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Smaller pieces. A venue, a night, a person, a block, caught at the moment it matters.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
