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…

6 years ago

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…

6 years ago

With the opening of Marrow, Ping Ho may be Detroit’s next restaurant mogul

  In this occasional series, Detour founder Ashley Woods digs in for some #realtalk with Detroiters you may already know…

6 years ago

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…

6 years ago

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.…

6 years ago

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.…

6 years ago

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…

6 years ago

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…

6 years ago

Why the University of Michigan is eyeing a bigger slice of Detroit

In many ways, the school has been able to operate in bucolic Ann Arbor while existing wholly separate from Detroit:…

6 years ago

Detroit testing free Lyfts from bus stops to make late night commutes easier

It turns out, as we were glued to the inter-county drama over funding regional transit that ended in defeat, Detroit…

6 years ago