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Jazz mentoring hitting the right notes in Midtown

Veronica Grandison Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Instruction at Michigan State's Detroit Community Music School is done by working musicians and educators who are giving back some of the same elite training they received as students. Gather round as Veronica Grandison tunes into the scene.

This week in Detroit, love is all you need

Kelli Kavanaugh Wednesday, February 19, 2014

This is a healthy sign: we can't remember a Valentine's Day in Detroit proper (and Hamtramck) filled with so many events, from music to skating to indie retail fun in a long, long time. Kelli Kavanaugh puts together a hot list of cool things to do this week.

Woodbridge, Hamtramck, Southwest, Corktown, The Villages, Eastern Market, Midtown

Experience Detroit: Get your hyperlocal kicks with AirBnB

Matthew Lewis Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Whether you're a traveler looking for an alternative to staying at a downtown hotel, or a local looking to explore what life is like in other neighborhoods, staying at a Detroit AirBnB could be an awesome experience. Matthew Lewis gives us a few options.

Celebrate Year of the Horse at Detroit-Chinese gala event

Model D staff Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Gov. Snyder is the keynote speaker at this high level international gala at Cobo Center. It's a celebration of the Chinese Year of the Horse, historically a good time to forge new business relationships.

Downtown

Detroit may be bankrupt, but it�s 600 feet above sea level

Francis Grunow Wednesday, February 19, 2014

In part three of his series on neighborhood, Francis Grunow goes big picture and places Detroit within a context of global warming, blue/green infrastructure and sustainability over the next 100 years.

Opinion: Social entrepreneurship is sick

Tunde Wey Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Writer and social entrepreneur Tunde Wey calls out the very hand that feeds him in this wide-ranging and romantic meditation on doers, fixers and problem solvers that reaches back to Henry Ford and looks forward to a more self-aware future.

City kids: Building networks for success

Matthew Lewis Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Youth Employment Solutions and the Detroit Youth Development Commission's employment program help young people in Detroit develop skills needed to find jobs and prepare themselves for a better future. Matthew Lewis heads to Denby High to check it out.

Open City: Take your business to the next level

Model D staff Wednesday, February 19, 2014

The group, which aims to strenghen the local business community, is partnering with Bamboo Detroit on this event, held Feb. 17, 6 p.m. at Cliff Bell's in downtown Detroit. Here's a preview.

Downtown

Urban dwellers: Detroit attracting city lovers with adventurous spirit

Dennis Archambault Wednesday, February 19, 2014

They're coming from New York and from the suburbs to live in a great city at a transitional time in its history. Call them empty nesters or just call them people of good taste finding the lifestyle they seek in Detroit. Dennis Archambault talks to three recent transplants.

Palmer Park's turnaround and neighborhood revival

Matthew Piper Sunday, February 09, 2014

Great things are happening in Palmer Park, the historic, 296-acre greenspace and adjacent apartment district, which features a jaw-dropping collection of buildings built between 1925 and 1965. Matthew Piper surveys the past, present and future plans for the neighborhood.

Palmer Park / University District

Detroit, get ready for transit-oriented development

NIna Ignaczak Sunday, February 09, 2014

Public officials and developers across the region are preparing to reap the economic potential of functional transit, something many cities across the country have already done. How it gets done in Detroit is critical to its success, writes Nina Ignaczak.

Palmer Park / University District, Midtown, New Center, Downtown

City Kids: Nurturing Detroit's gardens of love

Amy Kuras Sunday, February 09, 2014

The productive green space is part of the Detroit School Garden Collaborative, a partnership between the Detroit Public Schools and the Greening of Detroit. Amy Kuras eagerly looks forward to planting season in this report.

Open City's 'Who's the boss?' recapped

Aaron Mondry Sunday, February 09, 2014

So, how exactly are cooperative businesses structured? Last week's Open City panel talked of "one person, one vote," and "dynamic governance." Aaron Mondry was there and gets into the nitty gritty of the discussion in this report.

Lessons learned from M.L. King: "Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

Joel Batterman Friday, January 24, 2014

The author, a Michigan native who attended college in Oregon before moving to Detroit a few years ago, wants to be part of the solution here while remaining sensitive to longstanding issues of race. Joel Batterman calls on the legacy of Martin Luther King in this essay.

What if we really were one Detroit?

Francis Grunow Friday, January 24, 2014

In Part II of his creative look at how neighborhood life has evolved in Detroit, Francis Grunow goes back over 300 years -- older than our nation itself -- to explore how we came to the footprint we have today, and how things might look under a greater municipal regional entitiy.

Midtown