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Flint Restaurant Week Is Underway

From May 17 to May 21, Flint Restaurant Week offers visitors a chance to find a new favorite restaurant or discover the ever-growing dining scene in the city. Restaurants across the city are participating, so there’s a range of menus, price points, and locations. Even the pickiest eater will find something to love during Flint Restaurant Week. Pop into the Soggy Bottom Bar, Downtown Flint’s neighborhood bar, for classic bar food, craft beer, and fine whiskeys. If you’re more interested in ex...

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The First Metro Detroit Home Expo Is This Saturday, May 21

Metro Detroit’s first annual Home Expo Presented by Rehabbed & Ready will be held on Saturday, May 21 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Joe Dumars Fieldhouse (20601 Ralston Street) at the State Fairgrounds on 8 Mile Road. The event will bring the local home improvement and decor industry under one roof to connect with homeowners, building owners, and investors working to improve their houses. However, that’s not all that’s going on at this home expo. The event will also be a place for small businesses...

See R&B Star Usher And Mini Drake Spending Their Day In Detroit

Usher is a big name, and he took to social media today to show off some of Detroit’s best – from Eastern Market murals, to the iconic Motown Museum, to the popular Nojo Kicks downtown. It’s great P.R. for the city. His photos, from his Snapchat story, are a great way to see the city – in fact, you could probably create quite an afternoon for yourself following in his footsteps. May we suggest a drink at Standby around the corner from Nojo? Or a burger at Cutter’s over by the Eastern Market mur...

22 Fewer Dispensaries In Detroit Since March, City Aims To Close 66 Soon

Detroit’s promised marijuana dispensary crackdown seems to be underway, with 22 shops closed since the first of the month. CBS Detroit is reporting that city officials want to see 66 closed in the near-term that the city says are operating in drug-free school zones. The city is filing 5-6 suits per week as almost all of Detroit’s pot shops are currently operating in violation of a recently passed ordinance that not only requires a special business license for medical marijuana dispensaries, bu...

Yes, There Is Such A Thing As "Barn Of The Year"

There are awards for a lot of things. But who knew there was a “Barn of the Year” award? Well, there is – and it’s award by the Michigan Barn Preservation Network. Established in 1995, The MBPN is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting appreciation, preservation and rehabilitation of Michigan barns, farmsteads and rural communities. This year, the award in the “Non-Profit Agricultural or Adaptive Use” category went to a bright yellow, 100-year-old beauty at Oakland University. Accor...

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Large Part Of Westbound I-696 Is Going To Be Closed This Weekend For Repairs

We don’t know how to put it any clearer: I-696 this weekend in southern Oakland County is going to be the worst. You’ll need to figure out a detour (we have MDOT’s suggestion). This weekend – 9 p.m. Friday through 5 a.m. Monday – I-696 going westbound will be closed between Lahser Road in Southfield and I-275 in Farmington Hills for concrete repair. All your ramps onto westbound I-696 from Orchard Lake, Telegraph Road, and Lahser Road will be closed as well. So what are you to do? MDOT says...

Here Are 8 Reasons You Should Ride With Me On Bike To Work Day Detroit

Bike to Work Day is Friday in Detroit, I’m excited and I’m putting on the full-court press for why you should join us. I previously wrote about how I’m involved in Bike To Work Day. As a reminder, please register so we have enough food and beverage and swag for you. Here are eight reasons to ride: 1. It’s a great way to kick spring into gear You’re sick of the cold weather and have suffered long enough from cabin fever. You could use some fresh air, you long to feel the breeze ruffle your...

Two New Things: Go! Sy Thai Adds Location, Mean Weenie Finds A Permanent Home

Metro Detroit’s food scene is getting a couple of new additions. First off, Go! Sy Thai, the popular midtown Thai place that makes locals smile with their “Iced T” dispenser (with a picture of Mr. T) is adding a small, 29-seat downtown Detroit location in Capitol Park, next to Dessert Oasis and Detroit Bikes in the Albert on Griswold, according to a release. It’ll also have a condensed menu to fit it’s small space as well as add delivery in midtown and downtown, which should be a hit with cubi...

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Nyjah Huston Wins at Red Bull Hart Lines

This past weekend, thousands of fans crowded into Detroit’s Hart Plaza to watch top skateboarders compete on a street skateboarding course like no other. On Sunday, Myjah Huston took first place in the event with an impressive list of tricks. Last year’s Hart Lines champion, Curren Caples, had a solid performance and secured a second place finish. Belgian skater Axel Cruysberghs was one of the fastest skaters through the course and paced third on the podium. After the awards ceremony, the Be...

Gilbert Is Bidding For Yahoo; Buffett May Finance

It’s not that Dan Gilbert and Warren Buffett are trying to buy Yahoo and both have equity together – it’s that Gilbert’s trying to buy Yahoo, with Buffett possibly financing the deal. That’s the news CNBC is reporting today. “I’m an enormous admirer of Dan and what he has accomplished in Quicken Loans‎. Yahoo is not the type of thing I’d ever be an equity partner in. I don’t know the business and wouldn’t know how to evaluate it, but if Dan needed financing, with proper terms and protecti...

Detroit Summer Jobs Program To Receive $2 Million From Obama Administration

A local summer program that provides thousands of jobs, Grow Detroit’s Young Talent, will receive a $2 million federal grant awarded over two years, enabling the city to provide another 1,000 young people with summer employment opportunities. In total, $21 million in funding was announced Monday by the Department of Labor and the Obama administration, and the $2 million represents Detroit’s share. The funds are aimed at connecting disadvantaged young people with jobs this summer and year-round...

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Detroit Startup Week Speaker Lineup Released, Includes Bill Ford And Mike Duggan

There’s a lot to be excited about in Detroit’s startup and entrepreneurial scene as of late. The final of three major events just this month, Detroit Startup Week, just released its marquee speaker lineup. They include: * Bill Ford, executive chairman, Ford Motor Company * Jennifer Piepszak, CEO of Chase Business * Danielle Weisberg & Carly Zakin, co-founders, theSkimm * Tami Door, president and CEO, Downtown Denver Partnership and co-founder of Denver Startup Week * Mike Duggan, mayor, c...

If Detroit Had Our Own Money, Who Would You Put On It?

There has been a lot of talk about money and who is on it as of late, with some of that conversation including our own civil rights icon Rosa Parks. But we got to thinking. What if through some quirk of time, space and coincidence Detroit had our own currency? Who would we put on it? This started a lively debate at the Daily HQ in Cass Park. Here are some suggestions we came up with – along with runners-up. Are we on-point or totally off-base? $1 – Antoine De La Mothe Cadillac Followi...

Yah-Q? Gilbert Reportedly Part Of Buffett Group Aiming To Buy Yahoo

It looks like billionaire Detroit businessman and founder of Quicken Loans, Dan Gilbert, is teaming up with Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway founder and often referred to as the “Oracle of Omaha” to make a run at buying Yahoo. Yahoo is one of the first wave of big internet companies, but has fallen out of favor as of late even though it has millions of daily users. It’s considered by experts as a company without focus – and is up for sale with a shortlist of around 10 bidders. Verizon is c...

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Detroit Zen: A Couple Of Minutes With The Koi On Belle Isle

The Aquarium on Belle Isle, originally opened in 1904 and at one point was America’s oldest-running aquarium (it was shut down for a few years starting in 2005 due to budget issues), has a very cool koi pond next door between it and the Whitcomb Conservatory. The Aquarium was designed by none other than the godfather of Detroit architecture, Albert Kahn. The pond houses nearly 300 fish, with some estimated at being 80 years old – and they like to take an interest in people staring at them –...

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Nickelodeon’s The HALO Effect Honors Detroit Area Teen

It’s no secret that men outnumber women in the computer science field. That fact alone often discourages women from entering the field. However, Macomb County teen Christina Li from the Utica Community Schools has set out to change the gender imbalance by creating computer science camps for girls. Her work will be honored on Nickelodeon’s The HALO Effect, a television show that highlights teens who “help and lead others” (HALO) in their community. The all-new episode, called “Hello World,” pre...

One Man's Litter Is Another Man's Free Speech - But Is It The Right Way To Treat Readers?

If you haven’t heard, Orion Township in Oakland County and the biggest paper in town, the Detroit Free Press, are now in a legal dispute over a Sunday edition called “Select,” delivered in a pink paper bag to some communities in Metro Detroit. So what is “Yes! Your Essential Shopper” or “Sunday Select?” According to a release in 2007: Sunday Select offers our advertisers a new way to reach active consumers. With Sunday Select, these consumers opt in to receive the advertising package of nati...

New Detroit Nike Store Gets Opening Date, Time - And Tom Izzo

Over at 1261 Woodward in the core of downtown, across from the old Hudson’s site, there’s a new Nike Community Store in the old F.W. Woolworth Company Building that’s currently getting ready for an opening day of its own. It’s part of an overall effort to bring more retail and national brands into the downtown core to draw shoppers and people into the city. The retail space has in the last few years served as a welcome center and then a home for the Somerset Collection’s CityLoft pop up. The...

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