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Little Caesars Is Going Whole Hog With A New Bacon Crust

Bring on three and a half feet of bacon, says Detroit-based Little Caesars. They’re rolling out a new bacon-wrapped crust deep dish pizza. We included a pic above, but what is in this 8-corner pizza pie? There are two types of thick-cut bacon wrapped around a Detroit-style deep dish crust. It’s then topped with pepperoni and … you guessed it, even more bacon. This new, “limited-time” pizza is an extension of Little Caesars popular DEEP!DEEP! Dish product – an eight corner, large pizza featur...

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WATCH: Romeo And Juliet At American Coney Island

Samantha White is locally known as the producer and creator of “Shakespeare in Detroit,” and with this little number, it takes it to another level. She specializes in site-specific theatre, where the play comes to where people are at. This scene discusses the complications of a forbidden romance … over coneys. The short video above was produced for Southwest: The Magazine. It’s charming to see such costuming and language at one of Detroit’s iconic establishments. There’s a multi-page spread th...

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What Would You Want The Silverdome To Become? Owners Holding Design Contest

We’ve shared some pretty wild footage from what the inside of the currently empty Pontiac Silverdome. Today, the owners, Triple Investment Group, shared that there will a “Silverdome International Design Competition.” The competition is calling all architects, planners, students, engineers, designers and artists from around the world to participate in submitting their ideas, design, renderings, and/or original concept for the redesign of the Silverdome and its surrounding property. The deadli...

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Gilbert Buildings The New Home For Six Businesses

Bedrock Real Estate Services announced earlier this week that six new businesses have opened a total of 16,000 square feet of office space in Dan Gilbert-owned buildings. The square footages of each lease were not immediately available. * ColburnColburn, an insurance risk and management provider, opened in the 800,000 square-foot First National Building at 660 Woodward Ave. According to CoStar Group Inc., a Washington, D.C. based real estate information service, Gilbert bought the building fo...

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WATCH: The Walking Man And The Challenges Of Fame

James Robertson, the “Walking Man,” embodies the spirit of Detroit. He’s a working man who does whatever it takes to get to work on time, even if it was walking 20 miles a day. However, when the generosity of the internet hit that led to a windfall of a new car and more than $350,000, Robertson hit challenges that befall many who try to make it out of poverty. People hitting him up for money, wanting rides in the new car, and more. Match that with a recent homicide of someone who was just ru...

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Veterans’ Cybersecurity Retraining Program A Success

There are many jobs available in the Detroit area, but often there’s a gap between the skills someone has and the skills a new career requires. To help address that, the Wayne County Community College District (WCCCD), in partnership with Merit Network, the Michigan Cyber Range and Mile2, recently unveiled an innovative veterans’ retraining program. The program, which lasts 13 weeks and prepares veterans for a career in cybersecurity, is unlike any other in the country. “We are very proud of...

Mayor Duggan Appoints New Planning Director For City Of Detroit

Mayor Mike Duggan has announced Maurice Cox as Detroit’s new Planning Director. Cox comes to Detroit from Tulane City Center, where he was director, and Tulane University School of Architecture, where he served as associate dean for Community Engagement. A New York City native, Cox received his bachelor’s in architecture from Cooper Union School of Architecture and was awarded the Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He taught for Syracuse University’s Architecture...

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Detroit Is In The Top 5 For Advanced Industry Jobs In United States

Detroit is the fourth best city for “advanced industries” jobs, according to a report recently released by the Brookings Institution. Advanced industries spend a lot of money on research and development, and they have a large number of workers in science, technology, engineering, and math-oriented roles. Not surprisingly, San Jose, the center of Silicon Valley, topped the list at 30% of advanced industry jobs per capita. Seattle, home to Microsoft and Boeing, came in second. Both of these ci...

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QUICK TIP: Slow's BBQ Takes Chili Cheese Fries To Another Level

Let’s be real. We don’t blog about Slow’s BBQ often because we pretty much assume to you it’s common knowledge. However, when we discover something a little off the beaten path on the menu we need to share it. Candidly, when we first saw this on the menu we thought “really? You’ve gotta be kidding me. At Slow’s?” Our initial trepidation was misplaced. We ordered the Chili Cheese Waffle Fries, and we were kind of blown away. So much so we’re blogging this from our iThing while sitting at the...

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5 Reasons Detroit Is Not The New Brooklyn

It’s fun to say things like “Detroit is the New Brooklyn,” or Berlin, or Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or even Cleveland. It’s true that many of these places have transformed in a way similar to the way some would like to see Detroit transform. However, it’s fairly uncritical to assume that Detroit is “just like” Brooklyn was in the 90’s, or just like Berlin was in the 80’s. It’s like comparing an apple to a potato. I do believe Detroit will transform, but also believe that Detroit is Detroit. The...

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M-1 Rail Releases Renderings for the New Penske Tech Center

The corner of Bethune and Custer off of Woodward is about to get a whole lot busier. M-1 RAIL, the 3.3 mile-long streetcar project under construction in downtown Detroit, has released conceptual renderings of the nearly 19,000 square feet Penske Tech Center facility, where the streetcar’s technology systems, vehicles and operations team will be based. Paul Childs, Chief Operation Officer of the project, said in a statement that community input for the new tech center included five recommenda...

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Retro Gaming Alive And Well In The D At Offworld Arcade

We all know that Detroit comes with a lot of history, but it’s not every day that history comes to Detroit. Launched with only six classic home video gaming consoles and a small garage space, Don Behm started Offworld Arcade exactly one year prior to this February. The arcade is now made up of a multitude of old school video gaming consoles, all restored by Behm in the comfort of his own home. It started with a memory of a formerly owned game, Galaga. Behm purchased the game thinking it would...

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WATCH: A Wild Look Inside The Decrepit Pontiac Silverdome

It used to hold 80,000 people. Now, it’s empty. The Silverdome (located in Pontiac, a suburb of Detroit and the county seat of Oakland County) has been quiet for awhile. The deterioration of the building and the roof created a situation where the roof collapsed in 2012 and the elements started getting in. There hasn’t been a Lions game played here for more than a decade. The stadium is owned by Triple Group Properties (Andreas Apostolopoulos) who also owns Detroit’s iconic Penobscot building...

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Nelson Mandela Tribute At Art In Motion

Nelson Mandela visited Detroit in June of 1990 shortly after leaving prison and before his election as South Africa’s president. His presence impacted our city with such reverence that Detroit renamed Atwater Street to “Nelson Mandela Drive.” This past weekend, I met Ida Hawkins. She’s a New York born artist, nestled on Livernois in Detroit – very alive to what people need to see visually. Now a little over a year after Mandela’s passing, Hawkins, too, desired to continue to honor his life. At...

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Your City 5 Things To Do In Detroit For The Weekend of Feb. 13 -15

Valentine’s Day weekend is here and many Detroiters will be finding a way to impress their loved ones, and many others will be just out there trying to have a good time and keep sane while temperatures continue to plummet. It’s not like we’re seeing the light at the end of the tunnel weather-wise, but also not like we aren’t used to it at this point. Here’s a smattering of events for your City 5 this week that should have a little something to keep everybody happy. Kisses. Friday – Academy Aw...

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These High School Kids Are Truly Gems Of Detroit

I first met kids from Detroit Cristo Rey High School three years ago when I visited the school. I wanted to learn more about this Catholic co-ed school that provides college preparatory education to students from economically disadvantaged families in Detroit. The average family income of Detroit Cristo Rey students is less than $30,000. I had a great time that day. The kids were fun, smart and great to be around. Then, I had an opportunity to work with them as part of the school’s work-study...

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A Day Of Kindness In Detroit On February 17

On Tuesday, February 17th, team members of KIND, the company behind the popular line of health-conscious snacks, will perform 24 random acts of kindness across the Metro Detroit area. They will begin the day at 8 a.m. at the Rosa Parks Transit Station, where they will hand out hats and gloves to commuters waiting for the bus. Afterwards, the KIND team will head over to Starbucks and Biggby Coffee locations to warm up and buy everyone in line a cup of coffee. Around lunchtime, the group will...

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Two Detroit-Based Businesses Win $100,000 From NEI

Detroit’s J & G Pallets and Trucking and Highland Park’s Sherwood Prototype will each receive $100,000 awards to grow their businesses. Both companies were small business winners of the $100K Challenge for the first-ever NEIdeas: Rewarding Ideas for Business Growth. New Economy Initiative (NEI), a special project of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, hosted the challenge. Since the NEIdeas Challenge inception in May 2014, NEI has awarded more than $500,000 to 36 existing small...

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