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Marche du Nain Rouge Returns Sunday, March 20

Gather with your fellow Detroiters on Sunday, March 20 to celebrate Detroit’s victory over the Nain Rouge, the fiendish red imp who constantly plots Detroit’s demise. The Marche du Nain Rouge starts at 1 p.m. in the parking lot of Traffic Jam & Snug, 511 W. Canfield St. The parade will proceed down Second Avenue for nine blocks then turn West on Temple and continue around Cass Park. It will end at the Masonic Temple. Parade goers are encouraged to come masked or fully costumed. There will be...

Cafe Con Leche's Southwest Detroit Location To Close

Cafe Con Leche is one of the early ones in this most recent round of Detroit development energy. They’re folks who put a stake in the ground in Detroit when few others would, and built something that the community loves. There have been many blog posts (including some for this very site), college papers, dissertations and poems written at the corner of Vernor and Scotten across from Clark Park, as well as countless conversations. But as so often in cities, the only constant is change. Accordin...

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Troy Restaurant Week Returns March 13, Runs Through March 18

Although a lot of the culinary action people talk about is in the city proper, there are a lot of great restaurants all over the Detroit. With that in mind, have you been hankering to try out one (ok, maybe seven) of Troy’s unique restaurants? Here’s your chance! Troy Restaurant Week returns March 13-18 with 23 participating restaurants, making it the biggest event yet. The participating restaurants include establishments like 2Booli, Carrabba’s Italian Grill, Kruse & Muer on Wilshire, Maggian...

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Women's Power Events To Raise Money for Gleaners

Two unique networking events in April will enable Metro Detroit women to make new connections, find inspiration, and support Gleaners Food Bank in its Million Meal Match campaign, which aims to raise one million meals for hungry kids between April 1 and 30. The first event in the lineup – the 3rd annual Women’s Power Happy Hour – will take place on Thursday, April 7 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Businesswomen from the area will gather at the MGM Grand for hors d’oeuvres, a premium open bar, a silent...

Six Wahlburgers Opening in Metro Detroit, More Details On Greektown Location

Metro Detroiters will soon have a new set of options when it comes to burgers. Wahlburgers, the “better burger restaurant” founded by Chef Paul Wahlberg with celebrity brothers Mark and Donnie, is planning on opening six franchise locations in the area. As we wrote awhile ago, restaurant chain will make its Detroit debut in Greektown, as early as this summer or fall. Now, we have more details. The Wahlburgers is expected to open this summer with plans to convert a space at 569 Monroe in d...

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Report Says Southeast Michigan Tech Companies Expected To Outperform Silicon Valley In 2016

Silicon Valley has long been home to the world’s largest technology companies responsible for many game-changing innovations like the microprocessor and the microcomputer. It has an impressive record when it comes to economic measurements like research and development investment, hiring, and revenue. However, an Automation Alley report predicts that Southeast Michigan technology companies will outperform Silicon Valley in these key areas in 2016. For background, Automation Alley is a regional...

Somebody Should Get This Daft Punk-Style Marble Music Contraption To The Movement Festival

If you’re into a Daft Punk-style electronic funk and Rube Goldberg machines, this is the contraption for you. As reported in Wired, Swedish artist Martin Molin’s new marble-powered Wintergatan Marble Machine combines a vibraphone, percussion instruments, the neck of a bass guitar, and 2,000 marbles to create dance music. It’s powered by a large crank and then played live by Molin. The video of the wood-card marble music machine is taking the internet by storm right now. And we think somehow, t...

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WRAP Aims To Help Low-Income Residents In Struggle To Pay Water Bills

Detroit residents struggling to pay their water bills now have the opportunity to apply for assistance in the new Water Residential Assistance Program (WRAP) launching March 1. WRAP is a program of the Great Lakes Water Authority and is offered in several counties including Wayne, Macomb, and Oakland. The program will be administered through the Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency in Detroit. “This is a game-changer for the region,” said Gary Brown, director of the Detroit Water and S...

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Gores, Detroit Pistons Partner With City Year to Boost Engagement in Schools

There are a lot of reasons why we love the Pistons, and we just added another to our list. The Detroit Pistons and City Year Detroit have announced a long-term partnership to help grow City Year’s reach in Detroit Public Schools over the next three years. The agreement will help the non-profit organization further its mission of placing AmeriCorps members in high-poverty urban high schools to help mentor at-riusk students and prepare them for college and career success. “Education is a power...

Series And Exhibitions To Examine Changing Race Relations In 1940s Detroit

There is a lot of discussion (comparatively) around the racial tension and events in the 1960s in Detroit. After all, the 50th anniversary of the 1967 riots is almost upon us. But the city has a long history around these issues that stretches far before then. With that in mind, a program series called The 1940s: Through the War and Beyond, will be running March through the first week of May at the Lorenzo Cultural Center explore changing race relations during the 1940s. Here are the programs...

The Number One Fun Thing To Do In New York City Is Coming To Detroit

The Escape the Room trend is sweeping the country, and Detroit’s about to get one of the best in the business. On TripAdvisor, the same ‘Escape the Room’ is ranked in #1 fun & games in New York City and it’s coming to Detroit. Escape the Room, a live-action game, announced Tuesday that the company has opened its first Michigan location at 1030 Randolph in downtown Detroit in the retail space of the Brush Street Garage, owned by Bedrock Real Estate Services. What is “Escape the Room?” The 60-...

Pew Study: More Than Half Of Michiganders Are "Highly Religious"

It’s always interesting to see overall trends in a state. It helps give perspective. Often in life we keep to our own friend circles, who many times are folks that have the same beliefs and ideologies we do. According to a new study by the Pew Research Center, a non-partisan “fact tank,” Michigan rates #27 among the 50 U.S. states for how religious our adult citizens are. Even with that middle of the road ranking, more than half (53%) are “highly religious.” This study didn’t break the data do...

In IT? Looking For A Job? Looking To Hire? Job Fair March 10 Could Be Your Ticket

THE LOWDOWN: Detroit’s hiring market is an interesting place. Sometimes it’s up — sometimes it’s down — but it’s always good to be out there and meet with actual people instead of throwing a bucket of resumes down a digital void with no response. A rare opportunity to network in person and meet folks when it comes to your job search will be at the 18th IT in the D Pink Slip Party on March 10. The event will be held at the Majestic Theatre in midtown — and the event is free (but parking, if you...

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New Second-Mortgage Program Could Be A Game Changer For Detroit

Many of Detroit’s homes are in need of substantial rehabilitation. Once rehabbed, however, the weak housing market there means they are often appraised for less than the value of the home and the repairs. This creates an “appraisal gap,” which has been holding back the city’s housing market recovery. Last week, Detroit’s Mayor Mike Duggan unveiled the Detroit Home Mortgage Initiative, a new program that could be a potential game changer. The new program, designed to address this appraisal gap,...

Downtown Detroit Getting "Vault Of Midnight" Comic Book And Board Game Shop

Detroit’s getting another new retail neighbor. Ann Arbor-based comic book and board game shop, Vault of Midnight, today said it will expand its business and open a brand new location at 1226 Library St., between Gratiot and Grand River Avenues in downtown Detroit. That’s in the “Z” garage, and neighbors include 7 Greens, NoJo Kicks, and Citizen Yoga. The shop will be 2,000 square feet and is expected to open in the spring. There, you’ll be able to get comic books, graphic novels, toys, games,...

National CPA Firm Opens Branch Office Downtown

A small bit o’ business news through the wire this week as national CPA firm The Siegfried Group, LLP announced that they’ll be opening an office in One Woodward in downtown Detroit, owned by Bedrock Real Estate. Established in 1988, the company has 18 offices around the country. No word on how many jobs the office will bring. “We continue to be very excited about the value Siegfried can bring to growing businesses in Detroit,” commented George Siegfried, Regional Market Leader, SVP in a sta...

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New $2 Million Center In North End To Help Detroiters Learn Financial Literacy, Get Jobs

Good news for a well-known Detroit nonprofit and a vacant building in Detroit’s North End neighborhood. This week word came that a building at 2777 East Grand Boulevard will be renovated by September and be used as the Goodwill Industries North End Workforce Readiness Center. It will house both job readiness and financial training programs. It took a $2 million agreement between various for profit and nonprofit partners to make the rehab possible of the 10,000 square foot structure owned by...

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10 Things Detroit Created That Aren't Cars

Detroit gets a lot of press for being the “Motor City,” but Detroit has an illustrious history of innovation and invention outside of cars and car parts. Once you make it through this historic list that’s a sampling of some things that are fun and some that are important to mankind, you might change your mind that the only thing that Detroit can do is put things on four wheels. Detroit is creative and has provided amazing contributions to America in so many ways. 1. The Standardization...

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