Detroit is jam-packed with artistic talent that is playing a huge role in the city being recognized as an artistic center. Seventeen of them and one collaborative have been recognized with Kresge Artist Fellowships this year and two emerging artists will get Gilda Awards. Each fellowship comes with an unrestricted...
The Fair Food Network fights every day to redesign the nation’s food system so it is based on equity, diversity, ecological integrity and economic viability. It’s a system the nonprofit’s President and CEO Oran Hesterman has said is just plain broken. n “We need to fix the...
There is something magical about books. When most of us grew up libraries were places we could go, take out book and lose ourselves in imagery worlds, listen to story time, learn about any topic we wanted and, yes, do homework. Today that’s not the case for many in...
If you watched Dancing with the Stars this season you know Nyle DiMarco waltzed away with the Mirror Ball trophy. What made it so special was DiMarco is deaf … he danced without and sound to help him keep the beat. That win showed the world being deaf cannot stop anyone...
Want to pedal to a pub, see some of downtown Detroit and not have to do it alone? Then HandleBar is your answer. You can take 15 of your friends and hop on Detroit’s first and only 16-person pedal powered pub on wheels. There’s a driver in the...
The weather gurus are predicting we’ll have warm winter. That’s terrific. But if it does happen (we’ll see … after all this is Michigan) we still won’t have summer weather and there will be plenty of people struggling to pay their bill and keep their heat on....
Forest Gump once said “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna to get.” Well, if you get to the World’s Longest Box of Chocolate event on the Detroit riverfront on October 14 you’re going to have a lot of choices. The...
The rise of urban gardens in historically industrial city may be a shock to many, but they’re happening, and big time. These gardens provide free or at least inexpensive food that is healthy and sustainable as well as educate children and other community members about food production and rehabilitating...
Sometimes people need a river of opportunity to find the tools they need to succeed. Under a new program in Michigan, 200 food assistance recipients in Detroit will be able to “swim”” that “river of opportunity” thanks to more job training possibilities, which will hopefully help them find their way...
Back in the 1990s I watched aerial silk acrobats fly through the air in the dank lobby of the David Whitney Building. One of the automakers secured the empty building for a press event during the North American International Auto Show. The acrobats where part of the entertainment. It was...
If you haven’t signed up for Motor City Makeover there’s still time and there sure is need. The makeover will be held over three Saturdays in May. The city’s 1st and 2nd districts will be “made over” on May 2. They are on the west side. Work...
I first met kids from Detroit Cristo Rey High School three years ago when I visited the school. I wanted to learn more about this Catholic co-ed school that provides college preparatory education to students from economically disadvantaged families in Detroit. The average family income of Detroit Cristo Rey students...
Batman and Superman have been seen around Detroit many times over the past year, thanks to magic of movie making. The film, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, stars Ben Affleck as Batman and Henry Cavill as Superman and you can often catch the stars around Detroit. Both stars have...
