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 […]
Category Archives: April/May 2011 Issue
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!
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