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.
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Marcus
Contributing Writer
Marcus is a Contributing Writer at Strait Journal. Primarily covers Detroit music and nightlife, with occasional pieces on the city's working-class neighborhoods, food, and history.
Detroit-born and Detroit-rooted. Has been writing about the city since 2024.
Drawn to stories about institutions that have outlasted everything around them and the people who keep them open. His favorite room in Detroit is the back bar at Marble at 2 a.m. on a Sunday. Will not eat brunch. Has a black-and-white cat named Dilla.
Spent enough time in basement parties before they got cool to know the difference between a real one and a press-friendly one. Tends to find the real one.
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Quick hits
- Favorite room:
- Marble Bar, after midnight
- Favorite restaurant:
- Supino Pizzeria
- One Detroit artist to put on first:
- Theo Parrish
Recent work
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mister Joshooa played Panorama Bar
Mister Joshooa played his first Panorama Bar set on April 26, 2025, as part of a Klubnacht lineup.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Michigan Central station reopens after thirty-six years
The last passenger train pulled out of Michigan Central Station on January 5, 1988, headed for Chicago. Thirty-six years and five months later, the doors opened again.
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.
Charles McGee opens the shepherd
The Shepherd's first show is a Charles McGee retrospective. It is appropriate.
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.
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.
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.