Hamtramck

List Youth brigade from Hamtramck Free School working on posters

There’s a thin line between art and life at the Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Festival

On Saturday, Oct. 11, the fifth annual Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Festival pops up in galleries, storefronts, and lots across the 2.1-square-mile city and adjacent Detroit neighborhoods.

A peek inside Beth Olem, the cemetery that was swallowed by a GM plant

One of Michigan's oldest Jewish cemeteries is hidden on the grounds of GM's Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly Plant. It's only open six hours every year, so lucky for you, we took some pictures.

Friends launch video production firm, The Right Brothers
Got what it takes to make a whizbang website for Hamtramck?
Video Hamtramck’s (revolver) restaurant might just blow your underpants off

A combination supper club and social experiment, (revolver) features a rotating host of chefs that changes each week, from home cooks looking to launch their own concept to seasoned professionals of national note looking to do something different and have a little bit of fun.

Not just a fancy art project: Artists create long-term community vision for Detroit/Hamtramck border

In 2009, Model D reported on the early work of Power House Productions in an article entitled "Detroit House: $100. Bold New Ideas for the City: Priceless." In five short years, those bold ideas are taking shape along the Detroit/Hamtramck border.

First round of Hatch voting ends Thursday as 10 startups vie for $50K prize
Bonbon shop opens in Hamtramck
$100K awarded for arts and culture programming along Hamtramck-Detroit border
Popps Packing: An old meat packing plant becomes a driving force in Hamtramck’s creative community

When Graem Whyte and Faina Lerman bought a former Hamtramck meat packing plant in 2007, they didn't anticipate it becoming a catalyst for neighborhood growth and redevelopment.

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