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Social Entrepreneurship To Be Focus At Startup Weekend Detroit

Startup Weekend is this weekend! May 29-31, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. What is Startup Weekend? A weekend-long event for people interested in bringing an idea to life. You’ll meet developers, designers, and marketers who are interested in building businesses. The basic format includes an opportunity for attendees to get to know each other a bit more over pizza. So that everyone can get comfortable pitching ideas, there are some creative pitch exercises. Each attendee can pitch their own...

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Don't Miss International Obscura Day! It's Coming To Detroit On May 30

Atlas Obscura, an organization that aims to highlight all the world’s hidden wonders and curiosities, is hosting International Obscura Day on Saturday, May 30. People are encouraged to go out in groups and explore hidden gems and unusual places in and around their hometowns. Detroiters can take part in the festivities by visiting two featured Obscura Day locations in Detroit – MBAD’s African Bead Museum and Woodmere Cemetery. Visitors to the African Bead Museum will be able to join Olaymi Da...

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Your Quick Guide To Enjoying The Detroit Grand Prix On Belle Isle This Weekend

The Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix returns to the Motor City Friday-Sunday, May 29-31, 2015. Here’s what you need to know to get the most from the event. The Grand Prix will feature the cars of the Verizon IndyCar Series, the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, the Pirelli World Challenge Series and the trucks of the SPEED Energy Formula Off-Road Presented by TRAXXAS. The weekend collectively is referred to as the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix and it will feature the Chevro...

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Mike Rowe To Teach Michigan Students About Skilled Trades In New Video Series

Mike Rowe is known for getting dirty. The host of “Somebody’s Gotta Do It” (and formerly of “Dirty Jobs”) is getting behind the camera to engage middle and high school students and show them opportunities in the skilled trades in Michigan. If you wonder “why the skilled trades, and why Mike Rowe?” here’s a little background for you. The blunt-speaking TV host is also the founder of the mikeroweWorks foundation, which encourages skilled trades across the nation. Michigan currently has a gap of...

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5 Basics To Help Understand The Mackinac Policy Conference And Why It's Important

The Mackinac Policy Conference is an important event where there are lots of people making business connections that drive the economy in our region. There are great speakers, fancy trappings, and lots of smiles and energy. It’s a curious event where you might meet the mayor of a nearby suburb riding a bike next to you on your way to breakfast at the Grand Hotel, or ham it up with a CEO of a large company over a beer at a social mixer. Here are 5 things we thought might put the experience into...

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Detroit Police Have Questions About Shepard Fairey Tagging Detroit Buildings

Detroit police have begun an investigation of artist Shepard Fairey for the various signature tags that have appeared plastered around the city on at least four public buildings this past weekend. Fairey, originally known for his “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” (…OBEY…) sticker campaign and later the Barack Obama “Hope” poster in 2008, was invited to Detroit by the Dan Gilbert and Bedrock team to develop a mural on the side of the Compuware Building downtown. Completed on Friday, the mural has r...

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LOOK: You Can Own Berry Gordy’s ‘Motown Mansion’ For A Smooth $1.295M

Berry Gordy’s Detroit home, named the ‘Motown Mansion’, just entered the real estate market, and if you have $1,295,000 (or close to it) lying around, you can own it. The mansion is located at 918 West Boston Boulevard in Detroit and sits on 2.2 acres of prime property in the historic Boston-Edison neighborhood. Gordy’s home lives up to the sophisticated images that the word ‘mansion’ evokes. Nels Michelson built the 10-bedroom, nine bathroom house in 1917. Measuring 10,500 s...

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Small Pop Up Shops From Detroit Make A Big Entrance At Mackinac

To use the parlance of today’s teens, Detroit’s small businesses knew how to bring it to the Mackinac Policy Conference. They brought pins. They brought literature. They brought pin-up girls dressed in patriotic garb who passed out the pins and literature. It was a greeting like no other. The brains behind it all? The marketing maverick known as Rachel Lutz, who is bringing her Peacock Room and its friends to Mackinac Island. Want to know how to get noticed in the best possible way among all...

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Current Road Funding Plan "Not Enough" Says Westland Mayor: Is It Time For A Regional Approach?

Roads are a contentious issue in Michigan. Although it looks like the Michigan Legislature is on its way to allocating some money for road maintenance and improvements ($400 million in this current budget) it’s nowhere near the $1.2 billion-plus experts say is going to be needed to truly take care of Michigan’s roads on an annual basis. Westland Mayor Bill Wild thinks that the various mayors of the Detroit region should have a seat at the table. According to the current the road funding formul...

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Detroit Survived Prohibition, Detroit Can Survive Today

Mickey Lyons has been crawling through all of the hidden Detroit speakeasies that survived Prohibition as a bartender and as a writer. Every Tuesday I travel to Nancy Whiskey’s to hunker down with the Daily Detroit team to write stories, eat, and drink… whiskey. I’ve known that I wanted to write this story for a while, but when Mickey emailed me last Tuesday to let me know she would be bartending at Nancy Whiskey’s the same day and time that I would be there, I knew there must be something t...

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Mackinac 2015 Kicking Off: Roads, Race, Talent, Transit, and D-Insurance, Oh My

Good morning from the Blogger Zone at the Grand Hotel. When it comes to the Mackinac Policy Conference, we’re going to focus on a few key areas. Although there are three official pillars of the conference – Talent, Urban Revitalization and Cohesion – we’re looking for stories that are a little more focused. Here are the five things we’re looking to cover – but over the next few days, almost anything can happen. Roads It’s the predominant conversation up here that’s not on the agenda. Ju...

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Grand Prix Street Fest Offers Free Glimpse Of Grand Prix Weekend, Including Slow Roll Appearance

Grand Prix fans will get a free taste of this weekend’s Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix in downtown Detroit tomorrow evening. (Wednesday, May 27). The Quicken Loans Grand Prix Street Fest powered by Chevrolet will take place at Campus Martius from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. There is no admission cost, and fans of all ages are encouraged to join the festivities. Drivers competing in the Grand Prix will be present to sign autographs and meet fans. Drivers expected at the Street Fest include:...

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Make Your Move To One Of These 5 Breakfast Spots For Movement Weekend

This weekend is the annual Movement Festival hosted at the Hart Plaza. Although enjoying the action on stage is the essential point of the weekend, it is great to have a list of places to get your day started right with some of the best breakfast spots in Detroit that are nearby. In no particular order, I have arranged a list of some locations to consider while you are here in Detroit for the weekend. The fifth option is a special highlight incorporating breakfast and a party to help bridge th...

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QUICK TIP: Shepard Fairey Opens Exhibit At Library Street Collective Tonight

Prestigious cities to art, Washington D.C., London, England, New York City, and Los Angeles house work by one of today’s most influential street artists, Shepard Fairey. Detroit is now one of those artful cities added to his list. Along with the largely talked about mural on the back of the Compuware Building that is now complete, an exhibition at Library Street Collective called PRINTED MATTERS: Creation & Destruction features his latest collection opens tonight at 6 p.m. Fairey is return...

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VID, PICS: Belle Isle Bridge Aglow With New LED Lights

Thanks to a $50,000 donation by Platinum Equity (owned by Tom Gores who is known locally for owning the Detroit Pistons), more than 300 new bulbs were replaced on the Belle Isle Bridge with LED lights as well as the large lagoon by the Scott Fountain, just in time for the Fireworks and the Grand Prix. The results are stunning. They shot a video which we embedded above, but also we hit the bridge after dark to get some close-ups and different views, and we’ve included them below. The bridge t...

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Things To Do In Detroit: Your City 5 For The Weekend Of May 22-24

Not heading up north? Detroit has everything you need for a Memorial Day weekend staycation, even if you’re not into the beats of Movement. This weekend has everyone in jitters already, the anticipation is high and the beats are steadily coming into audible range. It’s our duty to prep you on all the occasions happening on the outside of the Hart Plaza, as we’ve devoted plenty of articles to what’s going on inside (don’t forget to check out the local acts here and here if you’re going). Enjoy th...

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River Ferry Service Returns To Belle Isle For Grand Prix

If you’ve ever wanted to take a ferry to Belle Isle on the Detroit river, here’s your chance for a picturesque and fun ride before seeing the fast-paced action of the Grand Prix. The Detroit/ Wayne County Port Authority and the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix will have ferry service return to and from Belle Isle State Park for the 2015 Grand Prix, May 29 to May 31. “We are extremely excited to bring the ferry back this year,” said John Loftus, Executive Director of the Detroit/Wayne...

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Mayor Duggan Doubles Down On Chief Craig With Two Year Contract

Chief James Craig has been generally well received in Detroit, and Mayor Mike Duggan this morning rewarded Police Chief James Craig with a two year contract extension, keeping the Chief on until at least the middle of 2017. The announcement was made this morning at the Detroit Public Safety Headquarters. Chief James Craig was appointed in 2013 by Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, but today, Craig clearly signaled he plans to remain Detroit’s top cop for the remainder of his law enforcement career....

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