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Highland Park
Unofficial Art
A field of orange houses. Painted whirligigs and Elvises. Thousands of Polariods. Call it what you want, but it's all art — classic folk art from contemporary Detroiters who need no gallery.
The Year in Mastheads
The subjects are incredibly familiar or intriguingly obscure. Each issue, photographer Dave Krieger delivers an image that makes you see the city differently. Here's a selection from the past year.
Beyond the Rustbelt
Detroit's Art Deco skyscrapers and smokestack skylines don't paint the whole picture. All over town, a different picture of the city is emerging in modern glass and steel facades. Click here to check out photographer Dave Krieger's look at Detroit's newest buildings.
Highland Park Guide
Pride. Strength. Refusal to give up. Highland Park residents say those are qualities that have never dwindled in the neighborhood. One of the nation's first great suburban communities, Highland Park is a neighborhood that is working hard to re-emerge, to realize its ambition to be a city of opportunity again.
Detroit’s neighborhood gas stations to be fuel-alternative pioneers
General Motors Corp.'s drive to put ethanol-based fuel in the tanks of more U.S. cars and trucks may transform Detroit's neighborhood gas stations and its drivers into pioneers in the use of the gasoline alternative.
