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Cinema Detroit Needs Your Help To Bring Great Film To Motown

Cinema Detroit, who are in the process of moving from their current home to their new location at 4126 Third Street, have been the primary source for first-run, quality film in Midtown and Downtown Detroit for nearly two years. However, in order to keep providing a high quality entertainment experience patrons have come to love, the theater is reaching out to the community for support. As it turns out, when film studios send digital versions of films to the theater, they have a security encr...

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FIRST LOOK: Detroit Clothing Circle Offers Unique And Affordable Threads

Midtown Detroit received a fresh dose of high quality shopping Tuesday, as The Detroit Clothing Circle has finally opened its doors. Located at 3980 Second Avenue, the chic boutique features a myriad of hand picked wares that are both style savvy and surprisingly affordable. Owner and curator Michael Dedenbach sources the gear from about 20-30 resale shops in the region, and also works with a number of local designers, allowing him to offer a dynamic and unique selection of clothing fo...

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A Look Inside The New Carhartt Store In Detroit

The company was created here so it only makes sense that Carhartt, a fifth generation family company that at one time had a factory basically across the street from the old Tiger Stadium, has a retail store in the Motor City. Their corporate headquarters is now in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn. The location, at 5800 Cass Avenue (Cass and I-94) is in the Wayne State area. It’s in a cool 1928 Art Deco building that was once a car dealership for Marmon Motors. According to their website, ther...

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The Peterboro Asian-Fusion Restaurant To Open In Detroit's Chinatown This Fall

Asian-fusion restaurant The Peterboro, set to open in Detroit’s former Chinatown this fall, will have a menu as fused as its atmosphere. Owner Charles Inchaustegui, current general manager of The Sugar House, plans to make the dining experience surreal and cool by mixing old-school Chinese restaurant design with Victorian steampunk. Chef John Campau will draw from his Filipino heritage and serve Spam fried rice, cheese sticks wrapped in egg roll paper, and homemade fortune cookies with fortune...

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SNEAK PEEK: Inside Chartreuse Before Their May 19 Opening Date

Detroit is adding to its reputation as the new “It” city with the addition of Chartreuse Kitchen and Cocktails, where the food rivals the surroundings in show-stopping pieces. Major players in the Detroit food and art world worked together to develop what promises to be an extraordinary experience inspired by Chartreuse, the bright green herbal liquor with centuries worth of staying power. Owner Sandy Levine, whom established his reputation with popular craft cocktail bar The Oakland in F...

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Scotch And A Haircut? Fellow Barber In Midtown Putting In A Bar

You might of heard of Fellow Barber in Midtown. It’s a neat barber shop that is for the discerning devotee of a haircut and a shave that recently opened a Detroit location (there are three others in New York City and one in San Francisco). But while on a recent trip through and asking around, they showed us that there’s a bar under construction upstairs on the second floor. Although it’s still in the beginning stages (they plan an opening sometime in the spring) the second-story view is ver...

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Strathmore Hotel Built In 1924 To Come Back To Life, 40% Of Units To Be Affordable

For more than a decade, the Strathmore Hotel on West Alexandrine has sat empty. Around it, Midtown has started to flourish. Great Lakes Coffee is across the street. On the same block is the Union Street restaurant, and within steps is the heart of a revitalized midtown. The vacant eight story structure has watched all of this happen around it, and its now time for the Strathmore Hotel to come back thanks to a public-private partnership between Midtown Inc. and McCormack Baron Salazar based in...

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Honest John's Sold To Owner Of Wright & Company, Plan To "Keep It Honest John's"

The legendary Detroit establishment, Honest John’s, has been sold for an undisclosed price according to a report by Crain’s Detroit Business. This is the third act for a place that started out near the Detroit River by the Belle Isle Bridge and moved to Midtown in 2002. Word is owner John Thompson is looking to retire and so he sold to Dave Kwiatkowski, who has ownership stakes in Sugar House, Wright and Company and a new coffeeshop to open in Midtown. For us, this was the quote that summed...

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Moribund Corner Park To Get A New $250,000 Lease On Life

The Midtown neighborhood of Detroit is changing rapidly. We’re hearing that Midtown Inc., the non-profit development engine behind much of the resurgence in the neighborhood, is dropping $250,000 into a park next to Selden Standard (you can catch our review here). Redmond Plaza is at the corner of Selden and Second and steps away not just from Selden Standard but new housing and the well-known Honest?Johns. It’s also a neighborhood in transition. The plan is to add electricity, repair lights a...

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Selden Standard Raises The Standard Of Dining In Midtown

Turning up Second avenue from Selden, which has recently become a two-way street, vehicles parked tightly on either side of the road were shepherded by a security car in the middle lane with its orange beacon light rotating slowly. It’s a welcome measure for the patrons of Selden Standard, a chic new snap-casual restaurant serving “rustic, fun new american small plates” (according their website)  in a former dry cleaner building on the otherwise desolate corner. Though by the numbers Midtown is...

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DLECTRICITY To Delight Detroit This Weekend

There’s everything from a 4-mile long lighted bike parade to more than 35 artists lighting up immense buildings like the Detroit Public Library. What more could you ask for? Last year, about 75,000 people are said to have come to Midtown to enjoy a cavalcade of visual arts. It’s a time where Detroit feels like a super-dense major city, with throngs of people enjoying the displays and activities. The concept of DLECTRICITY is a “Nuit Blanche,” or a night time arts festival. It’s a free event...