All dressed up, racers aim for fun, not speed
Participants from all over the nation deck out people-powered rides for downtown Detroit drag.
Participants from all over the nation deck out people-powered rides for downtown Detroit drag.
The Motor City is determined to show visitors a good time at Super Bowl 40 with a 60-metre-long snow slide, sled dogs, ice skating and Midwestern hospitality.
For City Knits owner Karen Kendrick-Hands, knitting together the loose ends of a community can create a beautiful tapestry of life, one person at a time.
The grass is starting to look the same on either side of 8 Mile Road. The city’s first-ring suburbs are finding that economic disinvestment and changing social demographics have made their communities seem more like extensions of Detroit than part of their sprawling counties. Now both sides of Detroit’s great divide are starting to work together to blur the lines and spark economic renewal.
A poet and activist, John Sinclair is the stuff of Detroit’s legend -- having had a part in forming the Detroit Artists’ Workshop, Rainbow People’s Party, White Panther Party, Trans-Love Energies, the punk-rock prototype, the MC5. Sinclair sits down with Model D to talk about the city, past and present. He speaks frankly about everything from race relations, performing in the jazz festival, smoking and reading the paper at the Cass Café, his favorite place to sit and think (Belle Isle), and what’s going on under the loincloth on the Spirit of Detroit statue.
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