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Detroit
This Flint startup has upcycled 16,000 water bottles into glasses
By Erin Gold Ali Rose VanOverbeke and Jack Burns, co-founders of Flint eyewear startup Genusee, can measure their progress in…
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Culture
Meet 9 Detroit designers making the city extra festive this season
It’s hard to imagine something in Detroit that provokes as much nostalgia as the former Hudson’s downtown — double it…
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Detroit
Marijuana is legal in Michigan. Now we have to make it equal.
Michigan voters passed Proposal 1 by a wide margin Tuesday, making us the 10th state to legalize recreational marijuana. The law won’t…
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Detroit
Rouge Park, Detroit’s biggest urban green, deserves more love
By Detour Neighborhood Ambassador Frank Nemecek Warrendale is a familiar name to most folks in the Detroit. The neighborhood…
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Culture
What to do and drink during Detroit Cocktail Week
Detroit’s first Cocktail Classic launched in 2014, with a respectable 12 bars and restaurants serving drinks alongside a relatively modest brunch.…
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Detour and Outlier Media
Detroit’s infamous foreclosure auction looks different this year
Every year, counties across Michigan auction off foreclosed properties whose owners have been delinquent on property taxes for three years.…
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Culture
Uncovering the mystery of Corktown’s strangest billboard
For a couple months this summer, the “Questions Guy” billboard loomed over Trumbull and Michigan in Corktown. With a powder…
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Detroit
Why researchers are poring over thousands of Metro Detroit food tweets
Let’s say you fire off a tweet about the bomb grilled cheese you just made. Maybe, you wonder into the…
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