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OPINION: You Don’t Know $%^& About Shinola - It’s The Beginning Of Fashion Manufacturing In Detroit

If there is one thing I’ve learned in my lifetime, it’s that you can’t please everyone. And based on the comments generated from online news stories, there are some people who will never be pleased. I like to think that a proper education would help to enlighten some of these commenters, who would come to see the one-sidedness of their pissy remarks, but if you’ve ever read any of those comment threads, you know as well as I do that trying to change someone’s one-sided thinking just leads to...

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10 Unbelievable And Cool Facts About Detroit

Detroit is best known for cars and Motown, but that’s not all the city’s given the world. Detroit’s past is peppered with plenty of firsts and great innovations, proving there is more to the city than meets the eye. Take a look at these Detroit facts, and you’ll see Detroit in an entirely new light. Can I have your number? You can thank Detroit for your private phone number. Though the ability to have a private number existed in the late 1800s, they weren’t as popular as party lines. Det...

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Manufactured In Detroit: Meet The New Handmade Leather Goods Maker Douglas & Co.

It’s a sense of pride. A feeling of triumph. A shared dream for all to see and to celebrate. There’s something about the stamp of hand-made in Detroit that develops a product into more than just a material good … it’s a craft made to signify a city that’s proudly united. And that’s exactly what Shane and Melissa Douglas wanted to share with the launch of their new handmade leather goods company: Douglas & Co. With the introduction of many local handmade enterprises to the Detroit area, handcra...

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Detroit's New Record Man Andrey Douthard Finds The Groove With Paramita Sound

Andrey Douthard had a vision of starting a record store and label. At 28, he’s another one of the Detroit-epreneurs that is trying to make something go in a city where it’s not always the easiest. We caught up with him at their opening, and this is that interview with minor edits for clarity. Daily Detroit: How long has Paramita sound been in the making? I started the project back in January. I work at the D:Hive; it’s one of my jobs. I went through the D:Hive Build program. This is like pos...

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Tasteless Tweet: No, Not "Everyone Enjoys A Good Race Riot"

Race in Detroit is a very touchy topic. After all, we’ve had a series of events over the history of our city and region where race has become a flashpoint, and lives and property were destroyed. That’s why when a tipster sent us this tweet, we were kind of appalled. @SocialInDetroit is one of Detroit’s larger Twitter accounts with nearly 22,500 followers, and although we kind of feel their feed is more noise than signal, this stuck out. The eyes of the world are on #Ferguson … everyone enjoy...

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Detroit Takes A First Step Toward City-Sponsored Car Insurance

Anyone who lives in the D knows that car insurance rates are higher than the surrounding suburbs (over and above the State of Michigan being one of the most expensive states in the nation for auto insurance and Metro Detroiters paying 165% more than the national average). One way to help out Detroiters (and make it more attractive to live in the city) is to bring down the cost of auto insurance. This was talked about in various speeches by Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan during the election, but unt...

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Gilbert Buys Compuware Building, Meridian Health To Move In

It’s been rumored for awhile, and now it’s finally happened. Dan Gilbert has purchased the Compuware building, a structure that helped kick off the recent wave of revival in downtown Detroit. Built on land purchased from the city for $1, The 15 story Compuware building opened in 2003. It is said to have sold for $150 million, although there has been no official confirmation of the price. “The Compuware Building has served as the nucleus for 21st century Detroit for more than a decade thanks...

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Don't Like The Change Coming To Detroit? Get Involved

“The city needs the suburbs…and, like it or not…the suburbs need the city.” – Me, almost four years ago Before I even clicked “publish” on this one, I knew people are going to get upset about it. Don’t care. Just like every Don’t Be That Guy article we over at IT in the D ever published or ever will publish, if you get upset about it … good.  However, make sure you’re getting angry for the right reasons, and read The Cracker Barrel Conundrum before you fire off any reply or commentary....

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WATCH: Charlie LeDuff Dons A Bathrobe And Squats On A Squatter

Charlie LeDuff’s series on Fox News called “The Americans” takes him around the country in search of who we really are. He talks to interesting people and gets into interesting situations. His latest episode brings him back to Detroit, where he follows up on a story of a known squatter who refuses to leave the home where they are currently residing. LeDuff, in his usual charismatic fashion dons a bathrobe and goes to the home with the legal paperwork in hand, ready to move in on the squatter,...

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Local Band Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas To Make National TV Debut On Letterman Tonight

When we saw them at a little festival on the grounds of Fort Wayne last year, we knew they had something. Many who’ve been around the Detroit music scene for awhile may know of Jessica Hernandez and the Deltas, who has a high-energy, eclectic sound that’s unmistakable. We’ve included a sample below of the Detroit area native from a show at the Magic Bag. The band came together in 2008 and their first EP was in 2009. It’s good to see a local group get some play on the national stage, and one th...

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"It Is Your City" - Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes' Conclusion Is A Letter To Detroiters

This week Detroit emerged from a historic bankruptcy in a time period shorter than many expected. It required a large amount of cooperation from everyone involved to get it through, and the Detroit Free Press has a long, inside look at the events that happened during the ordeal. At the end of the plan of adjustment, Judge Steven Rhodes wrote what amounts to a letter to Detroiters looking back at a turbulent time in the history of Detroit. We’ve included it below. “We have talked a lot in this...

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Batman and Superman are Great, But Detroit Has Its Own Superheroes That Need Your Help

Batman and Superman have been seen around Detroit many times over the past year, thanks to magic of movie making. The film, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, stars Ben Affleck as Batman and Henry Cavill as Superman and you can often catch the stars around Detroit. Both stars have said terrific things about the city and the can-do spirit of its people. That can-do spirit shows up in Detroit’s own superheroes, the city’s first responders. As Christopher Reeve, who also starred as Superman in...

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WATCH: Usher Surprises Fans During His Visit To The D

It’s like Dan Gilbert decided he was going to be an MTV host for a day. And he doesn’t do too bad of a job of it, either. Usher as you may have heard was bouncing around Detroit, and he stopped through Quicken Loans. Some of our friends who work over there couldn’t stop gushing about how cool it was, so when we saw this video, we figured we’d share it with you all. The background is the QL folks were giving away VIP tickets but obviously Gilbert decided to throw in a bonus....

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Dear L. Brooks Patterson: It's 2014, Not 1994

From reports online and conversations we’ve had with some of our contributors, we had to groan when we talked about what happened yesterday in Oakland County at the launch of tech248, an initiative designed by Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson to accelerate the tech industry in Oakland County … and even more so at Patterson’s words. It’s known that Patterson has a track record of being all for Oakland County. However, we found a bit of irony in the line.. “I’ll fight to keep you (...

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Six Michigan Women-Owned Businesses Share In $50,000 Entrepeneur-YOU Prize

Who couldn’t use a portion of $50,000 for their business? Six Michigan woman-owned businesses got a boost recently at the third Entrepreneur-YOU Business Plan and Pitch Competition at Walsh College. The competition is a collaboration between Walsh College, the Michigan Women’s Foundation and Inforum Michigan. The aim of Entrepreneur-YOU is that it is women helping women launch and grow businesses. There were two categories for the competition, lifestyle and growth, and the participants were...

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QUICK LOOK: Progress At The Former Salvation Army Building

As part of a larger plan to make improvements on and around its campus, DTE Energy has been at work sprucing up the former Salvation Army building on Bagley. It’s directly across from DTE Headquarters, and although it needed some repairs when it was purchased, it structurally was sound. It was bought a couple of years ago for an undisclosed purchase price. We ran across the structure today and snapped some photos of the art-deco-ish structure. There are also LED lights at night that accent the...

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Go Vote On Tuesday! (Plus 10 Terrible Reasons Not To Vote)

Detroit (and we’ll use the most inclusive form of that for the purposes of this post) is kind of at a crossroads. And you should be involved. According to what the Facebook and our analytics tells us, as well as who we run into at places like My Dad’s Bar (HI! Really appreciated that random hug from someone who reads us while we were out the other night) our audience is overwhelmingly from the ages of 25-35, and our core team that is Daily Detroit is right there with you (and yes, we have some o...

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ESSAY: Why Everyone Should Experience Startup Weekend Detroit

Startup Weekend is like no other event or competition. It compresses many of the key aspects of a startup into 2.5 days. You pitch an idea, lobby for that idea, recruit or join a team, validate your idea, talk to potential customers, build your technology, and at the end of it all, present what you’ve accomplished. Here’s an account of how Startup Weekend Detroit 2013 went for me: First Night, Friday: Pitching gives you the chance to express an idea in 60 seconds. Everyone should pitch an...