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Hamtramck International Bazaar commences May 30

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May 26, 2009

Hamtramck is often associated with the word bizarre (but also totally awesome). Starting May 30, it'll be a little different version of the word. Through the Cities of Promise and the City of Hamtramck, a monthly International Bazaar of farmers and vendors will set up shop on Caniff, from 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.The event will take place in the Caniff city parking lot (one block east of Jos. Campau on the north side of Caniff). There will also be live music, baked goods for sale and the DDA district will host a Sidewalk Sale. This event recurs every last Saturday of the month, ending in September with the Mini Worlds Fair, a multicultural offering of entertainment and fun.Additionally, the City will provide free recycling opportunities for all residents. Simply bring recyclables (separation of plastics, papers and metals not necessary) to the 2009 International Bazaar and the City will make sure it is recycled.For more information contact Eve Doster Knepp here.

‘Fault Lines’ does piece on Detroit, combines the city’s reality with the city’s hope

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May 26, 2009

In a recent piece of "Fault Lines" on al Jazeera English, journalist and filmmaker Avi Lewis explores Detroit and does a good job of twisting both the realities of the poor and working class with the feelings of hope and drive of the city's people.View the piece here.

Detroit farming, rehab center planning to join forces

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May 26, 2009

Local rehab center has interest in Detroit farming and is looking to use a large tract of land.Excerpt:The Detroit-based Self-Help Addiction Rehabilitation Inc. (SHAR), a nonprofit drug rehab center funded by the state and others, is proposing that it be given up to 2,000 acres of vacant city-owned land to farm.The project, known as Recovery Park, would have the dual purpose of teaching addicts therapeutic and marketable skills and rehabbing the city itself, said SHAR's chief executive, Dwight Vaughter."We're looking at it as a way to use some of this space in Detroit to make it more purposeful, as well as to provide employment for our residents and people who may be disenfranchised," Vaughter said. "So we thought it was a perfect fit for us to get involved in."Read the entire article here.

Chicago Reader says there is no place in America like Detroit

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May 26, 2009

The Chicago Reader gets Detroit.Excerpt:Yet even as GM closes plants and Chrysler faces Chapter 11, things are sprouting in Detroit. The city made the New York Times in March not for news about the Big Three but for the purchase by a Chicago couple of a house for $100, on a block being taken over by artists with plans for solar-powered art center and a vegetable garden. The city has a booming urban agriculture movement, and in April financier John Hantz, working with Michigan State University and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, proposed building the “world’s largest urban farm” on vacant and abandoned properties, starting with a 70-acre fruit and veggie patch on the east side. Also last month, a group of local businesses began printing their own currency, the Detroit Cheer, in an effort to encourage local spending. “Detroit is the most democratic city in America,” writes Mitch Cope, one of the catalysts of the aforementioned artists’ block, on the blog at powerhouseproject.com. “Not in the political sense or government, but because the neighborhoods are ruled and run and controlled and developed by local citizens. It’s a city where you can do things, both bad and good as you choose without much oversight, enforcement of law, or rules imposed from above. It is up to the residents to decide what it is they want to do, how they govern their particular block or street, and therefore what they want their city to be. Democracy in Detroit has ironically come out of the lack of a functional government/political democracy.”Read the entire article here.

Cocktail created in Detroit has fans raving

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May 26, 2009

Drink invented in Detroit a hot topic among cocktail geeks.Excerpt:This libation, invented at the Detroit Athletic Club, is called the Last Word. It’s a chilled, verdant, pungent combination of gin, maraschino liqueur, lime and green Chartreuse, an herbal liqueur concocted 400 years ago by French monks.“In cocktail geekdom, few drinks get more discussed and dissected than the Last Word,” wrote Tan Vinh, a Seattle journalist who researched that city’s hottest drink and found its popularity had spread to cocktail lounges around the world.No one at the DAC had heard about the Last Word until Vinh contacted the club earlier this year. Staffers searched the archives of the DAC News, the club’s monthly magazine, plus old menus and other ephemera. They found nothing.That’s because it had been more than 80 years since the DAC invented the drink — a product of Prohibition in the 1920s.Read the entire article here.

Detroit No. 3 in the nation when it comes to pizza, says GQ

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May 26, 2009

GQ knows what's up when it comes to Detroit and pizza, ranking us in at No. 3. We'd argue for No. 1, but 3rd isn't a bad finish.Excerpt:Detroit is the third-best pizza city in America, GQ writer Alan Richman declared after traveling 20,000 miles, visiting 10 cities and tasting almost 400 pies to name the country's 25 best pizzas for the magazine's June issue.Making the accolade sweeter, Chicago came in fourth.New York and San Francisco were first and second."No city has more consistently satisfying pies than Detroit. No city executes its particular style" -- also called Sicilian or pan pizza -- "as flawlessly as Detroit," Richman wrote in his blog, an online companion to his article and his list of 25 best pizzas.Read the entire article here.

What is Detroit fashion? Bloggers seek city’s style

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May 26, 2009

Fashion bloggers from cement hit the streets with video looking for Detroit street style. Go to Current here.

Tweet of the Week

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May 26, 2009

Who's got this week's tweet? With the DEMF or techno-fest or Movement or whatever you like to call it plus the long weekend and the BBQs and the beers someone has something to say, Right?In between all the fun that was to be had, here were a few things that came up:@KatieWiederman: I love downtown Detroit.And downtown Detroit loves you, Katie. Well, we actually can't say that for sure, but we hope it loves you. Unrequited love is a total bummer.@christinajacobs: Breakfast was a Nutella crepe from Le Petit Zinc - so good! #+DetroitThere aren't many things better for breakfast than crepes. On top of that there aren't many things better in this world than Nutella. Might as well get both of them together at Le Petit Zinc. But the winner is:@Go_Follow_HeLi:Why do my people n detroit eat coney on memorial day?..lol'Cause Coneys taste better than ambrosia.Keep reading. Keep tweeting.Please follow us on Twitter here.

Detroit Cobras, the Motown (un)cover band

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May 26, 2009

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.

Michigan Central Station gets a little more time

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May 26, 2009

Michigan Central Station gets a little more time as Matty "the Billionaire" Moroun weighs options for developers.Excerpt:The historic Michigan Central Depot and the nearby Roosevelt Warehouse will stand a bit longer after a Detroit City Council committee decided Monday to delay a decision on razing them.The delay came in a hearing before the council's Public Health and Safety Committee after representatives of Manuel (Matty) Moroun, owner of the Detroit Bridge Company, which owns both buildings, said he needed more time to negotiate with potential developers for the depot.Last month, Dan Stamper, Bridge Company president, said the federal government was interested in developing the depot property as a base for its Homeland Security operations in Detroit.Read the entire article here.