For Dale Smart, dressing up in old clothes and pretending to have been born in a past century began with a canoe. A replica of an 18th century birchbark canoe, to be exact. A Southfield businesswoman is squaring off against city officials in a nasty fight over whether she can present jazz and blues concerts at the Fine Arts Theater downtown. Police have intervened repeatedly since April to block shows at the theater on Woodward, citing license and safety issues. Still, two killers serving life terms at the Riverside Correctional Facility in Ionia apparently thought they could be like actor Tim Robbins, who dug his way to freedom in the 1994 prison film.
Neighbors claim tower spraying dusted cars, too.
The tower's scene of exotic animals parading before a vibrant purple and blue sunset has been enthusiastically received by the public. A judge imposed a harsh sentence Wednesday on a man who posed as a doctor, saying only sexual assault would have been a worse invasion on his patients than the more than 200 surgeries he performed. Participants in Safe Night, organized by a leadership group called 100 Black Men of Greater Detroit, will watch a television show depicting conflicts and ways to resolve them. Then the young people will break into groups to discuss the show. Carl Wesaw knelt on a sun-drenched dock above the dark waters of Chrishaven Lake.