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HGTV To Feature Detroit In Season Premiere Of "House Hunters" Thursday Night

Detroit’s real estate scene is going to get some more TV airtime. Whether it was the beautiful Ransom Gillis house in Brush Park that Nicole Curtis did, This Old House coming to a Northwest Detroit neighborhood, or now, the season premiere of House Hunters on Thursday night, the world is starting to get more of a look at what Detroit has to offer. A couple will be torn between a historic loft in the heart of the city and an established walkable neighborhood outside the city, according to the...

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20 Detroit Artists Get Fellowships, Awards From Kresge Arts

Detroit is jam-packed with artistic talent that is playing a huge role in the city being recognized as an artistic center. Seventeen of them and one collaborative have been recognized with Kresge Artist Fellowships this year and two emerging artists will get Gilda Awards. Each fellowship comes with an unrestricted $25,000 prize and a year of professional practice support provided by Creative Many Michigan, including an invitation to an intensive professional development retreat presented by...

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Festa Italiana Returns to Freedom Hill July 15-17

Editor’s Note: We know a lot of people are coming here via search. Follow this link for the updated information for the 2017 event. Want a fun, free, family-friendly way to spend a weekend? Head to Freedom Hill County Park (14900 Metro Parkway in Sterling Heights) July 15-17 for Festa Italiana, presented by the Italian American Cultural Society. Festa Italiana will give event-goers a taste of Italian music and heritage. Highlights of the event include a Beautiful Baby Contest, Cannoli Eatin...

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Downtown Detroit's Wahlburgers To Open In 4 Weeks Says Mark Wahlberg (With Video)

The coming of a Wahlburgers to downtown Detroit (as one of six metro Detroit locations) is causing a lot of buzz in the city. Over the weekend, Actor Mark Wahlberg, who is also part of the Wahlburgers chain and appears on the “Wahlburgers” television show, did a press appearance at their new Greektown location on Monroe that’s under construction. [Previous coverage: Wahlburgers coming to Detroit] He said that it’ll be four weeks until the Wahlburgers is ready to open, and he encouraged peo...

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Program Aims To Help The 25% Of Detroit Residents 25 And Older Without A High School Diploma

Many people rightly believe that an education is one of the crucial keys to helping people escape poverty and build a sustainable income. Despite this notion, the city of Detroit has a rather dismal statistic haunting it. Nearly 25 percent of Detroit residents age 25 and older don’t have a high school diploma. That’s a problem, especially if the city wants to put its own citizens to work. Ron Stefanski, Executive Director at Cengage Learning, has set out to solve that problem by creating Detro...

Dear New York Post: It Is You Who Are The Purveyors Of Paltry Pizza

Seeing your editorial June 24, we feel it is important, as the home of the Detroit-style pizza, to clear some things up. Detroit pizza is strong. Yours flips, flops and folds, like your oompa-loompa colored, bloviating native son in the presidential race. In Detroit, we don’t make a distinction of what is “real” pizza. We know New York and Chicago-style pizza exists. We also don’t need to say those are not real pizza because we know ours is clearly the better pie. Much better than the swimmi...

Ferndale's Business Boom Starting To Expand Beyond Downtown

The owners of Anita’s Kitchen, a popular Lebanese eatery in downtown Ferndale, have acquired two adjacent properties on Woodward Heights near Hilton where they are proposing an expanded new restaurant in an existing business and a new three-story residential and commercial building on a vacant lot. The City Council recently approved rezoning the vacant parcel, at 1201 Woodward Heights, from single- and two-family residential to mixed use to facilitate the plans. The city in September 2015 appr...

Avalon Village Project In Highland Park Reaches Funding Goal

Last week we brought you the story of Shu – a woman who is looking to build a village in Highland Park. Well, it looks like she’s going to get her chance. The Kickstarter campaign ended fully funded on Thursday, with $1,791 extra being raised from 1,511 backers from across the country. From her thank you update on her Kickstarter page: This dream of building a safe space for our children and neighbors was born out of the tragedy of my son’s death nine years ago, when I had to decide whethe...

City Says Detroit People Mover To Reopen This Weekend, Three Days Ahead Of Schedule

City officials say that Detroit People Mover is restarting service today (Friday), three days ahead of schedule. There were various rail and switch replacements made to the track. The Detroit People Mover has been in service since 1987. It was designed as a downtown circulator for a larger, regional subway system that never came to fruition because local leaders could not agree on plans, so the federal government revoked the $600 million in funding for the larger system. “We’re happy to re...

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7 Scenic Detroit-Area Freeway Embankments, Ranked

Detroit is a city that, for better or worse, is defined by its elaborate network of sunken freeways. They’ve sliced and diced entire neighborhoods, destroyed others completely and generally played havoc with the urban grid. And like anyone who depends on his car to get around here, I spend plenty of time on ‘em. Which means that, like you, I spend plenty of time stuck in traffic, absorbing the scenery — such as it is. Because I appreciate good design in all its forms, and it’s summer and I’m...

Your City 5: Things To Do In Detroit For The Weekend Of June 24 -26

It is hard to believe that we are already coming up to the end of June. Summer has officially started this week, and there are a bunch of fun things happening around Metro Detroit. So without further ado, let’s get started. Good Cakes and Bakes Second Annual Ice Cream Social – Good Cakes and Bakes We love Good Cakes and Bakes and when we saw the bakery was holding an ice cream social this weekend we knew we had to include it in our round up. If you have never heard of Good Cakes and Bakes...

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Metro Detroit Ranks Second In Nation For Charitable Giving To Help The Homeless

Detroiters are generous people, and the 2016 Fidelity Charitable Giving Report reveals they’re more likely to help out their fellow citizens by donating to human services like food banks and homeless shelters. Metro Detroit ranked second when it came to giving to charities that focused on helping the homeless. The 2016 Fidelity Charitable Giving Report looked at a list of Fidelity Charitable’s top 30 metropolitan areas, by number of Giving Accounts whose Primary Account Holder’s address is i...

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Detroit RiverFront Conservancy Raises $163 Million For Waterfront, Exceeds Goal By $23 Million

The Detroit Riverfront has gone through a host of changes over the last few years – and more are coming, thanks to a goal-breaking fundraising campaign that netted a whopping $163 million for projects on Detroit’s waterfront. The original goal had been to raise $140 million. Every great city has a gathering space where the entire community feels welcome and feels a sense of civic pride,” said Detroit RiverFront Conservancy President & CEO Mark Wallace. “Everyone who visits the RiverWalk can...

Video First Look: The New Kit And Ace On Woodward

Downtown Detroit has yet another new retail offering, joining Nike, John Varvatos, and others on Woodward Avenue between Campus Martius and Grand Circus Park. Kit and Ace, a Vancouver-based clothing brand, opened a 3,337 foot store at 1459 Woodward. Above is a look inside....

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Stopping In For Lunch At Stache International

Sometimes the craving for a sandwich hits hard, and the average chain restaurant just won’t cut it. Today was one of those days, so we decided to head over to Eastern Market and go to Stache International. Stache International opened earlier this year after some pretty rigorous renovations to the space. There was no plumbing, very little electrical outlets, and lets not forget no kitchen before renovations began. The menu consists of numerous sandwiches, house made sausages, salads, and...

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Tubby’s Gets Into The Pizza Game, Will Roll Out First At New Riverview Store

Pizza is one of the things that makes the world go round, and Tubby’s is expanding its menu to include this delectable dish close to the hearts of Detroiters. Tubby’s pizzas include a Philly Cheesesteak pizza to match its popular Philly Cheesesteak Sub and Tubby’s Smokin’ BBQ Chicken pizza. There’s also an Everything Pizza that comes with mild peppers, cheese, pepperoni, ham, bacon, beef, Italian sausage, mushrooms, onion, green pepper, black olives, and Tubby’s pizza sauce. If you don’t see...

RENDERINGS: 14 Foot Tall Pizza-Shaped Windows To Make Facade Of New Little Caesars HQ

Pizza! Pizza! or maybe should it be when it comes to the materials of this new building.. Glass! Glass! Little Caesars provided more details on their new nine-story, 234,000 square foot headquarters on Woodward they’re about to build to accommodate their plans to double their workforce due to increased business around the globe. The front face of the building will be made mostly of 14 foot tall, triangle-shaped windows to evoke the idea of pizza slices, and there will be an open-plan atrium...

Get Ready To Be Distracted At Woodward And 13 Mile Road With A Giant Statue

If you are heading through Royal Oak along Woodward it is going to be very hard to miss the 25-foot sculpture next to the Royal Oak Fire Department on 13 Mile Road. The sculpture of a Navy Sailor kissing a nurse is titled Embracing Peace was created by New Jersey artist Seward Johnson Atelier. The sculpture depicts the now famous photograph taken by photographers Alfred Einsenstaedt and Victor Jorgensen on VJ (Victory over Japan) Day on August 14, 1945. Embracing Peace was officially install...

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