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Meet The Gumbo Guy

Strolling through Eastern Market’s Shed #3 I noticed a man sitting at a plastic chair at a plastic table with an umbrella over it. It was a little peculiar, I thought, having the umbrellas over the tables indoors. The man, wearing a knit cap, was by himself eating steaming soup out of a styrofoam bowl, intermittently adding oyster crackers, obviously enjoying it. “The Gumbo,”  said the customer with a full mouth… “It’s excellent.” My brother and I purchased a bowl of the piping hot Gumbo at...

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Things To Do In Detroit: Your City 5 For The Weekend Of April 3-5

One of Detroit’s rowdiest days, Opening Day, is almost here! Monday, Detroiter’s from near and far will be reveling in the streets of downtown. But there’s plenty to do and see this weekend, especially if you need to, you know, be at work on Monday or just baseball isn’t your thing. Friday: Tracksuit Party 3 – Whiskey in the Jar in Hamtramck has a new edition of their fun tracksuit party for a good cause.  This week’s raffle benefits Team Pancake, who is raising money for pancreatic cancer. So...

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Three Detroit Area Chefs Nominated For “Best New Chef In America” By Food & Wine Magazine

Every year, Food and Wine Magazine highlights the top new culinary experts from around the country. We’re pleased to see that Marc Djzolija of Wright & Company has made the list, as he is the only nominee on the list located inside the City of Detroit. Other Detroit area chef nominees in the competition are worthy, and they include Torino’s Garret Lipar from Ferndale and James Rigato from The Root in White Lake, Michigan. If you haven’t been to Wright & Co. this might be your cue to check it...

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Hamtramck's Yemen Cafe Transports Your Tastebuds

Yemen Cafe is a small place tucked into a low-rise building on South Jos. Campau in Hamtramck. Across the street is a mural of women in hijabs and burkas. Next to that is the New Dodge Lounge, a gritty but tasteful dive bar where drinkers young and old come to enjoy live music. Hamtramck is a two square mile “island city” (or enclave) surrounded by Detroit on three sides and also sharing a border with Highland Park (also an enclave). It is home to a vast array of cultures packed into a small a...

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Your City 5 For The Weekend Of March 27, 28 & 29

Warmer climes making you feel like hitting the dance floor and getting mega? Maybe you’d like to get into the DIY community and find out what ideas are brewing to help Detroit become a better place to live. Furthermore, you might want to get on a bike with thousands of other people and meander around the city. Heck, you could even bring your Grandma down to Eastern Market to see what’s up. There’s a lot of cool stuff going on in Detroit this weekend. It was hard to pare it down to five, but here...

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5 More Mouthwatering Detroit Sandwiches You Need To Try

Come lunchtime, we are always on a sandwich quest. Luckily, we’re fortunate because Detroit has a lot of great sandwich joints to choose from. It’s all about the fresh bread, high quality toppings, and a little bit of vegetables to give it some crunch. Can’t forget the pickle and better made chips on the side. Our last list of 5 sandwiches covered some of the essential stops around the city. Here’s another round of 5 mouthwatering sandwiches in no particular order that you need to find and check...

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What To Do This Weekend: Your Post-St. Paddy's Day City 5

Last weekend was great fun, and if all the green beer wasn’t enough there’s plenty more fun to be had this weekend. Friday the 20th is the Spring Equinox, which seems to be a good enough reason for us Detroiters to rock out all over again. If you look below at our City 5 picks for this week (which include numerous spring welcoming parties) you can tell that Detroiters agree unanimously that spring is here. All Weekend – Freep Film Festival – This is a film festival with a mission to “showcase...

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5 Pro Tips For The Corktown Race And Parade

The Corktown Race and St. Patrick’s Day Parade are one of the first events in Detroit that make you realize that yes, indeed, spring is starting. Opening Day for the Detroit Tigers is just around the corner, the weather starts to warm up and people from the Motor City are hitting Michigan Avenue to run and revel. So here are your 5 pro tips for the Corktown Race and Parade. 1. Get There Early There will be around 10,000 runners in the race.  Then there’s all the friends and family who don...

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Things To Do In Detroit: Your City 5 For The Weekend Of March 6 - 9

Alright everybody, the first weekend of March is here. That means spring is theoretically on the horizon and there’s lot’s of really cool activities going on in Detroit this weekend. It was actually difficult to prune them down to 5 gems, but alas, here’s your City 5 for this weekend. All Weekend – Motor City Tattoo Expo – Want to see up whats up with the latest in ink culture? Make a Detroit-ey day of it and check out the Motor City Tattoo Expo, a meetup of tattoo artists and enthusiasts from...

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Your City 5 Things To Do In Detroit For The Weekend of Feb. 27 - March 1

After a couple weeks of temps near zero, we always like to joke that when the temperature approaches 30 degrees, it’s what we call a Motor City heat wave. So lets look on the bright side that we may get such a heat wave this weekend, which would give us all more gumption to go check out these awesome events! That’s right, there is a wide variety of things going on in Detroit this weekend and we’ve got you set up for a good time- here’s your City 5. Friday the 27th – The Streetlight Series At T...

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5 Reasons Detroit Is Not The New Brooklyn

It’s fun to say things like “Detroit is the New Brooklyn,” or Berlin, or Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or even Cleveland. It’s true that many of these places have transformed in a way similar to the way some would like to see Detroit transform. However, it’s fairly uncritical to assume that Detroit is “just like” Brooklyn was in the 90’s, or just like Berlin was in the 80’s. It’s like comparing an apple to a potato. I do believe Detroit will transform, but also believe that Detroit is Detroit. The...

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Your City 5 Things To Do In Detroit For The Weekend of Feb. 13 -15

Valentine’s Day weekend is here and many Detroiters will be finding a way to impress their loved ones, and many others will be just out there trying to have a good time and keep sane while temperatures continue to plummet. It’s not like we’re seeing the light at the end of the tunnel weather-wise, but also not like we aren’t used to it at this point. Here’s a smattering of events for your City 5 this week that should have a little something to keep everybody happy. Kisses. Friday –  Academy Aw...

Your City 5 Picks For Things To Do This Weekend in Detroit (Feb. 6 - 8)

Okay, it’s cold out there. Weather-wise, this isn’t a Detroiters favorite time of year. The snow has pounded us in the past week and we’ve been skidding around the roads or sitting in traffic jams trying to find enough caffeine to stay awake and get things done. And on top of that we’re all a little stir crazy.  BUT, there is a variety of things to do both indoors and outdoors this weekend that won’t cost you too much cheddar. Here’s our picks for this week’s City 5. Friday the 6th – In the sp...

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She's Changing Detroit From The Inside: Meet "The Hope On Heyden"

On the Northwest side of Detroit, just east of Brightmoor, is Heyden Street. A tidy, fresh looking blue house on the street looks out of place in the mostly blighted neighborhood. It belongs to Lola Charles, who would probably tell you that her house looks the way it ought to. Charles runs a block club, called Hope on Heyden, and it is a great example of the essential and heroic efforts being made to stabilize neighborhoods by Detroit’s residents. I sat down with Lola and her daughter Savann...

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LISTEN: Daily Detroit Appeared on CBS Detroit's Mark S. Lee Show

Mark S. Lee has a weekly radio spot on WXYT AM 1270 on Sunday mornings called Small Talk on which he interviews small business owners and prominent local figures. Mark is a local entreprenuer, educator and small business expert. Last week he invited us on the show to talk about Daily Detroit and what’s going on in the city. The audio player is at the bottom of the image above. During our segment, which begins at the 30 minute mark, Editor Patrick McNamara talks with Mark about how Daily Detroi...

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He Walks 21 Miles To Work Every Day. Let's Get Him A Ride.

Imagine if you had to walk to work today in this snow. No matter the weather conditions, that’s James Robertson’s reality. Robertson was written about in the Detroit Free Press because he walks 21 miles a day in his commute from Detroit to his job in the suburbs. He is a hard worker who exemplifies the true grit and resiliency of Detroiters. Also, he lives in a city with a broken transit system and needs a car in order to get around. Read his story and help him get a vehicle by contributing...

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Your City 5 List Of Things To Do For The Weekend of Jan 30th - Feb 1st

Well, the Superbowl is here again and will certainly be a dominating force in the plan-making calculations of Metro Detroiters this weekend. Everybody loves friends, football, and snacks (or at least two out of the three). We are Americans after all. But gameday isn’t until Sunday, and the next weekend is a whole week away. So in order to maximize your fun this weekend, Daily Detroit has compiled a list of events that’ll keep you busy. Here’s your City 5 for this week… Friday – Boombox at the...

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Buddy's Wins Award For Tastiest Pizza In North America

Buddy’s Pizza won the Chowzter award for “Tastiest Pizza in North America,” and they made this little video about Buddy’s to explain why they won. It also gives a mini-crash course in Buddy’s history, and features the original location on 6 mile and Conant. For those of us who love pizza in Detroit, we know that Buddy’s gets a lot of great press for their square, sauce-on-top, chewy crust combinations. However, an award for best pies on the continent is recognition to brag about. Never heard o...