Model D TV: Green Drinks in Detroit
A new monthly event is bringing people together for green thinking and drinking. Model D TV visited the inaugural Green Drinks night last week at the Majestic.
Walkable City: Get On Your Feet, Detroit
If there's a cocktail to make true walkability, Detroit is low on some ingredients. But new projects and initiatives directed at transit, streetscaping and nonmotorized pathways are aimed at getting more people on their feet in the city.
Detroit entrepreneur incubator Bizdom U makes the pages of USA Today
The USA Today drops in on Detroit's entrepreneurial bootcamp, Bizdom U.Excerpt:"We love Ph.D.s, but a specific kind of Ph.D. — poor, hungry and driven," says Gilbert, a graduate of Michigan State University and Wayne State University Law School. More than 1,000 people have applied in Bizdom's first two years — though only a fraction make the cut after a laborious battery of background checks and interviews. Students also are recruited from colleges, high schools, local business-plan competitions and entrepreneurship training fairs. Those who are admitted attend class three days a week, from 9-to-5, in space leased from Wayne State University. There, they are lectured, tested and given practical business tasks to perform. Gilbert is considering expanding the program to other cities, starting with Cleveland. "Knowing Bizdom was created by Dan Gilbert gives us confidence that a model like this could accelerate urban entrepreneurship elsewhere," says Bo Fishback, vice president of entrepreneurship at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the world's largest foundation devoted to entrepreneurship. "There is no other program like this in the country. It is difficult to replicate its powerful mix of classroom learning and hands-on practical experience at a university."Read the entire article here.
DSO maestro Leonard Slatkin settles in, makes orchestra his own
Maestro Leonard Slatkin has made the DSO his own.Excerpt:Well, that didn't take long. In the four months since Leonard Slatkin's official debut as music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, he has gone a long way toward reinventing the institution in his own image. He has already stamped his DNA on the orchestra on and offstage, from a rapidly maturing rapport with the players and new seating arrangement to programming, outreach and fund-raising. Slatkin returns to Detroit this week to conduct the fifth and final week of concerts of his first season, which makes this an ideal moment to take stock of the 64-year-old conductor's jackrabbit start.Read the entire article here.
Former Detroit Tiger, 1970s baseball sensation, and Rolling Stone cover man, Mark Fidrych, dies
One of Detroit Tigers' and all of baseball's brightest personality, pitcher Mark "The Bird" Fidrych, died last week. He was 54. He was rookie of the year in 1976 and made it to the cover of Rolling Stone in '77. Additionally, Fidrych is the subject of a documentary that was just completed the day of his death.Excerpt:Former Detroit Tigers pitcher Mark Fidrych, 54, died after an apparent accident on his Northborough, Massachusetts farm, ESPN reports. Fidrych, or “The Bird” as he was called because of his blond curly hair and resemblance to Sesame Street’s Big Bird, became the first baseball player ever to grace the cover of Rolling Stone after a 1976 rookie season in which Fidrych was named both American League Rookie of the Year and an AL All-Star while playing for the Tigers (read the story: The Tale of the Bird).Read the entire article here.Read about the documentary about the Bird here.
