Waterfront Living: Gideon and Jaime Pfeffer
While many of their college friends headed for New York, Chicago, San Francisco or Washington after graduation, Gideon and Jaime Pfeffer are glad they chose Detroit. The lifestyle they enjoy at Harbortown, a resort-type community just east of downtown, and the business interests and activities they’ve found here, are more […]
Detroit seizes the moment to rebuild
In a region riven by city-suburban feuds over such issues as Cobo Center, bus routes and water rates, the RiverWalk shows that competing interests can and do cooperate to achieve major goals.
Urban renewal didn’t work, centrally planned large projects (like shopping mall magnate Taubman’s Riverfront Towers, the RenCen) never turn […]
This is an experiment where I’m going to try to round up the daily Detroit news from any source. Hopefully I will be able to keep updating it daily.
Historic Downtown Detroit Hotel Landmark to Re-Open in 2008 with …
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hilton Hotels Corporation (NYSE:HLT) and MCP Development, LLC has announced that the legendary […]
Launched last month Detour is a new online magazine about indie and underground music, film, and other media at the national level but based in Detroit (well actually Royal Oak) continuing Detroit’s music journalism tradition a la Creem, which may no longer be “America’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll Magazine” despite having somewhat of a rebirth […]
So the White Stripes’s new album Icky Thump was played on the air in its entirety well before its release date by Chicago DJ Electra on Q101, which made Jack quite upset. Lots of folks are backlashing against Jack for being so upset, seeing it as the reaction based on greed. Thus the […]
A few weeks ago there was that wild coyote that was seen and caught around RiverTown in Detroit, followed by the story about the coyote that walked into a Quizno’s in downtown Chicago. There was also a coyote in New York City’s Central Park. And now coyotes have been spotted in Golden Gate […]
Caption: Members of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals protest outside
the Troy Marriott during a meeting of Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise owners, while a Troy police officer looks on.
That is: naked protesters protesting eating meat on Big Beaver, exit 69 off I-75 in suburban Detroit.
This is the beginning of a creative fashion photo series from the Metro Times. Also available in print but only in black-and-white.
Another Google Maps (actually Google Earth this time) reference to Ann Arbor/Detroit from Lifehacker.
This time it’s a new layer added to Google Earth showing the AIA’s top picks for architecture in the United States and the Legal Research Building at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor is shown as an example. It is […]
The Allied Media Conference is coming up, June 22-24 in Detroit (it moved from Bowling Green a few years ago). It’s a conference for anyone involved in independent media, zines, Youtube movies creation, comic strips not appropriate for the Sunday paper, podcasts and blogs, publications like Ann Arbor’s Critical Moment, etc. It’s also just a […]