The story of the Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the seminal tales of the Great Lakes. When she was launched, the Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship on the Great Lakes. Add to that a “DJ Captain” who would play music day or night while...
Charlie LeDuff’s series on Fox News called “The Americans” takes him around the country in search of who we really are. He talks to interesting people and gets into interesting situations. His latest episode brings him back to...
It’s like Dan Gilbert decided he was going to be an MTV host for a day. And he doesn’t do too bad of a job of it, either. Usher as you may have heard was bouncing around Detroit, and he stopped through Quicken Loans. Some of our friends...
We know, we know.. it’s getting colder in the D. And it’s also coming up on the holiday season. In what’s become an annual tradition, a large Christmas Tree now sits atop the fountain in the heart of downtown Detroit’s Campus...
The Detroit Soul Skate is an annual event over the Memorial Day weekend. That’s right. Skate. Not skateboarders. Not in-line skates. Four wheels. Grown men and women on roller skates. The tricks they can do are pretty cool and it’s a...
One could get goosebumps, watching it go along the rails, looking just like what dad (or grand-dad) used to ride. We saw how much you all were excited about the prospect of a couple of historic trolleys being up for auction. Being history buffs, we...
“You get the vibe that the dots are starting to connect.” – Chuck Gaidica Cody High School, founded in 1955, and the surrounding neighborhood of Cody Rouge is in an area of Detroit that has seen better days. But a group called...
Tipster A. Crawford sent this one in (thanks!), and we thought it interesting. It was produced by a group describing themselves as the first “social merchandising company” and they’re called The Hundreds. They came to Detroit in...
The 7th annual World Zombie Day Walk happened again on October 12th, and they posted a video to prove it. Zombie Walk Detroit is an event that occurs around World Zombie Day (which is October 7th in case you weren’t aware). This year the walk...
Now, that’s a big splash! Here’s a cool short video of the Littoral combat ship USS Detroit being launched in Marinette, Wisconsin. The ship’s sponsor, Barbara Levin, christened the Detroit with the smashing of a champagne bottle...
The USS Detroit, the sixth ship in the US fleet since 1813, is preparing for christening in Marinette, Wisconsin. Later this year it will launch and the Freedom Class combat ship will come to Detroit, and when she comes down the Detroit River it...
Every city is a complex combination of backgrounds, ethnicities, generations, values, tensions, and confluences. There’s not one reason, or even a few reasons, why Detroit is the way it is. Every Detroiter throughout history has their own...
Ben Affleck on Real Time With Bill Maher: “There is a tremendous, can-do spirit that has been really, really inspiring to me.” Although the focus on most of the talk of the internet was about Affleck’s criticism of Maher’s...
A few days ago on September 20 the Detroit area welcomed our newest citizen, a giraffe. The calf is about five feet tall and weighs in at 150 pounds. “The calf appears strong and healthy, all legs and very curious,” said Scott Carter, Detroit...
