It’s sad, but true. In Michigan, nearly 17 percent of adults with mental illness are uninsured and find it difficult to get the treatment they need. To make matters worse, the disease puts them at risk for other chronic medical conditions. To help alleviate some of the burden Covenant...
Detroit can be daunting for new arrivals – executives, journalists, students and residents alike. They wonder “where can I find out about the city’s history, businesses, possibilities, challenges, politics and culture?” “Is everything I’ve heard about the city true?” “Where can I meet the change makers?” “Where can I...
Every Detroit neighborhood must be livable, lovable and vibrant for our city to truly transform. Its future depends on it. Our neighborhoods are looking for ways to: Fight blight and crime. Set up strong block clubs. Find volunteers. Help youth find the right path. Find funding. Groom future leaders. Train...
You’ve heard the phrase “my cup runneth over.” Well the same can be said for most make-up zipper pouches. It’s a dilemma Christina Bellas decided to fix as she travelled around the Midwest designing uniforms for casinos. That was her profession before she started her company, Make-Cup. She...
$2 million. That’s the amount the Kresge Foundation wants to share with 15-20 Detroit community-based nonprofits with projects to transform neighborhoods. This is the third round of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit, a $5 million pilot initiative launched in 2014. The program asked whether grants of up to $150,000...
She was just about 4 feet tall with straight brown hair and sad eyes with dark circles underneath. She came tentatively down the hall from her room at Children’s Hospital of Michigan pushing her IV cart. She looked timidly into the room filled with Halloween costumes, games, face paints...
It’s the time of year the undead walk, and they will be walking and blood sucking at the Hilberry Theatre from October 21 through November 6. That’s when Wayne State University’s Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance will breathe new life into Bram Stoker’s Dracula....
Sixty-six arts and cultural organizations in metro Detroit will share $5.1 million for their operations from The Kresge Foundation Detroit Program over the next three years. More than half of the organizations are based in the city of Detroit. The others are in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties. A...
There promises to be a caravan or convocation of cyclists there. (We’re not sure what you would call the more than 7,500 people expected to ride in this year’s Tour de Troit on Saturday, September 17, but we know it’s not a gaggle because that is...
Humble Design is just that – humble. You won’t hear them tooting their horn about number of families coming out of homeless and abuse shelters they’ve helped have a home, not just house, or that they have made it possible for those families to smile again and rebuild their...
The General Motors Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center and Brownstown Battery Assembly Plant awarded $50,000 in grants to five metro Detroit nonprofit organizations committed to community development, environmental cleanup and educational programs. The nonprofits were voted on by employees at each plant and awarded through the GM Community Grants program, funded...
The Whitney is haunted and we have a picture of the ghost. Check out the shadowy figure of a woman on the left. The SyFy Channel’s Ghost Hunters looked for that ghost and others when it recently filmed an episode at the restaurant. The episode, Phantom for the First...
Many of us carry our own little library with us. It’s called a Nook or a Kindle or one of the other e-readers. Mine’s a Nook. When I open it up sayings appear. One of them is a quote from Cicero, “A room without a book is like...
It has been said preparing food is art. It can also be said art is food for the soul. Mike Han plans to give you both when his new, casual sushi restaurant, ITADAKU, opens in Corktown at 1701 Trumbull Ave. later this year. ITADAKU is the intersection of Han’s...
Ready to get your yoga on? Ready to warm up with the garudasana (eagle pose), do the happy baby or breath using the ujjayi? You can do it all and more on the Detroit riverfront by the light of the moon. On Wednesday, July 20, at 9:00 p.m....
Back in 1965, Viola Liuzzo left her home, husband and five children in Detroit and headed Alabama to help Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference register African-American voters in Selma. She helped by driving supporters between Selma and Montgomery so they could participate in the freedom march from...
Many of you travel around Detroit on Woodward and Warren so we wanted to be sure you knew westbound Warren Ave. at Woodward Ave. will close on Friday, July 8, 2015 at 8:00 pm. Construction crews will be working extended hours until the construction for the QLINE at this...
Brandon Bullard’s grandmother drove a Mercedes. His grandfather drove a Mercedes. His mother drove one, too. So when it came time for Bullard to produce a piece of art as part of his graduate studies at Cranbrook Academy of Art it seemed only natural to create something for the...
