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...former Detroit mayor is moving to a new home Oct. 28th - a 15-by-10-foot county jail cell where he will spend the next 120 days for lying during a civil trial to conceal an extramarital affair. Kilpatrick resigned in September after 8 months of accusations, denials and litigation that cost the city millions of dollars and brought its political development to a halt...
...defies logic to think people worried about losing their houses are going to buy three-figure concert tickets." Music agents and managers are cautioning their clients to think small in 2009, at least when it comes to prices, Bongiovanni says. Some venues, like the DTE Energy Center outside Detroit, are dropping ticket prices as low as $10 to lure crowds. It's not as cheap as staying home and playing Rock Band, but it's still a pretty good deal...
...client's lunch wasn't serious about the rapper's prospects. And while the opening scene in 8 Mile - in which his character suffers stage fright during a rap battle - may have been cinematically embellished, he "choked" in the finals of a 1997 battle in Ohio, returning to Detroit "depressed and totally broke...
...book that brought many a grown man to sad, secret tears. (Guys, better get those kleenex out again for this winter's film adaptation.) With The Longest Trip Home, Grogan offers another memoir, this one of his non-dog life: he recalls his childhood in suburban Detroit, growing up in a devout Catholic family; his early years in love; and the agonizing decline of his father's health...
...peeking into a world not our own. John Grogan rejects that proposition outright. His two books operate under the premise that anyone's life is worthy of a memoir, no matter how boring or similar it is to everyone else's. Growing up in suburban Detroit, Grogan lived a solid middle-class life. He was generally a well-behaved child. As a teenager, he dabbled in weed-smoking, and cigarette-smoking, and drank Boone's on occasion, but never committed any major transgressions. He was a good child, brought up by a pair of strict Catholic parents who instilled...