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A GreenWay Runs Through It
Picture it: A plain gray slab of concrete, perhaps four foot wide. It's large enough for a couple to walk side by side or a couple of kids to race along. It's surrounded by trees, a green field and two...
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An Eye for the Past -- and Future
Intriguing story (once again) out of Sheri Welch over at Crain's Detroit. She reports in the magazine's most recent edition that the Heidelberg Project may be in line for significant funding from local...
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Get Some 'Rhythm, Roots & Rhyme'
If you have some time tonight – and some impressive rhyming skills – go check out the Detroit Jazz Fest's first poetry slam. In partnership with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History...
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Accelerating Detroit or A New Gospel
Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be a spy. I carried a tiny note pad around to record my observations. I snuck up on my brother and sister to see what they were doing. My favorite childhood...
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A Spiritual Experience of a Different Sort
Today, I want you to deviate from your normal life and make a special stop: On the Rise Bakery in Detroit. Yes, it's for a good cause – the Capuchin Soup Kitchen owns and operates the place. That's...
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Podcast: School Is in, Parents are Watching
Last school year, Detroit Public Schools emergency financial manager Robert Bobb announced the closing of 49 schools, though now reduced to 32, a budget shortfall of $332 million, and a sharp drop in...
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Taking a Walk Through Detroit
Okay, I'm lame. There. I've said it. And beyond the obvious reasons, it's most because it took me this long to finally visit the Dequindre Cut. My peeps and I recently took a stroll through this...
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A Literary Arts & Film Festival to Honor Michigan Talent
Earlier this year, ten people sat in a meeting at the Community House, a nonprofit dedicated to cultural, social and educational enrichment, in the Detroit suburb of Birmingham. First question on the...
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Our Donation to Detroit
The home of Assignment Detroit, a house in the city's West Village neighborhood that served as a residence for Time Inc.'s journalists during the yearlong project, will now have a new purpose. Time...
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A Detroit Food Bank Gets Food To Where It's Needed Most
Since 2001, the number of people requesting food from southwest Michigan's pantries, shelters and soup kitchens has increased by approximately 70 percent. Gleaners Community Food Bank is trying to do...
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