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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April 15, 2017
Anniversary of 1967 Detroit riots brings race back to the fore
Detroit, like the rest of the country, is having a moment about race. Whether or not it wants to. This...
December 12, 2016
1980 video: ‘Where will you be the picture of success? Where else but Detroit!’
Promotional videos aim to capture their subject in the best light, but it’s hard to feel that way in hindsight...
October 13, 2016
Fate of fabled former Detroit Chinese restaurant uncertain
Stanley’s Other Place was a Chinese restaurant on Eight Mile Road just west of Woodward that closed in 2014 after...
September 27, 2016
Group aims to raise $25K to restore historic Palmer Park log cabin
With a little more than a month remaining in its crowdfunding campaign, an effort to raise $25,000 to fix the...
July 21, 2016
Video: Detroit in 1975 was ‘a great place for activity’ — and sexy
Put a quarter in the wayback machine once again and let’s travel back to Detroit in the mid-70s. Here’s another...
July 12, 2016
Step back to 1985 with this Detroit business promotional video
The ‘80s were a pretty bleak time for Detroit. The auto industry was in crisis, and the city was firmly...
September 13, 2015
In Ilitch arena district, a new round of development versus historic preservation
As construction on the Ilitchville Detroit Red Wings arena district-formerly-know-as-the-Cass-Corridor continues apace, now comes word that more vacant, historic buildings...
July 14, 2015
Let’s go to Pluto with NASA — and Siouxsie, circa 1989
It’s a big day for us space geeks, as NASA’s New Horizons probe sends home the most detailed image of...
July 10, 2015
Bye-bye, Zombieland: Park Avenue Hotel bites the dust
Tomorrow morning, demolition crews will use 200 pounds of TNT to level the 91 year-old Park Avenue Hotel, a storied...
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