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The devil inside

Around and around they go, walking in a circle, speaking in tongues, clutching toy swords and holding crimson flags aloft, as the music blares, absolutely blares, from the speakers on the altar.

Different strokes

It’s dark as the movie begins. You sit in your seat and take in the bright light of the screen, the vivid sounds, the action that unfolds before you. And when you’re ready, you pull down your p ...

Only the lonely

Their names are read one by one. Each of them is dead, and nearly all of them died alone.

It’s a winter evening inside Perry Funeral Home on Trumbull near Warren in Detroit. A handful ...

The music man

The little girl struggles to hold the heavy clarinet in her hands.

Amira Chambers, all of 5 years old, sits inside the cold air of the Metro Music store, with her winter coat still on, and b ...

Auto zone

It’s early January in Detroit, which brings certain predictable things every year — weather charitably described as miserable, amateur skaters doing face-plants on the Campus Martius ice ri ...