Dogs, get your pet parents and head out to the free photo event and shopping day at POST on Saturday, December 16, between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Located at 14500 Kercheval, in a former post office-turned-maker space and retail shop, POST’s event has a dual purpose. Besides hoping you find that great holiday gift, […]
Rodnesha Ross didn’t become a parent at an early age, but she relates to those do. As a mentor to Detroit students, she knows young women with children of their own have unique needs. Ross founded Youth Community Agency to help address those needs. Originally formed in 2013 at Osborn High School with a focus […]
If you’d like to get a little glimpse of opera or want to give a music lover an early Christmas present this event could be for you. The Michigan Opera Theatre (MOT) is presenting a free Christmas concert at Detroit’s Holy Redeemer Parish at 7 pm on Dec.9. The church is located at 1721 Junction Street […]
There is always at least one family member with a Christmas sweater so ugly, so tacky, you want to scream … or you can just realize they are cool. Now just think about all those sweaters in one place at one time. That’s what the DTE Energy Foundation and the Downtown Detroit Partnership have in […]
The front of Love Travels Imports is a testament to community involvement. Hanging in the window of the store on Livernois is a 12 ft. x 9 ft. Community Art Project made of ceramic pieces created by neighborhood residents, shoppers and young women from Alternatives For Girls. All the pieces were fired by local artist […]
There is an opioid crisis in Michigan and emergency rules have been extended to get the medication naloxone to help save the lives of those addicted. From 1999 to 2016, the total number of overdose deaths involving any type of opioid increased more than 17 times in Michigan, from 99 to 1,689, according to the […]
A handsome 100-year-old, two-flat in North Corktown for under $1,000 looked like such a deal at a Wayne County tax auction Jon Zemke couldn’t resist buying it on the spot. He was a third-generation home-rehabber and landlord, already flush with six properties in his Detroit portfolio. What could possibly go wrong? Practically everything, he says […]
Margarita Barry, a renter and entrepreneur extraordinaire, bought her Land Bank and County Auction house to gain a stake in the city on the move. She bought cheap and dug deep into her savings to make it home. “I bought my property for $6,000 in 2012 near Old Redford, on the northwest edge of the […]
The neighborhood that patrols together stays together. That’s how James A. Ward, volunteer commander of the Green Acres Citizen Patrol since 1992, accounts for the steep reduction in crime and a spike in neighborhood stability. At least 115 volunteers patrol the slender Green Acres neighborhood that’s a half mile wide and a mile long just […]
Erik Howard remembers Detroit’s Mexican Festival in Hart Plaza and how it made him feel. There were other festivals, but that one was a big, sprawling love letter to Mexican culture. Now, he’ll take part in the first annual Fiesta Del Rio on Saturday, Aug. 27, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. at the West […]