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February 2024

  • 2024 Restaurant of the Year: Freya

    At first glance, Freya’s Yakitori Swordfish looks like a typical first course at a fine-dining restaurant. Fish grilled to the proper char and tenderness. A precisely sliced Fresno chile pepper and tendrils of verdant scallion that pop on the plate. Two perfectly shaped dollops of chile aioli. Togarashi with pulverized Bugles. Wait, what? Yes, Bugles, […]

  • Where to Go for a Caribbean Escape

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    Go off-the-grid at eco-luxe resort Secret Bay in unspoiled Dominica For those who dream of traveling to undiscovered destinations, the Caribbean likely doesn’t come to mind. Yet, among the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles lies a secluded island nation underscored by dramatic beauty and a lost-in-time allure. Welcome to Dominica, a magnificent, mountainous, independent […]

  • February 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, the host ofΒ CultureShiftΒ on 101.9 WDETΒ to share his top February happenings in the area. Film For the film fanatic at […]

  • Top Metro Detroit Events for February 2024

    DJ Shadow With the release of his 1996 studio debut, Endtroducing…, this California-based DJ and producer established himself as an innovator in instrumental hip-hop and electronic music by composing an album entirely of vinyl samples. Since then, he’s dabbled in countless genres, collaborated with some of hip-hop’s biggest names, and released six more full-length albums. […]

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    Editor’s Letter: Restaurant of the Year and Black History Month

    How do you follow up a cover that seems destined to become a fan favorite and bestseller? You give the readers something else that is as universally appealing as Dan Campbell: food. That really wasn’t our intention when we bumped up our Restaurant of the Year feature from March to February, but it worked out […]

  • Treat Your Loved Ones to Ferndale’s Quix Chocolate this Valentine’s Day

    Looking for something unique, exquisite, and delicious to impress your significant other this Feb. 14? We recommend a visit to Quix Chocolate, a boutique Belgian chocolatier in downtown Ferndale. Stop in, and you’ll see a dizzying display of confections in many shapes and colors. Behind the counter, the team is busy painting, molding, and filling […]

  • The Story Behind Royal Oak’s Renamed Hamer Finch Wilkins Park

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    Royal Oak is known as a city with a thriving downtown, filled with dining, retail, and entertainment options. But it also boasts 51 parks within its nearly 12 square miles, parks named after roads, civic groups, and prominent members of the community. In March 2022, the city renamed Beechwood Park, located on the east side […]

  • How to Add Pantone’s 2024 Color of the Year to Your Home

    Pantone Color Institute has announced its 2024 Color of the Year: Peach Fuzz. Here are some items that can help you incorporate the warm and elegant shade that “resonates with compassion” in your home. Pictured above from the top left, moving clockwise:Β  Paddywax Santorini Reed Diffuser, $45, at Rail & Anchor, 502 S. Washington Ave., […]

  • How Haraz Coffee House is Creating Community

    When Hamzah Nasser opened Haraz Coffee House in Dearborn in 2021, he received rave reviews from customers for his lattes blended with traditional Yemeni spices like cardamom. But they had one complaint. β€œThey wanted gold forks! Can you believe that? That’s Dearborn for you,” Nasser says with a wide smile. Nasser is, by his own […]

  • How to Make January Cake

    Despite its name, this sweet treat from Pulp is good to make and eat beyond the first month of the year. The ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ Detroit staff thinks it would make the perfect Valentine’s Day dessert for you and yours. Or just for you β€” Berens herself prefers it solo: β€œMy favorite way to eat this cake […]

  • How to Add Pastels into Your Wardrobe

    From Versace to Chanel and so many more, designers everywhere awashed their spring/summer ’24 runways in soft hues of pink, blue, green, and yellow. These classic pastel palettes, however, took a decidedly modern direction with cutting-edge cuts, contemporary pairings, and pop-art patterns and prints. Les Beiges Healthy Glow Natural Eyeshadow Palette in Cool, $72,Β at Chanel […]

  • An Inside Look at The Online Jewelry Store VajzΓ«

    Immigrating to the United States is kind of a big deal. Suddenly, you’re immersed in a brand-new environment and may feel overwhelmed by the prospect of navigating this capitalistic jungle. And while many children of immigrants say there is pressure to get a safe 9-to-5 job, Valentina Juncaj β€” an Albanian who immigrated to Sterling […]

  • ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ Detroit: February 2024 Digital Edition

    The digital edition of ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ Detroit’s February issue, featuring our 2024 Restaurant of the Year, is now available.

  • Detroiters Weigh in on MDOT’s I-375 Reconnecting Communities Project

    In 1964, the 1-mile highway of I-375 stretching north from Jefferson to Mack Avenue was built without the consent of the neighborhoods it destroyed. That wasn’t unusual for the time: Highways that crisscross Detroit β€” like many across the country β€” were created by forcibly removing the people who lived in the new roads’ slated […]

  • Detroit Stylist Marv Neal Shares His Fashion Tips

    Marv Neal grew up in a multigenerational home full of stylish women. He recalls a childhood marked by images of his great-grandmother, a seamstress, measuring waists and sewing hems while clients perched on crates. With ease, he can rattle off which woman in his family was known to adopt which type of style: His oldest […]

  • Meet Detroit’s Monument Man

    Austen Brantley’s studio is just as understated as he is. Down a massive hallway and into the maze of the Russell Industrial Center, you’ll find the artist working alone with his music, refining the edges of a new sculpture, one of many works in progress. It’s getting hard to keep track of just which project […]

  • Where to “AprΓ©s-Ski” in Metro Detroit

    It is a significant understatement to say that I am not a ski person. The first time my parents tried to take me skiing, I somehow managed to fall off the ski lift, then wander off to the other side of the tow ropes and roam happily through the woods for about two hours before […]

  • This Book by a U-M Professor Helps Couples Manage Money

    Money may make the world go round, but man, do we hate talking about it β€” especially when our approach to spending and saving doesn’t match our partner’s. For those couples looking to work through their fiscal philosophy differences, Scott Rick, a marketing professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, has published […]

  • Adding Understated Luxury Items into Your Wardrobe

    Sleek, minimal, and timeless β€” this season, some of our favorite designer houses, such as Gucci and Ferragamo, championed a quieter luxury when it came to their spring/summer ’24 collections. Think elevated basics; investment pieces with classic, enduring style; luxuriously soft leathers, silks, and satins; brilliant golds; and neutral palettes. Untitled in Motion Atlantis Dress, […]

  • How to Make Bandit’s Bison Chili

    Bandit Tavern & Hideaway in Royal Oak offers Southern-style dishes including fried chicken, honey-glazed salmon, and shrimp & grits. Try making the bison chili, which can be found on their Rations menu, at home with this copycat recipe. Ingredients 4 tablespoons olive oil, divided 2 pounds ground bison 1/4 cup masa harina 1/4 cup diced […]

  • Assembled in Hollywood: Producer Roger Corman

    For Roger Corman, it was only natural to bring assembly-line practices to Hollywood as he became king of the B pictures. By 1954, when he produced his second movie, TheΒ Fast and the Furious, Corman had discovered that staying in production and making one movie after the other, while multitasking on postproduction and release, was the […]

  • Meet Chef and Author Abra Berens

    When I chatted with chef Abra Berens in early December, the staff at Granor Farm was in the midst of a winter harvest, picking greens from the greenhouse, pulling celery roots, rutabagas, and purple-top turnips. The farm is in Three Oaks, a small southwest Michigan village 10 minutes from Indiana and just over an hour […]

  • Curtis Chin Discusses His Book “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant, A Memoir”

    “We as people are a reflection of the places we grow up in, right?” says writer Curtis Chin. β€œThey inform us; they change who we are.” Chin, who was born in Detroit and raised there and in Troy, grew up at Chung’s, a beloved Cantonese restaurant stationed along the Cass Corridor in Detroit’s New Chinatown […]

  • Playing With Fire: New Restaurant ‘Puma’ is Coming to Detroit

    From the very beginning in Argentina, Javier Bardauil has let his calling in food guide him. After attending the Argentine Gastronomy Institute and The LenΓ΄tre School of Culinary Arts in Paris at the age of 23, Bardauil exploded on to the culinary scene. He worked with Francis Mallmann at Patagonia Sur in Buenos Aires, with […]

  • The Way It Was β€” Esther Gordy, Michael Jackson, and Stevie Wonder

    1998Esther Gordy Edwards, the sister of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy, stands on the steps of the Motown Museum with Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder before giving them a personal tour of the iconic Hitsville USA Studio A at 2648 W. Grand Blvd. that draws thousands of visitors annually from around the globe. Amazingly, from […]

  • How to Make Symposia’s Amish Bird

    Symposia is a Mediterranean restaurant located in Detroit’s Atheneum Suite Hotel with a menu inspired by dishes from Greece, Italy, Spain, and others. Their menu offers a mix of sharable plates, salads, steaks, chops, and mains, including Amish Bird, which you can make at home with this easy recipe. Ingredients 1 pound each half-chicken, semiboneless […]

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