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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.

Arts, Detroit, Sense of Place, Video

Hamtramck

All eyes on the ArtPrize

Tommy Allen Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Detroit artistry was a clear winner at the 2012 version of ArtPrize, held this past weekend in Grand Rapids. Tommy Allen was on the scene taking notes and pictures, and meeting creative neighborhood catalysts, Gina Reichert and Mitch Cope.

Arts, Detroit, Museums, Reuse / Rebuild

Neighborhood lights: Organizers talk about Midtown's DLECTRICITY

Walter Wasacz Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Six years in the making, this festival will literally light up the cultural center this weekend with visual and audio delights. Marc Schwartz, Marsha Miro and Sue Mosey sneak us a preview in this Q&A with Walter Wasacz.

Arts, Detroit, Museums, Nightlife , Placemaking, Wayne State University, Woodward Avenue, Woodward Avenue Lifestyle

Midtown

Detroit Design on a grand scale

Walter Wasacz Tuesday, September 18, 2012

In only its second year, the Detroit Design Festival has become one of the city's top must-see, must-do happenings. That sounds great, but organizers Matt Clayson and Melinda Anderson tell Walter Wasacz its longterm potential is even greater.

Architecture, Arts, Detroit, Nightlife , Performing Arts, Sustainability

New Center, Downtown Detroit, Midtown, Eastern Market

UIX people and projects: Terry Blackhawk and InsideOut Literary Arts

DETROIT LIVES! Tuesday, August 14, 2012

By growing a literary arts program from a few classrooms to more than 30 schools and 4,300 students in 17 years, Terry Blackhawk has helped young Detroiters find their voices as writers, and to think critically and creatively.

Arts, Detroit, Social innovation, Urban Leadership

May the Schwartz be with you

Tom Murray Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Celebrated animator Gary Schwartz, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker now living in Woodbridge, is one animated fellow. Tom Murray caught up with him before Schwartz left for London, where his work will be featured at the 2012 Paralympics Games in August.

Arts, Detroit, Film, Video

Woodbridge

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.

Arts, Building Communities, Choosing Michigan, Detroit, Entrepreneurs, Performing Arts, Sense of Place, Social Networking

Hamtramck, Midtown, Southwest Detroit, Corktown

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.

Arts, Detroit, Dining, Entrepreneurs, Film, Food and Drink, Performing Arts

Hamtramck, Eastern Market, Corktown

Model Z(oot's): Come party with us at our historic new digs

Walter Wasacz Tuesday, June 05, 2012

In March, we moved into our new office and conference space on Second Avenue -- once home to the legendary Zoot's Coffeehouse. Now, this Friday, we're ready to party by honoring the past, the present and future all in one fun-filled night.

Arts, Detroit, Lifestyle, Move to Detroit, Nightlife , Performing Arts, Sense of Place

Midtown

Partnering with Paxahau: Movement prime movers more than about music

Walter Wasacz Tuesday, May 22, 2012

While electronic dance music is the primary focus of Movement weekend, it's not the be all and end all for Paxahau, the promotions team behind the festival. Walter Wasacz takes a look at what else they're up to.

Arts, Detroit, Entrepreneurs, Food and Drink, Lifestyle, Nightlife , Performing Arts, Small Business, Tours, Woodward Avenue Lifestyle

Downtown Detroit

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.

Arts, Detroit, Performing Arts

Hamtramck, Midtown

UIX: The passions of Young Nation

Model D staff Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Founded in 2008, Young Nation's mission is to promote holistic development of youth in urban settings through building relationships, community education, and passion-driven projects.

Arts, Detroit, Lifestyle

Southwest Detroit

Launched!: Urban Innovation Exchange debut in review

Leah Johnson Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Two rooms at Seva restaurant were packed wall to wall with innovators, entrepreneurs and others for the launch of UIX, which will profile Detroit people and projects over the next three years. Leah Johnson talks to some folks in the creative mix.

Arts, Building Communities, Choosing Michigan, Detroit, Entrepreneurs, Lifestyle, Move to Detroit, Performing Arts, Sense of Place, Small Business, Social Networking, Urban Leadership

Midtown

Urbanism from outer space

Matthew Piper Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Erik and Israel Nordin are spreading a contemporary urban look around the region. It begins with gritty industrial processes that are characteristically Detroit, but ends in objects that are graceful, smooth and personal. Matthew Piper gets an eyeful.

Arts, Choosing Michigan, Detroit, Entrepreneurs, Woodward Avenue, Woodward Avenue Lifestyle

Downtown Detroit, Midtown

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.

Arts

Hamtramck

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