The North Cass Corridor coming alive with art, food, music and people has been a one-day, late-summer tradtition since the 1970s. But is it a blueprint for something more ambitious? Claire Nelson and Francis Grunow weigh in on what they say could be the start of a new alley district.
Now in its fourth year, the Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Festival covers the length of this "city-within-a-city-neighborhood" plus parts of Detroit up to Davison. Creative critical mass is accelerating, says Walter Wasacz, who suggests coming early and staying late at this daylong event.
Promoter, artist and social activist Joel Peterson is one of Detroit's honest to goodness treasures. He's been setting just the right tone for the experimental music scene for two decades. Now he's doing it in his own space in Eastern Market.
He's a California man who relocated to Detroit kicking and screaming. That's OK dude, and probably the best way to enter the music and entrepreneurial scenes here. Monty Luke DJs, produces his own techno and started a company. Not bad all, writes Tunde Wey.
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