July 12, 2023
Is car-free Mackinac Island an urbanist paradise, or just a replica of one?
Mackinac Island is a tourist destination famous for fudge, horse-drawn carriages and prohibiting cars. But is it also a model...
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May 27, 2023
In praise of the all-too-rare neighborhood business
The nicest surprise of the spring so far for me has been the opening of a new coffee shop down...
April 10, 2023
The Motor City desperately needs a new identity
Detroit’s long love affair with the automobile is starting to feel abusive.
August 11, 2022
If Northville can ban cars downtown, what other cities in Detroit could follow suit?
Recently, I tweeted out a story that said Northville, an affluent suburb of Detroit, had voted to permanently make its...
March 6, 2022
Mark Lanegan and Screaming Trees are a complicated legacy to sort out
In the wake of Mark Lanegan’s death last month at age 57, being a fan of both the singer-songwriter and...
May 8, 2021
‘There’s somebody satisfied with winning’: Neil Young fires up ‘Re-ac-tor’ with Crazy Horse
It’s 1981 and Neil Young, confronting the shifting sounds and culture of a new era and wrenching family issues at...
April 3, 2021
Neil Young ushers in the ‘80s with fractured ‘Reagan Democrat’ album ‘Hawks & Doves’
In 1980, Neil Young was at the peak of his powers. He was coming off a decade that he practically...
April 13, 2020
For better or worse, the coronavirus will change us
Nearly 25 years ago, I taught myself how to run by focusing on my breathing. It was a very different...
November 24, 2019
Let’s go to Minsk, comrades — a beautiful but complicated city
It’s been far too long since I last updated this blog — life has a way of intervening — and...
June 21, 2019
LISTEN: How the Detroit suburb of Oak Park is sprucing itself up
For years, Oak Park was seen as an unassuming and tired inner-ring Detroit suburb. Its biggest claim to fame was...
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