Lee DeVito
Detroit Metro Times
Detroit, MI, United States
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After dissing Detroit, Kid Rock announces Motor City stop on his ‘No Snowflakes’ tour
Kid Rock just can’t seem to walk away from Detroit for good. → Read More
Beware of Using Brown Paper Tickets, Performer Warns
Jennifer Westwood is an independent Detroit-area performer and promoter who plays roots rock music with her band Jennifer Westwood and the Handsome Devils. → Read More
Depeche Mode is Coming to Cleveland as Part of its ‘Memento Mori Tour’
English electronic rock band and 2020 Rock Hall inductee Depeche Mode has announced a string of North American tour dates, including a Cleveland stop. → Read More
Military shoots down UFO over Michigan
These are words we never imagined we’d be reporting at Detroit Metro Times: According to officials, the U.S. military shot down an unidentified flying object over Lake Huron on Sunday. → Read More
HopCat Royal Oak announces new opening date due to construction delays
After some delays, Royal Oak’s HopCat is gearing up to reopen next month. → Read More
George Clinton can’t give up the funk
It can be annoying when artists announce their retirement only to backtrack — we’re looking at you, LCD Soundsystem — but in the case of George Clinton, we’ll forgive him. → Read More
More Young Children Are Eating Cannabis Edibles by Mistake, Study Finds
A growing number of children in the U.S. have accidentally consumed cannabis-infused edibles in recent years, according to a new study. → Read More
You can finally buy legal weed in Detroit
At long last, licensed dispensaries are allowed to sell adult-use cannabis in Detroit. → Read More
Sheetz convenience stores are coming to Detroit
Following the news that Midwest convenience store chain Kum & Go plans to expand into the Detroit market in the coming years, fellow chain Sheetz says it also plans to open stores in Michigan in 2025. → Read More
Flint cannabis dispensary sold unregulated products with high levels of contaminants, state officials say
State officials have suspended the license of Flint cannabis dispensary Green Culture for selling unregulated products that could contain high levels of pesticides, mold, bacteria, and other contaminants. → Read More
Detroit bees helped make this honey-infused bourbon and barrel-aged honey
All summer long, buzzing bees have kept busy, collecting nectar from flowers to make sweet honey in their beehives. → Read More
Biden Announces Major Federal Cannabis Reform, Including Pardoning all Possession Offenses
Finally, the Biden administration appears to be moving toward major federal cannabis reform. → Read More
‘The Onion’ Created Quite Possibly the Funniest Legal Document of All Time on Behalf of Dude from Parma
The humor website The Onion filed an amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday in defense of the very concept of parody, and perhaps as no surprise, the legal document is a hilariously meta must-read. → Read More
Michigan-Based Lover’s Lane Adult Store Chain Spreads Into Ohio After Acquiring Ambiance
Lover’s Lane chain of sex toy shops is spreading the love to Ohio after the Plymouth-based company acquired Cleveland-based Ambiance last year. → Read More
Eric Prydz to make a rare club appearance at Pontiac’s Elektricity
The Swedish electronic dance superstar Eric Prydz largely keeps a low profile, at least as low of a profile that a platinum-selling Swedish electronic dance music superstar can possibly keep while also cultivating a reputation for unimpeachable club bangers. → Read More
Royal Oak’s Arts, Beats & Eats celebrates 25 years with more national music, brand activations
For the 25th Arts, Beats & Eats — Royal Oak’s annual Labor Day festival — organizers say they’re going big. → Read More
Detroit’s 2022 Theatre Bizarre almost didn’t happen
When it became apparent in 2020 that the COVID-19 pandemic was going to cause Theatre Bizarre, Detroit’s long-running Halloween festival, to be canceled, event mastermind and artist John Dunivant says he was in a strange way glad. → Read More
Michigan officials want you to kill this polka-dotted insect
The invasive spotted lanternfly is spreading across the U.S. → Read More
The Hamtramck Music Festival brings four days of music and dozens of artists
The Detroit enclave of Hamtramck’s annual music festival is back, with dozens of local artists across more than 20 venues packed inside two square miles. → Read More
Detroit Metro Times wins 2022 AAN Awards
Last month, I drove to Chicago for the 2022 Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN) convention held at the Intercontinental Hotel, where I met up with my Euclid Media Group colleagues, many of whom I met in person for the first time. → Read More