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  1. A fan crowd surfs during Photek's set on the Red Bull Music Academy Stage on the first night of the Movement 2012 in Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit. (John T. Greilick / Detroit News)

    First day of Movement draws 30,000 to downtown Detroit

    • By Adam Graham
    • Detroit News Columnist

    The three-day Movement festival kicked off its 13th year on Saturday with a crowd of 30,703 at Hart Plaza, according to organizers. The festival comes at a time when electronic music is making a huge surge in pop music, as artists and DJs are enjoying a stature akin to rock stars.

  1. Tigers have enough talented individuals to turn season around

    Friday night against the Twins, after he hadn’t pitched in nine days, Jose Valverde's fastball was boring in on hitters with that old sass. (Hannah Foslien/Getty Images)Lynn Henning: A concise view is that a good team probably will prove itself during a six-month season that started freakishly. The Tigers should end up as more of a testament to talent and to a team’s pitching and depth.

  2. State officials to gather on Mackinac Island for annual conference

    The Detroit Regional Chamber’s annual policy conference kicks off on Mackinac Island Tuesday offering a mix of business and politics.

  3. Detroit’s ‘Night Market’: Secret box truck party on empty industrial lot

    Spectators crammed into a truck tricked out as a miniature night club with performances by Grace Detroit, Laura Finlay and the Detroit Pleasure Society. (Donna Terek/The Detroit News)Donna Terek: On a recent Saturday night around 8 p.m., half a dozen box trucks converged on an empty lot abutting a train track near the New Center area. Ramps lowered and disgorged a coven of artists, musicians and performers who scurried to set up their "stages" inside the vans' bellies.

  4. Transferred GM workers adjust to life in Lansing

    Auto workers Scott Mitchell, left, and John Peila sit in Scott's car after their shift at the General Motors Lansing Delta Township assembly in Delta Township. Every other weekend, he and John pack the car and drive home to Tennessee at the end of their graveyard shift. (AP Photo/Lansing State Journal, Rod Sanford)These are the “transplants” — GM workers who headed north two years ago when the automaker shut down part of its Spring Hill, Tenn., operation and shifted production of the Chevrolet Traverse to the Delta plant.

  1. Cliff Avril had 11 sacks in 2011 and has 30 in four seasons. (Daniel Mears / Detroit News)

    There’s more to Lions-Cliff Avril equation than $2 million divide

    • By Chris McCosky
    • Detroit News Columnist

    It is generally accepted that the Lions’ three cornerstone players are Matthew Stafford, Calvin Johnson and Ndamukong Suh. They are paid as such. They gobble up the largest chuck of the allotted payroll.

  1. MSU vs. Michigan deserves better spot on Big Ten football schedule

    • By Matt Charboneau
    • Detroit News Columnist

    This season, MSU linebacker Chris Norman, top, and Michigan receiver Drew Dileo will meet on Oct. 20 in Ann Arbor. (Carlos Osorio / Associated Press)Look, it's understandable that the Michigan-Ohio State game will be played the final week of the season. That's fine. But Michigan State and Michigan on the opening weekend? That’s just dumb.

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  1. Nolan Finley

    Finley: Snyder’s got to start crowing

    Gov. Rick Snyder arrived on Mackinac Island a year ago to take a victory lap, having, in just six months, set in motion much of his blueprint for fixing Michigan. This week…

  1. Lynn Henning

    Tigers have enough talented individuals to turn season around

    A concise view is that a good team probably will prove itself during a six-month season that started freakishly. The Tigers should end up as more of a testament to talent and …

  1. Chris McCosky

    There’s more to Lions-Cliff Avril equation than $2 million divide

    It is generally accepted that the Lions’ three cornerstone players are Matthew Stafford, Calvin Johnson and Ndamukong Suh. They are paid as such. They gobble up the largest …

  1. John Niyo: It’s time to be Tigers -- start living up to the hype
  2. Nolan Finley: McCotter foul-up risks GOP hold on delegation
  3. Bob Wojnowski: Not even Justin Verlander fastballs can snap Tigers out of lethargy
  4. Tom Long: Review: ‘Bernie’ shows a softer side to murder

  1. Michigan open for fireworks; hundreds get permits

    • By Ed White
    • Associated Press
    Bottle rockets are shown at Southgate Fireworks in Southgate. Roughly 500 certificates so far have been granted to businesses seeking to sell fireworks that had been prohibited for years, the Michigan Bureau of Fire Services reports. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

    Roughly 500 certificates so far have been granted to businesses seeking to sell fireworks that had been prohibited for years, the state Bureau of …

  1. Finding a job a scary proposition for class of ’12

    • By Sharon Cohen
    • Associated Press
    Chad Larsen Stauber, center, a student teacher at the Lafayette School in Chicago, works with students Devion Allen, left, and Jovante Ross, on their reading skills. The 26-year-old who just received his master's degree in education knows that later in 2012, he'll have to start paying off debt of about $100,000. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

    It's a time when hope collides with economic reality, when the relief of that last class and the thrill of holding that diploma give way to the next …

  1. UAW marks 75th anniversary of Battle of the Overpass in Dearborn

    • By The Detroit News
    Members of the UAW hang a banner from the footbridge over Miller Road at the Ford Rouge Center on Friday to commemorate the 1937 Battle of the Overpass Friday in Dearborn. (Bryan Mitchell / Special to The Detroit News))

    The United Auto Workers union on Friday marked the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Overpass in Dearborn, the seminal event that led Ford Motor …

  1. Beryl to bring rain, winds to southeast U.S. coast

    • By Russ Bynum
    • Associated Press
    Carolina Beach Ocean Rescue squad leader Evan Anderson places a sign in the sand closing the beach to swimming at Carolina Beach, N.C. on Saturday. (AP Photo/The Star-News,Matt Born)

    — A cluster of thunderstorms that stalled off the southeastern U.S. coast on Saturday is expected to make for a sloppy, rainy Memorial Day on …

  1. Vatican in chaos after butler arrested for leaks

    • By Nicole Winfield
    • Associated Press
    Pope Benedict XVI, flanked by his private secretary Georg Gaenswein, top left, and his butler Paolo Gabiele arrives at St.Peter's square at the Vatican for a general audience on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

    Vatican City — An already sordid scandal over leaked Vatican documents took a Hollywood-like turn Saturday with confirmation that the pope's …

  1. States looking at new tolls to repair crumbling roads

    • By Joan Lowy
    • Associated Press

    Washington— Driving onto an Interstate highway? Crossing a bridge on the way into work? Taking a tunnel under a river or bay? Get ready to pay.

  1. Cruising season gets going on the Great Lakes

    • By Karen Dybis
    • Special to The Detroit News
    Capt. Peter DiMarco pilots the Grande Mariner, a small tourist ship, off the dock of Blount Small Ship Adventures in Warren, R.I. It will be in Wyandotte next week. More ships are touring the Great Lakes. (Stew Milne / Associated Press)

    The Great Lakes cruising season started this week.

  1. Nicole Kidman plays Ernest Hemingway’s 3rd wife in HBO film

    • By Luaine Lee
    • McClatchy-Tribune News Service
    Nicole Kidman, left, and Clive Owen star in the HBO film, "Hemingway & Gellhorn." (HBO)

    Actress Nicole Kidman says she loves plumbing someone else’s psyche. It’s the thing that keeps her coming back to acting, something she’s done for 28 …

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