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Model D TV: Upmarket urban residential

Tom Hendrickson Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Producer Tom Hendrickson went searching for hot properties along the Woodward Corridor and came back with some beauties. Looking for a place to rent or, better yet, buy? Turn on Model D TV and behold the growing number of options.

Moving toward Movement: Sign up for electronic music festival ticket giveaway

Model D staff Tuesday, May 10, 2011
The Detroit summer party season unofficially kicks off with the Movement Festival, produced and promoted by our friends at Paxahau. We'll be there May 28-30 and so can you. Find out how inside.

Grand Rapids crew brings West Michigan love to the D

Rapid Growth staff Tuesday, May 03, 2011
A busload of people came from the other side of the state to check out high-octane activity that included ArtX, Rust Belt to Artist Belt conference and Detroit Restaurant Week. Did our colleagues from sister pub Rapid Growth have fun? Did they ever.

Adventures close to home: The way we were the week that was

J. Anton Blatz Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Our pseudonymous comrades roam the city in search of rare grooves, exceptional art, 21st century development on a 19th century block and try to find ways to get 90-year-old freight elevators to work again. Take it away, Blatz and Wymer.

Our monthly giveaway spree continues with free tickets for Inside Detroit tour

Model D staff Tuesday, April 05, 2011
The group's vision is to be the premier organization that creates positive perceptions, spurs economic development and cultivates a more vibrant, energetic Detroit. That's what we want to hear. Sign up to win inside.

Nothing like a Detroit food party: High energy restaurant jam gets off to roaring start

Noelle Lothamer Tuesday, April 05, 2011
This edition of SimmerD comes to you in living color from the spring edition of Detroit Restaurant Week. Photographer Marvin Shaouni and writer Noelle Lothamer go on a whirlwind tour, taking you inside seven of the 18 participating restaurants to give you a tasty tour of the scene.

Model D TV: Downtown space is the place

Tom Hendrickson Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Real estate for big ticket clients is jumping right where it should -- in downtown Detroit skyscrapers, old and new. Video producer Tom Hendrickson points his camera where the action is in this new episode of Model D TV. 

Pass the calamari: We sneak a preview of Detroit Restaurant Week

Noelle Lothamer Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Our food and drink specialist gets a sneak preview of the next sumptuous 10 days ahead by visiting two Italian kitchens -- one classic, another a relatively newcomer to the culinary scene. We confess getting pangs of hunger seeing "zingy caponata of squash, tomatoes, olives and chunks of garlic" used in a sentence. You too? Bon appetit. 

Model D Speaker Series: Mo’ Food: Creating a New Local Economy

Model D staff Tuesday, March 22, 2011
From underground to upscale, micro-batch to mass-market, what are the emerging opportunities for Detroit's local food scene? Come to this event tonight with an appetite for knowledge and find out.

Faithfully theirs: Young Jewish Detroiters engage community life, embrace urban identity

Dennis Archambault Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Largely reared in the suburbs, young Jews are inspired by cultural and religious history and the promise of building new social networks in the city. Dennis Archambault reports from the intersection of the past and the future.

How we all benefit from film incentives: An industry insider weighs in

Dave Krieger Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Former Model D managing photographer Dave Krieger has been busy working on one film set after another the past few years. He makes an appeal to the governor and the state legislature to keep the lights, cameras and action rolling.

Model D TV: MotorCity Wine

Tom Hendrickson Tuesday, February 22, 2011
If you haven't been there yet, well, c'mon, we'll head to MCW with you for some fruity bargains. It's downtown, a block south of Campus Martius on Woodward Avenue. Let's go.

Model D Speaker Series: Raising City Kids

Model D staff Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Detroit is a city of families. With over 80,000 students enrolled in DPS, and many more in private and charter schools, lots of kids (and their parents) live here, too. Come to this event, see what the D has to offer you.

Adventures close to home: Snowpocalypse now?

J. Anton Blatz Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Creative wintering in Detroit can be fun, writes our pseudonymous cultural reporter J. Anton Blatz, especially if an urban ski crawl and beer-drinking afterglow is in the cards. Let it thundersnow, we say, let it thundersnow.
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