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How Many Detroit Bars & Restaurants You Can Visit In 3 Months?

The Detroit Experience Factory (DXF) is mostly known for the tours they offer around Detroit. However they also have an extensive list of the bars and restaurants located within the city limits. This year they are one again holding their DXF Challenge. This is the fourth year for the challenge. Those who decide to take part in The DXF Challenge will try to visit as many of the 694 bars, restaurants, and cafes from the DXF’s Bar & Restaurant Checklists in three months. Participants will win p...

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Celebrate Detroit's 316th Birthday In Greektown This Saturday Night

It’s time to get your party shoes on, because Detroit turns 316 years old on Monday, July 24. So, on Saturday, it’s time to party. The Greektown Preservation Society and Jack Entertainment are co-hosting a party to celebrate Detroit’s Birthday. There will be live acoustic music by Kenny Spears, strolling street performers, and the Detroiter Big Heads from The Parade Company. Astoria Bakery will be giving away 316 Spirit of Detroit cupcakes to attendees of the party. What’s birthday party w...

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Detroit’s 1967 Uprising Gets Historical Marker At Gordon Park

Last month, Gordon Park on Detroit’s west side hosted a ribbon-cutting with the upgrade of new playground equipment and facilities. This weekend Gordon Park will get its own state historical marker acknowledging its location at the corner of Rosa Parks Boulevard and Clairmount Avenue was ground zero fifty years ago, the spot where the Detroit uprising started. The curatorial team at the Detroit Historical Society authored the text on the marker, working with Michigan Historical Designation b...

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Detroit Educators To Get Half Off Houses Auctioned Through Land Bank

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is getting ready this morning to announce a major effort to lure teachers and other school employees to the city of Detroit: Offering them half-priced homes. According to a press release that’s expected to be released at an event this morning, the mayor plans to announce that all Detroit school employees — whether they work for district, charter or parochial schools — will now get a 50 percent discount on houses auctioned through the Detroit Land Bank Authority. Tha...

Free City-wide Tour Of “Detroit ’67,” Written By A Detroit Native, Starts July 23

An award-winning play focusing on the events in 1967 written by an acclaimed Detroit native will have a series of shows around the city. The Detroit Public Theatre has put together a tour of Detroit ’67, by playwright Dominique Morisseau. Marking the 50 year commemoration of the summer of 1967 in Detroit, shows will be happening throughout the city running from July through October of this year. Detroit ’67, which received the 2014 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama, explores an explosive a...

Fundraiser To Restore Pewabic Tiles To Belle Isle's Scott Fountain On August 10

The Scott Fountain on Belle Isle is beautiful. But some may remember that at one point, it had even more detail. The basin was covered in Pewabic tiles which were destroyed in a 2010 “restoration” attempt. To help fund the replacement of the fountain’s former glory, the Belle Isle Conservancy will host Sunset at the Scott for the second consecutive year. WHEN: The event is set to take place on Thursday, Aug. 10 from 6p.m. -10p.m. on Belle Isle’s paddock. DRINKS + FUN: Guests will enjoy dri...

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A Temporary Skate Park Designed In Part By Tony Hawk Is Coming To Downtown Detroit

In January, ground will break on a large project called the “Monroe Blocks.” Until then, there’s going to be a temporary skate park and art installation thanks to Bedrock and the Quicken Loans Family of Companies. It will be called “Wayfinding.” The skate park will be designed by Artist Ryan McGinness with help from popular skateboarder Tony Hawk. All told, it’ll be a 4,600 square foot installation with six “skateable elements.” It will be built by George Leichtweis from Modern Skate and Sur...

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Beacon Park In Downtown Detroit Is Now Open

Last year, work begun on transforming a lot that was a few industrial buildings and gravel into “Beacon Park,” a downtown green space inspired by Norman B. Leventhal Park in Boston, Massachusetts. The project started as an idea when Gerry Anderson, the CEO of DTE Energy, was visiting shareholders in Boston in 2015 and he was impressed by Leventhal Park – and found that it was the business community there that partnered together to make the space happen. Today, the park opened with a cerem...

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Your City 5: Things To Do In Detroit For The Weekend Of July 21-23

I'm really looking forward to this weekend. What can I say, there are some really great events going on. Have a great weekend! Crash Detroit I'm going to let you in on a secret about myself. I really hate crowds and I always have good intentions of going to festivals but I often just get overwhelmed at the idea of going to one. But Crash Detroit is different. This is one of the only festivals that I get pumped to go to. I adore this festival. You can find out all of the information for Cr...

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Designers And Developers Can Now Detroitify Their Placeholder Text With Detroit Ipsum

If you’ve worked in any sort of communications field, you might be familiar with the concept of “Lorem Ipsum.” It’s placeholder text that helps you fill in a layout or a design to give you an idea of what something will visually look like. Sites that provide it usually let you select the number of words and/or paragraphs. However, this site makes your visual project’s placeholder very… well, Detroit-centric. Created by Jeseekia Vaughn, a native Deroiter, Engineer and Girl Develop It Chapter...

Study Says When You're 37, You're Too Old To Go To The Club

We know some of our fellow Detroiters love to party, so we’re throwing out there a study by Currys PC World (we’ve never heard of them before, but this isn’t serious news unless you’re going through a mid-thirties crisis) that says that 37 is the age when you’re too old to go to the club. The survey of 5,000 adults, conducted by Currys PC World in the United Kingdom claims that (via METRO): * 29% adults surveyed say they can’t face the hangover next day * 80% feel relieved to be on the sof...

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Watch The New Beacon Park Be Built In Just One Minute In This Time-Lapse Video

The much anticipated Beacon Park is almost ready to open to the public. The 1.5-acre park located on the west side of downtown Detroit has been under construction since last year. Today comes a time-lapse video of the construction. I’ve embedded the video above. The new park is located on Grand River and Cass Avenue, between the historic G.A.R. Building and the DTE Energy Headquarters. The opening ceremonies will be held on Thursday, July 20 at 11:00 a.m. with a ribbon cutting ceremony....

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Have Home Movies From The 1960s? Anthony Bourdain Wants Them For Documentary Project

Do you have any home movies from the 1960s collecting dust in the basement? If you do, it might be time to pull those out again because CNN, Zero Point Zero, and Anthony Bourdain are interested in checking them out. As we’ve written in the past, Anthony Bourdain the executive producer and star of a 4-part CNN series about Detroit in the early 1960’s. The series is inspired by the book “Once in a Great City” by David Maraniss. The series will begin in 1962 and will be focused on a time whe...

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16 Beautiful Reasons Why Detroit Has The Best Public Art Around

Detroit might be known for manufacturing, but we’re also a city of art. There are so many amazing pieces in the city that we can’t possibly include them all in one post, but we thought we’d gather some of our favorite murals, parks and bits of artistic whimsy around town. This is meant as a conversation starter. We’d like to eventually build a map of all the art around town. Get in touch here with your tips. The thing about public art and street art is that over time it can change. Pieces...

Michigan DNR, Belle Isle Conservancy Seeking Community Input For New Proposed Splash Pad

If you have spent any time on Belle Isle in the past few summers, you might have noticed that the waterslides on the north side of the island are no longer being used. The slides were closed in 2013 because they were no longer safe. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Belle Isle Conservancy have proposed removing the slides and replacing them with a splash pad. The new proposed splash pad is part of the Belle Isle Beachfront Revitalization project. The DNR and Bell...

DPD And Wayne County Sheriff Team Up For 3 Summer Hiring Events To Add To Their Ranks

Have you ever thought about being a Detroit Police officer or a Wayne County Sheriff’s Deputy? Both the Detroit Police Department and the Wayne County Sheriff’s office are currently hiring to add to their ranks, and to help that along they’re holding three events over the summer in the city. WHEN AND WHERE: The first one is this Wednesday, July 19 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Samaritan Center. That’s 5555 Conner St. in Detroit. Second event is at the Northwest Activity Center on July 26...

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Detroit To Get The Largest Scoreboard In The World Of Its Kind

A 5,100 square foot, centerhung scoreboard is going to entertain and inform fans at the new Little Caesars Arena when it opens this fall. According to the National Hockey League, the scoreboard will be the largest seamless centerhung system in the world. Because it is “seamless,” it will allow programming to completely wrap around the system and create a 360-degree experience. A total of 45 LED displays featuring more than 13,500 square feet and more than 16.5 million LEDs will be installed...

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New Order Coffee Will Open This Wednesday On Woodward

A “nano-batch specialty roaster”is opening at 3100 Woodward Avenue, in the same building as the well-reviewed Grey Ghost restaurant and the former Ye Olde Butcher Shoppe. The 2,000 square foot café, just up Woodward from Little Caeasars Arena, will be able to seat 60 people and will have a indoor/outdoor patio as well as a conference room that seats eight. There also will be a six seat laptop bar lining the windows on Watson street. On the menu, according to a release, will be microbrewed by...

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