Saturday July 31st, 9:30 am – 6:00 pm The International Institute is hosting an interactive walking tour of Detroit’s Museum District. Most of the offerings are free. There are fees for lunch, for admission to the IMAX film Tour of Arabia at the Science Center, and for the DIA’s scroll-making workshop. All of these activities…
Month: July 2010
The Ancestors – L.A. Banks, Brandon Massey and Tananarive Due
This trio of stories from African American authors doesn’t exactly deal with the sins of the fathers but focuses, instead, on their legacies -those who come after, and their methods of making sense of the past. Every person, every family, every country has dark moments that they have tried to bury under the weight of…
The Grin of the Dark
© 2007 by Ramsey Campbell — Tor Books Let’s face it: clowns are terrifying. It’s not just the makeup, the costumes or the unpredictability; it’s the gleeful way clowns indulge in near-sadistic slapstick shenanigans and then laugh hysterically at their own antics. The horror genre teems with evil or killer clowns, and any horror buff…
Peckinpah: An Ultraviolent Romance
The plot is simple, and familiar: an Evil Madman rides into a small town with a pack of berserkers and they wreak bloody havoc on the citizenry. In D. Harlan Wilson’s hands, this simple and familiar plot becomes something utterly bizarre, wickedly satirical, and downright hilarious.
RIP Sonar4 Ezine, Long Live Sonar4 Publications
As many of you know, I was (briefly) a reviewer and one of the fiction editors for Sonar4 Ezine. I was pleased to work with Shells Walter and the rest of the Sonar4 gang during my time there. Sadly, the ezine has been set on the back burner so that Sonar4 can expand their publication…
Detroit Summer
The weekly update of my Around Detroit page is complete. There’s new info about The Heidelberg Project’s annual festival, Belle Isle happenings, and more! New content is added every Sunday morning. Check it out to learn about upcoming events (family-friendly and otherwise) in The 313.
Shows!
I have several shows scheduled over the next few weeks. Here’s a sample: Tuesday, July 27th – 8:00 pm – $5 cover – Joey’s Comedy Club, Livonia, MI – Rapid Fire Open Mic: 30 comics, 3 minutes each, 90 minutes of non-stop laughs…if you’ve ever wanted me to get to the point, come to this…