On Michigan Avenue, in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood, tucked under an awning in a historic building, is a new fitness and wellness studio, True Body Fitness. The owner, Kimo Frederiksen, started his own studio in Howell — a westward drive of an hour, without traffic — a few years ago, before moving here. At 26,...
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During a press conference last night (well, night in America,) Sony announced the successor to the PSP, the Next Generation Portable (or NGP.) The NGP is truly next generation, too. Jaw-dropping hardware specs include a 5″ OLED touch screen (the first mass-market device to feature a usable OLED), a rear touchpad that is the...
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The Metro Times staff proved last January they knew how to heat things up in Royal Oak when they premiered a new winter event – a Russian-themed vodka tasting simply titled Vodka Vodka. Hosted at the Royal Oak Farmer’s Market, the party sold out within the first hour. The room was filled with revelers...
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How many food blogs do you read each week? And how often do you shoot food at home, and while dining out?
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Progress Report (D. Allie and Eddie Logix) is using Kickstarter to raise funds for their self-titled debut album.
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In its multiple, multiplying, and sometimes malfunctioning forms, sex is infused in almost every aspect of daily life. It is not only had, but also emanated, absorbed, applied and invented. Sex is everywhere—everywhere except in itself. And just as sex is in everything, everything is in sex.
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Of all people, a 75 year old co-worker has recently gotten me hooked on my daily dose of apple cider vinegar shots. At first, I thought he was crazy, but coming from a 75 year old who still comes to work every morning dressed to the 9, has healthy skin, nails, and hair, and...
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It doesn’t get much colder than this in Southeast Michigan. The forecast calls for single-digit lows and snowy weather all weekend. It’s positively arctic. And for someone like me – who’d rather pile on sweaters and furry blankets and cozy up with a hot cocoa, hiding out until Spring, it’s hard not to suffer...
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We’ve told you before about Girls in Tech Detroit, a volunteer organization focused on creating a social network in the Detroit area for girls in technology-related careers and for those looking to get into tech-based jobs. At the end of the year, the group wrapped up a Laptops for Ladies project (Urbane Space was...
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If your world was falling apart, what would you do? Would you try to get away? I got the chance to see “The Bicyclist,” a new movie made by Oren Goldenberg (of Detroit, and of “Our School” fame) and John Wilberding (of Alberta and Detroit), at a special premiere earlier this week at The...
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The movie “I Love You, Phillip Morris” is a strange movie… probably made all the more strange by the fact that most of it is a true story. The fact that this film is a bit chaotic and hard to pin down at some points may be testament to the fact that real life...
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I suppose I can’t blame her. She is part pit bull, we and her vet believe. No matter how many times it’s happened in the past, I still can’t help myself — whenever I go by the clearance rack at a pet store, I pick out at least one fuzzy stuffed toy and give...
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