July 11, 2017
PODCAST: Talking entrepreneurship and failure in Detroit with TechTown CEO Ned Staebler
This week’s episode of the Daily Detroit Happy Hour Podcast takes us to the headquarters of TechTown, where we sat...
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July 9, 2017
PHOTOS: Deep in the U.P., Marquette is a happening place
There’s something positively lonely about looking out over the cold blue expanse of Lake Superior as the waves roll in...
June 28, 2017
PODCAST: Yum Village’s Godwin Ihentuge on diversifying Detroit’s food scene
As the creative force behind Yum Village, Godwin Ihentuge is all about “social discovery through food.” And while he celebrates...
June 22, 2017
Photos of 8 Mile’s newest mural, ‘Detroit is a Black Woman’
Detroit artist Ndubisi Okoye has completed his new mural on a building along the south side of Eight Mile Road...
June 21, 2017
PODCAST: Detroit’s ‘Lower East Side’ may be the city’s next boom area
The east riverfront area of Detroit, an 18.4 square-mile district that stretches from downtown to the border with Grosse Pointe...
June 19, 2017
Car-free pedestrian plazas suddenly all the rage in the Motor City
Detroit, for decades a monument to the hegemony of the automobile, is increasingly ceding road real estate to pedestrian uses,...
June 8, 2017
PODCAST: Co-founder Jason Hall on the growth and evolution of Slow Roll Detroit
The good folks from Slow Roll Detroit stopped by this week’s Daily Detroit Happy Hour Podcast to talk about what’s...
June 7, 2017
Detroit artist Ndubisi Okoye selected for 8 Mile mural
The Eight Mile Boulevard Association has chosen the artist whose winning design will become a mural on the wall of...
May 31, 2017
PODCAST: Touring Detroit’s rapidly expanding network of bike trails with Todd Scott
In the latest installment of the Daily Detroit Happy Hour Podcast I talk with Todd Scott, the executive director of...
May 23, 2017
PHOTOS: Launch of Detroit’s MoGo bike sharing system another step in city’s transformation
MoGo, the new Detroit bike sharing system, launched today, and your intrepid 8-Wood correspondent was invited to attend the event...
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