The Toronto Star highlights the magic of the Motor City

The Toronto Star‘s travel section takes a trip to Detroit, displaying that, though the city isn’t perfect, it’s still beautiful and inspiring and chalked full of character.

Excerpt:

Yes, the brutal hand of history has left Detroit’s formerly
glamorous city centre bereft of the human energy needed to fill its
imposing skyscrapers.

That doesn’t override the city’s equally
imposing artistic and industrial accomplishments – of which we remind
ourselves by rattling off its nicknames.

There’s Motor City, of
course: and this summer, Detroit is beefing up its auto-themed events
to celebrate both the 100th anniversary of the founding of General
Motors and the 100th anniversary of Henry Ford selling his first Model
T.

There’s “Detroit Rock City,” thanks to bands like
The Von Bondies and The White Stripes, and Motown for a playlist
stocked with Marvin Gaye, the Jackson Five, Stevie Wonder and The
Supremes.

It seems like every time Detroit has taken a hit, it
surges impossibly back, and this cycle lends itself to colourful
retelling by a population that is both gregarious and prideful.

Read the entire article here.