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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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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:
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
We answer your 5,000 questions about no-fault insurance in Detroit
There’s no question that car insurance is way, way, WAY too high for drivers in Metro Detroit. But there’s plenty
How to snoop inside the quirkiest homes in Detroit
We’ve seen plenty of home tours in Detroit -- it’s a great way to peek inside stately historic neighborhoods like