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  • Detroit summer school open to high school students outside district

    Detroit - Detroit Public Schools is opening its summer program to high school students outside the district, hoping to attract new families year round and reverse its declining enrollment. The new Summer School Academy, to run June 17-July 26, also will offer a pre-kindergarten transition program, weekly field trips and a social studies and science curriculum to target students who received low ...

  • Red Wings Take Game 3 And 2-1 Series Lead Over Blackhawks

    DETROIT (AP) -Gustav Nyquist and Drew Miller scored 31 seconds apart midway through the second period and Pavel Datsyuk restored a two-goal lead in the third to help the Detroit Red Wings beat the Chicago Blackhawks 3-1 Monday night to take a 2-1 lead in the second round series. Patrick Kane scored 4:35 into the third period to pull Chicago within one. The Blackhawks celebrated as if they tied ...

  • In photos Dave Birketts top 50 players in the NFL

    NFL Network goes through this process every year, ranking the top 100 players in the ...

  • AEG lawyer revises testimony on Michael Jackson This Is It contract

    In this March 5, 2009 file photo, US singer Michael Jackson announces at a press conference that he is set to play ten live concerts at the London O2 Arena in July 2009. / AP Photo/Joel ...

  • Detroit City Council approves hiring of new top lawyer

    Detroit - The City Council on Tuesday approved the appointment of Portia Roberson as Detroit's new top lawyer, but rejected a recommendation to hike the pay scale for the position. Before voting 8-0 against a compensation increase, City Council members said it would send a "bad message" at a time when the city is under emergency management and facing potential bankruptcy. ...


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Movie Review

The Phantom of Liberty (Le Fantôme de la liberté) [DVD]

The Phantom of Liberty (Le Fantôme de la liberté) [DVD]

As cowriter Jean-Claude Carrire notes in a brief excerpt from a 2000 interview on the new Criterion Collection DVD of The Phantom of Liberty (Le Fantme de la libert), master surrealist and provocateur Luis Buuel was essentially given free reign when making it ... ...

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  • Michigan to launch school violence hotline

    Lansing - Attorney General Bill Schuette and other state officials announced plans Tuesday to develop a new statewide hotline for students, parents and members of the public to leave confidential tips about potential school violence. The OK-2-SAY system would replace an underused school violence hotline created in 2004 by giving tipsters confidentiality protection under proposed changes in state ...

  • Detroit judge I lusted after mistress

    A Wayne County judge opened up Tuesday during his misconduct hearing about his affair with a woman who appeared as a witness in a child-support case in his ...

  • Poll Michigan voters back sales tax hike to fund roads

    LANSING — A majority of Michigan voters would favor a one percentage point hike in the state sales tax if the extra money raised went to fix state roads, according to a poll released today by EPIC/MRA of Lansing.But voters are mostly split on how to raise more than $1 billion a year to fix and maintain the ...

  • Movement afterparties May 25-27

    4264 Grand River: Ghost in the Sound, with Echospace, JPLS, Population One, Nospectacle, Woody McBride, Steve Stoll, the Flashbulb, Memnok, Paranormal Tek, Austin Churchill and A Sharp, 9 p.m. Sun. 4262 Grand River, Detroit.Bleu Detroit: Desolatismus, with Martin Buttrich, Guti and Dru Ruiz, 10 p.m. Fri. Anthony Attalla & Victor Calderone, with Miguel Alvarado, 10 p.m. Sat. Stacey Pullen, ...

  • Novi food truck rally postponed

    A Novi food truck rally scheduled for midday Wednesday at Haggerty Corridor Corporate Park has been postponed, its organizers announced today. A new date for the rally will be set soon, they ...

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