroit scene exploded, and The rande was the latest rage. Grande days, Grande days, I had some wild nights ack in my rande days.” While many of the selections in the prodigious -page volume are song

lyrics reprinted with permission, many other musicians and poets, like White, Desiree Cooper, olita ernande , and ohn D. amb, created original works expressly for Respect. Abdul Duke” Fakir, last of the original Four Tops still spinning, wrote the foreword. The book receives its official launch at p.m. Sunday at hite’s Third an ecords performance venue. iebler, an internationally acclaimed poet, activist, and mainstay of the Wayne State University College of iberal Arts Sciences since , says the idea for Respect was borne out of his award-winning anthology Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond, published by ayne State University ress. Given his background and comfort one, iebler initially envisioned a book of poems extolling Detroit’s musical virtues. That was the seed,” he says, but when I presented that to Wayne State, they asked me if I would consider making it a collection of essays on Detroit music. “I really didn’t think I knew any music ournalists per se,” he says. ut I thought about it for oh, I don’t know, about seconds, and said, eah, I do know a bunch of people.’ So we went with that.” owever, the idea of a poetry compilation still lingered. About that time, iebler renewed acquaintances with Daniels, the Warren native, his friend since the ’ s and a professor at ittsburgh’s Carnegie ellon University. eeping his home state connections solid, Daniels has had most of his fiction work published by SU ress. And if the arriors won’t do poetry, Spartans will. “It wasn’t really that Wayne didn’t want to do it,” iebler re ects. I just didn’t think they wanted to get involved in another big book like this right away. I may have been wrong about that, and now I know they did want to do it, but they’re happy that Michigan State got it — and they did a great ob with it.” That ob included changing the title of the book, which initially had no Respect. “No, my working title for those two

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M.L. Liebler, “the poobah of Detroit poetry.”

years was I Just Wanna Testify, which I still kinda like,” iebler says. I thought it kind of summed up everybody in the book making their statement in poetry about Detroit. In fact, there are probably books out there on some of these authors stating that they were published in I Just Wanna Testify from ichigan State, because that was the title for so long.” owever, ulie oehr, senior acquisitions editor for SU ress and point person on the publishing side, said a change is gonna come. e wanted something a bit more powerful,” she says, and as I was watching Aretha’s funeral I had an epiphany: espect. espect for Detroit’s music scene. espect for Detroit itself. Immediate recognition. I think we are all very happy with the book.” ven iebler. ou know, Chene ark became the Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre, the a Caf at usic all Center became Aretha’s a Caf and is now doing huge business,” he acknowledges. ust changing names can do incredible things.” iebler also conceived the book as a pocket-si ed work, maybe pages — surely not the massive opus it became. As to the weight gain in pages, . . knows so many fine poets and musicians, everyone wanted to be involved,” oehr says. It was understandable.”

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The most challenging part, iebler says, was gaining permission to reprint all those works. SU made it clear there was no permissions budget,” he says, laughing. The working writers were pretty much on board gratis, even some of the more famous names. I think they wanted to preserve somewhere the spirit of Detroit music forever. I’ve always found this to be true: the musician types, even people like Jack White and Eminem, are easiest and fastest with licensing matters, whereas poets, some of whom you may never have heard of, may take months to get back to you.” As for Sunday’s launch party, e have a number of contributors who have agreed to appear, and probably others will be there,” iebler says. The ook eat will be selling books, so people will have to or more of the authors there to sign copies. That should be a good opportunity. And there may be some surprise folks there as well.” A book launch party for Respect: The oetry of Detroit usic, including readings by the poets and a performance by M.L. Liebler & the Coyote Monk Poetry Band, will take place from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1 at Third Man Records, an el t etroit t ir manrecor s com mission is free.

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CULTURE

You can get lost at Robolights Detroit at MOCAD.

Stage and Canvas By Lee DeVito

THROUGH MAY 3 Robolights Detroit @ Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

Santa Claus, Middle Eastern motifs, and dinosaurs mix shockingly well at Robolights Detroit, the massive foundobject installation that Palm Springsbased artist Kenny Irwin Jr. built on the lawn of MOCAD’s Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead over the course of some 70 days earlier this year. Calling to mind Tyree Guyton’s Heidelberg Project (Irwin visited Heidelberg while a student at Cranbrook Academy of Art), Robolights opened to the public on Oct. 25 and is now the perfect backdrop for a twisted holiday photo op: On a recent visit, we spotted an in atable Santa riding a tank with a banner that says, “HO HO HO … Come and Get It!”; Santa riding a sleigh led by giant snails; a pack of dinosaurs devouring a pack of stuffed animal ickey Mouses (Mice?); a pirate ship; lots of creepy clowns; Pikachu; and a dragon. Irwin also appears to bend the laws of physics, constructing a series of tunnels that wrap around themselves, making

the Homestead’s lawn feel much larger than we remember it being, and inside the Homestead is an exhibition of some of Irwin’s mind-bending Christmasand-sci fi-themed drawings. e’re told Irwin will even be back in town on Noel Night on Saturday, Dec. 7 to personally drive people around the installation on a tiny, motorized train. It really is the most wonderful time of the year. See website for hours; 4454 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-832-6622; mocadetroit. org. Admission is free, but you need to get a wristband from inside the museum to enter.

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ohn Sims, a curator for that first show, is wrapping up a stint as the gallery’s first artist-in-residence, which is also inspired by the neighborhood he grew up in — in this case, Sims’ west side neighborhood at Sorrento Avenue and est Chicago Street. The three-part multimedia project, which is described as “Sims’ deeply personal response to the decay and desolation of his home street,” includes a visually enhanced “VideoPoem” (the poem is included in M.L. Liebler’s Respect, also featured in this week’s issue), a print installation that mimics the experience of walking down the block, and book. It has a closing reception on Tuesday. From 7-9 p.m.; 2351 W. Grand Blvd., Detroit; 313-932-7690; irwinhousegallery. com. Admission is free. On view through Jan. 5.

THROUGH DEC. 14

Sorrento: Portrait of a Detroit Block

Kenny Karpov: Despite It All We Never Learn

@ Irwin House Global Art Center & Gallery

@ M Contemporary Gallery

Last year, Detroit’s Irwin House Global Art Center & Gallery opened its doors earlier than originally planned following the death of Aretha Franklin, who grew up nearby, in order to mount an exhibition dedicated to her life. Artist

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For his latest solo exhibition, Detroit photographer Kenny Karpov took to the Mediterranean Sea for a closer look at Europe’s refugee crisis. Many of the photos show Black bodies packed onto ship decks, calling to mind a modern-day slave ship. hat gets lost in the main-

stream media narrative of the refugees, Karpov believes, is that many of the African and Middle Eastern refugees are in fact eeing the horrors of modern-day slavery, human trafficking, famine, and war. The photos are the culmination of the last four and a half years of work, in which Karpov accompanied rescue crews from the German-based non-governmental organi ation Sea- atch. arpov says he interviewed more than 200 people over the course of the four years, and oined Sea- atch, a group that meets migrant boats in international waters in the editerranean, offering medical supplies and other help. As a Russian-American, Karpov says he likes to shoot on an old Soviet-style camera, the Kiev-19, and uses Russian lenses and expired Russian and ugoslavian film, which he says helps add a timeless element to the images, making it look like the photos were from “a different era.” The title of the show is meant to connect the current crisis to others throughout history. “I really wanted kind of capture that because we never learned,” he told Metro Times. “It kind of goes to show that we have not learned from past mistakes. e had the largest migration crisis with orld ar II, and now the biggest migration crisis, which is the one in the Mediterranean.” See website for schedule; 205 E. Nine Mile Rd. Ferndale, mcontemporaryart.com.

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Jesse Plemons, Ray Romano, Robert De Niro, and Al Pacino star in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman.

Twilight of the mob By Corey Hall

Martin Scorsese returns

to the scene of the crime in the elegiac, poetic, and sometimes lethargic The Irishman, a loving kiss-off to the gangster genre and perhaps, at , a final bow for the great director himself. In a film that often feels like a wake, the auteur has assembled an honor guard of heavyweights, with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino appearing together onscreen for the first time since ’s Heat, and Scorsese favorites Harvey Keitel and oe esci returning to the fold for one more go-round. To gather all this talent is an incredible feat, and the resulting production essentially amounts to a victory lap — a long, unhurried, and sometimes melancholy stroll through some very familiar territory. De Niro plays the title character, Frank Sheeran, a vet turned truck driver, hiladelphia local union president, and, by his own admission, a hit man for a powerful crime family. A chance encounter with oss ussell ufalino esci at a truck stop, where the older man helps tighten Frank’s timing belt, is the beginning of a career that will land Sheeran in the inner circle of underworld power and in the middle of the action for some infamous historic moments. Sheeran climbs the ranks, collecting payments, making special deliveries, and, once in a while,

rubbing out a rival thug. The extent of his crimes is displayed in a very typical Scorsese montage, as Frank keeps tossing freshly used guns off a bridge into the Schuylkill iver, with a small armory of murder weapons accumulating at the bottom. Sheeran is a good soldier, proving himself dependable and efficient and is embraced — even though, heaven forbid, he’s not Italian, though he does speak the mother tongue, thanks to a combat tour of Italy in World War II, where we see in ashbacks how he developed a knack for killing without emotion. This grace under fire, and his union membership, makes Frank the ideal candidate when International rotherhood of Teamsters resident immy offa Al acino finds himself in need of an enforcer. The charismatic and controversial offa wields tremendous power, but his air for showmanship and theatrics puts him at odds with a Cosa Nostra, who by nature favor discretion like Dracula craves the shade. Since no respectable bank will lend to them, the mafia turns the union’s massive pension fund into a steady cash ow for a variety of real estate boondoggles, pet projects, and even the occasional legitimate business front, and offa is eager to open the treasury in exchange for mob backing. This

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mutually beneficial arrangement works until offa’s very public feud with obby ennedy leads to increased F I scrutiny, and ultimately a ail sentence. ater, as a paroled offa struggles to regain his old position, he increasingly clashes with the bosses, a tension that forces Frank to decide where his true loyalty lies. All the many threads in this lengthy and deliberately paced potboiler lead to a fateful lunch date at the achus ed Fox, the loomfield Township eatery where offa was last seen uly , , a climax that anyone of a certain age can see rolling down the boulevard long before the film pulls into the parking lot. offa, and his disappearance, has held a certain fascination for aby oomers for half a century, and has left everyone born after pu led about what the big deal was. offa was a hotheaded hustler with a gift for gab — but he was a thug, not a hero. Al acino works hard to make offa into a sympathetic figure, but he feels less a person than a collection of acino’s oversi ed acting tricks. It all feels like surface detail. For instance, we learn of offa’s love of ice cream and ginger ale, but not what fuels his appetite for power. This same hollowness plagues the lead and all of his lowlife pals, men who seem devoid of inner lives, no matter how closely the camera ooms in and lingers on their wrinkled mugs. As the story spans nearly years, those faces are often C I-scrubbed and deaged,” and though the process works

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The Irishman Rated: R Run-time: 209 minutes better here than ever before see the Will Smith-starring Gemini Man , it’s still distracting. ake no mistake: This is gorgeous, top-notch filmmaking, complete with glorious cinematography and swooning doo-wop soundtrack. ut after hitting the pinnacle with ’s Goodfellas, which remains the definitive statement on the mafia, Scorsese has set a bar it’s impossible for even him to vault. It’s hard to call a film this well-made a disappointment, but the three-and-a-half hours spent in the dark with these bad, bad men left me feeling empty. If anything, it’s tempting to read this as an apology for romantici ing creeps. here ay iotta’s enry ill in Goodfellas adored the lifestyle and desperately wanted to be a gangster, here De Niro’s character seems to have ust drifted into it. atching these tough guys live out their golden years in prison, or a nursing home, is a pathetic spectacle. Sheeran’s eldest daughter, beautifully played as an adult by Anna aquin though she only has a few lines , provides the moral center she turns her back on her father and his friends and refuses to forgive him, even when he begs. In the end, there’s a price to pay for a life of crime, and it’s too steep a tab for any soul to cover.

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Michigan recreational marijuana sales begin in December — but it’ll be a rocky start By Larry Gabriel

Ann Arbor’s Exclusive Brands.

Maybe adult-use marijuana sales are getting real around

here; maybe not. We’ll see what happens as legal adult-use marijuana sales are scheduled to start in December in Michigan. A lot of people are chomping at the bit to buy the stuff, and certainly retail store owners are eager to sell it to them. This is where the pedal hits the metal for the marijuana industry. All the investments and projections are based on millions of folks like you and me walking in the door and spending our money. We’re ready — but not everybody is. egal adult-use mari uana is finally recognition of a cultural reality that adults use marijuana and it’s a waste of time and resources to keep chasing them around to keep them from engaging in a relatively benign activity. But actually engaging with marijuana won’t be so easy. First of all, there will probably not be any actual sales starting on Dec. 1 as widely advertised. Sales were originally supposed to start in , but the state surprised with the announcement of

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the new Dec. date earlier this month, telling dispensaries and growers that they may use up to 50 percent of their medical cannabis inventory on recreational sales. But sales probably won’t start Dec. 1 because that’s the Sunday ending Thanksgiving weekend. ence, no state workers are in the office to register the transfer of medical marijuana to adult-use marijuana. That has to happen before any adult-use marijuana can be sold. “It’s a challenge because I can’t force my staff — they’re civil servants — to come in and work over the Thanksgiving weekend,” A director Andrew Brisbo told WWJ-AM radio over the weekend. “That was a little bit of bad planning on our part, but we want to provide an opportunity for businesses to move ahead.” So sales probably won’t start until at least Dec. 2. Then it becomes a question of where. Less than a week before scheduled sales, there are only three adult-use licenses granted, all of them in Ann Arbor xclusive rands, reenstone, and Arbors ellness . ore licenses are expected to be given out this

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CULTURE week, but how many can realistically get processed in this time frame? Plus more than 1,400 communities have opted out of adult-use sales, including Detroit, which is expected to be the biggest marijuana market in the state. Detroit’s opt-out is temporary until Jan. 31 unless council extends the ordinance. Lansing has opted in, but won’t even start taking applications until Dec. 23. A Lansing State Journal report estimates that it will take long into 2020 before any locations there are licensed and open. Wrap all that up with the recent vaping crisis and the ban on marijuana vaporizer sales announced by the governor last week, and things don’t look so rosy. That means you won’t be able to buy marijuana vape cartridges, which will put more pressure on owers, or the good old-fashioned green stuff. It’s beginning to look like the beginning of adult-use sales isn’t going to start with a bang. Detroit isn’t even taking applications for any kind of marijuana business right now. When your largest market by a long shot isn’t on board for opening day, things are not going well. Detroit leaders are taking a slow, we-run-this-show-and-marijuanasales-start-when-we-say-so walk to adult-use sales. Reports say that the hang-up in the city marijuana ordinance is the effort to make the social equity side of things operational. One might argue that council members have known that adult-use marijuana was coming for a year. But they’ve only known all the state rules from the MRA for a few months. The MRA social equity program announcement was made in July. This is what we’re looking at. Despite reports that a number of locations in Detroit have prequalified for licenses, MRA spokesman David Harns said last week that there are “no adult-use licenses in Detroit” and there won’t be any come Dec. . It’s a slow rollout. There will be little more marijuana available to the public than there was before that date. Apparently, our situation is not unusual. “No other state has met their legislative or stated deadlines in the same situation,” says Brighton-based accountant Paul Samways, who has numerous clients in the marijuana business. As Brisbo admitted, the MRA has a bit of “bad planning” on the opening dates. Hmmm, maybe there’s been some bad planning in other areas, too. Let’s just say this is not going to

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be a smooth rollout. There will be fits and starts because hardly anyone has any experience here, and everybody is learning on the job. Add to that the fact that there are people who don’t want to see a smooth rollout, who don’t want to see the system work, and we’ll remain on this rocky road indefinitely. With Detroit out of the picture until at least the end of January, it’s hard to udge the landscape at the moment. It looks like Ferndale could become the big operator if the two provisioning centers open there, Gage Cannabis Co. and I , get adult-use licenses — which is kind of ironic since Ferndale tried to be a leader in the cannabis industry a decade ago, before Oakland County Sheriffs raided the locations and took them down. In the meantime, the people who already use marijuana will continue to get it from the black marketers they’ve been getting it from all along. Just like no state has managed to meet their deadlines, no state has been able to eliminate the black market as a significant percentage of the market. There’s a learning curve for everyone involved here. That may be the guiding principle as we enter this new adventure: live and learn. We’re living with marijuana. We’re learning about marijuana. We’re normalizing marijuana. But it’s not easy, and it’s not going to happen overnight.

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Once sales do start, there’s going to be a question of quality. Everyone will want to know where to get the best stuff. And plenty of people will be willing to tell you that they have it. “Everybody who is my client claims they grow the best weed ever,” says accountant aul Samways. It’s a huge learning curve to grow in scale.” This whole best stuff thing is going to go through some changes as we move forward. There is no best stuff out there, particularly in the world of extracts. The amount of THC that comes off an individual plant matters more to the business people brokering prices than it does to the customer buying a product. A gummy with 5 milligrams of THC is pretty much the same no matter the source of the THC. Opinions about the best buds will differ based on your mood, experience, your taste for terpenes, and many other factors. The best bud for me might not be the best bud for you. The best bud for me this week might not be the best bud for me next week.

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CULTURE Q:

I’m a heterosexual cis woman in a monogamous marriage. My husband and I have always struggled to connect sexually, mostly because he has extreme anxiety that makes doing an t ing ne or ifferent i cult He’s been in therapy since before I met him, but it doesn’t seem to be helping much. His anxiety has caused him to shut down every sexual ask I’ve ever made because he’s afraid he won’t “do it right.” He’s a PIV-and-nothing-more kind of guy, but I’m not asking for arsit le el stuff just oring t ings like talking about fantasies, a little role-play, staying in bed on a Sunday just to a e se etc ll o it is off t e table. I understand he has a right to veto sex acts, but isn’t this all pretty asic run o t e mill stuff e ll still get is just ant t ere to e other elements before the PIV starts. It’s still a no. Talking to him about this sends him into a depressive episode where I then have to spend hours telling him he’s not a bad person, so I’ve stopped bringing it up. I’ve tried to talk to therapists about navigating this issue ut most c ange t e su ject ne actually told me that it was good that we don’t have good sex, because if we did, we wouldn’t have good communication in other areas. (I never went

back to that one.) This has gone on for so long that I’ve lost all interest in sex. My libido, which used to be very high, has vanished. Whenever he wants sex, I do it — but I dread it. Do you have any ideas on how I can navigate this topic with my husband so he doesn’t shut o n o can make im un erstan that it’s okay to experiment sexually an it ill e oka i it s not per ect ost n o a

A : You’re going to have to call your

husband’s bluff, ASS, and power through the predictable meltdown. That means raising — again — your unhappiness with your sex life, explaining your need for some pre- I intimacy and play, informing him this is no longer a desperate request but a non-negotiable demand, and then refusing to shift into caregiver mode when his depressive episode starts. I’m not suggesting your husband’s anxiety and depression are an act, ASS, or that being made aware of your unhappiness isn’t a trigger. ut if depressive episodes get your husband out of conversations he’d rather avoid — and if they allow him to dictate the terms of your sex life and treat your pussy like a Fleshlight — then his subconscious could be weaponi ing those

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depressive episodes. And if you shift to caregiver mode every single time — so long as you’re willing to spend hours reassuring him that he’s not a bad person — then your grievances will never be addressed, much less resolved. So even if it means spending an extremely unpleasant evening, weekend, or few weeks with him, you’re going to have to raise the issue and refuse to reassure your husband. ine up whatever support you think he might need before you make your stand — you could also make your stand during a couples counseling session — and give him maybe one ou’re not a bad person, really ” and then refuse to back down. And when he shuts down, ASS, it will be his therapist’s ob to pry him back open, not yours. And the sex you’re currently having The sex you dread and don’t en oy The sooner you stop having it, ASS, the sooner your husband will come to understand that he’s going to have to give a little so very little if he wants to have sex at all. If and when he does, then you can borrow a page from the varsity-level kinkster handbook: Take baby steps. In the same way people who are turned on by, say, more intense bondage scenes suspension, immobiliation, etc. start with lighter bondage scenes hands behind the back, spreadeagled on the bed, etc. , you can start with something small and easy for him to get right, like minutes of cuddling in bed together on a Sunday morning before progressing to I sex.

I’m a bisexual trans woman living in urope couple o mont s ago began an amazing relationship with a woman who works as an escort. For a while, everything was as good as it gets, until I said something inconsiderate a out er jo an s e took offense We were having a conversation about at e ere girl rien s lo ers partners an an rules e like t e other to observe, and I said I’d rather not see her after she’d been with a client, I’d rather wait until the next day. e took t is as me t inking er jo was “dirty,” which was absolutely not my intention. I explained that I’d spent 10 years in open relationships and it as just a a it as use to ou sleep with someone else, go home, take a s o er sleep off t e emotions see you tomorrow.) She said that her clients were not lovers, it’s completely ifferent an it oul make seeing er complicate as e ork ifferent hours. I immediately realized how she was right and said so. She was aloof for a few days afterward, and she eventually told me that she didn’t feel like she could be with someone who un erstoo so little a out er jo pleaded with her to give me a second chance and told her that I’d never even met a sex worker before, so there

was a learning curve for me, and she agreed that we could carry on seeing each other. But she remained distant, canceling plans and not replying, until she eventually told me that she was just too scare o getting urt ecause it’s happened so many times before. I was absolutely shattered. I spent the next few days drinking in bed and licking my wounds. I was falling in love with this woman, and I ruined it with m ig mout ter a couple o a s I started going about my life again. n soon enoug s e starte te ting me, asking me how my day was, casual stuff an it s just reall pain ul don’t know how to reply to her. If she has changed her mind, then I’ll date her again in a heartbeat, given how freaking amazing she is. But if she’s just kin o inconsi eratel making conversation, then I can see myself getting my heart broken all over again. I’m torn between asking her to stop texting me and carrying on with the casual texting to see if anything comes o it n a ice —Tearful Escort’s Ex Getting Really Lonely

A : If you two couldn’t handle a

simple misunderstanding, T , how are you going to resolve a serious con ict Or forgive a profound betrayal ou know, the kind of shit people in T s do Actually, I’m being unfair: ou seem perfectly capable of handling this misunderstanding, T it was your ex-whatever-she-was girlfriend lover partner who wasn’t able to handle it. ut in fairness to her — I need to be fair to everybody — sex workers are often shamed by romantic partners who pretended, at the outset of the relationship, to be fine with their obs. our comment about not wanting to see her after she was with a client could reasonably be interpreted as whorephobic. ut your explanation — it was a rule in all your past open relationships — was reasonable, and your ex-whatever-she-was, if she were a reasonable person, should have been able to see that. And perhaps she is reasonable, T . aybe she started texting you about casual stuff because she feels bad about pulling away and sees now that she overreacted. To determine whether that’s the case—and to determine whether she’s still open to dating you— you’ll have to risk asking the dreaded direct question: ey, it’s great to hear from you I’d love to pick up where we left off, if you’re still interested. Are you lease let me know ” n t e ovecast, shy lady doms rise up! With Midori: savagelovecast.com. uestions mail sa agelo e net ollo ake ansa age on itter m o just impeac t e mot er ucker alrea org

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ARIES: March 21 – April 20 Recent encounters have altered your perspective and changed the way you see things. With a new sense of what will work and what won’t, you feel empowered to press forward with plans that will slowly but surely turn into the most important thing you’ve ever done. Pressure to keep bowing to the expectations of others needs to be monitored. Anyone who can’t see what you’re involved with is blind to the fact that you’re on a whole new bandwidth. Keep your feet on the ground, but let the spiritual piece expand and allow you to awaken and go even deeper into the mystery. TAURUS: April 21 – May 20 How to proceed is the question. It’s not like you don’t know what you’re doing, but the story has changed, or the act of bridging the gap between one thing and another isn’t what you thought it would be. Anything that feels like dead weight needs to go. Before you can get this to roll, you’ve got to drop all the phony BS and return to integrity. In situations like this, it always comes down to, “OK, where am I coming from, what is the Truth, and where do I go from here?” Think twice about the fact that you won’t be able to answer any of those questions with the same old thing. GEMINI: May 21 – June 20 You’ve got a whole raft of complications making things harder than they have to be. Thank God the deeper part of you finds it easy to make light of what would put anyone else in the nuthouse! As the next few weeks unfold, the forces that assail you will ease up and turn out to be nothing to worry about. By the time the Solstice rolls around, whatever this is about will be gone with the wind. As the dust settles, life will open up to allow you to focus on what really matters. There are moments when you feel totally alone, but those closest to you will be there for you through all of this. CANCER: June 21 – July 20 You’d feel better about this if elements of the past had less to say about how it came about. Part of you wonders what drove you to it. Now that you’re here, it’s time to figure out whether it’s what you wanted all along or if you’ve just fooled yourself into thinking you want to be this person. It might be simpler to say that you’ve got to check in with yourself long enough to know for sure that you chose this — because if there’s any other motive for putting yourself in this position, you’ll soon find out that it never pays to let our baggage keep running us from within.

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Horoscopes By Cal Garrison

LEO: July 21 – August 20 eep in mind that your fixed ideas about what you need to be doing may have nothing in common with what will work for you in the long run. At the moment, the ability to be open and exible calls you to consider possibilities that don’t fit the mold. In some cases, the whole ball of wax needs to be restructured because it’s time to graduate from your early childhood conditioning and get in touch with who you are. At a certain point in time, all of us have to speak our truth. Don’t let your fears about who this might upset interfere with the need to change your plans.

SAGITTARIUS: Nov. 21 – Dec. 20 How far are you willing to stretch yourself? I ask because life is calling you to move beyond your limitations. This may call you to leave your comfort zone and trust in the power of things that exist outside of the physical. I suspect that your need to feel connected to the divine is stronger than it’s ever been. With the spiritual piece in high focus, it’s time to look at what matters in the long run. Of course the pull of ordinary things will always be there, but it’s the inner being that sustains the outer stuff. Keep your heart centered there — and make way for a miracle or two!

VIRGO: August 21 – Sept. 20 iting off more than you can chew is coming up for a lot of you lately. As what looked like a piece of cake turns out to be something else altogether, there’s a good chance your good nature will succumb to what happens to the best of us when we get overwhelmed. Dealing with numerous snafus would be easier if your perfection trips didn’t require you to keep all of your ducks lined up. Calm down and maintain your sense of humor. There is no perfection here in 3-D. At the same time, even when things are totally out of control it helps to remember that it’s all perfect.

CAPRICORN: Dec. 21 – Jan. 20 It’s hard to say how things are stacking up. On the one hand, you’ve got it made. On the other hand, you might not see it that way; either that or you’re under the illusion that what “looks good” is an indication that you’re sitting on top of the world. I hate to be so cryptic, but you guys are either angels or devils, and everything depends on the extent to which you operate on the light” side. This is a defining moment. Delusional tendencies are rampant. fforts you make to come clean — and to remain true to yourself and others — will be met with rewards that lead you up, instead of down.

LIBRA: Sept. 21 – Oct. 20 You thought you got over this routine ages ago. Now here you sit reckoning with issues that make you wonder how you could’ve lived this long and still be so totally clueless. All of us are children when it comes to certain things. Emotionally? Your sophisticated ways and your Ph.D don’t mean a whole lot to your inner child, who’s always hiding behind the door and running the show from within. For many of you, it’s pull yourself up by the bootstraps time. Any chance to grow up, beat feet, and get on with the show will save you a whole lot of trouble in the long run.

AQUARIUS: Jan. 21 – Feb. 20 Little by little, things are coming together. The vision is always up on the screen long before the details get ironed out. As much as you’d like to put the cart before the horse, in this dimension the nuts and bolts have to be in place before the dream manifests. Still, it wouldn’t hurt to poke around in your future and make believe that this dream of yours has already come true. Nothing stands in the way, and those closest to you are already on board. Yes, your safe and secure little setup is at stake, but the bird in your hand will pale in comparison to the one in the bush.

SCORPIO: Oct. 21 – Nov. 20 Your next opportunity will come with challenges that call you to be super-sensitive to the needs of others. Thank God the ability to empathize is your strong suit. If you can zoom in and choose your battles before they heat up, you’ll save yourself tons of trouble in the long run. Youthful egos and arrogant types who loan themselves more credit than they deserve will move you to wonder what makes people think they have a clue. Don’t get waylaid by their nonsense; use it to remind yourself that real talent has its own light, and let what happens next prove this to be true.

PISCES: Feb. 21 – March 20 One door closes and another one opens. Here you sit, midway between “that was then and this is now.” It’s too soon to know where things will go from here, so don’t put a lot of pressure on yourself to be crystal clear about anything. Those of you who didn’t see this coming will have a hard time getting your bearings. If you were ready and waiting, it’s a little more doable, but major transitions pack a punch no matter how well-prepared we are. What happens next will ride on whatever you’ve brought to this place and rest on the fact that you’re the only one who can handle it.

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