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Bountiful biennial: Get ready for Art X 2013

Walter Wasacz Tuesday, April 09, 2013
It's back, bigger and, we're certain, better than ever. The Kresge Foundation's first Art X Detroit in 2011 gave artists a platform to showcase what they do best: create, innovate and perform. Walter Wasacz talks to organizers in this Model D Q&A.

Model D TV: Growing company Inland Press

DETROIT LIVES! Tuesday, November 13, 2012
This downtown company's century old tradition of investing in people, equipment and new technologies is impressive to say the least. DETROIT LIVES! takes us for a behind the scenes look at what makes Inland Press tick.

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.

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. 

IdeaLab's greatest hits: We've got video from January speaker series

U-M Ross school of Business Tuesday, February 28, 2012
When Josh McManus of D:hive and CreateHere took the stage at last month's Revitalization & Business Conference, he raised the program to another level -- by simply bringing it all down to earth. How did he do it? Watch and find out.

Hamtramck, where every day is 'Paczki Day'

Walter Wasacz Tuesday, February 21, 2012
For a 2-square-mile city, Hamtramck sure packs a wallop. It has dining options, bars, music, art, theater and real diversity. And, of course, a full day of fun on Fat Tuesday. Walter Wasacz ponders the possibilities in this update of a punchy feature we ran last summer. 

Publisher's notebook: Detroit, celluloid city

Claire Nelson Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Lights, camera and plenty of film and video action has publisher Claire Nelson going to screenings at museums and alternative retail spaces or finding the works on YouTube and Vimeo. Good thing for us she collected all the links and put them in this story. Enjoy the show. 

Model D TV: Inspiration for business, one idea at a time

Tom Hendrickson Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Our cameras were rolling as the ideas continued flowing at last Friday's Idealab in Ann Arbor. Tom Hendrickson captured the presenters on stage and tracked them down backstage for this episode of Model D TV.

What's next for Detroit: Investing in the passion for place

Walter Wasacz Tuesday, October 18, 2011
A million little things, brought together by communication and collaboration, is what the future looks like to us. It runs on energy made of ideas, action and participation. Join us Friday at the David Whitney building to see where you fit in. 

Model D and Open City Speaker Series in review

Ashley Woods Tuesday, September 27, 2011
These four panelists say they came to do various kinds of business in Detroit with eyes wide open and because they want to matter. Now they are changing the entrepreneurial landscape, one idea, one action at a time. Inspired, Ashley Woods reports. 

Accelerating good design: DDF presents a week of creative happenings

Model D staff Tuesday, September 20, 2011
The eight-day design festival will feature lectures, exhibitions, fashion shows, workshops, interactive installations, art battles, studio tours, and performances at 50 different venues across Detroit. Can you feel all that energy coursing through the city grid? We can.   

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.   

Model D TV: Grown in Detroit

Tom Hendrickson Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Dutch filmmaker Mascha Poppnek fell in love with Detroit while making the documentary Grown in Detroit. We can relate. She discusses the movie and the city that inspired her in this classic episode of Model D TV.

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.

Documentary director takes Detroit's story 'Beyond the Motor City'

Clare Pfeiffer Ramsey Monday, May 17, 2010
Director Aaron Woolf made a documentary on Detroit and transit, only through his lens, this isn't merely a Detroit story. It's a story about laying the foundation for a new national economy, and we're the stars.
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