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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.

SimmerD: We start new column devoted to food, drink and good times in the city

Noelle Lothamer Tuesday, February 15, 2011
This town is having some culinary fun right now -- and we want to be in middle of every kitchen or barroom story we can. Noelle Lothamer brings you the first of what we plan as a series about feeding the insatiable belly of Detroit. 

FilterD Extra: John Cage, Merce Cunningham film screens at CCS

Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Two of the most innovative 20th century American modernists in music and dance are subjects of 2007 documentary. One time only showing Wednesday is free and open to the public.

Model D TV: Curl Up & Dye in Midtown

Tom Hendrickson Tuesday, February 01, 2011
This week, we re-run a popular episode of Model D TV featuring Curl Up & Dye. Owner Jennifer Willemsen talks about what makes her hair and beauty salon a success.

Art of walking: Going the distance in Detroit's inner space

Steve Panton Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Steve Panton, originally from Nottingham, England, lived in New Zealand before settling in Detroit in the 1990s. He runs the 2739 Edwin art space in his Hamtramck loft, where he exhibited a splendid show called Walking Distance in 2009.

FilterD Extra: We tell you where to go during the next two weeks

Walter Wasacz Tuesday, November 16, 2010
We're getting away from it all next week to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends, and we expect you will be doing the same. To make up for our absence, we tossed together a little FilterD extra to get us through the rough spots. Hint: go see the Gories (pictured) and everything will be all right. Trust us. We'll see you Nov. 30.    

New visioning strategies hatched via mayor's Detroit Works Project

Maureen McDonald Tuesday, November 02, 2010
A series of public forums earlier this fall showed community engagement in passionate action. Mayor Dave Bing's Detroit Works Projects is an ambitious attempt to get city residents and leaders to buy into the city's future. Maureen McDonald reports.

The glamour chase: Haute to Death free-for-all pop art party turns three

Noëlle Lothamer Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Promoter-DJs Ash Nowak and Jon Dones of monthly dance party Haute to Death have been putting a new spin on punk disco and new wave cool since 2007. Noëlle Lothamer jumped into their Temple -- Temple Bar, that is -- and went on a thrill ride into Detroit's Hauttest party.

Dressed to kill: Girls & Boys of Temple Bar get physical

Marvin Shaouni Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Model D lensman Marvin Shaouni takes his camera to the hot Haute to Death monthly and comes back with an equally hot photo story featuring Detroit's pretty young things after midnight. This arty dance party is now three years young but doesn't look a day older than instant karma. Enjoy. 

Model D Speaker Series & Rotman Reception

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Join Model D on Oct. 13 at the Max M. Fisher Center to learn about innovative new initiatives fueling start-ups in Detroit and beyond. Mahendra Ramsinghani will talk about the First Step Fund, a unique partnership between Invest Detroit, TechTown and Ann Arbor SPARK to provide financing to emerging small businesses in southeast Michigan. We'll also hear from Richard Powers, an expert on entrepreneurial and start-up governance from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

Model D TV: 71 Garfield

Tom Hendrickson Tuesday, August 24, 2010
71 Garfield is one of the coolest rehabbed buildings in Midtown. The live/work spaces are in a newly renovated, green building in the heart of the Sugar Hill District. Check out the before and after shots and look around inside in this video clip.

Hanging in Midtown: Power of flowers goes vertical at Forest Arms rehab

Walter Wasacz Tuesday, August 17, 2010
There's no party like a Detroit party. Especially when the people behind it are dedicated to raising the quality of neighborhood life through community action. Read about a special project Team Detroit is up to in high places in the heart of residential Midtown. Walter Wasacz meditates on the meaning of it all.

City chickens: Marvin Shaouni goes off to the races in Detroit

Marvin Shaouni Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Bwok right over to this multimedia presentation from Model D photographer Marvin Shaouni. Detroit had its first chicken race recently, and he captured the quirky display of the city's ag side.

What's the big idea, Detroit? asks the PSFK salon

Monday, August 09, 2010
NYC-based PSFK is all about big ideas for creatives, and they are hosting a salon-style discussion in Detroit on Thursday. Read about it here.
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