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Metro Detroit's alternative weekly. Founded 1980. Contact our reporters at [email protected].

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COLORS Wine Fest returns to Detroit this weekend with more than a dozen Black- and women-owned wine brands, plus food and music along the river. https://t.co/HT3goW7FTc

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After more than a decade away from touring, Rush returned to Detroit Wednesday night. Here’s what it looked like inside Little Caesars Arena. https://t.co/QVipxoVGS1

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If your idea of classical music begins and ends with concert halls and composers who died centuries ago, Strange Beautiful Music would like to complicate things.

New Music Detroit’s genre-blurring festival returns Sept. 10-12 for its 19th year. https://t.co/Dwxi7SLA6W

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When the Detroit Jazz Festival shuts down for the night, Moondog Café is just getting started.

Untitled Sessions is back Sept. 5-6 with two nights of late-night jazz, improvisation, and open jams. https://t.co/N1FOu2Oz2h

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A school bus camera captured a Lake Orion aide screaming at a 12-year-old student with autism, grabbing his arm, and bending it backward over a seat.

The aide got 18 months of probation. Now the boy’s family is suing the district. https://t.co/UXp0hF6IXk

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Another northern Michigan community is putting the brakes on data centers.

Garfield Township approved a one-year moratorium on data centers and cryptocurrency mining as officials weigh how to regulate future projects. https://t.co/9rslV4A3xH

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Jared Goff, other Lions players, hundreds of collectibles vendors, Pokémon, and hands-on sports challenges are all coming to Pontiac this weekend for the new RazMania festival. https://t.co/KHImwXxuhw

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Detroit is getting its own courtroom show.
Media personality Randi Rossario steps behind the bench in “Judge Randi,” a new six-episode series debuting Sept. 4. https://t.co/tp7CHDaIN2

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Bill Huizenga could be facing one of his toughest reelection fights in years. New records reviewed by Metro Times raise questions about his campaign finances and private business interests. https://t.co/x5yX63QJ2p

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Eleven years ago, someone decided Nicolas Cage deserved his own Hamtramck film festival.

Since then, there have been costumes, booze, burlesque, a shotgun wedding & a man on fire.

Nicolas Uncaged is back Sept. 11, & somehow it’s even weirder. https://t.co/wvJ7PdFf5M

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John James’ wealth soared after he entered Congress, while 55% of his reported stock trades involved companies in industries overseen by his House committee.

We dug into his financial disclosures. https://t.co/pwu6KFfEc9

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Mike Rogers is campaigning as a champion of affordable housing. But when he had a chance to rewrite housing rules, he weakened building safeguards & energy-efficiency standards while his family was in the construction business.

We dug into his record.

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Keanu Reeves and Dogstar brought their All In Now tour to Saint Andrew’s Hall in Detroit on Saturday night.

📸 See photos from the show by Metro Times photographer Joe Maroon. https://t.co/k2zpbHyqkv

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There are bad albums, and then there are albums so safe and lifeless you almost wish they were bad. Welcome to Weezer’s “Gold Album.” https://t.co/uh0Tebw3vq

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Michigan tribes have fought Line 5 for years. Now they say the Army Corps’ approval of a key tunnel permit is a “profound breach” of the federal government’s obligations to tribal nations. https://t.co/CoHyDaOyQ8

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Carl Hubbard can’t get back the 34 years he has spent in prison. His attorney says Gov. Whitmer can still end what he calls a decades-long miscarriage of justice. https://t.co/uTrTty2pjl

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Mike Rogers’ wife appears to have amplified the anti-Muslim campaign surrounding Abdul El-Sayed. She joined in just before neo-Nazis and other bigots targeted Dearborn this week. https://t.co/3giWi92S3Y

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Ms. Pat has survived poverty, violence, prison, & plenty of bad decisions. She turned it all into brutally funny comedy.

Ahead of her Aug. 29 show at Detroit’s Music Hall, she talked to us about survival, success, family, & love. https://t.co/bWDiBnVh48

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.@detroitnews has a writer who drew this racist cartoon below. I am not surprised that they downplay anti-Muslim hate.

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They just can't catch a break. Eight months after being forced from the Leland House, former residents are still waiting to be compensated. Now they fear the city of Detroit could take a large share of the money first. https://t.co/2THaGjDMYv