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Detroit showed up: a thousand fans pack Campus Martius for USA's World Cup opener
Roughly a thousand Detroit soccer fans filled Campus Martius on Friday night to watch the United States open the 2026 FIFA World Cup with a 4-1 win over Paraguay at a watch party hosted by Detroit City FC, with more watch parties still to come this summer.
Detroit ranked No. 1 in America for downtown stickiness
Gensler's City Pulse 2026 names Detroit the stickiest downtown in America, a measure of how often people visit and how long they stay, ranking it first among the 34 U.S. cities studied inside a global survey of 75 cities.
Twenty-five painted drums put American stories across Detroit for the 250th
The Stories of Us has installed 25 painted drum sculptures around Detroit, free through July 22 at the main library, Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Centennial Park, and the Warren Gateway. The national project marks the country's 250th anniversary.
Thirty-Seven Detroit organizations just pooled $27 million for neighborhoods. This is the largest round yet.
Enterprise Community Partners has launched the third and largest phase of its Community Development Organization Fund, bringing 37 Detroit neighborhood groups together under a $27 million, three-year initiative.
Twenty people rescued after seven sailboats capsize near Belle Isle
Thunderstorms swept through southeast Michigan on Wednesday evening and capsized seven sailboats near Belle Isle, sending 20 people into the Detroit River in one of the larger water rescues of the season.
Pine Hall opens Thursday on the 12th floor of Hudson's Detroit
Union Square Hospitality Group opens Pine Hall Thursday at Hudson's Detroit, a rooftop bar named after the J.L. Hudson department store's beloved Pine Room.
The Rocket Classic's final summer in Detroit brings its best field yet
2026 is the final time that the Rocket Classic will be played. The finale takes place from July 30 to Aug. 2 at Detroit Golf Club, with top-10 players, lower ticket prices, and nearly a decade of community investment.
Detroit dresses Spirit of Detroit in orange to open a month of action against gun violence
With homicides at a 60-year low, Detroit opens Gun Violence Awareness Month with the Spirit of Detroit in orange and a 19-year community march.
What does it mean when your parish stops holding Mass? Inside Detroit's historic Catholic church restructuring
At least 58 parishes may soon stop hosting weekend Mass, but that's not the same as closing a church. Here's what Detroit's historic restructuring actually means.
Detroit's free lawyer program for renters runs out of money in early 2027
Detroit's program providing free lawyers to tenants in eviction court has saved the city an estimated $48.5 million over three years, but its funding runs dry in February 2027 with no successor commitments in place.
Detroit assessor to host June 10 summit to help nonprofits avoid tax foreclosure
The city's assessor office is hosting a free summit on June 10 after discovering that many Detroit nonprofits and churches were accumulating unpaid property taxes, wrongly assuming they were automatically exempt.
Detroit residents get a final say this week on Cooley High's demolition
DPSCD reversed its pledge to preserve part of the 1928 landmark to meet a state grant deadline. A community meeting Wednesday, June 10, is residents' last chance to weigh in before summer demolition.
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 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics and scored the goal that sent the final to overtime, is coming to PWHL Detroit via sign-and-trade.
Detroit's city airport opens its first new facility in 60 years
Avflight's new FBO complex at Coleman A. Young International Airport, the first facility built there in six decades, opened June 3 as part of a broader revitalization of Detroit's historic municipal airport.
Heat index near 100 expected midweek as Detroit opens cooling centers across the city
An extreme heat watch is in effect for southeast Michigan with heat index values near 100 degrees expected midweek; Detroit has opened cooling centers at recreation facilities across the city.
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 Canada, is set for its ribbon cutting on Friday, June 12, after eight years of construction.
A beloved Detroit River fishing spot in Delray waits on talks between the state and DTE
The state and DTE Energy are negotiating the future of Delray Park, a little-known Detroit River fishing spot on DTE-owned land that locals say needs investment to reach its potential.
Detroit City FC is bringing free World Cup watch parties to Campus Martius and Mexicantown this June
Detroit City FC is hosting six free FIFA World Cup watch parties in June, with USA matches at Campus Martius and the Detroit City Fieldhouse and Mexico matches outside Los Galanes in Mexicantown.
Cleanup Club returns to Belle Isle Beach on June 20 to remove plastic before peak summer
The Cleanup Club and Belle Isle Conservancy are hosting a shoreline cleanup volunteer day at Belle Isle Beach on Saturday, June 20, from 10 a.m. to noon, open to all.
The Freight Yard is now open on weekends all summer along the Dequindre Cut
Detroit Riverfront Conservancy's seasonal beer garden on the Dequindre Cut runs Saturdays and Sundays through September, with lawn games, local food vendors, and free live music every Sunday afternoon.
Laura Killingbeck's 1,000-mile bike ride across Michigan ends in Detroit, documenting a hidden form of domestic violence
Laura Killingbeck is two weeks into a 1,000-mile bicycle ride across Michigan in partnership with orsa credit union to document economic abuse, ending July 20 in Detroit.
Nine fridays of free movies return to Campus Martius, starting July 3
Movie Nights in the D returns to Campus Martius Park this summer with nine free Friday screenings from July 3 through August 28, featuring recent releases and classics.
KPMG is bringing 420 workers to Michigan Central Station
KPMG is moving 420 employees into Michigan Central Station next year, the latest major office tenant to take root in the restored Corktown train station.
Walk a Mile Wednesday returns with nine summer walks across Detroit's precincts
Lace up for the June 10 kickoff at the new Helen Moore Community Center on Dexter. Walk a Mile Wednesday is back, with biweekly walks through September 23 across nine of Detroit's police precincts.
Dutch Girl Donuts opens the door to its second shop on National Donut Day
Dutch Girl Donuts opens its second shop to the public for a sneak peek this Friday from 8 to 10 a.m. on East Grand Boulevard, with two free donuts per visitor and a boxed dozen for $20.
DPSCD confirms full demolition of Cooley High School this summer
Detroit Public Schools Community District will demolish the 1928 building in full this summer, scrapping earlier plans to preserve part of the historic structure. A $25 million sports complex will be built on the site.
Detroit teens spend the summer building an engine from scratch
The Engine Building Bootcamp returns to Detroit's northwest side for its fourth year, putting middle and high schoolers on the wrench from June through August.
A Detroit veteran came home and built something empowering for the kids
Damon Williams spent 21 years in the Air Force, returned to East English Village, and launched Outside the Box, a youth hub connecting Detroit teenagers with city resources and community partners.
Baker's Keyboard Lounge closes for renovations, plans June return under new management
The world's oldest operating jazz club is getting new bathrooms, a refreshed stage, and a new management team before reopening on Livernois.
The Voice' producer comes home to open coffee shop and listening bar in Eastern Market this summer
Lamont Leak, who produced NBC's The Voice, is opening Rent Free Coffee and Community in Eastern Market this summer, a combined coffee shop and listening bar.
Waymo's driverless cars are coming to Detroit in 2026, and the city is figuring out the rules in real time
Waymo plans a fully driverless ride-hail launch in Detroit later this year, making it the sixth U.S. city on the service — and the first real stress test of Michigan's decade-old AV laws.
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 photography archive are on view at the Detroit Historical Museum through May 2027, on loan from the State of Michigan Library.
From tire piles to beautification contracts: Audra Carson's long road to Izzie Global
Audra Carson spent 30 years as a corporate business analyst before founding De-Tread in 2009 to address Detroit's tire dumping problem. She now runs Izzie Global, a waste management and beautification company named after her mother.
A more walkable Greektown is set to open in mid-June
The 500 block of Monroe Street is set to open in mid-June, the first finished stretch of a streetscape project.
CCS's 101st student exhibition is open through May 29
The College for Creative Studies has turned its campus into a gallery of 4,800-plus pieces for the 101st time. The show is free, it's open through Thursday, and the work is worth seeing.
Millender Center's retail businesses are being cleared out by August
Crain's reported that retail tenants at the downtown Detroit complex have been told to leave by end of August. What happens to the space next hasn't been reported yet.
Detroit is hiring someone whose whole job is recruiting national retailers
The city is creating a senior director of retail attraction position aimed at drawing more regional and national brands to Detroit, Crain's Detroit Business reported Monday.
Detroit school board previews $1.1 billion budget with pay boosts and a warning about next year
The Detroit Public Schools Community District's proposed $1.1 billion budget for 2026-27 prioritizes employee pay increases, an expanded bus pilot, and seven more high school counselors. Superintendent Nikolai Vitti presented the plan while warning of serious financial uncertainty in the years that follow.
The house on East Ferry Street is the subject of a Smithsonian director's DIA lecture next month
Chase Robinson, director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, lectures at the Detroit Institute of Arts on June 7 on Charles Lang Freer and the railroad magnate's overlooked influence on American cultural institutions. The story runs through a house on East Ferry Street that most Detroiters have never heard of.
Monday at Movement 2026: DJ Minx and Dom Dolla close a packed Hart Plaza
Paxahau's twentieth Movement closed Memorial Day with a full Hart Plaza. DJ Minx at the Pyramid, Dom Dolla at the Movement Stage, Sillygirlcarmen on the Detroit Stage, and the day-three crowd that Hart Plaza counts on every year.
Movement 2026 opens at Hart Plaza with rain, techno, and tens of thousands
The annual Memorial Day weekend techno festival kicked off Saturday at Hart Plaza with Dom Dolla, Carl Cox, and Sara Landry headlining. Rain was present. The crowds were not deterred.
The Fred and Barbara Erb Discovery Trails open at the Detroit Zoo
The Detroit Zoo's largest project in its history opens seven acres of interactive trails, stingray encounters, and family-oriented play space along its southwest footprint.
Detroit's Museum of Electronic Music is looking for a building
Adriel Thornton wants to give Detroit techno a permanent home.
Detroit violence intervention groups launch free flag football league for teens
Team Pursuit and FORCE Detroit ran a free flag football league this spring. The sport was the draw. The curriculum was something else.
Spirit Plaza reopens on Woodward, hours before Movement starts
The city reopens Spirit Plaza on Saturday morning, a few hours and a block away from Movement's opening gates at Hart Plaza.
Detroit's skyline runs blue and green all month for NF Awareness
May is National Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month, and the Gilbert family's NFX campaign has lit up landmarks across downtown in the disorder's signature colors.
Movement picks: Carl Craig twice, Dopplereffekt, Juan Atkins with Berlin
Movement picks include Carl Craig back-to-back with Chicago's Cajmere, a Borderland collaboration between Juan Atkins and Berlin's Mark Ernestus, and Dopplereffekt closing Monday at the Waterfront Stage.
JerJuan Howard opens the Howard Family Bookstore at Puritan and Lesure
JerJuan Howard, 28, spent a year and a half converting a vacant west side building into a bookstore, event space, and 3D printing lab rooted in the Puritan Avenue corridor.
At Movement this weekend, women DJs are no longer an exception
Stacey Hotwaxx Hale has been on the Movement lineup since the festival's first year. DJ Stacye J, DJ Killa $quid, and others who followed her are at Hart Plaza this weekend.
Colorado startup Alquist 3D is bringing a concrete-printing robot to Detroit, with state help
The Michigan Strategic Fund approved a $1.6 million grant to Alquist 3D, which plans to open a robotics and workforce training facility at Newlab in Corktown.
Weston Hall opens in Virginia Park with 47 affordable units and a workforce record built into the renovation
Detroit Landmark Development Corporation restored a 1924 building vacant for decades and routed construction wages and credentials to city residents along the way.
Detroit's bankruptcy case is officially closed
More than 13 years after the largest municipal Chapter 9 filing in U.S. history, a federal judge signed a final decree closing Detroit's bankruptcy case.
Gilbert Family Foundation puts $6.4 million more into Venture 313
A new $6.4 million commitment extends the citywide startup initiative that routes capital and coaching to Detroit founders at nearly every stage.
Belle Isle is getting a new cycle track and a road reversal before Memorial Day
The DNR is rolling out road markings, a redesigned cycle track, and a direction flip on Central Avenue — all before the holiday weekend.
Mike Duggan exits the governor's race
The former Detroit mayor ended his independent run for Michigan governor Thursday, citing a hardened national mood and a fundraising gap he couldn't close.
Detroit's first Juneteenth music festival features Kash Doll, Babytron and Fetty Wap
Detroit will host its first Juneteenth music festival this summer, with Kash Doll, Babytron, and Fetty Wap headlining the inaugural event.
Detroit approves $52K to fix contaminated soil at one demo site as hundreds await testing
Detroit City Council approved a $52,000 contract to remediate a single contaminated demolition lot on the east side, raising alarm about the scale of costs facing the city as it tests hundreds of additional sites.
Pine Knob opens Saturday, Kid Cudi headlines season launch
Pine Knob Music Theatre opens its 2026 outdoor season Saturday with Kid Cudi, launching a 45-show summer schedule that includes a rare suburban set from Detroit native Jack White.
Detroit Techno Week is official, timed to Movement's return to Hart Plaza
Mayor Mary Sheffield signed a proclamation designating the Memorial Day stretch as Detroit Techno Week, honoring Paxahau's two decades producing Movement.
Topa, a rooftop cocktail bar, opens Thursday on the 11th floor of AC Hotel Detroit
The Roxbury Group's new 11th-floor bar at the AC Hotel Detroit at the Bonstelle opens Thursday in Brush Park with Mediterranean small plates, a Basque-named cocktail list, and reclaimed wood from a Michigan resort hotel.
Wayne County is cutting foreclosure checks smaller than claimants expected, with no explanation
Former homeowners who lost properties in Wayne County tax foreclosures say checks from the county are arriving below expected amounts, and the treasurer's office won't say how it's calculating the deductions.
Decades of regional water policy left Detroit holding the bill
Starting July 2026, Detroit water and sewer rates rise again. A piece in Bridge Detroit traces why city bills have climbed 400% since the late 1990s and why Detroit ratepayers cover costs for 76 suburban communities.
'Big Jim' O'Brien departs WCSX, stays in Detroit
Jim O'Brien, known as Big Jim on Detroit classic rock station 94.7 WCSX, announced his departure Thursday. He told the Free Press he is not leaving Detroit and has no intention of slowing down.
Free buses, still stranded: Detroit high schoolers wait while schedules lag
Detroit made bus rides free for high schoolers in April. At Southeastern High School, that free pass gets you to a thirty-minute wait while the 3:27 bus runs before the bell.
Concert of Colors to pay tribute to WGPR-TV's 'The Scene' at July festival
The Don Was Detroit All Star Revue brings back Detroit's answer to Soul Train with a tribute to The Scene at the Detroit Film Theatre on July 18, dedicated to Concert of Colors founder Ismael Ahmed.
Dearborn animal shelter renames fundraiser after Coachella legal threat, gets flooded with donations
Lawyers for Coachella sent a cease-and-desist over the name Pawchella. Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit changed the name to Pawfest, printed nothing twice, and got swamped with out-of-state donations.
Detroit's population grows for third straight year, adding over 5,000 residents
New census estimates show Detroit added more than 5,000 residents over the past year, the third consecutive year of population growth for a city that spent most of the past half-century losing people.
Vinyl lounge and cafe coming to Southwest Detroit
Tigris Hi-Fi, a vinyl listening lounge and cafe, is opening 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 lost its fixed home, John Monaghan and Kevin Maher launched Motor City Cinematheque to keep independent and art cinema alive in the metro area.
Danny Brown is always onto the next thing
Detroit rapper Danny Brown returns to Movement for his fourth appearance, bringing 15-plus years of catalog to the Waterfront stage and a new dance track that's become the city's spring anthem.
Residents sue to block Wayne County transit millage from August ballot
Not Smart Wayne filed suit in Wayne County Circuit Court on May 8, alleging transit officials withheld information about a March meeting and wrote ballot language designed to confuse voters ahead of an August vote on a countywide SMART millage.
Heidelberg Project names new executive director, moves toward arts hub model
The Heidelberg Project announced a new executive director and plans to renovate its Number House as flexible space for Detroit artists and small creative businesses, a shift toward earned revenue the nonprofit has been building toward for years.
Detroit lands a PWHL franchise
Detroit enters the PWHL as the ninth team for the 2026-27 season, backed by more than 4,500 season-ticket deposits and years of neutral-site momentum.
After the pulse drops on Kercheval
When Movement clears out of Hart Plaza, West Village's Foxglove becomes one of the clearest readings of how Detroit comes down.
Hamilton closes at the Fisher Theatre, Broadway in Detroit loads an all-new season
Hamilton wraps May 17 at the Fisher Theatre, and Broadway in Detroit has already lined up six Detroit-premiere productions for 2026-27.
Marrow's West Village restaurant closes June 7
Founder Ping Ho is consolidating around the Eastern Market flagship, ending eight years on Kercheval. The Birmingham location will transition to a new concept after Memorial Day.
Editor's note: ahead of Movement 2026
Hart Plaza in May, before the stages go up. The river is still doing what the river does. The festival isn't here yet. We're getting ready to cover it.
Walk a Mile Wednesday returned with the police chief and city leaders on the route
Walk a Mile Wednesday returned this week with the Detroit police chief and city leaders walking a neighborhood route with residents.
Pat Caputo, longtime Detroit sports radio voice, dies at 67 of pancreatic cancer
Pat Caputo, the longtime Detroit sports radio host and Oakland Press columnist, died this week at 67 from pancreatic cancer.
Little Liberia plants Michigan's first Liberian restaurant on East Warren
Chef Ameneh Marhaba's Little Liberia, billed as Michigan's first Liberian restaurant, holds its grand opening at 16530 E. Warren Ave. on May 15.
A cardboard maze of Detroit landmarks opens inside the Michigan Science Center on Saturday
A walkable cardboard maze of Detroit landmarks opens inside the Michigan Science Center on Saturday, May 9, presented by the Skillman Foundation, Ford Philanthropy, and Welch Packaging.
Gayanga Co. shuts down, sues Detroit Inspector General over contaminated-dirt allegations
Gayanga Co. announced it is shutting down and filed a defamation suit against Detroit's Office of Inspector General over contaminated-dirt allegations and an active FBI probe.
Memorial Day weekend in Detroit 2026: a guide beyond Movement
Movement runs three days at Hart Plaza. The rest of the city is also open. Tigers, Belle Isle, Eastern Market, the patios.
DPSCD parent sues state over per-pupil funding gap and legacy debt
A DPSCD parent filed suit in Michigan state court against Gov. Whitmer and the state board of education, seeking equitable funding and the elimination of district debt from the state-control years.
Gleaners is running short on food with a large single-day food drive around the corner
Gleaners Community Food Bank is entering the National Association of Letter Carriers' Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive under strain from falling donations and tightened federal food assistance.
Pistons' second round sends Detroit bars into playoff mode
Detroit eliminated Orlando in Game 7 and advanced to the Eastern Conference Semifinals for the first time since 2008 — and the bars on Woodward didn't wait for a formal announcement.
The Detroit Riverfront filled with anglers for the seasonal walleye run
The Detroit Riverfront filled with anglers this week for the seasonal walleye run, the spring spawn when fish move up from Lake Erie into the river system.
CCS sent its 2026 senior fashion class down a 700-foot runway at Somerset Collection
The College for Creative Studies sent its 2026 senior fashion class down a 700-foot runway at Somerset Collection on April 26, with projected lighting on the lower-level corridor.
Yellow-bus pilot at Henry Ford High cut chronic absenteeism for riders by 8.5 points
DPSCD's $600,000 yellow-bus pilot at Henry Ford High and East English Village cut chronic absenteeism by 8.5 points among the most frequent riders.
The Movement 2026 lineup, decoded: who's playing where
Resident Advisor published the full Movement 2026 lineup in March. Six stages, over a hundred artists. Here is what the bookings signal.
Eastern Market Brewing Co. moves to statewide distribution this summer
Eastern Market Brewing Co. is moving from limited self-distribution to a statewide footprint this summer, with a new production partner picking up the volume.
Metro Detroit logged 17 restaurant openings in April, plus two closings
The Detroit News tracked 17 bar, restaurant, and cafe openings across Metro Detroit in April 2026 alongside two closings, with Middle Eastern bowl concepts and bookstore-cafes making parallel debuts in Detroit and Ferndale.
East Side residents launch data center study group to shape city policy
The Eastside Community Network is hosting a biweekly study group starting in May to build resident knowledge about data centers and produce policy recommendations before city officials move forward on permits.
People Mover agency takes lead on Michigan Central transit hub
The Detroit Transportation Corporation, which runs the People Mover, is now leading the planning for a new multimodal transit hub at Michigan Central, with a request for proposals for engineering studies due this summer and roughly $40 million identified in funding.
Yungblud sold out Freedom Hill on a cold Friday with Return to Dust opening
Yungblud sold out the Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill on Friday, May 1, on a cold night with Los Angeles band Return to Dust opening.
Vernal 2026 fills Buffalo Prescott with botanical sculpture and an oversized worm couch
Vernal 2026 is Buffalo Prescott's spring exhibition, a contemporary group show built around a botanical theme — decorative rabbits, plant installations, and an oversized worm couch.
Movement 2026 returns Memorial Day weekend: what to know
Movement Music Festival returns to Hart Plaza on Memorial Day weekend, May 23 through 25, 2026. Three days, six stages, Paxahau's twentieth at the helm.
The DSO brings a concert of Detroit composers to Music Hall this season
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra programs fifteen works by living composers this season, with a dedicated concert at Music Hall rooted in the city's own musical voices.
Workers rallied at Roosevelt Park for May Day with a familiar list of demands
Detroit workers rallied at Roosevelt Park on Friday, May 1, for May Day, marking International Workers' Day on the lawn in front of Michigan Central Station.
Starex Smith opens Smith & Williams on Gratiot, a soul-food room in an Art Deco shell
Starex Smith, the food influencer known as The Hungry Black Man, opened Smith & Williams at 1428 Gratiot Ave. with co-owner Devante Williams on May 1, 2026.
Shed work at Eastern Market is holding back new vendors this spring
Deferred maintenance on Sheds 2 and 3 is creating a bottleneck for vendors hoping to expand or land new stalls ahead of the 2026 peak Saturday season.
West Vernor shuts down for Detroit's Cinco de Mayo parade this Sunday
The Mexican Patriotic Committee of Metro Detroit hosts the 61st annual Cinco de Mayo parade Sunday along West Vernor, with the theme Estamos Unidos.
Crossing the Lines: Highland Park resident wants to save the Highland Appliance sign
A Highland Park resident is working to preserve the vintage Highland Appliance sign, a neighborhood landmark that has sat unused for decades.
Detroit Youth Poetry Slam brings 15 teen poets to the Wright Museum on May 7
InsideOut Literary Arts holds its annual youth poetry slam at the Charles H. Wright Museum on May 7, where 15 teens from the Citywide Poets program compete for a spot on the 2026 Detroit Youth Performance Troupe.
Plans for 600-room Detroit hotel would require demolishing a 16-story building
Developers unveiled plans Wednesday for a 600-room hotel connected to Huntington Place, but building it means demolishing at least two downtown buildings including a 16-story tower. Construction would start in early 2027.
Project Clean Slate clears 20,000 criminal records in its tenth year
Detroit's Project Clean Slate marked ten years and 20,000 criminal records cleared this week. The free expungement program is run out of the city's Law Department.
Pig & Whiskey moves from Ferndale to Corktown for its 2026 edition
Pig & Whiskey announced Thursday that the 2026 edition of the music-and-barbecue festival is moving from downtown Ferndale to Corktown, July 31 to August 2.
DPSCD data shows hundreds of special education evaluations running past the legal 30-day deadline
Of 1,680 special education evaluation referrals DPSCD received from the start of the 2025-26 school year through March, 72 were completed past the legal deadline and 728 are still in process. The figures were presented to the school board last week.
Spiedo, Brad Greenhill's Mediterranean concept, takes the old Jolly Pumpkin on Canfield
Brad Greenhill, the chef-owner behind Takoi, is bringing Spiedo to 441 W. Canfield, taking over the old Jolly Pumpkin space for a summer 2026 opening.
Hamilton runs three weeks at the Fisher Theatre, opens Wednesday
Hamilton opens at the Fisher Theatre on April 29 and runs through May 17 — a three-week stand inside the Albert Kahn building on West Grand Boulevard.
El Trombone takes Mutiny's Vernor space, opens early May as Detroit's newest gay bar
Mutiny Tiki Bar closed after almost ten years at 4654 Vernor Hwy. The Detroit Optimist Society is opening El Trombone in the same room in early May.
We started a journal
I started writing about Detroit in 2024. So did several other people, in their own places: Substacks, group chats, pieces published in places that don't exist anymore.
MOCAD reopens, renamed, rewindowed
MOCAD reopens Saturday after eight months of renovation. The 4454 Woodward building, a former auto dealership designed by Albert Kahn, has been the museum's home for the entirety of its 20 years.
Carole Harris comes back to where she started
The first solo show Carole Harris ever had was at Gallery 7, the Detroit space Charles McGee ran from 1969 to 1979 to give Black Detroit artists somewhere to exhibit.
Bar Chenin became Michigan's only James Beard award finalist on March 31
The James Beard Foundation announced its 2026 finalists on Tuesday, March 31, 2026.
Sunda lands a fifth restaurant in the district Detroit
Billy Dec is honest about the bet. He has framed Sunda's Detroit room as a step outside the brand's familiar model and called it an exciting risk that is still a risk.
Hamtramck Blowout 2026 dropped the wristband back to twenty bucks and pulled in 130 acts
The 2025 Blowout sold 220 acts across 25 venues with a thirty-five-dollar wristband.
Hamtramck joins Michigan Main Street and the Jos. Campau bet gets bigger
Governor Whitmer announced on March 3 that Hamtramck has been selected by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation for the Select Level of the Michigan Main Street program.
Jeff Mills announced another album before the last one was cold
Jeff Mills and Jean-Phi Dary announced a new Tomorrow Comes The Harvest album in February 2026. It is called Forbidden Planet.
DJ Minx signed to Rekids
DJ Minx signed to Rekids in early 2026 and released the Energy EP in February. The title track features Kendra Foster.
Tec-Troit is moving to June
Tec-Troit announced in early 2026 that the festival is moving from August to June for the 2026 edition.
Antidote opens at the Detroit edge of Grosse Pointe Park
Nya Marshall opened her first restaurant, Ivy Kitchen + Cocktails, in East Village in December 2019. She bought the building a decade ago when there was effectively nothing on that block.
Medusa opens Anthony Lombardo's Sicilian restaurant a block from SheWolf
Selden Street between Second and Third is Anthony Lombardo's block now.
GM moves global HQ to Hudson's Detroit
General Motors began moving its global headquarters into Hudson's Detroit on January 12, 2026, ending a roughly three-decade run inside the Renaissance Center.
Castalia served its last drinks on New Year's Eve and closed with the afterlife menu
Castalia served its last drinks on December 31, 2025, eight years after Kevin Peterson and Jane Larson opened it in the lower level of an 1890s Victorian on Second Avenue.
Street Beet finally gets a Corktown address with its name on it
The pop-up has been Detroit's most ambitious vegan operation for seven years. McDaddy's. Taco Hell. The plant-based versions of the things you actually want to eat at one a.m.
Jeff Mills put out the Liquid Room record again for its 30th anniversary
Jeff Mills released i9 (2025 Version) on July 18, 2025, marking 30 years since his Live at Liquid Room Tokyo session.
Kyle Hall dropped four albums in nine months
Kyle Hall released four full-length records between May 2025 and January 2026, all on his label Forget The Clock.
Five Wayne State alumni open Rahha inside the Hannan Center
Rahha translates loosely from Arabic as comfort, peace of mind, the feeling of finally putting something down. The five founders chose it deliberately.
Saksey's opened off Parker's Alley with Cap'n Crunch sundaes and Teeny 'tinis
Saksey's opened on Friday, November 14, 2025, with eight tables and 55 seats in the basement of Gilly's Clubhouse at 1550 Woodward. The entrance is in Parker's Alley.
An $80 million Brush Park development will bring 211 affordable units, including the Sanctuary
The City of Detroit broke ground on a $80 million Brush Park development on Friday, November 14, 2025.
Marrow in the Market opens in the Capital Poultry building
Ping Ho opened Marrow in the Market on November 13, 2025, in the former Capital Poultry building at 2442 Riopelle Street in Eastern Market. The space is 14,000 square feet across two floors.
Pingree Detroit makes Detroit a shoe city again, by hand
Pingree Detroit opened its first storefront at 11:11 a.m. on 11/11. Veterans Day, intentionally, because most of the company's co-owners are veterans.
Castalia announced its closing on October 27 and called the timing a chance to go out on top
On Monday, October 27, 2025, Castalia posted on social media that it would close on New Year's Eve.
Wilson Park opens on 22 acres of riverfront
Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Centennial Park opened on October 25, 2025, on a 22-acre stretch of riverfront between 8th Street and Rosa Parks Boulevard.
Mary-Ann Monforton's Heart Land plays house at the Mobile Homestead
The MOCAD main building closed in August for HVAC and infrastructure renovations through early 2026.
Autechre played the Russell Industrial Center
Paxahau booked Autechre at the Russell Industrial Center on October 21, 2025.
Joe Louis Greenway adds two miles and a statue
A new two-mile section of the Joe Louis Greenway opened on October 7, 2025, between Joy Road and Intervale Street on Detroit's west side.
Waka by Baobab Fare gets the old Russell Street deli
Hamissi Mamba's mother sold chapati and brochettes in the markets of Bujumbura, Burundi, when he was a kid.
Marble Bar turned 10 the only way it knows how
Marble Bar turned 10 on October 3 and 4, 2025, and marked the occasion by booking Octave One live and Danny Daze on the same weekend.
A Victorian pub on Mack Avenue is booking the Belleville three
Cannons Bar opened in October 2025. It serves oysters and books techno.
The DIA's first major Native American show in 30 years
Contemporary Anishinaabe Art: A Continuation opened at the DIA on Sunday and runs through April 5, 2026.
DJ Stingray brought the Echogenesis Tour to Lincoln Factory
DJ Stingray 313 played Lincoln Factory on September 27, 2025, as part of his Echogenesis Tour. Akua and 1morning were on the bill.
Detroit's first contemporary art fair lands at Michigan Central
Detroit got its first contemporary art fair this weekend.
Foxglove ended its 2025 season at Dreamtroit with Juan Atkins and a family-friendly day party
Foxglove closed its 2025 season on September 20 by leaving the garden. The garden, the Leicester Court yard that has been Foxglove's home in the North End since 2023, only holds a few hundred people.
Apple finally opens a store in downtown Detroit
Apple opened its first downtown Detroit store at 5 p.m. on Friday, September 19, with Tim Cook in attendance. He greeted the line, then unlocked the doors.
Murals in the Market comes home for year 10
Murals in the Market spent two years in Islandview after 1XRUN moved its headquarters there. For the 10th anniversary edition, the festival came back to Eastern Market.
Ladder 4 became the first Detroit restaurant ever recognized by 50 Best
On September 9, 2025, the World's 50 Best announced Ladder 4 Wine Bar as the inaugural recipient of the Resy One To Watch Award for North America.
Dally in the alley returns for its 46th year, still without sponsors
Dally in the Alley filled the streets between Forest, Hancock, Second, and Third on Saturday, September 6, 2025, for its 46th year. Magazine Free admission.
BLKOUT Walls paints 10 new murals across Detroit under “A Beautiful Resistance”
BLKOUT Walls Mural Festival returned for its third edition from September 4 to 14, 2025, with 10 new large-scale murals painted across Detroit.
Detroit Month of Design at 15, UNESCO at 10
Detroit Month of Design ran the entire month of September. The 15th edition of the festival lined up about 95 events featuring more than 1,000 designers and creatives across the city.
Tamela Todd built Sip-N-Read after waiting six years on the right space
Tamela Todd opened Sip-N-Read on a Wednesday afternoon in late August.
Tec-Troit went off in August
Tec-Troit ran August 15 to 17, 2025, at The Container Globe. Free, three days, a lineup that leaned hard into Detroit's own catalog.
Charivari stopped being one festival and became five
Charivari Detroit ran August 14 to 17, 2025, across multiple venues instead of one. The festival dropped its single-site Fort Wayne model.
City Modern completes in Brush Park, Detroit's first ground-up neighborhood since the 1980s
City Modern, the eight-acre, 450-residence neighborhood Bedrock built in Brush Park, was officially declared complete on July 24, 2025.
Capitol Park reopens after a $3.5 million reset
The triangle of grass behind the Westin Book Cadillac is the first thing in Capitol Park that catches the eye after a six-month shutdown.
Sterling Toles and the hybrid Detroit hip-hop / electronic vein
Sterling Toles has been making music in Detroit for more than two decades. Most of it sits where the city's hip-hop, jazz, and electronic traditions overlap, and most of it has been heard outside the city before it gets a Detroit listen.
Detroit Bookfest fills three Eastern Market Sheds for the eighth time
The 8th annual Detroit Festival of Books ran from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 20, 2025 Eventbrite, in Sheds 4, 5, and 6 at Eastern Market BridgeDetroit.
Tacos Wuey opens on Vernor with a family birria recipe
Eddie Vargas grew up around Vernor Highway. He spent the past several years cooking other people's restaurants for them.
Richie Hawtin made a short film about Detroit in 1995
NOWNESS released Kids Like Us on July 5, 2025. The 35mm short runs nine minutes and was executive produced by Richie Hawtin.
Purrfiction is a bookstore and a cat adoption center, intentionally
Emma Spadafore left corporate after six years to open the kind of store that probably sounds like a joke at a bachelorette dinner. Bookstore. With cats.
Juan Atkins brought Cybotron to Glastonbury
Cybotron played Glastonbury on June 27, 2025, inside the Block9 IICON structure.
From J Dilla to HiTech: Detroit hip-hop and electronic still share the same room
James Yancey died in February 2006. Nineteen years later the Detroit hip-hop catalog he helped build is still in conversation with the city's electronic scene, and the conversation is structural, not coincidental.
Planet E put out the Carl Craig documentary soundtrack
Planet E released the soundtrack to Desire: The Carl Craig Story in summer 2025. The compilation tracks the documentary's chronology.
DJ Holographic and the new wave of Detroit DJs
Ariel Corley has been DJing in Detroit as DJ Holographic for most of the last decade. She is one of the names that the next-wave question lands on first, and the touring schedule explains why.
Lauren Ellis won Hatch Detroit. now she has to build the bakery.
Lauren Ellis pitched a French viennoiserie bakery on a Wednesday night at the Wayne State University Industry Innovation Center, in front of judges and a public that had cast 21,000 votes.
Haraz coffee opens its 30th location, in Corktown
Haraz Coffee opened its second Detroit store on Wednesday, June 11, on the ground floor of The Brooke on Bagley at 1501 Church Street. Mayor Mike Duggan cut the ribbon.
Movement 2025 took its 25th anniversary as a question, not a victory lap
Movement Music Festival closed its 25th edition on Memorial Day. What the anniversary framing actually meant on the ground was less a celebration than a question put to the room.
The Underground Stage at Movement 2025: where the deepest sets lived
The Underground Stage at Movement 2025 sits in the amphitheater bowl Noguchi cut into the slope. The 2025 booking confirmed it as the festival's harder, more architecturally precise corner.
After Movement 2025: where the parties went after Hart Plaza closed
The Movement 2025 afterparty circuit ran from Friday May 23 through Tuesday May 27. Hart Plaza closed at midnight three nights running. The afterparties did not.
Movement 2025: the sets that defined the weekend
By the end of Monday night, several Movement 2025 sets had separated from the rest of the lineup and become the weekend's reference points.
The Pyramid and Waterfront stages at Movement 2025
The Pyramid and Waterfront stages at Movement 2025 sit on opposite ends of Hart Plaza. The two stages are the festival's middle tier, and the bookings reflect that.
Monday at Movement 2025: closing day under the Detroit sky
Movement 2025 closed Monday night, May 26, 2025, under a clear Detroit sky and a crowd that had thinned only slightly from Sunday's peak.
Underground Music Academy took the stage at Movement
Underground Music Academy took over the Detroit Stage at Movement 2025 on Sunday. It was UMA's first festival showcase.
The three godfathers played Hart Plaza together
Carl Craig went back to back with Moodymann on the Stargate stage on Saturday night of Movement 2025. Mike Banks was in the booth with them.
Theo Parrish and Moodymann played Lincoln Factory for 12 hours
The Nothing Is Strange party at Lincoln Factory on Sunday of Movement weekend 2025 had one lineup: Theo Parrish and Moodymann.
No Way Back turned 30 and nobody left before dawn
Interdimensional Transmissions ran No Way Back 2025 on Sunday night at Tangent Gallery, billed as a 14-hour Techno Thanksgiving.
Sunday at Movement 2025: Day Two delivered the deepest sets
Sunday, May 25, 2025, was the second day of Movement 2025. The crowd at Hart Plaza ran heavier than Saturday by 6 p.m. and the deepest Detroit programming was concentrated in the afternoon.
Father Dukes headlined Movement
Father Dukes played a Movement 2025 stage on May 24. She came out of Seraphine Collective's beatmatch brunches two years earlier.
Soul Clap's House of EFUNK turned 11
Soul Clap's House of EFUNK ran its 11th edition at TV Lounge over Movement weekend 2025. Two nights. Deep lineup.
Movement Music festival hits 25 years on Hart Plaza
Movement Music Festival ran May 24 through 26, 2025, at Hart Plaza, marking the 25th anniversary of Detroit's flagship electronic music festival. Memorial Day weekend.
Saturday at Movement 2025: opening day at Hart Plaza
Movement 2025 opened on Hart Plaza at noon on Saturday, May 24, 2025. The 25th anniversary edition ran a full slate across all six stages from the first hour.
Movement 2025 kickoff: parties opened Friday before Hart Plaza
The Movement 2025 afterparty circuit opened Friday night, May 23, twelve hours before the festival's first set on Hart Plaza.
HiTech had the year
HiTech released HONEYPAQQ Vol. 1 on May 23, 2025, and spent the rest of the year doing everything else. Coachella. Berghain. Primavera. Roskilde.
The Carl Craig documentary finally played in Detroit
Desire: The Carl Craig Story had its Detroit premiere at Newlab at Michigan Central Station on May 22, 2025. The room was full.
Kevin Saunderson put his son on the first e-dancer album in 25 years
Kevin Saunderson released a new e-Dancer album on May 21, 2025, the first under that alias in more than two decades. His son Dantiez produced it with him.
Movement 2025 by the numbers: 25 years, six stages, 115 artists
Twenty-five years. Six stages. One hundred fifteen artists. Three days. The numbers behind the 25th edition of Detroit's flagship electronic music festival.
The Movement 2025 lineup, decoded: who's playing each stage, why it matters
The Movement 2025 lineup runs to 115 artists across six stages over three days. The bookings break into roughly four bands and each stage is built around one or two.
Inside Paxahau: how Detroit's festival institution programs Movement
Paxahau Event Production has produced Movement since 2006. The company started in 1998 as a Detroit promotion crew and has run the festival under five different mayors.
Flower Day brings 80 growers and a full Sunday of plant-hauling to Eastern Market
The 58th annual Flower Day ran from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, May 18, 2025, at Eastern Market. Mix 92.3 Free.
Hart Plaza, Detroit's electronic music ground zero
Hart Plaza opened to the public in 1975. Isamu Noguchi designed it. Fourteen acres of plaza, fountains, sculpture, and amphitheater set on the Detroit River across from Windsor.
What to know about Movement 2025: a guide to Memorial Day weekend at Hart Plaza
The 25th annual Movement Music Festival runs May 24 through 26, 2025, at Hart Plaza. Three days, six stages, 115 artists across the weekend.
Public thrift closes after three years on Joseph Campau
Public Thrift closed its doors on Joseph Campau in Hamtramck in May 2025, after almost three years in its brick-and-mortar location. The store ran a final $5 Fill A Bag sale on May 9 and 10.
DJ Minx: Detroit house's matriarchy
Jennifer Witcher founded Women on Wax Recordings in 1996. Twenty-nine years later DJ Minx is one of the most established Detroit house DJs touring, and the only one of her cohort who built a label specifically to amplify women in dance music.
Pocket Change's first rooftop pop-up brought Mink's Sarah Welch and Cameron Rolka shucking above Gratiot
The first Sunday after Pocket Change opened, the third-floor rooftop was hosting a husband-and-wife oyster pop-up.
60th Cinco de Mayo parade walks West Vernor with three women leading
The 60th annual Cinco de Mayo Parade ran 2.4 miles down West Vernor Highway on Sunday, May 4, 2025. Organizers put the turnout around 8,000.
Mister Joshooa played Panorama Bar
Mister Joshooa played his first Panorama Bar set on April 26, 2025, as part of a Klubnacht lineup.
Old Miami: where Detroit's underground still drinks after the show
Old Miami has been a veterans bar in the Cass Corridor since the 1970s. The back patio has been one of Detroit techno's quiet anchors for nearly as long.
Pocket Change hides a cocktail bar above Eastern Market
The signage is one neon sign that says COCKTAILS in red. That's it. Walk past it and you will.
Inside the North End record shop keeping Detroit techno's vinyl archive alive
Somewhere in Detroit, the retail counter inside the Submerge building, has run on appointments and word of mouth for two decades. The crates are the city's vinyl spine.
At 88, Janet Webster Jones is bookselling royalty
Donya Craddock, who runs Dock Bookshop in Fort Worth, called Janet Webster Jones the queen from a stage at Winter Institute 2025. The room agreed.
Lincoln Factory's first year of programming, told through the calendar
Lincoln Factory opened in September 2024 inside the old Lincoln Motor Factory. Seven months in, the room has run roughly 40 nights of programming. Most of them sold out.
Kyle Hall: the Detroit prodigy who never left the city
Kyle Hall founded Wild Oats Records in 2009 when he was seventeen. Sixteen years later he is still in Detroit, still releasing records, and one of the most consistent house and techno producers the city has produced since.
Kerri Chandler's recurring Detroit work
Kerri Chandler is from East Orange, New Jersey. He has played Detroit house rooms with enough consistency over three decades that the city treats him as something close to family.
La Fonda Street and Encarnación open as a coffee-and-cantina pair in West Village
Robert Encarnación was a Bank of America small-business banker in Miami before he moved to Detroit. He came up for a weekend in April 2019. By the end of June he had moved.
Roar Brewing turns Nain Rouge into the city's first black-owned brewery
Evan Fay learned to like craft beer in Wyoming. He was Air Force, and he kept driving down to Fort Collins because the breweries there worked like community centers.
Marche du Nain Rouge marches the red dwarf out of Detroit again
About 10,000 people showed up in Cass Corridor on Sunday, March 23, 2025, for the annual Marche du Nain Rouge CBS News, the costume parade that exists to chase a small red imp out of Detroit.
Theo Parrish at Sound Signature: 28 years of Detroit deep house
Theo Parrish founded Sound Signature in 1997. The Detroit deep house label has run for 28 years on a consistent aesthetic, a tight catalog, and a refusal to release at major-label pace.
Hamtramck Blowout 2025 expanded to 220 acts and 25 venues, but the wristband price went up
The 2024 Blowout reboot had 17 venues, 150 bands, and a twenty-dollar wristband.
DJ Minx played the Pistons halftime
DJ Minx played the Detroit Pistons halftime show in March 2025. It was her second halftime booking at Little Caesars Arena.
Jeff Mills and his jazz band released a new album in March
Jeff Mills released a new Spiral Deluxe album on March 14, 2025. It is called The Love Pretender.
JJ and Anthony Curis, in TIME
TIME named Little Village one of the World's Greatest Places of 2025.
Dirty Shake opened on 313 Day with a wraparound patio, boozy slushies, and a hummer
Sandy Levine and Doug Hewitt opened Dirty Shake at Forest and Second on March 13, 2025. They picked the date for the obvious reason.
DJ Stingray and the steady Detroit DJ work
Sherard Ingram has been the steady DJ in Detroit electro and techno since the late 1990s. The DJ Stingray work is what he has done in the years since Drexciya stopped touring.
Bar Chenin tucks a 10-seat wine bar into the Siren
The room seats ten people. There is a narrow shelf along the opposite wall where another handful can stand and lean. There is no reservation system.
Spot Lite: where Detroit's house and techno scenes meet
Roula David opened Spot Lite on the east side in 2018. Bar, gallery, record shop, music room. The format has held.
Detroit raised money for Shake Shakir
A benefit for Anthony Shake Shakir happened at Tangent Gallery on March 1, 2025. The room was packed.
How Detroit clubs survived 2020 to 2022 and what came after
Movement was cancelled in 2020 and 2021. Detroit's club rooms closed in mid-March 2020 and most did not reopen at full capacity until summer 2021. The story of how the rooms came back is about which ones did.
A 909, a Saturday night, and Jeff Mills walking back into Detroit
Carl Cox pulled out of Movement three months before the festival. Jeff Mills is taking his slot.
Marble Bar: the New Center room that became a Detroit techno destination
Marble Bar opened on Holden Street in 2015. Ten years later it is one of the rooms touring DJs ask to play first.
Omar-S: Detroit's most prolific solo techno project
Alex O. Smith has been releasing as Omar-S on his own FXHE Recordings since the early 2000s. The catalog is among the most prolific in active Detroit techno, and Smith does it almost entirely solo.
Detroit house: where it diverged from Chicago
Chicago house and Detroit house are usually filed as the same lineage. They are not. The two cities share a starting decade and a roster of mutual influences, then diverge sharply around 1990 in ways that still define both scenes.
Yvonne Byrd opened Minnie's Detroit on Trumbull, the fourth Detroit bar she's owned
Yvonne Byrd has run a bar in Detroit since 2008. Vondie's on the River was the first, named after her childhood nickname. It ran until 2012, when the lease wasn't renewed.
TV Lounge: Detroit techno's living room on Grand River
TV Lounge has been programming techno and house on Grand River Avenue since the early 2000s. Mister Joshooa has been running it for over 20 years.
Stacey Pullen and the Detroit techno middle generation
Stacey Pullen has been touring as a Detroit techno DJ for more than thirty years. The middle-generation status is partly a function of when he started and partly a function of staying in the city.
AC Hotel Detroit at the Bonstelle opens
The AC Hotel Detroit at the Bonstelle started taking guests in early January 2025, the first AC Hotel in southeast Michigan.
Transmat: Derrick May's lasting Detroit imprint
Derrick May founded Transmat in 1986. The catalog is small, the influence is not.
Robert Hood and the minimal Detroit techno tradition
Robert Hood co-founded Underground Resistance with Jeff Mills and Mike Banks. He left in 1994 to start M-Plant and put out Minimal Nation, the record that named a subgenre.
Temple Bar fell down and got back up
Part of Temple Bar collapsed in May 2024. It reopened seven months later.
Yellow Light coffee makes Michigan Central its second home
The first food and drink tenant inside Michigan Central Station since 1988 is a coffee and donut shop from the east side.
Metroplex Records: Juan Atkins's foundation
Juan Atkins founded Metroplex in 1985 out of his mother's house. The catalog is the foundation document for a genre.
Planet E Communications: Carl Craig's Detroit institution
Carl Craig founded Planet E Communications in 1991. The label has run continuously since, which in Detroit techno is its own kind of accomplishment.
From warehouse parties to Hart Plaza: how Movement got its venue
Detroit techno spent fifteen years homeless before it got Hart Plaza. The festival came out of the warehouse circuit, not the other way around.
Rebel Nell moves to Eastern Market and the materials follow
Amy Peterson found her first piece of jewelry-making material under the Gratiot bridge in 2013.
Encarnacion and La Fonda Street open in West Village
Robert Encarnacion opened La Fonda Street in June 2024 and the Encarnacion coffee shop next to it as a soft opening that November.
Book Suey runs as a co-op, in a building that used to be a bank
The corner of Joseph Campau and Caniff has had several lives. The 1920s building started as a bank, with stately limestone and ornamental tile that the present tenants kept intact.
The Belt turns 10
The Belt opened ten years ago this month. Library Street Collective and Bedrock unveiled the alley on November 13, 2014, with food trucks and live music and a mural in progress.
Moodymann: the Detroit producer who keeps the underground underground
Kenny Dixon Jr. has been releasing as Moodymann since the early 1990s. The Detroit house producer has done it through one label, his own KDJ, and a refusal to leave the city or the catalog.
Filipino comfort food in a New Center bakery, finally
Jonathan Peregrino spent fifteen years in corporate America before quitting to bake.
Five alebrijes now live on Bagley
Five life-size animal sculptures went up along Bagley Street on Friday.
The High Dive reopened in October with new owners, a hibiscus tea base, and Jeopardy nights
David Lew, the L.A. artist who goes by Shark Toof, sold the High Dive in September 2024.
Rosette Market puts a bodega in the Perennial Corktown lobby
The Perennial Corktown apartment building at 1611 Michigan Avenue opened in late 2023 with two retail tenants on the ground floor.
Submerge: Underground Resistance's headquarters and Detroit's techno archive
Mike Banks established Submerge in 1992 as a distribution hub for Detroit's independent dance labels. The building at 3000 East Grand Boulevard now holds the closest thing the city has to a living techno archive.
Sepia coffee project lands a North End shop after a long detour
Martell Mason got into coffee through trade dynamics, not espresso.
Jeff Mills: the second-by-second precision of a Detroit master
Jeff Mills has been DJing professionally since the early 1980s. The Detroit techno producer's catalog runs across more than three decades and roughly 60 releases on Axis Records, the label he founded in 1992.
Hamtramck Disneyland gets the New York Times treatment
On September 27, 2024, the New York Times Style Magazine ran a feature by Rachel Corbett titled \"Some of America's Best Art Is in the Yard.\" Hamtramck Disneyland, the folk-art installation a Ukrainian retired General Motors machinist named Dmytro Szylak built across two garages in his backyard on Klinger Street, was one of the pieces.
The old Lincoln motor factory is a techno venue now
Detroit has a new techno venue. It used to make cars. Dreamtroit opened in September 2024 inside the former Lincoln Motor Factory.
Hamilton's anchors the Godfrey hotel in Corktown
The Godfrey Hotel opened on Michigan Avenue in summer 2023, but its full-service ground-floor restaurant came later.
Detroit jazz at Hart Plaza: how the festival economy shares the riverfront
The 45th Detroit Jazz Festival closed on Labor Day. The festival is free, runs at Hart Plaza, and shares the same downtown riverfront acres with three other major Detroit festivals across the year.
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.
Hamtramck Labor Day festival closes its 44th year with a Jack White surprise
The 44th annual Hamtramck Labor Day Festival ran August 31 through September 2, 2024. Joseph Campau Avenue from Caniff to Carpenter. Free admission.
Detroit Jazz Festival opens with Alice Coltrane's harp on stage
The 45th annual Detroit Jazz Festival ran Labor Day weekend, August 30 to September 2, 2024. Hart Plaza, Campus Martius, and the new Gretchen C.
Florian East opened in Hamtramck after eighty years without a brewery and put the name on the front in seven languages
The last brewery in Hamtramck closed in 1941. Auto City Brewing Company, gone since the early 1940s.
Detroit's record store map: Submerge, People's, Hello, and what's left
Detroit lost most of its record stores in the 2000s. The handful that survived run the city's vinyl economy and the techno-pilgrimage circuit at the same time.
Mike Huckaby's lasting Detroit house legacy
Mike Huckaby died in April 2020 of COVID-19 complications. Four years later the Detroit house producer's records are still circulating, his teaching is still cited by Detroit DJs, and the catalog he left has not aged.
UFO Bar opens where UFO Factory stood
UFO Bar opened on August 16, 2024, at 2110 Trumbull Street in Corktown, in the building that had been UFO Factory for ten years.
Collect beer bar opened its license at 4 p.m. on a Friday and was pouring beer at 4:10
Collect spent six years on the second floor of a Gratiot building in Eastern Market, above what used to be Gather. In June 2024 the lease ran out.
From Detroit to Berlin: how the city's sound went global
Detroit techno was a UK and German phenomenon before it was a Detroit one. The Berlin half of that story runs through one club and one record label, both founded inside two years of the Wall coming down.
Paramita Sound earned national bar honors and Andrey Douthard kept the menu the same
When USA Today named its first 27 Bars of the Year in July 2024, the only Michigan entry was Paramita Sound, the Black-owned wine bar and record shop on Broadway.
Concert of Colors fills Midtown for its 33rd year, free as ever
Concert of Colors ran for the 33rd time from July 16 to 21, 2024, with most stages at the Detroit Institute of Arts and additional programming across the Detroit Historical Museum, the Charles H.
African World festival returns to Hart Plaza for its 41st year
The 41st annual African World Festival ran July 12 to 14, 2024, at Hart Plaza. The Wright Three days of music, vendors, food, dance, and panels organized by the Charles H.
Supino pizzeria reopens in Eastern Market after fire
Supino Pizzeria reopened its dining room in Eastern Market on July 9, 2024, fourteen months after a two-alarm fire in the residential loft above the restaurant.
The Music Institute and the room where Detroit techno became a scene
The Music Institute opened on Broadway in late 1988 and closed in late 1989. Less than 18 months. Long enough.
How techno started in Detroit: the Belleville Three story
Three Black teenagers from a Detroit suburb — Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson — built the foundation of techno between 1981 and 1988. The story is shorter and stranger than the genre suggests.
Michigan Central comes back, with Diana Ross opening and Eminem closing
Six years of restoration, $300 million in tax incentives, and a lineup deeper than any single Detroit show in decades.
Mighty real/queer Detroit's second biennial hits 11 galleries
The second Mighty Real/Queer Detroit biennial opened tonight and runs through June 30.
Stacey Hotwaxx Hale: the Detroit DJ who never stopped working
Stacey Hale has been DJing in Detroit since the 1970s. The 'Godmother of House' framing is not a marketing line; it is what people in the city have called her for decades.
Movement 2024 by the numbers
Paxahau released attendance and operating figures Tuesday from the 24th edition of Movement. The numbers, in plain terms: the festival held.
Hatch Art keeps working on Hamtramck Disneyland
Michigan Public's Stateside podcast spent its May 29 episode at Hamtramck Disneyland, a backyard sculpture installation atop two side-by-side garages at 12087 Klinger Street.
After Movement 2024: where Detroit went next
Movement closes at midnight. The afterparty circuit runs to noon. Across three nights and four full days of programming, the rooms that ran the festival's actual late hours were TV Lounge, Marble Bar, the Tangent Gallery, Spot Lite, and Lincoln Factory.
The Vinyl Society opens nine years after Paradise Valley got its name back
Paradise Valley got its name back in 2015.
The Skrillex booking, and what it said about Movement 2024
Sonny Moore closed the Movement Stage Sunday night under the name he stopped being able to outrun. The booking had been a subject of argument since February.
Monday at Movement 2024: Memorial Day closes hard
Movement 2024 closed Memorial Day, May 27, with the day-three lineup that runs Detroit harder than the rest of the weekend. DJ Stingray, Robert Hood, Octave One, and the Carl Craig closing set.
Sunday at Movement 2024: a night the crowd didn't leave
Day two of Movement 2024 was the day the festival had been arguing about for three months. Skrillex closed the Movement Stage. The crowd that showed up for him stayed.
Saturday at Movement 2024: the festival came back full
Movement 2024 opened Saturday, May 25, with a Hart Plaza crowd that was the largest on a festival opening day since the pre-pandemic editions.
Erika linenfelser turned her North End yard into Foxglove and a custom four-point sound system
Erika Linenfelser's house is at 257 Leicester Court, in the North End.
What to know about Movement 2024: 24 years on Hart Plaza
Movement Music Festival runs May 25 through 27, 2024, at Hart Plaza. The 24th edition. Six stages, 115 artists across the weekend, three days for a Memorial Day weekend pass that starts at $225.
Looking back: how Movement survived on Hart Plaza
Movement returns to Hart Plaza Memorial Day weekend for its 24th edition. The festival has changed names, owners, and economic models since 2000. The location has not.
Charles McGee opens the shepherd
The Shepherd's first show is a Charles McGee retrospective. It is appropriate.
OMA drilled 1,353 holes in a bakery to build LANTERN
The first thing you notice on the south facade of LANTERN is the holes. There are 1,353 of them, drilled through the concrete masonry of the south wall and filled with cylindrical glass blocks.
Tiffany Cartwright wins Hatch Detroit, twelve years into the program's run
Tiffany Cartwright was the first finalist to take the stage on May 9 at the Wayne State University Industry Innovation Center.
Leña fires up Spain in Brush Park
The hearth is the room. Walk into Leña, look left, and the kitchen opens out around a wood-fire hearth burning Michigan oak, cherry, and applewood.
Tiff Massey takes four galleries at the DIA
Tiff Massey opened her solo show at the DIA tonight. Four galleries in the contemporary wing. The most ambitious installation by a Detroit artist the museum has ever staged.
Detroit People's Food Co-op opens after 14 years of organizing
After 14 years of organizing, Detroit's first Black-led, community-owned grocery store opened at Woodward and Euclid on May 1, 2024.
The 2024 NFL Draft pulled 775,000 people to downtown Detroit
The 2024 NFL Draft ran in downtown Detroit from April 25 to 27 and pulled an estimated 775,000 people across three days, the largest crowd in the history of the event.
Vecino bets a roofless Cass Corridor building on heirloom corn
Vecino opened on a Friday in April after a long buildout. The 1926 corner at 4100 Third had sat empty for fifty years before Adriana Jimenez and Lukasz Wietrzynski talked themselves into it.
Hudson's tower tops out at 681 feet
The final steel beam was set on Hudson's Tower on April 10, 2024, fixing the building at 681 feet and forty-nine stories.
The Hamtramck Blowout returned in 2024 with new organizers and the same scrappy energy
Nine years after Metro Times stopped producing it, the Hamtramck Blowout came back.
Sexy steak reopens the GAR building's castle
The Grand Army of the Republic Building has been waiting on a tenant since the pandemic.
Black opens at the Carr Center
The Carr Center's BLACK group exhibition opened Friday and runs through February 29. The full title is BLACK: A Built Language Across Culture and Knowledge.
The Aladdin Sane opens beneath Book Tower with 32 seats and a bowie-coded cocktail menu
Most new bars in Detroit pick a moment to announce themselves. The Aladdin Sane skipped the moment.
Movement 2023 was the festival's full return: a recap
Movement Music Festival ran May 27 through 29, 2023, at Hart Plaza, the 23rd edition and the first Memorial Day weekend that ran without pandemic-era operational constraints. Total attendance roughly 109,000.
Bonobo at Movement 2023: a quieter Detroit night
Simon Green closed the Movement Stage Sunday night under the name he has been using for twenty-five years. The set was the quietest Memorial Day Sunday closer Movement has booked in recent memory.
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