Issue 139 Volume 1
Week of 11/4/09
The King Of Detroit Comedy
By: Corey Hall,
11/5/2009
When times get tough people start looking for a reason to laugh. No one knows this better than comedy club veteran Mark Ridley, who's been busting the guts of Metro Detroiters for more than 20 years. And even in though credit is tight and the economy tighter, he's decided to renovate his storied Royal Oak Comedy Castle.
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Startups That Stay
By: Terry Parris Jr.,
11/5/2009
In Ann Arbor a buyout doesn't always mean a sellout. Even though innovative startups
like Fry, Healthmedia, and T/J Technologies have been snapped up by larger
out-of-state companies, they have decided to stay in the city that birthed them.
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FilterD
By: metromode,
11/5/2009
Spoiler alert: the baby really is sick. That revelatory scene from David Lynch's
Eraserhead will delightfully haunt moviegoers once again at Ann Arbor's State Theatre, where midnight trash cinephiles HOTT LAVA present the 1977 cult classic this Saturday.
In heaven, everything is fine. So are we at
FilterD, where you can find the best of what metro Detroit has to offer in the week ahead.
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Blog/Megan Owens
Ironically, early auto workers once rode the streetcar to work in factories. This new model year, facing a crumbled rail system and plant closings, the communities of greater Detroit are assembling a regional transit authority. Megan Owens, the executive director of Transportation Riders United, outlines a timeline of transit and what's needed to make the jump from jalopy to streamlined bus service and regional light rail. (
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Video/B Nektar
Mead, it's not just for renaissance fest geeks anymore. Proof? B. Nektar in hipper-than-thou Ferndale, where honey, apples and all sorts of fermentable goodness are crafted into a damn fine brew.
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