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Model D TV: McClure's Pickles

DETROIT LIVES! Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Our Growing Companies video crew stops into the newish manufuacturing facility of McClure's Pickles on the Detroit-Hamtramck border. Business looks to be booming on the assembly line. Take it from here DETROIT LIVES!

UIX: Michael Davis and Hamtown Farms

Tunde Wey Tuesday, February 26, 2013
He started Hamtown Farms, a plot of land nestled between Kowalski Sausage, Lumpkin St. and an alley, after eating a strange-tasting fruit with the equally strange name of paw-paw. Tunde Wey introduces us to Michael Davis.

How we spent our winter vacation

Walter Wasacz Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Some of us traveled, some of us got cozy with a book or two, others ventured downtown to see the glittering, metal 'D" drop on New Year's Eve. Now we're all ready to rock Detroit anew for 2013, says Walter Wasacz.  

A city lover’s guide to America’s most underrated city

Jay Walljasper Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Jay Walljasper tours Detroit through the eyes of the revitalization fellows he's profiled and comes back with an up close and personal look at the city.

Hey, neighbor: Hamtramck arts fest is community love affair

Walter Wasacz Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Daylong event features live music on residential porches, studio crawling, edgy art viewing, and walkable neighborhood charm. Organizers Steve Hughes and Steve Panton tell Walter Wasacz why the Hamtramck art space is the place.

Green City Diaries: Reclaiming the built environment

Matthew Piper Tuesday, August 28, 2012
The bad news is that we've lost buildings to neglect and disinvestment. The good news is that we're not going to take it anymore. There are new strategies to repurpose Detroit properties. Matthew Piper hunts down some more sustainable solutions.

Vacant to vibrant: NoHam sculpture skate park ramps up

Matthew Piper Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Phase 1 of this Power House produced park built for neighborhood skaters is close to completion. Matthew Piper talks to organizers and youthful users and finds "the flow" has already begun.  

Getting buzzed about neighborhood coffee? We are

Noelle Lothamer Tuesday, July 24, 2012
We asked for more coffee and, well, we got it. It's brewing in Corktown, downtown, Midtown and Hamtramck. And we know there is room for more. Noelle Lothamer comes up with a tasty list of recent openings (or soon to open).

Green City Diaries: This land is our land (Part 2)

Matthew Piper Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Green projects are sprouting up all over the city. In part 2 his latest diary entry, Matthew Piper finds common ground in Hamtramck and Palmer Park.  

The Detroit Bus Company’s new old idea

Denise McGeen Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Detroit was the first major city to have a publicly owned transit system. If the Detroit Bus Company succeeds, it may also be the first to offer a viable privately owned alternative. 

Detroit Fellows: They're here building the city of tomorrow

Jay Walljasper Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Applicants with backgrounds in fields spanning real estate, finance, urban planning, entrepreneurship, law, accounting, health care, civil engineering, community organizing and tourism development were selected for two-year fellowships. Welcome, all.

SimmerD: The week we write about cooking, dangerously

Noelle Lothamer Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Noelle Lothamer returns to multi-ethnic Hamtramck to meet up with two writers from NYC who want to set a TV show, about an artisanal butcher shop, there. We think that's a smokin' idea. 

The effluvial literary murk of Steve Hughes

Walter Wasacz Tuesday, May 08, 2012
What better way to experience Stupor than to have the author bring you into his world up close and personal? See Steve Hughes read from his new Matthew Barney-illustrated issue Saturday at Leopold’s. Walter Wasacz trips down memory lane in this report.

FilterD extra: 'Unthinkable,' artifacts from the Perlman Collection at 2739 Edwin

FilterD staff Tuesday, April 03, 2012
Works from the Detroit Printing Co-op are featured, including the Society of the Spectacle, a critical force behind the Paris student uprising in May 1968. Its first English version was translated and published here in 1970. 

Green City Diaries: March is for scheming

Matthew Piper Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Green City diarist Matthew Piper talks to gardeners and farmers to learn the reasons why they do what they do, their insights into local resources available to support their efforts, and the preparations they’re making for the growing season. 
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