New Orleans folky threepiece Hurray For the Riff Raff recently followed up on their excellent debut It Don’t Mean I Don’t Love You with a brand new record, Young Blood Blues. Here’s the first single off of the new album “Slow Walk” a bluesy, throwback waltz that hews pretty closely to the band’s established old timey Appalacia-folk-meets-Southern-ragtime aesthetic. HFTRR occasionally collaborate with our own local gems Dark Dark Dark, and I am willing to bet that when the Louisianians visit us in October they will be playing with Marshall Lacount and co. That show will take place on October 5th at a place called “Club M” which I am guessing is just a code word for the “secret” hipster/pseudo beatnik den that starts with an M (if you don’t know what I am talking about ask anyone at Hard Times – they’ll tell you). Either that or its a venue I’ve never heard of. We will update as we know more since it should be an amazing performance.
Detroit Mercy legal aid a turn-the-key operation.(Rumblings)
Crain’s Detroit Business November 3, 2003 Law students, faculty and attorney volunteers will get rolling Tuesday in a donated RV, dispensing legal advice to Detroit’s disadvantaged residents in the University of Detroit Mercy Joseph and Lucille Conklin Mobile Law Office.
The mobile law office was financed by the late Joseph Conklin and his family and friends, along with the Catholic Lawyers Society.
The mobile clinic will communicate with community centers and church and senior centers in Detroit to arrange sites for interviews, said Michael Bryce, director of the clinical-law program. The volunteers will help people who have no access to representation and refer them to either the university’s clinical programs or firms that do pro-bono or public-interest work.
Initially, Bryce said, volunteers hope to visit one site a week. He said he’s not unearthed another law school with such a program.
“If it’s not the first of it’s kind, it’s certainly one of the first,” Bryce said.
76 charities win Ryder Cup tickets to raise money More than 70 charities in Southeast Michigan have the opportunity to raise money with 2004 Ryder Cup tickets after Oakland Hills Country Club donated 152 tickets for the event.
Oakland Hills is hosting the Ryder Cup next Sept. 14-19. The match-play event pits teams of golfers from the United States and Europe.
The Bloomfield Township club gave two tickets each to 76 charities. Among them were the Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, the Detroit Police Athletic League, Leader Dogs for the Blind, Special Olympics of Michigan and the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit.
Maritime Institute mixes Scotch, water at fund-raiser Interested in a 90-year-old bottle of Scotch whisky, a Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. 1909 stock certificate or packets of Detroit Gold Cup and Spirit of Detroit racing buttons?
The Great Lakes Maritime Institute Inc. is offering these and other memorabilia at a silent auction fund-raiser Saturday at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, 100 Strand Drive on Belle Isle.
Other items include portholes, tickets, key tags and Great Lakes prints. this web site michigan humane society
The Scotch is two bottles of Dewars recovered from the S.S. Regina, one of eight freighters that sank in Lake Huron during a storm Nov. 9, 1913. A slide show by diver Dave Trotter about another freighter lost in the 1913 storm is scheduled for 2 p.m.
Also scheduled during the 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. event is the introduction of the institute’s interactive Web cam, a first on the Great Lakes. The Web cam, atop the S.S. William Clay Ford pilothouse at the museum, offers a 340-degree view of passing freighters and motor and sailboats, as well as weather conditions on the Detroit River. Viewers will be able to access the Web cam at www.glmi.org and can view the auction items there.
The museum is open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays; admission is $3.50 for adults and $2.50 for seniors and children 5-18. Youngsters 4 and under are free. More information is available by calling (313) 852-051.
Macomb land broker helps stop animal gassing Joe Sowerby, the Macomb County commercial broker whose other passion is his love of animals, has succeeded in an effort to change the euthanasia methods of Detroit Animal Control.
Until recently, animal control was using gas chambers. But after Sowerby, the American Humane Association and the Michigan Humane Society spoke to the Detroit City Council about it, the switch was made to the more common injection method.
“It’s much less stressful to the animals,” said Sowerby, vice president of Mt. Clemens-based Anton Zorn & Associates. He is also known for launching animal-adoption events such as the “Meet Your Best Friend at the Zoo” program, organized with the Michigan Humane Society. this web site michigan humane society
WTVS running sponsorship spots to raise money Detroit Public Television is trying a new sponsorship program to raise money from corporate and private sources.
Steve Antoniotti, president and general manager of WTVS-Channel 56, said the idea came from public-radio efforts already under way. The sponsorships give contributors the chance to buy a message talking about corporate support of Detroit Public TV or share a private message.
For example, PVS Chemicals Inc. CEO Jim Nicholson wished his wife a happy birthday, Antoniotti said.
What companies can’t do is make comparative advertising claims or mention pricing about products or services, because federal guidelines prohibit it.
Sponsorships are available from $1,500 to $5,000, depending on whether the sponsor wants an on-camera appearance and how many days the message will appear (one or two). Channel 56 runs the announcements in 30-second spots five times a day.
CMS’ Jackson HQ cleans up with brownfield honor CMS Energy Corp. has won national kudos for building its $70 million Jackson headquarters on a former contaminated industrial site. The company last week received a Phoenix Award for excellence in brownfield redevelopment at a national conference sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the International City/County Management Association.
One winner was selected from each of the EPA’s 10 regions and from outside the United States in an international competition for an award dubbed the brownfield equivalent of the Oscar.
CMS credits assistance from the city, state and EPA for making the project a reality and enabling utility Consumers Energy Co. to stay in the town where it’s been since 1886.
