For one night at least, the idea that going out in America has become unaffordable didn’t hold true. Last Saturday, a friend and I made the trip to the historic Senate Theater for a screening of the classic Blazing Saddles. Neither of us had ever been there before, and personally, I hadn’t stepped inside a real movie theater in years.

In 1999, members of the band DownTown Brown took me to a bar called the Double O Pub. They said they played there occasionally. At first glance, it looked too small for live music. I was wrong.

Runae Moon’s latest single, Into the Woods, captivates listeners from the very first note, drawing them into an immersive experience that transcends the boundaries of a typical song. It unfolds like a shadowy realm, where the air is thick with emotion and the atmosphere is tinged with an eerie beauty.

Fans of the spooky, strange, and macabre can get a mid-year fix as Halfway to Halloween returns May 8–9 at the Washtenaw Farm Council Ground

Where is this place I find myself falling faster and drowning in the ocean of descriptive, depraved, yet intense words crafted together to tell the story of one lost soul leading a band of antiheroes into the dark foreboding nights of Detroit’s street life, in a way that one only could who felt these streets in their blood.