MUSIC CONCERT. Spikedrivers, Upper DeRoy Aud., Wayne Campus, 8:00, adm. benefit for 5th Estate, 1/20 CONCERT. Scandinavian Symphony, Scottish Rite Cathedral, Masonic Temple, 8:20 adm. 1/21 JAZZ CONCERT: THE ANDREW HILL QUARTET, Saturday, January 21, 8:00 p.m., University of …
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MC5 “Live” at the Grande
by A. Freek
Fifth Estate # 66, November 14-27, 1968
Detroit’s friendly neighborhood rock and roll band, the MC5, recorded their first album under their new contract with Elektra Records at the Grande Ballroom last month, and it was a killer affair. The festivities took place on the First International …
Beatle Squashed
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
LONDON (LNS)—Beatle John Lennon and his girlfriend, avant-garde filmmaker Yoko Ono, were busted in London recently for possession of marijuana. The pair were arrested when police raided Lennon’s fashionable apartment at Montague Square in the Marylebone district of the city. …
Elektra buys 5
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
In a lightning move, Elektra Records signed the MC5 and the Stooges to long-term recording contracts in New York September 26. The move was engineered by Elektra’s publicity director, Danny Fields, who flew out to hear the bands last weekend …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 61, Sept. 5-18, 1968
Dear Sirs, I have been a subscriber to your paper for a long time and hope to be a subscriber for a long time to come, but that’s not why I wrote. I wish to congratulate you on your last …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
Grande Gets Ready
by Mixed Mead-Ear
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
Unaccustomed though I may be to giving advice which will earn money for someone other than myself I feel duty bound to give you some information concerning two forthcoming attractions at the Grande Ballroom.
Human Be-In
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
A Human Be-In in the Flint area will happen on Sunday, May 21, from 10 a.m. until dusk at the Byram Lake park outside of Linden, Michigan. Organized by Trans-Love Energies of Flint, the Be-In will take place in a …
Bach on Rock
by Franklin Bach
Fifth Estate # 20, December 15-31, 1966
It was a Thursday night, December 8, at Wayne State’s Community Arts Auditorium. I was about to hear Lyman Woodward play for the first time…Mustachioed John Sinclair came out of the wings and quietly told us Lyman was going to …
Plymouth Legal Battle Rages
by Victor Mansfield
Fifth Estate # 89, October 2-15, 1969
PLYMOUTH—With the deft hand of a club wielding savage, Garden City District Judge Richard Hammer, sat in Plymouth District Court Sept. 9, and summarily dismissed a suit against the city without allowing the complainant a chance to present his case.
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
Performer James Brown is one Negro who’s certainly managed to come to terms on his own with Black Power. First he gave a cozy, bear-hugging endorsement of Hubert Humphrey (himself just back from hugging Lester Maddox) and then, when HHH’s …
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
Reading the Fifth Estate last issue was sort of a magical mystery tour with none of the teasers on the front page corresponding to the proper pages and a number of other horrors. This was caused by last minute surgery …
The Louie Love-in
by Ben Habeebe, Richard Lone Eagle
Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967
1. by Ben Habeebe You should have seen Louie’s face. He was beaming like the hero they were trying to make him out to be. Boy, were they laying it on him. The Detroit News (which pitches: “If You …
Trans-Love Offers Services
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 58, July 18-31, 1968
The Trans-Love Energies commune is now offering three new services in which you may be interested:
“Get the big stuff”
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
“The chickens are coming home to roost” —Malcolm X, Nov. 22, 1963 Malcolm was right, of course, and the chickens have come home so many ways since that grim day four years ago. Vietnam, Malcolm’s own death, riots across the …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
To the Editors: We just finished reading your paper “the 5th Estate” dated April 3-16, which couldn’t be classified as good trash. After wasting 4 books of matches we finally got your paper burning so we could heat our …
Today’s Television Programs
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976
MORNING 7:00 channel 2 Bozo the Clown Bozo and Mr. Houdini are joined by Lyndon La Rouche (aka Lyn Marcus) of the U.S. Labor Party for kiddie games and a masquerade. channel 4 Sesame Street The Fonz (Henry Winkler) shows …
Thee Column
by Larry Kaplan
Fifth Estate # 98, February 4-18, 1970
HELP: I’ve got the clap, but because of night classes, I can’t get to the Open City Free Medical Clinic. Is there anywhere I can get treatment during the daytime? —J.M. City of Detroit to the rescue! The Detroit Social …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 12, August 15, 1966
It’s good to be back with you again. The Festival Sunday was one of the most beautiful things I have ever experienced, and I think a lot of the people there had the same experience as myself. There were SO …
Riots Revisited
by Peter Werbe, T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 376, Halloween, 2007
“July1967” by T. Fulano, from FE 326, Summer 1987 It was a full scale beggar’s banquet, the return of the repressed, a surprise party. The city people, young and old, black and white, went through the pawnshop windows like meteorites. …