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Check out Howard Glazer at PJ's Lager House this Saturday for Bob Cafagnia’s Birthday featuring: Claudia Schmidt!! and Howard Glazer
PJ's Lager House
Michigan Ave.
Corktown Detroit
(just west of the casino)
we lost a tape from march 2008 at scrummage university
footage from jack topht - school of language - friendly foes (this footage was actually erased when someone taped over it of someone taking off their pants over and over and over - what was so funny about that we will never know)
Art Music Benefit for Leonard Peltier
Music from :
Sneaky & The Rat
John Clark
K9
Thursday May Day 1st 2008
10pm
Cass Cafe
4620 Cass Ave.
Detroit, MI 48201
(313) 831-1400
TONIGHT - Wednesday April 30th 2008
BELMONT BAR - HAMTRAMCK MI
FREE
18+
KELLY GERMAINE ROOT ART OPENING FROM 7-10
COMPLIMENTARY HORS DEVOURS @ 8
RETURN OF !!!WOLFBAIT!!! AROUND 10
Stop in over at MCB fav LJ's Lounge this saturday night for a graceful evening of music from the bands The FURY - AUTOJill - Urine Sample - Satan's Toilet :)
LJ's Lounge
2114 Michigan Ave.
Corktown Detroit MI
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY
Saturday May 3rd 2008
Here is quick list of local comic book retailers who should have a bunch of free available comics for freebies just for visiting the store this coming saturday
GREEN BRAIN COMICS
13210 Michigan Avenue
Dearborn MI
Detroit Comics
23333 Woodward Ave
Ferndale, MI 48220
Comic City (3 locations)
Check a list from detroit . com
Hit us up at tickets are gone for a free pair of passes and CD
MCB will be at this show shooting some pics/video
The Kills
Wednesday May 7th 2008
Magic Stick
Woodward Ave
Detroit MI
TELEPATHE
$12 ALL AGES
2 of the motorcity's best have joined forces to become carjacKING
Go check out CARJACK an dWILDCATTING at CAID this saturday night
I kind of like the name WildCarJack myself but who cares - this show should rock!
FREE BEER at The Stone House Bar this weekend? NOT!
Yeah - you heard it right...MCB has a free pair of tickets and CD for freebies
hit us up at THESE FREEBIES ARE GONE! and they are yours!
DURAN DURAN
Thursday May 15th 2008
Masonic Temple
Temple/Cass
Detroit MI
Duran Duran are as much of an unstoppable force today as they were when they first formed in 1978 in Birmingham, England – still commanding the respect of the finest players in the game.
During an illustrious career spanning three decades, Duran Duran have remained at the forefront of popular music, consistently pushing the creative envelope and breaking new ground.
Since their inception, the band have sold over 70 million albums, recorded countless hit records, received numerous accolades, and have been presented with no fewer than five prestigious “Lifetime Achievement” awards (MTV Video Music Award, Q Magazine, The BRITS, Ivor Novello, Spanish Ondas).
On their current studio album, Red Carpet Massacre (Epic Records) they have collaborated with top producers Timbaland and Nate ‘Danja’ Hills, as well as long-time Duran fan Justin Timberlake, creating a record that has garnered them some of the best reviews of their career.
Now on the road, with their Red Carpet Massacre World Tour well underway, Duran Duran are returning to US shores for a 22-date run with a spectacular new production that will showcase their latest record alongside all of the hits from their extensive catalogue. These shows will be the band’s first in America since their unprecedented two week run on Broadway last November, when they played the new album in its entirety prior to its global launch.
LISTEN TO "NITE-RUNNER" FROM RED CARPET MASSACRE
Purchase Red Carpet Massacre Tickets
Purchase Red Carpet Massacre Basic
Purchase Red Carpet Deluxe
DURAN DURAN TOUR DATES
Apr 29 - General Motors Place - Vancouver, BC
Apr 30 - WaMu Theater - Seattle, WA
May 2 - Sleep Train Pavilion - Concord, CA
May 3 - Santa Barbara Bowl - Santa Barbara, CA
May 4 - Nokia Theatre - Los Angeles, CA
May 6 - Dodge Theatre - Phoenix, AZ
May 8 - Valley View - San Diego, CA
May 9 - The Joint - Las Vegas, NV
May 10 - The Joint - Las Vegas, NV
May 12 - Wells Fargo Theatre - Denver, CO
May 14 - Rosemont Theatre - Chicago, IL
May 15 - Masonic Temple Theatre - Detroit, MI
May 16 - Summit City - Whitesburg, KY
May 17 - Chastain Park Amphitheater - Atlanta, GA
May 18 - UCF Arena - Orlando, FL
May 19 - Mizner Park Amphitheatre - Boca Raton, FL
May 21 - Koka Booth Amphitheatre - Raleigh, NC
May 22 - Mann Center for the Performing Arts - Philadelphia, PA
May 24 - Atlantis - Paradise Island (Bahamas)
May 27 - Merriweather Post Pavilion - Columbia, MD
May 28 - Agganis Arena - Boston, MA
May 30 - Central Park Summerstage - New York City, NY
May 31 - Central Park Summerstage - New York City, NY
www.duranduran.com
www.myspace.com/duranduran
The Sword
Tuesday May 13th 2008
The Magic Stick - Detroit
w/ Torche, Stinking Lizaveta and special guests 3 Inches of Blood
We gave away a pair of tickets and new release for the show - they are gone!
MCB will be at the show snaggin video and photos for you - the readers!
This year we launch our new titles at 'Mini-Literary Festival 2008', with a reading on Friday May 2, workshops on Saturday May 3 and the 2008 Launch on Sunday May 4.
The 2008 Launch will be held at 2pm at the Tompkins Center in beautiful Windmill Pointe Park in Grosse Pointe Park, on Lake St. Claire.
This year, we look forward to an exciting event. Some of the most promising poets of our generation will be traveling to be with us here, to hold workshops for the first Marick Press Mini-Literary Festival. The Festival workshops will take be held on Saturday, May 3 at the Grosse Pointe Artists Association, located at 15001 Kercheval, Grosse Pointe Park, 48230, from 9 AM to 5PM.
Our masterful authors will be sharing their skills and insights on a diverse variety of subjects dear to writing, both in poetry and fiction. Susan Kelly-Dewitt, the author of six chapbooks, will hold a workshop on "Poetry Writing: The Poet as Camera." Peter Conners is a poet and fiction writer. He is an editor and marketing director for BOA Editions, Ltd.
He will instruct "Flash Fiction: How (and Why) To Shrink Your Story." Ilya Kaminsky teaching at San Diego University is the author of Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004), which won numerous awards. Ilya will lead "Reading Poems from Around the World." G.C. Waldrep holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and is currently a visiting professor at Kenyon College.
His poetry workshop "The Metaphor as Alchemy" will be enlightening. Katie Ford is the poetry editor of the New Orleans Review whose work has been widely published in journals such as the American Poetry Review and Ploughshares. Ford's class will be "The Craft of Emotion." Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author of nine books, and is known for his captivating performances. He will teach "The Grammar of Metaphor." Lastly, Derick Burleson from Alaska. In 1999, he received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. This year Burleson will bring us "Trailing Clouds of Glory: Making Poems with the Inner Child."
(313) 407-9236
minifestival2008@marickpress.com
www.marickpress.com
www.chileanconsulatedetroit.org
www.marielagriffor.com
MOTORCITYBLOG is sponsering another Exposure Detroit Photography Exhibit !!!
Exposure Detroit is an 850+ member photography group and MCBs own Amy Palomar is one of the featured artists for this show!!! - Congrats Amy!
Stop in at the Bean & Leaf Cafe for your chance to win and bid on all the great concert tickets we are providing to Exposure Detroit for raffle and silent auction.
Exposure.Detroit May 16th Photography Exhibit Opening Party
Driving directions / Larger Map
Friday, May 16, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
The Bean & Leaf Cafe
106 South Main Street
Royal Oak, Michigan 48068
Featuring: Amy Eric Nicole Ross Paul N
MUSIC DJ ADROIT
RAFFLES AND SILENT AUCTIONS!
www.exposuredetroit.net
Matted or Framed photos from local photographers
Concert and event tickets courtesy of MotorCityBlog
T-Shirts and Hoodies from DetroitRocks
SEVEN SIGNATURES: PASSIONS IN PAINTING
FREE CONCERT
Chicago Children's Choir
Sunday May 4th
2pm
Historic Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts
350 Madison, Detroit, Mi 48226
313 887-8500
More than 40 young singers from the world-renowned Chicago Children’s Choir will be featured guests at the Second Annual Concert of the Detroit Children’s Choir.
Free to the public, the concert will be held at the Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 4.“As part of our continued effort to reach and support our youth and provide endless opportunities for our young people’s involvement in performing arts, Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts is proud to collaborate with the Detroit Children’s Choir,” said Vince Paul, President and Artistic Director.
“This collaboration doesn’t just engage the young people of southeast Michigan; it creates the condition where great performers and great leaders are born and nurtured!”
A recent study from the Center on Education Policy indicates that the No Child Left Behind law has led to a 16% decline in the time devoted to art and music instruction in Michigan public schools over the last six years.
The loss of the arts and music limits the kinds of skills and capacities children develop in school.Established in 2006, the Detroit Children’s Choir (DCC) uses the discipline of choral singing to enhance self confidence and academic skills while building social awareness in young people in Detroit. During the 2006-2007 school year, DCC operated in four schools in the Detroit Public Schools system – serving a total of 125 children.
The Southwest Neighborhood Choir, a partnership with Living Arts Detroit, is in its second year of operation out of Messiah Church. Now an approved vendor to the Detroit Public Schools, DCC holds in-school choirs in four schools this school year.
In addition, an East Side Neighborhood Choir was formed in 2007 in partnership with Wayne County Community College District’s Eastern Campus. “Connecting children through choir bridges social differences and enhances awareness of different viewpoints,” explained DCC founder Carol Schoch.
“DCC brings together 125 of Detroit’s children in grades 3-8 – representing a wide range of ethnicities, religious and socio-economic levels – in a way that strengthens team building, creativity, social interaction, understanding, and connection.”
This inspirational free event takes place on Sunday, May 4th at 2 PM
www.musichall.org
For further information, see: www.detroitchildrenschoir.org
Contact: Carol Schoch (248) 661-9881 or (248) 819-7191
“Ced N Teri” - Episode 8
Sunday May 4th 2008
The Park Bar
Detroit MI
Jamie McCarthy has a cameo role as a repo guy and he’s also the musical guest in the next episode of “Ced N Teri”, the hilarious new web series produced at the Planet Ant Theatre in Hamtramck by Mikey Brown. It’s the story of two full-time couch potatoes and a talking cat. “Ced N Teri” is politically incorrect and a little bit “Clerks”, but 100 percent Hamtramck – beer, pizza, garage rock, TV and Detroit bands featured in each episode.
www.cednteri.com
www.myspace.com/jamiemccarthy
Episode 8 premieres on Sunday, May 4, at the Park Bar in Detroit
Jamie McCarthy will be playing a short acoustic set after the episode.
Doors open at 8 pm
Screening at 10 pm
The Pop Project
Thursday May 1st 2008
Magic Stick
Detroit MI
w/Which Way Is Home - The Javelins - Empire Empire
FREE PAIR OF TICKETS TO THE 1ST READER - these tickets are gone!
Nightmare Of You
Sunday May 18th 2008
Magic Stick
4140 Woodward Ave,
Detroit, Michigan 48201
Cost : $10 ADV/ $12 DOS
All ages- W/ The Graduate, Paper Rival, Edison Glass
Its Friday FOOLS!
Get on over to CAID tonight for some killer tunes and fun all night
THE CAID's last Friday of the month party "FUNK NIGHT" is tonight!
As usual the party goes from 12am-5am.
MIKE // DJ R-O-Z
DJ CARJACK
THE C.A.I.D.
5141 Rosa Parks Blvd.
Detroit, MI 48208
"This fun 5K run walk is for everyone...from the casual walker to the serious runner.
Bring the family and enjoy visiting the Nature Zoo too!
Saturday, April 26th, 10:00 AM
Belle Isle Nature Zoo, Belle Isle, Detroit
Registration begins at 8am and ends at 9:30am.
Cost is $20 pre-registered and $25 on event day.
Pre-register on www.greatlakeschampionchip.com
WALK MS - Detroit / Troy
Sat/Sun May 3rd/4th
Walk MS: Movin’ in the “D”
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Comerica Park
2100 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48201
Day of Check-In/Registration 8:00am 10:00am
Walk MS officially begins at 9:00am
Walk MS: Metro Detroit Northeast Walk 2008 presented by Christopher & Banks
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Troy High School
4777 Northfield Parkway
Troy, MI 48098
Day of Check-In/Registration 8:00am 10:00am
Walk 2008 officially begins at 9:00am
"Join the Walk MS: Movin’ in the "D" at Comerica Park and become part of a powerful movement to create a world free of MS.
We’re planning an exciting day of fun, with a route that shows off some of the highlights of Downtown Detroit! Of course, there’s nothing like the giant Tiger in front of Comerica Park, and we’re right across the street from the magnificent Fox Theater, but you’ll also see Campus Martius, Cobo Hall, Hart Plaza, Greektown and Ford Field.
If all goes well, you may also have the chance to stroll along the incredible new Riverfront walkway! We look forward to seeing you, and we know you’ll be working hard to help us raise $400,000 at the Detroit site!
We have great online fundraising tools in My Participant Center that make it very easy to ask for and receive support, and donations can be turned in through June 13, 2008 (July 18, 2008 if you participate in Traverse City) to qualify for prizes.
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Rock N Rummage w/ MoFo Karaoke
Thursday April 24th
THE ELBOW ROOM
6 S.Washington
Ypsilanti, MI
21+ FREE
18+ $5.00
10PM
A Mayonnaise Graveyard
Saturday April 26th 2008 - 10PM
The Stone House
19803 Ralston St.
Detroit, Michigan 48203
NO COVER CHARGE chief!
Ages 21 and up!
We've got a helluva night for this Saturday...
Starting off with 'The Sultry Surfers of the Apocalypse'
It's also a birthday bash for 'A Mayonnaise Graveyard'drummer Pete Coe
a pot-luck dinner, bring a dish toshare!
'A Mayonnaise Graveyard' will round out the evening
so you don't want to miss out!
Described as body music Poi Dog Pondering has been creating good vibes since 1986.
PDP started playing music in Hawaii and quickly moved to the main land picking up other members in Austin Texas before settling down in Chicago in 1992.
I was fortunate to sit down and meet Frank Orrall (a founding member) at Alvin's earlier this month before their show. The first thing I noticed was how friendly Frank was, even stopping fans to say hello by name. PDP has an organic process in writing and recording and enjoy traveling and playing on the road. Poi Dog Pondering is a 12 piece band who usually plays sold out shows in Chicago's Vic Theater and the Metro.
When PDP hits the road not all members are able to travel, and "that's the fun part, adapting and staying liquid". The fans agree some traveling from as far away as Ft. Wayne Indian and Toledo, Ohio. "There are about 200 of us who chat online and meet up before shows" said Chris Hernandez "I've been to 50 shows myself", I might mention Chris was setting up to record the show live, something PDP encourages. One fan put it best "If you don't like music, your not going to like this band".-- Amy Palomar
Check out more from Amy Palomar @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/picturepal/
Rootstand
John Sinclair
MacPodz
Invite Only Booth
Nadir Jams
Sinclair w/ Glowb.jpg)
The Bang!
Saturday April 26th 2008 - 9PM
The Blind Pig
208 S. First St.
Ann Arbor, MI
View Map
Bang for Cause - Planned Parenthood Benefit Show!
Terrible Two's
Tuesday Apr 22nd 2008- 9PM
UFO FACTORY
1345 DIVISION
STE 101
NEW DETROIT
View Map
TERRIBLE TWO'S//FOREST PEOPLE//the PIZAZZ
MCB was invited down to the grand opening of The Marble Lounge last month at The Detroit Institute of Arts and had a great time. Look for another great Thursday night party coming on March 22nd with Kronk Boxing and some mexican wrestling and punk bands.
http://www.dia.org/ for more information about Thursday's at The Marble Lounge @ The DIA
REVEREND HORTON HEAT
Saturday April 26th 2008 - 8pm
The Majestic Theatre
Woodward Ave
Detroit MI
Nashville Pussy * Backyard Tire Fire
$23/$25
All Ages Show
John Sinclair will be in Detroit recording The Detroit Album at various locations for the next week - check out http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/ for his podcast
The Meltdowns
Saturday April 26th 2008
The Berkley Front
3087 West 12 Mile Rd
Berkley, 48072
"Sure to be too much fun. We’ll be pounding out our rhythm and beat noise along with sultry special guests, West coast (of Michigan) garage gals, The Veloras!"
MOTORCITYBLOG will have a few pairs of passes to giveaway for this killer event soon and will be on the ground talking to spectators and interviewing the Red Bull Pilots!
In the meantime check out the press release from todays announcement and go get your tickets online - this is a must see event for sure!
DETROIT ADDS A NEW TUNE TO ITS COLLECTION
The “Motor City” to host third stop of the Red Bull Air Race World Series on May 31 – June 1
April 21, 2008 – Detroit, MI will be the third stopon a ten city worldwide tour to make up the 2008 Red Bull Air Race World Series schedule.
On May 31 and June 1, twelve of the world’s best pilotsincluding three Americans will introduce the Midwest to a new dimension inmotorsport.
The pilots will pull up to 10 Gs with unprecedented skill andprecision in their high-performance race planes just feet above the DetroitRiver in a captivating race against the clock.The Detroit race will follow the first U.S. stop of 2008 in San Diego onMay 3 and 4.
In 2007, more than 50,000 San Diegans came to watch the RedBull Air Race and 4.5 million spectators attended 10 stops worldwide.
The2008 season opener took place in Abu Dhabi, UAE on April 10 and 11 whereBritish racer Paul Bonhomme brought a first-place finish back to GreatBritain.
Tickets to the Detroit race can be purchasedat http://www.redbullairrace.com/
CLEARED FOR TAKE-OFF…SMOKE ON!
“We thank you, Red Bull Air Race, for bringing the World Series right here to Detroit,” stated Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the official launch of the race today at the Detroit City Airport.
“We said this to the Super Bowl, to the NCAA, the best race that you will have in your entire series will be the race in the city of Detroit.” The race will be a ticketed event along downtown Detroit's five-mile long, spectacular riverfront. This Detroit landmark is being revitalized by public and private donations, including a significant investment by General Motors in its waterfront.
Each race will comprise two days of competition: Qualifying Day and RaceDay. The overall series points leader will be crowned Red Bull Air RaceWorld Champion after the season finale in Perth, Australia in November.
In the Red Bull Air Race, the world’s best pilots race at speeds reaching 260mph, enduring forces of up to 10 Gs as they navigate a low-level, aerialrace track made of air-filled pylons.In 2007, more than 400 million viewers watched the races on televisionworldwide.
In the United States, each race will be broadcast on Sunday evenings on Fox Sports Network starting in July.
The Detroit race will air on July 27 and again on October 5.
Want to catch one of MCB's favorites this week? 
Detroit Industrial Projects presents
The BU-CON Afterfutures Group Inc.
An art installation by
Pembroke Davis
Chipp Jansen
Jason LedbetterJeanette Ohm
Kendall Babl
Exhibition - April 26 to May 17, 2008
Opening Reception - April 26, 6-9pm
The BU-CON Afterfutures Group Inc. demonstrates preparedness for a global collapse of energy and communications infrastructure. Contingencies are examined using scale models, maps, graphs, and examples of BU-CON hardware. The subject of survival is approached with optimism. If organizations such as Halliburton and the Michigan Militia emphasize fear and isolation, BU-CON portrays a clear alternative, embracing the problem of continued human habitation beyond the troubled paradigm of the present.
Jeanette Strezinski
Director
strezins@gmail.com
248.250.0330
www.detroitindustrialprojects.wordpress.com
Russell Industrial Complex
1610 Clay Avenue
Second Building
Detroit, MI 48211
Hours: Saturday, 1-5pm or by appointment
The mission of painter and founder Jeanette Strezinski's Detroit Industrial Projects is to "provide artists with an environment where they can showcase their art in an uninhibited setting free of conventional constraints."
Well - we are back from vacation and ready to get back to posting some of the great events going on around town again....(uh we were doing that mobile why come back at all? we could go to Colorado or Texas next!!) but 1st a little tribute video to the new addition to the MCB staff - Our new tiki god statue - thanks wayne!
visit http://www.maitiki.com/
No camera no video right (nah - we have video from A2 that Jeff shot a few weeks back that we opted not to post at the time because he was planning this interview so look for it back here tomorrow)
3/12/08
CHILD BITE RUINED MY LIFE
by MCB contributor Jeff Nolan
http://www.therealjeffnolan.com/
CHILD BITE, BLASE SPLEE, HOTCHACHA, & TAKE OFF YOUR PANTS @ THE CROFOOT PIKE ROOM
After walking a few blocks through some sort of rain/slush hybrid and arguing with the guy at the door that I was in fact on the list to get in, I was in no mood for my digital video camera to take a shit on me. It did and that is why you, dear reader, are not watching this right now.
Blase Splee began the evening with their quirky set of catchy songs that bounce from genre to genre without really committing to one or another. All members were dressed as sharply and as tightly as they played, and even though that sounds awkward and a little creepy its fitting of their unique sound. The strangest thing I find about Blase Splee is that I have inadvertently been hanging out with and listening to these guys for a year or two at their neighbor's house in Royal Oak without really realizing that they had a band. Even better is that they really know how to play.Following Blase Splee was an all girl band named Hotchacha. They vaguely mentioned being from Cleveland or Cincinnati or some such Ohio city, but were just as incoherent when I inquired with the guitarist.
They had a very playful and energetic stage presence with just a tinge of bittersweet angst. How can you not love someone who screams for 3 minutes about the guy who dumped her while chugging a High Life and bouncing around like a wounded animal?The next set was performed by a band who failed to mention their name, but it was just as well as I wouldn't have wanted to remember it after listening to 30 minutes of their shrill and obnoxious tunes. Plus the guitarist was too cool to talk with someone from MCB (evidently he works for another website which shall not be named).Child Bite. Holy Hell, these guys have got it going on. I first saw them a few weeks back when they opened up for Man Man at the Blind Pig.
That show did not nearly do them justice after seeing them at the Pike Room. They started out by raffling off an I-Pod (who does that?) giving out stickers by trading away personal belongings and introducing a bizarre cast of characters who wandered about the room. The characters included a girl in a gold sequin dress with bananas on her head, an asian guy with some sort of weird hairy skull-cap and snakes for arms, and a big fabric rectangle covered in eyeballs who could barely walk. It was a "mythological characters meets Fruit of the Loom" they said.The set was equally unusual and fun.
They featured at times up to 8 or 9 band members who all knew just when their parts were to stop going crazy and play. Constant antics onstage ranged all over the board from dancing/drumming cows throwing streamers at the audience, the guitarist quitting the band ("fuck you guys I quit") to distribute tambourines to everyone who would take one, popping a giant balloon, getting the entire crowd to sit on the floor and chant with the band, to inviting everyone in the crowd to jump onto the stage and go nuts with them (they did).
Wow. If I were you I would be pissed that my camera wasn't working.
Totally awesome National Holiday like Record Store Day in effect this saturday
Visit your local record store for great deals on all your favs
Visit MCB's favorite record store Record Time Roseville for all kinds of freebies and giveaways and massive discounts and free music concerts by Grayling and Monkey Jacket (yeah!)
Read more...
Reverend Robert Sexton's All Star Blues Review
CD RELEASE SHOW
Saturday April 19th 2008
DeSimones Club House
1633 W. Laskey Rd.
Toledo OH
Waynemania: 2008 WSU Undergraduate Exhibition
Friday April 18th 2008 – Friday May 23rd 2008
Opening: Friday, April 18th, 5-8pm Hours:
Tuesdays – Thursdays 10AM-6PM
Fridays 10AM-7PM
Community Arts Gallery
150 Community Arts Building
Detroit, MI 48202
(313) 577-0770
The Community Arts Gallery is pleased to announce the presentation of Wayne State University’s Waynemania: 2008 WSU Undergraduate Exhibition from April 18 – May 23, 2008.
This exhibition features over 200 works of art and design by undergraduate students studying in one of WSU’s thirteen studio areas within the Department of Art and Art History, including:
SCULPTURE
PAINTING
METALS
ELECTRONIC ARTS
PRINTMAKING
GRAPHIC DESIGN
CERAMICS
FIBERS
FASHION DESIGN
PHOTOGRAPHY
INTERIOR DESIGN
DRAWING
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
The diversity in media is accompanied by a wide variety of approaches, and most works will be available for purchase.
You are invited to attend the exhibition opening reception on Friday, April 18th, from 5-8pm.
This event is free and open to the public.
Come and see why Wayne State University is the choice for some of the area’s finest artists!
Outdated Fate
Friday April 18th 2008
The Future Gallery
25744 VAN DYKE AVE
CENTER LINE, MI
(586) 838-0072
Check Outdated Fate at The Future Gallery this Friday night for a great live show and other great artists to boot.
Copper Thieves
Thursday April 17th 2008
The Pike Room
Crofoot Complex
w/ the Recital and Sh! The Octopus
empire! empire!
Thursday April 17th 2008
Alvin’s
5756 Cass Avenue
Detroit, Michigan
Cost : $9and $6 for 21+
w/ Sunlight Ascending, Jura, and The Empress Plague
Lightning Love
Saturday April 19th 2008
313.JAC
624 Brush
Detroit, Michigan 48224
MCB owe you fine readers a video of Lightning Love - we were heading out a fews weeks back in the worst of snow storms and well enough of the sob story - we never made it to the damn show and come to think of it we missed them a few months back when they played with Coltrane Motion as well....we suck.
Lucky Monkey Tattoo Presents
CRUD
Saturday April 19th 2008
TC’s Speakeasy
Michigan Ave.,
Ypsilanti, Michigan 48104
Lucky Monkey Tattoo and Piercing Presents Crud at TC’s Speakeasy with very special guests Crutch to Crown, Hairy Drain Babies and Tickled Fancy Burlesque!
Doors 9 pm, 18+ welcome!
DETROIT PISTOFFS VS. DEVIL'S NIGHT DAMES
Saturday April 12th 2008
Masonic Temple Drill Hall
Detroit MI
Doors open at 6:00PM
Game starts at 7pm
Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door, and kids under 12 get in free when accompanied by an adult. Get your tickets online at ticketmaster.com and at the following locations:• Detroit Threads - Hamtramck, MI• Orbitz Hair Salon - Ann Arbor, MI• Danny's Irish Pub - Ferndale, MI• Fox Theater Box Office - Detroit, MI• Your local Derby Girl!
Limited number of tickets available at the door
Featured Charity: Reach Out and Read - making books part of a healthy childhood
Entertainment by:The Twistin' Tarantulas, Motor City Rah Rahs, DJ Clark Eagling
National Anthem: The Voice feat. Tiny Terror
Immediately following:Afterparty:
Northern Lights
660 W. Baltimore
Detroit
Featuring: Woden, The Beautyfire, and DJ Clark Eagling
Javelins
Thursday April 10th 2008
PJ's Lager House
Michigan Ave
Corktown MI
w/ The Forms, Deastro
Head on over to the lager house where from what I hear there is no longer a cover charge for most shows anymore....can't beat that man!
Los Minstrels Del Diablo
Saturday April 12th 2008
The Old Miami
3930 Cass Ave
Detroit MI
313 831 3830
Arab American National Museum
13624 Michigan Avenue
Dearborn, MI 48126
(313) 582-AANM (2266)
International environmental and community development activist Mohamad A. Chakaki is the guest speaker at the 5th annual ACCESS Environmental Leadership Celebration at 6 p.m. tomorrow, Wednesday, April 9, at Bint Jebail Banquet Center in Dearborn.
Chakaki is a 2006 graduate of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies who has been active in both the U.S. and the Gulf region. He has worked with the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, the U.N.’s environmental program and the U.S. Peace Corps. He is a contributing writer on several blogs. He is based in Washington, D.C.
ACCESS is one of only a few Arab American organizations in the U.S. that are actively engaged in environmental issues. Proceeds from this annual event benefit the ACCESS Environmental Program.
Honorees during the event include Shadia Wood, a nationally recognized youth leader on environmental justice and climate change, and Bunyan Bryant, Ph.D., a prominent educator, social activist and pioneer in the environmental justice movement.
Media are welcome to attend the event. Contact Kathryn Savoie, ACCESS Environmental Director, at 313.216.2225 or ksavoie@accesscommunity.org for details.
Time for a vacation for a few of us lucky ones here at MCB- really.
First Fridays @ The CAID
Late Night Dance Party
featuring Platinum Detroit
Friday April 4th 2008
Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit
5141 Rosa Parks Blvd
Detroit MI
mapola
Midnight $5 [members only]
http://www.thecaid.org/
We say here at MCB that we do not play favorites...well we are liars because Record Time is one of our favorites and we keep on plugging the event calender over there like they are going out of business ....uh...yeah they did close the Ferndale store so that counts for something towards our favoritism.
They are having a huge sale this weekend over at the Roseville store and once again are having another jam packed up weekend of motorcity DJs and bands that will be tearing the posters off the walls -- -- FOR FREE -- FOR YOU
We have been slacking with our MCB-VIDEOs and we actually have some footage from the closeout weekend in Ferndale that we are going to edit and post here later on tonight so make sure to check it out....and make sure to mention MOTORCITYBLOG at the register for a healthy 0% DISCOUNT.
WEEKEND LINE UP
FRIDAY APRIL 4th STARTING AT 12 NOON
DJ's
Mike Himes
WhodatBillebob (live) with Black Echo Zone
Kevin Reynolds
Edwin Fabre
Adriel Fantastique
Sicari
Digga Diggswell
Joshua Crilley
Jay Langa
Keith Kemp
SATURDAY APRIL 5TH BANDS STARTING AT 12 NOON
not necessarily in this order
Fortune Favors the Bull
Red China
Duende!
the Jeremiah Bazely Band
Noman
Today I Wait
Red Bull Air Races will be coming to Detroit in late spring (March 31st/June 1st)
Currently the Red Bull Air Race is in Abu Dhabi but will be on our own Detroit River in late spring 2008. The tickets are not for sale yet but they range in price based on your required comfort level.
$15 gets you in the gate
$150 gets you a seat at the north end
$600/$1200 gets you in the clubhouse (yeah!)
MOTORCITYBLOG will be giving away a few passes for the race and talking with a few of the pilots and Red Bull reps about the RBAR on camera. And of course to the people in the crowd who attend this killer event!
(Check out the pilots here) and get ready to buy your tickets in mid April. Don't forget there will be a similar event on the other side of the river in Windsor for all our canadian readers!
Red Bull will also be here in Detroit for the Detroit Electronic Music Festival so make sure to check back here for a few free tickets to DEMF and visit Red Bull when attending!
Thanks Red Bull !!!
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Mirepoix - Holiday Market's Cooking School
Last Friday night, I had the privilege of attending one of Mirpoix's cooking classes on behalf of MOTORCITYBLOG.net. The theme of the class was "Cooking with Beer", in honor of St. Patty's Day. I had no idea what to expect as I am not a well seasoned cook nor have ever attended a cooking class before.
All I can say is, what an absolute treat it was. I was so impressed with the classroom/kitchen, chefs, delicious recipes, ingredients and equipment used. As for the chefs: Chef So and Chef Dave, they were absolutely wonderful. They both went above and beyond to make thegroup's experience both insightful and fun. The class was all hands on. At the end of it all, the food was dished out and like a family, we all sat around the table. We savored every bite and delighted over our culinary accomplishments of the evening. I even got to take home a doggy bag. I would definitely attend another Mirepoix class in the near future.
~Novice Cook, Tiffany F.
Come in Wonder - Leave in Awe
Friday April 4th 2008 - 7pm - Midnight
STUDIO 601
601 Washington Blvd (at Congress and across from Cobo Hall)
Detroit, MI 48226
Studio 601 will present the artwork of Red, Julie Fournier and Ed Gardiner.
Red
Red is a prolific artist whom expresses herself in many mediums. She writes, paints, models, sings and is currently exploring color, texture, and self-expression in abstract design. Red has lived in the city, country, and suburbia. She moved back to Detroit when she left home at the age of sixteen. She started traveling overseas at the age of seventeen, even staying in Lomé, Togo during the summer of 2006 to do some work with the local elementary schools.
Red uses various art forms as a window to her soul and an outlet to purge her memories and feelings. She is a passionate and eccentric lady with a fiery zeal for life who thrives on opportunities to dance with change and flirt with chaos.
Red@Redprojectx.com
www.Redprojectx.com
248-467-4335
Julie Fournier
Born in Detroit in 1965, Julie Fournier's work explores how innovations and events of the last 40 years have impacted our lives, psyches and relationships with one another. She founded SmilingEyes Studio in 1997, and in 2005 graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Industrial Design, Cum Laude. Known by many for her oil paintings, she's far from satisfied practicing one discipline; Julie considers herself a multi-media artist. Neo Realism best describes her style. Referred to as a "news reporter" because she is inspired by often overlooked aspects of daily life, she challenges traditional notions of beauty, social class and human interaction through her work as an artist.
Juliekfournier@hotmail.com
Http://www.juliefournier.com
Ed Gardiner (Edge)
From posters in Detroit in the early 70's to post apocalyptic sculptures of found objects from the back alleys of Rodeo Drive in 80's LA, Edge has weathered and flourished in the uncertain currents of pop culture and the edgier underground world of outsider art.
An artist, film-maker and producer of some of the hippest events in San Francisco, LA and Detroit, Edge has lived many a Forrest Gump moment and continues to set the pace as he creates an artful life.
Detroit is his birthplace, his home and as a city between breaths where anything is possible, the canvas he has chosen to work with. It is here in Detroit that Edge has been reborn, a warrior for a created world, a world where art, music and culture reign.
Edgetimedetroit@yahoo.com
248-346-8449
White Rabbits
Sunday April 6th 2008
31 N. Walnut St.
Mt Clemens MI
586 913 1920
An Intimate Performance with SPOON wsg The Walkmen and White Rabbits
18+
$15
7PM
The Muggs
Flamingos by the Yard CD release party
Chaos Theory Video Premier Party
Friday April 4th 2008
The Dawghouse
Clinton Township, MI
The Video Premier of "Misery" by Chaos Theory !!
Live performances by: Chaos Theory, Tension Head and Mound Road Engine.
Sense of Site
An art installation by Wayne State University students
Curated by Instructor Lindsay Satchell
Opening Reception - Friday, April 4, 6-9pm
Exhibition - April 4 - April 19, 2008
The works will be exhibited at two sites:
Detroit Industrial Projects
The Overpass Gallery
Both are located in the Russell Industrial Center
Site A – Detroit Industrial Projects – Building Two
Cheri Allen
Rory Chapman
Katie Etchill
Jan Janiczek
Sean Marshall
Matt Pawenski
Nick Portice
Michel Soucisse
Site B – The Overpass – Building One
Louis Casinelli
Matt Doyle
Matt Pawenski
Concerned by the suggestion that modern people are visually oriented to the point of other-sensory atrophy, Sense of Site aims to explore and develop all five senses, particularly in relationship to our understanding of physical spaces. Inspired by such installation artists as Ann Hamilton and Bernhard Gal, ten students from Wayne State University will appeal to our senses while exploring spatial relationships.
Detroit Industrial Projects – Jeanette Strezinski – 248.250.0330
http://www.detroitindustrialprojects.wordpress.com/
The Overpass – Matt Pawenski – 734.812.8609
theoverpassatrussell@gmail.com
Head on over to the annual used book sale at the DPL and say hello to our (HI guys ;)
Friends Only Preview of the Used Book Sale
Wednesday April 2nd 2008 - 5:30 - 7:00 pm
General Public Used Book Sale
Friday/Saturday April 4th/5th
Main Library
5201 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
Thousands of books sorted by subject - autobiography, biography, cookbooks, computer manuals, art books, science fiction, history, politics, rare and collectible books,
African American titles, poetry, science, children's books, adult fiction and non-fiction, from $ .25 and up.
Members of The Friends of the Detroit Public Library (with current membership card) are entitled to purchase books prior to the public sale.
Free guarded parking is available in the library's lot to capacity.
Call 313.833.4048 to join or renew your membership.
Your membership dues are tax deductible and earn a credit on your State of Michigan income tax. Please note that preview prices WILL NOT be doubled
If you want to help the DPL by donation please click here!
Friction Detroit
Friday April 04 2008 - 10PM
The Works Detroit
1846 Michigan Ave
Detroit, MI 48226
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Art Detroit NOW
May 8th -10th 2008
3 Days>>>100 Galleries>>>1000's Of Artists
Make sure to pencil this one into your calender...WOW!
I heard about this a few months ago and was invited to come down to the big planning meeting for this killer event. MOTORCITYBLOG is more about promoting and coverage than helping to plan something like this....what we will be doing is hitting the streets hard (like we always do) to shed some light on the detroit art scene (hey---we have been doing that already!)
Our plan is to have 4-6 video people out there interviewing the artists - gallery owners/operators - patrons to get everyone's thoughts on detroit art - the new movement
Check out the Art Detroit Now online for all the details of "The Blowout" of detroit art scene.
Here are a few videos of the art shows covered by MOTORCITYBLOG.net
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Pistol Day Parade
Saturday April 12th 2008
