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POETRY READING: Robert Fanning and Christina Kallery at Zeitgeist
Wednesday, 10/25: (8pm)

Thursday, 10/26: Sean Thomas Dougherty and Citywide
Poets at the Detroit Artist's Market (7pm)

SMALL PRESS PANEL DISCUSSION AT WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY ON OCT. 27

The Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Wayne State University and Marick Press will host a small press discussion panel at Wayne State University in Detroit from 1-4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 27. Featuring Jeffrey Levine from Tupelo Press, Ted Pelton from Starcherone Books, Peter Conners from Boa Editions and Peter Markus from Marick Press.

Editors and publishers will discuss their contributions to and challenges in dealing with the growing book market. They will also offer advice to writers seeking to have their works published. Publishers, booksellers, book distributors, editors and writers are invited to attend the discussion. The discussion will be held in the Leonard N. Simons Room (144) at the Purdy-Kresge Library at WSU. Admission is free and registration is required. For more information, call (313) 407-9236 or e-mail mgriffor@marickpress.com.

Shelter Talk At CAID

On Saturday, October 28, 2006, curator Hugh Timlin will be on hand to conduct personal tours of his acclaimed exhibition "Shelter" at the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID). Tours begin at 1 PM and end at 4 PM.
The Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit
5141 Rosa Parks Blvd, Detroit, Mi, 48208
(CAID is 2 blocks north of Warren on the southwest corner Rosa Parks and Bryant.)(313)899-CAID www.thecaid.org

Also Funk Night – Friday at CAID.

Detroit Bikes! Haunted Detroit Bike Tour
Oct. 28th @ 10am

Join Bikes! for its 2nd Annual Haunted Detroit ride on October 28th @ 10am. Meet at the Original Home of Detroit Bikes!, Millennium Bell in Grand Circus Park (near the SW corner of Comerica Park). Complete your pre-Halloween weekend with a bike tour of Detroit Bikes! Haunted Detroit tour.

Sites include: the Majestic Theater, Orchestra Hall, the Masonic Temple, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit Historical Museum, Wayne State University, The Bonstelle Theatre, The Fox Theatre, Grace/Harper Hospital, The Riverplace Grand Herritage Hotel, Elmwood Cemetery and more.

Date: Saturday, October 28th, 2006
Time: 10:00am - 2:30pm
Starting Location: Millennium Bell, Grand Circus Park
Contact: Alexander Froehlich detroitbikes@detoitsynergy.org

Hot Zombies Strut at the Official InZer0 Halloween Bash

Thought Collide Productions, in collaboration with the SEMAFX Network, presents the official InZer0 Halloween Bash and Zombie Fashion Show, on Friday, October 27, at the Hastings Street Ballroom in Detroit.

InZer0, Thought Collide’s science fiction series shot entirely in Detroit and screened monthly at the Main Art Theatre in Royal Oak, provides the ambiance for the evening, offering a party in the broken future -- today. This is the best combination of music, film,
fashion and oh yeah – ZOMBIES.

On October 27th, the Hastings Street Ballroom becomes the epicenter of Detroit's Creative Quake, where the movers and shakers in a wide range of creative markets will gather to celebrate the strange and spooky Halloween Season, as well as come together to explore and develop new opportunities, discussions, collaborative ventures and ideas!

The not-to-be-missed Halloween Party of the year will feature premiere Detroit area bands, Siddhartha and Phallus Uber Alles. Local fave Siddhartha (formerly Velvet Audio) is an original combination of in your face rock n’ roll and funk, while Phallus Uber Alles is a sonic wall of industrial electronica.

Detroit’s hottest zombies will strut their stuff down the catwalk in the “Drop Dead Gorgeous” Zombie Fashion Show sponsored by NooVoodoo Screenworks, which features original fashions from exciting Detroit area designers, including D. Samantha Bullock of Road Rash Rubber, Mare L. Costello, Dana Keaton, and William Scott and Sean Mosley.

Appearing straight from the Detroit underground are Hell’s Belles, who will titillate you with their live burlesque show. Goldie Ador, Devilyn Disguise and Delilah D’Banchee help make up Hell’s Belles, who have revived the art of classic burlesque in Detroit with
an underground twist.

Catch up on InZer0 with selected episodes and never seen before documentary footage being shown in the lounge area of the Hastings Street Ballroom.

Test your creativity and compete for prizes in the “Cool Costume Contest.” Dress as your favorite InZer0 character – Courier, Gang Member, Witch or Alien – or wow the judges with your own Halloween style.

Tattoo artist Lance Kellar will be on hand to show his work.

The eclectic mix of talent from so wide a swath will create a Halloween event like no other in the "D." Come and help us celebrate the explosion of Detroit's creative and cultural arts. By coming together, we create much more than a fun night out-- we are building a powerful network here in Detroit that will take root and grow to unprecedented levels. Don't miss this seminal, earth-shaking event that will spawn so many new ideas and opportunities for our creative community!

Doors are at 8 p.m. for the official InZer0 Halloween Bash and Zombie Fashion Show on Friday, October 27 at the Hastings Street Ballroom (715 E. Milwaukee, Detroit, MI 48202). 21 and over are welcome with a full cash bar. Free parking. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. For more information and to purchase tickets online via PayPal, visit www.thoughtcollide. com/events.

Bankle Halloween tradition/Detroit By Design

Produced and curated by Circus Detroit. Hosts: Camilo Pardo, Linda Bannerton, Rich Rice. Music: DJ Dr. Ron and Special Guests

Costume Party, Art Show, DJs, Live Music, Beer ($5 Donation for Beer)
Saturday, October 28, 2006 (9:00pm-4:00am)
Bankle Building and Detroit By Design Gallery 2944 Woodward Avenue, Downtown Detroit (Four blocks North of the Fox Theatre)
www.detroitbydesign.com/venue.html
http://myspace.com/circusdetroit

1st Annual Creative Halloween at Synergy Fine Art Gallery
Sunday October 29 from 11am-5pm

What better way to inspire creativity this Halloween than to allow children to bring out their inner artist and have free artistic reign at Synergy Fine Art Gallery, located at 4111 W.12 Mile Rd, in Berkley. At this family-friendly event, kids are encouraged to make full use of the art gallery’s space to draw and create as they wish, be it their best spooky drawings, jack-o-lanterns or Monsters. Synergy’s owner and artist Andrew Drisko will be there to teach curious minds about art as well as to supply the crafts and drawing supplies. The scary drawings will be presented in the gallery window for all to see on Halloween night. Children will also be able to trick-or-treat, show off their costumes and interact with other children of the community. The gallery will be playfully spooky and there will also be ‘Halloween-stories’ read. Bring along a camera and take pictures with the dark spooky guest from a galaxy far, far away... The gallery will be open from 11am to 5pm for this Halloween Event, admission is free.
For more information contact: Andrew Drisko, 248 546 1790.

Planet Ant
LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
By Eugene O'Neill Directed by Andrew Huff
October 13 through November 18
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm.
Tickets are $15, Students/Seniors $10.
NEW! Thursdays: buy one ticket get one free. Sundays: free coffee and donuts.

The World Series!!
Let’s root, root, root for the Tigers!

They say, you’ve got “one life to live,” but with pervasiveness of Internet technology, people have been able to have a second life of sorts through email and chats, but now with the advancement of computer graphics coupled with the Internet, the promise of a second, virtual life, is upon us.

In his 1992 novel “Snow Crash,” Neal Stephenson depicted a future with a splintered, franchise run physical landscape, and a rich and fully realized virtual space he dubbed “the Metaverse.” It’s complete with streets and businesses, all virtual of course, and people interact with the world and each other by taking on the form of avatars – virtual stand-ins, sophisticated game pieces if you will. It’s quite a vision, and now 14 years later, that vision has come true with a variety of Internet driven games (if we can still call them games), the frontrunner being Second Life, “An online society within a 3D world, where users can explore, build, socialize, and participate in their own economy.” It’s early in its development, but as more people tap into this digital environment, the landscape and potential within are becoming more fully fleshed out.

Our own webmaster, Loudbaby.com, aka Tommy Onyx, has been immersed in the Second Life universe, contributing to this new virtual frontier, with the creation of “Second Detroit.” This week, Onyx is producing his second concert in Second Life, “Deep into the Metaverse,” featuring DJ Shortround, DJ Bone, and Trench, which will be the first electronic music concert in the game, and the first event put on in Second Detroit. We talked with him outside the game, and took a virtual tool of the club where the concert will be held as well as the first structures that will become the larger virtual city.

Onyx sees the Metaverse as a natural extension of the web, just a three-dimensional representation of it, which allows a whole different set of interactions than possible with the Internet as it is. Having a long interest in video games and 3D modeling, Onyx took to the technology and environment of Second Life right away. Only more recently did he come to see the promise it held as something more “real” than just a game to dabble with. He saw this digital universe as an “open sandbox, an opportunity with the Internet that hasn’t happened since 1997-8.” One could be the first to do something in Second Life which is now impossible on the Internet.

That pioneering spirit extended to the promise the game held as a promotional vehicle. As a web designer for a range of musicians and other clients who are quite interested in setting themselves apart, Onyx could help bring them this new experience, which in staying on the forward edge of ideas and technology could also potentially be more lucrative. He sees himself as helping his clients run their websites, their myspace pages, and their Second Life presence “all working in concert.”

The parallels between existing Internet terms and Second Life are many. To get space in the game, or an “island” as Second Detroit is, one must pay a “land usage fee” much like the web hosting fee. There are similar development costs – have to build the website or the virtual infrastructure, maintenance too. Maintenance on Second Life starts to depart from its Internet cousin, as there are folks who do development, which is essentially invisible, but a business might want to hire people (or rather their avatars) to work in the space, as greeters, bar tenders, whatever, just as in their physical analogs.

Which brings up the whole economics of the game space, with money exchanged both virtually and truly for space, objects, and even things like casino gambling have cropped up. Onyx expresses fascination with the economics, intellectual property right issues, and even free speech, which have begun to crop up in the game. “I like the wide open frontier aspect of it, we don’t get too many opportunities like this in our lives.”

On the Island that is Second Detroit, Onyx has built the club for the upcoming concert in a space ship high above the ground, and begun work on more familiar sites to Detroiters, in the form of Belle Isle and one tower (thus far) of the Ren Cen. The possibilities for realistic and impossible structures are wide open. To quote Stephenson from “Snow Crash,” “Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They can build buildings, parks, signs, as well as things that do not exist in Reality, such as vast hovering overhead light shows and special neighborhoods where the rules of three-dimensional spacetime are ignored.”
After putting on his first Second Life event, a record release party for heavy metal band “Faster Pussycat,” Onyx was encouraged to do more, and so started on Second Detroit and put together a bill that includes DJ Shortround (founder of Detroit Electronic Quarterly) DJ Bone of the Subject Detroit label, and a third DJ, Trench. All three DJs will be live in the loudbaby.com offices and streaming both audio and video live into Second Life, the latter not being so common. Attendees will not only get to listen to the DJS and see their avatars spinning, but they’ll also get to watch the real thing on video too. Throughout the event trivia contests will be held, with real and virtual prizes awarded.

Entrance to the club will be through a welcome area on the mainland. On the day of the event, a “teleport” (which is sadly, only possible in the game environment thus far!) will take people to the event when it is set to start, keeping people from wandering in while they’re still getting the space ready for the avatars to dance the night away.

This concert will be a first but certainly not a last. Check it out and say you were “there.” - Nick Sousanis
ws@thedetroiter.com

Here is how to attend this historic virtual event:

Are you currently a member of Second Life?

Yes! I'm already a citizen of Second Life.

Great! - then click this link now.
It will provide you a jump link to the Loudbaby Welcome Center
where, on October 27th, you will be provided a teleport to the "secret" event location.
Or type in the following coordinates on the map page inside Second Life.
Chilbo/12/42/118

> No - I'm not yet a member of Second Life. Huh?
No Worries.
All you need is a PC or Mac computer and a broadband
internet connection. The Second Life application is 100% free and may
be downloaded by clicking here.

After you have signed up and have installed the Second Life application, be sure to visit the Loudbaby Welcome Center by clicking on this link.
Once the web page has loaded click on "teleport now." That will launch the Second Life application and take you to our welcome center inside Second Life.

Once you have arrived at the Welcome Center click on the "black DEQ shopping bag." You will be passed a note card with further instructions regarding getting to the event.

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Get your VIP on!
Don't forget, admission to the party is FREE, however capacity is limited. VIP tickets, which will provide you with priority access, are on
sale at the subjectdetroit.com and detroiteq.com web sites.

These VIP passes will also afford you the following perks:

- discount coupons good at both the subjectdetroit.com and
detroiteq.com web stores
- access to private velvet rope chill out areas
- PLUS entry into special contests and raffles for cool
prizes to be given away during the event.

Story and photos by
William Eric Graham

As expected, the 50th anniversary celebration at Lafayette Park was full of joy, reflections of the past and promises for the future. Many residents both past and present were on hand to describe their feelings for the Detroit community that has been labeled “the most successful urban renewal project in the country.” The Honorable Wade H. McCree III, Judge of the 3rd Judicial Circuit of Michigan, and the Honorable Hansen Clarke, Senator from district 1, were on hand for the festivities as well. They shared in the experience along with many residents who’ve been at the Lafayette Towers, the Pavilion and the Lafayette Park townhouses since the beginning.

The day began with the groundbreaking re-enactment, followed by a walking tour of the grounds and selected townhouses by tour guide Neil McEachern. The day concluded with a special screening of films at the Detroit Entrepreneurship Institute (DEI), located at 1010 Antietam across from the Pavilion. Each event was special in its own right as people from the community got the opportunity to learn the history of the development, many for the first time.

From the incredible views of downtown from the high-rise Pavilion, to the splendor of the Lafayette Plaisance that sits in the middle of the complex, this area of Detroit has become a paradise in the city for those whom at one time or another couldn’t afford to stay anywhere else. According to the film UR-Mich 1-1, a fascinating documentary that traced the beginnings of the movement to create this urban jewel, the early tenants were middle and upper class citizens who, for the most part, were employed by the city to secure their stay in the area. At the time it was mandatory for city employees to live in the city and this gave them the advantage of living within the city limits with a suburban feel.

However by the 1980’s, those living restrictions were lifted and the Lafayette Tower apartments faced a shortage of tenants that threatened its existence. That’s when the unpopular decision was made to allow low income and section 8 tenants to move in. (Section 8, for those unaware, are government-subsidized housing recipients.) Some found it ironic that the land that once was the slums of Black Bottom, after years of prosperity brought on by the developments, were once again being used to house the poor and unfortunate. This development caused unrest and uneasiness for many of the tenants who thought this would be the beginning of the downfall of the community. Although many of the residents came to accept the low-income neighbors graciously, slowly over time the section 8 residents would unfortunately be priced out of the buildings. Some were forced out by their economic limitations while others chose to leave rather than stay and be unwelcome.

Long time resident Mary Robinson, who is featured prominently in the documentary, although not a section 8 recipient, stated the feelings of the tenants eloquently when she described how the original vision of Mies van der Rohe was being denied by the current state of affairs. “By pricing the apartments out of range or continuing to charge fees for basic rights like parking your vehicle is one way to discourage some of the low-income residents from continuing to reside here. That’s not what was intended when the apartments were first built but they had so few people living here before the government subsidies were enacted. Now that the apartments became prosperous again, the very residents who helped save the towers were being forced out again, just like the residents of Black Bottom years before.”

Several other tenants featured in the film were on hand Monday evening at the DEI to view the rough cut of the documentary and came away pleased with what they saw and how they were portrayed. Residents Duschanka & Chloe’ Dunklin, Dennis Borders, Martha Luckett and Mary Robinson were given the opportunity to express themselves in the film by filmmaker Janine Debanne’, Associate Professor of Architecture at Carleton University, and they indeed put their lives before the world to see, quite magnificently. For more information on this and the film Regular or Super: Views on Mies van der Rohe by Joseph Hillel & Patrick Demers, please contact Ms. Janine Debanne’ at janine.debanne@sympatico.ca or The Lafayette Park 50th Anniversary Committee at www.neighborhoodlink.com/detroit/lp50.

For Part One of this feature, please click here.

William Eric Graham is a local freelance writer and the author of the novel Palmer Park. He’s written for ihedetroiter.com, The Metro Business Information Guide and The Highland Park Journal. He can be reached at WEGPUBLISHINGLLC@AOL.COM.

POETRY READING @ Primary Space Gallery and more…
Wednesday, 10/18:
Francine Harris, Suzanne Scarfone, Norene Cashen Christina Kallery at Primary Space Gallery 8pm
Also, catch Robert Fanning at Caroline Kennedy Library, Dearborn (7pm)

Friday, 10/20: Philip Levine at WSU (call WSU for details)

Wednesday, 10/25: Robert Fanning and Christina Kallery at Zeitgeist
(8pm)

Thursday, 10/26: Sean Thomas Dougherty and Citywide
Poets at the Detroit Artist's Market (7pm)

Cultural, Educational Groups Tell “Detroit Stories,” Glorious and Otherwise
Invite Detroiters to Record Their Stories, See Play and Hear Pulitzer Prize Author

News Conference to kick off Detroit Stories event. Free preview of Matrix Theatre’s Boomtown 1925, a play about Detroit’s volcanic growth and social turmoil and community

Thursday, October 19, Noon.
This event will include a Brown Bag Theatre Preview free of charge for the general public. Boll Family YMCA Theatre, 1401 Broadway.

Detroit Stories: is a series of events that will offer Metro Detroiters a unique chance to record their history on video and to look at themselves through Pulitzer Prize winning literature, theatre and poetry. Detroit Stories will take place from September-December 2006, and includes the Matrix Theatre production, Boomtown 1925, a lecture/discussion at Marygrove College with Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Middlesex, creation of new poetry and stories by high school students in the InsideOut Literary Arts Project, and a Story Recording Booth run by Wayne State Undergraduates at the YMCA.

GREAT VISUALS AND AUDIO: PERIOD COSTUMES, LIVE PLAY, REAL PEOPLE RECORDING THEIR OWN DETROIT STORIES

If you have questions, please phone Elaine Smith, Matrix Theatre Company at (313) 967-0999, or 313-967-0599 or by email at esmith@matrixtheatre.org.

DANA SCHUTZ, painter
Thursday, October 19 at 7:30 p.m.
The CCS Woodward Lecture Series

College for Creative Studies
Wendell W. Anderson Jr. Auditorium
Walter B. Ford II Building
(corner of John R. and Frederick Douglass on the CCS campus)
Call Center Galleries at 313.664.7800 for more information.

BIONEERS Conference
October 20-22, 2006 Wayne State University
www.sustainabledetroit.org/bioneers

Planet Ant
LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
By Eugene O'Neill Directed by Andrew Huff
October 13 through November 18
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm.
Tickets are $15, Students/Seniors $10.
NEW! Thursdays: buy one ticket get one free. Sundays: free coffee and donuts.

The World Series!!
Saturday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 22 at 7:30 p.m.
Let’s root, root, root for the Tigers!

Detroit Artist's Market
InsideOut Writers Reading Series featuring Robert Fanning, Kawita Kandpal, Peter Markus, and Anita Schmaltz. The DAM is located at 4719 Woodward Avenue (at Forest), three blocks south of the DIA, in Detroit's Cultural Center--the reading begins at 7pm.

Planet Ant
LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT

By Eugene O'Neill

Directed by Andrew Huff
October 13 through November 18
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm.
Tickets are $15, Students/Seniors $10.
NEW! Thursdays: buy one ticket get one free. Sundays: free coffee and
donuts.

Planet Ant Theatre starts its 10th season with Eugene O¹Neill¹s American
classic, Long Day¹s Journey Into Night, believed by many to be an
autobiographical representation of O'Neill¹s own family. Directed by recent
Hilberry alumnus Andrew Huff, produced by Jaime Moyer and featuring Alan
Madlane, Nancy-Elizabeth Kammer, Darrell Glasgow, Chris Roady, and Tamam
Tayeh.

October 13 & 14 is the Ann Arbor Art Walk.
www.Annarborartwalk.com

Bohemian National Home

Sunday Oct. 15 Thollem McDonas, Jon Brumit and Rent Romus
The big suprise last season was a solo piano performance by Thollem McDonas;
although unknown to me, we booked him on the strength of his
recommendations. He did not disappoint. A virtuostic mix of modern concert
music and improvisation, his music nearly blew the piano apart! This time he
returns with Jon Brumit, maker of home-made instruments and Rent Romus,
saxophonist. Check out Edge Tone records for more info on these guys. Doors
at 8 pm; $10.

Coming Soon:
10/28 The Haunted Tube

11/16 Qbico Unite record label showcase with Muruga Booker's Free Funk,
Faruq Z Bey with The Northwoods Improvisers, Odu Afrobeat Orchestra
11/30: Henry Grimes, Roy Campbell, Chad Taylor

Bohemian National Home
3009 Tillman (22nd)
Detroit 48216
313 737 6606

Where Nuke At?

All World Enterprises announces the official record release party for Where Nuke At? The latest and best album from the Detroit Icon Al-Nuke. This event will be held Saturday, October 14th from 9pm – 2am @ the Zoo Bar in Downtown Detroit.

Where Nuke At? features stellar production and mind-blowing flows from guest appearances such as Proof of D12, Rita Mosley, Berreda, Big Dame, Blade Icewood and many more. Nuke will be performing live the new hit singles “Guns Come Out” and “The Other Way” – these records quickly became fan favorites –also to confirm the making of Detroit History adding DC “Detroit Connection to the finally line-up. The night will also be taped for a segment of Nuke’s hit TV show Nuke @ Night on Comcast Channel 71.

“This is my best record to date, and I’m so excited to breathe again”, says Nuke “I put my heart and soul into it” he adds. The CD has received good reviews from Alex @ the Promoter, Native Son and music critic Khari Kimani Turner was quoted as saying “the album is great”. Nuke is back and LOVE IT OR HATE IT, this album will make you a true fan.

“The Other Way” & “Guns Come Out”
Can be heard on HOT 102.7 and FM 98.
ZOO BAR SATURDAY OCT. 14, 2006 9PM-2AM
Open to the public. The album is in stores now.

For more information - Al-Nuke visit www.alnuke.net.

L'Avventura
Saturdays/9 pm
Majestic Cafe
4140 Woodward/Detroit
Paris '68 DJs
We meet under tables

by
William Eric Graham

On October 16th 2006, Lafayette Park, one of the most diverse and beautiful areas within the city, will celebrate its 50th anniversary. Great praise should go to those who’ve maintained it and who set forth that initial vision for the ground-breaking urban renewal project over 50 years ago.

With high rise apartments (the Pavilion, Windsor Tower, and the Lafayette Towers), complexes of single and two-story townhouses; all in all it covers 78 acres of residential developments that also includes a park, a shopping center and an elementary school (Walter P. Chrysler). Designed by world famous architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on the site of the former Black Bottom neighborhood, Lafayette Park holds the distinction of having the largest collection of buildings designed by the architectural genius in the world. With modernist styles that are both visually exciting and practical, the area has been home to thousands of residents since the Pavilion Apartments were finished in 1958.

In 1946 the city of Detroit began acquiring the land it needed to begin its ambitious project, although the land lay vacant for years as the city’s proposals failed to attract the necessary developers it sought. By 1954 UAW president Walter Reuther urged the city to turn the project over to a citizens’ committee, which was made up of leaders from commerce, labor, and industry. By selecting Herbert Greenwald, a successful Chicago real estate financier to oversee the entire project, the committee was confident that the project would be developed to rival the many fine projects that Greenwald had already collaborated on with the German-born architect.

Along with Ludwig Hilberseimer, the city planner, and Alfred Caldwell, a landscape architect, van der Rohe created a plan for a traffic-free central park surrounded by low and high rise housing that would hopefully stem the city’s loss of population to the suburbs. The hope was to create a racially diverse area in which people of all backgrounds would live in peaceful coexistence – which continues to this day.

Unfortunately, Greenwald died in an airplane crash in 1959 and the city of Detroit turned the rest of the project over to other developers who didn’t share the vision of van der Rohe. Sixteen low-rise buildings, five high-rises, a community clubhouse and swimming pool envisioned by the architect were never built. The two Lafayette Towers, completed in 1963, are the only other buildings in Lafayette Park that are of his design.

On Monday, October 16th, there will be a re-enactment of the original breaking of the ground that includes a reception, tours of The Pavilion, and a film festival. The films, “Regular or Super: Views on Mies van der Rohe by Joseph Hillel & Patrick Demers and UR-Mich 1-1 by Janine Debanne’ and Nadia Ross, will show archival footage collected by one of the films authors while she lived in the Lafayette Towers between 1996 and 2000. For more information about the neighborhood please visit here www.neighborhoodlink.com/detroit/lp50 and for more specific details about the upcoming event please visit here.

William Eric Graham is a local freelance writer and the author of the novel Palmer Park. He’s written for ihedetroiter.com, The Metro Business Information Guide and The Highland Park Journal. He can be reached at WEGPUBLISHINGLLC@AOL.COM.

by
Holly Smith

Southern barbeque is the hippest movement in food. It's definitely not a new phenomenon but the philosophy of the ‘que has made Slows Bar BQ in Detroit the place to go for a bite or a beer.

Co-owner and Chef, Brian Perrone, wanted to create a one of a kind hangout in Detroit's oldest neighborhood. Perrone believes Corktown has the potential to become a lively hip community, similar to that of Chicago’s Wicker Park. “The infrastructure is already here,” he said. It’s close to downtown, lots of young people are hanging out and something is happening every night.

There is definitely nothing else like it.

It’s a barbeque joint and it's a sophisticated urban hangout. Blonde and brown wood mixed with brick creates a warm and luxurious interior. High ceilings, hammered copper, and picture windows, characterize the industrial design. Yet it is small and retains an intimate laid-back atmosphere.

For over a year, Perrone has been true to barbeque tradition. The meat is finger lickin’, rib stickin’, chin dribblin’, dry rubbed and ‘Slows’ smoked. It needs no flavor from barbeque sauce, but if you like wet then decide between five custom-blended sauces.

Fried catfish is served gold and flaky, the meat is firm, sweet and deliciously paired with a spicy remoulade.

Chicken Strut, rubbed down with 13 different spices, is melt in mouth moist and has a distinct hickory and apple flavor.

Texas brisket is smoky and tender enough to cut with a fork, however real barbeque buffs use fingers.

Pulled pork has the tasty goodness of Carolina vinegar.

The sides are southern traditions, including mac-n-cheese and potato salad. The baked beans are sweet-hotness. Jalapeños, green peppers, celery, onions and secret spices make this side unique.

Great barbeque requires great beer and Slows Bar is enough to impress any beer geek. They carry over 100 bottled beers locally and from around the globe with 20 quality taps and prices ranging from $4 to $19. The most popular include anything from Bell’s,
Hoegaarden, a bright, frothy and lemony Belgium wit and Guinness, the Irish stout that is roasty and jet black.

Don't forget to stop in on Monday nights to soak up the free jazz series.

Slows Bar BQ
Open:
Mon. - Fri. 11 a.m.-2 a.m.
2138 Michigan Ave
Sat.- Sun. Noon-2 a.m.
Detroit, MI
Price: Entrees: $9-$25, Combos $16-23
313-962-9828
www.slowsbarbq.com

Holly Smith is a confessed addict to contemporary fiction, travel, and coffee. She would like it known that she despises the NY Yankees.

MoHa! (Oslo, Norway) @
The Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit
Wednesday, October 4
THINKBOX (Canada/USA)
Paris '68 DJs (Detroit)
9 p.m., $5

Art Openings Galore: Scott Hocking @ Susanne Hillberry, Robert Sestok @ Ellen Kayrod, the Pioneer Building open studios. Check these out and more on our comprehensive arts calendar.

More @ CAID
Friday, October 6 (and every 1st Friday)
Beautiful Blend
featuring a variety of guests including
Jay Spliff, Polynote, Bobby Dolo, Milieum, GreenSKY, Modes
Tommy, Chedda Bob and others

• Saturday, October 7
The CAID and Dance Elixir present
ACTIONS IMMEDIATE
One night only! The artists of Oakland (CA)- based performance company Dance Elixir are hailed for their glamorous aesthetic and fierce technique. Tonight they are joined by local music and performance artists for an evening of live art improvisations and creations.
Leyya Tawil, dance
Topher Keyes, electronic scores
Mike Khoury, violin
Jeremy Kallio, dance
Michael Caleb, electric guitar
Cristina Waltz, video
8pm door, 8:30-10pm show
$5
for more about DE visit www.danceElixir.org

Breathe Art Theatre Project's CLOSER, called "relevant... riveting. ..and in-yer-face" by The Windsor Star, transfers this week to Detroit's 1515 Broadway where it will run from Friday, September 29 to Saturday, October 14.

Reservations can be made by calling the Breathe Art Hotline at 519.980.0607 or emailing BreatheArtTheatrePr oject@yahoo. com

Performance Schedule:
1515 Broadway, Detroit, MI
Friday, September 29 - Saturday, October 14
Show Times: Fri. - Sat. @ 8 pm, Sun. @ 2 pm

Ticket Price:
$20 Adults, $12 Students/Sunday

Chamber Music At The Scarab Club, Sunday, October 8th

Please consider coming to the opening of our NINTH season! We have some beautiful music for you: a piece for clarinet and strings, a piece for violin and viola, a piece for 2 cellos and a piece for 3 cellos and double-bass. Can't you already hear the beautiful sounds of the main gallery in your ears?

Clarinet Quintet by African-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) 3 Madrigals for viola and violin by Martinu Sonate d'Yver for 2 cellos by Nicolas Bacri (1961-) Sonata for 3 cellos and bass by G. C. Wagenseil (1715-1777) Performers are: Brian Bowman, clarinet Velda Kelly and Andrew Wu, violins Caroline Coade and Scott Stefanko violas Nadine Deleury, Eugene Zenzen and Nicole Shogren cellos. Jean Posekany-Lockhart double-bass

All of this for Scarabs at $15 per person (reception included!). $18 for single tickets when reserved and $20 at the door. Students under 25 with ID are $10