Yes Cinco de Mayo is an excuse to indulge in margaritas, cervesas and Mexican food, but where do you go for an authentic Cinco de Mayo celebration that reflects the historic and cultural side of the holiday? In Detroit, your answer is to head to the Southwest side.
Already this year, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has faced highs (the Super Bowl) and lows (battles over the zoo, water and budget); however, he tells Model D he's still on task to grow and transform the city — and how he plans to do it.
Forget the Chinese take-out boxes for taking home cake or exotic flowers from remote reaches of the Amazon. If you really want your wedding to stand out, say 'I do' in the D.
A Woodward corridor booster group is seeking funding to construct a series of 10- to 30-foot decorative pillars, called tributes, erected in the road's median or beside the highway -- perhaps one every mile or so -- displaying different images that evoke the area's history, from cars to Motown music.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is slated for opening in October on Woodward near CPop and the Detroit Artists Market.
Due to many new businesses, lofts, and other redevelopment, the city is beginning to see increased levels of pedestrian traffic.
Digger and Marcel have it made. So do Max and Yogi, and even a pup named Archimedes. While their owners toil at their 9-to-5 jobs, the dogs of Canine to Five play, snooze and soak up plenty of praise and petting. The Detroit doggy day care, owners say, is the kind of ammenity city dwellers and wrokers crave.
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