Electronic Music Fest brings in big names By Andrea Keelan Lance Writer May 14, 2008 The time is fast approaching for the biggest local summer music festival. The Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF) will be taking place from May 24 - 26 in Hart Plaza, located in downtown Detroit. And, according to festival director Jason Huvaere, this year is going to be bigger and better than ever.
 With a host of sponsors like MySpace, Vitaminwater, and Beatport, an online music store widely recognized as the leading source for electronic music downloads, DEMF 2008 is promising visitors production enhancements in terms of soundstages, lighting, and of course bringing some big time names to the home of techno music. >> | Check out this sprawl: urban blight as an artform By Cristina Naccarato Lance Writer May 14, 2008 Artcite is currently accepting submissions from the Windsor-Essex and Detroit area for their newest collaborative photography installment, “Check Out This Sprawl.”
The exhibit will be presented alongside the Citizen’s Environment Alliance’s (CEA) annual “Smogfest” events in Artcite’s west gallery.
 The photographs submitted to Artcite must investigate or highlight issues of sprawl in the area. >>  | | Campus Kiss | | Are You There, Vodka? Handler's cocktail for a successful book By Lindsey Rivait Arts Editor May 14, 2008 Underneath it all, Chelsea Handler is a normal girl like you and me.
In this collection, her new book, Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, she reveals stories we can all relate to—from Asian massage therapists believing her to be a lesbian because she demands they use their bare hands instead of a towel to massage her, to dealing with a boyfriend who has affairs with small dogs, and pretending you’re on a honeymoon with your own father in a scheme to score first class treatment.
 Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea focuses on Handler’s youth and later relationships.
Handler recalls fondly the 1967 banana yellow Yugo jalopy her father would drive her to school in. Of course, this was in 1984. >> |
