The Urban Flavor is an online magazine and newsletter covering urban culture in cities like Detroit, DC, Chicago, Atlanta, Philly and more aren’t far behind. In their most recent addition they cover the great new coffee shop in Hamtramck, Café 1923. It’s not in downtown Hamtramck, not that you couldn’t walk there, but what a […]
Is it really possible? Ever since a previous administration closed down mental health institutions across the state there have been a great number of people left homeless who truly can’t just get a job like you or me. Most of the people in the state get away with ignoring the problem, the wealthy […]
As Model D Media reports:
In the first quarter of 2007, 313,249 hotel rooms were booked through 2013, as compared to 230,264 booked through just 2009 in the first quarter of 2005—a 36% improvement.
I’d like to see tourism takeover as a bigger part in Detroit’s economy. It’s already moving in that direction with the casinos, the […]
Detroit has a huge Polish/Polish-American population, almost a million, and almost the largest Polish city in the world. There used to be a Poletown, which is now a GM plant, which left Hamtramck as Detroit’s Polish enclave, although today it is much more diverse — the East side is known to some as Little […]