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Metro Times blog: Pre-order reissue of Adult. classic 'Resusitation'

Metro Times Tuesday, November 06, 2012

We love Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller, better known to all you closet dance punks as Adult. That's Adult. with a period, wherever you insert the electronic duo's name in a sentence.

So we were mighty happy to read in the Metro Times that Kuperus and Miller have been working on some new stuff, and our old Ann Arbor friends at Ghostly International are reissuing the seminal Resucitation -- and on vinyl, no less, for the first time.

Read more here.

Skyscrapers lit up downtown for World Series

Detroit Free Press Tuesday, October 30, 2012

OK, we're all experiencing severe baseball hangover after seeing the Tigers fall to those intolerably spunky and quirky San Francisco Giants. But at least we got some residual benefit by getting downtown skyscrapers to light up the Detroit skies.

The Downtown Detroit Partnership asked more than 4,300 businesses to leave their lights on 6:30 p.m.-1 a.m. on game days and to put up messages, "Welcome to the World Series" and "Go, Tigers!"

Read more here. And go get 'em next year, Tigers.

Mode Shift says 'hooray' for walkable neighborhoods

Mode Shift Move Together Tuesday, October 30, 2012

From our friends at Mode Shift Move Together, a list of the four new and permanent retail spaces being developed in West Village this spring:

Craft Work, a restaurant and bar formed by a partnership between Michael Geiger and Hugh Yarro, the restaurateur involved in Ronan Sushi in Royal Oak and Commonwealth Café in Birmingham;
Detroit Vegan Soul, a healthy soul food restaurant, catering service, and meal-delivery operation -- and Hatch 2012 semi-finalist -- owned by Kirsten Ussery and Erica Boyd;
The Red Hook, a coffee and baked goods shop;
Tarot & Tea, a tea room, bulk tea purveyor, and retail goods shop that is the brain child of Nefertiti Harris, a successful Midtown business owner.

Sounds great. Read more here.

Open City: Sharing success from business to business

MLive.com Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Last week's Open City gathering featured several Detroit prime small business movers, including Dave Mancini of Supino Pizzaria. MLive reported Mancini said spent years looking for the right location to open his restaurant. Once he did open he had to find people just as committed and he was to making it a success.

Read more of what was said at Open City here.

Kresge: Metro Detroit literary, visual artists can apply for fellowships beginning Nov. 1

Kresge Arts Tuesday, October 30, 2012

In the 2013-14 cycle, 36 Kresge Arts fellowships will be evenly distributed among the categories of literary arts, visual arts, music/dance, and film/theater. In 2013, the fellowships will provide support for nine literary artists and nine visual artists living and working in metropolitan Detroit (Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties), whose commitment to artistic achievement in contemporary or traditional forms is evident in the quality of their work. In 2014, fellowships will be awarded to nine artists in music/dance and nine artists in film/theater.

Calling all artists. Step up, read more and apply here now. There will be a literary arts information session Dec. 1, 1 p.m., at the Walter B. Ford II Building, College for Creative Studies, 201 E. Kirby, in Detroit's Midtown. On Dec. 11, there is a visual arts info session at the same location at 6 p.m.

The application deadline is Feb. 1.

HuffPost Detroit: Loveland's Paffendorf essays advice for county property auction

HuffPost Detroit Tuesday, October 23, 2012

When Jerry Paffendorf is talking about Detroit properties and tax foreclosure auction in the same sentence, we're listening.

An excerpt:

Let's strap on our Detroit x-ray glasses at whydontweownthis.com, look at what's happening with the 20,000 properties at the Wayne County Tax Foreclosure Auction, and get real about improving land use strategies, informing the public, advertising the problems and dealing with all the properties left behind.

Well said. Here's the rest of the story.

Kickstart Noah Stephen's food photography project

Kickstarter Tuesday, October 23, 2012

We knew photographer-blogger Noah Stephens was interested in food and food systems in Detroit, but we didn't know how interested until we heard about this project to document every grocer in the city. He's trying to kickstart some funding to make it happen.

Check it out here.

Freep: Knight to put $20M into Detroit arts, culture

Detroit Free Press Tuesday, October 23, 2012

The Knight Foundation has proved to be a trusted and true friend of the emerging Detroit art scene. Word is that friendship will grow and prosper after the foundation invests $20 million in Detroit arts and culture. The Detroit Free Press has the scoop.

Read on here.

Food trucks prepare for final Tuesday at Eastern Market's Shed 2

Eastern Market Tuesday, October 23, 2012

One Tuesday remains for the food truck season at Eastern Market's Shed 2. Businesses like Good Girls Go to Paris, El Guapao, People's Pierogi Collective, Urban Grounds and others will be there today, Oct. 30, 4-8 p.m. You're invited! See the invite here.

And for more information, go here.

Dwell: International design movement includes Detroit

Dwell Tuesday, October 16, 2012

We found this gem of an overview on the world wide urban design movement largely because of this excerpt:

Matt Clayson, Director of the Detroit Design Festival calls this current rash of festivals the third wave. London's, founded in 2003, is the mothership. Philadelphia, founded in 2005, and San Francisco, in 2006, were the second wave. Detroit’s venture grew from the Detroit Creative Corridor Center’s design-thinky approach. Like that?

Here's more, from Dwell.

HuffPost Detroit: 'Shack' becomes Woodbridge cycling center

HuffPost Detroit Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Last week's feature on Detroit's emerging bicycle economy was only the tip of the iceberg. There's a ton of non-motorized activity in town, and HuffPost Detroit is doing a fab job of reporting it. Like this one. An excerpt:

Jason Hall, Mike MacKool and Mike Sheppard are the three young men behind the building's reinvention. The trio runs an annual bike expo called Detroit Bike City, which drew 1,500 people to Cobo Hall this past March. They're also members of Bikes & Murder, a local bicycle club that sponsors a popular weekly bike ride, dubbed "Slow Rolls to Slow Jams," at the Woodbridge Pub, located across the street from the space.

Read on here.

Atlantic Cities on rust belt memes: Dig deeper, find nuances

Atlantic Cities Tuesday, October 16, 2012

This summary of why rust belt narratives are far too often oversimplified and under-scrutinized screams to be passed around. Check this out:

We need more gray-area approaches to the Rust Belt that are less pre-packaged, more uncertain, and not as "feel good" or "feel bad" as “the ruin” and "rebirth" memes. We need reporting that helps us understand the inherent messiness of current conditions, and by so doing allows us to have better discussions of what and where is good and bad in the Rust Belt. These, by consequence, will lead to better real-world effects.

That, from Atlantic Cities. Read the rest here.

MODCaR's Imaging project makes Mutable Matter

Mutable Matter Tuesday, October 09, 2012

A unique event called Imaging Detroit, featuring DJs (no, not that kind; we're talking discourse jockeys. Clever, eh?) at the near East Side's Perrien Park was one of the highlights of last month's Detroit Design Festival.

It's heady stuff. The web-based Mutable Matter zine was equally impressed. Read what they have to say here.

Mies Detroit residential gems subject of new book

New York Times Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies, due out at the end of the month on Metropolis Books, gets a sneak preview in the New York Times. Yes, it's an architectural love story set in Lafayette Park; and, yes, as promised, we do have a dandy feature book review this week.

If you missed it, check this out. And another, a little bonus from the Design Observer Group.

Remake, remodel: East Riverfront's Globe to become DNR adventure and education center

Detroit Free Press Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Our hearts leap each time we hear about a new redevelopment project on or near Detroit's riverfront or the Dequindre Cut, like this one regarding the vintage late-19th century Globe Trading Co. building that was announced to much fanfare last week.

An excerpt:

Under a deal for the building, the Detroit Economic Growth Corp., a quasi-public board that holds title to the Globe on behalf of the city, will sell it for $1 to a local entity created by the Roxbury Group, a Detroit-based developer. Roxbury will then develop it to the DNR's specifications with the help of a construction loan from Key Bank.

Read more in the Freep here.