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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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
