Sunday, February 21, 2016

The Grande Ballroom - Detroit's Sixties Rock Mecca

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In the late Sixties, the place in Detroit to hear the best high energy, heavy metal rock music was the stage of the Grande Ballroom on 89...
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Monday, February 15, 2016

Michael Kay - Sitting on a Dock by the Bay?

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For some unknown reason, my thoughts have turned to a friend of mind I haven't seen or heard from in forty years - Mike Kay. We went t...
Sunday, February 7, 2016

The Dutch Psychic--Peter Hurkos

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I was just settling into an interview with someone who knew John Norman Collins. It was a late lunch meeting at Haab's--downtown Yp...
Friday, January 29, 2016

Detroit's Lost Neighborhoods--Black Bottom and Paradise Valley

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If suburban Detroit residents were asked what they know about Black Bottom and Paradise Valley, most of them would be clueless. Both ...
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Thursday, January 21, 2016

Doctor Who--Madman in a Blue Box

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I may be the last person on the planet to discover the British cult science fiction series Doctor Who , but I am trying to make up for i...
Monday, January 11, 2016

The Rainy Day Murders Progress Report

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Over the past year, the question I was asked most is "When will The Rainy Day Murders be finished?" For the last five year...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

Happy New Year 2016--Why January First?

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New Year's Eve in Kiev, Ukraine. Historians have charted the origins of our New Year's celebrations to the ancient Babylonians ...