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Challenge Detroit scores $500,000 in seed funding

Melvin Davis and Gardens recording before live audience at PJ’s Lager House

Video stars: DetroitUnspun tunes into Data Driven Detroit

Corktown partnership turns into marketing, film and app startups

Just say No Wave: ‘Kill Your Idols’ doc explores influential noise rock pioneers

Slows preps to expand restaurant into old O’Connor Realty space

Publisher’s notebook: Detroit, celluloid city

Lights, camera and plenty of film and video action has publisher Claire Nelson going to screenings at museums and alternative retail spaces or finding the works on YouTube and Vimeo. Good thing for us she collected all the links and put them in this story. Enjoy the show. 

The Collaborative Group set to give 30 Challenge Detroit grants this year

Drawing lines for Detroit neighborhood democracy

Detroit's City Council is about to fix the gears of a new kind of democratic government, wind it up and set it in motion, says political blogger Vince Keenan. But the body needs feedback from city residents on the best ways to create a fair, equitable new districting system. Read on and jump into the discussion.