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The Detroit City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution supporting the Living Wage for Musicians Act, a federal proposal introduced by U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Detroit Democrat, to overhaul the way artists are paid for digital streams.Detroit is the latest major city to formally endorse the legislation. In May, New York City passed a similar resolution.Today, streaming accounts for roughly 84% of all recorded music revenue in the U.S., but artists often earn just fractions of a cent per play, sometimes as little as $0.003 per stream. At that rate, a musician needs more than 800,000 monthly streams to earn the equivalent of a full-time, $15-an-hour job, according to Detroit’s resolution.Supporters urged the council to join the push for higher streaming royalties, pointing to Detroit’s major influence on music. Marcus Miller, co-founder of the Creative Union, a group that supports artists, innovators, and entrepreneurs, told council members that the legislation could help Detroit’s creativ
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Utopia Gardens in DetroitOne of Detroit’s first dispensaries, Utopia Gardens cultivates its own flower and live resin, and it carries numerous other brands. On Wednesday and Friday, the entire store is 35% off.
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In a city that gave the world Motown, techno, and countless other artistic movements, too many Detroit children still grow up without access to art or music education. A new citywide initiative hopes to change that. The Detroit Partnership for Arts Education (DPAE) launched this year and brings together health care leaders, educators, philanthropists, and artists to expand access to the arts for all Detroit children, regardless of their ZIP code or family’s income. The idea is that art not only develops creativity but it makes young people better future employees and citizens.
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The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights and pro-Israel lobbying organization, quietly filed a sweeping Freedom of Information Act request with Wayne State University seeking emails from thousands of faculty, staff, and administrators that referenced Palestine, Zionism, or the student group Students for Justice in Palestine. Critics say the request was designed to intimidate and surveil pro-Palestinian voices on campus.
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The owner of a high-quality cannabis grow operation in Kalkaska called a former employee the N-word and then insisted he wasn’t a racist, according to text messages obtained by Metro Times. Flos Cannabis owner Timmy Holton, who is white, made the comments about his former employee in a text message to someone else.
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Fifteen months after Metro Times exposed coerced confessions and illegally destroyed criminal files, exonerees and families of people still locked up are demanding action and a face-to-face meeting with Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy. In July 2024, Metro Times revealed widespread misconduct tied to now-retired Detroit homicide Detective Barbara Simon and the illegal purge of prosecutor files from 1995 and earlier. The records were destroyed while Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan was prosecutor between 2001 and 2004, according to Worthy's office.
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State regulators fined 11 cannabis businesses in metro Detroit in September and revoked the license of another for various violations ranging from selling expired or contaminated marijuana to improperly tagging their products. The fines are noticeably lower this month after the state’s Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA) pledged to reduce penalties on the struggling industry, which will face a 24% wholesale tax in January.
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A new lawsuit alleges that Triumph Church and its pastor, the Rev. Solomon Kinloch Jr., who is a candidate for Detroit mayor, violated state and federal laws after the church purchased the former AMC Star Southfield theater site in Southfield. The church later conveyed that property to a private limited liability company “controlled exclusively” by Kinloch, according to the lawsuit filed by Highland Park activist Robert Davis in Oakland County Circuit Court on Tuesday.
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A Republican state lawmaker leading a campaign to ban pornography in Michigan appears to have had an account on a pornographic hook-up website that promised users they could “find sex” and “get laid tonight,” according to records obtained by Metro Times. State Rep. Josh Schriver, R-Oxford, who has called porn a “scourge” and compared it to heroin, introduced legislation in September to ban online pornography statewide.
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Hank Winchester, the longtime WDIV-TV consumer affairs reporter who was placed on leave this summer while police investigated misconduct allegations, was recently fired from the station — and newly obtained records reveal the detailed allegations against him. Winchester, 51, an Emmy Award-winning journalist who had been with WDIV since 2001, was accused of inappropriately touching […]
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Among those held is a 33-year-old father with life-threatening cancer, and he’s been denied.
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