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Adventures close to home: (Meta)scheming on the open road

J. Anton Blatz Tuesday, July 26, 2011
It's mid-summer in the city and J. Anton Blatz and Rene Wymer are staying hot by hanging out with the Roosevelt Park Conservancy, Single Barrel Detroit, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. and other DIY movers, shakers and crowdfunders. Go on, we dare you to read this month's amped-up adventures and try to keep up.   

City Kids: Creating Detroit's future with art education

Melinda Clynes Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Students at Detroit's Edison Elementary School are getting hands-on art training that could be the gateway to increased interest in higher education and a multitude of career options afterward. Melinda Clynes visits this creative class and comes back impressed with the results.

You're welcome: Four new Detroiters talk about moving to gay-friendly Midtown

Claire Nelson Tuesday, June 28, 2011
After our Speaker Series event last week, we found the subject of Gay Detroit so compelling we wanted to explore it further. Claire Nelson sat down with newish residents Jeff Antaya, Elliott Broom, Patricia Wren and Melissa Smiley and came back with some fresh perspectives on creating and sustaining vibrant LGBT life in the city.

Visual vibrations: Wrapping up Movement in pictures

Marvin Shaouni Tuesday, June 07, 2011
When nearly 100,000 people came to Hart Plaza to party the Memorial Day weekend away, Model D photographer Marvin Shaouni was there with his camera, documenting the dancing, the DJs -- and the Dirtbombs. Eh, how many days left until Movement 2012?

Party hard: Movement festival weekend amplifies Hart Plaza

Walter Wasacz Tuesday, May 24, 2011
One of the world's largest outdoor dance music events hosts over 100,000 people, spins off into dozens of off-site parties and activates downtown commerce besides. It's crazy fun and not to be missed says Walter Wasacz, who's attended every festival since 2000. 

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.

Master activator: Tony Goldman envisions Detroit as "capital of the experimental"

Walter Wasacz Tuesday, May 10, 2011
After a whirlwind three-day exploratory tour of Detroit, we catch up to New York developer-social entrepreneur Tony Goldman back home in his Soho office. Walter Wasacz gets an earful from the self-described street practitioner-urban theorist who has animated big city neighborhoods since the late 1960s.

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.

Detroit takes Manhattan: Artists exhibit regional art energy at Chelsea gallery

Walter Wasacz Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Last month, Fred Torres Collaborations in New York City opened the exhibition "Live from Detroit." It was curated by Monica Bowman of the Butcher's Daughter and features 12 Detroit artists. We get the lowdown in this Q&A with Model D photographer Marvin Shaouni, whose work is in the show.

Sweet soul music: We have some great tunes to give away this week

Model D staff Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Living in the world's greatest soul music city has its advantages. Like being exposed regularly to some of the greatest soul jams produced over the last 50 years. Take a look at this special promotion, Detroit music lovers. We think you'll like it. 

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.

The power of place: How Michigan's assets fit into the next economy

Natalie Berg Tuesday, April 19, 2011
When it comes to thinking about how to move cities and regions forward, Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution knows what he is talking about. We're happy to re-run this eye-opening Q&A originally published by our colleagues at Lansing's Capital Gains.

Editor's notebook: The death and life of a great American city

Walter Wasacz Tuesday, April 05, 2011
While census workers did their job we did ours: produced ideas, converting them into real action. Detroit's creative juices have been flowing over the past decade. Managing editor Walter Wasacz says hang on, this is just the beginning of a long, wild ride into the unknown.

Rust Belt to Artist Belt III: Who needs a ticket?

Model D staff Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Artists, business owners, educators and designers will meet to explore how post-industrial cities are being shaped by creative projects. We have one admission to the conference to give away. Sign up for a chance to score this $80 value inside.

Adventures close to home: Oh the joy of kicking some red devil ass

J. Anton Blatz Tuesday, March 22, 2011
We jump into the rowdy chase to banish that loud, obnoxious red dwarf from Detroit, where he has laughed and spit fire in our faces for over 300 years. J. Anton Blatz eats a psychedelic muffin (by accident) and goes for the kill in chapter III of his ever stranger tales of life in the city.
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