Category Archive: April/May 2011 Issue

Detroit Works Project: The Right(’s) Solution for Detroit

by Jackson Bartlett In the heat of the Great Recession, media, urban planners, developers, and later city and state officials have taken the opportunity to argue that the only solution for Detroit is… Read More

Detroit Public Schools: No News is Bad News

by Paul Abowd Throughout the last decade of upheaval in the Detroit Public Schools, various state-appointed managers of the district have reminded us it could be worse. And so Detroiters heard from Robert… Read More

Detroit: The Epicenter of the Struggle for Public Education

by Elena Herrada Representative                                            District 2, Detroit Public Schools Detroit Public Schools has been under an Emergency Financial Manager since 2009 when then-Democratic governor Jennifer Granholm hired Robert Bobb to balance the books.… Read More

After Tahrir? An Interview with Atef Said

Critical Moment got in touch with Atef Said, who returned to his native Egypt on February 6 to organize with human rights groups during the overthrow of dictator Hosni Mubarak. Said practiced human… Read More

Emergency Rules: Emerging Lessons from the Arab World and Midwest

by Triana Kazaleh-Sirdenis The uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa raise a number of questions for Arabs in Southeast Michigan: Where do our people go from here? How will we fit… Read More

Revisiting Robocop 3

by Meg Marotte If you live in Detroit and haven’t seen any of the RoboCop movies yet, go see them. Why are these silly action flicks from the 80’s still worthy of our… Read More

Marche du Nain Rouge: Keep on Truckin’?

by Paul Abowd More than 1,000 Detroiters described by the Detroit News as “hip urbanites” came out for the second Marche du Nain Rouge. The costumed crowd gathered outside 3rd Street Saloon to… Read More

The Art

A lot of money is spent on public relations and branding for various campaigns to revive Detroit, whether or not they ever come to fruition. City government, the foundations, and their PR machines… Read More

April/May Issue Cover!

Come on out to Cass Cafe tomorrow evening at 7:30 for our April/May issue release. Here’s a preview!