Spotlight
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.
News
DJ Minx signed to Rekids in early 2026 and released the Energy EP in February. The title track features Kendra Foster.
Profile
Rahha translates loosely from Arabic as comfort, peace of mind, the feeling of finally putting something down. The five founders chose it deliberately.
Spotlight
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.
Preview
Hamissi Mamba's mother sold chapati and brochettes in the markets of Bujumbura, Burundi, when he was a kid.
Review
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.
Review
Eddie Vargas grew up around Vernor Highway. He spent the past several years cooking other people's restaurants for them.
Spotlight
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.
Review
Underground Music Academy took over the Detroit Stage at Movement 2025 on Sunday. It was UMA's first festival showcase.
Profile
Father Dukes played a Movement 2025 stage on May 24. She came out of Seraphine Collective's beatmatch brunches two years earlier.
Review
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.
Legacy
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.
Review
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.
Profile
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.
Review
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.
Spotlight
DJ Minx played the Detroit Pistons halftime show in March 2025. It was her second halftime booking at Little Caesars Arena.
Legacy
A benefit for Anthony Shake Shakir happened at Tangent Gallery on March 1, 2025. The room was packed.
Profile
Robert Encarnacion opened La Fonda Street in June 2024 and the Encarnacion coffee shop next to it as a soft opening that November.
Profile
Jonathan Peregrino spent fifteen years in corporate America before quitting to bake.
Spotlight
Five life-size animal sculptures went up along Bagley Street on Friday.
Spotlight
David Lew, the L.A. artist who goes by Shark Toof, sold the High Dive in September 2024.
Profile
Martell Mason got into coffee through trade dynamics, not espresso.
Spotlight
Detroit has a new techno venue. It used to make cars. Dreamtroit opened in September 2024 inside the former Lincoln Motor Factory.
Review
The 44th annual Hamtramck Labor Day Festival ran August 31 through September 2, 2024. Joseph Campau Avenue from Caniff to Carpenter. Free admission.
Spotlight
The last brewery in Hamtramck closed in 1941. Auto City Brewing Company, gone since the early 1940s.
Spotlight
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.
Review
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.
Review
The second Mighty Real/Queer Detroit biennial opened tonight and runs through June 30.
Legacy
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.
Profile
Tiffany Cartwright was the first finalist to take the stage on May 9 at the Wayne State University Industry Innovation Center.
Review
Nine years after Metro Times stopped producing it, the Hamtramck Blowout came back.