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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
