Articles By: LC Weber

“Danny Duberstein Is Good At Two Things…”

With Dave Chappelle skateboarding through farmland somewheres in Ohio, J.B. Smoove might be the jester king ruling quietly in TV-land.

November 18th, 2009 | GENERAL, SMOKE BREAK, TV/Movies, Videos | Read More

“A Man Must Have A Code…”

Nat King Cole’s sugar-swirled songs echo through Walmart walkways lined with stockings and ornaments. Price-drops of epic proportions are slated for a Friday after Thanksgiving that is sure to leave at least one Midwesterner trampled to death. It’s with these staples the holiday season...

November 17th, 2009 | GENERAL, SMOKE BREAK, TV/Movies, VIDEO | Read More

Takers, Keepers. Losers, Weepers.

So far as I can see, Takers goes something like this… Stringer — fresh from illegitimizing his role on “The Wire” by shaving his goatee for “Devil White Woman” — takes a ragtag group of Jedi Knights and Halle Berry castoffs to rob a bank. T.I. — fresh...

October 22nd, 2009 | GENERAL, SMOKE BREAK, TV/Movies, Videos | Read More

“Just Do Your Best And Have Fun…”

“…that’s what’s important, right?” The Onion coming so serious and true once again. Re: The Lions.

September 24th, 2009 | GENERAL, SMOKE BREAK, Sports, Videos | Read More

TiRon - “Throwing My Money” Video

The Weber family tree is composed of long branches of fiscal conservatives, bankers and businessmen. That said, I am the apple that fell far from the tree.

September 22nd, 2009 | GENERAL, MUSIC, VIDEO | Read More

“We Believe In Nothing…”

“Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.” - Walter, The Big Lebowski A friend of a friend swayed side to side in a football tailgate haze a couple weeks back. Beer and cigarette smoke fumed from his pores....

September 21st, 2009 | GENERAL | Read More

The Strangest Of Arrangements

Photo: Henry DeMaio The County rolled mid-set into a live version of Slum Village’s “Fall In Love.” The Michigan-born bassist and guitarist supplied harmonies for Dilla’s haunting hook, while Mayer Hawthorne let a beyond-capacity crowd at L.A.’s The Roxy know that none...

September 13th, 2009 | Events, GENERAL, MUSIC, VIDEO | Read More

Nightcap With ELO

It’s the last dance of the night, TSS. This is the song. Electric Light Orchestra is that group of soulful white dudes that give Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers a run for their money. Rarely referenced but often played, ELO is on in the background at your neighborhood bar. You tip the bottom...

September 1st, 2009 | AUDIO, GENERAL, LOOSIES, MUSIC, SMOKE BREAK | Read More

Nightcap With I, Ced and Coultrain

Ballroom. I don’t know what you call it in your metro area, but I’m sure you have a two-step as smooth as Ballroom in Detroit. It’s the dance that makes all your white friends say “What is THAT? Can you teach me?!?” I was that white girl at some point long ago in yesteryear....

August 24th, 2009 | AUDIO, GENERAL, LOOSIES, MUSIC | Read More

Gun Safety

Once upon a time, on the banks of the Red Cedar, former MSU football phenom Plaxico Burress shot himself in New York. If you’ve ever seen 300, you know Spartans are willing to lose an eye and keep fighting, so we needn’t worry about Plaxico’s future. He plead guilty to a weapons charge...

August 20th, 2009 | Everything Else, GENERAL, SMOKE BREAK, Sports | Read More

Nightcap With 14KT

When it’s time to punch the clock at the end of a long day here at the TSS office, the word “nightcap” flies around like we’re headed across the street to our local yokel smoky pub for a shot and a beer with McNulty. But what we’re really aiming for is the piece to carry...

August 11th, 2009 | AUDIO, GENERAL, LOOSIES, MUSIC | Read More

Mayer Hawthorne - “Maybe So, Maybe No” Video

They say when you love something you have to set it free.

August 11th, 2009 | GENERAL, MUSIC, VIDEO | Read More

“Who Reppin The D?…”

Photo: Luke Price “…Obviously/ I be out for presidents to represent me.” It’s like cutting off a finger. Every time an emcee from the D falls or even moves away it’s like cutting off a finger. It hurts. It’s painful. And everyone outside of Detroit sees it as bad...

August 5th, 2009 | Everything Else, GENERAL, SMOKE BREAK | Read More