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Your City 5: Things To Do In Detroit For The Weekend Of January 5-7

Welcome to your first official City 5 of 2018! I hope that you all had a really great holiday season and that 2018 has started off well. So far 2018 is going well for me, with the exception of this extreme cold weather. I don’t know about you, but I am chilled to by bones. Stay warm out there you guys, it looks like we might get into the high 20s on Sunday. It’ll be a veritable heat wave. Good Foot w/ DJ Jefferson Start your weekend off right with some DJ Jefferson at MotorCity Wine....

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Medical Marijuana In Michigan And Detroit: What's Next? A Deep Dive Discussion

This is a deep dive roundtable discussion into what’s going on with medical marijuana in the state of Michigan and the city of Detroit as we head into 2018. Host Sven Gustafson welcomed for the first episode of our second season of the show: Roberta King, Canna Communication: https://cannacommunication.com/author/roberta-king/ Denise Pollicella, Cannabis Attorneys of Michigan and was actively involved in crafting legislation to create a legal medical cannabis industry, now known as PA28...

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Could Buddy's Pizza Go National? Company Takes Investment Cash To Expand

Could Detroit-style pizza from blue steel pans be a hit across the nation? The Michigan-based local chain with 12 locations in southeastern Michigan just announced that they’ve taken an undisclosed investment from CapitalSpring to recapitalize the company. The express goal was to “accelerate new store growth across the Midwest and beyond.” CapitalSpring is a private investment firm based out of New York that focuses on the restaurant industry. They firm manages assets of more than a $1.3 b...

Bastone Brewery Shakes Up Their Menu, Partners With Butcher Focused On Michigan Farmers

Bastone, a Belgian-focused brewery in downtown Royal Oak is shaking up their menu, bringing together French and Belgian-inspired main entrees and small plates. And to do it, they’re working with Farm Field Table, a butcher a quickly-expanding butcher in Ferndale that focuses on Michigan farmers (our story on them here). Some of the new main dinner options include: * Chicken Paillard: all-natural chicken breast served with bibb salad, smoked blue cheese, cherry tomatoes, pickled onions and...

Your Networking 5 For The Week Of January 2-9

Welcome to 2018! I hope that you all had a happy and healthy holiday season. Now that we are finished with all of the holiday hubbub we can once again focus on networking and fostering business relationships. Let’s get to the events. Motor City Re-Store Info Session Last summer Mayor Mike Duggan announced a new program called Motor City Re-Store. The program will help existing Detroit businesses fix up their curb appeal. The program provides matching grants up to $25,000 businesses th...

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Architect Of The Renaissance Center Dies At 93

The Detroit Renaissance Center is the building that most around the country know Detroit by. And its architect is gone. That man was John C. Portman Jr., who died on Saturday at the age of 93 in Atlanta, Georgia. Portman was also the mind behind various developments around the world such as the Peachtree Center in Atlanta; the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco; the Yintai Center in Beijing; and the Tomorrow Square in Shanghai. He left his modern, futurist mark across the world. Wh...

PODCAST: A Conversation On The State Of The Detroit Region

As we wrap up 2017, how is Metro Detroit really doing? That’s a question that we dive into today on the podcast. Sven Gustafson interviews two people from the Detroit Regional Chamber to talk about, from a data perspective, how metro Detroit is doing. Justin Robinson, the Vice President of Business Attraction for the Chamber and Angela Ladetto, Director of Business Research share key highlights – the great, the good, and the challenges metro Detroit faces that are in the State of the Regi...

Report: Two Men Electrocuted By 24,000 Volts At East Side Detroit Substation

Scrapping is a long-standing problem in the city of Detroit. Whether it’s houses stripped of their plumbing or wires pulled from light poles. Hundreds of power and telephone lines are stolen by scrappers each year in the city. The latest, according to the Detroit News, is that a pair of men were electrocuted at a Detroit Public Lighting Authority substation Friday morning. The two are preliminarily believed by Detroit Police to have been attempting to steal copper. They are now leading the i...

Michigan On Christmas Day Looked Beautiful (And Cold) From Space

New imagery released today by NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) is not only breathtaking, but helps explain a large amount of lake effect snow. The photo shows “cloud streets” that streamed over the Michigan and the entire Great Lakes on Christmas Day. These cloud formations helped deliver record-setting snowfall in Erie, Pa., where more than 60 inches of snow fell over a two-day period. It’s quite a technological marvel to get a photo like this, as it’s not actually cap...

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Your City 5 Everything But New Year's Eve Edition: The Last Weekend Of 2017

Now that Christmas is over, we can look ahead to the New Year. There are plenty of lists of what to do on the big evening of New Year’s Eve, so this weekend’s City 5 we will be looking at what to do on Friday and Saturday only. I hope that you have a great New Year and we will see you on the flip side. Friday Night Live: David Bowie Tribute It is hard to believe that we are coming up on the two year anniversary of David Bowie’s death. I don’t know about you, but David Bowie’s music has...

Michigan Ranks 10th Nationally In Population

The state of Michigan seems to be slightly adding to our population, even though other states are growing significantly faster. Estimated data released by the U.S. Census Bureau paint a picture where the largest increases (by percentage) across the nation were Nevada (2.0 percent), Utah (1.9 percent), Washington (1.7 percent), and Florida along with Arizona (1.6 percent). The U.S. population grew by 2.3 million between July 1, 2016, and July 1, 2017, a 0.72 percent increase to 325.7 million....

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News Byte Podcast: Little Caesars HQ, For The Love Of Sugar, A Diner Discussion And More

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Downtown Detroit Holiday Market To Be Extended Until January 28, Could Turn Into A Spring Market

If you have made it down to the Downtown Detroit Holiday Market then you have seen some of the cool small businesses that have set up shop throughout downtown. The market was originally planned to close on Sunday, January 7. However, according to a spokesperson, the small businesses in the market have experienced such success that the market will continue to stay open until the end of January. The Market will be open Thursday through Sundays until January 28. Word on the street is that the...

Time To Get Your Ice Skates Out For Extended Holiday Hours At The Campus Martius Ice Rink

With Christmas and New Years Eve quickly approaching you might be trying to figure out some fun activities with family and friends. If ice skating is your thing I have some good news for you. The ice rink at Campus Martius will have extended hours until the end of the year. The ice rink will stay open even later on New Years Eve, so if you plan on heading down to The Drop: Motor City Ball Drop you can get some skating in. You will be able to warm up with some hot cocoa from the Arctic Zone...

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Hello And Goodbye To Berkley’s Beloved Becky’s Nip ‘N Tuck Diner

It was on the list for a while. Get up to Eleven mile road and experience the Nip ‘N Tuck for myself. Driving by in warmer months, the simple building would stand out in a somewhat industrial area with vivid flowers. It’s the kind of diner that has legends attached to it. Legendary word of mouth, after all, I had been told not less than three times to go. Legendary stories about a beloved owner, Becky Bone, who as a person is almost one with the space she has occupied. A space adorned with Tig...

Chasing Fugitive Dust: The Motor City Finds ‘Political Will’ For Cleaner Air

The story starts in 2013, when over in Windsor, Canada people noticed big black piles of some kind of material along the Detroit shoreline south of downtown. It turned out to be petroleum coke, or petcoke, a byproduct Canadian tar sands oil processed at the Marathon refinery in Southwest Detroit. The mountains of petcoke had been trucked in to be loaded onto freighters. Petcoke is used as a fuel, much of it exported and burned like coal in China and India. Doug Hayes of the Canadian...

Your City 5 Holiday Edition: Things To Do In Detroit For The Weekend Of December 22-24

Hello all of you lovely readers! This weekend is our last final push before Christmas on Monday. I don’t know about you, but I still have a ton of stuff to finish before Christmas morning. There are cookies to be baked, Chex Mix to be made, presents to still be bought, and finally I need to wrap them all. There’s nothing like waiting until the last minute to do all this. We hope that you all have a happy and safe holiday. Feliz Nachodad! Aunt Nee’s and Stache International Holiday Fiesta...

Two E. Coli Hotspots Found In Warren, Testing "Off The Charts" For Bacteria From Human Waste

Turns out that sewage and storm drains are believed to be mixing in two locations in Warren. The drains empty into Lake St. Clair. Responding to a complaint from a citizen, Candice Miller, the Macomb County Public Works Commissioner began an investigation that discovered so much E. Coli bacteria — found in human and animal waste — that it was literally off the charts, as in they found levels higher than the test could count. The maximum test count is approximately 2,400 count of E.coli per m...

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