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April 2024

  • City Guide 2024: Detroit, You’ve Been Drafted!

    The largest and most impactful event in Detroit since the city hosted Super Bowl XL in 2006 is taking place this month, when the National Football League draft is held downtown April 25-27. With free admission, hundreds of thousands are expected to gather where numerous activities and extensive live entertainment will take up 2 million […]

  • City Guide 2024: A Newcomers Guide to Visiting Detroit

    My life, like those of most Americans of a certain age, marched along to a strong Detroit backbeat: Henry Ford, Lee Iacocca, Motown, Eminem. The Motor City, where all cars came from. I believe I visited as a child, during a family motorhome trip across Canada; we made a detour to Detroit for repairs, and […]

  • City Guide 2024: A Guide to Detroit’s Skyscrapers

    We Detroiters like to think of our skyline as the most beautiful in the world. It’s always nice when we hear that others agree. “In our travels across America, I can’t think of too many cities that can compete with Detroit for its collection of really terrific, especially art deco, historic skyscrapers,†says Mark Houser, […]

  • City Guide 2024: A Guide to Detroit’s Cocktail Lounges and Bars

    The city’s cocktail renaissance has by now blossomed into an internationally recognized scene. Detroit’s trademark ingenuity and drive shine through in it’s bars, from elegant and intimate lounges to laid-back neighborhood spots. Cocktail Bars Experience Zuzu Perfectly situated just a football toss from Campus Martius Park (near the Guardian Building) is this relative newcomer to […]

  • April 2024 Culture Calendar

    Metro Detroit is always so full of events and other fun things to do that it can be tough keeping track of it all. To help you plan your weekend itineraries, we’ve asked Ryan Patrick Hooper, who is hosting a new show called In the Groove with Ryan Patrick Hooper on 101.9 WDET, to share his top April […]

  • Meet Jason Benetti, the New Voice of the Tigers

    At first glance, you might think: accountant. Perhaps an attorney — he does hold a law degree. Maybe even a physician, with a unique specialty. But when Jason Benetti opens his mouth and speaks, almost every sports fan in America can make a positive ID. One of the most recognizable voices in contemporary sports broadcasting, […]

  • City Guide 2024: Where to Eat In and Around Detroit

    First-time visitors: You may have heard of Detroit’s Coney dog (not a chili dog, and a favorite of Anthony Bourdain). Or Detroit-style pizza (for an authentic experience, go to Buddy’s Pizza on East McNichols Road, where Detroit-style pizza was first introduced, and order your pie well done). When I say these foods are amazing, I […]

  • Top Metro Detroit Events for April 2024

    Mariah the Scientist Known for raw, emotional lyrics that read like a diary entry, up-and-coming R&B artist Mariah the Scientist began writing songs during her time as a biology student at St. John’s University in New York. Her latest album, To Be Eaten Alive, was released in October and is the singer-songwriter’s first to chart […]

  • A Look at Three Historic Detroit Baseball Bars

    Once upon a time, sports bars didn’t exist. Certainly people gathered at 19th-century bars, and inevitably sports were discussed, sometimes hotly. Today, the modern sports bar is ubiquitous, with its giant flat screens and autographed jerseys covering every surface. Somewhere between these two, the murky origins of the sports bar might very easily be traced […]

  • Â鶹·¬ºÅ Detroit: April 2024 Digital Edition

    The NFL Draft, a three-day event that could draw more than 300,000 visitors to Detroit, is finally happening! Conveniently, it fell in the same month as our annual City Guide, a how-to for having fun in the Motor City.

  • City Guide 2024: What to Do in The Detroit Suburbs

    Art & Culture Arab American National Museum The Arab American National Museum is the sole museum of its kind in the country dedicated to Arab American history and culture. The Smithsonian affiliate is fittingly located in the city of Dearborn, where over 50% of the population possesses Arabic heritage. 13624 Michigan Ave., Dearborn; 313-429-2535; arabamericanmuseum.org. […]

  • Metro Detroit’s Top Dining News From Our April 2024 Issue

    Jackson Pollock-inspired restaurant coming to The Village of Rochester Hills In the space once occupied by Noodles & Co. arrives a brand-new restaurant — The Jackson — from hospitality veteran Michael Mauro and award-winning chef Justin Vaiciunas, who has worked in notable kitchens such as those at the Detroit Athletic Club and Birmingham’s 220 Merrill. The […]

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    Editor’s Letter: 2024 City Guide, the NFL Draft, and Baseball Season

    Welcome to Detroit — we’ve been waiting for you. Seriously, besides this being my way of working Taylor Swift lyrics (or close enough) into my editor’s letter, that statement is 100% true. For more than two years, the city and its residents have been counting down the days to the NFL Draft, one of the […]

  • Detroit Underwater: A Closer Look at Flooding in Metro Detroit

    It is still common for people to deny climate change, or its causes, or that anything can be done about it, claiming that a particularly bad storm is a “once-in-a-century†fluke. But as the “once-in-a-century†storms keep coming every summer, that reasoning just doesn’t hold water. And while the effects are felt in every flood-prone […]

  • Restaurant Review: Alpino in Corktown

    No matter how hungry I am when I go to Alpino, I always leave absolutely stuffed. This past winter particularly, the restaurant had a feeling so easy to lean into as a Michigander, a feeling that says you’re home for the holidays, and it’s time to feast. There’s a leaping wood fireplace and close-quarters seating […]

  • Spring Cleaning Metro Detroit’s Waterways

    The sight of a river catching fire is undoubtedly shocking, yet in 1969, that’s precisely what occurred on the Rouge. According to the Michigan Environmental Council, “the oil-matted Rouge River in Detroit caught fire, shooting flames 50 feet in the air and sending smoke billowing near the I-75 highway bridge.†Refuse and other pollutants clogged […]

  • Natural Products Available at Detroit’s Eastern Market

    Listed clockwise from left in the above photo Nikki’s Ginger Tea, $5 Jentzen Farms spring onion, $1.50 Give and Grow Mushrooms chestnut mushrooms, $12 Hell Fire Detroit Fresno Hot Sauce, $13 White Lotus Farms Micro Basil, $5 White Lotus Farms Country Loaf, $7 Jentzen Farms asparagus, $3 Intu Tea Specialty Strawberry and Raspberry Fruit and […]

  • Solving a Puzzle for Local Parents of Kids on the Autism Spectrum

    When Shell Jones’s son Duane was first diagnosed with autism at age 2 1â„2, she quickly realized how few recreational opportunities there were for kids like him. While there were places that could accommodate him, there were hardly any kids’ venues that were created specifically to meet the needs of autistic children. This inspired Jones […]

  • How Carhartt is Embracing Eco-Friendly Initiatives

    The name Gretchen Carhartt Valade is well known to Detroiters. The philanthropist, musician, and Carhartt heiress — who passed away in 2022 at the age of 97 — was nicknamed the “Angel of Jazz†after saving the struggling Detroit Jazz Festival in 2006 and ensuring it remained free so that everyone had access to the […]

  • How to Make Kamper’s Beileza Cocktail

    Kamper’s Rooftop Lounge in Detroit’s Book Tower was inspired by the charming cafés in Barcelona and offers a menu featuring Basque tapas and pintxos alongside an “elevated wine and cocktail experience.” Make one of those drinks, Beileza, at home by following this handy recipe. Ingredients 2 ounces Roku Gin 1/4 ounces Licor 43 1/2 lime, […]

  • A Look Inside a 1926 Grosse Ile Home’s Sunroom

    Enjoying a glass of wine together in their Plano, Texas, home, Vanessa Chaverri-Gratz and her husband, Josh Gratz, were scrolling through real estate listings when they stumbled upon a historic Tudor-style home in Grosse Ile. Shortly after, they were in Michigan for a wedding and on a whim decided to go look at the nearly […]

  • One Man’s Trash

    It all started with trash. Around 10 years ago, Detroit residents and life partners Bo Shepherd and Kyle Dubay were in their 20s and came across it constantly while biking around the city — the lumber, metal, tile, and other objects left behind when someone moves away or a house is being gutted or demolished. […]

  • Kiley Reid Releases New Novel ‘Come & Get It’

    Following the seismic success of her 2019 debut novel, Such a Fun Age, bestselling author Kiley Reid — who moved to Ann Arbor in 2022 to teach creative writing at the University of Michigan — is back with an aptly titled, much-anticipated second book called Come and Get It. Set in the college town of […]

  • Designer Chelsea Von Mach Discusses How Her Dreams Became Reality

    Although Birmingham-raised Chelsea Von Mach grew up watching her father sell upholstery fabric of all colors and patterns globally and out of his store in Grand Blanc, this isn’t what inspired her to pursue a career in fashion styling. Instead, it was the reality TV shows she watched while she was a student at Marian […]

  • How to Make Sexy Steak’s Spicy Shrimp Diavolo

    Sexy Steak, a new Italian steakhouse in Detroit, was opened by Prime Concepts Detroit in the Grand Army of the Republic Building earlier this year. Here, the restaurant shares its recipe for spicy shrimp diavolo. Ingredients 3 large sized shrimp (size U8 on packaging) 2 cloves garlic 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil 2 tablespoons […]

  • The Way It Was — Bozo the Clown

    1961 From the early days of television in the ’50s through the ’70s, numerous children’s shows produced by Detroit stations and Windsor, Ontario’s CKLW had kids glued to the “idiot box†as they were entertained with cartoons and a colorful cast of in-studio hosts that included Soupy Sales, Milky the Clown, Sagebrush Shorty, Johnny Ginger, […]

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