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Every summer, you can’t walk around downtown Royal Oak without noticing the warm, crispy, art posters advertising the Royal Oak Main Art Theater’s midnight movie series. For years, Detroit artist Michael Hanlon has been extracting sentimental details and philosophical strokes from the Main Art’s lineup of cult classics to produce such striking promotional images that a following...
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What do you get when you replace the lyrics of your favorite pop song with operatic cat cooing? MEOW THAT’S MUSIC! MEOW THAT’S MUSIC! includes all of your favorite hits originally recorded by Ke$ha, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Adele, and Justin Bieber (ft. Ludacris)…but sung by cats instead. When we asked MEOW THAT’S MUSIC! co-founder...
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Detroit hip hop artists Doc Waffles and Self Says will be spreading their wings and flying to Chicago this weekend to open for the Steinomite CD release party at Observatory Studios. Your favorite rapper’s favorite rappers teamed up last summer for “The King’s English” on Doc Waffles’ 2011 EP Seizure Suit Farms and have combined forces again for “Wings Over Detroit,”...
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If you’re feeling hot, sticky, sweaty, or straight up itchy, get it on with some temperature-sensitive products and you’ll be chillin’ in no time. Having sex makes you cool. It’s true. Touche Ice Vibrator: The Touche Ice Vibrator is literally a vibrating ice cube. It requires a little preparation on your part, but nothing as hard as…....
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Like most things I did in my early 20s, Female Ejaculation: Perceptions began as an act of defiance. This particular incident took place in an introductory video production course that my advisor forced me to take in the first year of my doctoral coursework at Wayne State University. For my final video project of...
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Pitchfork.TV’s new documentary Danny Brown: Detroit State of Mind is an intimate look into the ordinary life of extraordinary Detroit rapper/style icon/spiritual icon, Danny Brown. The documentary takes you places most rappers won’t let you go–inside their home with their family, inside a car with their friends, inside the studio with near-uncomfortable closeness. Watch a rapper’s...
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Time flies. It doesn’t matter if you’re young or old, everyone feels like time is passing fast–especially if you’re busy. The faster time goes by, the more of it goes by, and the more stuff there is to look back and project romantic fantasies onto. It’s always the little things, isn’t it? For example,...
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At 6pm on Thursday, June 28th, the Ferndale Downtown Development Authority (DDA) will host ARTWN: Small Plates and Big Art. ARTWN (pronounced “art town”) promises an evening of art exploration and fun as it celebrates the creative culture of Ferndale. The “small plates” portion will take place at Ferndale’s popular Rust Belt Market, but...
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When the state of Michigan audited the Detroit crime lab in 2008, it was discovered that 11,000 rape evidence kits dating back as far as 20 years had been swept under the rug. In other words, 11,000 rape victims who had gone through the process of filing a police report and submitting their bodies...
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Patrick Nagel defined women’s fashion in the 1980s–flat, angular, Eastern images of absolutely feminine women wearing blazers, shoulder pads, and high-end loungewear. He worked as a freelance graphic designer and published work in Playboy magazine on a monthly basis for a decade. Nagel was behind much of the imagery associated with the band Duran...
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Like so many others, filmmaker Daniel Falconer is invested in understanding why Detroit’s living conditions and population have plummeted so drastically over the past 50 years. But unlike so many others, in his new documentary DEFORCE Falconer bravely points his finger where others have shied away: at the government. DEFORCE argues that since World War II,...
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Lust Industries is an independent internet company that set out in January 2012 to innovate the adult entertainment industry through IT and social media. Based out of southern Germany, the co-founders of Lust Industries see adult content as “by far the most exciting sector of the international entertainment industry” and have entered the scene...
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