Arianna Huffington founded her namesake web-based publication, the Huffington Post in spring 2005. The site reports and aggregates news content -- and gets entertainingly opinionated about it. Model D editor Walter Wasacz caught up with the new media maverick for this snappy Q&A.
From beginning of the night until the end, one word described the scene at downtown's Whitney Building: Wow. Over six hours we celebrated six years of publishing, 300 issues of Model D, and all you emerging social innovators and outside-the-box creatives. Well done, Detroit, well done.
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.
Our October Speaker Series featured a conversation with national land-use strategist, developer and Brookings Institution fellow, Christopher Leinberger. Was it good? Better than that. Walter Wasacz taps out notes on his iPad.
One of the world's largest outdoor dance music events hosts over 100,000 people, spins off into dozens of off-site parties and activates downtown commerce besides. It's crazy fun and not to be missed says Walter Wasacz, who's attended every festival since 2000.
After a whirlwind three-day exploratory tour of Detroit, we catch up to New York developer-social entrepreneur Tony Goldman back home in his Soho office. Walter Wasacz gets an earful from the self-described street practitioner-urban theorist who has animated big city neighborhoods since the late 1960s.
Last month, Fred Torres Collaborations in New York City opened the exhibition "Live from Detroit." It was curated by Monica Bowman of the Butcher's Daughter and features 12 Detroit artists. We get the lowdown in this Q&A with Model D photographer Marvin Shaouni, whose work is in the show.
Hello 2011, we're ready for you with stories that explore a city that works and plays hard. Tales about people planting ideas, growing, innovating and building in one of the most dynamic places on the planet. Get ready, Detroit, here we come again.
If it was happening in Detroit during the last 12 months, we were all over it. Looking back at the features and news stories we published it's hard to limit the number of greatest hits. Oh, well. We'll just do 10 in each category to honor the year 2010. Pour yourself a shot of spiked eggnog and enjoy the year in review.
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