Corktown

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.

Imported to Detroit: Overcoming culture shock with a little help from new friends

Newcomers to Detroit share many of the same growing pains, says Sarah F. Cox, a 2011 transplant from Brooklyn. But the kindness of strangers pointing people in the right directions helps to overcome the disorientation of being in a strange new land. Just remember, everyone: you're welcome. 

‘9 Businesses’ highlights indie Detroit entrepreneurship

Corktown’s Detroit Dirt grows customer base by 100 percent

Simply Suzanne granola hires nine as it plans to go national from Corktown

Detroiter turns passion into Corktown start-up, CoolPlacestoLive.com