Girls just wanna have fun. And crash cars. And throw their ex-boyfriends' crap down the stairs. That's what one of Sweden's latest imports, Icona Pop, did with "I Love It," an inescapable kiss-off that turned [...]
On Oct. 16, District Court Judge Bernard Friedman is expected to rule on Hazel Park couple Jayne Rowse and April DeBoer's lawsuit against Michigan and Oakland County for the right to jointly adopt their children [...]
Believe everything you've heard. All the hype. All the enthusiasm for Sandra Bullock's remarkable Oscar-bound performance. No one's pulling your chain when they go on and on about "Gravity" and those how'd-they-do-that special effects and [...]
By Jerome Stuart Nichols Combing through Detroit's musical history will bring sounds of booming Motown vocals, hypnotic electronic flares and earth-shaking hip-hop thumps. With that rich stream of legendary sound pumping from the city, a [...]
By Romeo San Vicente The CW develops teen transgender drama Anybody who's watched "Degrassi: The Next Generation" knows that they "went there" a while ago with the whole transgender teenager plotline. But that was then. [...]
Across 1 Smack on the butt, e.g. 5 Gay guy, in Brit slang 9 Top, in a hierarchy 14 It's a curd in the kitchen 15 Omar of "ER" 16 City of Da Vinci's "Last [...]
By John Quinn Call it serendipity, coincidence or just plain luck, some theater companies choose a production months in advance only to find its theme splashed across the metaphorical front page of the national news [...]
By Michael H. Margolin Opening night. The Purple Rose Theatre. Chelsea, Michigan. Jeff Daniels' play, "The Vast Difference." Twentieth anniversary production. Essentially a comedy. Setting, 1993 - the last century. George Noonan, an average Joe, [...]
By Bridgette M. Redman Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten know how to please an audience. They create plays that string together one-liners, put Southern women in funny, if predictable situations, and add outrageous [...]
By Dana Casadei There's a Capital One Venture Card commercial where Alec Baldwin tells a classroom of students that spelling isn't a subject. "Spell check, that's a program," he quips back at them. The six [...]
By Carolyn Hayes Stephen Sondheim's musically and structurally ambitious "Company" (music and lyrics by Sondheim, book by George Furth) dominated the Tony Awards over four decades ago when it premiered, at the time representing the [...]
By John Quinn The Tigers have clinched their division and a slot in post-season play. Other teams are stepping up the proverbial plate this fall; The Box Theater in Mount Clemens presents a manic sketch [...]
By Bridgette M. Redman Energy crackled through every moment of The Jewish Ensemble Theatre's three-hour production of "The Sisters Rosensweig" by Wendy Wasserstein. JET opened its 25th anniversary season with the powerhouse combination of a [...]
Great Wall is a custom wall-covering company based in Ferndale. Photo courtesy of Great Wall. It was almost 10 years ago that Josh Young and Andi Kubacki stood at the edge of the proverbial [...]
By Jerome Stuart Nichols For almost anyone who doesn't work on a Google campus, office life can cause a host of maladies. Memo-itis, endless meeting disease and cubicle madness all afflict office workers at an [...]
By Shelby Clark BoConcept opens Oct. 5 in Birmingham. Photo courtesy of BoConcept Urban Danish design company BoConcept hosts its grand opening in Birmingham at 2 p.m. Oct. 5 with special guest "house coach" [...]
By Emell Derra Adolphus Photo: Andrew Potter The founding pioneers of Detroit's historical Indian Village assembled an architectural community rich in antiquity. Over a century later, not much has changed about the people who [...]
By Emell Derra Adolphus Like every crucial aspect of our material lives, size matters. And fortunately for us, the gay men who dominate the profession of interior design are usually size queens. "A sense of [...]
Affirmations Alternative High School Dean of Students Tobey Brock at computer with the schools office manager Paul Skelly. The school opened last month and is currently seeking to register 50 more students. BTL photo: Crystal [...]
Kalamazoo City Commission candidate Tracy Hall Between Ourselves Tracy Hall is a candidate for the City Commission in Kalamazoo this November. She is also an instructor at Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo Valley Community [...]
Thanks to a $20,000 grant from the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, AIDS Partnership Michigan and HIV/AIDS Resource Center will explore a closer strategic partnership to "proactively respond to the many changes occurring in the [...]
As over 100 people gathered at the Royal Oak Middle School for a discussion on suicide prevention, there were many sad personal stories and tears. There was also the expected cadre of organizations that provide [...]
LIVONIA - The federal government now recognizes same-sex couples, regardless of where they may live. In states that do not have marriage equality - like Michigan - it means that the federal government recognizes marriages, [...]
By Geoff Mulvihill Associated Press A judge's ruling Friday that New Jersey must allow gay couples to marry will not be the last word on the issue after Gov. Chris Christie's administration said it would [...]
Creep Of The Week Hey, did you hear that former Ohio attorney general Jim Petro recently became a grandpa? That's nice for him. The end. At least that's how the story should go, but it [...]
Parting Glances "I have nothing to declare but my genius," Oscar Wilde said to the press when briskly embarking and ever so elegantly clearing customs in New York, January 1882. Oscar, age 28, came to [...]
"Like all Americans, LGBT Americans deserve respectful health care providers and the security of accessible, affordable health care that meets their needs." Secretary Kathleen Sebelius of the Department of Health and Human Services "I am [...]
I always look forward to October. I love October. I was born in October and I do a happy birthday dance from the first day to the very last day each year. When I was [...]
By Craig Covey As voters debate the merits of decriminalizing marijuana for adult private use in three Michigan cities this fall, there is one thing that we can all agree on, and that is the [...]
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith Transmissions It's a longstanding tradition for high schools across the country: the first time your school's football team has a home game at the start of the school year is known [...]
