Michael Jackman
Detroit Metro Times
Detroit, MI, United States
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Speed Miller shares the peace he’s found in horses with Detroit’s children
For years now, alert motorists on Detroit's west side have been treated to an unusual sight. → Read More
A closer look at compulsive shoplifters
In a Beverly Hills coffee shop, Terry Shulman is pouring his heart out about his life-changing battle with a dangerous compulsion. → Read More
AG’s office acts after stink raised over Detroit incinerator’s alleged odors
Residents in Detroit's redeveloping Midtown have been complaining for years about the smell of the trash incinerator at the intersection of I-75 and I-94. See, garbage trucks don’t just bring garbage to the facility and throw it into the burner. → Read More
The Detroit Psychedelic Conference brings the international science of consciousness home
Kilindi Iyi presents a striking figure walking into a suburban Tim Hortons. Standing at more than 6 feet tall, the broad-shouldered African martial arts master and psychedelics expert towers above everybody else, topped with a West African cap. → Read More
Some of our favorite made-in-Michigan products
Chillbean chillbean.comThough the Chillbean crew would rather be known as a "worldwide inflatable hammock brand," the fact is that two former Charlevoix High School classmates joined forces with European friends to market something that seems distinctly Michigan: an inflatable lounge chair. → Read More
With Crash Lights, Stephen Trimboli finally lives his artist dream in Detroit
In 2013, longtime residents of Brooklyn, New York, were shocked to learn that Stephen Trimboli was leaving the performance space and resale shop that he had operated in Bushwick since 2004 and was departing for Detroit. Longtime Detroiters may not find Trimboli's decision so outrageous. → Read More
Greg Willerer is cultivating more than lettuce at Brother Nature Produce
As the founder of a salad farm, 49-year-old Greg Willerer has found a measure of success in growing greens. Having grown up in suburban Detroit, he was drawn to the city early, and spent 15 years as a teacher, most of them in Detroit, before "teaching to the test" and the push to produce numbers were enough. → Read More
James Xavier Slade brings treasure to Corktown with Xavier's 20th Century
James Xavier Slade is dressed for the weather on this hot afternoon, wearing a Hilo Hattie Hawaiian top set off with white shorts. The shirt flutters slightly in the fan-driven air as he shows off some of the pieces in his store: a Detroit Public Schools light fixture from the turn of the last century, a Richard Schultz rosewood desk, a piece of furniture designed by Donald Deskey, a Gilbert… → Read More
How Boggs School principal Julia Putnam is rethinking education
Julia Putnam, the 42-year-old principal of Detroit's James & Grace Lee Boggs School, is the most recent in a long line of strong women helping to build the next generation — dating back to her great grandmother, the first in her family to come to Detroit from Alabama, a woman called "mother" by all in her family. Putnam's grandmother was a receptionist at a social services agency, her mother… → Read More
Never-before-seen photos show KISS visiting Cadillac in October 1975
The story may sound familiar to many young readers: A band that wears face paint and is an underground success that's bubbling over in our state arrives in Michigan for a gig where they'll play music with scandalous lyrics. Mobs of young people, an army of fans, paint their faces and come out to support the band, their cars festooned with the band's logos. → Read More
Metro Detroit author wins prestigious crime fiction prize
Detroit-area writer Stephen Mack Jones has plenty to be happy about this year. But the summer's crowning achievement was likely his acceptance of the prestigious Hammett Award at the Algonquin Hotel in New York on Friday. → Read More
Wall Street Journal urges Trump to reject Moroun plea to revoke Gordie Howe permit
An opinion piece from the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal opens with a comparison so clever we wonder why we haven't seen it made in Detroit: "Mexico isn’t paying for that border wall, but Canada has volunteered to single-handedly finance a bridge to facilitate trade with the United States." See what they did there? → Read More
'Forbes' features Calude VonStroke showing off his favorite spots in Detroit
Take it as another symptom of the high-earning power of Motor City cachet that Claude VonStroke is featured in Forbes of all places showing off his hometown of Detroit. [content-1] It's just a short piece, all one one page, with shots of the impresario at almost a half-dozen locations around town, including Belle Isle, Greektown, and the Magic Stick. → Read More
MDEQ official who told Flint residents to 'relax' will lead media training for Michigan
A report by Bridge Magazine has revealed that the state official who resigned in disgrace after he dismissed and downplayed the concerns of Flint residents about the quality of their drinking water is back on the state payroll. That official is Brad Wurfel. → Read More
Is third time the charm for the Cass-Henry Historic District?
For the last few weeks, we have been watching as hearings on the proposed Cass-Henry Historic District were held, and as the matter was postponed again and again before it could be put to a vote. [content-1] At issue are a half-dozen or so buildings on the south side of Henry Street, between Cass and Second avenues. → Read More
Meanwhile, 35 miles west of Detroit, a transit funding measure faces certain victory
In metro Detroit, commentators are still mumbling their eulogies over a regional transit plan. Whatever the merits of the RTA plan, with Wayne County Executive Warren Evans and Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan on board, the main obstacle in metro Detroit seems to be officials north of Eight Mile Road. → Read More
Campaign finance watchdogs: Moroun money flooded Detroit council races
In the month-long afterglow since the Moroun family graciously allowed Ford to buy the long-vacant Michigan Central Station, perhaps one notable report escaped many metro... → Read More
Short plays and coffee on offer with Extra Mile Playwrights Theatre
A group of local playwrights have come together hoping to engage Detroiters via art and community. The even, fittingly, is called "Community Night" and it will be held July 8, with the Extra Mile Playwrights, at Detroit Sip, a coffeehouse in northwest Detroit. → Read More
How the Detroit artist Sixmau went from Highland Park to Dreamville in two years
On April 20, the world got its first glimpse of the cover art for hip-hop recording artist J. Cole's newest album, KOD. It turned out the occasion was a breakthrough moment for a Detroit-based artist who'd designed the trippy album art. → Read More
The Guardian runs excerpt from Anna Clark's Flint book 'The Poisoned City'
The British daily newspaper The Guardian has published what appears to be a lengthy excerpt from Anna Clark's new book, The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy. The approximately 5,000-word taste of the book, entitled "‘Nothing to worry about. → Read More