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  • Detroit Pistons 2.0 Mobile App for Android and iPhone Offers In-Game Seat Upgrade Option

    April 15, 2013 AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - It's 7:30 p.m. You're at tonight's Detroit Pistons game against the Charlotte Bobcats. You're sitting in the 200-level, but you see some open seats in the 100-level. Tonight - you can use the official Detroit Pistons Mobile App to upgrade your seats in the arena. The Pistons are the second team to provide the seat upgrade option on ...

  • Detroit retirees angry anxious over EMs pension proposals

    Roger Doppelberger of Lexington, who has a daughter, Maria, 14, retired from the Detroit Water Department after 26.5 years. 'I would have never retired early if I had known my pension was in jeopardy,' he says. (Todd McInturf/The Detroit ...

  • Wave pool at Lake Erie Metropark open

    Swimmers take advantage this week of Lake Erie Metropark's newly reopened wave pool in Brownstown Township.(caption info) -- Swimmers take advantage of a nice day, Tuesday June 18, 2013, at Lake Erie Metropark's wave pool in Brownstown Twp. (The Detroit News / Steve Perez) (Photos by Steve Perez/The Detroit ...

  • Celebrate Michigan Photo Contest Sandhill cranes peck their way into finals

    How does a young sandhill crane learn what to eat? Mudg Poster of West Bloomfield had the opportunity to watch a parent and chick at Kensington Metro Park in Milford last month, and her charming photo of the breakfast lesson wins a spot in the finals of The Detroit ...

  • Finances of Hazel Park Schools to be reviewed

    Hazel Park State Superintendent of Instruction Mike Flanagan plans a preliminary review of the Hazel Park School District to assess the ...


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Movie Review

Rome Open City (Roma città aperta) [DVD]

Rome Open City (Roma città aperta) [DVD]

It is probably difficult for Americans, particularly Americans of this day and age, to understand what a profound effect Roberto Rossellinis Rome Open City had when it premiered in Rome a mere six months after the end of World War II. Shot quickly on location in the city itsel ... ...

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  • Frank Langella to take on role of King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre

    Frank Langella , the triple-Tony award winning actor who memorably portrayed Richard Nixon on stage and screen, is to take on King Lear for the Chichester Festival Theatre, it will be announced on Thursday.The role is often called the Everest of acting and has been played in recent years by Derek Jacobi at the Donmar Warehouse and Ian McKellen at the Royal Shakespeare Company.Langella has ...

  • Troubled Detroit court looking for other cuts to avert layoffs

    Layoff notices have gone out to 80 employees who work at 36th District Court in Detroit in union and nonunion positions, but the majority of the layoffs could be averted with other cost-saving methods before they take effect in early July.Among the ideas proposed for cutting costs: 10% wage concessions, unpaid holidays and changes to health care, according to court and union ...

  • Obama seeks further cuts to U.S. Russia nuclear arsenals

    BERLIN — Despite an uphill battle in Moscow and in Congress, President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday to try to shrink the number of U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons, making the case for what he called ...

  • Commemorative walk is call to action echoing MLKs historic 1963 march

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads the Walk to Freedom in Detroit on June 23, 1963. With him are, from left, Walter Reuther, Benjamin McFall, Cmdr. George Harge and Rev. C.L. Franklin. / Tony Spina/Detroit Free ...

  • Jeff Seidel Imagine what a new arena could do for Detroit

    a proposed $650-million hockey arena could be built for the Red Wings.The 18,000-seat arena would be within walking distance of Ford Field, Comerica Park and the Fox ...

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