Detroit Riverfront Have you noticed anything lately in Downtown Detroit? People on the Streets, People on Bikes, Riding around the beautiful city! This weekend we spent Sunday afternoon pedaling around downtown and the River Walk. There were people everywhere! Detroit’s East Riverfront is 3 ½ miles of Riverfront extending from Joe Louis Arena to Gabriel Richard Park, just beyond...
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Uber Detroit Car Service We are downtown a lot and LOVE the City of Detroit. We went to the City last night to see the Rodriguez Concert, have some dinner and drinks and enjoy a Saturday Date Night. We tried the new Uber Car Service for the first time and LOVED it. I assumed...
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We attended the Mike Kelly Exhibit last Saturday evening at MOCAD. I didn’t know much about him, however Nicole Rupersburg crafted an excellent article, reposted below, first published in Model D, Bravo Nicole! Mike Kelley’s last homecoming This is an oral history pieced together from interviews with people who knew Mike Kelley personally and professionally. Details are subject to...
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It was another tough season for the Pistons, one that ultimately cost head coach Lawrence Frank his job. Detroit won just 29 games, missing the playoffs for the fourth straight season. As bad as the season was for the Pistons, there is still hope for the immediate future. Photo: The Daily Tribune Greg...
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Held on the covered ice surface of the 11-time Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings! BrewHaHa Street Eats and Craft Beer Fest will feature samples of some of the best local and regional craft brews, boasting big tastes and hoppy in-your-face flavors. Guests will have the opportunity to taste a wide variety of beers...
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Atwater Brewing Co., the largest craft brewer in southeastern Michigan, has announced plans to expand its operation in nearly every aspect. Besides upgrading the riverfront brewery on Jos. Campau in Detroit (a $1 million project), owner Mark Rieth says he wants to open a second facility in the city of Detroit. “We don’t have...
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Started in San Francisco by an IT guy who hated hailing cabs (good luck even calling one here, bud), Uber uses a fleet of private cars to ferry you around town at the swipe of a screen. Just drop in your location to receive an estimated pick-up time, and then you can either track the GPS-equipped car moving...
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Justin Verlander, Miguel Cabrera, Prince Fielder and the rest of the Tigers may have been off in Florida for training, but that doesn’t mean we Detroiters forgot about them. It’s baseball season, and Motown hasn’t forgotten how close we were to a World Series last October. The team will be back in action at...
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Have a young one at home, or perhaps a niece or nephew visiting, or maybe you are just a Dinosaur Nerd from way back, well you are in luck, the Detroit Zoo is featuring DinoTrail, DinoStore and DinoSimulator Nineteen life-like animatronic dinosaurs that roar, snarl and move have taken up residence at the Detroit...
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Time is running short as the stunning wildlife images displayed as part of an exclusive showing of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibit at the Detroit Zoo vanish from our view with the show’s close on April 26. I’ve seen this annual show several times at the zoo, and it never fails...
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The Detroit Zoo is not resting on its laurels. Last November, the Zoo won a huge victory when voters in Oakland, Wayne, and Macomb counties overwhelmingly voted in favor of a 0.1-mill tax increase which will generate an additional estimated $15 million a year in revenue for the Zoo. Despite this infusion in...
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Detroit’s newcomer to the museum scene, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (known more affectionately as MOCAD), has a new director and a couple of new exhibitions, “Black Is, Black Ain’t” and “I Repeat Myself When Under Stress.” MOCAD is unique (and definitely worth a visit) for a couple of reasons. First, it does...
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