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  • Blackhawks Stay Alive In Playoffs With 4-1 Win Over Detroit

    Michal Handzus #26 of the Chicago Blackhawks moves between Niklas Kronwall #55 and Daniel Cleary #11 of the Detroit Red Wings in Game Five of the Western Conference Semifinals during the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at the United Center on May 25, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty ...

  • Chicago 4 Detroit 1 Hawks bring series back to Detroit with Game 5 blowout

    Chicago Blackhawks Jonathan Toews scores on Detroit Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard for a 3-1 lead in game 5 of their Stanley Cup playoffs series in Chicago on Saturday May 25, 2013. / Julian H. ...

  • Blackhawks lean on captain Toews to extend series vs. Red Wings

    Detroit Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard, right, saves a shot by Chicago Blackhawks' Jonathan Toews, left, during the second period of Game 5 of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs Western Conference semifinals in Chicago, Saturday, May 25, 2013. (Nam Y. ...

  • Blackhawks beat Red Wings 4-1 to stay alive

    Detroit Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard, right, saves a shot by Chicago Blackhawks' Jonathan Toews, left, during the second period of Game 5 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs Western Conference semifinals in Chicago, Saturday, May 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Nam Y. ...

  • Red Wings lead series 3-2

    Jimmy Howard made 27 saves to help the Detroit Red Wings hold on for a 2-0 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night, putting the NHL's best team during the regular season on the brink of elimination. After losing Game 1, the seventh-seeded Red Wings have surged into control of the second round series by handing Chicago its first three-game losing streak of the year. Game 5 is ...


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Desperate Living [DVD]

Desperate Living [DVD]

By the time writer/director John Waters made Desperate Living in 1977, he was already a notorious midnight-movie cult celebrity, a genuine fringe iconoclastic auteur whose low-budget cinematic barbs skewered self-aggrandizing hippies as readily as it did fascist oppressors. His early movies, Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974), had taken the midnight ... ...

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  • Church bell may ring at Detroit parish again

    The bell stolen from Sweetest Heart of Mary parish in Detroit Friday may soon be back on its perch after it was sold to a man who later heard of the theft.Bill Smith, whose company Henry H. Smith Company restores old pieces like cash registers, purchased the bell after it was stolen sometime last week.The Algonac man said he purchased the bell from a man who was transporting it in a minivan. He ...

  • Minnesota 3 Detroit 2 Tigers unable to catch up

    Miguel Cabrera reacts after striking out in the fifth against the Twins. It was Minnesota righty P.J. Walters' first big-league start of the season. / Carlos ...

  • 1968 Tigers together again for 45-year reunion of World Series win

    Tom Matchick, center, an infielder for the 1968 world championship Tigers, answers a fan's question about the team Saturday. / Carlos Osorio/Associated ...

  • Detroits Movement festival mixes music art good causes

    'STALA Infinite designers Luis Antionio Uribegan, Luis Andres Calderon and Michael Lapp stand next to their artwork, which is part of the Camp Detroit art installations displayed near each main stage during the 2013 Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit on Saturday, May 25, 2013. / Jarrad Henderson/Detroit Free ...

  • If your flight is canceled who pays

    LEIPZIG, GERMANY — Compensation abroad for airline passengers whose flights are canceled is changing with the smoke of a European volcano.Europe has a generous compensation policy, which forces airlines to give each passenger as much as $775 when a flight is canceled.In contrast, the United States has no similar penalty, especially for cancellations blamed on weather or natural disasters. ...

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