What To Know And Where To Go In Southeast Michigan
The saga of Detroit's Packard Plant continues, as a city-owned portion of the plant south of Grand Boulevard is being demolished. An eagle-eyed photographer Felicia Fullwood first caught wind of it. View this post on Instagram Demolition on parts of Packard officially started... It was a surreal feeling watching them tear down the exact spot where …
Hey there all you cool cats. It's time for the weekend. Just a quick reminder that the Quicken Loans Winter Blast Weekends resume this weekend in Campus Martius. The Winter Slide will be returning this weekend. So, that should be a lot of fun. Do it up. You can find all of the information for Winter Blast Weekends here. Dirty Show 20 Valentine’s Day is right around …
Paul Riser has played trombone, wrote songs and arranged music with some of the biggest names in popular music. As a member of the fabled "Funk Brothers," the mostly anonymous house band for Motown Records during its heyday, he worked with the likes of Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops, The Supremes and Smokey Robinson. Riser will appear at the Detroit Institute of Music Education …
Busy show for you podcast listeners today. Ford is laying off 1,000 employees at the Flat Rock Assembly Plant, but offering them positions in other Ford plants, with about half expected to take jobs at the Livonia Transmission plant. Meanwhile, GM is adding 1,000 jobs at Flint Assembly to make heavy-duty Chevy and GMC trucks. Those jobs will be offered first to workers affected …
I hope that you have all been keeping warm and staying out of the Polar Vortex that has been hitting the region since Monday. If you're feeling a bit of cabin fever, I have a list of great things to do around town this weekend. Let’s get this show on the road, shall we? Opening: Winter 2019 Exhibitions at MOCAD This Friday night the Museum of Contemporary Art …
If it’s true that people across the country are once again embracing cities, then apparently the Detroit region missed the memo, as sprawl continues to reign supreme here. That’s my take on the latest annual U.S. Census Bureau estimates, released last month. Most of the media coverage focused on Detroit’s loss of 3,107 residents, a …
