Hygienic Dress League debuts Future Distortion installation as part of Detroit Art Week
Husband-and-wife team Steve and Dorota Coy give Model D a preview of their latest work that explores gender, religion, and industry.
Top 10 coolest rehabs in Metro Detroit
From hidden chocolate shops to eccentric restaurants, Metro Detroiters are rehabilitating former fire stations, garages, Coney Islands, and churches to make way for new business.
How the owners of Farmer’s Hand, Folk, and Marrow could change the Detroit restaurant industry
It seems that Nest Egg LLC and Backbone Hospitality could be the first women-owned venture of its kind not only in Detroit, but the state’s restaurant industry.
Speak Easy Storyteller’s Edition comes to North End on July 21
The theme for the next Speak Easy event is “I’m OK!” and features storytellers Candice Fortman, Jamil Norwood, Jamel Randall, and Nikki Studstill.
Renderings released for new early childhood education center on Marygrove campus
Approximately 144 children ranging in ages from 0 to 5 years old will attend the 28,000-square-foot center, which will feature 12 classrooms, a library, and health therapy rooms. The Inkster-based Starfish Family Services will operate the early childhood education center.
Michigan providers seek to improve whole communities by integrating behavioral and physical health
Primary and behavioral health often feel like different worlds, but the idea of combining the two disciplines has become a commonly discussed solution that can have broad impacts.
How activists are using art and science to address Michigan’s water problems
From Mackinaw City to Flint to Detroit, activists are using a combination of art and science to keep water issues in the public consciousness, address inequities, and collaborate on solutions.
Room Project in New Center connects women, nonbinary writers to their craft and each other
Simultaneously a “political and personal thought,” the Room Project and its creation came at a pivotal time in founder Christin Lee's life.
Michigan Clear Ice helps raise the bar for craft cocktails
Based in Bay City, company's artisan ice has made its way south to some of Detroit's top bars including The Kiesling, Two James Distillery, the Sugar House, and Motor City Casino.
Detroit Bail Project aims to disrupt the process of cash bail and incarceration
The percentage of people of color who are jailed is disproportionately high; 70 percent of Wayne County's inmates are Black, compared to 40 percent of the county's overall population. Unaffordable bail is a major driver of those numbers, according to Asia Johnson of The Bail Project in Detroit. So her aim is to disrupt that process before it starts.
