Detroit’s Global Vibe 3: Reporter’s Notebook
A polish photographer visiting Ann Arbor for a brief residency at U of M finds creativity flowing and gains restorative energy in a visit to the Motor City.
Walter Wasacz's Latest Articles
Hamtramck Rocks Out
Hamtramck has a history of being the home for great music, and with Blowout, it is keeping that alive. The annual festival not only attracts the area's top acts, but also brings in new people to the two-square-mile city within a city.
555/4731: Making Space to Create
Inside buildings that look llike relics from Detroit's industrial past, Ric Geyer has helped to carve out havens for micro-communities of like-minded artists, musicians and entrepreneurs.
Detroit’s Global Vibe 2: Spreading the Sounds
The second installment in a series of stories on Detroit’s Global Vibe — the myriad ways that the city’s attitude and energy reach people around the world — looks at how a small record shop influences music heard around the world, a little recording studio changed the world of music, and how international tourists clamor to another small studio to feel the vibe in person.
Gentrification?
The increase in development and re-development in Detroit has sparked talk of the “G” word. But does gentrification in Detroit mean the same thing as it does in other major cities?
Detroit’s Global Vibe
In Berlin, one man, who has never set foot on Detroit soil, gushes at the thought of it: “Wow, wow, wow … Detroit!” People the world over are getting plugged in to the city’s intangible exports – its own vibe – born of techno beats, guitar riffs, hip hop, Motor City myth and magic. Can you feel it?
