November 2, 2016
‘Gimme Danger’ adds dose of humanity to Iggy Pop’s legend
It’s been a big year for Iggy Pop. In March, he surprised the world by releasing “Post Pop Depression,” an...
Detroit
March 26, 2016
Reports make it painfully clear: Michigan is starving for reinvestment
I love my home state, but sometimes it just exhausts me. Case in point: the woeful condition of our cities....
January 23, 2016
Time for a deep-winter visit to Detroit’s Belle Isle (with photo slideshow)
It’s late January and my kids are starting to go crazy from cabin fever, bouncing off the walls and relentlessly...
January 17, 2016
Flint water crisis, Detroit schools a major reckoning for a once-proud state
In case you didn’t notice, the lead poisoning water crisis that is right now engulfing Flint is playing out in...
December 20, 2015
First underpass art project is installed in Detroit’s New Center (photos)
A recent drive home took me underneath the Cass Avenue railroad viaduct, which has been dramatically re-imagined as a brighter,...
December 3, 2015
What’s going on with Detroit bike trail projects? Todd Scott brings us up to speed.
Bike culture is flourishing in Detroit, with plenty of exciting projects to point to as evidence. The city recently installed...
November 17, 2015
Another reason the Silverdome and Northland Mall are dead: People here like sprawl
John Gallagher, an astute urbanist who writes for the Detroit Free Press, has an interesting piece looking at the demise...
October 28, 2015
Cinema Detroit has new digs, but needs new digital equipment
The good news about Cinema Detroit: The only remaining seven-day-a-week movie theater in Detroit’s core has a much-improved, more conventional...
September 30, 2015
Watch the mesmerizing time-lapse video ‘Detroit: City of Design’
This video from the Detroit Creative Corridor and filmmaker Stephen McGee explores the rich imprint of design on the city’s...
September 29, 2015
Detroit’s New Center finally attracting attention from investors
Detroit’s venerable New Center Area is attracting hundreds of millions of dollars from investors eager to cash in on the...
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