The Ten Stories You Have Read The Most
This magazine is now two years old--still a toddler, but steady on her feet. Happy Birthday to us! Here [...]
Kick Out The Jams, Catholic School!
In 1968, the students returning to my suburban Detroit Catholic high school, Bishop Gallagher, had a surprise waiting for them: For the back-to-school dance that September, someone had booked the MC5
Fearful Symmetry: Tiger Takes Detroit
We reached Peak Detroit this week. It doesn’t get any more Detroit than this: an actual, live tiger roaming around the Packard Plant.
Of Rumor and Riot
In late summer of 1967, waves of rumors moved through metropolitan Detroit, announcing a series of race divisions across the city and between city and suburb.
Can Detroit Save White People?
OK, so, all you white people coming from Brooklyn (or L.A., or Portland, or Austin, or Chicago, or London, or whatever) to Detroit looking to “save” yourself: What, exactly, are you saving yourself from?
Panic in Detroit: Benjamin Markovits’ You Don’t Have to Live Like This
Detroit is a city of fist-pumping, all-caps slogans. A hashtag for your Instagram, a bumper sticker for your Ford: NOTHING STOPS DETROIT. DETROIT HUSTLES HARDER. BELIEVE THERE IS GOOD IN DETROIT.
“There Ain’t No Haints in Detroit!”: An Interview With Author Angela Flournoy
Angela Flournoy’s debut novel The Turner House was published this spring and has met with much acclaim, becoming a May 2015 Indie Next pick and garnering a stellar review in the New York Times.
Missing Detroit: My Dad and the Disease of Blight
Last year, when driving back from Detroit to his home in Fraser, my dad took a detour. Dad is by nature an anxious man, but that anxiety spiked when he turned down an ice-and-snow-covered street.
In Detroit, Turn to Crime Finds Its Rhythm
In 2009, Derek Stanton and his band Awesome Color had just moved back to their native Michigan from New York City.
From Chopin to Craft Beer : A Buffalo Skeptic Sees the Light
Stately, plump houses and maple trees line Porter Avenue en route from Buffalo’s Peace Bridge to Symphony Circle. The homes are old, but they are lived in and cared for.
Moving from Brooklyn to Detroit Is The Best Thing I’ve Done For My Children
I say this because it's true and because I just read a column by Aaron Foley that offered a bleak – if sarcastic – warning to New Yorkers attracted by the Move to Detroit billboards.
You Must Be This Tall To Ride In Detroit
You live in New York and you’ve seen a billboard encouraging you to move to Detroit.