News

Detroit's Man of the Moment Andy Didorosi, founder of Detroit Bus Company, saves a stray dog and starts a crusade to raise awareness for the plight of pregnant strays in the city.

Read more.

Detroit's got pop-up fever. Michigan-based outdoors and sporting goods retailer Moosejaw will open a holiday pop-up downtown through Dec. 22.

Read more.

Four new retailers will be coming to Detroit's West Village in the next year, including two restaurants, a coffee shop and a tea room. This announcement came on the heels of the Detroit Economic Development Corporation's new REVOLVE pilot pop-up program, which targeted West Village as a neighborhood prime for retail growth and business development.

Read more.

UIX innovator Veronika Scott's EMPWR coat, which converts into a sleeping bag that is given to the homeless to offer them protection in the winter, is garnering her national recognition and also enabling her to employ the very people she seeks to serve.

Read more.

Slate reviewer Ben Mathis-Lilley takes a critical look at the new book that could possibly become the defining story of the city that is almost impossible to define in its current state of flux.

Read more.

There was a lot happening in Detroit already before Phil Cooley's Corktown. Too often the "Detroit on the rise" narrative overlooks the substantial work that was already being done in Detroit before "hipsters" came to colonize. The very things that make Detroit so appealing now to the much-buzzed-about culture of twenty-something artists and "social entrepreneurs" have been in the works for years, sometimes even decades. Here Model D's Jay Walljasper takes a look at what some of the long-time locals have been doing all along. 

Read more.

The weekly bike ride club Bikes & Murder (the name comes from the founding members' love of cycling and video games, not a play on Detroit's long-held ranking as the murder capital of the world ... though it's certainly misleading) will now have their own clubhouse, located across the street from the club's usual home base of Woodbridge Pub. In fact Woodbridge Pub owner Jim Geary, "Mr. Woodbridge" if you will, bought the space known as "the Shack" and is renting it out to aspiring entrepreneurs and cycling enthusiasts Jason Hall, Mike MacKool and Mike Sheppard to help them get their business started. The Shack will be a bicycle shop specializing in custom and vintage bikes.

Read more.

The nationally-distrubuted PBS series "Start-Up" is looking for small business success stories to feature on their show. The show is produced in partnership with Detroit's Big Bang Films and Parliament Studios in Clawson, and has already featured such Detroit favorites as Astro Coffee and McClure's Pickles. Entrepreneurs of all walks with interesting stories to tell are invited to contact "Start-Up"'s producers.

Read more.

The Kresge Foundation has awarded $4.2 million in two-year grants to 66 arts and cultural organizations both large and small throughout metro Detroit. The new grants bring the total Kresge has invested to support arts organizations through its Detroit Arts Support initiative to $15.3 million since 2007.

Read more.

It would seem that arts were the big winner this month. In addition to the Kresge Foundation grants, the Knight Foundation's offshoot initiative the Knight Arts Challange has announced $19.25 million in grant funding to support local arts programs and organizations. Recipients of funds include the DIA, DSO, MOT, the Sphinx Organization and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. 

Read more. 

Market Studio Kitchen and Detroit Emergent Future Lab are the latest concepts taking shape in Eastern Market that support and promote our local food system through community engagement and hands-on education for both youth and adults.

Read more.

Kresge fellows and 2012 ArtPrize winners Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert believe in using art to reanimate neighborhoods, and their latest effort is the Ride It Sculpture Park, a poured-concrete structure located between a city alley and the Davison Freeway. 

Read more.

Detroit's Creative Corridor Center gets some press from Dwell for their Detroit Design Festival, one of several "design week" events that have exploded across the country and throughout the world in recent years.

Read more.

Monocle "takes a dip" into "born again" Detroit (their words) in this video feature which highlights our very own Philip Lauri and his company DETROIT LIVES! Watch it here. 

Mo money, mo problems? Not being able to get a seat at your favorite bar sounds like a distinctly Detroit problem. But the rest sounds pretty good.

Read more.