Jerilyn Jordan
Detroit Metro Times
Detroit, MI, United States
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Cult luxury lingerie brand The Great Eros opens in metro Detroit, its first location outside of New York City
Something sexy this way comes ... or rather, has come. Cult favorite luxury lingerie, loungewear and intimate brand The Great Eros has spread to metro... → Read More
America's Thanksgiving Day Parade will trot through downtown Detroit for 95th celebration
Listen, we’re the first to take any opportunity to list off all the reasons why Thanksgiving sucks. There’s the mass turkey slaughter, the obligatory family... → Read More
Black-owned The Lobster Food Truck thrives, opens storefront in Dearborn
Metro Detroit may be far from the ocean, but a local food truck has been serving popular worth-the-wait oceanic delicacies. As of last week, they've... → Read More
Kid Rock really likes guns, compares himself to Brad Pitt, and rides a phallic middle-finger rocket in new music video
Like the bullshit cowboy he has claimed to be since 1998, Kid Rock beats many a dead horse in his latest "song" and companion video... → Read More
Singer-songwriter Matthew Milia takes us on a beautifully bleak tour of his hometown in 'Keego Harbor' video
Nothing/everything is possible in Keego Harbor. Most people feel some type of way about their hometown. Some couldn't wait to escape the clutches of familiarity... → Read More
Revisit the past future with a screening of a dystopian cult classic 'Blade Runner' in Ann Arbor
Remember when Ridley Scott’s 1982 neo-noir sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner felt like it was very far removed from any sort of reality we would experience in our lifetime? → Read More
Crooner Mayer Hawthorne to bring 'Rare Changes' to Detroit's El Club
Last year brought on some major ch-ch- ch-changes for Grammy-nominated Ann Arbor native Mayer Hawthorne who has had a quietly productive couple of years. → Read More
Greta Van Fleet will skip Detroit when they play five Michigan shows next year
'Tis the season for distressed denim, multi-vitamins, and bejeweled vests. It's been a while since we've checked in with Greta Van Fleet, Michigan's premiere band of retro-rock youths hailing from the Christmas-obsessed Little Bavaria, aka Frankenmuth. → Read More
Praise be to Santa — the Detroit Christmas tree lighting will return for a 'bigger, brighter' in-person celebration
This year, the Downtown Detroit's annual tree lighting ceremony can officially vote, donate blood, get a tattoo, and buy fireworks if it so chooses because the beloved tradition is turning 18, baby. And it's returning for an in-person celebration that organizers say will be "bigger, brighter, and better than ever" after last year's event was pre-recorded. → Read More
Comedian Amy Miller will spread her proud self-loathing at Hamtramck's Independent Comedy Club
Comedian Amy Miller might not be a household name but, as she points out in one of her most popular bits in response to fatphobia in which an unhoused man scolds her for eating an ice cream cone in public, calling her fat, Miller actually has a house where she eats food she buys with money she has. → Read More
Everyone's favorite godless nerd Patton Oswalt will tell us what he hates at Detroit's Fillmore
If there is one piece of advice we can give you, it is do not fuck with Patton Oswalt, the godless comedian, deadly serious cereal-eater, and voice of the most famous Pixar rat who once claimed he wanted to “be a robot that helps wolves have sex” in regard to his Lexapro dosage. → Read More
Versatile R&B singer Ledisi will bring her love of Nina Simone to Detroit's Masonic Temple
Many of us hyperbolize when we say a musician/band saved our lives. → Read More
A new Republican-led bill could be the middle of the road solution to legalizing and taxing marijuana
Just when we thought full-blown marijuana legalization remained a distant reality, a Republican-led congressional marijuana legalization bill comes along that could end the federal prohibition... → Read More
Illuminated and immersive Glenlore Trails in Commerce will once again transform into a winter wonderland next month
Are you dreaming of a winter wonderland? Well, Glenlore Trails — you know, that illuminated forest in Commerce Township that transforms with the seasons to offer a festive, immersive, and, if we're being honest, totally psychedelic excursion — has announced that its wintertime offering is returning next month. → Read More
Sen. Mitt Romney unveils Ted Lasso Halloween costume and it's giving bizarre Brazzers vibes
If you logged onto Twitter today, you, like us, may be asking yourself: how did we get here? And, more importantly, how do we make it stop? → Read More
Detroit's Senate Theater to host art show and screening of 'The Crow' appropriately on Devil's Night
There are plenty of films about tragedy but some films are, in their production, tragic. Most recently, actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop gun on... → Read More
Midtown Detroit is getting a Target store, and we are horny
When Lana Del Rey said "heaven is a place on Earth with you," we know that she was likely not referring to a Target store... → Read More
Anyway, here's Big Sean covered in bees
Beyoncé might have the Bey-hive, but Detroit's Big Sean is the ultimate bee daddy. Big Sean dropped "What a Life" at midnight on Thursday, his latest collab with Hit-Boy. → Read More
One in three Michigan women say they've stayed sober while out due to fear of their drink being spiked, study finds
In August, Birmingham police investigated seven complaints from people who suspect they were drugged at the cocktail bar Rose Room or the adjacent restaurant 220 Merrill. The women shared striking similarities in their allegations and experiences between March 23 and July 9. → Read More
Megan Thee Stallion ushers in chill girl winter with 'Big Holiday Show" with Lil Baby, Trick Trick, and more in Detroit
With "Hot Girl Summer" in our rearview and "Sad Girl Autumn" fully underway, does that mean we're approaching chill girl winter? It sure the hell feels like it. → Read More