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Your City 5: Things To Do In Detroit For The Weekend Of May 12-14

Are you ready for Mother’s Day this weekend? There is still time to do something special for all of the mom’s in your life. To all of our readers who are moms I just want to say Happy Mother’s Day. Being a mom can be really hard somedays, but I just want you all to know that you are doing a fantastic job. As if Mother’s Day isn’t important enough, we also have the Grand Opening of the QLINE. Love it or hate it, our new streetcar is here to stay. The QLINE is offering free rides all weekend...

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QLINE's Wi-Fi To Be Provided By Local Firm Rocket Fiber

When you ride the Q-LINE streetcar, you’re going to have free access to Wi-Fi at stations and as you ride. It’s going to be provided by Rocket Fiber, a company based in Detroit. The services include network-based technology to incorporate into the QLINE main office at the Penske Technical Center and public Wi-Fi at the stations and trains. Rocket Fiber is doing the design, build, operation and management of the network, including future maintenance and support. Nerds Xpress, a local minority...

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Check Out These 13 Michigan Made Products From All Things Detroit

This past Sunday I went to the special Mother’s Day All Things Detroit market presented by Ask Jennyfer. I rarely need an excuse to go to an artisan market but we also wanted to do an updated round up on some great small businesses. A few years ago we did a list of 10 Michigan-Made Things We Loved At All Things Detroit, so it is certainly time to do a new list. All Things Detroit has grown every year. If you go back to check out our old list you can see it was only utilizing Shed 3 in East...

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Six More Tiny Homes Appear In Detroit's Dexter-Linwood Neighborhood

Last year, we told you about the completion of a tiny house built by the nonprofit Cass Community Social Services. They’ve been busy building their next six homes, under construction now and scheduled to be complete in the fall. The homes are located just off of Woodrow Wilson south of Glendale on Monterey, near the Highland Park/Detroit border. As we wrote about last year, they’re designed to serve low income people. Rent for the homes is based off the square footage of each home. If some...

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Detroit's QLINE Streetcar Could Go Much Faster. Here's What Needs To Happen

One of the most anticipated – and debated – additions to Detroit’s streets is that of the QLINE. That’s the 3.3 mile long streetcar that begins service down Woodward Avenue on May 12. One of the early complaints about the QLINE online is the speed of the streetcar. End to end, it takes about 25 minutes (as timed by our riding it today). Here’s the thing. It could go much faster, if there were more governmental cooperation. It turns out the speed of the streetcar isn’t as much limited by mech...

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Here's Where To Drink In Detroit Like Don Draper

Even though we’re coming up on the two year anniversary of the grand finale of Mad Men, it’s clear the show and its characters have left an indelible mark on collective pop culture. Try and find a new office or commercial renovation that isn’t dripping with mid-century modern, or “hip” creative workplace that doesn’t come equipped with an in-office bar cart to delight the would be Peggy’s, Pete’s, and Harry’s of today’s millennial workforce. The “Incredulous Don Draper” meme (you know the on...

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New Maps Show 20 Years Of Racial Change In Metro Detroit In Sharp Detail

One of the things that the racial makeup of the Detroit region has done consistently over the last couple decades is change. Block by block, Metro Detroit as a whole has seen tremendous change in the time from 1990-2010. But what does that actually look like? Previous maps that relied on census data only let us get down to 3 kilometer chunks, or a little more than a square mile. However, new maps by a University of Cincinnati geography professor are the most detailed map of racial diversity...

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QUICK TIP: The St. Florian Strawberry Festival Is This Weekend In Hamtramck

If you are looking for something fun to do this weekend, and have a hankering for Polish food then you need to check out the St. Florian Strawberry Festival. There will be plenty of Polish food for purchase, and tons of strawberry desserts. As with most festivals there will be a raffle and a tin can auction. If you have kids, there will also be things for them to do as well. Because St. Florian is the Patron Saint of Firefighters, there will be a Firefighter March and Mass on Saturday. T...

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Area College Creates Puppy Program For Students To Raise And Train Leader Dogs For The Blind

College is a time of growth. New experiences. Learning new things. For people… and now, for puppies. Leader Dogs For The Blind has a new partnership with Rochester College, located in Oakland County. They have created the RC-Campus Puppy Program, as a way to help the organization get more volunteers to raise and train puppies. The program will pair up six students and puppies. The puppies will be raised and trained to become Leader Dogs. There is an application process for students to be con...

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ABC's "Shark Tank" Is Looking For Detroit Entrepreneurs This Friday Morning

For the upcoming ninth season of the ABC show “Shark Tank,” one of the cities that is having a casting call is Detroit. The first 500 entrepreneurs to arrive at each open casting call are guaranteed to be seen and will pitch the “Shark Tank” casting team with their business concepts, products or ideas. It kicks off at 9 a.m. on Friday, May 5 at the Focus:Hope Conference Center at 1400 Oakman in Detroit, but if you’re looking to be one of those first 500, being early is the way to go. Oh, a...

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

Welcome to the first weekend of May. Pretty soon our weekends will be filled with graduations and grad parties so let’s take advantage of this weekend. There are plenty of great events happening this weekend. We have a nice mixture of things to do. Space Dive III – Detroit Do you love Star Wars? Have you been looking for a way to celebrate the 4th of May with others who also love the World that George Lucas created 40 years ago? If you answered yes to all of those questions then you sho...

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‘TechHire Bootcamp’ Launches 10 Week Program To Train Detroit Residents To Be Software Developers

One of the gaps in Detroit’s comeback is the skills gap, especially when it comes to residents and the increase of new technology jobs in the city. Although many of the new jobs in the city require a degree or technical training, just 13.1 percent of Detroit residents have a college degree. To help bridge this, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and Grand Circus announced a new 10-week program that will provide training and mentorship for Detroit residents interested in becoming entry-level developer...

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PODCAST: The Smell Of Detroit Success With Kevin And Jane Of Sfumato Fragrances

[smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/dailydetroithappyhour/DD-11-Happy_hour_Sfumato_mixdown.mp3″ social_gplus=”false” social_linkedin=”true” social_email=”true” ] Detroit’s a city where locally made products can do really well and become a thing. One of those products is Sfumato Fragrances, created by the Corktown-based husband and wife duo of Kevin Peterson and Jane Larson. They’re already at work on their new Midtown retail store, thanks to a $20,000 Motor City Match grant....

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Children’s Hospital Of Michigan Researchers Create First 3D/4D “Whole-Brain Map” To Help Those With Epilepsy, Brain Tumors

Having epilepsy or a brain tumor is scary enough but that fear is compounded when patients face the possibility of speech and language deficits after corrective surgery. Now they can rest a little easier thanks to the work of a DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan and Wayne State University School of Medicine (WSUSOM) research team. After 10 years of continuous work they have developed a set of electronic tools that can draw 3D and 4D “space- and time-based” maps of the neuron-signaling across...

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WATCH: Miss The Halfpipe In The Fisher Building? Here's A Great Session

One of the events that captured the collective imagination of Detroiters in April was the halfpipe in the Fisher Building. The mix of old architecture with a new twist brought thousands of people out for the few days the halfpipe was installed. New up is a video from The RIDE Channel, highlighting skaters Tony Restaino, Dustin Blauvelt, Justin Zimmerman, Jordan Garland and Steve Regish. It was put together by Jordan Garland of As Detroits Own and shot along with Nate Reed. Now, if you’re l...

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Mark Zuckerberg Visits Southeast Michigan, Tried Working On The Line And Had Some Buddy's Pizza

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of one of the most influential companies today, toured Southeast Michigan hitting a variety of stops, including a Ford Factory, Jolly Pumpkin, and Buddy’s Pizza. It’s part of a travel tour he set as a goal for himself to see all 50 states and connect directly with people around the country. Along the way he tried his hand at working on the line at Ford, which made digital front page news. “Working on the line at an assembly plant is physically hard...

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What Ice Cream Flavor Captures The Spirt Of Detroit?

Michigan-based Hudsonville Ice Cream has a new contest calling on metro Detroiters to help create the next flavor of its artisan ice cream through what they’re calling their “Flavor of Detroit Contest,” set to run from May 1-26. The contest asks Michigan residents to help Hudsonville expand its family of Michigan-themed ice creams, which includes Grand Traverse Bay Cherry Fudge, Pure Michigan Winter Campfire and the classic Mackinac Island Fudge. According to the company, Hudsonville Ice Cream...

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Beach Bar Arrives At Campus Martius, Aims To Open First Week Of May

A sure sign of summer and good times in downtown Detroit is the arrival of the bar in Campus Martius. The Fountain Detroit, as it’s called, is housed in a 10 ton, 40 foot long shipping container that’s dropped off and installed in the award-winning park. It showed up earlier this week. Here are some photos of the load in. The restaurant sits right next to the “beach” at Campus Martius Park, which is a neat, sandy space in the park near the Soldiers and Sailors monument. An of...

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