by Sarah Coffey Mayor Bing’s Detroit Works Project claims to address Detroit’s “declining population and financial resources” through a process of redesigning the city. This enterprise, previously known as the […]
He intruded on a conversation amongst coffee sippers. “It runs on gyroscopes and electric motors.” He was a Wayne State cop on a Segway, recently arrived at Avalon, leaning forward […]
Nearly all the photos you see on the website and in the February/March 2011 issue are by Brad Duncan. Brad is a political activist and freelance journalist who was first […]
by Aaron Mondry For six short months beginning in the summer of 2010 I played poker for a living. I left my previous job disgruntled and had no interest in […]
by Triana Kazaleh-Sirdenis Perhaps you have heard of Soups but are not sure what they are or where they happen. A number of them have popped up in Detroit and […]
by Jackson Christopher Bartlett In the last year and a half, the national press has gone gaga over Slows Bar-BQ in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood. Given its great food and atmosphere, […]
by Paul Abowd Detroit broke ground on the nation’s first public housing for Black people in 1935. With New Deal money and the Roosevelts’ blessing, housing officials chose a chunk […]
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