MetroTimes a shell of its former self ?

[Honky Tonk]

When was the last time you picked up an Hour Detroit?

Five to ten years ago it had insightful articles. Now 70% of the magazine is doctor ads/lawyer ads/restaurant listings and classifieds.

Another one that if folded, no one would care. It does market to a significantly more upscale crowd.

Dbusiness seems to have stepped in and filled the niche left when Hour Detroit went to all fluff. You actually feel you learned something reading Dbusiness.

I think Islandman and I are being sarcastic. [[my perception of his post) I glance through Hour Detroit when I see one lying around, and it always has pix of hoyty-toyty people and parties they've attended. There's nothing wrong with that, they're money makes the world go round, and good for them. The magazine is just irrelevant to my life.

[Islandman]

Oh, you know it.

[ddaydetroit]

I remember it being in the 80s & 90s as my go to source for all good local info and non-mainstream entertainment. I always planned my weekend activities by going to the back of the paper to see which local bands where playing at what local clubs. I always liked their "Best of Detroit" issues as well as it gave me a chance to always be checking out something or some place new.

My exact thoughts Jackie5275 back in the 90's all the cool bands and bars advertised with metro times and they always showed cool stuff going on I could plan a weekend and what was in the metro times but those days are long gone now they see more interested on mostly mainstream events and for some reason they seem to be stuck on the subject of circumcision I have Metro times on facebook and they have posted about a dozen times about a group thats against circumcision in the last few months go figure

[Thruster315]

Save the trees, go digital.

Screw that. How the hell am I supposed to paper train a pup with digital?

[Thruster315]

I miss the days of when the Metro Times would have some of the most outrageous personal ads in the back. We'd wonder if some of them were real or were placed in there for shock value. Some of them would read like "6' 8" hermaphrodite Jewish basketball enthusiast who likes blueberry jam, sportscars, whips on weekends, cuddling with cacti, latex wearing, bottle feeding, and organic farming seeks like minded individuals for weekend fun and possible back waxing. No freaks please."

Damn those were the good ol' days.

[canuck]

I miss the days of when the Metro Times would have some of the most outrageous personal ads in the back. We'd wonder if some of them were real or were placed in there for shock value. Some of them would read like "6' 8" hermaphrodite Jewish basketball enthusiast who likes blueberry jam, sportscars, whips on weekends, cuddling with cacti, latex wearing, bottle feeding, and organic farming seeks like minded individuals for weekend fun and possible back waxing. No freaks please."

Damn those were the good ol' days.

Yeah, the cuddling with cacti I object to.

[noise]

I think Islandman and I are being sarcastic. [[my perception of his post) I glance through Hour Detroit when I see one lying around, and it always has pix of hoyty-toyty people and parties they've attended. There's nothing wrong with that, they're money makes the world go round, and good for them. The magazine is just irrelevant to my life.

The other day a woman working at Avalon asked me if I was in Hour Detroit's list of Best Dressed Detroiters.

I smiled, but I've never looked at an Hour Detroit.

I am in higher ed. My money barely keeps the lights on!

[Smirnoff]

Cheerleader happy hour bar specials.......enough = enough.

[Honky Tonk]

The other day a woman working at Avalon asked me if I was in Hour Detroit's list of Best Dressed Detroiters.

I smiled, but I've never looked at an Hour Detroit.

I am in higher ed. My money barely keeps the lights on!

You have lights!?!?!

[ABetterDetroit]

The other day a woman working at Avalon asked me if I was in Hour Detroit's list of Best Dressed Detroiters.

I smiled, but I've never looked at an Hour Detroit.

I am in higher ed. My money barely keeps the lights on!

Uh... I think you were getting hit on noise.

[Thruster315]

I've always wondered what out-of-towners think of the Metro Times when they come to town.

Now when I travel I occasionally pick up that particular city's local indie paper and see what's happening around that area. One can't count on the big city paper to give the lowdown on what bands are playing where and what cool cultural thing is happening in town.

Does the Metro Times give outsiders a decent scope of what Detroit has to offer on the entertainment end of things?

I agree that for alternative and investigative hard news, it's slipped but what about it's entertainment, cultural and hip quotient to the masses??

[Smirnoff]

I've always wondered what out-of-towners think of the Metro Times when they come to town.

What escort service to select from......

[sumas]

Wondering about distribution. Of course I can read it on line but the paper with a cup of coffee feels so right.

Used to be available everywhere. Last time I saw a physical copy was a health food store in GPW

[lpg]

They have a box at the Wyandotte Post Office.

[G-DDT]

Uh... I think you were getting hit on noise.

Yeah. I wasn't going to say anything. Just kinda' hung there in the air waiting to get grabbed.
One time made an arse of myself at that bakery around my friends commenting on how much I liked Middle Eastern food, but I Freudianly flubbed up the word "Lebanese" in an awkward way. Derf....No lie. I remember that winter day all too well. Hanging out smoking with a soon-to-be-owner of a coffeehouse and an old fellow Motor co-worker listening to Eno/Byrne's "My Life in the Bush... [[dang-there I go again with the Freudian slips) Jeesh, something tells me I wouldn't have this problem if I hung out at less bakeries in Detroit and more pizzerias in Ferndale.
Yeah, that's the ticket.