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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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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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Have A 3D Printer? You Can Help A Child Get A Hand This Spring

What if you couldn’t pick up that coffee you’re drinking while reading this post? Technology has made some amazing advances. Three dimensional printing technology is something that’s revolutionizing manufacturing, and providing and opportunity for more people to make things themselves. One of those opportunities will be at an event called Penguicon April 24-26 at the Westin Hotel in Southfield. Here’s a little background, for the uninitiated. Penguicon isn’t your average convention like you’...

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Meet The Wise Olayami Dabls And Visit His Incredible African Bead Museum

Olayami Dabls’ speech is concentrated in profound intelligence. And his voice is as powerful as his collection of beads and African art, largely collected from the bead people of Mali, West Africa. Through both mediums, he tells a story about sincerity guiding Detroit’s newer qualities, and the remarkable cornerstone for African culture, MBAD African Bead Museum. Dabls is owner and museum curator of MBAD African Bead Museum. He moved to Detroit with his parents from Mississippi because of the...

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Your Detroit Reading List For March 22, 2015

Here are 5 stories you don’t want to miss about Detroit. How Detroit Became a Maker Hotspot (Yahoo) Yahoo highlights a few of those that are part of the maker movement here in Detroit. Here’s a quote from the owners of Douglas & Co. (who we profiled earlier here). “Many people abandoned this city and ripped the ground out from under it. Those who remained are passion-driven people–artists, creators, and crafters who use their pleasures as a vehicle for business. There is such strength beh...

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WATCH: Behind The Scenes Of "Detroit Vs. Everybody" There's A Lot Of Detroit Love

It’s great to see so much talent come together for Detroit. Check out behind the scenes of the “Detroit vs. Everybody” music video that took fire online recently. It’s interesting to listen to the director and the artists involved and hear their love for the city – and portraying the city as it actually is. A couple of interesting quotes: “We felt like this was a good time for us to have that unified front and show the world that unity that Detroit has been missing. We get a bad rap as a cit...

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Etsy Partners With Build Institute, Launches Craft Entrepreneurship Program In Detroit

Detroit is known for our “Do It Yourself” route to renaissance, as well as a plethora of small businesses that have sprung up creating unique items from all corners of the city. With that in mind, the well known craft site Etsy has partnered with Build Institute, a Detroit-based organization that helps entrepreneurs create successful businesses, as part of its Etsy Craft Entrepreneurship Program.   The program offers micro-business training for underemployed and low-income creative ad...

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Detroit Gets Square On New Monopoly Here & Now Board, See It Here

The popular board game Monopoly Here & Now just got a little closer to home for Detroiters. Our city has secured a spot on the game’s board! Monopoly lovers around the world voted and named Detroit as one of the cities to grace the Monopoly Here & Now board. More than four million votes from 182 countries went through the BuzzFeed.com/VoteMonopoly website, and Detroit emerged a winner. It seems that the rest of the nation, and the world for that matter, has finally realized what Detroiters k...

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Pink Slip Party On Thursday Is The Place To Find A Job In IT

If you’re not familiar with the IT in the D Pink Slip Party events, you should be, especially if you’re looking for a job in the IT space in Metro Detroit. It’s expected that somewhere around 1,000 people will show up this Thursday at the Majestic in Midtown Detroit, including more than 150 recruiters as well as those looking to meet people in the industry and extend their professional networks. Some other things to know about this event. There’s a lot of things that are not there. There is...

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Volunteers Wanted For 2015 Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix

Help host Detroit’s annual motorsports festival and see the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix in a whole new way. The Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix is a 501(c)3 organization and a subsidiary of the Downtown Detroit Partnership. The event will help kickoff summer with three days of racing, fun, and music from May 29-31 at the Raceway at Belle Isle Park street circuit. The 2015 Grand Prix has an exciting lineup of events, including the Chevrolet Dual in Detroit with cars from the Verizon IndyCar Ser...