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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"It was beautiful, man. The night, the crowd, the music, the scene," says the Lawrence B. Johnson of The Detroit News.
The city of Detroit, local hoteliers and state officials have offered assistance for up to 500 families displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Attorney Daniel Granholm Mulhern, Michigan's First Gentleman, has been selected as recipient of the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association Foundation's Dennis W. Archer Public Service Award.
A festival lay bleeding, dying, abandoned. Mack Avenue Records swooped in to save it. The independent jazz label -- home to bandleader Gerald Wilson, innovative vibraphonist Terry Gibbs, and trumpeter Sean Jones – has stepped up to sponsor the 26th installment of the Detroit International Jazz Festival. Their contribution is part of label’s commitment to support great artists and great music.
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