Tweet of the Week: Red pop, hot dogs, the RiverWalk and a little conversation

Who's the big winner this week? There's been a lot of Detroit tweets in the last seven days. Actually, there are a lot of Detroit tweets every day. Most of the tweets had to do with how the Red Wings suck or how the Red Wings were gonna destroy the Penguins. Sports tend to be a hot topic here in the Motor City -- not really a surprise though.A lot of talk about GM and the auto industry, as well.Of course none of that jazz made it to the final list. No offense Mike Illitch, Sidney Crosby, and those at GM. It just wasn't doing it for me this week.So, without further ado:Here's a trio from our friends at Inside Detroit. They were in attendance at the Detroit Regional Chamber Mackinac Conference last week and tweeted these few gems.@InsideDetroit: Did you know that Detroit has the 2nd largest theater district in the country! #mpc09No, I didn't know. @InsideDetroit: #mpc09: Detroit Zoo as a great model of regional collaboration. We do have big wins.It shouldn't be us against them, urban vs. suburban. The city needs the 'burbs and vice versa. Sometimes both sides forget that.Last but not least from Inside Detroit:@InsideDetroit: #mpc09 If we show people what Detroit has to offer people and that there are tons of us that love it here..others will love it too!It's true. A tweet not from the conference:@Michellellehcim: I'm mad that the Detroit Festival of the Arts is not happening this year... the year I'm actually living down here for the summer. figures!I think we're all a little upset about that one.And the winner is...Sycloneman: 2 hot dogs and a redpop - $5, conversation with homeless person - $1, lunch along the Detroit River, priceless!Not only is this tweet true (lunch on the Riverfront is pretty amazing) and funny, but five bucks for two hot dogs and red pop (we're assuming that it's Faygo)? Well, it's also frugal.

Detroit artist’s neckties grace pages of the NYTimes

The New York Times drops in on Bethany Shorb, a Detroit designer that created a line of ties inspired by paranoia. Excerpt: “Terminal Illness” is the name of one of the most recent designs from Bethany Shorb, a Detroit artist, and the fact that it has a title is a good indicator that it is not a traditional tie. What at first glance resembles an abstract pattern well within the vernacular of the necktie aesthetic is, rather, a repeated image of the swine-flu virus connected by shapes based on international-airport-terminal diagrams. A tie called “Snoutbreak!” features a simpler graphic that clearly suggests a pig’s nose; if you order this tie, you get a matching surgical mask free. These offerings from Shorb’s Cyberoptix Tie Lab were made available in early May, when the swine-flu freakout was at its height and the director general of the World Health Organization had recently warned that a pandemic had the potential to threaten “all of humanity.” Read the entire article here.

Colin Hubbell Memorial Ride This Weekend

We've been talking a lot about biking the city lately (like last month's speaker series). So how about 18 miles of just doing it? Hit the city streets with Model D at the Colin Hubbell Memorial Bike ride June 20.

Detroit vs. Pittsburgh Redux: Feathers Fly On and Off the Ice

Well, here we are again. Wings vs. Penguins for the Stanley Cup. Time to check in with our friends -- or, in these times, frenemies -- at Pop City in Pittsburgh and see if they've got anything to cheer about. (Probably not the scores of games 1 and 2. Ha ha.)

These Detroiters Will Stay If …

Why do you stay? What will keep you here? When GLUE asked the question and threw a party in Midtown, Detroit, we stayed around for the answers. Listen, watch and learn.

Colin Hubbell Memorial Bike Ride set for June 20

Yoga Suite stretches into Jos. Campau in Hamtramck

Fourth season of Grandmont Rosedale Farmers Market to begin June 4

Detroit Cobras, the Motown (un)cover band

The Detroit Cobras are a cover band, in a way. They cover the songs that, for the most part, have been previously uncovered, doing mostly all B-sides of some of the Motown greats. And they say they couldn't have done it anywhere other than here.Excerpt:By jealously guarding the ploughshares, Nagy and Ramirez have cultivated an impressively focused oeuvre. The production has gotten slightly more exotic since the early days — on the band's most recent album, Tied & True (2007), they get crazy and punish a timpani — but it's still the same source music, the same amped-up, coulda-been classics. "I think my mom put it best when Baby (2005) came out," Nagy remembers. "She said, 'Wow, you guys have really grown up.' It's not like Phil Spector or anything, but there are a lot more layers going on." You see, the Cobras are loyal. Loyal to their influences, loyal to the band's all-but-abandoned city of origin — potentially a rusted-out cradle for a reborn genre, Nagy likes to believe. "That's the beauty of Detroit," she says. "In New York, you have to work five jobs just to pay the rent. Here, you can make music. We'll own this town by the end."Read the entire article here.