8-Wood Blog

July 17, 2017

PODCAST: Henry the Hatter owner Paul Wasserman reflects on end of 65 years in same Detroit storefront

The Daily Detroit Happy Hour Podcast recently visited Henry the Hatter in downtown Detroit to talk to owner Paul Wasserman...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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