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Your City 5: Things To Do In Detroit For The Weekend Of February 10-12

We’ve made it through another week. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been looking forward to this weekend. My calendar is filled with fun and interesting things to do all weekend. You might notice that I have kept all of the Valentine’s Day themed events off this list. I’m working on a separate post for the upcoming holiday. Let’s get down to business. Café Con Leche at the Southwest Detroit Business Association — Detroit If you miss going to the old location of Café Con Leche head dow...

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“Shot Of History” To Celebrate One Year With A Historic Event At Nancy Whiskey’s This Saturday

UPDATE: The location of this event has changed to Old Shillelagh in Greektown. 349 Monroe Street in Detroit. Independent media is something of a growing scene in Detroit. One of the shows that’s made it to the year mark is Shot of History, a podcast that has a comedic take on the history of the world. As opposed to a dry recitation of facts and figures, Shot of History over the last 49 episodes has made topics almost seem as if they’re in the present with a variety of guests and tie-ins wit...

Need Help Finding A Wedding Venue? Check Out This Bus Tour

Are you or someone you know planning a wedding? Maybe you have a feeling your partner is going to propose on Valentine’s Day this year. If you are having a hard time finding a venue, here’s a lead for you. There is a Detroit wedding venue tour coming up on February 25. The company putting together the tour is MiWedding Tours. MiWedding Tours will take couples, wedding parties, and families to four different venues. The venues for this tour are; Crowne Plaza Detroit, the Guardian Building; Ro...

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Worried Betsy DeVos Could ‘Destroy’ Public Education? Here’s What You Should Know

Ed. Note: With all the polarization out there on the internet, we thought we’d find a summary that highlights what could actually happen with the confirmation of Betsy DeVos, a wealthy Michigander who also has wielded her influence on education policy in Michigan as well as Detroit, as the new Secretary of Education. Thanks to Chalkbeat, who we regularly feature on our site, for this. Betsy DeVos earned more opposition than any of President Trump’s cabinet picks — and any nominee for education...

The Great Bike Giveaway Gives Special Needs Children A Chance To Get A Bike Made Just For Them

When I think back to my youth I remember all of my friends riding their bikes around our neighborhood. Riding a bike is not only great for exercise, it also gives kids and teenagers a sense of independence. As a matter of fact more than 74 million kids across the U.S. ride bikes. However, those with cognitive or physical disabilities tend to miss out on the fun and freedom that bike riding offers. There are adaptive bikes for those with disabilities, but they can be pretty expensive. Most...

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Daily Detroit Happy Hour Podcast: How Data Helps Drive Detroit's Comeback With Garlin Gilchrist II

[smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/dailydetroithappyhour/DD-4Happy-Hour-Garlin-GilchristII_mixdown.mp3″ social=”true” social_twitter=”true” social_facebook=”true” social_linkedin=”true” social_email=”true” ] Data is playing an important role in shaping the city and working to improve services. Our guest this episode is Garlin Gilchrist II, the City of Detroit’s Director of Innovation and Emerging Technology for an interesting conversation about how data has been making a differ...

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Have You Seen Aurora Fordealis, The Glow Of Ford Field At Night?

If you live near downtown Detroit and it’s on, you can’t miss the glow. Our folks have seen it as far as Abick’s in Southwest Detroit and east as West Village; and north as New Center. The source of what we jokingly call Aurora Fordealis, a Detroit play on the Aurora Borealis or the Northern Lights, is the glow from the LED lighting of Ford Field in downtown Detroit. It is seemingly enhanced when there is cloud cover. The lights were installed as part of a $2 million comprehensive light upgr...

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Gilbert Offers To Build New Jail Off I-75 Near Warren In Deal To Build Soccer Stadium Downtown

The jail saga continues with a new offer from billionaire Dan Gilbert that would see the Wayne County Jail and justice complex move up I-75 to East Forest, on the east side of I-75, just a block south of Warren Avenue. According to press materials from Rock Ventures: The County estimates the completion of the jail on Gratiot Avenue and modest renovations to the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice will be $300 million. Rock Ventures is prepared to build the County a new, high-tech criminal justice c...

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WATCH: Hitting Golf Balls In The Decrepit Pontiac Silverdome

So this isn’t going to be the first time we highlight someone doing something crazy in the Pontiac Silverdome up in Oakland County that has sat empty and rotting for years since the Detroit Lions moved to Ford Field in downtown Detroit. Sure, the parking lot has a bunch of recalled Volkswagens, and people have gone BMX biking where the Lions used to play, but the cast of the show Detroit Steel decided to hit some golf balls out of the former Lions suite and onto the field. They shared the bonu...

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Devon’s Detroit: Bad Luck Bar And The Case For The $5 Milkshake

In one of many memorable scenes from Pulp Fiction, a favorite movie from my adolescence, Vincent Vega (John Travolta) scoffs at the idea of his date ordering a $5 milkshake at Jack Rabbit Slims, the garish 50’s sock hop restaurant straight out of Quentin Tarantino’s dreams. Incredulously, he wonders how a drink with milk and ice cream could cost $5. “You don’t put bourbon in it or anything?” he asks. Once the shake arrives his curiosity dictates that he has to try the aforementioned concocti...

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Detroit Restaurant Week Starts This Weekend

If you like dining around Detroit now is the time to do it, because Detroit Restaurant Week starts today. Detroit Restaurant Week will run Friday, February 3 until Sunday, February 12. Last month we gave you all a heads up that DRW would be back in February. We didn’t know much information about what restaurants would be involved, but now we do. This year there is a small change as there are five restaurants that are offering a three course meal for $29, whereas there are twenty-one restaura...

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Devon’s Detroit: “You Belong to the City”

My social and professional lives frequently mingle and intersect maybe because the city of Detroit has been a part of my life for well … all my life. I was technically born a Detroiter and grew up a suburbanite. Tireman and Schaefer may not be what the quintessential idea of suburban isolation looks like to some but although I could see Detroit from my front porch. Dearborn was very much a suburban paradise growing up. Over the years my curiosity for this city across the street grew and was...

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Calvin Moore Is Leading Tours And Conversations: Ep. 3 Of The Daily Detroit Happy Hour Podcast

We’re exploring Detroit, one interesting person at a time. For this episode of the Daily Detroit Happy Hour podcast, we visited Queens Bar and interviewed Calvin Moore. He’s the owner of Seven Point Two Tours as well as the host of the podcast Leading Questions with Calvin Moore. Host Sven Gustafson and Calvin touched on a variety of topics, such as what do out of town talent that companies are heavily recruiting think when they’re brought in; why complaining on Facebook wasn’t doing it anymor...

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Microsoft Announces Move To Downtown Detroit

Microsoft moving their Michigan office from the suburb of Southfield to Detroit is a real thing. Joining a wave of companies moving their suburban presences to the city and national companies opening stores downtown, tech giant Microsoft announced today that the company will move its Michigan Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) to downtown Detroit early next year. This had been rumored for awhile now. They will occupy more than 40,000 square feet in Bedrock’s One Campus Martius building, origi...

A Sneak Peek Inside The Progress Of The New Detroit Grooming Company Barbershop In Corktown (WITH PHOTOS)

Corktown is about to get a new barbershop. And it’s not just any barbershop — it’ll be two stories and inhabit a building originally from near the turn of the 1900s. This new barbershop will be the second location for the Detroit Grooming Company. The new location will be in Corktown right on Michigan Avenue. The Detroit Grooming Company started in 2013 with a line of men’s grooming products. The next step was the opening of a full service barber shop in April of 2016. The first location is...

Buzz: Microsoft To Announce Something With Dan Gilbert And Mayor Mike Duggan In Detroit On Friday

The current buzz being reported by multiple local sites is that tech giant Microsoft is going to announce something with Dan Gilbert’s Bedrock Real Estate tomorrow involving the One Campus Martius building in downtown Detroit. We’re going to label things “buzz” when there isn’t hard confirmation. There’s a good chance it’s happening, but it’s not for sure. Everyone’s falling over themselves to be “first,” but here’s what we know now as of noon. ClickOnDetroit and Crain’s are saying anonymo...

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"Front Porch" Outdoor Music Festival May Be Coming To Ferndale This June

Ferndale could play host to a new outdoor music festival that would involve bands playing acoustic sets on residents’ front porches in June after the City Council approved a special event permit earlier this month. “The Front Porch” is the brainchild of Michael Benghiat, a marketing professional at Front Porch Productions in Southfield, who said he envisions it as part of a public television series. It would take place Saturday, June 24. “This event is really serving as a showpiece and the l...

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Big Sean's Pop-Up Shop In Detroit This Weekend To Promote New Album And Limited Edition Fashion

Big Sean has become a big deal. Not only is he a multiplatinum, Grammy nominated artist, but if you haven’t noticed, he’s been staying connected to his hometown. One of the just four national pop-up shops for his new album, “I Decided,” will be opening this Friday and running through the weekend at 1441 Woodward, between Clifford and Grand River in downtown Detroit. The collection at the shop will be a “visual and fashionable” limited edition interpretation of “I Decided.” The stores will fe...

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