Posts tagged as Detroit
Booty Prevented From Jiggling
"If the Booty Lounge is rocking, Detroit police come knocking." [Spoiler: The Booty Lounge was indeed rocking, and the knocking of Detroit's constabulary resulted in the cessation of posterior oscillation.]
What's Really Pornographic? The Point of Documenting Detroit
Early this year, John Patrick Leary, a professor of American literature at Wayne State University, published a story in Guernica called "Detroitism" about, primarily, the two competing journalistic and artistic narratives about the Motor City. READ MORE
The Annual Visit to Detroit: The Car Industry's Big Millennial Grab
A few days ago, in my professional capacity as a Japanese TV News Producer (read: guy who carries tripod, tells police, “sorry, we’ll leave”), I was dispatched to Detroit for the North American International Auto Show. READ MORE
The Bridge to Somewhere
There's a reason that the notion of selling the Brooklyn Bridge has long served as shorthand for a rudimentary con job. Public authorities own and administer the span, and so documents decreeing private ownership of the thing are so plainly the handiwork of a scam artist that they've basically been retired from circulation as anything other than a Vaudeville-era punch line. READ MORE
"Ruin Porn": The Media and Detroit
This is actually a quite great account of the media and how it deals with Detroit. "The city's second-most-overused blight shot is of the mile-long ruins of the Packard Auto Plant in East Detroit. 'This is the visiting reporters' favorite thing to see,' [photographer] James [Griffioen] said. 'The people all come here to shoot the story of the auto industry and they love this shot because they can be like, 'See that? That's where they made the cars,' and then forget to add the footnote that the plant's been closed since 1956.'" Oh man.
Kwame Gets Ahead Of The Bill Collector, Warden
Not only is former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick fully caught up on the payment plan he made to resolve the $1 milllion debt he owes the city as part of his probation-Kilpatrick served 99 days in prison on obstruction of justice charges-he also sent in this month's payment a week early! So there's no need to throw him back in jail, says his attorney.
