Featured Stories
Rodd Monts
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Ken "Blanks" Harrell had this idea for a show: Bring Detroiters together on air to talk in a positive way about ideas, people, arts and business. He didn't want to just entertain, he wanted to start something bigger, a movement to change the city.
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Zak Rosen and Marvin Shaouni
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
They are pretty and all, but what can a community garden really do? Imagine it, and it's probably happening on Georgia Street on Detroit's East Side, where residents have taken a garden plot and ultimately changed the attitudes and face of their neighborhood. And they've done it by taking matters into their own hands.
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Rachel Harkai
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Brave New Voices gives talented Detroit teens a stage, a mic and an opportunity to find their voices and become part of the city's slam poet scene.
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Terry Parris Jr.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
With crisis comes change, and in Detroit, community development corporations are changing how they do business. In some areas, the neighborhood organizations' missions have shifted more toward what they need most right now: protecting their neighborhoods by fighting off foreclosures and filling vacancies.
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Tom Hendrickson
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Detroiters who recycle together stick together. And they've stuck with Recycle Here from its start with a couple bins near The Bronx Bar to its now more comprehensive citywide operations. This video was so good we recycled it, too.
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Jonathan Quarles
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
A year ago Jonathan Quarles might have wondered how Turin, Italy could have any
lessons for Detroit, Michigan. But, since then, Turin-based Fiat Motors
has purchased a bankrupt Chrysler, LLC. And that alone might be reason to
look closer at an automobile center in Europe.
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Tiffini D. Smith
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation (DEGC) and its President and CEO George W. Jackson, Jr., recently accepted a
Revitalization of the City Award
from Friends School in Detroit. The award spotlights individuals and
organizations improving the quality of life for Detroit residents
through community engagement and economic development.
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Tiffini D. Smith
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
The Rosa Parks Transit Center has opened Downtown to rave reviews from
local media. The Detroit Free Press called the Center "an airy gem,"
based on the visitor-friendly glass and steel building for waiting
passengers and the huge flowing canopies that protect them when they
board their bus. Columnist Jeff Gerritt said, "Its beauty and function
say something important to transit riders: You are respected."
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Lucy Ament
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
At the Detroit Clay Co. in Southwest Detroit , Diana Alva and James
Puntigam reflect the beauty of the city in their whimsical, free-form
and at times provocative tiles and pottery.
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Ilissa Gilmore
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
In Midtown's West Willis Village, Goodwells organic grocery sticks out like a green thumb. Don't let the diminutive size fool you -- this little store is packed with great organic, packaged and fresh foods. Plus they make a mean pocket sandwich.
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Walter Wasacz
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
The timeless face behind many of Detroit's best anything goes dance parties since the early 1990s, Adriel Fantastique is the master of ceremonies for Skintight, Fierce Hot Mess and Family.
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Megan Pennefather
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
When the banks won't answer the door, the smallest of small businesses
can go knocking on the doors of Detroit's microloan programs, which are
changing the face of the city one coffee shop or high tech start up at
a time.
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Walter Wasacz
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Summer's here in the city. We're taking some time off to get out there in the heat and play in Detroit. Check in with
FilterD for hot tips on what to do in the D during the next two weeks. We'll be back refreshed and ready to roll July 14. See you then.
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Mariangela Pledl
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
For years, the building on Second Avenue just north of the Fisher
Theatre and former General Motors headquarters was home to a
CBS-affiliated radio and television station. When the commercial
station left, Detroit's public television station moved in. Now, thanks
to some help from brownfield tax incentives, redevelopment opportunities are presenting themselves.
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Malinda Jensen
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
When you look at the data that really count for certain kinds of
business investments, Detroit more than holds its own with comparable
cities. That was the conclusion recently reached by
fDi Magazine, a London publication of the Financial Times.
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