What To Know And Where To Go In Southeast Michigan
This is where we uplift those uplifting Detroit. This includes news about individuals making change, charities, grants and more.
It's good to see good works in Detroit get good press. Rebel Nell is a jewelry maker based in the city of Detroit. They're turning graffiti chips into new beautiful works of art. But there's more to the story. And full disclosure — I own a couple pairs of Rebel Nell cufflinks. Why? It's about a lot more than just the art. The program, founded by former big league …
On today's episode, we speak with Casper van Alfen and Joanna van der Leun of the Motown Movement. That's the organization founded by architecture students from the Netherlands that bought an abandoned home in Detroit for $1,000 and have been fixing it up with the help of local nonprofits and with the goal of making it into a model of accessible and affordable …
The nonprofit group Friends of the Rouge needs volunteers to help with the annual cleanup of the Rouge River. This year’s Rouge Rescue event takes place Saturday, May 18. Volunteers are needed to help remove trash and invasive plants, maintain land and water trails and plant native wildflowers. Volunteers at last year’s event cleared the equivalent of 24 pickup trucks …
Good Wednesday afternoon, and welcome to a super Detroit-y edition of your Daily Detroit. Today, we walked over to the Avenue of Fashion, where Mayor Mike Duggan came to speak about the streetscape redevelopment of a roughly 1-mile section of Livernois to calm traffic and make the commercial district more attractive to pedestrians and, hopefully, prosperous to business …
Since 2015, the Give Detroit Challenge has raised more than $130,000 for Detroit-based non-profits, and it’s back for another year. The Give Detroit Challenge is hosted by Hour Detroit Magazine. It’s an online fundraising competition that’s running through Thursday, April 18. Winners of the Give Detroit Challenge will receive: First place - $15,000Second place - …
The restaurant business is a very, very tough business. There have been a series of high-profile openings, and some successes in Metro Detroit’s nascent fine dining scene, but it’s still challenging to run a restaurant. News comes from an email that Ferndale’s Torino, the Detroit Free Press’s restaurant of the year in 2014, Hour Detroit’s …
