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NEWS & VIEWS

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We received a number of responses to our cover story package about COVID-19, which included an article about a City of Detroit billboard campaign to fight misinformation with messages like “Fact: The vaccine will not make you magnetic!”

What an absolute waste of money... just like the lotteries, that studies have shown, had [zero] effect... —Ryan Osinski, Facebook This kind of fact-based messaging isn’t going to work. People have been exposed to the facts and if those haven’t motivated them to get vaccinated, then it’s not likely that more facts will motivate them. You have to appeal to whatever motivates

them… this is something the grifters spreading disinformation understand all too well. ... You don’t need to be a doctor to know that opioid overdoses account for tens of thousands of deaths in the U.S. each year, compared to the vaccine which has been implicated in three deaths among tens of millions of doses... You can take raw [Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System] data and throw it in the trash.

The data that’s actually been authenticated indicates three. Maybe it’s up to five now. Not even close to as dangerous as heroin or the disease being prevented.

COVID-19 is more dangerous than heroin.

The vaccine to prevent it is not. —Andrzej Petrowicz, Facebook Sound off: letters@metrotimes.com. Comments may be edited for clarity.

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NEWS & VIEWS Contact tracing, quarantines, battles against misinformation, and burnout

Michigan school nurses brave the storm of another pandemic-era learning season

By Eleanore Catolico

COVID-19 outbreaks are shutting schools down and putting a strain on Michigan’s school nurses.

For Cathy Farris, the life of a

school nurse is a constant juggling act.

She helps manage hundreds of individual student health plans, which may include treatments for asthma, diabetes, or seizure disorders. She trains school secretaries, janitors, paraprofessionals, and other support staff in first aid and P , or to administer medications like epipens if a student undergoes a severe allergic reaction. She’s on call when medical emergencies arise.

“It feels like I’m working 24/7,” says Farris, who’s worked in Novi schools for 11 years. “Some days are better than others.”

This school year, the demands on Farris and her profession have intensified. Michigan school districts are navigating another season of pandemic-era learning. The chaos of 2020 saw districts scrambling to equip

students with digital devices after school buildings shuttered, child food insecurity rose for the most vulnerable, and thousands of students disappeared from school rolls. Academic engagement and performance suffered during virtual learning. Student mental health deteriorated.

Many students, parents, teachers, and administrators are on a path of recovery. Districts are equipped with more tools and resources to combat the pandemic, but the effects of last year’s damage didn’t evaporate when students flocked back to physical classrooms. Health and safety remains a top priority, and school nurses are often the ones enforcing those protocols. School nurses must keep vigilant eyes on students, so they can be safe, healthy, and ready to learn, more so than ever.

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workers. They’re the most visible and accessible public health experts and ambassadors at schools.

But the overload of O tasks has overwhelmed school nurses.

The escalation in pandemic-related responsibilities, including contact tracing, tracking quarantine rates, helping organize vaccination clinics, administering O tests and health screenings, is also siphoning away time and energy devoted to essential nursing duties.

“They’ve had to put their typical work of care coordination, emergency planning, and health promotion on the backburner and really have had to improvise and adapt to the needs presented by O ,” says vilia Jankowski, the state’s school nurse consultant, who helps lead state efforts to support school nurses at both the Michigan epartment of duca-

tion and the Michigan epartment of Health and Human Services.

At Warren onsolidated chools, school nurses are also shouldering heavy burdens, and Superintendent obert ivernois says staffing levels aren’t adequate. The district currently employs two full-time nurses, and serves about 13,000 students, according to 2020-21 enrollment data.

“Our nurses have taken on the brunt of the O work,” he says.

During her visits to daycares, elementary, and high schools, Farris has already witnessed bouts of colds, flus, and other respiratory illnesses going up. So are chronic conditions like diabetes.

She also monitors and intervenes when mental health struggles appear. ight now, she’s seeing an ious first graders trying to acclimate to new rules, routines, and the hustle and

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bustle of elementary school life after a year isolated at home.

“School nurses have been working long, hard hours, and stepping up to challenges,” Jankowski says. “I’m thankful for the nurses we do have.”

Rising outbreaks, disparate mask rules escalate challenges

As they stepped into these roles, school nurses were besieged by a hurricane of alarming trends: the number of Michigan schools reporting outbreak is growing. Last week, the state health department reported 101 new school-related outbreaks across Michigan, up from 75 the previous week.

In Michigan, COVID has infected more than 201,000 people ages 19 or younger, according to state health officials. As of Nov. 2, 20 deaths have been confirmed for those between the ages of 10 and 19. And more than 450 children under 12 are contracting the virus each day.

A Metro Times analysis also found nine out of 10 counties with the highest number of positive cases amongst students didn’t have mandatory mask policies.

The enforcement of mask mandates in schools varies from county to county. About 42% of all Michigan school districts have a mask mandate, which covers about 60% or roughly 748,000 K-12 students, according to an October state health report. About 7% of school districts eliminated their mask policies.

Wayne and Oakland counties currently have school mask policies in place, while Macomb does not.

The opposition of the mask protocol by some parents is the latest battleground in the school culture wars. School nurses can get caught in the crossfire, and often field those grievances.

“We know that there’s best practices, but the communities we live in may not agree with that,” says Rachel VanDenBrink, the president of the Michigan Association of School Nurses, a school nursing advocacy organization. “So we battle that misinformation.”

A shortage persists, and the fatigue is settling in

Farris says she splits her duties with one other school nurse. She didn’t have a true summer vacation, as staff training and caring for students enrolled in summer school dominated her schedule. These days, she’s calling dozens of parents and relaxing their nerves if their children may have been exposed to the virus, or telling them

when students can return to school after getting sick. Whenever she visits a school building, Farris watches students strolling around hallways and cafeterias, making sure masks are properly secured around their faces.

Her district requires masks, making the job a little easier.

Before becoming schools’ first lines of defense against the public health crisis, the impact of school nurses could be felt in quieter ways. Research shows they helped reduce the number of days missed by students coping with chronic conditions. They connected families with resources for health insurance and services.

“Nurses can do much more than just taking temperatures and making phone calls,” says VanDenBrink. “We do so much for student health and education.”

10 weeks into the school year, the burnout is real, and nurse advocates are calling for more help.

“We’re a little tired, but we knew this was a marathon,” VanDenBrink says. “Add more of us so we aren’t stretched so thin.”

Michigan is one of a few states which doesn’t have a law that requires school districts to hire full-time school nurses. Arizona and Texas also don’t have such a law on the books.

In some cases, the school nurse is the only healthcare professional that regularly communicates with students and their families. Across Michigan, school nurses tend to be in short supply in rural areas, specifically in the mid, lower, and thumb regions.

VanDenBrink is worried about how such deficits in care may compromise students’ well-being. What often ends

As they stepped into these roles, school nurses were besieged by a hurricane of alarming trends: the number of Michigan schools reporting outbreak is growing. Last week, the state health department reported 101 new schoolrelated outbreaks across Michigan, up from 75 the previous week.

But there’s too much to do, and too little qualified labor. Michigan has long suffered a nursing shortage even prior to a pandemic that exposed the racial and economic inequities across the schools. During the 2019-20 academic year, there was one nurse for every 5,347 students, according to state estimates. That ratio was slightly better at the high school level, where there was one nurse for every 4,319 high school students. The figures likely don’t meet the guidelines established by The American Academy of Pediatrics, which currently recommends one nurse for every school building.

Other factors fuel the shortage too.

The average school nurse salary tends to be less competitive than the average hospital nurse salary.

And realities of ‘The Great Resignation,” which has seen millions of people quit their jobs, are reverberating across the education workforce. The teacher talent pipeline is dwindling, and there’s been an uptick in retirements. Other school staff shortages, like security guards and paraprofessionals, are also on the rise. About

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up happening is that much of those daily medical duties end up spilling on the plates of untrained school staff.

These situations are less-than-ideal.

“It’s a safety and liability issue if there’s no school nurse,” VanDenBrink says. “It’s not equitable to students or staff.”

Some relief arrives.

Uncertainty still hangs in the air.

School nurses had often been an undervalued workforce in schools, but as the pandemic raged on, those perceptions amongst district leaders began to shift, VanDenBrink says.

In July, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer approved a $17.1 billion school aid budget, the largest investment directed toward pre-K-12 schools in state history. That budget included sending $240 million over a threeyear period to help districts hire more school psychologists, social workers, counselors, and nurses.

In Warren Consolidated Schools, the district plans to hire a third fulltime school nurse using grant funds,

but as of late October, recruitment efforts thus far have been hamstrung.

“We are still struggling to fill the role due to the shortage,” Livernois says.

As part of their COVID mitigation strategy, the Detroit Public Schools Community District, the largest school district in the state, planned to place contract nurses in each of its roughly 100 school buildings.

Wayne-Westland Community Schools has four full-time nurses who work one-on-one with students who have complex medical needs. There’s also a school-based health clinic at one of the middle schools established in partnership with Beaumont Hospital. The clinic provides health care services for all 9,688 district students.

They’ve spent relief dollars to hire nurses to work inside each school’s COVID isolation rooms, where they’ll help evaluate whether students show COVID symptoms. In late October, nurses are also administering rapid antigen tests for unvaccinated, asymptomatic students who are currently in quarantine.

Pandemic relief dollars won’t be flowing forever. The money is temporary, must be spent during a specific time frame, and some nursing positions are sustained by this limited cash source, Jankowski says. So future job security remains unclear.

But the cavalry may be coming sooner, as the number of applicants to college nursing programs has risen this year.

And there’s been a breakthrough in favor of school nurses’ battle against COVID. Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that children ages 5-11 can get the Pfizer-BioNTech pediatric vaccine, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized its emergency use. More than 825,000 children are now eligible. Children ages 12 to 15 have been eligible for COVID vaccination since May. For VanDenBrink, the promise of pediatric vaccinations could help alleviate some of the COVID-related workload and strife.

“Once we get the vaccine to the younger age group, hopefully that will be the turning point,” she says.

For Farris, the semblance of normalcy, which many students, parents, teachers, and administrators had high hopes for this school year to be, is still a faraway horizon.

“It’s just about the fear of the unknown,” she says. “Where are we going to be in another month?”

This story was reported with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

NEWS & VIEWS

Denise Fair, city of Detroit’s chief public health officer.

CITY OF DETROIT

Now for kids!

City of Detroit urges parents to get young children vaccinated.

But will they listen?

By Steve Neavling

City of Detroit officials on

riday urged parents to get their young children vaccinated against O - , saying it’s a critical step in reducing the spread of the virus ahead of a potential winter surge.

About ,000 children in etroit and 2 ,000 in Michigan are now eligible for a vaccine after the enters for isease ontrol and Prevention last week authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children between and years old. very day in Michigan, an average of more than 0 children under the age of 2 test positive for O - , according to the state epartment of ealth and uman ervices M . More than 20 ,000 Michigan residents ages and younger have been infected with the coronavirus, and 20 have died. etroit will begin offering vaccines to young children on Monday.

But getting shots into the arms of children in etroit is not going to be easy. With ust . of the adult population inoculated, the city has the lowest vaccination rate in the state.

As winter approaches, health officials are bracing for another possible O- wave.

“Now is the time to get your children vaccinated,” enise air, the city’s chief public health officer, said at a news

conference. “We know vaccines work.

There is no doubt about that. t is our best tool to get out of this pandemic.” o far this year, . of Michigan residents who have tested positive for O - were not vaccinated. nvaccinated residents also account for 0. of hospitalizations and 0. of deaths.

The news conference was held in the kylar erbert oom at etroit Public afety headquarters, named in honor of a -year-old girl from etroit who died of O - complications last year. “ t’s a reminder to all of us how fragile life is,” Mayor Mike uggan said of erbert’s death. “ f her parents had vaccines available for her , there is no doubt they would have acted to get her protected. We never lose sight of what’s at stake in this.”

Nicolai itti, superintendent of etroit Public chools ommunity istrict P , said vaccines are critical to preventing school closures and outbreaks. ince the beginning of the school year, about 0 student in Phave tested positive for O - , and more than ,000 students have been quarantined. everal schools have gone to remote learning. “ t allows the teaching process to return to normalcy,” itti said. “ hildren won’t have to quarantine if they

are vaccinated.”

While most children who get infected with O - fully recover, some have been diagnosed with multisystem inflammatory syndrome, which can inflame body parts, including the heart, brain, lungs, and kidneys.

“The risk is death, so we must take this seriously,” r. arla Watson, a pediatric neurologist at hildren’s ospital of etroit, said. “ want to assure you that vaccines are safe,” Watson added. “We have been studying this vaccine for a long time.” chools are one of the biggest source of O - outbreaks and could play a significant role in determining the severity of future infections because children who are infected can spread the virus to their families. n the first nine weeks of the school year, hundreds of outbreaks have been reported at schools.

The city will begin providing vaccines by appointment on Monday. o far, there are two locations The etroit ealth epartment mmunization linic, 00 Mack, p.m.p.m. Mondays through ridays.

Northwest Activities enter, 00 Meyers, a.m.- p.m. Mondays through ridays, a.m.- p.m. on aturdays.

P is working with the city’s

health officials to open public schools on the weekend for vaccines. No dates have been scheduled yet.

To make an appointment, call 2 0-0 0 . To get vaccinated, a child must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. n October, the city launched a campaign called, “ et the va , not the fiction,” which is aimed at dispelling conspiracy theories and myths about O - . The city is also running ads on the radio, television, and websites and is sending every resident a postcard with information on a hotline center for anyone with questions about vaccines.

Parents outside of etroit can find a vaccine site for children at vaccines.gov.

“Being able to vaccinate children ages to with the safe and effective O- vaccine brings us hope and also an additional opportunity to urge all eligible Michiganders to get vaccinated,” r. Natasha Bagdasarian, M chief medical e ecutive, said in a statement.

“We know these vaccines work and protect our children and their families. ven healthy children can suffer serious effects from O - . The vaccines remain our way out of the pandemic, and more than 2 ,000 more children in our state are now eligible.”

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NEWS & VIEWS Informed Dissent

Making a bad situation worse

By Jeffrey C. Billman

The worst thing about Terry McAuliffe’s loss wasn’t the fusillade of ournalists churning out pre-writes of emocrats’ midterm obituaries, or the schizophrenic New York Times editorial that accused the party of going too far left while simultaneously endorsing its policy goals, or even the fact that epublicans now have evidence that going full knuckle-dragger on O and critical race theory turns out their voters no less than Build the Wall did in 20 . t’s that emocrats, being emocrats, have a pathological ability to learn the wrong lesson from their defeats, which means they’re almost certain to take a bad situation and make it worse by trying to fi it in all the wrong ways. t took all of four days, in fact, for ouse ems to decouple the infrastructure and reconciliation bills after binding them for months now progressives are at the mercy of emocratic moderates who feel vindicated by last week’s results. igh.

There are, of course, lessons to be learned from the irginia debacle and the close call in New ersey . One is that emocrats need a better messaging strategy any messaging strategy, really. The second hit happens, so make hay while the sun shines.

But the wrong lesson, by which mean the one they’ll take to heart, is that voters are very concerned about Big overnment, so they should slow things down.

But paid family leave, lower Medicare drug prices, e panded Affordable are Act subsidies, child ta credits, universal pre- , and investing in sustainable energy all poll through the stratosphere. o does ta ing billionaires and corporations.

The truth is that irginians didn’t vote against McAuliffe because they despise child ta credits. As much as we delude ourselves, politics become more and more detached from policy every year. irginia’s dark-red counties wouldn’t have voted differently if the reconciliation bill began its legislative ourney at half the price tag. Politics, especially but not e clusively at the

There are lessons to be learned from the Virginia debacle.

base level, is a demonstration of cultural values a reflection of how we see ourselves.

After Trump’s election, emocrats showed up en masse, motivated by the threats Trump posed to democratic norms, human rights, and our Twitter feeds. Now it’s the epublican base’s turn. They, too, see themselves as defending their values against forces reordering the world they know threats real, imagined, and e aggerated pandemic mandates, cancel culture, critical race theory, the “stolen” election, Black ives Matter, BT books in school libraries, etc. There’s not much emocrats can do to curb their enthusiasm, particularly when ems are in power and become the focus for grievances.

The bigger problem for emocrats is that they gave back some of the anti-Trump swing voters oe Biden won last year. The Biden coalition relied on swaying moderate, educated white suburbanites along with uicing turnout from the party’s base of urban liberals and people of color, while scraping together ust enough rural voters to win ust Belt states. n irginia, swing voters broke hard against the party in power. Put simply, they weren’t happy with the status quo.

There are several obvious e planations The economy languished in the third quarter as O ’s delta wave wreaked havoc ironically, the data show that Biden paid a political price for epublicans’ refusal to get a vaccine.

Beginning with the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, the months preceding the election offered a string of hits on Biden’s competence ongress’ inability to get his signature legislation across

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Democrats, being Democrats, have a pathological ability to learn the wrong lesson from their defeats. the finish line didn’t help.

But the epublicans also campaigned on issues that resonated, including the notion decoupled from reality, but effective regardless that schools are teaching white kids that they’re bad people. As T was redefined to include anything involving diversity, equity, and inclusion or whatever made white people feel weird the astroturf outrage at school board meetings across the country convinced a lot of white parents that something untoward was happening. No parent wants their child to be demonized in school if you’re told often enough that an accurate, conte tual rendering of American history demonizes your child, you’re liable to believe it. emocrats never had an answer. They also didn’t know how to campaign on what they’d accomplished with the power voters had given them 220 million vaccines delivered and million obs added to the economy in less than 0 months, yet fewer than a third of voters think the country is on the right track. nstead, McAuliffe campaigned against the ghost of onald Trump, trying to drive up turnout in Northern irginia. But he ignored rural irginia and paid dearly for it. The first rule of politics People won’t vote for you if you don’t ask them to.

But as much as pundits like to analyze

these tea leaves and ascribe blame for losses, the reality of American politics is that parties that hold the White ouse lose races. ince , the president’s party has gained ouse seats in the midterms only three times, all under special circumstances the reat epression , Bill linton’s impeachment , and post 2002 . n other words, emocrats should assume that the midterms will be brutal, and there’s nothing they can do about it. o rather than “moving to the center” in the name of unlikely selfpreservation, they’d be better served by locking in as much as they can before epublicans reclaim the ma ority and halt progress on climate change, health care, and wealth inequality. Then spend the ne t two years bragging about what you accomplished and epublicans didn’t in every corner of the country. o that, and if the economy is still growing, you’ll win in 202 .

But if emocrats learn the wrong lesson from last week the lesson the Beltway media thinks they should and the party’s moderates block or further water down the reconciliation package after getting their way on the infrastructure deal, what story will emocrats have to tell Get more Informed Dissent at billman. substack.com.

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NEWS & VIEWS The Incision

What toddler parenting taught me about global climate policy

By Abdul El-Sayed

“Look, if you don’t stop this tantrum right now, we’re going to have to take away one of your toys!”

Some permutation of that threat can be heard on any given weeknight in our household. We’re not proud of it; these aren’t our finest hours.

Sarah and I are blessed to have an energetic, charming, and, in the parenting vernacular, spirited 3-year-old. The spirit spilleth over. Epic tantrums, we understand, are the cost of characteristics we hope will make our Emmalee a strong adult.

Our threats rarely work. Even in the logic of negotiation, they’re not very good threats. We’re both bargaining from a position of weakness — she’s already tantruming, after all. For her part, however powerful the loss of her toys is as an incentive, there are several aspects to this particular loss that blunt its psychological power. First, it’s poorly defined. After all, it’s unclear e actly which toy she might lose, or when or for how long she will lose it. She’s also come to believe in her well-honed skills to both continue her tantrum and play up her charm just in the nick of time to save Hanah the Rabbit or her Lego set from banishment. So she kicks the can down the road. She keeps tantruming, we keep threatening. And ust as we identify a toy and take it away, she shuts off the tear valve and starts to apologize. The toy goes away for a few minutes, only to be sweet-talked back.

Rinse and repeat. We all lose.

But why am I writing to you today about my daughter’s tantrums? Well, it might just teach us a thing or two about global climate action. Both fail for the same reasons. ust like my daughter’s undefined toy, what climate change will take from us is poorly defined. That flummo es public policy in very predictable ways. Who is going to be harmed? It’s not clear.

When? Not sure. How? Could be one of a range of possibilities. Because we can’t specifically identify the nature of

President Joe Biden and other world leaders at the COP26 summit in Glasgow.

the loss we’re trying to avert, we’re less committed to averting it.

There’s more. After all, we’re already e periencing climate change. t’s occurring in the form of once-in-a-lifetime hurricanes battering the Southeast. nheralded wildfires are burning across the West Coast. Rainstorms are challenging our decaying infrastructure, leading to cataclysmic flooding events across the midwest. It’s already here.

But here’s the problem: While these climate events are astounding, they haven’t touched the vast majority of people on this globe in discernible ways. That motivated a perverse complacency. If climate change is already here, I guess it’s not that bad, too many wrongly conclude.

What’s worse, most of the folks hit hardest by climate change aren’t the ones making decisions that could halt it. Global inequality has allowed those with the means to insulate themselves from the insecurity of climate change.

Those best positioned to solve it have the least incentive to do so.

Just like my daughter believes she can shut off her tears ust in the nick of time, so do we as a society. We keep kicking the can down the road. That’s particularly tempting considering the cost of action on climate change is e actly the opposite of its consequences t’s well-defined, immediate, and direct. And we humans are really bad at trading well-defined, immediate, and direct resources to avert poorly defined, long-term, indirect harm.

And those are the challenges facing action by just one country. The international incentives on climate action are even more ve ing. n lasgow, cotland on Sunday, global leaders convened the

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Asking India to forgo the same cheap and easy energy sources that allowed us to develop would be like never giving our next child a toy because of the tantrum my daughter had years ago.

United Nations Climate Change Conference OP2 , which climate e perts are calling “the last best chance” to avert the worst consequences of climate change. cientific consensus tells us that we need to keep global temperatures from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius (even though many scientists believe that we may already, in fact, peak at a higher temperature), to keep the most catastrophic consequences of climate change at bay. That requires the world’s largest emitters to do their part.

Here’s the hard part. Global climate change started with the industrial revolution centuries ago, when on the backs of cheap and easy fossil fuels, advanced economies like the U.S. and Europe developed into major economies. We remain some of the worst emitters today, but those emissions don’t change the very nature of our economy as they do in developing economies like India, where nearly 20% of the population still didn’t have electricity as late as 20 . Asking India to forgo the same cheap and easy energy sources that allowed us to develop would be like never giving our ne t child a toy because of the tantrum my daughter had years ago.

We have to make it up to them — which means massive investment in green technology and infrastructure in

low-income countries to allow them to continue to develop without the massive emissions. That’s where the Green Climate Fund, a multinational investment fund for clean energy pathways in low-income countries created out of the 2009 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, comes in. The fund set an ambitious goal of raising $100 billion by 2020. It raised just a tenth of that. The U.S., by far the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter throughout history, has only committed $3 billion, reneging on that commitment under the Trump administration.

Perhaps COP26 will be the moment when we do our part. But we can’t even seem to get our own house in order.

The Biden administration has committed to cutting emissions in half by 2030, yet his agenda to achieve that is being stymied by just one man who profits off of fossil fuels himself, holding the whole world hostage to his political temper tantrums. I wish I could bring Joe Manchin to my house to negotiate with my daughter. She’d win. Which is a good thing, because it’s her and her generation’s futures he’s trying to negotiate away.

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FEATURE

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Crazy for

CRABS Local chefs put a Detroit spin on the Viet-Cajun seafood boil

By Tom Perkins

Across metro Detroit, seafood

boil restaurants are stuffing glorious tangles of spiny king crab legs, slender snow crab legs, shrimp, crawfish, and lobster into bags studded with corn, potatoes, and sausage. The bounty is submerged in big-flavored butter sauces enhanced with ingredients like garlic, herbs, and lemon, and sometimes the package is spiked with what seems like handfuls of ca un spices that render the liquid a deep burgundy.

hefs package the seafood in clear plastic bags that are typically placed in buckets before being plunked down on a table. iners tie on a bib, pull on a pair of plastic gloves, and start peeling, cracking, noshing, and dipping while knocking back beers.

The seafood boil ritual is cartoonishly sloppy and a bit of a carnal affair, and it’s super popular. n recent years, about 20 boil purveyors have cropped up around metro etroit, with names like Mad rab, rafty rab, aucey rab, rab ouse, rab ut, and razy rab or razy rab. aucey rab and Asian Mart now host karaoke nights with their seafood boils, and acclaimed chef Ma ardy’s take on the genre, What’s rackin’, is e pected to open soon on etroit’s Avenue of ashion. estaurateurs say the reason for the concept’s popularity is simple ombining salt, butter, spices, crustaceans, and a sanctioned mess is a winning formula. “ ou got the bib. ou got the gloves. ou got the flavor. And you go divin’ into the bag. t’s an e perience,” says aucey rab owner Angie Middleton, who has restaurants in etroit and outhfield.

The wave hasn’t only hit etroit hundreds of Seafood boils, like this one from Detroit Pho and Crab, have been growing in popularity.

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similar restaurants have been bagging up seafood around the country over the last several decades, and while the concept traces back to the ouisiana seafood boil, the craze is actually what food historians and ulf oast chefs have more accurately labeled iet- a un a confluence of ietnamese and ouisiana cuisines and cultures. iet- a un boils involve a few minor but important differences. hief among them the crustaceans are served in plastic bags filled with bold sauces. n traditional ouisiana boils, shellfish aren’t bathed in butter sauce bags or accompanied with dips. ietnameseAmerican immigrants are responsible for that tweak, and that happened in ouston, not New Orleans, sometime in the late 0s.

“The whole thing was born and bred out of ouston about 20 years ago,” says iet uong, who in 20 opened the rawfish afe at a food court in ouston’s hinatown. e estimates there are eight iet- a un seafood boil spots within three blocks of his restaurant, and says the dish is now as much a part of the city’s identity as brisket.

But what we see in etroit is still a little different yet. iet- a un restaurants around the country are largely owned by ietnamese-Americans and or are part of corporate chains. That partially holds true in southeast Michigan’s suburbs aleigh, North arolina-based rab u our recently opened a location in earborn as part of a rapid national e pansion , but most restaurants in etroit the nation’s Blackest big city are Black-owned, and some incorporate a soul element. etroit rab ouse ibs and oul afe, which first opened in 200 and now has two locations, claims to “have brought the seafood boil flavor to the city,” and offers ribs, pork chops, chicken alfredo, baked potatoes, greens, and more.

There’s also a difference in the sauces, Middleton says. Those at ietnamese-American-owned restaurants are good, but those at Black-owned shops “are different, you get more spice, more flavor,” she says.

Those may be fighting words, but the lowest spice

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level at Saucey, called “light foot lion,” is electric with cayenne, while the hottest, “piping pistons,” is so hot it might as well be molten.

The concept may be especially popular here because so many have roots in the deep south, with their families arriving during the Great Migration, so seafood boils are “a natural fit for Detroiters — a natural progression,” Hardy says.

Regardless, Detroit’s boil restaurants represent a localized evolution to an already compelling story that on a deeper level illustrates how American imperialism, immigration and migration, and local flavor profiles shape the nation’s food and culture.

Detroit’s boilers came to their craft along diverse paths. Middleton, a former hair stylist and co-owner of the Sauce Bar on Seven Mile Road, saw how the bar’s 20 boil night took off, and opened Saucey Crab the next year.

On the east side, DeCarlos Stewart is a proud entrepreneur who saw the boil as a business opportunity. He added crustaceans to the menu a few years ago at his late-night carryout restaurant, Detroit Wing Spot, which he now describes as “if McDonalds sold lobster instead of cheeseburgers.” He had no culinary experience prior to Wing Spot, but taught himself the art by watching online videos and cooking shows.

The boil boomed, so Stewart set out to build a sit-down, seafood boil-centered restaurant in Warren, which is expected to open this fall.

“For me, it was trial and error,” Stewart says. “I have YouTube and my imagination. ou start finding inspiration and say ‘OK, what’s poppin’? What do people want?’”

In Madison Heights, Detroit Pho and Crab was among the region’s seafood boil pioneers. It’s owned by the Le family, which moved here from California, where Viet-Cajun boils have been a thing for about 15 years. The family had run a nail shop at one point, but they saw an opportunity to open one of the first concepts in 20 and umped at it. Pho and Crab remains one of metro Detroit’s most popular boil spots, and also offers a range of ietnamese dishes.

Its dining room on a recent night highlighted the cuisine’s power to bring diverse groups together in a way that few other foods in metro Detroit can.

Co-owner Peter Le touts the fresh garlic and ingredients that he uses in his sauces — instead of a premade cajun spice blend — as the secret behind the restaurant’s success, but, wider angle, he sees the concept’s popularity in pretty simple terms: “People love seafood and they don’t just want it boiled — they want the sauce on it.”

DeCarlos Stewart describes his Detroit Wing Spot, inspired by the seafood boil trend, as “if McDonalds sold lobster instead of cheeseburgers.”

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The roots To fully understand Detroit’s boil boom, one has to go back to the 1975 fall of Saigon when tens of thousands of ietnamese fled for the states as the ietnam War entered its final chapter.

Many landed in the Gulf of Mexico region, and soon they were putting their own touches on dishes like the seafood boil while developing what would eventually be called Viet-Cajun cuisine. n ouisiana boils, crawfish and other crustaceans absorb all their flavor from coriander, mustard seed, lemon, bay leaves, and other seasoning that’s added to the boiling water, along with corn and potato. The pot is drained and the goods are placed on a table and picked apart as are, sans sauce. In Viet-Cajun boils — and in what we see variations of in Detroit — chefs sometimes boil crustaceans in spices first, but typically also shake them up in the plastic bag butter sauce bath, and diners pull shellfish from the plastic bag.

“The main difference between the two is the sauce. In the Louisiana boil, you put the garlic and seasoning in the

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pot, pull it out, and you don’t soak it in sauce — you just serve it the way it is,” says Duong, who runs Houston’s rawfish afe. “The sauces add an e tra layer of flavor,” New Orleans didn’t even have such a restaurant until recent years, notes Viet-Cajun chef Anh Luu, who runs the kitchen at New Orleans’ Bywater Brew Pub. “People are very traditionalist here with their local foods, and boiled crawfish is a thing that people’s grandparents from the bayou taught them how to do,” she says. “It has taken a little a while to change their minds about how they want to eat their crawfish.”

Though the specifics of the ietCajun genesis are vague, it’s generally agreed that it occurred in the food court at the Hong Kong Mall in Houston’s Chinatown. The point-oforigin theory is supported by one of the earliest known media mentions of VietCajun seafood boils, a 2002 story from Houston Press food writer Robb Walsh under the headline of “Asian-Cajuns.”

In it, Walsh expresses his shock at see-

ing a new concept in an early iteration at the mall.

“While I’m waiting for a couple of pounds of boiled crawfish at a un Corner restaurant, I notice a young Vietnamese-American guy approach the little table covered with condiments near the front counter. He dumps several tablespoons of a ground red pepper into a small bowl, then he squirts in mayonnaise and ketchup and stirs it all up.

“Is that a dipping sauce for the crawfish ” ask him in disbelief.

“Yeah,” he says. “I like it really hot.” …

“Tray in hand, I study the condiment station. ’ve been eating crawfish for many years, but I can’t say I’ve ever eaten it with a dipping sauce.”

Soon after, the boil bags appeared, and during the early 2000s, the agglomeration would filter out to alifornia, then across the country.

Viet-Cajun works so well for several reasons — the gulf and Vietnam are both coastal regions with similar climates, and the cuisines’ merger flowed naturally with their similar flavor profiles, heavy rench influences, reliance on pork and seafood, and no shortage of salt and spice, notes Luu. She’s taken Viet-Cajun beyond just the seafood boil, developing dishes with southeast Asian, Gulf, and even Me ican components, like crawfish touff e nachos made with fried wonton chips, or a “phorrito,” which, as the name suggest, is a pho burrito.

Notably, and thankfully, Viet-Cajun cuisine hasn’t been altered as it went mainstream. Normally, spicy foods developed by immigrants or regional populations are “dumbed down” or made less spicy to suit white peoples’ palettes, Luu notes.

In fact, the opposite seems to be happening — the dishes in Detroit are possibly getting even hotter, and that could owe to several factors. America is an increasingly diverse place with an everevolving collective palette, and right now it’s demanding more authenticity.

Luu also notes that social media has played a clear role. Indeed, on Detroit’s east side, Wing Spot owner Stewart says he first learned of the dish via the internet. or all its flaws, social media does provide chefs with more of an opportunity to get it right, and the result is a cuisine that has remained intact by the time it reached Detroit.

“Real Vietnamese is super duper spicy, and ... all southeast Asian flavors would sometimes be considered oversalted or over-acidic, but I think people are ready for this,” she says.

Still, as the bagged version of the boil fans out across the country, it sometimes seems to get lost, or ignored, that it isn’t a Louisiana invention. At first, some ietnamese-Americans

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even downplayed the fact. As the New York Times noted in 2010, one popular Vietnamese-American chain that blossomed in California during the 2000s, “portrays [co-owner] Mr. Nguyen as a beer-drinking good ol’ boy from Seadrift, Tex. Ms. Ngo, his Kansas-born bride, goes by the handle Yo’ Mama.”

But at this point, Viet-Cajun is something more. Vietnamese-Americans are several generations deep in the Gulf region, the two cultures are intertwined, and Luu views Viet-Cajun as more of a regional American cuisine than just a few “fusion” dishes.

“It’s a melding of cultures because Vietnamese people have been living in New Orleans for so long,” Luu says.

Detroit’s boilers When asked how he started making seafood boils, Stewart, who describes himself as a born entrepreneur, goes back to the very beginning of his career.

Raised in Alabama and on Detroit’s east side, his first business at 2 years old was peddling candy in a Wal-Mart parking lot. But the other boys on his block were making big money selling drugs, and though Stewart knew in his heart that he wasn’t cut out for that life, he saw dollar signs. That venture lasted about two days: The bosses ordered him back to selling candy after he was tricked by a customer who he gave too generous of service to, and wouldn’t rough up the guy afterward.

“I was a kid, and I was like, ‘You know, you’re absolutely right, I am not built for this,’” Stewart recalls with a laugh.

Years later, still on the east side and with no culinary training, Stewart converted an old party store into Wing Spot, which initially made its name for its wings and a lamb chop recipe that

“You got the bib. You got the gloves. You got the flavor. And you go divin’ into the bag. It’s an experience.” he developed from watching cooking shows on YouTube. Simultaneously, he grew his other company, Voo Vodka, which he says is the nation’s first Black-owned premium vodka brand.

He describes building the businesses as “organized chaos,” but he succeeded with both.

In 2018, something else caught Stewart’s attention on social media: seafood boils. He returned to YouTube to study the concept and draw inspiration, and developed his own twist on it. His flavors are big and bold, but his seafood is steamed, not boiled.

Wing Spot does well with lamb chops, but people really turn out for crab, lobster, shrimp, crawfish, mussels, and other shellfish dripping in butter sauces with minced garlic, paprika, and a list of other spices and herbs that Stewart keeps secret.

“I don’t have a million customers served yet, but I’m continuing to hit my goals,” Sewart says. “I got you calling me, so that’s a good indicator of how it’s going right there.”

On Livernois Avenue, chef Max Hardy is making progress on his soonto-open restaurant, What’s Crackin’. He grew up in Detroit and made his name as “the chef to the stars” in Miami, cooking for the likes of Missy Elliot and NBA star Amar’e Stoudemire before returning home to establish the former

Caribbean comfort food concept River Bistro on Grand River, and Coop, a Caribbean fusion restaurant, in Midtown’s Detroit Shipping Company food hall.

Seafood boils aren’t a far leap from his current trade, and he says he’s dialing in six to seven sauces, including some that he describes as “a spicy coastal seafood kind of blend,” herb butter, jerk, curry, and a lobster butter sauce that’s similar to a lobster bisque, but even more buttery.

What’s Crackin’ will bring in what they can locally for their catch of the day, but the crab will be pulled from the hesapeake Bay waters off of risfield, Maryland, which ardy says “is where all the best crabs come from,” and flown into etroit. “ figured it would be good to go straight to the source on the crab,” he says.

The restaurant will welcome diners with a big island vibe, seafood murals, and bright reds and blues — something that Hardy says would be at home on the coast.

“It’ll be fun,” he adds. “You put on an apron, get a cracker, and go at it. And it’s a lot of flavors with different sauces, crab, fish, lobster, shrimp, and so on.

That’s what people want.”

The inspiration for Middleton’s Saucey Crab dates back to her days as a hicago hairdresser. On their days off,

she and her girls would get together and buy crab and a case of beer. A few years later she would move to Detroit to open the Sauce Bar with her husband, and on Wednesdays they started hosting a seafood boil night.

“People were lined out the door,” Middleton says, so she opened her first aucey rab location in outhfield in October 2019, and, as business spiked, a second spot in Detroit earlier this year. er menu also offers po’ boys, e cellent catfish sandwiches, gumbo, fried oysters, and more. Middleton says she at first did a huge amount of business, but two developments put on the brakes: the pandemic and the dozens of new boil restaurants that opened after her. Still, business is picking back up, and more people are filtering into her brightly colored restaurant in outhfield.

At Detroit Pho and Crab, colorful lights illuminate a dining room and bar with walls filled with nets, swordfish, crabs, and seagulls. Beyond the boils, it offers a range of traditional ietnamese and cajun plates ranging from gumbo to po’ boys to bun bo hue, an awesome soup driven by lemongrass and coagulated pig blood that’s a central Vietnamese staple.

And in Warren, Stewart’s new restaurant will offer a full service bar complete with a robotic bartender. With all the new restaurants, the question becomes: “Is the Viet-Cajun boil and Detroit’s twists on it here to stay?”

Stewart thinks so. “People just got a taste for a collection of seafood goodness. Why do people like cheeseburgers and why do people love french fries? It’s just their thing, and it is what it is, you know what I’m saying?” he says. “ nless seafood falls out of flavor, don’t see it going anywhere anytime soon.”

Feeling crabby Where to get your seafood boil fix in metro Detroit and beyond By

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Saucey Crab

Mad Crab

21754 W. Eleven Mile Rd., Southfield; 248-728-4444 | 21639 Eight Mile Rd., Detroit; 313-693-4631; sauceycrabs.com Bags at Saucey Crab range from $15 for black mussels and crawfish to for king crab. Meals include corn, potatoes, and chicken sausage. Customers can pick their flavor of sauce or spice, with options like garlic butter, lemon pepper, jerk seasoning, and Saucey Way — the restaurant’s signature sauce that’s a closely guarded secret.

13351 W. 10 Mile Rd., Oak Park; 248-965-2120; madcrabseafood.com Oak Park’s Mad Crab invites seafood lovers to combine their choice of seafood (lobster, snow crab, mussels, shrimp, crawfish, and more with a un spices, garlic butter, and lemon pepper.

with a split menu for those who want, well, hibachi, and those hankering for a seafood boil, which is served with your choice of snow crab, crawfish, mussels, blue crab, or shrimp. All seafood boil meals come with corn, potatoes, and sausage, and can be customized according to spice level and sauce flavor.

JJ Crab House

King Crab

2871 Carpenter Rd., Ann Arbor; 734-222-1111; jjcrabhouse.com This spot celebrates hibachi and seafood

10840 Belleville Rd., Belleville; 734-325-7706; kingcrab.uorder.io Crab is king at King Crab in Belleville

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where you can order ramen, fried oysters and calamari, and, yes, seafood boil options. Among them, the 8-lbs.

Super Seafood Combo, which includes shrimp, lobster, snow crab legs, mussels, crawfish, potatoes and corn for .

Detroit Wing Spot 12829 Harper Ave., Detroit; 313-246-0788; detroitwingspot.com Though wings are in the name, Detroit Wing Spot has a variety of seafood boil options, including the

and customizable seafood bags. You design your own meal by picking seafood options, spice levels, and seasoning options.

Hook & Reel Cajun Seafood Bar

Detroit Pho and Crab is a local seafood boil pioneer.

Detroit boil which comes with snow crab, lobster tail, jumbo shrimp, hard-boiled eggs, potatoes, sausage, and corn. They also offer a build-yourown-boil option.

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options are crawfish, shrimp, lobster tail, or just get a bag with everything, because you can do that, too. But they don’t just serve seafood bags; you can also indulge in southern staples like turkey necks and porkchops.

Detroit Crab House Ribs and Soul Cafe

Crazy Crab

19721 W. Seven Mile Rd., Detroit; 313-535-1400 | 27167 Van Dyke Ave., Warren; 586-806-5047; crabhouseflavor.com Seafood boil bags at Crab House offer more than just crab. Among the

25271 Telegraph Rd., Southfield | 13351 W. 10 Mile Rd., Oak Park | 26613 Hoover Rd., Warren; 248-327-7400; crazycrab-southfield.com razy rab has three different locations and all serve up delectable

7838 Telegraph Rd., Taylor; 313-9827979; hookreel.com Not sure what seafood boil is for you? ook eel offers an online quiz on their website where you can make your perfect seafood broil suited just for your preferences. The quiz might suggest a seafood boil with snow crab legs, clams, black mussels, scallops, lobster tail, king crab, shrimp, blue crab, or crawfish, and all bags are made with your choice of sauce, spice level, and extras like potatoes, sausage, corn on the cob, hard-boiled eggs, or noodles.

Detroit Pho & Crab 26680 Dequindre Rd., Warren; 586-486-4290; detroitphocrab.com Though crab boils are considered Cajun cuisine, the dish made its way onto “Viet-cajun” menus thanks to New Orleans’ sizable Vietnamese population. This Vietnamese restaurant in Warren offers a choice of seafood, like mussels, clams, scallops, lobster, and

others, in addition to your choice of sides, spice level, and seasoning.

Crazy Crab Ypsilanti 2800 Washtenaw Ave., Ypsilanti; 248-681-3200; crazycrabypsilanti.com This psilanti spot offers a variety of fried seafood baskets and a selection of “crazy seafood combos,” all of which include corn, hard-boiled egg, and potatoes and can be customized with sauce options and spice levels.

Crab Hut Seafood 17720 Frazho Rd., Roseville; 586-859-7585; crabhutseafood.com In addition to a variety of Chinese food favorites, Crab Hut Seafood offers bags of snow crab legs, lobster tail, shrimp, and more. Each boil bag meal comes with a side of corn, eggs, and potatoes.

The Beach Tiki Bar & Boil 142 E. Walled Lake Dr., Walled Lake; 248-669-3322; thebeachtikibar.com The Beach Tiki Bar and Boil is a hot seafood spot on the water that, in addition to an extensive menu that includes something called Tiki Fries, their signature boil bags include your

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A diner digs in at Saucey Crab’s Southfield store.

choice of seafood (lobster, jumbo shrimp, crawfish, king crab, and mussels as well as sauces lemon pepper, garlic butter, ca un and tiki style , and spice level.

The Krazy Crab 32821 Grand River Ave., Farmington; 248-579-6538; thekrazycrab.com ocated in downtown armington, the razy rab offers shrimp, snow crab legs, clams, mussels, and lobster, along with hibachi dishes, and bubble tea.

Crafty Crab 5802 Gull Rd., Kalamazoo; 269-903-2461; craftycrabrestaurant.com This chain restaurant, which has many lorida outposts, has brought some crabby goodness to alamazoo.

According to rafty rab’s website, seafood boil lovers can pick from blue crab, shrimp, lobster tail, snow crabs, shrimp, clams, mussel, king crab, seasoning a un, lemon pepper, buttery garlic , and spice level.

Crafty Crab also allows you to mix and match seafood so you don’t have to pick ust one.

Crab Kitchen Cajun Seafood 7520 N. Wayne Rd., Westland; 734-744-7655; crabkitchen.ordereze.net rab itchen’s seafood boils come by the pound and can be served with snow crab, ungeness crab, crawfish, clams, black mussels, shrimp, or your choice of two. ou can also select potatoes, corn on the cob, sausage, hard-boiled egg, broccoli, zucchini, or pasta noodles, as well as your desired spice level and sauce option.

The Tangy Crab 3366 Corunna Rd., Flint; 810-835-4050; thetangycrab.com This lint-area spot offers four different “low country southern seafood boil” options, including New Orleans amba, the a un lassic, and the uicy pecial. The Tangy rab also has a build-your-own-boil option so you can mi and match your favorite

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seafood offerings.

Red Crab 35756 Van Dyke Ave., Sterling Heights; 586-725-0303; redcrabseafood.com According to the ed rab website, they offer seafood boils from blue crab, lobster tail, snow crabs, shrimp, clams, mussel, king crab, sauces a un, lemon pepper, garlic butter, or the uicy special , and spice levels, including e tra hot.

168 Crab & Karaoke 32415 John R Rd., Madison Heights; 248-616-0618; 168crab.com This Asian grocery store has e panded into an ad acent strip-mall karaoke spot, and has tweaked the menu to center on seafood boils. araoke rooms are available to rent by the hour and boils include crawfish, crabs, clams, lobster, and more.

Crab Du Jour 18900 Michigan Ave., Dearborn; 313-982-7000; crabdujourdearbornmi.com A fast-growing chain launched in 20 in aleigh, North arolina, opened its first Michigan location in earborn’s airlane Town enter.

According to effrey chroth, the company’s national general manager, rab u our has more than 00 locations, with plans to open 200 by the end of 2022 and 00 by the end of 202 .

What’s Crackin’ 19163 Livernois Ave., Detroit; TBA or his latest offering, hef Ma ardy has teamed up with on Bartell, a former etroit ion cornerback and the owner of the nearby popular uzzo’s hicken Wa es, for what is being described as a casual seafood boil takeout spot. What’s rackin’ will be the latest customizable seafood boil bag restaurant to oin the etroit landscape, where customers can choose their seafood, sauce, and spices, including a selection of hef Ma ignature pice Blends, which will be made available for purchase.

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Blade Runner (1982).

FRI 11/12 Blade Runner

Remember when Ridley Scott’s 1982 neo-noir sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner felt like it was very far removed from any sort of reality we would e perience in our lifetime a ha ha. uck. Though it was largely misunderstood when it was released (the Los Angeles Times called it “Blade Crawler” in reference to its pacing and Variety called it out for its “unrelenting grimness” , the film, which cost 0 million to make, managed to e ist and succeed in a world outside of its dim theatrical release, and managed to recoup its funding despite being lost on mainstream audiences. “ t’s a film about whether you can have a meaningful relationship with your toaster,” is how Blade Runner star arrison ord summarized it. The “toaster,” of course, is genetically engineered humanoid “replicants,” which are to be “retired” by “blade runner” cops like ord’s character, ick eckard. Oh, did we mention that this bleak dystopia is set in 20 The film spawned a sequel of sorts, Blade Runner 2049, which also fucking bombed, even though it was celebrated on many a critics’ year-end list and starred yan osling, ared eto, and, spoiler alert, ord. ome say it was due to poor marketing, while some argue the 20 continuation simply mirrored

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the same dismal future as the original.

Well, we say to hell with the haters, because the future is now and esus hrist is it bleak.

—Jerilyn Jordan Screening starts at 10 p.m. at the Michigan Theater; 603 E. Liberty St., Ann Arbor; 734-668-8397. Michtheater.org.

Tickets are $5. *Venue requires proof of full vaccination or negative COVID-19 test 72 hours prior to entry.

FRI 11/12-SUN 11/14 Monroe Street Drive-in Powered by Emagine opening weekend with Space Jam, Sing, and F9

What does eBron ames in space, an anthropomorphic animal sing-a-long, and in iesel doing whatever in iesel does, which is a mi of punching concrete and mumbling the word “family,” have in common They will all be a part of etroit’s Monroe treet rive-in Powered by magine’s opening weekend. After taking over the city’s delayed Monroe Blocks pro ect in 2020, the Monroe treet rive-in is back with a healthy roster of family-friendly films to add some charm, whimsy, and intimacy to the movie-going e perience. tarting riday, Nov. 2, the drive-in’s 0-by- 2-foot digital screen will once again host screenings on Thursdayunday through spring of 2022, starting

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with Space Jam: A New Legacy Nov. 2 , followed by 20 ’s animated feature Sing Nov. , and the latest installment in the chaotic NO -fueled Fast & Furious franchise, F9 Nov. . ilms will be announced a week in advance of the screening with ticket sales opening each Tuesday. n addition to offering “all of the amenities guests have come to love about an magine showing,” including concessions, interactive lighting, state of the art audio and visual technology, the theater will also have warming areas, restroom trailers, and pedestrian walkways, and open-air seating pods for guests who wish to view the film from outside of their vehicle. There are nine pods that can accommodate 2- guests each and are available on a first-come, first-served basis, and are also free of charge.The drive-in is an e tension of the “ ecked Out etroit” initiative, a partnership between Bedrock, the ocket ommunity und, and the ity of etroit which aims to attract visitors during the pandemic by offering heated outdoor dining options and complimentary parking.

—Jerilyn Jordan Gates o en at .m. lms be in at 7 p.m. at the Monroe Street Drive-in Powered by Emagine; 32 Monroe St., Detroit; detroitdrivein.com. Tickets are $20 per car.

SUN 11/14 Beatles on Tap

The pandemic interrupted but did not scuttle enise- aston lark’s unique idea tap-dancing to Beatles music. n a matinee performance at the Magic Bag, her troupe of dancers and a live band of top etroit musicians will resuscitate her vision. The band includes ames Wailin vocals , hantel Altman vocals , Tom oncaric keyboard , teve aldwell guitar , hris pooner bass , ohn ill drums , with dancers ydia Bonney, helarrie oldsby, Maegan ickerson, ooper ittle, elcey Matheny, and Nia ilao. The etroitborn aston- lark, a former adio ity ockette, who conceived the idea and staged one high-energy performance before the ovid shutdown, choreographs and directs. he says the show will include the entire medley from Abbey Road and may be the kickoff to a new regional tour of “The Beatles on Tap.” er Tap ance etroit studio offers daily drop-in tap classes to adults from beginner to pro as well as youth programs.

—Michael Betzold Starts at 3:30 p.m. at the Magic Bag; 22920 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248-544-1991; themagicbag.com. Tickets start at $25.

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Whitney Cummings.

also on the bill.

Lucki.

The Rolling Stones

When “The World’s reatest ock n’ oll Band’’ rolls through town, we know it’s going to be a party. owever, many things have undoubtedly changed for the tones since the band’s first etroit performance in , where they played Olympia tadium for a ticket. A Detroit Free Press review of the show said “There were 00 umping, ittering, squirming, squealing girls dancing in their seats. There were boys, too, about one in seven. Adults looked lonely.” or one, they are, well, older with a median age of . and, in August, ust as they were set to continue their record-smashing No ilter tour, the tones’ longtime drummer and founding member harlie Watts died at the age of 0, forcing the band to perform without the beloved “gentleman of the world’s most dangerous band” for the first time in their 0-year-long career. “ We felt and harlie felt that we should do this tour,” agger told the Los Angeles Times. “We’d already postponed it by a year, and harlie said to me, ou need to go out there. All the crew that have been out of work you’re not gonna put them out of work again. o think it was the right decision to keep going.” o, for the band’s 22nd metro etroit performance, teve ordan will set the beat. Meanwhile, another change as the setlist will have a notable omission ’s hit “Brown ugar.” The band announced that they would be removing the song, which they have played since it was released due to the song referencing slavery and se ualization of Black women and girls. uckily, the tones have a million other songs and, not to be morbid, but this might be a good time to cross the tones off your

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—Jerilyn Jordan

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concert bucket list because, well, the bucket will be kicked someday. “ love to play the drums and love to play with Mick and eith and onnie, the rest don’t know,” Watts said in 20 . “ wouldn’t mind if the olling tones say that’s it enough.” —Jerilyn Jordan Doors open at 7:30 p.m. at Ford Field; 2000 Brush St., Detroit; 313-262-2000; ford eld.com. Tickets are .

TUE 11/16 Lucki

t could be argued that hicago is a breeding ground for gifted emcees even if one of them is, well, anye .

Moving up in the ranks is 2 -year-old ucki who first stunned with his 20 debut, Alternative Trap, and has since worked with hance the apper, arl weatshirt, A Twigs, and etroit’s own anny Brown. aving openly struggled with addiction, which put much of his life on pause, ucki reemerged in 20 with critically acclaimed mi tapes Freewave 3 and Days B4 III. The mi tapes paved the way for last year’s well-rounded and self-e plorative Almost There, which has been described by critics as “landing, like, a three-pointer in the final seconds of a blowout second quarter in game seven of the NBA finals.” Through hazy trap beats and his mu ed stream-of-consciousness-style of rap, ucki tackles drugs, heartbreak, the allure of fast cars and a fast life, all while staying grounded in his point of view. “ ind a way to leave me by myself, pick a flaw,” he raps on “Pick a law.” “ t ain’t a phase, ’m a demon by myself, leave it to od how me you love me, can leave here tomorrow.” Pasto locco and id hyne are

Doors open at 7 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Hall; 431 E. Congress St., Detroit; 313-9618961; saintandrewsdetroit.com. Tickets are $25.

TUE 11/16 Mayer Hawthorne

ast year brought on some ma or chch-ch-changes for rammy-nominated Ann Arbor native Mayer awthorne who has had a quietly productive couple of years. On 2020’s Rare Changes P, the 2-year-old robe-wearing and robe-selling retro-soul crooner compiled a slew of singles he had released during the pandemic into a proper nine-track record, all while keeping the boogie-funk alive with his side pro ect, Tu edo, with producer ake One. id we mention he released a limited edition coffee Anyway, Rare Changes is sultry, seductive, and, though it does not represent a sonic change or departure from what awthorne has been doing since he first made waves with his debut single “ ust Ain’t onna Work Out” in 200 , the record does center around life and how feelings can, and do, change. “ t’s been a long time Nothing happening, same as before,” he sings on the record’s title track. “Am awake or am sleeping Over and over ’Til think can’t take any more ove you forever Wouldn’t change a thing.”

Aw, we love you, too. —Jerilyn Jordan Doors open at 7 p.m. on at the Crofoot; 4114 W. Vernor Hwy., Detroit; 313-757-7942; elclubdetroit.com. Tickets are . .

WED 11/17 - THU 11/18 Whitney Cummings

Whitney ummings is doing god’s

work. Though she’s got what she refers to as “hillbilly NA,” the -year-old comedian, actress, and podcaster is the master of e ploring modern womanhood through a lens that is both gutbusting and pretty fucking grim. he warns single women about dating nerds because they could end up being either lon Musk or someone who has shelves of figurines who can’t afford to pay for dinner because their money is all “tied up in Bitcoin,’’ and she describes the fear of being a woman walking alone to her car with keys between her fingers like a “shitty Wolverine.” Then there’s the bit about the struggle to be taken seriously amid the MeToo movement “ m, they give a shit about us all of a sudden, and we have absolutely no practice being listened to,” she says in her fourth Netfli special, Can I Touch It? “ o we need to level the fuck up right now. ome things need to change around here.” Those things include Tossing out those “ros all day” shirts, same with the whole “Namastay in bed” schtick, as “it’s not a sophisticated argument.” No more saying “totes” instead of totally and for the love of god “we have to stop calling each other hookers and whores for a while.” f any of this resonates with you, then ummings’ brand of comedy is for you. er latest tour, appropriately titled “Touch Me,” aims to “destigmatize and celebrate the importance of being together again” after many months of isolation. he’s been drinking, workshopping material via social media and her podcast Good For You, and she’s ready for her and her fans to contract “every other disease besides O .”

Bring on the mono —Jerilyn Jordan Doors open at 7 p.m. on at the Royal Oak Music Theatre; 318 W. Fourth St., Royal Oak; 248-399-2980; royaloakmusictheatre. com. Tickets are .

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MUSIC Not G.O.O.D.

The Kanye West and Big Sean split is getting really weird

By Lee DeVito

Kanye West and Big Sean have

a message for each other: “I don’t fuck with you.”

The split went public last week, when Sean dropped a new EP titled What You Expect. The Detroit rapper took to Twitter to point out that it was his first music released on his own label, apart from West’s G.O.O.D. Music, which he signed to in 2007 .

“By the way this the first pro ect where I’m on my own label as well, no more lil dawg shit!!!! I bossed up!” he wrote. In another tweet, he added, “That’s a forever brotherhood, but business wise, I had to start getting a bigger cut! I worked my way out that deal.”

It seems like the split was not amicable, though.

In Thursday’s episode of the Drink Champs podcast, when asked to pick a better rapper out of Big Sean or fellow G.O.O.D. Music signee Pusha T, West said that signing Sean was “the worst thing I’ve ever done.” n a clip filmed during the podcast posted by World Star Hip Hop, West picked up a tombstone Halloween decoration and pointed to it. “When I die, on my tombstone, it’s gonna say, ‘I deserve to be here because I signed Big Sean,’” he said.

At first, host N.O. . . thought West said “best” and started applauding.

“That’s a beautiful thing.”

“No, the worst ” West said.

Apparently, West is pissed that Sean didn’t support him during his ill-fated publicity stunt/run for president in 2020.

“I know this man mama, bro,” he said. “You know what I’m saying? I’ve changed this man family. And both John Legend and Big Sean, when I ran for office, got used quick by the Democrats to come at they boy that actually changed they life. And that’s some sellout shit, and I don’t rock with neither of them, and I need my apologies.”

Apparently, West thinks “selling out” is only OK if it’s for him.

West’s presidential run ultimately earned ust , votes, compared to oe Biden’s .2 million votes.

Sean responded to West’s comments on Twitter, saying they caught him by surprise.

Kanye West and Big Sean performing in 2016.

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“Both John Legend and Big Sean, when I ran for office, got used quick by the Democrats to come at they boy that actually changed they life. And that’s some sellout shit, and I don’t rock with neither of them, and I need my apologies.”

“Was ust wit this man, he ain’t say none of that!!!” Sean tweeted with a photo of them together. “And this was after the interview! I’m dying laughing at you @kanyewest”

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He also denied he was ever a “tool” of the Democratic party.

“I didn’t get used by anybody or endorse anyone publicly at all. Cause I’m not political,” he tweeted. “That’s

what’s hilarious, none of it’s true n he doesn’t even know what he talking about. I’m rollin.”

West has been behaving erratically for years. (In the Drink Champs clip he sports what can only be described as a “bizarre” haircut. n 20 , he abruptly canceled his Saint Pablo tour and was later admitted to a Los Angeles hospital after ranting against fellow collaborator Jay Z and Hillary Clinton.

In October, Sean was nostalgic for his time with G.O.O.D., suggesting that the split happened earlier.

“I also really miss the brotherhood I use to have with GOOD music, I don’t know what happened,” he wrote on Oct. 2 . “ uess those the OO ol days. It’s all love, but we use to really be clique’d up.” ean and West first met in 200 , when West was doing a radio interview at metro etroit’s former ot 02. M radio station. When Sean heard West was going to be there, he went to the station to try and catch his attention.

“One of my best friends called and was like, ‘Yo, Kanye is down at the radio station. If you go down there and rap for him, he’ll sign you,’” Sean told MTV in 2009.

“Kanye shook my hand and started walking away,” Sean recalled. “My friend was like, ‘You gotta go for it.’

So I tapped him on the shoulder and was like, ‘I’m an aspiring MC. I do this show every riday. an rap for you ’ e was like, No. gotta go.’ ’m like, ‘Man, please — you’re my hero. Let me rap for you? Just let me spit for you.’

“It was like out of the movies,” Kanye told MTV. “I could hear his personality and character and style in it. e ust walked up to me and said a rap and I said, ‘I’mma sign you.’ That’s what happened.”

Kanye later brought Sean out on tour while he recorded Graduation.

Big Sean eventually signed to G.O.O.D. Music/ Def Jam in 2007.

He added, “I wasn’t signing acts at that time. But I was so inspired by what he did. His voice was very compelling. His lyrics were very clever and the melodies and the way he was putting it together and his story. So it’s not that easy, but it’s a lot of people who rap who aren’t as dope.”

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FOOD Born in a barn

By Jane Slaughter

The proprietors of Sylvan

Table are making the most of their five acres of land ust off Orchard ake Road, with an enormous patio next to their enormous restaurant, plus their own farm that produces fruit, vegetables, greens, and bees. I did not see the well-worn words “farm to table” anywhere on the restaurant’s website, but theirs is a case where they truly make sense.

The farm theme is doubly for real: the restaurant itself is a 300-year-old barn knocked apart in Maine, trucked here, and reassembled. Some of a barn’s draftiness — or maybe it’s just efficient air circulation remains, but stone fireplaces, chandeliers, and stairs — not a ladder — to the former hayloft have been installed. You get fresh flowers and candles in am ars.

You don’t feel like you’re in a barn e cept when you reflect on how huge this one was and is.

The open kitchen is more open than most, with big windows across from the bar. I recommend the loft, as it is far quieter than the ground floor no one ever said a barn should be acoustically correct, I suppose.

The farm and the restaurant are new (service began June 1), and Chef Chris Gadulka is dedicated to using wisely its fresh and seasonal produce, with an assist from partner farms. No pale winter tomatoes from afar will be served a few of the 1,600 pounds of local ones that he had on hand at one point will be ripened in the solarium. The rest will all be dehydrated or freeze-dried or turned into sauce. ikewise a couple of hundred pounds of cranberries.

Gadulka says, “I have two cans in the restaurant, and they are sweetened condensed milk. We’re learning how to make it ourselves, so we needed the cans just as samples.”

The menu changes every two weeks depending on what’s abundant or scarce.

Hoop houses will provide kale, spinach, leafy greens, and some root vegetables through the winter. Composting is taken seriously, using a method that allows dairy and protein to be recycled as fertilizer too — 22 55-gallon drums of it.

Though the menu borrows heavily from the farm, it’s not tied to it you can get fish, beef, pork, and rabbit. Oddly, found the protein main dishes — from other people’s farms — more delicious

Sylvan Table is a 300-year-old Maine barn reconstructed in a lake-dotted corner of Oakland County.

than most of the vegetable sides.

A butternut squash bisque was velvety sweet, small but fine as a starter.

Brussels sprouts, though, were tough in places, well charred in others, and occasional flashes of honey didn’t really help. Some of my carrots were too tough to bite and sadly lacking in flavor. The amuse bouche started with a great idea — ground cherries. I grow these in my garden and am a huge fan — they are a startling burst of tartsweetness unlike any other in a salad.

But Sylvan Table’s were not ripe, and therefore only sour.

So my experience with farm-nextdoor-to-table was disappointing.

Not so with the excellent mains. A big ribeye came with a well-thoughtout spicy and charry crust and just the right degree of chew. A whole, bragworthy-size trout had a crisp skin and was served with umamiful shiitakes and roasted spring onions and beets (presumably from the farm).

Gnocchi Bolognese was a dream, the springy morsels thoroughly infused with the rich sauce of beef, pancetta,

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and red wine, which doesn’t usually happen. A long-legged rabbit was more of a neutral flavor not quite chicken — but served with some well-cooked vegetables in its own juice.

Also on the animal side, I was a big fan of the marrow starter, though the richness of marrow can be so satisfying as to derail the next course. Two Flintstone-size bones were served with pink peppercorns and lemony arugula to cut the fattiness and, to gild the lily, some perfect buttery toast strips.

Other starters, mains, and sides include a kale aesar, catfish, sausage with pecorino, chicken under a brick, mashed potatoes with hay smoke, and heirloom grains “risotto.”

Desserts shine. After you try Sylvan Table’s spiced pound cake with pumpkin cheesecake ice cream, you will never make fun of pumpkin spice again. The cake was sturdy and the housemade ice cream with house-grown pumpkin was practically buttery. A blueberry crème brûlée was a good mix of sweet creaminess with tart compote and berries (also home-grown) on top.

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Sylvan Table 1819 Inverness St., Sylvan Lake 248-369-3360 sylvantable.com 5 p.m.-10 p.m Monday-Thursday, 5 p.m.-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 4 p.m.-9 p.m. Sunday Handicap accessible Entrées $18-$29

Beers on tap are mostly Michigan. ocktails, all , read delicious saw both ginger beer and ginger liqueur as ingredients, and beet juice, thyme, and honey that could be homegrown.

I went sparkly for wine (with my rabbit and trout) and got vinho verde (always a good sign) and Prosecco, but reds are more prominent, ranging from $56 to $260 a bottle. ylvan Table seems to be filling an unmet need in this lake-dotted corner of Oakland ounty. Plan your reservations well in advance. There’s a line for the unreserved bar seats each day at 5.

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FOOD Bites

Michigan is finally getting a Jollibee

By Lee DeVito

Jollibee, a popular Philip-

pines-based fast-food chain, is finally coming to Michigan.

The company plans on opening its first Michigan location inside a former enny’s near akeside Mall in terling Heights.

The plans, first announced at a city council meeting in August reported by the terling eights entry, call for razing the enny’s at Woodridge r. and replacing it with a new 2, 00-square-foot building. The new ollibee will have a drive-thru and outdoor patio seating. ounded in , the chain is known for putting a ilipino twist on American dishes, like fried chicken, burgers, spaghetti topped with a sweet sauce, ham, and hot dog), and peach-mango hand pies. The company has been rapidly e panding in recent months, including at least 20 new stores in North America.

“We have remained nimble and optimistic, which has led ollibee to defy e pectations amidst an e tremely difficult year and e perience double-digit sales growth across North America,” Maribeth ela ruz, President of ollibee roup North America, said in a release last year. “We’re thrilled to deliver a small spark of oy as we enter the holiday season.”

Supino Pizzeria’s New Center location is now open

t seems like it was ust yesterday and by yesterday we mean 20 that astern Market staple upino Pizzeria announced it would be opening a new location in etroit’s New enter area. n ebruary of this year, upino finally opened its doors sort of.

The restaurant only offered carry-out orders at the new location at Woodward Ave. But that all changes as the pizzeria took to social media last week to announce that it was finally open for dine-in and carry-out orders at its New enter location. upino Pizzeria’s owner ave Man-

A Jollibee will join the many restaurants on Hall Road.

cini previously told Metro Times that he was looking forward to being in the restaurant heavy strip on Woodward because the energy was right. “ t’s ust a good situation to be moving into. love the block. love the energy there, and all my neighbors,” Mancini said. upino Pizzeria is open 0 a.m.p.m. Wednesday- aturday at its New enter location. upino Pizzeria in astern Market remains carryout only.

—Alex Washington

Grey Ghost owners plot izakaya concept near Little Caesars Arena

The operators of a new restaurant planned for the ground floor of the former ddystone hotel near etroit’s ittle aesars Arena have announced new details of the pro ect. our Man adder Management, which also operates the nearby rey

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host restaurant and econd Best bar, says the new spot will be a apanesestyle izakaya called Basan, named after a mythical fire-breathing bird.

According to a press release, the restaurant’s menu will be robatayakistyle. obatayaki cuisine is traditionally cooked over hot charcoal on a wide and flat fireplace. “ iven the historic ddystone’s pro imity to ittle aesars Arena, we knew this concept needed to match the incredible energy and vibrancy found within The istrict etroit and appeal to a wide variety of guests,” chef ohn ermiglio said in a statement. “The izakaya style of dining felt like a natural fit. Our guests will be able to craft their own e perience, whether that’s a pre-game stop for cocktails and a quick bite or a more curated, multi-course dinner.”

A menu was previewed during a sold-out event at rey host during

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alloween weekend, which included dishes like the ried Bologna Bao with roasted alape o kewpie and cheddar crisp hiitake hawanmushi with fried maitake, puffed black rice, egg yolk and hoyu lazed hort ibs with wasabi-potato dumplings.

The owners say the restaurant will seat people inside and 2 on an outdoor patio, while it will also feature a private dining space and lounge area with a bar. Basan is e pected to open ne t year at 2 0 Park Ave. The restaurant was first announced in August. More information is available at basandetroit.com.

An izakaya is a type of apanese bar that serves alcohol and snacks to an after-work crowd.

A short-lived izakaya-style restaurant in the nearby Woodbridge neighborhood called atsu closed in 20 , replaced by a new spot called Bash Original zakaya.

—Lee DeVito

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WEED One-Hitters

Detroit voters decriminalized magic mushrooms and other ‘entheogenic’ plants

By Jerilyn Jordan

Detroit joined the psychedelic

revolution last week when residents turned out to decriminalize the possession and therapeutic use of entheogenic plants, which includes psilocybin “magic” mushrooms, peyote, mescaline, ayahuasca, and dimethyltryptamine, or DMT. More than 53,000 Detroit voters, or 61.1%, voted yes on Proposal E, which calls for decriminalizing naturally occurring psychedelics, also referred to as entheogenic plants, many of which have been shown to serve as treatments for depression.

Detroit joins a growing wave of cities in the U.S. that have passed similar laws, including Ann Arbor, Denver, and Washington, D.C., that declares the adult possession and use of mushrooms and the like as being among the lowest law enforcement priorities, while Oregon became the first state to legalize and regulate magic mushrooms.

In Detroit, this doesn’t mean magic ‘shrooms are legal. So what does it mean?

Well, decriminalization, in the case of magic mushrooms, means that police may tend to a case of say, jaywalking, before approaching someone in possession of mushrooms or other trippy plants.

This doesn’t mean you can drive while under the influence of these substances, nor can you use them in public.

Cannabis Council attorney Matt Abel told Fox 2 News: “They need to consume it in a protected environment.”

Only until naturally occurring psychedelics are legalized will we be able to regulate them, which includes the buying, selling, and distribution of such plants. As to when that could be, well, it’s hard to say. If you look at Michigan, we approved medical marijuana in 2008 for patients with qualifying conditions. It took a decade

Detroiters voted to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms last week.

for 56% of voters to approve statewide legalization, which we did in 2018, with recreational cannabis sales starting in December 2019. n 2020, Ann Arbor became the first city in Michigan to vote in favor of decriminalizing the possession, use, and cultivation of psychedelic fungus and other entheogenic plants, and this year, Washtenaw County also introduced two policy directives that would make it so the county would no longer charge criminal cases involving marijuana or entheogenic plants.

“People have been doing these for thousands of years,” Sen. Adam Hollier (D-Detroit) told Fox 2 News. “We want people to stop overdosing on fentanyl and things like that. And we can do that if we have safe, effective means to regulate these things.”

Michigan doc suspended after approving 22,000 medical marijuana certificates in 12 months

Listen — we all know that person who has maybe exaggerated, fabricated, or outright faked one or more of qualifying ailments to score what was once considered the golden ticket in Michigan: a medical marijuana card.

But in Michigan, there’s a doctor who has been signing off and approving applications — legitimate and not — at a hard-to-believe record speed.

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In the case of magic mushrooms, “decriminalization” means that police may tend to a case of say, jaywalking, before approaching someone in possession of mushrooms or other trippy plants.

Dr. Vernon Proctor of Baldwin has apparently approved somewhere close to 21,708 medical marijuana licenses from 2015-2016. That’s 25 times more licenses than there are people in Baldwin.

According to WDIV-TV, the Michigan appeals court has upheld Proctor’s two-year suspension, which was originally ordered by the Bureau of Professional Licensing. It’s estimated that he would have to have seen up to 60 patients a day every day for 12 months to produce that many certifications. That means 7.5 patients per hour during an eight-hour day, or under 10 minutes per patient.

A marijuana doc is tasked with obtaining and reviewing a patient’s medical records that support the ailments for which they are seeking treatment, as well as conducting exams, especially in cases where there are no prior medical records.

Proctor says the number of certifi-

cations he signed off on was closer to 1,000 over the 12 months, a number that is significantly lower than the 22,000 he has been suspended for issuing.

Since launching a medical marijuana program, Michigan has issued thousands of licenses for those with health conditions like cancer, HIV, arthritis, spinal cord injuries, IBS, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and chronic pain, to name a few. Currently, there are more than 250,000 people — or 2.5% of Michigan’s population — with active licenses that allow them to purchase marijuana products at medical or recreational dispensaries. Card-holding patients have access to higher-dosage packs of edibles and are exempt from paying an excise tax that is applied to recreational sales.

To learn more about how to become a medical marijuana patient or caregiver in Michigan, see michigan.gov/mra.

—Jerilyn Jordan

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CULTURE

Heather Graham in Boogie Nights.

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P.T.A. P.S.A.

The Film Lab in Hamtramck is hosting a Paul Thomas Anderson series

By George Elkind

This month, Hamtramck’s

ilm ab is treating locals to a three-film series of works by Paul Thomas Anderson (likely best known for There Will Be Blood and Boogie Nights), and it’s worth one or several trips — for he’s easily one of the best American filmmakers going.

The series runs in anticipation of his newest, Licorice Pizza (which should be out shortly after Thanksgiving) and spotlights works of his set either in the 1970s, as Boogie Nights and Inherent Vice are, or in .A.’s an ernando alley, as Magnolia is, albeit in its own late-’ 0s present. The ’70s period and valley locale are shared not just with Anderson’s new, rather sweet-looking teenage comedy — sure to be more subversive than its trailer — but also with the 51-year old writer-director’s own childhood.

The imprints of Anderson’s experience of growing up on the edge of the once-grander entertainment industry are unmistakable in his first few films.

Himself the child of ever-busy voice actor and Midwestern émigré Ernie Anderson, P.T. Anderson’s breakthrough

came with his second film, Boogie Nights, which centered on the rhetorically marginal (but really booming) porn industry of the late ’70s and early ’ 0s. eeing a dumb guy Mark Wahlberg) with big dreams boning his way to the top of the heap before succumbing to a vain and cataclysmic fall, the film’s bifurcated structure hinges on the line between decades, imagining a collective, personal, and artistic arc for those in an incestuous, tight-knit industry — though the same arc may apply just as well to American movies as to the country at large.

Bustling with a soundtrack of old hits that prove more generative than decorative, Boogie Nights, still skates along with a sense of force and buoyancy guided by its characters, cast, and music, seeking and managing to capture the feeling of a scene richer in exuberant aspiration and feeling than long-term reward — but only so much poorer for it. Parcelling out attention to a fictional, well-loved band of porn industry leading lights with Burt Reyn-

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olds’ Jack Horner as their director and reigning patriarch, Anderson treats this group of societal outcasts as a kind of surrogate family with all the complications given the circumstances — both Freudian and otherwise — that might imply. Weaponizing a murderer’s row of talent too rich to lay out in print, the film drills down into its characters’ feelings with a pressing, cokehead rigor owing greatly to corsese and to Goodfellas in particular, celebratory of its milieu but in the end not only that. n Boogie Nights’ at-times starkly binary world and whipped-up air, shades of a half-Catholic upbringing and many a Catholic artistic father are present for a director often focused on patriarchs — but so, too, is a rich offering of surface textures and sensitive, honed depictions that can be enjoyed as deeplyrooted pleasures unto themselves. A single line or flourish in performance from Anderson’s work can wrench or entertain for many an emotional mile, and his hallmark here and after is the fact his robust tonal, historical, and

comedic awareness never cuts the sense of feeling in his work. n Magnolia, which followed, the case is quite the opposite; it’s the feelings that loom large. With its ballooning script marked not just by powder but tears, the runaway, blank-check ensemble production weaves together a tapestry of interconnected characters around the an ernando alley (much like Altman’s Short Cuts, which covered Greater Los Angeles, or even the bad, Best-Picture Winner Crash of 200 . eathbed speeches, petrified first dates, childhood trauma, cocaine, and television production make up its fabric, with characters often caught driving through rainstorms on their own, processing an awful lot. voking and joining their emotional struggles with the musical stylings of Jon Brion and the cries of Aimee Mann, Magnolia was written in a period of grief in which Anderson had lost not one but three father figures including his biological dad. howing no signs of self-censorship and many of his right to

The imprints of Paul Thomas Anderson’s experience of growing up on the edge of the once-grander entertainment industry are unmistakable in his first few films. final cut, the film’s riddled with redundancies, unsanded edges, and personal touches, privileging emotional honesty and its young author’s blend of ego and ambition far more than it does anything else.

Taken today, Magnolia feels like a fascinating, somewhat noble failure, still singular for its strained sense of emotionality and its climactic, apocalyptic, and fateful treatment of the everyday — along, too, with a bevy of fascinating, at times radical performances. Blue and mournful, and as funny and sweet when it means to be as when it doesn’t, it’s the movie that finds Anderson at his most striving and least mediated or controlled. etting the intensity of Anderson’s affections for his characters mingle with the long, uneven whine of his grief (the script was composed in a great rush), it’s a work of big and unusual spectacle (no spoilers and fiercely attempted intimacy.

For this end-of-century work which makes emotional precarity its subject, the film’s sterling cast stands today as its best sell. Melora Walters, ulianne Moore, ohn . eilly, and Philip eymour offman may he rest well and more circle back to join Anderson for a post-Boogie Nights second round, with Tom Cruise delivering a frightening, tragicomic turn as a misogynistic, cable-aided dating guru.

While ruise’s performance is broad, smug, and finely enunciated his spectacularly nasty program’s called educe and estroy , much of Magnolia is delivered in a lyrical, almost gibbering vocal register in which feelings burst out with an air of the irrepressible, and of half-apologetic embarrassment; at times, characters feel less like whole people than shattered fragments of a single self. yrics from Mann some of which are featured in the soundtrack) spill from actors’ mouths, and the confessional, wounded work of Fiona Apple — who was dating Anderson at the time — stands as perhaps its strongest influence. With fragile, upset characters spurning each other either righteously or coldly, usually while cussing up a storm, it’s up to the viewer before the movie wraps to offer them an embrace — something audiences may choose to do or not. While cribbing plenty not just from Altman but After Hours’ absurd coincidences and

Network’s odes to feeling, Magnolia still feels like little else, its clenched and haunted sensibility both a challenge and a draw. t’s a film maybe the film that was About Trauma before nearly everything was.

Humming in the atmosphere of most all Anderson’s works is a musing preoccupation with an America in decline, a vibration too persistent to ignore.

Rounding out a trio of historical works swirling around this topic (after 1800sset There Will Be Blood and 1950s-set The Master) is Inherent Vice. A Thomas Pynchon adaptation, a riff on aymond Chandler’s detective stories, and an existentially comic masterwork, the film casts oaquin Phoeni as arry “ oc” portello as a hippie detective past his prime fumbling towards a far-reaching form of conspiratorial truth. The film’s fuse is lit by oc’s old flame, hasta Fay Hepworth (an emotionally brutal, scene-stealing atherine Watterston , who wanders back into oc’s life offering cryptic warnings before drifting as swiftly out. hot on purposefully degraded film, Inherent Vice’s hazy air is cut with a sense of curdled idealism leavened by sharp humor and a glowing, verbally agile cast of characters — none of whom it embalms in an air of stultifying dignity or nostalgia. tructured as a series of interviews (in pursuit of leads, as most detective stories are), Vice is relentlessly but easily funny, moving steadily ahead while fraying and cooking its lead character’s nerves. With a druggily romantic, free-wheeling manner that suggests a slippery reality, its sharpest moments jut like peaks above this con ured fog. nlivened by hushed speeches about vertical integration and matter-of-fact presumptions of corruption all around, Inherent Vice is as real as it gets for being surreal, pulling viewers into a disarmingly funny, bleak yet charming world. t’s to Anderson’s credit that it never teeters into piety, cheap sentiment, or forsakes humor; like most everything he does, it’s a period work approached with a holistic sense of attention, a willingness to experiment, and a nose for what endures.

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CULTURE Q : I’m a 44-year-old gay male and

I’ve never been in a serious relations i . I would like to nd my way into an LTR, but I have a series of overlapping dating issues that I don’t know how to navigate.

First, due to my career, I move around a lot, and often don’t see the point in dating when I know I am going to be moving again; I have another potential move on the horizon in six months. Second, I find online dating apps to be awful. I have encountered more ghosts on apps than I did in the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland.

Last year one date I arranged through an app turned out to be the setup for either a mugging or a hate crime. I managed to escape physically unharmed, but I did delete all the dating apps after that. Third, I’m a beefier guy, but I have never really fit into the bear community. I hate wearing leather, I can’t stand growing facial hair, and don’t have any kinks — and leather, beards, and kinks seem to be prerequisites for joining the bear club.

Also, most bears are older guys and older guys don’t really do it for me.

And younger guys always seem to be looking for a sugar daddy. I’m a Goldilocks who can’t find her “just right.” ourt and nally I e li ed a bi life.

Due to a parent in the entertainment industry, I grew up with backlot access.

I have literally traveled all over the world. I can tell stories for days. But it makes dating hard when the other guy has only his work or cats to talk about.

I’ve gone on more than one date where the guy told me he didn’t have anything interesting to say about himself and that he just wanted to hear about my life. Am I destined to be either a spinster or a sugar daddy?

—Lost And Can’t Keep Investigating New Guys

A : 1. If you don’t see any point in dat-

ing because you’re always on the move, LACKING, it’s not a long-term relationship you should be seeking, but a nice string of fulfilling short-term relationships. STRs can be serious, they can be loving, and with more people working remotely than ever before, a successfulif-geographically-challenging STR has a much better shot at becoming a successful LTR these days.

2. Dating and hookup apps are awful.

People on the apps sometimes lie about who they are, they ghost on you, and they block you without explanation.

But bars are awful too. People in bars sometimes lie about who they are, they excuse themselves “for a second” and

never return, they go home with you one night and eat your ass for hours and then pretend they don’t know you the next time you see them at the same bar. And just as people have been mugged, assaulted, and murdered by people they met on apps, people have been mugged, assaulted, and murdered by people they met in bars — and at work, at church, through friends, etc.

So, wherever we’re meeting people, online or off, we need to be careful we need to have those first meetings in a public place, we need to tell a friend where we’re going and who we’re with, and we need to trust our guts. When someone makes you feel uncomfortable or unsafe, get out of there and/or ghost on them. And if we find that people are constantly ghosting on us… well… then we need ask ourselves if we’re doing something that makes other people feel uncomfortable or unsafe.)

3. Not all bears have beards or kinks or wear leather. At any big event for bears, LACKING, you’re likelier to see guys in jeans, t-shirts, and trucker hats than you are to see guys in leather — unless it’s a fetish party, LACKING, where you’ll see a lot of guys in leather.

But even at a fetish party, LACKING, you’ll see guys in neoprene, wrestling singlets, diving suits, hand-crocheted harnesses, and on and on. Leather isn’t required.

4. I’d rather listen to a charming guy tell me a funny story about his cat than a conceited guy drone on and on about some famous actor he saw on a backlot pocketing granola bars from the craft services table. I’m not saying you’re conceited or boring, LACKING, but if I were a betting man and only had the last paragraph of your letter to go on, I’d put my chips on conceited and boring. Look, if a guy tells you halfway through a date there’s nothing he wants to share with you about himself and invites you to carry on talking about yourself, that doesn’t mean he’s so enthralled by your stories he just wants to listen. That means he’s bored and/or annoyed and has already made up his mind that you’re not gaining access to his backlot.

Zooming out, LACKING, can you see the pattern in your letter? You say you want a relationship, but you don’t see the point of dating because you’re always moving. You say you want a relationship, but the apps are a waste of time because some people are sketchy. You say you want a relationship, but you don’t wanna go to places where people might be buying what you’re selling (bear nights, bear par-

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as career-oriented or privileged as you are. Those are the guys who can easily relocate with you. So, while dismissing every guy with a boring and/or low-paying job means you won’t wind up briefly dating a boy who ust wants a sugar daddy, LACKING, never giving a regular guy with a regular job a chance could wind up costing you a lot more in the long run.

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ties) because you don’t wanna wear the kind of clothes you’re required to wear at those events (leather, which you’re not actually required to wear) or grow the kind of facial hair you’re required grow to attend them (beards, which you’re not actually required to grow). You say you want a relationship, but guys who didn’t grow up with wealthy and connected parents bore you which is going to make finding someone next to impossible. Gay men are a tiny percentage of the population and finding someone in your preferred age range is going to be hard enough without ruling out guys who can’t match your story about peeing next to Matt LeBlanc in a men’s room on the Warner Bros. lot with a story of their own about some celebrity they peed next to. Or on.

Viewed together, LACKING, the above looks less like “this dude is just unlucky in love” and more like “this dude is engaged in some serious selfsabotage.” So, the problem isn’t the apps or the job-related moves or leather pants or scratchy beards or guys who insist on boring you with stories about their cats when you’ve got a much better story about Mariska Hargitay’s dog walker. The problem is you. I’m not saying you’re an asshole or that you’re unworthy of love. You’re not an asshole you’re ust a little up your own ass. If love and commitment are what you want, LACKING, then I want you to find them. But you’re going to need to get out of your own ass and out of your own way.

P.S. If you have the kind of career that requires you to move every couple of years, LACKING, you should think twice before rejecting guys who aren’t

I’m a 35-year-old gay guy who’s about to et married. y anc and I decided to open our relationship recently and had a wonderful, slutty summer. Not long ago, one of my anc s ooku s made me feel ealous.

The next time we had sex, just the two of us I asked my anc to wors i my body like he worshipped our buddy’s body. y anc ot im atient I ot frustrated, and then I asked him to stop, which killed the mood. We talked and I asked him to be brutally honest.

I asked him if he was attracted to me, and it turns out that he is not. He only has sex with me to make me happy. I died inside. He insists that he loves me deeply and wants to be with me. But I don’t want to spend the rest of my life with someone who isn’t physically attracted to me. (Yes, I can get enthusiastic sex outside the relationship, but I want that from the man I love.) We both freaked out and cried. Now, here I am, due to be married in three months.

What on Earth should I do?

—Gutting Revelation Overturns Our Marital Schedule

A : Postpone the wedding, GROOMS. You made a reasonable assumption about your fianc that he was attracted to you sexually — and your fianc allowed you to make that assumption. Now that he’s opted, with your encouragement, to be brutally honest (loves you, but not attracted to you) you’re going to need some time to process that. Basically, you have to decide if what’s on offer here a se less (or soon to be sexless) companionate marriage where your husband is free to seek se with men he finds attractive and you’re free to seek sex with men who find you attractive is something you’re willing to accept. As prices of admission go, this one is pretty fucking steep. If paying it sounds no less awful and/or impossible a few months from now than it does right now, GROOMS, call the wedding off.

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CULTURE ARIES: March 21 – April 19 F or muc h of her life, A ries p oet Mary Rue e en oyed imagining that polar bears and penguins grew up together playing side by side on the ice, sharing the same vista, bits of blubber, and innocent lore. ut one day, her illusions were shattered. In a science ournal, she discovered that there are no penguins in the far north and no bears in the far south. I bring this to your attention, Aries, because the coming weeks will be a good time to correct misimpressions you’ve held for a while even as far back as childhood. oyfully modernize your understanding of how the world works.

TAURUS: April 20 – May 20 The delights of self-discovery are always available, writes author ail Sheehy. I will add that those delights will be extra accessible for you in the coming weeks. In my view, you’re in a phase of super-learning about yourself. You will attract help and support if you passionately explore mysteries and riddles that have eluded your understanding. ave fun surprising and entertaining yourself,

Free Will Astrology B y Rob B rezsny rational intuitions can fix distortions caused by the overly analytical and hyper-logical approaches of you and your allies.

Taurus. Make it your goal to catch a new glimpse of your hidden depths every day.

GEMINI: May 21 – June 20 There are many different kinds of smiles. our hundred muscles are involved in making a wide variety of expressions. Researchers have identified a specific type, dubbed the a liation smile, as having the power to restore trust between two people. It’s soothing, respectful, and compassionate. I recommend you use it abundantly in the near future along with other conciliatory behavior. You’re in a favorable phase to repair relationships that have been damaged by distrust or weakened by any other factor. More info tinyurl. com ealingSmiles CANCER: June 21 – July 22 According to feminist cosmologists Monica S and arbara Mor, Night, to ancient people, was not an absence of light’ or a negative darkness, but a powerful source of energy and inspiration. At night the cosmos reveals herself in her vastness, the earth opens to moisture and germination under moonlight, and the magnetic serpentine current stirs itself in the underground waters. I bring these thoughts to your attention, fellow Cancerian, because we’re in the season when we are likely to be extra creative as days grow shorter and nights longer. e Crabs thrive in the darkness. e regenerate ourselves and are visited by fresh insights about what S and Mor call the great cosmic dance in which everything participates the movement of the celestial bodies, the pulse of tides, the circulation of blood and sap in animals and plants.

LEO: July 23 – August 22 Your heart has its own brain a heart brain. It’s composed of neurons similar to the neurons in your head’s brain. Your heart brain communicates via your vagus nerve with your hypothalamus, thalamus, medulla, amygdala, and cerebral cortex. In this way, it gives your body helpful instructions.

I suspect it will be extra strong in the coming weeks. That’s why I suggest you call on your heart brain to perform a lot of the magic it specializes in enhancing emotional intelligence, cultivating empathy, invoking deep feelings, and transforming pain.

VIRGO: August 23 – Sept. 22 ow did naturalist Charles Darwin become a skillful thinker who changed the world with his theory of evolution An important factor, according to businessperson Charlie Munger e always gave priority attention to

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evidence tending to disconfirm whatever cherished and hard-won theory he already had. e loved to be proved wrong It helped him refine his ideas so they more closely corresponded to the truth about reality. I invite you to en oy using this method in the coming weeks, Virgo. You could become even smarter than you already are as you wield Darwin’s rigorous approach to learning.

LIBRA: Sept. 23 – Oct. 22 You could soon reach a new level of mastery in an aptitude described by author anana Yoshimoto. She wrote, Once you’ve recognized your own limits, you’ve raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you’re closer to the real you. I hope her words inspire you, ibra. Your assignment is to seek a liberating breakthrough by identifying who you will never be and what you will never do. If you do it right with an eager, open mind it will be fun and interesting and empowering.

SCORPIO: Oct. 23 – Nov. 21 Scorpio theologian Eugene Peterson cleared up a mystery about the nature of mystery. e wrote, Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. Yes At least sometimes, mystery can be a cause for celebration, a delightful opening into a beautiful unknown that’s pregnant with possibility. It may bring abundance, not frustration. It may be an inspiring riddle, not a debilitating doubt. Everything I ust said is important for you to keep in mind right now.

SAGITTARIUS: Nov. 22 – Dec. 21 In 1 , Richard Thaler won the Nobel Prize for Economics. is specialty researching how unreasonable behavior affects the financial world. hen he discovered that this great honor had been bestowed on him, he oked that he planned to spend the award money as irrationally as possible. I propose we make him your role model for the near future, Sagittarius.

Your irrational, nonrational, and trans-

CAPRICORN: Dec. 22 – Jan. 19 Neurotic and neurosis are old-fashioned words. Psychotherapists no longer use them in analyzing their patients. The terms are still useful, though, in my opinion. Most of us are at least partly neurotic that is to say, we don’t always adapt as well as we could to life’s constantly changing circumstances. e find it challenging to outgrow our habitual patterns, and we fall short of fulfilling the magnificent destines we’re capable of. Author enneth Tynan had this insight A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping. I bring this to your attention, Capricorn, because you now have extra power to adapt to changing circumstances, outgrow habitual patterns, and uncover unknown secrets thereby diminishing your neuroses.

AQUARIUS: Jan. 20 – Feb. 18 Author Darin Stevenson wrote the following poetic declaration ’No one can give you the lightningmedicine,’ say the people who cannot give the lightning medicine. ow do you interpret his statement ere’s what I think. ightning medicine may be a metaphorical reference to a special talent that some people have for healing or inspiring or awakening their fellow humans. It could mean an ingenious uality in a person that enables them to reveal surprising truths or alternative perspectives. I am bringing this up, A uarius, because I suspect you now have an enhanced capacity to obtain lightning medicine in the coming weeks. I hope you will corral it and use it even if you are told there is no such thing as lightning medicine. PS ightning medicine will fuel your ability to accomplish di cult feats.

PISCES: Feb.19 – March 20 The superb fairywren gives its chicks lessons on how to sing when they are still inside their eggs. This is a useful metaphor for you in the coming months. Although you have not yet been entirely born into the next big plot twist of your hero’s ourney, you are already learning what you’ll need to know once you do arrive in your new story. It will be helpful to become conscious of these clues and cues from the future. Tune in to them at the edges of your awareness.

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