We’re in that weird, transitional part of the year where the summer blockbusters have died out, but the prestige Oscar-bait is still being held for another month or…
Read more Three intriguing movies for the end of summerI would never make a ridiculous statement like Ron Howard and the Coen Bros. are remotely in the same league as filmmakers, but I also think Howard isn’t…
Read more Ethan Coen and Ron Howard drift off course with ‘Honey Don’t!’ and ‘Eden’As an emergency room nurse in a rural community, and a mom whose daughter has multiple disabilities, I am appalled by Congress’ passage of President Trump’s cruelly named…
Read more Opinion: Gutting Medicaid will make Michigan and America less healthyCorporate greed drives up costs. Recently, corporations have begun using technology to raise prices in new ways and without your knowledge. Why should big grocery store chains be…
Read more Opinion: Stop price gouging in grocery storesWho is Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan really? For nearly four decades in public office, Duggan has aligned himself with the Democratic Party. As a three-term mayor, he campaigned…
Read more Duggan’s political makeover raises questions about who he really is in gubernatorial bidPuma does Argentina without the beef. Well, not quite, but there’s not the focus on cow meat you might expect from an Argentinian chef: Javier Bardauil, whose upscale…
Read more Detroit’s Puma restaurant draws inspiration from Argentina, South America, and beyondHistorically and currently, the accessibility of sexual and reproductive health care (SRH) is embedded in a fabric of colonialism, racial capitalism, carcerality, white supremacy, and cis-heteropatriarchy. As a…
Read more Opinion: Hyde harms us here in Michigan. It’s time for Hyde to go.My dream format for writing about movies would be to write about one big and one little movie every week. That way I can be a part of…
Read more ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ and ‘Sing Sing’ couldn’t be more different — but both show the limitations of the movie industryShortly after rifle shots wounded former President Donald Trump and killed one of his fans in July at a Pennsylvania rally, the Republican Party held its national convention…
Read more Lapointe: Is it mere ‘magical thinking’ to charge parents of school shooters?Last week I wrote about the New Hollywood movement of auteur filmmaking in the 1960s and 1970s and it got me thinking. I spent a thousand words talking…
Read more ‘Rebel Ridge,’ Jeremy Saulnier, and the ‘Post-Social Next Wave’ era of filmmakingFor cinephiles like me, it’s hard to overhype the importance of the American New Wave (AKA New Hollywood) era of movies that lasted from the mid-1960s to the…
Read more Why you should watch the 50th anniversary re-release of ‘The Conversation’Detroit disciples and Detroit Lions fanatics both old and new: how should we be feeling this week? Are we insulted, or inspired? Justified… or terrified? This Sunday night…
Read more Uncharted territory: Detroit Lions 2024-25 season previewWhen playground director Gene Kelty umpired softball games at Hansen Field in the 1960s, he left no doubt about the location of a good pitch. “Stee-RIKE!” he’d call…
Read more Lapointe: Summer playground memories on Detroit’s east sideShawarma’s House first came on my radar while driving back to Detroit after a long hike west of Ann Arbor. Famished after 10-miles in the woods, I craved…
Read more Why Shawarma’s House in Westland is making superior chicken shawarmaAs someone who has spent a majority of his life writing, acting, rehearsing, and basically doing anything and everything I can to make it into the motion picture…
Read more Going ‘Cuckoo’: Three dud moviesDepending on what you think of the Alien franchise, the following statement will either sound like a huge compliment or damning with faint praise: Alien: Romulus is the…
Read more ‘Alien: Romulus’ shows there’s still plenty of life left in this franchiseFret not about improving the hitting, pitching, fielding, and payroll of the mediocre Detroit Tigers. Oh, no. Instead, the Ilitch ownership is about to give Motor City baseball…
Read more Lapointe: Do the Tigers really need more luxury boxes?Everything about Missy Elliott’s “Out of this World Tour” felt like an anomaly. It’s an anomaly that a four-time Grammy Awards winner who’s sold over 40 million records…
Read more At Detroit concert, Missy Elliott takes fans on an expeditious odyssey of music and legacyDemocrats have been delirious with joy ever since President Joe Biden finally ended his untenable re-election campaign last month, making way for a feel-good ticket of Vice President…
Read more Kamala Harris’s jubilant Detroit rally ends in meltdownAt the corner of Caniff and Conant in Hamtramck is perhaps the most Hamtramck business one could find for this moment in time — an old-school doughnut and…
Read more All hail Hamtramck’s awesome Yemeni restaurant-old school doughnut shop
