By Steve Neavling In its better days, Detroit was home to hundreds of theaters, from ornate ballrooms to small movie houses. Now Midtown is bringing back one theater that will stage Motown and bluegrass acts.buy synthroid online https://www.calmandgentledentalcare.co.uk/wp-content/languages/new/uk/synthroid.html no prescription The long-shuttered and dilapidated Garden Theatre on Woodward, just north of Mack, is getting a […]
Before emerging as one of hip hop’s most influential artists, J Dilla was a regular fixture in Detroit’s mid-1990s underground scene.buy temovate online https://drugeriemarket.co.uk/wp-content/languages/new/britain/temovate.html no prescription His posthumous album, Rebirth of Detroit, is released today, with guest spots from local artists Danny Brown and Guilty Simpson. Watch the video for “Dillatroit,” a track on Rebirth […]
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By Steve Neavling If anything is certain in Detroit, politics are frustratingly childish and counterproductive. And Detroit City Council didn’t disappoint today. Despite threats from Mayor Dave Bing and his staff that the city is about to run out of money to pay for basic services by week’s end, council pounced on the chance to […]
By Steve Neavling If you believe Mayor Dave Bing and Gov. Rick Snyder’s warnings, the city of Detroit may grind to a halt by week’s end, shutting down buses, trash pickup and government offices. The mayor is expected to warn city council this morning that an internal lawsuit challenging broad and imposing state oversight could […]
Until a fire ravaged the sprawling Paul Robeson Academy in Detroit last year, the African-centric school was a rare symbol of hope in a district sapped of money, resources and students. Even the school’s sprawling, neo-Gothic building on the west side stood as a symbol of strength and academia against the backdrop of blight and […]
By Steve Neavling When you repeatedly shout “BOO!,” you’re going to stop scaring people. But that hasn’t stopped Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and state officials from threatening that all hell is about to break loose – again – if they don’t get their way. Responding today to a city lawyer who is challenging the state […]
When I hear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have A Dream” speech, a single image pops into my head – a couple of 3-year-old kids, a tow-headed girl and a dark-skinned boy, sharing a red popsicle on a concrete porch on the east side of Detroit. Moments earlier, the ice cream truck had pulled […]
By Steve Neavling Editor and reporter Detroit Police never had a protocol for vacating a building when officers left to rot thousands of rounds of live ammunition, case files, murder photos and chemicals in at a vacant crime lab more than a year ago, Chief Ralph L. Godbee, Jr. told MotorCityMuckraker.com. Godbee said he’s responded […]
By Rev. Charles Williams II As Republican legislators seek to kill collective bargaining and lay off our teachers, firefighters, police and public service workers, we have to get up, get into it and get involved. Think Occupy Wall Street and the Wisconsin demonstrations and mobilizations. It is a well-known fact that folks, who hung out […]