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Serving Metropolitan Detroit And Greater Michigan Sun

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29
Month
July
Year
1976
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Serving Metropolitan Detroit And Greater Michigan Sun

The Detroit Sun is proud and happy that it can publish this, The Official Guide to The 1976 Detroit Homecoming Festival, as an integral part of our regularly-scheduled issue (Number 14, Volume 4). We are doing something special here because we feel that Homecoming '76 can be a tremendously valuable event to people of this area. Through it we can learn our history, the cultural heritage that is specific to Detroit and its environs, as we celebrate our present and future the best way we know how: with music, song, dance, and other forms of contemporary art which thrive in the Motor City.

We have an obligation to report extensively on any event which approaches the magnitude of Homecoming-and we also want to take this opportunity to reaffirm our support for what is basically a progressive City Administration, led by Mayor Coleman A. Young. This is one positive example of how governments can begin to respond to the social and cultural needs of the people they are supposed to represent, and we feel fortunate that we can help in spreading the spirit of community and strength which Homecoming represents.

Inside this issue, we're doing things just a bit differently than our usual format calls for. First of all, we usually publish a news section in front of the paper and, tucked inside the center, a separate Kulchur section which reports on music, entertainment, and the arts. This issue things are reversed: Our Kulchur section is out front, and the news section is in the middle.

We switched things around because this issue's Kulchur section is devoted primarily to our continuing coverage of Homecoming in the form of the Official Guide for the festival, and we wanted to draw special attention to it.

Also special to Kulchur in this issue:

Our "Vortex" section- which regularly offers reviews and previews of concerts, films, theatre, art, records, and other forms of artistic expression- is wholly devoted to musicians who are based in the Detroit area.

As an addition to our usual features, pages 1 2 and 1 3 are devoted to a guide to Detroit nightlife and concert locations, including the entire schedule of Homecoming concerts and events.

We hope you enjoy this special issue of the Sun and that you find it necessary to continue reading this newspaper regularly. To subscribe-and to get a tree record album by Detroit stars Aretha Franklin or Elvin Jones-please turn to page 29.

Have a ball!

-The Staff of the Sun