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Review

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.

August 13, 2025
Review

After Movement 2025: where the parties went after Hart Plaza closed

The Movement 2025 afterparty circuit ran from Friday May 23 through Tuesday May 27. Hart Plaza closed at midnight three nights running. The afterparties did not.

May 28, 2025
Preview

Movement 2025 kickoff: parties opened Friday before Hart Plaza

The Movement 2025 afterparty circuit opened Friday night, May 23, twelve hours before the festival's first set on Hart Plaza.

May 23, 2025
Profile

Spot Lite: where Detroit's house and techno scenes meet

Roula David opened Spot Lite on the east side in 2018. Bar, gallery, record shop, music room. The format has held.

March 1, 2025
Spotlight

How Detroit clubs survived 2020 to 2022 and what came after

Movement was cancelled in 2020 and 2021. Detroit's club rooms closed in mid-March 2020 and most did not reopen at full capacity until summer 2021. The story of how the rooms came back is about which ones did.

February 22, 2025
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