Detroit Life

From a writer’s perspective – especially that of a journalist – Kwame Kilpatrick is without question the gift that keeps on giving. Last year he provided the Free Press with a Pulitzer, and this year it looks like the Tales of Kilpatrick will only be getting bigger and better. If Kilpatrick was the only story [...]

First of all, and I suppose you could call this somewhat of a confession, I do love Subway. Seriously. I always figure that if I’ve got enough in the bank account to get myself a Subway sandwich for lunch while I’m at work, then perhaps things will work out after all. Sad, it’s true, but [...]

You know, it’s getting to where I almost don’t care whether or not we get the million dollars in restitution back from Kilpatrick. Seriously. Just…I mean…just leave already. OK, Kwame? I mean DAMN… Look… do whatever it takes to keep him out of Detroit and out of Detroit headlines. For now and forevermore. And I [...]

True to their promise, Time magazine continues to crank out stories designed to shine an informative little light on our beloved city, exposing to the world all the relevant matters that affect this embattled community. Thanks to Time, the world will now know our full and complete story. The world will know why we matter. [...]

So according to a rather interesting column in the Detroit Free Press written by Rochelle Riley recently, it seems at least half of our incoming City Council members either already have their gun permits and are packing heat, or they are in the process of getting cleared to pack heat. Damn. OK, so maybe this [...]

I think Gary Brown said it best a few nights before receiving enough votes to become Detroit City Council’s President Pro Tem when he said, “I think our city council should be the most boring but effective city council this city has ever seen.” That’s somewhat of a paraphrase since I didn’t have my pen [...]

I say let ‘em strip. It’s been about a month since I saw any stories in the papers about the latest moral indignation uprising against strip clubs in Detroit, but last I heard the City Council was supposed to be debating whether or not to implement a crackdown. From what’s been reported, if the tightened [...]

The reflex action exhibited by a lot of Detroiters when Time magazine made the decision to camp out in our front yard and begin filing stories on our demise was shock, rage, horror, dismay. Etc. And while I do understand that reflex, because like most Detroiters I have grown bitterly accustomed to the onslaught of [...]

No, you’re right. Losing the 3-time WNBA championship woman’s basketball team the Detroit Shock to Tulsa, Oklahoma isn’t like we’re losing a real team. I mean hell, it’s only women’s basketball, right? Since when were women ever considered to be real athletes worth paying for or crying over? But hey, if we’d lost the Detroit [...]

I really don’t know why Smitty killed Lucky. I really don’t. My wife and I did everything we could to keep him from going over there, but no matter what we did, Smitty would always find a way to get back into the neighbor’s yard. He knew instinctively that there was always an opening somewhere, it was just a matter of testing the weaknesses until one of them gave way.