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Grabbing Detroit by the rails
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Little else evokes Detroit’s status as the Motor City than the annual Woodward Dream Cruise showcasing classic cars down America’s first highway....
Detroit Cargo's Jefferson handlebar bag • photo Marc Bay
Less car, more cargo
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Following a year-and-a-half of research and development, Detroit Cargo launched its debut line of leather bicycle bags this spring. ...
• photo courtesy Huntco Supply, LLC
Bike racks replace parking spots on Woodward
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Cyclists in Detroit will soon be able to park their bikes on Woodward, literally. The first of many bike racks to placed right on the roadway of Woodward Avenue is soon to be installed in Detroit suburb Ferndale in what’s now a parking place in front of Howe’s Bayou restaurant....
Port Detroit, the proposed dock for the Windsor-Detroit
Ferry ‘cross the Detroit river?
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Plans are underway to create a ferry route between the downtowns of Windsor and Detroit to increase tourism for the region and further integrate the two cities economically....
Detroit firefighters take the heat in a new documentary showing in Windsor theatres • photo courtesy detroitfirefilm.org
FILM REVIEW: BURN Waiting for the phoenix to rise
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Burn: A Year on the Front Lines of the Battle to Save Detroit is a visually stunning and emotionally captivating glimpse at the people who fight a neverending fury in their hometown....
OPINION: “ So this is how liberty dies … with thunderous applause”
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Michigan Governor Rick Snyder announced last week that Detroit was in financial emergency and that he would appoint an emergency manager to have ultimate authority over the fiscal affairs of the state for the next 18 months. ...
Bill Rauhauser’s 1960s photograph of a woman smoking in Kresge Court, Detroit Institute of Arts • photo courtesy Detroit Institute of Arts
Images in the key of D
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In an attempt to re-focus the lenses of Motown’s photogs, the Detroit Institute of Arts has launched the exhibition Motor City Muse: Detroit Photographs, Then and Now. ...
J Dilla - Donuts
ALBUM REVIEW: J Diilla – Donuts (45 box set)
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J Dilla was arguably the most important artist to come out of Detroit, and his 2006 magnum opus, Donuts, is one of the best LPs hip-hop, as a genre, has ever produced....
Ed Pien; Memento
The river and the land define us
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AGW exhibit explores the complex and shifting notions of national boundaries Stephen Hargreaves MANAGING EDITOR Before anything else Windsor is a border town. Whether the bridge connects us or the river divides us, the position of Windsor as a border town is paramount to the city’s identity. The Art Gallery of Windsor is acutely aware of its position from the gallery’s home at the shore of the Detroit River in the immediate shadow of Motown’s sky-scraping iconic landscape. Dialogue within their walls and on either side of the Windsor-Detroit border has culminated in Border Cultures a three-part group exhibition series...
Motorcity art mecca
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Visitors confronted with Detroit’s blighted neighbourhoods may be quick to generalize the city as abandoned and devoid of opportunity. But those working in creative industries are increasingly calling Detroit home. ...
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