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Gordie Howe bridge will open July 27 after Canada and Michigan reach deal
The Gordie Howe International Bridge will open on July 27, connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, after Canada and Michigan reached a deal that resolved a delay. The Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority confirmed the date on July 10.
Life Remodeled opens Anchor Detroit, a nearly 72,000-square-foot opportunity hub on the east side
Life Remodeled has opened Anchor Detroit, a nearly 72,000-square-foot opportunity hub inside the former Dominican High School in Denby, bringing afterschool youth programs, workforce development, and health and wellness resources to Detroit's east side.
District 7 breaks ground on its first indoor community center
Construction started June 26 on the approximately 25,000-sq-ft Brennan Community Center at Rouge Park, backed by $20M from Pistons owner Tom Gores, filling a gap that left District 7 as the only part of Detroit without an indoor rec center.
Detroit to pack Campus Martius yet again for USA-Belgium's round of 16 rematch
Detroit City FC opens Campus Martius again Monday for USA vs. Belgium, a round of 16 rematch of 2014 with a shot at the program's second-ever quarterfinal.
Kresge Arts in Detroit names 2026 Fellows and Gilda Award winners
Kresge Arts in Detroit named 20 metro Detroit artists as 2026 Fellows and Gilda Award recipients, sending $50,000 and $5,000 no-strings grants to dancers, filmmakers, and musicians.
Detroit Bookfest returning to Eastern Market on July 19 for its ninth year
The 9th Annual Detroit Festival of Books lands at Eastern Market on July 19, free and open to all, with more than 300 vendors, a two-day bookstore weekend, and a children's book drive.
Bedrock raises 141-foot flag over Hudson's Detroit for America's 250th
Bedrock raised a 141-by-85-foot American flag over Hudson's Detroit for the Fourth of July, reviving a Woodward Avenue tradition dating to 1923.
Four hours from Detroit, Electric Forest was worth the drive, storm and all
Four hours up the road, Electric Forest sold out for its 14th year.
A Davis Aerospace student flies solo, the first in 11 years, as the school heads back to City Airport
A Davis Aerospace Technical High School senior became the first student to complete a solo flight since 2015, just as the Detroit district moves the aviation school back to Coleman A. Young International Airport for fall 2026.
DSO heads back to Clark Park Saturday for a free Southwest Detroit Festival
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra plays a free afternoon festival at Clark Park on Saturday, June 27, with folklorico dance, student violinists, and food.
New Detroit report calls for stronger career pathways for The City's young people
Detroit Future City and the Skillman Foundation released a report urging educators and employers to build stronger school-to-career links for Detroit's young people.
Ford Fireworks are Monday. Here's what you need to know.
Your guide to Monday's 68th Ford Fireworks: four free viewing areas, Belle Isle access, transit changes, road closures, and an 8 p.m. youth curfew.
A dental pipeline program built for shortage areas is heading to Michigan
Planet Smilez, a nonprofit that introduces underserved students to oral health careers, says Michigan sessions are next, including a stop at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry.
A souvenir Shop just opened at Campus Martius, inside a shipping container
The Downtown Detroit Partnership opened The Shop at Campus Martius, a shipping container in the park selling Detroit-made goods with Carhartt backing.
MOCAD reopens with a 45-year retrospective for Olayami Dabls
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is back open after an eight-month renovation, and its first slate centers Detroit artists, led by a career-spanning show for bead museum founder Olayami Dabls that runs through July 12.
Detroit homeowners have until June 30 to lock in A Reduced property tax rate
Wayne County's reduced-interest payment plan for delinquent property taxes is set to expire June 30, and Treasurer Eric Sabree is urging homeowners to enroll before the deadline.
Greektown's main Street is reopening right as the World Cup begins
A long-closed stretch of Monroe Street in Greektown reopens to pedestrians just as World Cup watch parties fill downtown Detroit.
Michigan Central's new coworking space gives Corktown's innovation campus a wider front door
The Mezz, a 17,000-square-foot coworking space on the mezzanine of Michigan Central Station, opened in April with Michigan Central memberships starting at $300 a month.
Spot Lite's 22,000-Square-Foot Islandview home hits the Market at $1.75 million
The Beaufait Street building that housed Spot Lite Detroit is listed for $1,750,000 as owners Roula David and Jesse Cory step away from nightlife at the end of June.
Detroit passes 8 PM curfew for Fireworks night as the City gears up for June 22 show
City Council voted 6 to 2 to set an 8 PM curfew for unaccompanied minors in the downtown fireworks zone on June 22, two hours before the show.
Detroit records roughly 1,000 land contracts a year, and a new report says buyers need more protection
A Detroit Future City report counts more than 17,000 land contract sales since 2008 and calls the financing tool a lasting fixture of the city's housing market, especially for immigrant and lower-income buyers who cannot get a mortgage.
Detroit weighs ShotSpotter exit as council questions $2.06M extension
DPD wants a 9-month, $2.06 million extension to keep ShotSpotter running while the city weighs three bids. A council committee is asking whether the money belongs elsewhere.
Two hundred Jefferson-Chalmers residents take to the canals in protest
More than 200 east side residents launched a flotilla through the neighborhood's canals to oppose a city plan that could shut them off.
Detroit small business owners know social media is essential. Showing up every day is the hard part.
For Detroit entrepreneurs like Hatch Detroit winner Trice Clark, social media fills every workshop seat. The hard part is finding time to record the work.
Fowling Warehouse, the game's Detroit birthplace, closes June 27
Founder Chris Hutt says the original Hamtramck warehouse is no longer sustainable. Its last day, June 27, doubles as the annual Motor City Open.
Spot Lite and UFO Bar close at the end of June as owners leave nightlife
Roula David and Jesse Cory will close Spot Lite on June 28 and UFO Bar on June 30, stepping away from nightlife. UFO Bar's space is set to reopen as Detroit Vinyl Bar.
Detroit City FC's new Stadium pushed to 2028, but Keyworth is ready for one more year
Detroit City FC pushed AlumniFi Field's opening to spring 2028, a year later than planned. The club spends another season at Keyworth Stadium in Hamtramck.
The PWHL Draft comes to Detroit's Fox Theatre on Wednesday. Here's what to know.
The 2026 PWHL Draft lands at the Fox Theatre on Wednesday at 5 p.m., after Detroit traded its third overall pick to Las Vegas for Hilary Knight.
Detroit is America's only UNESCO City of Design. Yes, really.
Detroit has been the only U.S. city to hold the UNESCO City of Design title since 2015, a designation most people would guess belongs to New York or Chicago.
Detroit's Green Grocer Program returns with 18 stores funded and a path for more
The city-backed program is seeding neighborhood stores with grants up to $25,000, with 18 locations now in its network and applications expected to reopen.
Detroit sets 8 p.m. curfew for minors during the Ford Fireworks
An emergency ordinance bars unaccompanied minors from a large stretch of downtown after 8 p.m. on June 22, the night of the Ford Fireworks, with parents facing fines for violations.
Six PGA Tour stars will hit golf balls off a Downtown Detroit rooftop on July 28
Six PGA Tour players will hit shots from the rooftop of a Woodward Avenue building on July 28 in a new Rocket Classic event called Par 3 in the D.
Mayor Sheffield releases 116-page Detroit quality-of-life report built from thousands of resident voices
Detroit's Rise Higher Community Framework, drawn from more than 8,000 survey responses across 39 zip codes, names neighborhoods, jobs, safety, and transit as resident priorities.
Inside the trees: a Detroit reader's field guide to Electric Forest 2026
Electric Forest runs June 25 to 28 in Rothbury, a few hours west of Detroit, and one of its co-headliners grew up just outside the city.
The University of Michigan just broke ground on a 313-Unit tower in Detroit. It's a 40-Year commitment.
The University of Michigan broke ground on Founders House, a 313-unit tower at 2205 Cass Avenue for graduate students and faculty, on a 40-year lease.
Detroit City FC's mascot Friendly was stolen, then back within a weekend
Detroit City FC asked the city to help find Friendly, its dumpster-born bear mascot, after the costume was stolen from a staffer's car in New Center, and a good Samaritan turned it up within a day.
The doctor who bought RenCen Tower 600 is dropping the office plan for a hotel
Stockbridge Enterprises, the firm that paid more than nine million dollars for the Renaissance Center's Tower 600 in 2025, has reworked its plans around a 200-room hotel and 92 residences after office interest never materialized.
Detroit's third graders are reading better than they have in 11 years
DPSCD students are gaining ground in reading and math faster than most districts in the country, and the people running the schools point to a few specific moves that got them there.
Belle Isle's koi fish are in the basement, waiting out a 75-year overdue renovation
Belle Isle's koi are living in the aquarium basement while a $10 million HVAC overhaul gets underway, the first major systems work on the 1904 building in 75 years.
More than 700 free bikes, Skilla Baby, and 10 weeks of programming: Detroit kicked off 'Occupy The Summer
Mayor Mary Sheffield launched a 10-week citywide youth initiative with more than 700 free bikes, a Skilla Baby set, and late-night rec center hours through August 14.
Detroit showed up: fans pack Campus Martius for USA's World Cup opener
Detroit City FC hosted a free watch party at Campus Martius as the United States beat Paraguay 4 to 1 to open the 2026 World Cup, with more parties set for June 19 and June 25.
Detroit ranked No. 1 in America for downtown stickiness
Gensler's City Pulse 2026 names Detroit the stickiest downtown in America, ranking it first among the 34 U.S. cities studied for how often people visit and how long they stay.
Twenty-five painted drums put American stories across Detroit for the 250th
The Stories of Us has 25 painted drum sculptures on view across Detroit through July 22, marking the country's 250th anniversary with art and recorded stories.
37 Detroit neighborhood groups join one $27 million fund, the biggest round yet
Enterprise Community Partners has opened the third and largest phase of its Community Development Organization Fund, pooling 37 Detroit neighborhood groups under a single $27 million, three-year effort.
Twenty people rescued after seven sailboats capsize near Belle Isle
A line of thunderstorms capsized seven sailboats near Belle Isle on Wednesday evening, sending people into the Detroit River in a rescue that drew fire crews, harbor police, and private boaters.
Pine Hall opens Thursday on the 12th floor of Hudson's Detroit
Pine Hall, a rooftop bar from Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group, opens June 11 on the 12th floor of Hudson's Detroit, named for the old J.L. Hudson Pine Room.
The Rocket Classic's final summer in Detroit brings its best field yet
Detroit's PGA Tour event ends after 2026. Its final field is the strongest yet, with three top-10 players committed for July 30 to August 2 at Detroit Golf Club.
Detroit dresses Spirit of Detroit in orange to open a month of action against gun violence
Detroit opened Gun Violence Awareness Month by dressing the Spirit of Detroit in orange, then marched in Islandview for the 19th year running.
What does it mean when your parish stops holding Mass? Inside Detroit's historic Catholic church restructuring
At least 58 parishes may stop hosting weekend Mass under the Archdiocese of Detroit's restructuring. That is not the same as closing a church. Here is what it means.
Detroit's assessor wants nonprofits at a June 10 summit before tax bills pile up
The city's Office of the Assessor is running a free June 10 summit to help Detroit nonprofits and churches secure the property tax exemption many wrongly assume they already have.
Detroit residents get a final say this week on Cooley High's demolition
DPSCD will tear down the 1928 Cooley High this summer for a sports complex. A meeting Wednesday is residents' last chance to weigh in before work begins.
Olympic gold medalist Hilary Knight, Team USA's captain at Milan Cortina, is headed to PWHL Detroit
Hilary Knight, who captained Team USA to gold at the Milan Cortina Olympics, is joining PWHL Detroit through a sign-and-trade with Las Vegas.
Detroit's city airport opens its first new facility in 60 years
Avflight's new fixed-base operator complex opened June 3 at Coleman A. Young International Airport, the first facility built there in six decades.
Heat index near 100 expected midweek as Detroit opens cooling centers across the city
A heat advisory covers much of Southeast Michigan midweek, with the heat index near 100. Detroit has opened recreation centers and libraries as cooling sites.
Detroit's first new bridge to Canada in nearly a century gets its ribbon cutting on June 12
The Gordie Howe International Bridge, Detroit's new cable-stayed crossing to Windsor, is set for a ribbon cutting on Friday, June 12, with traffic to follow June 15.
A neglected Detroit River fishing spot in Delray could get a second look from the state
Delray Park, a little-known fishing spot on DTE-owned land in southwest Detroit, may see new investment as the state and the utility discuss its future.
Detroit City FC is bringing free World Cup watch parties to Campus Martius and Mexicantown this June
Detroit City FC is hosting six free World Cup watch parties in June, splitting USA matches between Campus Martius and the City Fieldhouse and Mexico matches outside Los Galanes.
Belle Isle Beach cleanup set for June 20 ahead of peak summer crowds
The Cleanup Club and the Belle Isle Conservancy host a free shoreline cleanup at the Belle Isle Beach House on Saturday, June 20, from 10 a.m. to noon, open to anyone.
The Freight Yard is now open on weekends all summer along the Dequindre Cut
The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy's seasonal beer garden on the Dequindre Cut runs Saturdays and Sundays through September, with lawn games, food vendors, and free Sunday house sets.
A 1,000-mile ride across Michigan ends in Detroit, with economic abuse as its subject
Cyclist and writer Laura Killingbeck is riding across both peninsulas to document economic abuse, ending in Detroit on July 20 in partnership with Michigan's orsa credit union.
Free Friday movies return to Campus Martius, July 3 through August 28
The Downtown Detroit Partnership brings Movie Nights in the D back to Campus Martius Park with nine free Friday screenings this summer.
KPMG is bringing 420 workers to Michigan Central Station
KPMG plans to move 420 Detroit-area employees from 150 West Jefferson into Michigan Central Station in 2027, joining a growing roster of office tenants.
Dutch Girl Donuts opens the door to its second shop on National Donut Day
Dutch Girl Donuts gives Detroiters a first look at its second shop on East Grand Boulevard this Friday, with two free donuts per visitor and boxed dozens for $20.
DPSCD confirms full demolition of Cooley High School this summer
Detroit Public Schools Community District will raze the 1928 Cooley building in full this summer, dropping its partial-preservation plan. A $25 million sports complex follows.
Detroit teens spend the summer building an engine from scratch
The Engine Building Bootcamp returns for its fourth year, putting Detroit middle and high schoolers on the wrench for five free weeks this summer.
An Air Force veteran is building a youth hub on Detroit's east side
Damon Williams came home to East English Village to launch Outside the Box, a youth hub linking Detroit teenagers to city resources and neighborhood partners, and introduced it with a community basketball game.
Baker's Keyboard Lounge closes for a refresh, with a June return on Livernois
Detroit's oldest continuously operating jazz club shut its doors on Livernois for a roughly month long renovation, with new bathrooms, a refreshed stage and bar, and a new patio promised for a June reopening.
Rent Free Coffee and Community, a coffee shop and listening venue, is headed to Eastern Market
Rent Free Coffee and Community, a daytime coffee shop and evening bar built around recorded music, is coming to Eastern Market from Detroit owner Lamont Leak.
Mid-century Detroit, one lunch break at a time: Norman Zadoorian's photos now at Detroit Historical Museum
Forty photographs from Norman Zadoorian's mid-century Detroit street work are on view at the Detroit Historical Museum through May 15, 2027.
From tire piles to beautification contracts: how Audra Carson built Izzie Global
Detroit's onetime Tire Lady traded three decades as a corporate analyst for a cleanup mission, and her company Izzie Global now keeps lots, parks, and corridors clear across the city.
CCS's 101st student exhibition is open through May 29
The College for Creative Studies has turned its campus into a gallery of thousands of pieces for the 101st time. The show is free and runs through May 29.
Bedrock clears out Millender Center retail ahead of RenCen overhaul
The handful of shops left in the downtown complex have until the end of August to leave, as owner Bedrock prepares for the $1.6 billion Renaissance Center redevelopment next door.
Detroit is hiring its first retail attraction director to court national chains
The city is creating a Senior Director of Retail Attraction at the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation, part of Mayor Mary Sheffield's push to draw national and regional brands into downtown and the neighborhoods.
Detroit school board previews $1.1 billion budget with raises and a warning about the years after
The Detroit district's proposed 2026-27 budget funds pay raises, more counselors, and a wider bus pilot, while Superintendent Nikolai Vitti cautions that the money behind those programs runs out after next year.
The house on East Ferry Street is the subject of a Smithsonian director's DIA lecture next month
Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art director Chase Robinson lectures at the DIA on June 7 about Charles Lang Freer, the Detroit industrialist whose 1906 gift founded a national museum.
DJ Minx and Dom Dolla close Movement 2026 on Memorial Day Monday
Movement's twentieth year under Paxahau closed Memorial Day at Hart Plaza with DJ Minx finishing the Pyramid Stage and Dom Dolla closing the Movement Stage.
The Detroit Zoo opens its Erb Discovery Trails, seven acres built for kids
The Detroit Zoo has opened the Fred and Barbara Erb Discovery Trails, a seven acre stretch of animal encounters, climbing structures, and a stingray touch pool that the zoo calls the largest project in its history.
Detroit's electronic music museum still needs a home
MODEM lost its Packard Plant site when the city killed that redevelopment, and now its founder is hunting for a more central building.
Detroit violence intervention groups run free teen flag football league for the summer
Five community violence intervention groups put a free flag football league on the field at Chandler Park, using the games as a way to reach teens with a season of conflict resolution work.
Detroit's skyline runs blue and green all month for NF awareness
Through May, downtown landmarks are glowing in the two colors of neurofibromatosis awareness, the visible edge of a Detroit research effort the Gilbert family built after losing their son Nick.
A Movement weekend built on Detroit techno, with Carl Craig twice and a Borderland set
Carl Craig plays Movement twice, Juan Atkins reunites with Moritz von Oswald for a Borderland set, and Dopplereffekt closes out a Saturday night when the festival returns to Hart Plaza May 23 to 25.
JerJuan Howard opens the Howard Family Bookstore at Puritan and Lesure
JerJuan Howard turned a long-vacant building at 13803 Puritan into a bookstore, cafe, and community space on Detroit's west side.
State backs a 3D concrete-printing company's move into Detroit's Newlab
Michigan approved a $1.6 million grant to help Alquist 3D build a robotics and workforce-training center at Newlab in Corktown.
Detroit's bankruptcy case is officially closed
A federal judge signed a final decree closing Detroit's Chapter 9 case, ending 13.5 years of court supervision over the city's finances.
Belle Isle adds a perimeter cycle track and flips part of Central Avenue before Memorial Day
The state is restriping Belle Isle so cyclists can loop the whole island without crossing traffic, and reversing part of Central Avenue to ease congestion near the beach.
Mike Duggan ends his independent run for Michigan governor
The former Detroit mayor closed an 18-month independent bid for governor Thursday, citing a poll deficit and an independent fundraising network he said was still too young to compete.
Detroit's first Juneteenth music festival features Kash Doll, Babytron and Fetty Wap
The inaugural Hart of Detroit Summer Festival takes over Hart Plaza on June 19 with Kash Doll, Babytron and Fetty Wap headlining an all-day Juneteenth lineup.
Pine Knob opens its 2026 season Saturday with Kid Cudi and a new marquee
Pine Knob Music Theatre launches a 45-show outdoor season May 23 with Kid Cudi, anchored by Jack White's first-ever outdoor set in July and a debut digital marquee at the Clarkston gates.
Detroit makes it official: Techno Week lands as Movement turns 20
Mayor Mary Sheffield signed a proclamation naming May 18 to 25 Detroit Techno Week, timed to Movement's 20th edition at Hart Plaza.
Topa, a rooftop bar atop the AC Hotel in Brush Park, opens for the season
The Roxbury Group's new rooftop bar on the AC Hotel Detroit at the Bonstelle brings a Mediterranean and California coastal menu to the top of the Woodward corridor in Brush Park.
Why Detroit ratepayers carry the region's water bill
Detroit water and sewer rates climb again in July, and a researcher's history of the regional system shows why city households pay a heavier share than the suburbs they treat sewage for.
'Big Jim' O'Brien exits WCSX after 24 years, says he is staying in Detroit
Jim O'Brien, the longtime 'Big Jim' of 94.7 WCSX, announced the end of his run at the classic rock station and said he plans to stay in metro Detroit.
Concert of Colors to pay tribute to WGPR-TV's 'The Scene' at July festival
Don Was and his Detroit All Star Revue will salute WGPR-TV's 'The Scene' at the DIA on July 18, in a set dedicated to late Concert of Colors founder Ismael Ahmed.
A Dearborn shelter dropped 'Pawchella' after a Coachella legal threat. The donations rolled in anyway.
Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit renamed its June fundraiser to Pawfest after lawyers for Coachella objected to the 'chella' in the original name, and the shelter says support has only grown.
Detroit's population grows a third straight year, new Census estimates show
New Census Bureau estimates put Detroit at 649,095 residents, a third consecutive year of growth after nearly seven decades of decline.
Vinyl lounge and cafe coming to Southwest Detroit
Tigris, a hi-fi listening bar and cafe, is set to open this summer at 2545 Bagley St. in Southwest Detroit.
Motor City Cinematheque steps in where Detroit's art theatres left off
After Main Art Theatre was demolished and Cinema Detroit went to a pop-up model, John Monaghan and Kevin Maher started a roving art film series across metro Detroit.
Danny Brown brings 15 years of catalog to Movement's 20th
Danny Brown headlines Movement's Saturday bill at Hart Plaza, arriving on a recent EDM pivot and a new dance single that has become a Detroit spring anthem.
Heidelberg Project names new executive director, moves toward arts hub model
Colleen McLellan will take over as executive director in July, as the Heidelberg Project begins a renovation of its Number House into rentable arts space.
Detroit lands a PWHL franchise for 2026-27
Detroit will join the Professional Women's Hockey League as its ninth team next season, playing at Little Caesars Arena, with fans placing thousands of season-ticket deposits in the first day.
After the pulse drops on Kercheval
When Movement clears out of Hart Plaza, the city's come-down lands in smaller rooms. Foxglove, a vinyl-only listening garden in the North End, is one of them.
Hamilton closes at the Fisher, and Broadway in Detroit lines up six premieres for 2026-27
Hamilton ends its Fisher Theatre run May 17, and ATG Detroit has set a 2026-27 Broadway in Detroit season built entirely on Detroit premieres.
Marrow is closing its West Village restaurant June 7
Founder Ping Ho is consolidating the butcher-restaurant brand around its Eastern Market space and winding down the original Kercheval location after eight years.
Walk a Mile Wednesday returns for the season with the police chief and mayor on the route
Detroit's community walk program opened its new season with Chief Todd Bettison and Mayor Mary Sheffield walking a neighborhood loop alongside residents.
Pat Caputo, longtime Detroit sports columnist and radio host, dies at 67
Pat Caputo, who spent nearly four decades writing and talking about Detroit sports for The Oakland Press and 97.1 The Ticket, died May 7 of pancreatic cancer at 67.
Little Liberia throws its grand opening on East Warren
Chef Ameneh Marhaba's Little Liberia, billed as Michigan's first Liberian restaurant, marks its grand opening at 16530 E. Warren Ave. on May 15.
A walkable cardboard maze of Detroit landmarks opens at the Michigan Science Center
A-MAZING Detroit, a life-sized cardboard maze built around seven Detroit neighborhoods, opens Saturday at the Michigan Science Center and is included with general admission.
Detroit parents sue Michigan over school funding and the debt left by state control
A class action filed on behalf of DPSCD students argues the state has underfunded Detroit's schools for decades and should erase the debt run up while the state ran the district.
The walleye run brings Detroit's anglers back to the river
Each spring, millions of walleye push up the Detroit River from Lake Erie to spawn, and the seawalls and riverfront parks fill with anglers chasing the largest walleye run in the world.
CCS turned the Somerset Skywalk into a 700-foot runway for The Show 2026
The College for Creative Studies staged its annual student fashion showcase on the glass Skywalk that spans Big Beaver Road, sending more than 100 looks across a 700-foot bridge in front of 354 guests.
Detroit's yellow-bus experiment cut absenteeism at Henry Ford High, and the district is doubling it
DPSCD's $600,000 yellow-bus pilot trimmed chronic absenteeism for the Henry Ford High students who rode most, and the district is now extending it to Pershing and Cody.
Eastern Market Brewing Co. plans statewide distribution this summer
The Detroit brewery is moving its core brands to a contract production partner and pushing Elephant Juice and its other flagships across Michigan for the first time, with distribution set to start this summer.
Yungblud opened his 2026 world tour with a sold-out night at Freedom Hill
Yungblud launched the IDOLS world tour in Sterling Heights on May 1, playing a sold-out Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill with Return to Dust opening.
Buffalo Prescott's 'Vernal 2026' fills its Detroit residency with wheatgrass rabbits and a buckwheat snake
The east-side artist incubator's annual spring show leans into growth and symbiosis, anchored by its resident artists and a room full of soft, living sculpture.
Workers Over Billionaires: hundreds rally at Roosevelt Park for May Day
More than 500 union members, immigrant-rights advocates, and Detroiters rallied in front of Michigan Central on May Day before marching to the ICE field office downtown.
Smith & Williams brings soul food to Gratiot as the Hungry Black Man opens his Detroit room
Food influencer Starex Smith, known online as the Hungry Black Man, opened Smith & Williams at 1428 Gratiot Ave. in Eastern Market on May 1, his second location after Toledo.
Project Clean Slate hits 20,000 cleared records in its tenth year
Detroit's free expungement program marked a decade and its 20,000th cleared conviction, with most of that total coming in just the last three years.
Pig & Whiskey leaves Ferndale for Corktown in 2026
The barbecue-and-music festival returns July 31 to August 2 in a new Corktown home after years on Ferndale's Nine Mile, with a Corktown address still to come.
Spiedo, the Takoi team's Mediterranean rotisserie, takes the old Jolly Pumpkin on Canfield
Brad Greenhill and Mike Goldberg are bringing their Ann Arbor concept Spiedo to 441 W. Canfield, the former Jolly Pumpkin space, for a summer 2026 opening.
Hamilton returns to the Fisher Theatre for a three-week run starting April 29
The touring production of Hamilton plays the Fisher Theatre from April 29 through May 17, with tickets running $49 to $199 and a $10 lottery for every show.
El Trombone opens on West Vernor in the former Mutiny Tiki space
A new gay bar called El Trombone is taking over the longtime Mutiny Tiki Bar room at 4654 Vernor Hwy, with cocktails and walk-in hours Wednesday through Saturday.
Gleaners heads into the year's biggest mailbox food drive with a 9 million pound hole to fill
As letter carriers prepare to collect donations off Detroit doorsteps on May 9, Gleaners Community Food Bank is short millions of pounds of food after federal supplies shrank.
Pistons reach the second round, and Detroit's downtown turns it into a week
Detroit beat Orlando in Game 7 for its first playoff series win since 2008, and the second round against Cleveland brings two more downtown game nights this week.
Sterling Toles and the slow build of a Detroit sound
Five years after Manger on McNichols put him in front of a national audience, the east-side producer is still working the way that made the record, building tracks over years instead of weeks.
From J Dilla to HiTech, Detroit hip-hop and electronic music keep sharing the same rooms
Two decades after J Dilla's death, the producers and venues that link Detroit hip-hop to the city's electronic scene still overlap, and HiTech's 2025 run shows the wiring is intact.
DJ Holographic and the next wave of Detroit DJs
Ariel Corley has spent more than a decade building DJ Holographic into a Detroit-rooted, genre-fluid touring act, and the bookings show why her name keeps coming up first.
DJ Minx and the long build of Women on Wax
Jennifer Witcher started the Women on Wax collective in 1996 and turned it into a record label in 2001, and three decades on she remains one of Detroit house's most established touring DJs.
Carl Craig, a documentary, and the long arc of Planet E
A feature documentary on the Detroit techno producer reaches the city in May, more than three decades into a career built on his own label and the Detroit Love showcase.
Kyle Hall: the Detroit producer who never left the city
Kyle Hall started Wild Oats as a teenager in 2008 and has kept the label, the studio, and his whole career rooted on Detroit's west side ever since.
Kerri Chandler's recurring Detroit work
Dropped: the article's core premise (a 2025 Movement booking and a near-annual Detroit residency pattern) is not supported by any primary source and is contradicted by the published 2025 lineup.
Theo Parrish and Sound Signature: 28 years of Detroit deep house
Theo Parrish founded Sound Signature in Detroit in 1997 and has run it for nearly three decades on slow vinyl releases, a tight catalog, and total creative independence.
DJ Stingray, the Detroit electro DJ who kept Drexciya's tempo
Sherard Ingram became DJ Stingray as Drexciya's touring DJ, and he has carried the fast, masked electro set out of Detroit and across the world ever since.
Omar-S: Detroit's most prolific solo techno project
Alex Smith has run FXHE Records out of Detroit since 2003, producing, pressing, and releasing a deep catalog of raw techno and house almost entirely on his own terms.
Detroit house and Chicago house: where the two split
Chicago and Detroit house share a decade and a roster of mutual influences, then split around 1990 in ways that still define both cities' records.
Stacey Pullen and the second wave that stayed on the road
Three decades into a touring career, the Detroit producer is best understood as the connective layer that kept the city's techno moving between its founders and its festival-headliner generation.
Robert Hood and the minimal Detroit techno tradition
The Detroit producer left Underground Resistance in 1994, founded M-Plant, and put out Minimal Nation, the record that gave a subgenre its name.
Moodymann: the Detroit producer who keeps the underground underground
Kenny Dixon Jr. has built a thirty-year house catalog on his own terms in Detroit, releasing as Moodymann through the labels he controls and a vinyl-first habit he has never given up.
Jeff Mills, the Detroit master who plans his sets to the second
From his Wizard radio years to Axis Records and an orchestral second act, the Detroit techno DJ has built a four-decade catalog on his own terms.
How Hart Plaza carries Detroit's festival calendar, one weekend at a time
The 45th Detroit Jazz Festival closed downtown on Labor Day, the latest anchor on a riverfront plaza that hosts several of the city's biggest festivals across the warm-weather months.
Mike Huckaby's Detroit house legacy is still in rotation
Four years after the Detroit deep house producer and teacher died, his records on Deep Transportation and S Y N T H still circulate and the producers he trained still cite him.
Stacey Hotwaxx Hale: the Detroit DJ they call the Godmother of House
Detroit DJ Stacey Hale, known across the city as the Godmother of House, played the Movement Stage at this year's festival and keeps teaching the next wave of women behind the decks.
What Movement 2025 said about where Detroit techno is going
Dropped: the original piece's analysis rests on fabricated stage and set assignments that contradict the festival's official 2025 schedule.
Movement 2025 put Detroit's own back at the center of the lineup
The 2025 edition leaned on four Detroit showcases and a first festival slot for the Underground Music Academy, while a late headliner swap reshaped the main stage.
What the Stargate Stage played at Movement 2025
Dropped: the original review's Stargate Stage lineup is fabricated and contradicts the official set times.
The Detroit Stage at Movement 2025: a city writing about itself
Recommend drop: the original is factually wrong at its core, with fabricated stage assignments, lineups, a non-existent Robert Hood booking, and invented Mixmag and Resident Advisor sourcing.
The Underground Stage at Movement 2025: where the deepest sets lived
Dropped: the original article's core premise is factually false. None of its named Underground Stage anchors (Sara Landry, DJ Stingray, Sama' Abdulhadi, Daria Kolosova) played that stage, and several did not play Movement 2025 at all.
After Movement: where Detroit's techno weekend went once Hart Plaza closed
Movement's 20th edition closed each night at Hart Plaza, but the city's clubs and warehouses kept the music running until daylight.
Movement 2025: the showcases that anchored the 25th anniversary
Movement marked 25 years at Hart Plaza over Memorial Day weekend, and the published set times point to the Detroit Love takeover and the city's own roster as the weekend's center of gravity.
The Pyramid and Waterfront stages at Movement 2025
The original article's stage lineups are fabricated; the real Movement 2025 bookings contradict its entire premise.
John Summit Closes Out Movement 2025 at Hart Plaza
Movement wrapped its three day run at Hart Plaza on Memorial Day, with John Summit taking the final slot on the Movement Stage.
Sunday at Movement 2025: Day Two delivered the deepest sets
Dropped: the original article's Sunday lineup is factually wrong against Movement's official set times.
Saturday at Movement 2025: opening day at Hart Plaza
Original recap dropped: its core premise is false. Carl Cox did not headline Movement 2025 (he postponed to 2026; Jeff Mills replaced him), it was the 20th anniversary not the 25th, Detroit Love ran on the Stargate Stage not a separate Detroit Stage, and most per-stage rosters are fabricated.
Movement 2025 starts early: Friday opening parties before Hart Plaza
Movement's official opening parties at Spot Lite and Lincoln Factory ran Friday night, a day before the festival's first set on Hart Plaza.
Movement 2025 by the numbers: 25 years, six stages, 115 artists
The 25th edition of Detroit's flagship electronic music festival returns to Hart Plaza over Memorial Day weekend with six stages and more than 115 artists across three days.
Movement 2025, stage by stage: how the bookings line up across Hart Plaza
Movement 2025 spreads more than 100 artists across six stages over Memorial Day weekend, and each stage is built around a different slice of the techno and house spectrum.
How Paxahau programs Movement, Detroit's festival institution
Paxahau has produced Movement since 2006, building the Memorial Day weekend lineup over a long planning cycle, and the 2025 edition leans hard into Detroit programming.
Hart Plaza, Detroit's electronic music ground zero
The 14-acre Noguchi-shaped plaza on the Detroit River has hosted the city's largest free festivals since the 1970s, and Memorial Day techno since 2000.
Movement 2025: what to know about the 25th festival on Hart Plaza
Detroit's electronic music festival marks its 25th edition over Memorial Day weekend with six stages and roughly 116 acts on the riverfront.
What to know about Movement 2026
Detroit's techno festival marks 20 years under Paxahau over Memorial Day weekend, with Carl Cox, Dom Dolla, and Sara Landry on top of a 115-plus lineup spread across six stages at Hart Plaza.
Three Detroit acts to watch at Movement 2026
DJ Minx, Terrence Dixon and a Kyle Hall back-to-back are the three hometown sets worth planning around when Movement returns to Hart Plaza this May.
Memorial Day weekend in Detroit 2026: a guide beyond Movement
Movement takes Hart Plaza for three days, but the riverfront, Belle Isle, Eastern Market, and the patios all stay open through the long weekend.
Detroit's underground answer to Movement 2026 is a four-day run at the Tangent
Movement holds the Hart Plaza contract, but Interdimensional Transmissions programs Memorial Day weekend's other half from the Tangent Gallery, anchored by the long-running No Way Back.
TV Lounge, Marble Bar and Spot Lite anchor Movement weekend's offsite calendar
Three Detroit rooms hold the bulk of the official afterparty schedule for Movement weekend, the late-night counterpart to the festival at Hart Plaza.
Hart Plaza in May: how the festival fits the riverfront
Movement returns to Hart Plaza over Memorial Day weekend, and Isamu Noguchi's concrete riverfront was built for exactly this kind of crowd.
Where the parties go after Movement: a guide to the Detroit afterhours circuit
Movement is three days at Hart Plaza and three nights almost everywhere else, and the afterhours circuit runs on independent venue bookings the festival never officially lists.
Paxahau at 20: the company that kept Detroit's festival alive
The 2026 Movement Music Festival is Paxahau's twentieth at the helm, two decades after the Detroit company stepped in to rescue a festival that had run through three producers and lost money for years.
Movement 2026: the lineup, decoded for Paxahau's 20th year
Paxahau revealed a 115-plus act bill for Movement's 2026 edition in late January, the festival's 20th under the Detroit company. Here is what the bookings signal.
Movement returns to Hart Plaza for Memorial Day weekend
Detroit's electronic music festival runs May 23 through 25 at Hart Plaza, the twentieth edition produced by Paxahau.
Old Miami: the Cass Corridor veterans bar that became an after-hours room
Old Miami has been a veterans bar on Cass Avenue since 1980, and its long back patio has spent years as one of Detroit dance music's late-night landing spots.
Somewhere in Detroit opens its doors, putting the city's techno vinyl within reach
The record shop inside the Submerge building on East Grand Boulevard, long known for running by appointment, now lets the public walk in on Saturday afternoons.
Lincoln Factory, the Marble Bar team's warehouse room inside Dreamtroit
Detroit's Marble Bar crew opened a warehouse-scale room inside the $30 million Dreamtroit complex, and its first months filled fast with the kind of long-set techno nights smaller clubs cannot hold.
Spot Lite, the east side room where Detroit dance music had a home
Roula David and Jesse Cory built Spot Lite on Beaufait Street as a bar, gallery, record shop, and music room under one roof.
How Detroit's club rooms made it through the shutdown years
The state closed Detroit's bars and clubs in March 2020 and did not fully reopen them until June 2021, and the rooms that came back reshaped the city's nightlife map.
Marble Bar marks 10 years of house and techno on Holden Street
The New Center club opened in 2015 in the old Detroit Eagle building, and a decade in it still books house and techno as its year round format.
TV Lounge keeps Detroit techno running year round on Grand River
The Grand River Avenue club bills itself as Detroit's longest running nightclub, anchored by resident DJ Mister Joshooa and the annual House of EFUNK weekender.
Metroplex Records is the founding document of Detroit techno
Juan Atkins started Metroplex in 1985 out of his mother's house, and the catalog he built there set the template the whole genre followed.
Planet E Communications: Carl Craig's Detroit institution
Carl Craig founded Planet E Communications in 1991 and has kept it running on his own terms ever since, an unbroken Detroit techno label built around independence rather than scale.
From warehouse parties to Hart Plaza: how Movement got its venue
Detroit techno spent more than a decade without a home of its own before the city handed it Hart Plaza in 2000, and the festival has held that ground ever since.
Submerge: Underground Resistance's headquarters and Detroit's techno archive
On East Grand Boulevard, the building that distributes Underground Resistance's records also holds Exhibit 3000, billed as the world's first techno museum.
The record stores that hold up Detroit's vinyl economy
Detroit lost most of its independent record shops decades ago, but a small specialist network still serves local collectors and the techno pilgrims who fly in for it.
From Detroit to Berlin: how the city's sound went global
Detroit invented the music, but the infrastructure that carried it worldwide was built in Berlin, and the line that runs between the two cities still holds more than thirty years on.
The Music Institute: the Broadway room that gave Detroit techno its first home
For roughly 18 months on Broadway, an alcohol-free after-hours room gave Detroit techno its first dedicated dance floor before the bills caught up with it.
How techno started in Detroit: the Belleville Three story
Three friends from Belleville High School built the foundation of Detroit techno in seven years, then watched the genre they named go global without them.
Movement 2024 by the numbers
Dropped: the original is a fabricated statistics dossier attributed to a Paxahau figures release that does not exist, and its few checkable claims are wrong.
After Movement 2024: the afterparty circuit that ran the late hours
Movement filled Hart Plaza over Memorial Day weekend, but the festival's real late hours belonged to a citywide circuit of clubs and warehouses, anchored by a No Way Back run that turned Sunday night into a continuous block of music.
Movement 2024 closes Monday with Borderland, Seth Troxler and a Fatboy Slim send-off
Movement's Memorial Day finale ran the Movement Stage from Juan Atkins and Moritz von Oswald's Borderland through Seth Troxler to a Fatboy Slim close, with Terrence Parker and a deep Detroit Stage bill running alongside.
Movement 2024, Sunday: a storm cleared Hart Plaza, then the headliners came back
Severe weather pushed Movement's second day off its grounds before 7 p.m., and the festival reopened in time for Richie Hawtin and a Kevin Saunderson set with Idris Elba to close the night.
Movement 2024 opened with Stacey Hotwaxx Hale and a Detroit Love close
Movement returned to Hart Plaza on Saturday, May 25, with the Godmother of House opening the main stage and Carl Craig's Detroit Love closing the Pyramid.
What to know about Movement 2024 at Hart Plaza
Movement returns to Hart Plaza for Memorial Day weekend with six stages, more than 100 artists, and a run of showcases anchored by Detroit Love, KMS Records, and a Metalheadz anniversary.
How Movement survived on Hart Plaza
Movement returns to Hart Plaza for Memorial Day weekend, the latest edition of a Detroit festival that has changed names, owners, and economics since 2000 while staying put.
Movement 2023 closes its 17th year at Hart Plaza
Detroit's Movement Music Festival ran May 27 to 29 at Hart Plaza, drawing more than 30,000 people a day across six stages.
Bonobo warmed up the Movement Stage before Skrillex on the festival's final night
Simon Green brought a DJ set to Hart Plaza on Memorial Day, opening the Movement Stage's closing run that Paxahau handed to Skrillex and Underworld.
Submerge opens its doors before Movement weekend
The Underground Resistance headquarters on East Grand Boulevard holds the archive Movement is built on, and every spring the world comes to stand in it.
Five new spots that opened around Metro Detroit this spring
A halal rice-bowl shop on the east side, a west-side bookstore cafe, a Ferndale coffee-and-wine bookshop, an Indian kitchen in Southfield, and Rosati's first Michigan location all opened in April.
Detroit weighs how to govern data centers, and east side residents want a seat at the table
With a City Council resolution, a new zoning working group, and state legislation all in motion, the question of how Detroit regulates data centers is now live, and east side neighbors are organizing to shape it.
People Mover agency to lead Michigan Central transit hub
The Detroit Transportation Corporation will lead planning for a new multimodal transit hub at Michigan Central, with a design and engineering procurement set to open this summer.
The DSO leans on living composers this season, with Michael Abels in residence
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is programming fifteen works by living composers in 2025-2026, anchored by composer-in-residence Michael Abels and a calendar that keeps reaching back into the city's own musical history.
Southwest Detroit's 61st Cinco de Mayo parade rolls down West Vernor this Sunday
The Mexican Patriotic Committee of Metro Detroit marches its annual Cinco de Mayo parade 2.4 miles down West Vernor on Sunday, May 3, under the theme Estamos Unidos.
A Highland Park resident wants to save the old Highland Appliance sign before the building comes down
With the vacant Highland Appliance store on Woodward headed for demolition, resident Kira Thomas is trying to salvage the sign and rework its letters into a 'Highland Park' marker.
Detroit's young poets compete at the Wright Museum on May 7
InsideOut Literary Arts brings its Detroit Youth Poetry Slam to the Charles H. Wright Museum on May 7, where teen poets compete for a spot on the 2026 Detroit Youth Performance Troupe.
Detroit plans a second hotel attached to Huntington Place, and a 16-story tower would come down for it
The Detroit Regional Convention Facility Authority and developer Congress and Associates announced a roughly 600-room hotel connected to Huntington Place, a project that would require demolishing a 16-story downtown building, with construction set to start in early 2027.
DPSCD data shows hundreds of special education evaluations running past the legal 30-day deadline
Detroit's district told its board that of 1,680 special education evaluation referrals this school year, 72 finished past the legal deadline and 728 are still in process.
MOCAD reopens with new windows, a new name, and three Detroit shows
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit returns Saturday after an eight-month renovation, with a renamed building, a street-facing glass wall, and exhibitions by three Detroit artists.
Carole Harris comes back to where she started
MOCAD's first full survey of fiber artist Carole Harris opens on the museum's reopening day, nearly half a century after Charles McGee gave her a first solo show at his Black artist-run Gallery 7.
Bar Chenin is Michigan's only 2026 James Beard finalist
The James Beard Foundation named the ten-seat natural wine bar behind the Siren Hotel a Best New Bar finalist, the lone Michigan nominee in any category this year.
Sunda New Asian opens its fifth restaurant in the District Detroit
Chicago restaurateur Billy Dec opened Sunda New Asian on Columbia Street on March 10, his pan-Asian brand's fifth location and a new anchor for the District Detroit's pedestrian block.
Hamtramck lands a Select-level Main Street designation, with Jos. Campau as the target
Hamtramck has been named a Select Level Michigan Main Street community, putting five years of state planning help behind the Jos. Campau business corridor.
Antidote opens at the Detroit edge of Grosse Pointe Park
Nya Marshall's second restaurant, a Spanish-inspired room on East Jefferson, opens on a block that straddles the line between Jefferson-Chalmers and Grosse Pointe Park.
Medusa brings Anthony Lombardo's Sicilian cooking a block from SheWolf
Anthony Lombardo's second Midtown restaurant turns Selden Street into a two-block Italian stretch, with anchovies front and center.
GM moves its global headquarters to Hudson's Detroit
General Motors began moving its global headquarters into Hudson's Detroit on January 12, 2026, returning to Woodward Avenue and clearing the way for a $1.6 billion remake of the Renaissance Center it is leaving behind.
Castalia poured its last drinks on New Year's Eve, closing on its own terms
Castalia, the Midtown cocktail bar that paired drinks with Sfumato fragrances, served a final Afterlife Menu on December 31 and closed after eight years, with its owners saying they chose to go out on top.
Street Beet gets a permanent Corktown home with its name on the door
Detroit's long-running vegan pop-up Street Beet opens a brick-and-mortar at 1800 Michigan Avenue, in the former Bobcat Bonnie's space where the brand first popped up.
Wayne State friends open Rahha, a Yemeni coffee and brunch spot, inside the Hannan Center
A group of childhood friends and Wayne State alumni opened Rahha Yemeni Coffee and Brunch at 4750 Woodward, building a halal menu and student pricing around the Midtown crowd they grew up near.
Saksey's opens off Parker's Alley with Teeny 'Tinis and a Cap'n Crunch sundae
A small NoHo Hospitality and Gilbert family cocktail lounge opened Friday in the basement below Gilly's Clubhouse on Woodward, trading shot-glass martinis and caviar with Bugles.
Detroit breaks ground on $80 million Brush Park housing project, including 52 supportive units
An $80 million development beside the historic Brewster Wheeler Recreation Center will add 211 affordable apartments, with 52 set aside for residents leaving chronic homelessness.
Marrow opens a butcher's brasserie in Eastern Market's old Capital Poultry building
Ping Ho's Marrow in the Market opened November 13 at 2442 Riopelle Street, stacking a 100-seat dining room and two bars on top of a working USDA meat plant.
Pingree Detroit opens its first store, handmade shoes and all, on Veterans Day
The veteran-owned cooperative that turns old car leather into shoes opened its first storefront at 11:11 a.m. on 11/11 in the District Detroit.
Castalia, the fragrance-paired Midtown cocktail bar, will close New Year's Eve after eight years
The Midtown bar known for pairing cocktails with perfume says it is closing on its own terms, with new ownership taking over the room in 2026.
Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Centennial Park opens on the west riverfront
Detroit's largest new riverfront park in decades opened October 25 on 22 acres between 8th Street and Rosa Parks Boulevard, closing a long-missing link in the Riverwalk.
The Detroit Riverwalk is now continuous from Belle Isle to Wilson Park
With the October 25 opening of Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Centennial Park, the Detroit Riverwalk runs unbroken for about 4.75 miles from Gabriel Richard Park to the west riverfront.
Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Centennial Park opens, completing the western Riverwalk
A 22-acre park opened Saturday on Detroit's west riverfront, closing the last gap in a continuous 4.75-mile Riverwalk from Belle Isle to southwest Detroit.
Mary-Ann Monforton turns Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead into Heart Land
MOCAD keeps its programming alive during a renovation by handing the Mobile Homestead to a Detroit sculptor who fills its four rooms with chicken wire, plaster, and a critique of American wealth.
Joe Louis Greenway adds two miles and an 'Outside the Ring' statue
Detroit opened a new two-mile stretch of the Joe Louis Greenway on the city's west side and unveiled a bronze statue honoring Joe Louis for his barrier-breaking golf career.
Waka takes over the old Russell Street Deli space in Eastern Market
Baobab Fare's fast-casual East African offshoot is building out the longtime deli storefront at 2465 Russell Street, with chapati, brochettes, and counter service for about 30.
The DIA's first major Native American show in 30 years
Contemporary Anishinaabe Art: A Continuation opened at the Detroit Institute of Arts on September 28 and runs through April 5, 2026, the museum's first major Native American exhibition in more than three decades.
Detroit's first contemporary art fair opens inside Michigan Central
Season, billed as Detroit's first contemporary art fair, ran four days on the sixth floor of Michigan Central with eleven North American galleries and a curated slate of ten local artists.
Foxglove moved its 2025 season closer to Dreamtroit, with Juan Atkins headlining a family day party
Foxglove ended its 2025 season on September 20 by leaving its North End garden for the larger Dreamtroit warehouse, where Juan Atkins headlined an 11 hour, family friendly day party.
Apple opens its first store in downtown Detroit
Apple opened its first downtown Detroit store at 1430 Woodward on iPhone 17 launch day, with Tim Cook on hand and a custom Detroit identity built into the space.
Murals in the Market comes home for year 10
For its 10th anniversary, Detroit's Murals in the Market returned to Eastern Market with new walls, restorations, and a week of public events.
Ladder 4 wins the inaugural Resy One To Watch Award for North America
The Corktown wine bar inside a 1910 firehouse is the first Detroit restaurant the World's 50 Best organization has named, taking the inaugural Resy One To Watch Award for North America.
Dally in the Alley returns to Cass Corridor, still volunteer run and unsponsored
Detroit's longest running free street festival filled the Cass Corridor alleys on September 6, organized entirely by volunteers and run without corporate sponsors.
BLKOUT Walls spreads its third edition across Detroit
Detroit's Black-led mural festival returned for its third edition with ten new walls, this time pushed out into Woodbridge, Franklin, and East Jefferson.
BLKOUT Walls returns with 10 new murals under the theme A Beautiful Resistance
Detroit's artist-led mural festival came back in September 2025 with 10 new large-scale walls and a closing block party at Spirit Plaza.
Detroit Month of Design at 15, UNESCO at 10
Detroit Month of Design returned for its 15th edition in September, lining up more than 95 events as the city marked a decade as the only UNESCO City of Design in the United States.
Sip-N-Read, Detroit's book and wine bar, opens in Corktown
Tamela Todd's bookstore and Michigan wine bar opened on Michigan Avenue after years of grant rounds and buildout, with five Detroit employees and a literary events program.
Sip-N-Read opens in Corktown with an all-Michigan wine list
Detroit author Tamela Todd opened her book bar at 1620 Michigan Ave., pairing a Michigan-only wine list with a curated shelf of titles and a $65,000 Motor City Match grant behind it.
City Modern wraps in Brush Park, Detroit's first ground-up neighborhood in decades
Bedrock declared its eight-acre, 450-residence City Modern neighborhood complete in Brush Park, capping a build that started in 2015 on lots that were mostly empty.
Capitol Park reopens after a $3.5 million reset
Downtown's historic triangle of green is back open after six months of work, with a bigger lawn, new trees, and the dog park neighbors asked to keep.
Detroit Bookfest fills three Eastern Market sheds for its eighth year
The 8th annual Detroit Festival of Books drew a projected 250-plus vendors to three Eastern Market sheds and grew into a three-day weekend for the first time.
Tacos Wuey opens on Vernor with a family birria recipe at the center
Chef Eddie Vargas opened a 40-seat modern taqueria at 3970 W. Vernor in Southwest Detroit, built around his family's birria.
Purrfiction pairs secondhand books with adoptable cats in Eastern Market
A new Eastern Market shop sells used fiction and Michigan-made goods, then hands its back corner to rescue cats every Saturday.
Walter Pat's Bakery Cafe won Hatch Detroit. Now Lauren Ellis builds the storefront.
Lauren Ellis and her viennoiserie concept, Walter Pat's Bakery Cafe, took the $100,000 grand prize in the 2025 Comerica Hatch Detroit Contest and a TechTown support package to open in Detroit's District 5.
Haraz Coffee opens its 30th store, in Corktown
The Yemeni coffee chain founded in Dearborn cut the ribbon on its second Detroit cafe Wednesday, on the ground floor of The Brooke on Bagley.
Movement marks 25 years at Hart Plaza
Detroit's flagship electronic music festival returned to Hart Plaza for Memorial Day weekend with more than 115 artists across six stages and a lineup built around the city's techno lineage.
Flower Day fills Eastern Market with 80 growers and a city of gardeners
Detroit's 58th annual Flower Day ran all day Sunday at Eastern Market, with more than 80 growers spread across five sheds and the city's unofficial start to summer.
Public Thrift, the worker-owned shop on Joseph Campau, closes in Hamtramck
Public Thrift, the worker-owned second-hand store at 10237 Joseph Campau, ran a final Fill A Bag sale on May 9 and 10 before closing for good.
Pocket Change's rooftop turns into an oyster bar on Sundays with Mink's Sarah Welch and Cameron Rolka
The new Eastern Market cocktail bar is handing its third-floor patio to guest chefs on Sundays, starting with a Mink oyster pop-up from Sarah Welch and Cameron Rolka.
Three women lead the 60th Cinco de Mayo parade down West Vernor
Detroit's Cinco de Mayo parade ran its 2.4 mile route on May 4 with three women at the front, the same week Chicago and Philadelphia called their celebrations off over immigration fears.
Pocket Change opens a hidden cocktail bar above Eastern Market
A second-floor cocktail room marked only by a red COCKTAILS sign has opened at 1454 Gratiot, the work of veteran Detroit bartender Nelson Kazan.
Pocket Change opens above Gratiot with a red neon sign and a rooftop patio
Nelson Kazan's first bar with his own name on the door sits on the second floor across from Eastern Market, marked only by a neon COCKTAILS sign.
At 88, Janet Webster Jones is bookselling royalty
Publishers Weekly named Detroit's Source Booksellers its 2025 Bookstore of the Year, the top honor in the trade, capping a second career that Janet Webster Jones started at a church bazaar in 1989.
A West Village building becomes two Latin restaurants at once
Robert Encarnación turned a long-vacant West Village building into a Latin American restaurant and a coffee shop under one roof, backed by a $65,000 Motor City Match grant.
La Fonda Street and Encarnación open as a coffee-and-cantina pair in West Village
A Dominican-born owner turned a vacant West Village corner into a Latin American restaurant and a coffee shop under one roof, marking Motor City Match's 181st brick-and-mortar opening.
Roar Brewing opens on Selden as Detroit's first Black-owned brewery
Air Force veteran Evan Fay reopened the former Nain Rouge Brewery space at 666 Selden as Roar Brewing, which the company says is the first Black-owned brewery in the city.
Detroit marches the Nain Rouge out of town again
Thousands filled Cass Corridor on March 23 for the Marche du Nain Rouge, the costumed spring parade that sends Detroit's old red imp packing for another year.
TIME Puts Detroit's Little Village on Its 2025 World's Greatest Places List
TIME's 2025 World's Greatest Places list named Little Village, the East Village arts campus built by Library Street Collective, as the only Michigan entry.
Dirty Shake opens an ivy-covered corner bar in Cass Corridor
Sandy Levine and Doug Hewitt, the team behind Freya and Chartreuse, opened a low-key neighborhood bar at Forest and Second with an eleven-dollar burger and three-day wings.
Dirty Shake opens at Forest and Second with a wraparound patio and boozy shakes
The casual Cass Corridor bar from the Freya and Chartreuse operators opened on 313 Day with burgers, wings, and boozy shakes at 4642 Second Ave.
Bar Chenin packs a 10-seat wine bar into the Siren Hotel
The downtown wine counter seats about ten, takes no reservations, and a year after opening became Michigan's lone finalist for a 2026 James Beard Award.
Minnie's Detroit opens on Trumbull with late-night brunch and live music
A new Black-owned bar and restaurant from veteran Detroit nightlife operator Yvonne Byrd opened at 5221 Trumbull in Woodbridge with a grand opening on January 25, a Minnie Plates menu, and a weekend kitchen that runs to 3 a.m.
AC Hotel Detroit at the Bonstelle starts taking guests
The first AC Hotel in southeast Michigan opened in Brush Park in January, a new 10-story build tied to the 1903 Bonstelle that Albert Kahn designed as Temple Beth El.
Yellow Light Coffee opens inside Michigan Central, the Station's first food tenant since 1988
An eastside coffee and donut shop becomes the first place to sell food and drink inside Michigan Central Station in 36 years.
Rebel Nell Sets Up Shop in Eastern Market
The Detroit jewelry maker, which turns fallen graffiti into wearable art and trains women facing barriers to work, has moved its headquarters into Eastern Market.
Encarnacion and La Fonda Street bring Latin American food and coffee to West Village
A dual restaurant and coffee shop at 8016 Kercheval, backed by a $65,000 Motor City Match grant, became the program's 181st business to open.
Book Suey runs as a co-op, inside Hamtramck's old bank
On the corner of Joseph Campau and Caniff, a rotating group of member-owners runs Book Suey, a cooperatively owned bookstore in a building that opened in the 1920s as the Merchants and Mechanics Bank.
The Belt turns 10
Ten years after Library Street Collective and Bedrock turned a downtown garment-district alley into a public-art corridor, The Belt is one of Detroit's most-walked outdoor galleries.
Detroit gets its first Filipino bakery in New Center
JP Makes and Bakes, a years-long pop-up turned storefront on Woodward, opens as the city's only Filipino bakery with help from a Motor City Match grant.
Five alebrijes now live on Bagley
Five life-size animal sculptures built from car parts went up along Bagley Street on Friday, the new centerpiece of Mexicantown's redesigned streetscape.
The High Dive reopens in Hamtramck under new owners, with a non-alcoholic menu and offbeat weeknights
After Shark Toof sold the Victorian-themed bar in September, Leonard Lopp and Dwayne Wickersham reopened it in October with house-made drinks, trivia and movie nights, and a softer turn away from all-techno bookings.
Rosette Market brings a neighborhood grocery to Corktown's Perennial building
The Kitab Cafe team opened a market and cafe on the ground floor of the Perennial Corktown apartments, a grocery the developer had planned for the building from the start.
Sepia Coffee Project opens its first North End cafe
Martell Mason's Highland Park roasting company moved into the former Gathering Coffee Co. space on East Grand Boulevard, its first sit-down cafe after three years of wholesale and a global run through the coffee trade.
The New York Times put Hamtramck Disneyland in a national conversation
A backyard folk art landmark on Klinger Street landed in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, the latest national nod for a piece Hamtramck has been quietly keeping alive.
Hamilton's anchors the Godfrey Hotel in Corktown
A neighborhood tavern from Samy Eid's Chickpea Hospitality fills the ground floor of Corktown's Godfrey Hotel, serving breakfast through dinner on Michigan Avenue.
Michigan Central's new residency pays Detroit artists $30,000 to make things
The Michigan Central x Newlab Creative Residency launches its inaugural cohort this fall: six artists, $30,000 each, six months inside Corktown's innovation campus.
Jack White sits in with the Hentchmen as Hamtramck's free Labor Day fest turns 44
The 44th Hamtramck Labor Day Festival ran free and volunteer-run over the long weekend, with Jack White announced to join his old garage band the Hentchmen for a few songs on the closing night.
Alice Coltrane's harp comes home for the Detroit Jazz Festival
The 45th Detroit Jazz Festival opened with a restored harp once owned by Detroit-born Alice Coltrane, then moved its first night indoors when storms rolled up the river.
Florian East brings beer back to Hamtramck and puts the city's name on the door in seven languages
More than eighty years after the last brewery left Hamtramck, a five-person ownership group opened Florian East on Joseph Campau with a taproom built around the city's many cultures.
UFO Bar opens where UFO Factory stood
Roula David of Spot Lite reopened the closed Corktown punk room at 2110 Trumbull as UFO Bar, with a grand opening set for the night of August 16, 2024.
Paramita Sound is the only Michigan bar on USA TODAY's first Bars of the Year list
USA TODAY's inaugural Bars of the Year list named just one Michigan spot, the Black-owned wine bar and record shop Paramita Sound on Broadway downtown.
Concert of Colors fills Midtown for its 33rd year, free as ever
Concert of Colors returned July 16 to 21 for its 33rd year, with stages at the Detroit Institute of Arts and across nearby cultural-center venues, free to all under the theme Peace, Love and Understanding.
African World Festival returns to Hart Plaza for its 41st year
The Charles H. Wright Museum brought its 41st annual African World Festival back to Hart Plaza from July 12 to 14, with Third World and Rapsody among the headliners and about 20,000 people expected over three days.
Supino Pizzeria brings dine-in back to Eastern Market
Supino Pizzeria reopened its Eastern Market dining room on July 9, 2024, roughly fourteen months after a fire in the apartment above the Russell Street restaurant forced it to close.
Michigan Central Station reopens after thirty-six years
Thirty-six years after the last train left, Ford reopens the restored Michigan Central Station with a ten-day public celebration in Corktown.
Michigan Central reopens with a Detroit all-star concert on the Roosevelt Park lawn
Six years and roughly 1.7 million work hours after Ford bought the ruin, Michigan Central handed itself back to the public with a 90-minute concert that drew about 20,000 people.
Mighty Real/Queer Detroit returns with a citywide queer art biennial across 11 galleries
The second Mighty Real/Queer Detroit biennial, I'll Be Your Mirror, opens May 31 with more than 170 artists spread across 11 galleries through June 30.
Hatch Art keeps Hamtramck Disneyland standing
Nearly a decade after buying the backyard folk-art landmark, the Hamtramck collective Hatch Art is still rebuilding it one rotted beam at a time.
The Vinyl Society opens on Randolph, a cocktail tribute to old Paradise Valley
Dennis Archer Jr.'s lounge brings a craft cocktail bar and live music to the block the city renamed for its lost Black entertainment district.
Foxglove returns to the North End garden with a custom four-point sound system
Detroit's only vinyl-only listening garden opened its 2024 season over Movement weekend, debuting a four-point sound system built in the city.
The Shepherd opens, and the East side has a new center of gravity
Library Street Collective reopened the former Good Shepherd church on Saturday as the anchor of Little Village, a multi-block arts campus in East Village.
OMA drilled roughly 1,500 holes into an old Detroit bakery to make LANTERN glow
Library Street Collective and architecture firm OMA have turned the long-empty Blue Bird Baking building in East Village into LANTERN, a 22,300-square-foot arts hub whose south wall lights up at night through roughly 1,500 glass-filled holes.
G.L.A.M. Body Scrubs takes the $100,000 Hatch Detroit prize
Tiffany Cartwright's Detroit skincare company won the 12th Comerica Hatch Detroit Contest and will use the grant to open a Rosedale Park storefront.
Leña brings wood-fired Spain to Brush Park
A new Spanish restaurant in Bedrock's City Modern building cooks nearly everything over a live hearth fed by Michigan oak, cherry, and applewood.
Tiff Massey takes four galleries at the DIA
The Detroit Institute of Arts has given metalsmith Tiff Massey a full year and four galleries for 7 Mile + Livernois, her most ambitious museum show to date.
Detroit People's Food Co-op opens after 14 years of organizing
Detroit's first Black-led, community-owned grocery store opened May 1 at Woodward and Euclid, the anchor of a nearly $20 million project more than a decade in the making.
The 2024 NFL Draft pulled 775,000 people to downtown Detroit
The 2024 NFL Draft ran across downtown Detroit from April 25 to 27 and drew a record 775,000 people, then returned an estimated $213.6 million to the region, the Detroit Sports Commission reported.
Vecino opens in a long-empty Cass Corridor corner, betting on heirloom corn
A 1926 corner building at 4100 Third that sat vacant for half a century reopens as Vecino, a modern Mexican restaurant built around Michigan's first restaurant nixtamal program.
Hudson's tower tops out at 681 feet
Crews set the final steel beam on Bedrock's Hudson's site tower in April 2024, fixing downtown Detroit's newest high-rise at just over 681 feet.
The Hamtramck Blowout came back in 2024, run by the Labor Day crew
Nine years after Metro Times last produced it, the Hamtramck Blowout returned March 1 and 2 across 16 venues as a fundraiser for the Labor Day Festival.
Sexy Steak brings a halal Italian steakhouse into the GAR Building
A long-empty downtown castle reopens as a halal-certified steakhouse and a four-floor event venue from Prime Concepts Detroit.
BLACK opens at the Carr Center with eleven Detroit artists
The Carr Center's Black History Month group show, BLACK: A Built Language Across Culture and Knowledge, runs free through February 29 with work from eleven Detroit-based Black artists.
The Aladdin Sane opens beneath Book Tower, a Bowie-named whiskey lounge that hid in plain sight
A small Japanese cocktail lounge named for a David Bowie album opened quietly under Book Tower and let the city find it on its own.
Jeff Mills group sets a new Tomorrow Comes The Harvest album for early 2026
Detroit techno figure Jeff Mills and his trio Tomorrow Comes The Harvest will release a new album, Forbidden Planet, on his own Axis Records in early 2026.
DJ Minx makes her Rekids debut with the Energy EP
Detroit house pioneer DJ Minx released her first record for Radio Slave's Rekids label in February, a two-track EP whose title cut features Grammy winner Kendra Foster.
Tec-Troit returns to June for 2026
Detroit's free techno festival Tec-Troit is set for June 26 to 28, 2026, back in June after a one-year run in August.
Jeff Mills reissues his 'i9' for the 30th anniversary of the Liquid Room set
Jeff Mills put out a new 2025 version of 'i9' on Axis Records, the first piece of a wider 30th anniversary program around his 1995 Live at Liquid Room set in Tokyo.
Kyle Hall put out four records in nine months
The Detroit producer released four records on his Forget The Clock imprint between May 2025 and January 2026, a pace almost nobody else in the city is keeping.
Autechre brought its first North American tour in a decade to the Russell Industrial Center
Paxahau presented the British electronic duo at Building 6 on October 21, the Detroit stop on Autechre's first North American run in ten years.
Marble Bar turned 10 the only way it knows how
Marble Bar marked a decade in New Center with a two night anniversary built on Detroit techno, headlined by Octave One live and Danny Daze.
A British pub on Mack Avenue is booking Detroit's techno founders
Cannons, a British-style pub on Mack Avenue, pairs oysters and pints downstairs with a techno room upstairs that has already drawn Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson.
DJ Stingray 313 takes the Echogenesis tour to Lincoln Factory
Interdimensional Transmissions brought DJ Stingray 313's Echogenesis tour to Detroit's Lincoln Factory, with Akua, 1morning, and local DJ Aki on the bill.
Charivari traded its single site for the whole city
Charivari Detroit returned in August 2025 as a four-day, multi-venue run across the city's clubs, retiring the single-site festival it staged at Fort Wayne for a decade.
Richie Hawtin's short film returns to a 1994 Detroit warehouse party
Kids Like Us, executive produced by Richie Hawtin and shot on 35mm, recreates the underground techno night that launched his Plastikman alias at the Packard Plant.
Juan Atkins took Cybotron back to Glastonbury
Detroit electro originator Juan Atkins brought his reactivated Cybotron project to Block9's giant IICON head at Glastonbury, performing new Tresor material with Laurens von Oswald and DJ Maaco.
Planet E releases the Carl Craig documentary soundtrack
Carl Craig's label put out the soundtrack to his career documentary, a 17-track set that pulls rarities from across his catalog and aliases.
Underground Music Academy took the Detroit Stage at Movement
On Sunday, Waajeed's Underground Music Academy ran the Detroit Stage at Movement for the first time, putting its students in front of the festival crowd.
Three founders of the Detroit sound shared one set at Movement
Carl Craig, Moodymann and Mike Banks closed the Detroit Love showcase together at Movement 2025, then released the set as an official Resident Advisor podcast.
Theo Parrish and Moodymann headlined a 12-hour Movement Sunday at Lincoln Factory
Lincoln Factory's Nothing Is Strange party ran 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. on Movement Sunday with Theo Parrish and Moodymann on top of a deep all-night bill.
No Way Back marks 30 years of Interdimensional Transmissions
Detroit label Interdimensional Transmissions ran its annual No Way Back overnight at Tangent Gallery on Memorial Day weekend, this year doubling as the label's 30th birthday.
Father Dukes plays Movement 2025
Detroit DJ Father Dukes, who came up through Seraphine Collective's Beatmatch Brunch, took a slot at Movement over Memorial Day weekend.
Soul Clap's House of EFUNK hit its 11th year at TV Lounge
Soul Clap and Paxahau ran the 11th edition of the House of EFUNK afterparty across two nights and three stages at TV Lounge over Movement weekend, with a new vinyl compilation premiering at the door.
HiTech had the year
Recommend drop: the original is an unqualified victory-lap profile, but its July 11 Majestic show was canceled after a member was publicly accused of sexual assault, so the celebratory framing is no longer accurate or safe to republish.
The Carl Craig documentary finally played in Detroit
Desire: The Carl Craig Story had its Detroit premiere at Newlab inside Michigan Central, two days before Craig closed out Movement's Saturday night.
Kevin Saunderson revives E-Dancer with his son, the alias's first album in 25 years
Detroit techno founder Kevin Saunderson brought back his harder-edged E-Dancer alias in 2025 with a self-titled album made alongside his son Dantiez, the first E-Dancer full-length since 1998.
Mister Joshooa took a Detroit club career to Panorama Bar
Detroit's Mister Joshooa, the music director who built TV Lounge into one of the city's longest-running clubs, made his Panorama Bar debut on a Berghain Klubnacht.
DJ Minx took the floor at Pistons halftime
DJ Minx played a Detroit Pistons halftime show at Little Caesars Arena in March 2025, two years after her first appearance at a Pistons game.
Jeff Mills returns to jazz fusion with a new Spiral Deluxe album
Detroit techno figure Jeff Mills released The Love Pretender, the second album from his jazz fusion group Spiral Deluxe, on March 14, 2025 through his Axis label.
Detroit techno turns out for Anthony Shake Shakir
A benefit at Tangent Gallery brought the city's founding techno generation together to support producer Anthony Shake Shakir, who is in long-term care for multiple sclerosis.
Jeff Mills takes Carl Cox's Saturday headline slot at Movement
Carl Cox postponed his Movement set to 2026, and the festival named Detroit's Jeff Mills to headline Saturday in his place.
Temple Bar fell down and got back up
A piece of Temple Bar's facade came down in May 2024. Seven months and a community fundraiser later, the Cass Corridor institution reopened.
The old Lincoln motor factory is a techno venue now
A 1908 auto plant on Holden Street reopened in September 2024 as Dreamtroit, pairing affordable artist housing with a warehouse music venue run by the Marble Bar team.
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