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Sfumato Fragrance Flagship Store (With A Craft Cocktail Bar!) To Open On Friday In Midtown

After months of renovations the Sfumato Fragrance’s flagship store will be open this Friday, just in time for the holiday shopping season. The store will be located on Second Avenue in Midtown. The 650 square foot store will have a workshop, a place for consulting, and for classes. Customers will be able to design custom fragrances. There will also be a craft cocktail bar called Castalia. Castalia will focus on cocktails that are inspired by the signature scents that Peterson has created...

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Google Moves Sales Office From Birmingham To Downtown Detroit

Google is moving more than 100 jobs to downtown Detroit. They’ve signed a lease for nearly 30,000 square feet in the new District Detroit as part of Little Caesars Arena. The office, at 52 Henry Street, will open in 2018. The workers coming down will be mostly sales and customer service folks. Not to mention, they will have very visible sign frontage on the recently completed arena that is home to the Detroit Red Wings, the Detroit Pistons, and numerous concerts. “The city of Detroit has a...

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New "Detroit Has Legs" Tights Featuring 32 Iconic Local Places To Benefit Cass Community Social Services

Looking for leggings with Detroit-themed style? “Detroit Has Legs,” with all the profits going to benefit the nonprofit Cass Community Social Services, might just be your ticket. Skinnytees, an online retailer based in Birmingham makes these custom women’s leggings that feature 32 iconic Detroit buildings, sculpture and sites throughout the city. They’re available in sizes XS through 3XL online for $56 here. “Our team wanted to design an item that showcases our beloved city of Detroit in a...

Detroit Sip Coffeeshop Celebrates Grand Opening On McNichols, Has Detroit-Themed Drinks

On McNichols at the border of the Bagley and Fitzgerald neighborhoods is a new entrant to Detroit’s coffee game, Detroit Sip. It joins an area that’s quickly gaining new spots for java. For instance, earlier this week we first reported a Biggby coming less than a mile away on Livernois. Narrow Way Cafe opened earlier this year, as well. The Detroit Sip shop is owned by Jevona Watson, a Bagley resident, who is also an attorney and a mom. The shop has opened sporadically over the last year o...

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WATCH: Eminem Performs New Track As Well As "Stan" & "Love The Way You Lie" In Medley

Eminem’s new track “Walk on Water” was featured on last night’s Saturday Night Live in a three-part medley performance with Skylar Grey. If you didn’t know, she’s collaborated with Em before as the writer of “Love The Way You Lie” back in 2010. After the new track that’s powerful but in a different style that fans got into when he first broke out on the scene, he went into short snippets of two classics everyone who has been following the him for awhile. “Walk On Water” is reminiscent of a r...

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Life At The Historic Grande Ballroom? Supporters Are Fundraising For A Structural Engineering Report

The Grande Ballroom is one of the most hallowed spaces in Detroit music history. It has been home to jazz, big band, rock. It was a center of Detroit’s counterculture movement. It also is a gem of a building designed by Charles Agree and completed in 1928. He left his mark on a variety of structures around town like the Vanity Ballroom, the Whittier Hotel and others. But what will be next for the place that’s seen a couple lives and been sitting closed since 1972? It’s currently owned by t...

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15 Photos Of The Work To Restore Belle Isle's Lake Okonoka, Connect It To Detroit River

You might not have made it over to Belle Isle State Park since the fall season has started, but if you do, you’ll see that a ton of work is happening over by Lake Okonoka. A $5 million restoration project is well underway that will restore the long stagnant lake near the Belle Isle United States Coast Guard Station. When you actually get out there to see the work, it’s breathtaking to see a lake you’ve seen for years completely drained. If you’ve been on a canoe or kayak trip through...

City Year Detroit Raises $110,000 During Annual Women's Leadership Breakfast

On Thursday morning I went to City Year’s 7th annual Women’s Leadership Breakfast. Every year, City Year Detroit holds this breakfast as a way to discuss empowering young Detroiters. This year the topic was how City Year could help foster a strong workforce in Detroit. I see two separate ways that City Year is helping the next generation get ready for workforce development. The main way is with the work the City Year Americorps members are doing in the schools. These corps members are you...

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Biggby Coffee Is Opening A New Location In This Detroit Neighborhood

There’s going to be another java option opening up in Detroit. We spied a new Biggby Coffee on Livernois between McNichols (a.k.a. Six Mile) and 7 Mile near the Avenue of Fashion. That’s at the border of the University District and Bagley neighborhoods. Biggby is a franchised chain based out of Lansing, Michigan founded in 1995 and has 182 stores open in Michigan as of 2016. There was formerly a location on Woodward in Midtown, but their Detroit stores for now are within larger complexes lik...

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A 23 Photo Tour Through The Beautiful New Downtown Detroit Holiday Markets

The folks at Bedrock have been busy little elves getting this season’s Downtown Detroit Markets in time for the 14th Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony. This year there will be four markets set up throughout downtown. 1001 Woodward, Cadillac Square, Capital Park and finally Spirit Plaza. In total the market will feature 37 different small businesses that sell everything from clothing for the whole family, jewelry, home goods, and beauty products. You will also have plenty of places to find food a...

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PODCAST: The Future Of Automotive & Mobility With Glenn Stevens of MichAuto

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Your City 5: Things To Do In Detroit For The Weekend Of November 17-19

Are you ready to get into the holiday spirit yet? Because I’m not. Personally I see this weekend as my final weekend before I jump head first into the pool of all things Thanksgiving and Christmas. There are plenty of great things to do this weekend, depending on what you feel up to. I know where I’ll be on Saturday afternoon, Chuck E. Cheese. We will be celebrating my little dude’s 3rd birthday. I know that you’re all jealous that I get to spend an afternoon with a giant mouse, but you can’...

The Popular Park Bar Has Been Sold, Space Will Temporarily Close

Detroit’s losing one of its more well-known watering holes. The Park Bar, opened in 2006, has been sold and will close at the end of the year according to a Facebook post passed on to us by a Daily Detroit tipster. The post outlines an event called “Last Call at the Park Bar” on December 2 featuring Don Duprie & The Inside Outlaws, Alison Lewis & The String of Ponies, Pat V & The Detroit 3, Ty Stone, Matt Dmits and Tino Gross. The Park Bar has been one of those “legendary” bars in my mind....

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Average Rents In City Of Detroit Skyrocket 30% In Just Three Years

It’s something that a lot of Detroiters have been feeling but the data hasn’t been there to back it up — until now. A new report from SmartAsset utilizing U.S. Census Data shows that rent is rising very quickly in the City of Detroit. So fast that when compared to income, it’s the fifth fastest rising rental market as far as percentage of household income. Taking top spot on the list was New Orleans, who saw their rents rise as a percentage of their income 10.5%. Then Cleveland, 9.2%; Chicag...

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These 24 Holiday Events In Metro Detroit Will Put You In The Spirit

‘Tis the season! If you’re looking for holiday events around Detroit, this is your ticket. While putting together this list, we already saw that events were starting to sell out this early in the season, so make sure to get on it! We’ll see you out there. 1. 14th Annual Detroit Tree Lighting Ceremony Get into the holiday spirit in Campus Martius on Friday, November 17. Come watch the 60+ foot Norwegian Spruce from Cadillac be lit. There will be carriage rides, live performances fro...

Let Chef Thomas Lents And The Apparatus Room Cook Your Thanksgiving Dinner This Year

It seems hard to believe, but Thanksgiving is just a week away. If you are still trying to figure out what to do for your Thanksgiving meal I have a suggestion for you. Chef Thomas Lents will be preparing a Thanksgiving dinner at The Apparatus Room in The Foundation Hotel. The menu looks spectacular. The family style meal will feature; turkey breast with pomee puree, roasted chestnuts and giblet gravy, confit turkey leg with fried kale and cranberry gremolata, roasted beet salad with Asi...

Detroit Planting 10,000 Trees Over Next Three Years

The “10,000 Up” initiative is putting in motion Detroit’s Forestry division to plant 10,000 trees across the city. The new plantings will replace the more than 10,000 trees that have fallen “victim to wind storms, the emerald ash borer, disease or old age.” According to the city of Detroit, more than 900 trees have already been planted. The “10,000 Up” initiative, which is part of Mayor Mike Duggan’s 10 point neighborhood plan, got underway earlier this fall and already has planted more than...

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Your Networking 5 For The Week Of November 14-20

It’s that time again for your weekly Networking 5. Get those business cards ready to be passed out to all of those new contacts you’re about to make. Ties Like Me Professional Networking Bring a friend and your business cards to the Ties Like Me Networking event on Wednesday at the Overdrive Lounge inside the Motor City Casino. Ties Like Me is the only LGBT community networking group that meets monthly around metro Detroit. When: Wednesday, November 15 from 5:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Where...

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