NotesFor this crawl, Eaterâs team took a stroll up Conant Avenue â which between Harold and Davison Streets is known as Bangladesh Avenue â in search of biryani, curry, and more.FeedUnfurl
NotesThe Leland City Club is the first club I ever went to, and quickly went on to become the nighttime place that I unashamedly call home. City Clubâs not like any place else, for better or worse.Unfurl
NotesPoletown East is a neighborhood area of Detroit, Michigan bordering the enclave city of Hamtramck. The area was named after the Polish immigrants who originally lived in the area. A portion of residential area known as Poletown became the Hamtramck auto assembly plant in 1981 with those residents relocated by the city of Detroit which claimed eminent domain in order to make way for an automobile plantFeedUnfurl
NotesClassically Trained French Chef Tom Teknos, along with his partners Stavros Adamopoulos & Maurice bring their concept of a brunch cafe to Downtown Detroit. We believe in the importance of revitalizing Downtown, and our customers are an integral part in helping us play our role in the rebirth of this wonderful city. Come join us!Unfurl
NotesQuicken Loans has started the website www.valleytodetroit.com to promote the Motor City to Yahoo workers axed last week. Quickenâs businesses include mortgages, venture capital and sports graphics.FeedUnfurl
NotesI'm very happy that Barlow has fallen in love with Downtown Detroit and everything that it has to offer him -- from grocery stores no one in the suburbs think exist to the dry cleaners where he drops off his shirts. Whether Barlow realizes it or not, through his words he has brought the late Mayor Coleman A. Young back to life. Or at least the former mayor's sentiment. In his twenty years in office, Mayor Young successfully drew a sharp divide between the residents of the City of Detroit and the suburbanites. The race riots of the late 1960s forced middle class whites to flee the city, but it was Mayor Young who kept them away. The polarizing mayor made the Eight Mile border a dividing landmark between the races. I'm afraid Barlow isn't helping matters today.Unfurl
NotesYou may know this already, but the one thing I've learned since I moved here is that many, if not most, of the people who identify themselves as being from "Detroit" have really no idea what Detroit is like. That's because they really live in, say, Novi, Warren, even neighboring Redford, and haven't explored downtown in years. Holding onto mythologies perpetuated by a hysterical press over the past quarter century, they cling to the belief that there are no grocery stores in the city (we actually have 115) and still ask me where I get my dry cleaning done (for the last time, I get my dry cleaning done at the dry cleaners.) They've been to the Fox, to Comerica Park, and maybe waited in line at Slows, but they haven't been to MOCAD, Astro Coffee, D'Mongo's, Good Girls Go to Paris, Le Petit Zinc, Supino's Pizza or any of the other places that have popped up over the past half-decade. Unfurl
Notes The jobs of 1,000 city employees in Detroit, or about 9 percent of that cityâs public work force, will be eliminated early next year, Mayor Dave Bing announced on Friday, adding new, painful details to his plan to save the city from running out of money. Unfurl
NotesThinkProgress:Michigan City Removes Streetlights In Desperate Budget Cut â States and cities around the country have desperately slashed spending in the face of record budget deficits, including unpaving roads, shrinking schools, closing libraries, and even a failed attempt to decriminalize ...FeedUnfurl
Notes The conversation continues with Detroit philosopher and activist Grace Lee Boggs. Grace has more than 70 years experience as a movement activist and offers this message to the 99%.EmbedUnfurl
Notes"So we are getting closer and closer to moving into our new space in Ferndale and oh boy what a space it is. With 8000 Sq. Ft. of space and lots to look forward to we thought we would share some photos from this past weekend"Unfurl
Notes"Crop selection will depend on the soil conditions of the plots that Hantz acquires. Experts insist that most of the land is not irretrievably toxic. The majority of the lots now vacant in Detroit were residential, not industrial; the biggest problem is how compacted the soil is. For the most part the farms will focus on high-margin edibles: peaches, berries, plums, nectarines, and exotic greens. Score says that the first crops are likely to be lettuce and heirloom tomatoes."Unfurl
NotesWow. I totally missed this. "About 485 employees of BBDO Detroit have been given notice the office will close Jan. 26 because Chrysler Group LLC has not negotiated continued contracts with the longtime advertising agency."Unfurl
Notes"Make Magazine editor and publisher Dale Dougherty has just announced Maker Faire Detroit which will take place July 31-August 1, 2010 at The Henry Ford Museum."FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"Make Magazine editor and publisher Dale Dougherty has just announced Maker Faire Detroit which will take place July 31-August 1, 2010 at The Henry Ford Museum."
Make Magazine editor and publisher Dale Dougherty has just announced Maker Faire Detroit which will take place July 31-August 1, 2010 at The Henry FordFeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh, wait, that's not The Onion. "Imagine for a moment that this trend continues â might Detroit become some sort of independent city-state, a mildly anarchic rough-and-ready town where the price of freedom is a willingness to work hard for yourself and with your neighbours?"FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"Detroit talk show hosts Jeff Deminski and Bill Doyle and Station Manager Doug Podell aired reprehensible comments by hosts and listeners encouraging violence against bicyclists."Unfurl
Notes"And that fire is likely to be burning this morning, because the Packard Plant is too dangerous for Detroit firefighters to enter after dark, so they had to let it burn Monday night. ... The complex is owned by a company called Bioresource Inc., which emerged with the title after a lengthy court battle with the City of Detroit. City officials say the firm has failed to pay Detroit taxes since it bought the plant in 1987. State records show Bioresource has not filed an annual report since 2000 and was declared dissolved by the state in 2003."Unfurl
Notes"Think about the whole process in 2009: Patti was able get free consulting and find a solution to a very real problem with, literally, no money changing hands. Open advice, open process, open communications (all the way from teacher Patti to author Cory), open content. End result: Detroit Public School kids get award winning reading material at no cost to the school or any of the people who helped make it happen."Unfurl
Notes"Situated in the historic Addison Building in the Brush Park District, Atlas offers diners the complete upscale dining experience â exquisite food, expertly prepared and presented in a classic and urban ambience"Unfurl
Notes"100 years ago this year, the founders of General Motors convinced the world to give up their horses and saddles and buggy whips to try a new form of transportation. Now it is time for us to say goodbye to the internal combustion engine. It seemed to serve us well for so long. We enjoyed the car hops at the A&W. We made out in the front -- and the back -- seat. We watched movies on large outdoor screens, went to the races at NASCAR tracks across the country, and saw the Pacific Ocean for the first time through the window down Hwy. 1. And now it's over. It's a new day and a new century. The President -- and the UAW -- must seize this moment and create a big batch of lemonade from this very sour and sad lemon. "Unfurl
Notes"There are two levels to the variety of retail participants. One, are those who simply accept Cheers as currency on a one to one with the US Dollar. The 3 Cheers note is worth 3 dollars; and change will be issued in us currency for purchases made with cheers when the cost of the item is less. The second are those who issue the currency and are identified on the tail side of the bill. The commitment of those who issue is that they will always keep in cash reserve the amount of their issue. Confidence in the notes are equal to the trust you have in the people behind them. The notes are expensive to produce and are as real as money, please do not treat them as paper, do not take them if you are not going to spend them. "Unfurl
Notes"As you probably know, Detroitâs industry is not doing so well, but a growing wave of entrepreneurs and freelancers have been given cause to fill the gap. While working from a home office has many benefits, sometimes people who work alone all day start to go a little nuts. Even though we are more connected than weâve ever been, itâs easy to feel lonely without other people present. I was introduced to the concept of co-working by my friend Naoko McCracken and I immediately recognized that this was something that was missing from my life. Iâve been working alone from home for almost a year now and my only companion is my whining, socially inept dog. I realized that when I started talking to myself a few months ago, something needed to change."Unfurl
Notes"But the city offers a much greater attraction for artists than $100 houses. Detroit right now is just this vast, enormous canvas where anything imaginable can be accomplished. From Tyree Guytonâs Heidelberg Project (think of a neighborhood covered in shoes and stuffed animals and youâre close) to Matthew Barneyâs âAncient Eveningsâ project (think Egyptian gods reincarnated as Ford Mustangs and youâre kind of close), local and international artists are already leveraging Detroitâs complex textures and landscapes to their own surreal ends. "Unfurl
Notes"In short, my view is that if GM canât figure out ways to get their managers and executives to understand the experience of owning a car for the average person, if they canât get rid of those jets, and if they canât reduce the number of brands, and if they canât make a host of other changes required to make them competitive, than my answer is âno, you canât have our money.â "Unfurl
Notes"In February 1995, working in conjunction with nutritionists at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, I adopted a super fiber-rich diet which allowed me to successfully produce a single extruded excrement the exact length of my colon: 26 feet. I documented the extrusion at the Cranbrook-Kingswood High School Bowling Alley, Bloomfield Hills, MI, which offered a length of floor suitable for the process and measuring the results. The cathartic diet was supplemented by a high intake of Metamucil fiber substance. The weeklong endurance prior to the event was ensured by the employment of a plug specifically designed to curtail any premature excretions."Unfurl
Notes"Join us for demo night on October 15, 2008 at the Wayne State University Undergraduate Library. Celebrate with us as we have our first Refresh Detroit meeting in the city of Detroit!"Unfurl
Notes"His plea deal: 120 days in jail, $1M restitution ... Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who will lose his job because he lied while under oath at a police whistle-blower trial, has just pledged to tell the truth as he prepares to admit his guilt as part of a plea deal he just struck with the Wayne County Prosecutor."Unfurl
Notes"Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's tenure as mayor of Detroit is over. He just entered into a plea agreement, according to prosecutor Lisa Lindsey."Unfurl
Notes"So far the idea is just a dream but I think that with enough support and hard work Bar Camp Detroit can be a truly awesome community run event."Unfurl
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