Celebrating Black History Month while growing up was a little lackluster for lifelong Detroiter Kaylan Waterman. Although her parents were very intentional about educating all of their children about the experiences in their African-American heritage, most of the events Waterman attended focused a lot on the pain, sorrow, injustices, and...
It’s sad but true. Detroit lacks a major infrastructure for the arts. Sure, there are established institutions such as the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit Artists Market and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit: MOCAD. They are great, but some of the city’s emerging artists, designers and...
I spent my twenties working and partying in downtown Detroit. This was before Dan Gilbert came to town and made parts of it all fancy-schmancy with “placemaking initiatives” that “leverage the assets.” I’d drink well specials at The Well, talking with my friends about what should be done to...
Happy 140th Birthday to my favorite chocolate company, Sanders. It was on this date in 1875 that Fred Sanders opened his first candy shop that later went on to sell ice cream and other treats. A Detroit-based business, Sanders was one of the first companies to use electric motors which...
