TedXDetroit is returning for a 10th year on Wednesday, September 26. But what can you expect at this day-long conference about ideas worth spreading? Sven Gustafson sat down with Terry Bean and Shawn Lee at the Founders Midtown Taproom to get the...
53 finalists were named on Thursday for the Detroit Knight Arts Challenge. They are all in the running for a share of $3 million. The the grant contest is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. It’s a matching grant, so the...
Dogs and Degas apparently do go together. The Detroit Institute of Arts is holding their first-ever animal adoption event. The event is with the Michigan Humane Society on the DIA’s north lawn on Sunday, Aug. 26, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., or until all...
One of North America’s oldest sports is lacrosse. The sport, a creation of Native Americans and First Nations, has seen a resurgence as of late. Among that? A program for youth. So on the Daily Detroit News Byte, Sven interviewed Christianne...
Today on the News Byte Jeremy Ross, the Artist Liaison with the Michigan Glass Project joins us to talk about Michigan Glass Project and the upcoming Live Glassblowing and Arts Festival this weekend. The three day festival will be held at the...
The Detroit Greenways Coalition will hold a group bike ride Sunday to create awareness and raise money to build a 26-mile rail-to-trail greenway loop in the city. The Joe Louis Greenway is a proposed pedestrian loop through Detroit, Hamtramck and...
The Eight Mile Boulevard Association is looking for some help sprucing up the namesake thoroughfare. Volunteers are being sought for the 2018 Hands On 8 Mile community cleanup and flower-planting event which takes place on Saturday, June 16...
Jason Hall is retiring – sort of. The co-founder of Detroit’s beloved Slow Roll is stepping down from his role as the public personality behind the city’s now-famous neighborhood bicycle ride. Slow Roll isn’t going away – and Jason isn’t going...
What do you do when a neighborhood… and your city… crumble? Leave? Throw your hands up? Not Mama Shu. She’s taken tragedy — the death of her son by a hit and run driver, Jakobi Ra — and turned that energy into Avalon Village. Avalon Village is a...
Here’s your Daily Detroit News Byte Podcast for Tuesday, May 8, 2018. Development gets moving at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull… The PGA Tour looks like it’s coming to Detroit. What could that mean having such an event in a...
Now that cookie season is over, you might not think much about the Girl Scouts…unless you have a kid involved in a troop. But there are 32,000 girls and adult volunteers involved with the Girl Scouts in and around metro Detroit. Girl Scouts of...
This is your Daily Detroit News Byte for Tuesday, May 1. Here’s what we’re talking about today. New data shows struggles for the QLINE (LINK: Bridge Michigan). The team talks about the missed opportunities, how it should have ran down...
Here’s your Daily Detroit News Byte For Monday, April 23, 2018 recorded in beautiful Grand Circus Park. A video game set in Detroit, “Detroit: Become Human” is about to launch. A playable demo comes out Tuesday. The largest robotics...
Currently one in five Michigan children face hunger. Nearly 300,000 school aged children who live in southeast Michigan are at risk of not having enough food to eat. That number is staggering and honestly heartbreaking. Most of these school aged...
Hunger is a real challenge throughout metro Detroit, and an organization at the front of dealing with that challenge is Gleaners. Sven Gustafson has Children’s Hospital of Michigan CEO Luann Thomas Ewald and Bridget Brown from Gleaners on the...
