Metro Times: Reckless Eyeballing

Motor City Motors premieres tonight @ 10

From the people behind The Deadliest Catch comes a brand-new Discovery Channel show, and it's set in Detroit.

Motor City Motors follows custom-bike builders Dave and James Kaye, the dudes who run Detroit Bros. Custom Cycles in Ferndale, as they take on See and hear for yourself. Turn up your speakers.

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Have a Very Scary Christmas, it's the bloodiest time of year ...

Cartoonist Sean Bieri set out to deck the halls with blood and horror last holiday season, but we thought his carnal cartoons worthy of another go-round as we head into 2010.

Check out Bieri's 12 Days of Zombie Christmas project, which he launched last Dec. 22. Each morning, till the second of January, Bieri posted a new cartoon.

There's some pretty great New Year's postcards to boot.

Bieri's favorite zombie moment in history comes by way of Just taking this decade into consideration, Detroit Public Radio (WDET-FM 101.9), has seen its fair share of programming tweaks, shifts, and flips. Come December 26, the station will transition programming once again, implementing substantial changes to both weekday and weekend broadcasts.

With one year as general manager tucked under his belt, J. Mikel Ellcessor says he's making these changes to fill in some gaps he sees in the market. "There are too few opportunities for curious adults to stay informed," Ellcessor says in this morning's press release.&nbs ...

IDIOT BOXING & TIM ALLEN IN ST. LOUIE

Allen doesn't live here anymore.

ST. LOUIS — Tim Allen has found a new sound to replace the unintelligible, Neanderthal male grunts that propelled him to the '90s sitcom classic Home Improvement and, ultimately, to stardom. It's "doh-de-doh-de-doh."

On the current 10-city standup concert tour to promote his forthcoming movie Crazy on the Outside, in which he stars, makes his directorial debut and served as financier, Allen claims it's the sound you swear airport security guards, post office counter workers and similar service employees are making as they dawdle nonchalantly while wasting your t ...

The Jacksons meet reality TV

The real thing: Jackie, Marlon, Tito and Jermaine.

“You Only Think You Know Them” is the tagline A&E is using for The Jack5ons: A Family Dynasty, the new six-part reality series (if you can call anything regarding the Jackson family “reality”) premiering at 9 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13, with back-to-back hour-long episodes on the cable channel. (The following week, the show slips into its regular time slot of 10 p.m. Sunda ...

Young at heart in Detroit: Poet Al Young, that is

And where does sunlight go? What does it do?
Light feeds each breath we take, light circulates
and in its round-and-round produces you
and me and everything that jumps or waits.

… or so muses the poet Al Young in a recent poem at his extensive Web site, alyoung.org. Between his Mississippi earliest years and the U-M studies that launched him as poet, Young came of age in Detroit. Those were the years that informed his novel Snakes, years that fig ...

the emails we get #138: coney dog poster

Working at Metro Times, you never know what kind of fun stuff you'll discover in your email inbox. This morning, I found this. Yeah, a website dedicated to artistic renderings of hot dogs with geographic connotations. Papaya dog, really? What have I been missing out on?

Anyway, they have a Detroit Coney poster. But we have to ask, does anyone really call the chili "coney sauce?" Gross. And did we want to know we're eating cow hearts? And who's buying these? Does anyone else think the dog looks like a tongue wearing a birthday hat?

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New York by way of Detroit Artist Tristan Eaton Redesigns SoulTrain

Tristan Eaton is originally from L.A., but Detroit blood runs through his veins. Afterall, this is the city where the guy blossomed into one of pop culture's most relevant artists. Now based in New York, we feel we can claim him as our son. His mother, Pryor the Spirit of Detroit Award for an animal rescue he founded here with his wife. Well, times are hard. It's up for auction here.

Thoughts?

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