http://detour-mag.com Detroit's Indie City Guide Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:42:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After two years and nearly 2,500 posts, Detour is transitioning out of the daily blogging game. The Detour brand will continue on but not in the current form you see here. I have a few ideas of where I want to take the site that I will be rolling out ... http://detour-mag.com/2009/05/whats-on-my-mind-the-detour-status-update/ Detroit, Just like the Honorable Kwame Malik Kilpatrick (praised be His name), the greatest mayor in the history of mayors, I will never quit you. Unless I get a job offer in someplace nice, like Portland or Montreal. Then I’ll be out of here faster than a Cass Corridor hooker plies ... http://detour-mag.com/2009/05/detroitist-detour-dyspathy/ The Ghost Is Dancing, Battles On (Sonic Unyon, 2009) MP3: Battles On The previous release by The Ghost Is Dancing, The Darkest Spark, was pure hipster indie pop. But it was excellent. It had great hooks, it was just poppy enough to not be completely offensive, and it seemed to utilize each ... http://detour-mag.com/2009/04/reviews-of-golden-silvers-the-high-strung-immaculate-machine-the-sweptaways-more/ Dave Bing's Dickensian work houses are still kind of Dickensian Dave Bing is a businessman and a job creator. He's a real go-getter who will cut through the red tape and make things happen. Please note that by making things happen, he does not mean correcting his plants' safety violations because ... http://detour-mag.com/2009/04/dave-bing-wont-be-the-osha-man-of-the-year-things-are-different-in-west-michigan-and-lots-of-newspaper-fun/ [nggallery id=9] http://detour-mag.com/2009/04/russian-circles-the-magic-stick-42409/ Joe Harris is a boring, competent man Detroit's CFO Joe Harris is like that nerdy kid who lived alone back in freshmen year. He was always studying, went to sleep early, and usually only talked to you when he wanted the music turned down. He also made the dean's list and ... http://detour-mag.com/2009/04/never-let-the-jocks-count-the-money-don-williamson-doesnt-trust-the-mails-and-martha-reeves-is-a-big-mess-o-fail-tulips-also/ Founded in the Detroit metro area by a group of friends in 2006, These People Comedy's videos have made it to the front page of YouTube, DailyMotion, and other popular video blogs. Current core members Matt Cassatta, Jeff Shackleford, Nick Capul, Tim Bowman, and Joel Sunman will be performing sketches ... http://detour-mag.com/2009/04/homemade-not-porn-detour-talks-to-matt-cassatta-of-these-people-comedy/ Felon Kwame Kilpatrick's fashion forward purse They say prison can change a man. I mean really change him. Maybe that's what happened to felon Kwame Kilpatrick. He was spotted last week going into Fishbones. That's kind of odd on its own, seeing as Kilpatrick is supposed to be living in Dallas. ... http://detour-mag.com/2009/04/felons-love-a-fierce-man-purse-theres-no-reason-to-poll-world-of-warcraft-because-mages-dont-vote-and-faith-healers-keep-thinning-out-the-herd/ Kristallnacht was among the most horrific events in western history. Nearly 100 people were killed, several hundred thousand more were sent to die in concentration camps, synagogues, homes, and businesses were burned by Nazi storm troopers. In the midst of this orgy of mob violence, a prominent German quietly hid ... http://detour-mag.com/2009/04/mmmmmmmma-statue-sized-fistful-of-little-roquefort-cheese-morsels-rolled-in-crushed-nuts/ Many of you have probably seen The Detroit Free Press' new anthem for Detroit commercial, featuring a little ditty called "This Time," sung by Detroit's favorite native son (no, not Kid Rock!) Brian Vander Ark. For the life of me, I cannot remember what made us think that we were ... http://detour-mag.com/2009/04/detroit-lift-up-your-weary-head-rebuild-restore-watch-silly-vintage-video/