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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...

Airbnb Earns Michiganders $48 Million in 2017, $5.21 Million In City Of Detroit Alone

The sharing economy is more and more of a thing, even though the local conversation in Detroit rarely talks about it. In fact, it’s making a pretty large direct economic impact for Detroiters and Michiganders. New numbers are out from Airbnb, a service that helps people rent out a spare bedroom or a spare apartment to travelers. According to their data, their host community earned a combined $48 million in supplemental income in Michigan while welcoming approximately 364,000 guest arrivals t...

Plans Become Clearer For Big Boy Site By Belle Isle

When you look across the Detroit River from Belle Isle, you’re going to see a new building that may be as many as ten stories tall come the summer of 2020. That’s the plan according to The Platform, a development group that’s behind some iconic projects as of late, including a renovation of the Fisher Building. Earlier this year we brought you word that the Big Boy at Grand Boulevard and Jefferson at the foot of the Belle Isle (properly called MacArthur) Bridge was purchased and closed. That’s...

Networking In Detroit: 7 Events To Mark Your Calendars For In 2017

Metro Detroit is in full holiday swing, which means there are not many networking events happening between now and the New Year. So, we’ve decided to look into the crystal ball and look to future networking events. If you have started working on your 2018 planners already, maybe pop a few of these events into your schedule. DXT Launch Detroit 2018 Info Session Launch Detroit will be holding an info session on January 10 for their 10 week summer accelerator. This entrepreneurial accele...

Brush Park Just Got A Bit Sweeter Thanks To "For The Love Of Sugar"

If you’re looking for a new cute spot to grab a slice of cake or a box of macarons, we have just the place for you. Last night For the Love of Sugar officially opened on the ground floor of The Scott at Brush Park. We were able to check out the new cakery and cafe last night. Let me tell you, it was adorable. Not to mention the cakes are beautiful and delicious. Manal Hussein’s background is in marketing but started experimenting with baking after watching a lot of Food Network. Eve...

Decades Of Greatness Ahead For Detroit: An Interview With Todd Sachse, CEO & Founder Of Sachse Construction

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Detroit To Host Vaccination Pop-Ups For Restaurant Workers

There has been an uptick in Hepatitis A cases across Southeastern Michigan, as well as some recent high-profile cases in restaurants and at Greektown Casino. To help combat this, the Detroit Health Department for the city of Detroit is now recommending all food establishments work to get their food handlers vaccinated. The city is launching a pop-up vaccination clinic program to provide easy and convenient access to vaccines. The first is this Tuesday, December 19, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the...

Merry Hydraulic Christmas, Detroit: Check Out This Absurd Driving In The Snow

Sometimes, you just have to admire the absurdity of Detroit. It’s the winter season, and so as in years past, crazy videos of things happening in the snow start to emerge. The latest pair (posted on YouTube and Facebook) by Bill Robinson of Outkast Lowriders & Kustoms of videos is pretty crazy. According to the post, on Wednesday evening before the salt trucks went out this here hyrdaulically-enabled ride hit I-75 just before I-94 and showed off. We’ve embedded one angle that’s a Youtube v...

Detroit's Top Opinion Editor Canned By Freep Over "Inappropriate Behavior"

Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and opinion editor of the Detroit Free Press, Stephen Henderson, was fired today after an internal investigation showed that Henderson had a history of comments and incidents that did not meet the company’s “values and standards.” This is all according to a post that appeared on the Freep’s website this afternoon. “Effective today, Stephen Henderson will no longer be employed by the Detroit Free Press. The decision was made after an internal investigation wa...

You Get A Wahlburgers, And You Get A Wahlburgers - Chain Coming To A Meijer Near You?

Fans of the Boston based Wahlburgers will soon have more locations to pick up their favorite burger or sandwich. According to multiple media reports there is a new partnership between Mark Wahlberg and his family and with Grand Rapids based Meijer. The partnership would bring the Wahlburgers to new and existing Meijer stores throughout Michigan. There will also be Wahlburger food trucks to select Meijer locations. There has been no word yet as to which Meijer locations will get a Wahlburg...

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Your City 5: Things To Do In Detroit For The Weekend Of December 15-17

Well, I guess winter finally decided to show up this week. I hope you are all saying safe and warm out there. This weekend is filled with a ton of fun things to do, and most of them are pretty inexpensive. Have a good weekend everyone! My Brightest Diamond at El Club Holy cow, you guys. If you don’t have plans on Friday night you need to go see My Brightest Diamond at El Club. Shara Nova’s musical stylings are hard to describe, all I can say is her voice is intoxicating. Also, wheneve...

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There Aren't Two Detroits. But There Are Two Metro Detroits.

Over the past few years we’ve noticed that there is a severe cultural disconnect in metro Detroit. Before you say “oh, another city vs. suburbs rant!” let’s be clear: It’s way more complicated than just city vs. suburb. Or black vs. white. This cultural divide doesn’t respect city boundaries. Sure, there’s a geographic element to it, but it’s also tied to family and life experiences. We live in silos. We have a lack of shared experiences and empathy. You could live in, say, Harrison Townsh...

Olympia Announces Yet Another District Detroit Development: $30m With 730 Parking Spaces

Word came over the press wires that Olympia Development has begun construction of a new $30 million building on Temple Street in the District Detroit (or as we’ve always called it around the office, Ilitch Village). If you’re not familiar, that’s the 50 or so block area around the new Little Caesars Arena that’s seeing a ton of new investment and development, including the addition of Google as a tenant. The development will be mixed use, meaning there will a combination of retail, parking,...

An Augmented Reality Mural Could Be Coming To Detroit

Augmented Reality (or AR) is becoming more and more of a thing. Games like Pokemon GO have brought augmented reality to the mainstream, and there are a lot of industrial uses for the technology that overlays computer-generated images, sounds, or other data on a real-world environment. This project called ElectriFly Detroit plans to fuse street art and technology for a 35 foot by 20 foot interactive mural on the back of the old Steve’s Bar next to St. Andrew’s Hall. They claim that thi...

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