Before the shorter, cooler days of fall set in, our guides Blatz and Wymer take you on a little stroll back through their best adventures of summer 2011. It was filled with new traditions, excursions to familiar spots, long bike rides, serious trash-talk on the soccer pitch and meeting lots of new faces around town.
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.
The Detroit City Futbol League rocked into our world last spring and summer by bringing neighborhoods together for some healthy competition and good times. Season two is underway after a swinging opening party at the Old Miami, where J. Anton Blatz found his latest adventure.
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.
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.
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.
There's a lot happening in Detroit these days. So much so that we've decided to go underground to find the best of what's really going in the city's creative communities. Say hey to J. Anton Blatz, who's coming deep undercover to a morning redevelopment project or a post-midnight cocktail party near you.
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