What To Know And Where To Go In Southeast Michigan
Are you all ready for Mother's Day this year? It's this Sunday after all. If you haven't gotten your stuff together for the special mom's in your life, I'm going to say get your stuff together. You're running out of time. Sven wrote up a nice little round up of places to go for Mother's Day. There's a few great options for brunches and such. To all of the moms out …
Welcome to your Tuesday edition of Daily Detroit, where we deliver two pieces of big news: Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson says he has stage four pancreatic cancer and won't seek an eighth term in 2020.DTE Energy says it expects to sign a deal with the city to swap a decommissioned power plant on the east riverfront so it can be used to store Jeeps built at a …
Giving Tuesday might have been last Tuesday, but that doesn’t mean you have to stop being charitable this season. On Thursday, December 7 the east side diner Rose’s Fine Food will be hosting a soup dinner benefiting the free charter school Detroit Prep. https://youtu.be/ehIjue-Ht0o The school is currently trying to raise $1 million to purchase and renovate an abandoned …
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Detroit has a long history of misfits, creatives, gadflies, rabble rousers, and people who are wonderfully outside of the social "norm." One of the many places in the city that was defined by the people in it was the "Goat Yard," a small boat yard on the east side of the city over by the foot of St. Jean. It was maybe the last hippie boat yard, the Detroit Boat Works. For …
It’s getting to be beautiful out there. Often, we highlight cool videos near downtown, but here’s a little downriver love. This drone video by YouTuber Nathan Labadie shows the waterfront near Trenton and Grosse Ile. There’s also construction of a fishing pier at the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge in Trenton. Look at all the boats!
