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Snow Crazy: Naked Cowboy on I-75 (and more)

The second this video started playing we thought, “this should be set to ‘Cowboy’ by Kid Rock. This intrepid naked snow cowboy was on I-75 by Auburn Hills. He apparently suffered from Excited Delirium Syndrome, which can effect those with a history of using stimulants and apparently there were a lot more calls like this, police say, before bath salts and the like were banned. But this isn’t the first naked guy this winter, either. There was one in Madison Heights by 12 Mile road a couple of...

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LISTEN: Daily Detroit Appeared on CBS Detroit's Mark S. Lee Show

Mark S. Lee has a weekly radio spot on WXYT AM 1270 on Sunday mornings called Small Talk on which he interviews small business owners and prominent local figures. Mark is a local entreprenuer, educator and small business expert. Last week he invited us on the show to talk about Daily Detroit and what’s going on in the city. The audio player is at the bottom of the image above. During our segment, which begins at the 30 minute mark, Editor Patrick McNamara talks with Mark about how Daily Detroi...

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He Walks 21 Miles To Work Every Day. Let's Get Him A Ride.

Imagine if you had to walk to work today in this snow. No matter the weather conditions, that’s James Robertson’s reality. Robertson was written about in the Detroit Free Press because he walks 21 miles a day in his commute from Detroit to his job in the suburbs. He is a hard worker who exemplifies the true grit and resiliency of Detroiters. Also, he lives in a city with a broken transit system and needs a car in order to get around. Read his story and help him get a vehicle by contributing...

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This Story Shows Why Mass Transit in Detroit Is A Hand Up, Not A Handout

We feel compelled to highlight this story that appeared in the Free Press about James Robertson. He is a 56 year old man that walks 21 miles each day in his roundtrip commute from Detroit to his job in Rochester Hills. The story really illustrates the amount of work it can take to get to a job without a car in Metro Detroit. It also shows how mass transit (buses, light rail, all of that) isn’t simply a handout or only something that “the hipsters” will use. Functional mass transit can be a rea...

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Why Google Fiber Should Come to Detroit

Last week there was an announcement that Google Fiber was going to roll out to four new cities. Those are Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham, all part of an expanding tech corridor in the south. However, very obviously missing from the map is the entire Midwest, including Detroit. With self-described speeds up to 100x the speed of the average broadband connection in the United States, any cities who get this service are at an economic and educational advantage in a variety of way...

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Here's Your Detroit Reading List for February 1, 2015

Good morning! Hope you’re staying out of the crazy wind and snow out there. Here are five stories we found interesting around the web this week about Detroit, posts that are either interesting, in-depth, or noteworthy in other ways. We’ve had a reading list before, but we thought we’d touch it up a little bit and hopefully make it more useful. If you have an article you think should be featured, send it in on our submission form, Twitter @TheDailyDetroit or on Facebook. Whatever works for you....

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Get Down With Sister Pie at the Hippest Dancebreak-a-thon in Detroit

Sister Pie has entered the final stretch in its goal to open a complete bakery in Detroit’s West Village, and you can celebrate with them as they throw the hippest dance party fundraiser Detroit’s ever seen. To count down to this awesome party, Sister Pie (which we’ve written about before) is giving supporters the opportunity to crowdfund its expansion on Indiegogo. The opportunity to support Sister Pie won’t last long. The campaign ends on February 7, so if you want to contribute, now’s the t...

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Can Michigan Central Station Be Brought Back? Yes It Can, Kansas City Already Figured It Out (PICS)

If there is any doubt that the Michigan Central Station can be brought back to life, here lies an example of a city that’s already made something like that happen. There is another Beaux Arts train station in Kansas City, Missouri that has made a comeback as a multi-use entertainment complex with shopping, movie theaters, traveling Smithsonian exhibits, a science museum, bike sharing rentals AND a working Amtrak stop that handled more than 160,000 passengers last year. It’s like every place-ma...

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Many Detroiters To See Their Property Taxes Decrease

When Detroit homeowners receive their annual Notice of Property Assessment, due to be mailed next week, most will see a reduction in the assessed values of their homes. The reappraisals come after a review conducted by Chief Assessor Gary Evanko that showed most of the homes in the city were over assessed by 10 to 20 percent. Accordingly, about three-quarters of the city will see reductions of 10-20 percent, and one-quarter of homeowners will see a reduction of five percent or less. However, h...

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WATCH: Detroit Auto Show Prankster Freaks Everyone One Out

This Youtube prankster got reactions that were priceless this year at the auto show. Whether it was the many product specialists or even WJR radio personality and morning show Paul W. Smith, YouTuber Dennis Roady, who gets to call his full-time career a “YouTube prankster” used an app called “Dude, your car!” which lets you take photos and then make it look like your car got dented, scratched … or even set on fire. Check out the hijinks and hilarity above. Oh, if you want the app for yourself,...

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10 Awesome Movies Filmed In Metro Detroit

Watching movies is a great way to relax after a long day at work or a way to pass the time when the weather is bad, but did you know that the futuristic location in the sci-fi movie you’re about to watch may not be as far away as you think? Detroit has served as a filming location for many movies, even if you haven’t recognized some of the landmarks on the screen. The movie industry has a way of disguising real filming locations until they’re almost unrecognizable, even to the people who pass th...

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Become A Detroit Revitalization Fellow And Help Detroit's Turnaround

If you’re looking for a way to get involved in turning around Detroit, this might be your ticket. Detroit Revitalization Fellows is accepting applications for its 2015-17 fellowship from Jan. 26 to Feb. 20. The program is part of Wayne State University’s Office of Economic Development and offers talented mid-career leaders the chance to stimulate Detroit’s economic, civic, and community development. Accepted fellows serve in full time salaried positions for two years and they participate in...

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WATCH: These Trick Kicks Are Sick By Former Detroit Lion

After watching this video, you wonder if the Lions should of cut this guy. Havard Rugland, also known as “Kickalicious,” has returned with another cool trick-kick video. Rugland played for Lions during the preseason in 2013. He was cut by the team after the decided to keep veteran place kicker David Akers, who is no longer with the team. The video has footage from a road trip in Norway that provides a stunning backdrop and was sponsored by Pepsi Max. On of our favorites is kicking from the s...

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Dine Like You're Gatsby At Antietam

Eating at an excellent restaurant should feel like a few hours at an amazing destination. Eating at Antietam, one of the latest additions to Detroit’s fine dining scene, feels like escaping to Paris in 1925, when Fitzgerald and Hemingway first met in the Dingo Bar. Antietam serves French-influenced dishes and plays big jazzy melodies inside a restored Art Deco building where you will find subtle hints to Detroit’s past. The building still has the original ornate tin ceiling and rose compass...

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Your City 5 List Of Things To Do For The Weekend of Jan 30th - Feb 1st

Well, the Superbowl is here again and will certainly be a dominating force in the plan-making calculations of Metro Detroiters this weekend. Everybody loves friends, football, and snacks (or at least two out of the three). We are Americans after all. But gameday isn’t until Sunday, and the next weekend is a whole week away. So in order to maximize your fun this weekend, Daily Detroit has compiled a list of events that’ll keep you busy. Here’s your City 5 for this week… Friday – Boombox at the...

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PHOTOS: Starting At $1.2 Million, You Could Buy This Decadent Building

The Banker’s Trust building in the Central Business District of Detroit has an amazing facade. Having housed various restaurants and nightclubs downstairs (we remember the Congress lounge) and also offices above, this little gem has one of the most appealing exteriors in the midwest. We snapped a few pictures of this beauty that’s going on the auction block on March 2 for a starting price of $1.2 million. The facade is made of terra cotta, and as it was originally a bank, the details rein...

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Lions QB Matthew Stafford, S.A.Y. DETROIT And City To Re-Activate Abandoned Rec Center

Although what’s happening downtown is great, it’s important the other neighborhoods in Detroit get attention, too. To that end, S.A.Y. Detroit, in partnership with the City of Detroit, and Score7 Charitable Fund (Matthew Stafford’s Charitable Foundation), have revealed plans for a new Academics and Sports Program, called the S.A.Y. Detroit Play Center (Sports, Academics, Youth) reclaiming a recreation center in Lipke Park that was closed in 2014 due to city budget cuts. Located on a little mor...

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BOOK SNEAK PEEK: The Ford-Wyoming Drive-In, "My Favorite Place On Earth"

If there’s something that’s almost inextricably tied to car culture, it’s the drive-in movie theatre. Detroit, being an epicenter of that, had some of the most amazing ones. Today, it’s the Ford-Wyoming in Dearborn that still stands. Having just finished this book by Karen Dybis (you may have seen her byline before with the Detroit News or DetroitUnspun), instead of going through some sort of in-depth review, we asked if she’d share a sample chapter of her creation “Ford Wyoming Drive-in: Cars...

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