Published: 10/6/2010
Types: Culture, Health & science
Just because the Detroit Election Commission chose not to put the question of legalizing marijuana on the Nov. 2 ballot doesn't mean there's no cannabis drama in this election. At least for Michigan medical marijuana activists, the contest for attorney general is crucial. "We're concerned abou...[MORE]
By Dan Savage
Published: 10/6/2010
Types: Culture, Love & sex
Q: My husband has a cuckold fetish, which we have indulged through two drunken threesomes with two of his best friends. The first time, he really had to talk me into it. The second time, he steered me in that direction and I took the wheel. I now have had sex alone with Friend 2 a few times. My husb...[MORE]
Published: 10/6/2010
Types: Culture, Spirituality
It's hard to hear the priest. His voice has softened with age, he's got a thick Polish accent and his microphone keeps cutting in and out. Still, Father Edward Kaszak pushes forward with the Mass, a little in fluent Polish, some in halting English, giving the most unique liturgy in town. There ar...[MORE]
By Doug Coombe
Published: 9/29/2010
Types: Culture, House & garden
On the stage, Charlie Slick is a full-on party-sensory assault, his electro-dance jams usually presented amid a light-show-soaked flurry of bubbles and glitter with audience participation. For one who invites so much chaos into his live shows you might be surprised to find his home is downright seda...[MORE]
By Dan Savage
Published: 9/29/2010
Types: Culture, Love & sex
Q: I'm a straight college guy, age 21, and I share a house with some buddies and a couple. Anyhow, the interesting stuff: This couple has been together for four years. They're both quite sexual, but she's got more libido than he does. I've got a big sex drive too. Both of them have stated an opennes...[MORE]
By Dan Savage
Published: 9/22/2010
Types: Culture, Love & sex
Q: I'm a gay male and have been seeing a terrific guy for a couple of months. Two years ago, during an uncharacteristically wild few months in my life, I had a threesome with a couple, and as it turns out, my boyfriend is very good friends with them. We see them socially and have even all had dinner...[MORE]
Published: 9/22/2010
One has a Heineken mini-keg behind the seat. This one has a TV on it. That one has a PlayStation affixed to the back end. Pastel colors glow, polished chrome sparkles. They're among the dozens of custom bicycles lined along the curb in front of this one house that has no neighbors on either side of...[MORE]
By Dan Savage
Published: 9/15/2010
Types: Culture, Love & sex
Q: I'm sorry about sending this letter to you via snail mail. I don't want to send an e-mail because I'd rather not have a record of this living forever on some server somewhere. About six months ago, after watching my girlfriend insert a tampon, I asked if I could do it for her next time. She thou...[MORE]
By Dan Savage
Published: 9/8/2010
Types: Culture, Love & sex
Q: A few nights ago, I got drunk and knocked on my roommate's door and confessed my attraction to him while he was lying in bed in nothing more than his Skivvies. (It was dark and I stayed at the door, so I didn't know that until after the fact.) And then I asked him if I could sleep in his room bec...[MORE]
Published: 9/8/2010
Types: Culture
"If you say to any thinking person, 'Let us form a society for the invention of new and subtler words', he will first of all object that it is the idea of a crank, and then probably say that our present words, properly handled, will meet all difficulties. ... [T]his argument, like most of the a...[MORE]
Published: 9/15/2010
Mike Harnett leans back against the hood of his car, arms folded, eyes alert. It's early afternoon, and everything is still and quiet in the fields around him. His job is to watch over the cars of the customers at the Ivanhoe Café, better known as the Polish Yacht Club, a 101-year-old bar an...[MORE]
Published: 9/1/2010
Types: Culture
Jazz Fest staying power by Charles L. Latimer How Barry Harris and Roy Haynes found their niches More festive listening by W. Kim Heron With chops, Grammy awards even, if not the biggest names Tributaries by W. Kim Heron Jazz Fest looks back to greats, known and less-so Candlebox vs. Saving Ab...[MORE]
By Dan Savage
Published: 9/1/2010
Types: Culture, Love & sex
Q: Here's my problem: I love women. I love the way they look, I love the way they move, I love the way they sound. I like to see them naked. But the idea of actually interacting with women — trying to engage them in intelligent conversation without coming off as absolutely leotarded — ab...[MORE]
By Dan Savage
Published: 8/25/2010
Types: Culture, Love & sex
Q: I lost my virginity last night. I'm a straight male in my early 30s, so it was about time. It wasn't awkward, and we had a good time. However, I didn't climax during sex, which is a result of years of death-grip masturbation. (Thanks for the warning, Dan. I'm sorry I didn't heed it.) She took it...[MORE]
Published: 8/25/2010
His barbecue stand is stocked with two grills, a hot dog cart and a group of men who seat themselves at his side every day. Charles Gaither can be found on the corner of East McNichols and Hoover six days a week, from just before lunch until the sun sinks away, standing over two barrel grills that ...[MORE]
Published: 8/18/2010
Unless you're Elizabeth Gilbert, a free trip to India is hard to come by. So when the Wonder Twins heard about India Day 2010, an event celebrating India's 63rd Independence Day, they decided to try to do in a day what Gilbert did in a year. After attending the event, they completed their 24-hour Ea...[MORE]
By Dan Savage
Published: 8/18/2010
Types: Culture, Love & sex
Q: My boyfriend and I are straight college students, and he's always wanting to try new things. Recently, he asked to put a finger in my ass while we were having sex. Someone did that to me before, but it felt uncomfortable and it kinda hurt. I told my boyfriend that he could do it once and then I w...[MORE]
By Dan Savage
Published: 8/11/2010
Types: Culture, Love & sex
Q: Longtime reader, first-time mailer. A long while ago, you wrote an incredible piece of general advice for teenage boys. The advice was so excellent that I clipped it out to keep in case I ever had a son. Well, years later, I have a son. But I have since moved a gazillion times and across several...[MORE]
Published: 8/11/2010
Types: Culture, Spirituality
What can it actually accomplish? It's just a sign, stark and simple, and it declares, in the kind of religious language that saturates the city's culture, that "God said ... Thou shall not kill." And suddenly it was appearing on trees and poles all over town. The woman behind it says t...[MORE]
Published: 8/4/2010
Types: Culture
Glenn Barr When it comes to the idea of local creatives getting more respect abroad, local artist Glenn Barr is no stranger. The internationally respected artist, who coincidentally did the cover art for Zadoorian's Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit, had experiences very similar to the author's when he ...[MORE]
Published: 8/4/2010
Every Memorial Day, European tourists swarm Detroit for the annual Movement electronic music festival to lay laurels at the birthplace of techno and give thanks to its progenitors: Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson. Though these men walk the streets mostly unrecognized here, mere mortals...[MORE]
By Dan Savage
Published: 8/4/2010
Types: Culture, Love & sex
Q: My boyfriend and I have "history." We dated casually and weren't ready to stop seeing other people, so we had an open relationship. This phase was awful: lots of fights, a couple minor breakups, and eventually I called it quits for good, cutting off all contact. A month later, we starte...[MORE]
By Dan Savage
Published: 7/28/2010
Types: Culture, Love & sex
Q: Ever since hearing you say on your podcast that all men use porn, I have had a burning question: What about us women? If all men get a pass to have this whole other sex life, which is (mostly) external to their partnerships and is sexually satisfying, then I think all women should have a pass as ...[MORE]
Published: 7/28/2010
His office smells like horse manure. But James Buchanan doesn't mind at all. He's standing behind his small desk on a sweltering July afternoon, putting on a heavy wool uniform worn by soldiers long ago. Buchanan is in charge here at the Buffalo Soldiers Heritage Center, which lies at the edge of ...[MORE]
By Doug Coombe
Published: 7/21/2010
Types: Culture
Downriver kids The HandGrenades are true children of rock 'n' roll. In fact, Nick Chevillet's dad relaxes by taking leisurely 200 mph runs on a skull-emblazoned drag boat. Brothers Andrew and Tom Pawelski's old man had a band, the Mastertones, that warmed up the Byrds, the Rolling Stones, and yes &m...[MORE]
By Dan Savage
Published: 7/21/2010
Types: Culture, Love & sex
Q: I was recently told that I am being puritanical and self-righteous because I can't get over the fact that my partner spends a good deal of time seeking out pictures of very young girls to masturbate to. Nothing illegal, he says, but still ... He admits to having a 20-year-plus addiction to porn,...[MORE]
By Doug Coombe
Published: 7/14/2010
Types: Culture, House & garden
For his first act in the late '50s and '60s, the 73-year-old Andre Williams recorded, produced and wrote songs for great soul hotbeds including Fortune, Motown and Chess Records. Under his own name he released "Bacon Fat" and "Jail Bait," two absolute classics. Williams also penn...[MORE]
Published: 7/14/2010
Holding Court pivot sweat pick set on blacktop plateau no script give and go run 'em back a mid-summer's pickup play stretched out laced up one-on-one win by two run 'em back bound to the key turn to the wing swing bottom block drop step head fake who's g...[MORE]
By Dan Savage
Published: 7/14/2010
Types: Culture, Love & sex
Q: My boss and CEO lives and works in a different city, but most of her mail arrives at my office because it is the company's official address. I routinely open mail and packages addressed to her. Usually they contain documents for me to handle or software for me to install, but today I opened a pac...[MORE]
Published: 7/14/2010
Types: Culture, Spirituality
When Martin Herman moved to Detroit to begin his academic career at Wayne State University in 1962, fresh from a year's study in Paris on a Fulbright research grant, the city offered six synagogues within walking distance of his home near Livernois and Curtis. Since Herman's arrival, however, the ...[MORE]
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