It’s something we 20th century children of Detroit only thought would exist in our wildest fantasies of the future. A FIRST Robotics World Championship held in our city. It is happening. Detroit will host the championship for three years beginning in April 2018. During the event Cobo Center and Ford Field will be overrun with […]
Corktown is getting ready to celebrate the holidays, and you’re invited. The second annual Corktown-A-Glow begins at noon on Saturday, Dec. 9. It’s a day-long holiday celebration thrown by the Corktown Business Association and local business owners to bring the community together. You can shop and eat, of course, but there will also be caroling, […]
America’s Thanksgiving Parade is going to have a very special meaning for Yuliana Ortiz, a seventh-grade student from Clippert Academy. As the winner of the 26th Annual Skillman Foundation’s Float Design Contest, she’ll see her design, “The Snowing Mountains,” come to life in a larger-than-life Skillman float that will travel down Woodward in the 91st […]
For years hundreds and hundreds of Detroiters have worked behind the scenes to improve the city and its neighborhoods. They were here before business moguls began buying buildings downtown Detroit. Before national retail chains and restaurants came back to the city and before hipsters and the new creative class started discovering Detroit. Their work and […]
It might as well be a kick to the kidneys – that look you get when someone opens the gift you put so much effort into and says “this is great … even better when I bought it.” BLOCK x BLOCK gives you a chance to prevent that problem, all while helping local artists. And, […]
Where do women of many hues and many sizes go to shop to look smashing? The first answer from a fashionista is “The Peacock Room,” owned and delightfully stocked by Rachel Lutz. Lutz delivers on price, fashion-forward style and ambiance in her store inside the Park Shelton, next door to the Detroit Institute of Arts. […]
If you haven’t been to see “Wild Lights at the Detroit Zoo” you’ve missed something spectacular. If you have seen them, we bet you’ll come back to again and again to ooh and aah and get in the holiday spirit. You can help the display be named the Best Zoo Lights in the US by USA […]
A Detroit art venue is taking sign language to another level. Using the theme of leadership campaigns and propaganda, DMJ Studio will host “Posters On Politics,” an exhibition of almost 100 pieces of social messaging and statements from throughout the world, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at 314 East Baltimore, Saturday Nov. 4. Featuring […]
There are lots of great shops popping up all over Detroit and beginning this month holiday shoppers will be able to find more of them in one place at the Downtown Detroit Markets. The temporary markets, open from mid-November to early January, will feature a variety of gift-worthy items from jewelry, clothing and custom treats […]
Even though her day job is keeping her busy in New York, Michelle Manzanales can’t wait to hear how Detroit dance-goers will like her new work. “I’m excited to see how the audience will respond to the program,” says Manzanales, the Director, School of Dance, for Ballet Hispánico. Michelle Manzanales focused on the suspension between […]