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Map Shows The Detroit Tigers Own The Hearts Of Almost All Of Michigan

We all know that Metro Detroiters love the Tigers, but really, it’s practically the whole state that has a passion for the team. The 2015 edition of an annual map released by Facebook through their Sports on Facebook page highlights, via the number of Facebook “likes,” where the various Major League Baseball teams dominate divided by county in the United States and census divisions in Canada. There is sad news for New York Mets, Oakland Athletics and Toronto Blue Jays fans as there are no U....

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A Story Behind The Scenes Of Buying A Skyscraper And Keeping A Company In Downtown Detroit

One of the things we thought most interesting during the press event was the anecdote Mayor Mike Duggan shared about the behind-the-scenes story on keeping Ally Financial (formerly GMAC) in the city, consolidating their 1,500 person workforce and moving along a deal to purchase a skyscraper with nearly a million square feet in it. We transcribed it and edited very lightly to let the story speak for itself. It’s an illuminating little look that isn’t going to get printed most places, not to men...

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Rock City Eatery Rocks Out The Flavors

Rock City has grunge rock appeal with its mismatched furniture, dim lighting, and unfinished walls decorated with pop culture pictures. Each table has mason jars of stainless steel utensils, chopsticks, clipboards for the menus, and a child-sized blackboard with the specials written in neon chalk. Even during the sludgy gloom of a Detroit winter, the Eatery still managed to fill seats on a Tuesday. Nikita Sanches started selling his crazy flavored pies (as Rock City Pies) at Ferndale’...

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Ally Financial Switches Plans, Decides To Consolidate Downtown; Gilbert Buys One Detroit Center

Real estate magnate and Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert expanded his portfolio to some 70 properties today with the purchase of 43 story, 957,000 square foot One Detroit Center. The purchase price was more than $100 million for Detroit’s third largest office building and the adjoining garage, however, an exact number wasn’t shared. But that wasn’t all. It had been talked about in the media that Ally Financial, formerly the credit arm of General Motors, was going to move to Southfield, but...

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Detroit's Own PixelPrint Makes Social Media More Tangible And Fun

As much as we like bits and bytes, the Internet is, well, bits and bytes. Often, people long for the physical – something you can stick in a scrapbook, share with friends, or keep as a momento that you don’t have to plug in and charge up to enjoy. PixelPrint, a startup based in Detroit’s Grand Circus co-working space, is a deceptively simple proposition in that it’s basically the next generation of the photo booth. Founder Nev Muftari has been at it almost two years, and finding traction wit...

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Hamtramck's Yemen Cafe Transports Your Tastebuds

Yemen Cafe is a small place tucked into a low-rise building on South Jos. Campau in Hamtramck. Across the street is a mural of women in hijabs and burkas. Next to that is the New Dodge Lounge, a gritty but tasteful dive bar where drinkers young and old come to enjoy live music. Hamtramck is a two square mile “island city” (or enclave) surrounded by Detroit on three sides and also sharing a border with Highland Park (also an enclave). It is home to a vast array of cultures packed into a small a...

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Here's The Inside Lane On Metropolis Cycles, Detroit's New Bike Shop Opening In April

Bicycling in Detroit is getting bigger by the day. The city known for putting the world on four wheels has more and more people every day choosing to explore it (or commute in it) on two. To help serve that need, there’s a new bike shop called Metropolis opening up in Detroit’s burgeoning Corktown neighborhood. It will be right across the street from Slow’s BBQ, Gold Cash Gold, and on the same block as Mercury Burger Bar. The shop will be no small endeavor. We caught up with proprietor Shayn...

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Verlander Delivers An Epic Surprise To Young Fan Wearing His Jersey

Love having my fans support!! This little guy was pretty surprised when he turned around. A photo posted by Justin Verlander (@justinverlander) on Mar 27, 2015 at 6:53am PDT Sometimes, there are magic moments, and this sure looks like one of them. Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander was in a local Starbucks when he noticed a young fan wearing a shirsey (shirt with jersey lettering) that said “Verlander” on the back – and this might be one of the epic selfies of Detroit spor...

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Watch Some Clueless Californians Try To Decode Michigan Slang

Who knew not everyone knew what a Party Store is? The Californians are back thanks to Movoto (we highlighted an earlier video about Michigan food) and since everyone enjoyed it so much we thought we’d share some of their foibles yet again. After all, what do Californians understand about Michigan? Some of the words aren’t necessarily for city folk. Such as Fudgies – they’re thinking those are something like daisy duke jeans. They talk Two Trackers, Chukes, Door Walls, and Hi-Lows. Are the...

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New Infographic Outlines The Rise And Fall Of The Auto Industry In Detroit

The auto industry and Detroit are tightly tied together from a mental perspective for most Americans. There is no doubt that the auto industry still provides a lot of jobs in the region also, although 95 percent of them are outside of the city of Detroit. Most people do not realize that the city itself has only one factory within the city limits now, and two if you count GM’s in the enclave of Hamtramck. Although sales are stronger amongst the automakers today, and that’s good news, it’s been...

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Your City 5 For The Weekend Of March 27, 28 & 29

Warmer climes making you feel like hitting the dance floor and getting mega? Maybe you’d like to get into the DIY community and find out what ideas are brewing to help Detroit become a better place to live. Furthermore, you might want to get on a bike with thousands of other people and meander around the city. Heck, you could even bring your Grandma down to Eastern Market to see what’s up. There’s a lot of cool stuff going on in Detroit this weekend. It was hard to pare it down to five, but here...

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Mayor Mike Duggan (Along With Kevyn Orr) Named One Of The "World's Greatest Leaders"

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and former Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr share some pretty lofty company, including Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, Mark Zuckerberg the Founder of Facebook, and the Pope on this one … being named one of the 50 World’s Greatest Leaders by Fortune Magazine. It’s interesting to note as Duggan is the only official who works in government in the United States on the list. Not a single Senator, Governor, House member, or anyone else for that matter who received a vote by the citizen...

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Take A Gander At These 10 Great Google Views Of Michigan

Several of Michigan’s most iconic landmarks and scenes are finally on Street View in Google Maps, thanks to a partnership between Pure Michigan and Google. Pure Michigan members and volunteers took more than 44,000 panoramic photos with the Google Street View Trekker, a backpack-like system that has a camera mounted on top of it. We’ve gone through the Google views and selected 10 of the most breathtaking places to explore in Michigan that you can now enjoy from the comfort of your home, right...

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5 More Mouthwatering Detroit Sandwiches You Need To Try

Come lunchtime, we are always on a sandwich quest. Luckily, we’re fortunate because Detroit has a lot of great sandwich joints to choose from. It’s all about the fresh bread, high quality toppings, and a little bit of vegetables to give it some crunch. Can’t forget the pickle and better made chips on the side. Our last list of 5 sandwiches covered some of the essential stops around the city. Here’s another round of 5 mouthwatering sandwiches in no particular order that you need to find and check...

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New 12,000 Square Foot CrossFit Gym To Open Downtown

Another place get your fitness program going is appearing downtown. This time, on the ground level of the garage next to the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel, and it’s for those who like a little bit more of an intense workout. “CrossFit in the D” is opening up on Michigan Avenue, in a newer building from 2008 across from the dual coney islands of American and Lafayette, and practically around the corner of Anytime Fitness on Griswold. CrossFit in the D is part of XLR8 Athletix, which already has lo...

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Phase 2 Of Movement Artists Released, Here's Info On Pre-Party This Weekend

The Detroit Movement Electronic Dance Festival has announced the second phase of its lineup, and its nothing short of amazing. As the festival has gone for the past ten years, Movement wildly celebrates the electronic genre that calls Detroit home. With a diverse lineup of up-and-comers, genre outliers and music legends, a top quality compilation of house, techno and hip-hop is sure to yet again blow the minds of open-minded vibers from across the country. Joining the pre-set lineup of DJ Sn...

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Detroit To Offer 0% Interest Home Repair Loans To Residents

If you drive around the streets of Detroit, it’s pretty much inevitable that you’re going to see a home that could use repair. Often, the reality is traditional lenders such as banks do not make funds available inside America’s inner cities (for instance, less than 400 mortgages were written within the 139 square miles of the City of Detroit last year). So, Detroit is trying to fix its own problem – access to capital. One way to do this is through no interest loans to city residents. On the ne...

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Job Fairs Starting This Week Give Detroiters Opportunity To Get Work At New Arena Development

Want to work on the new District Detroit complex, where the Detroit Red Wings will be playing (as well as additional housing and retail)? Here’s where to go. A series of District Detroit job fairs will be held at various locations in Detroit neighborhoods from March 26 to May 14. All sessions will run from 9am-3pm. The complete schedule is available below: * Thursday, March 26: Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren * Wednesday, April 1: Greater Grace Temple, 2...

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