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January 2024

  • Six Burning Questions for 2023, Revisited

    Last year wasn’t a big election year in Michigan, but there were many issues at stake. With a newly blue-majority state Legislature, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was able to make progress on key campaign promises β€” repairing roads, restricting gun access, and protecting abortion rights. Here are the six burning questions we asked at the beginning […]

  • Six Burning Questions for 2024, Answered

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    2024 is here, and election season will be upon us this fall. You might be thinking about (or avoiding the thought of) the upcoming presidential election. But remember: State and local politics can be just as juicy. There are many twists and turns ahead this year, including the departure of a big-name senator and a […]

  • Remembering Sixto Rodriguez and Barrett Strong

    Honoring the dead is a thankless task. There will always be a name forgotten, someone who wasn’t included but should’ve been. There’s always a lot of β€œshould’ve been.” We lose so many in a year who don’t generate a headline. In the creative class, it’s an epidemic. Those deaths ripple through the scene that knew […]

  • 2024 Metro Detroit Events Preview

    Metro Detroit’s arts and entertainment scene is jam-packed with stage shows, concerts, art fairs, and more for 2024. Check out a snapshot of the biggest upcoming happenings for the year β€” plus, be sure to check out culture calendar for WDET’s Ryan Patrick Hooper’s curated list of events this month. Wicked Telling the tale of […]

  • January 2024 Culture Calendar

    Looking for something fun to do this month? Ryan Patrick Hooper, the host of CultureShift on 101.9 WDET, Detroit’s NPR station, offers his top upcoming happenings including a stage show, dance performance, live music, and more. Check out his picks here β€” and be sure to check out our 2024 events preview for details on […]

  • Metro Detroit’s Top Food and Beverage News for January 2024

    Metro Detroit is home to so many different and delish dining and drink options, and they are seemingly always bringing something new to their table. Here’s what some area bars and restaurants are up to this month. Lady of the House Is Returning to Detroit Lady of the House, an award-winning restaurant by chef-owner Kate […]

  • 2024: ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ Detroiters: Waajeed

    Why do we think of Detroit as an all-time great music city? For Waajeed, the secret weapon has always been education. The producer and DJ is woven into the musical DNA of Detroit many times over, coming up with J Dilla under the tutelage of Amp Fiddler and going on to become an electronic music […]

  • 2024 ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ Detroiters: Mary Culler, Carolina Pluszczynski, and Melissa Dittmer

    The lights are back on at Michigan Central Station. After decades of looming over Corktown, a sad skyline all its own, the massive 1913 train station glows with new purpose: as the soaring centerpiece of the 30-acre Michigan Central innovation district, bankrolled by Ford Motor Co. with a big assist from founding partner Google. An […]

  • 2024 ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ Detroiters: Njia Kai

    Detroit summer is a sun-drenched season of festivals and music. It’s food trucks, yoga in the grass, and toes in sand at the urban beach. Across all six of Detroit’s downtown parks, which boast a combined 4 million visitors annually, there is something for everyone β€” even those who prefer a Detroit winter with ice-skating […]

  • 2024 ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ Detroiters: Siham Awada Jaafar

    At a time when it seems like the title of activist can be procured with little more than a social media handle, it’s refreshing to know of someone who is actually doing the work. Siham Awada Jaafar has been advocating for diversity, equity, and inclusion for more than two decades β€” or, more to the […]

  • 2024 ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ Detroiters: Bishop Bonnie Perry

    In the moments before a press conference begins at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Royal Oak, Bonnie Perry is orchestrating the scene. The sprite-size bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan is loading a speech on to her iPad. She’s greeting and Β thanking those who showed up. She’s verifying the order of operations and sharing […]

  • 2024 ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ Detroiters: Dominique Morisseau

    Dominique Morisseau isn’t the type of playwright to shush you in a theater. Her β€œrules of engagement” printed in the programs of her shows spell out her style. β€œYou are allowed to have audible moments of reaction and response.” β€œMy work requires a few β€˜um hmmms’ and β€˜uhn uhnnns’ should you need to use them.” […]

  • 2024 ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ Detroiters: Mark Wallace

    The year 2023 marked the 20th anniversary of the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy’s transformation of the riverfront. What was once an unsightly industrial wasteland along the banks of the city’s international waterway is now a beautiful attraction that has drawn 3 million visitors annually and $2 billion in private and public investments. In the past three […]

  • 2024 ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ Detroiters: Khali Sweeney & Amanda Case

    In 2013, Amanda Case was flipping through a magazine β€” this magazine, in fact β€” when a particular article caught her attention. Case, a native of Royal Oak then starting her first year as an assistant professor teaching educational psychology at Wayne State University, was intrigued by an article about a boxing gym that wasn’t […]

  • 2024 ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ Detroiters: Joumana Kayrouz

    Last Halloween, a certain costume trend seemed to be in. Parties were filled with gold blond wigs, jet-black pantsuits, and dark purply lipstick β€”Β an instantly recognizable homage to Southfield-based attorney Joumana Kayrouz. Her image is imprinted into the psyche of Detroit, thanks to years of sustained multimillion-dollar billboard advertising. She’s lovingly embraced the meme, sharing […]

  • 2024 ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ Detroiters: Dan Campbell

    During a Detroit Lions road game last month inside the cavernous Caesars Superdome, Fox TV commentators couldn’t help mentioning the huge swaths of Honolulu blue and silver mixed in among the New Orleans Saints’ black and old gold. The same was true in Tampa Bay, where an estimated 25,000 Lions jammed the lower bowl of […]

  • Six New Additions to the Metro Detroit Shopping Scene

    Two years ago, globally renowned fashion leader HermΓ¨s took a chance on Michigan and opened its first store in metro Detroit at the Somerset Collection in Troy. In 2022, Gucci followed suit, opening its first men’s store in the state (also at Somerset) and its first store in Detroit. Since then, the Michigan firsts have […]

  • Metro Detroit Community Development Projects in 2024

    Project: The Residences at Water Square What it is:Β Just over 40 years after the first two Riverfront Towers were constructed, Detroit will finally have another riverfront high-rise to move into. The 25-story Residences at Water Square isΒ on the verge of opening on the former Joe Louis Arena site. This month, the Sterling Group is setΒ to […]

  • Restaurant Report: Joe Vicari Group

    The Joe Vicari Restaurant Group encompasses 25 restaurants in three states, but the flagship Andiamo in Warren is still the empire’s crown jewel. The facility includes an expandable banquet hall and an 800-seat entertainment venue, Andiamo Celebrity Showroom. Also housed there, and bustling with action, is the Vicari commissary kitchen, which is nearly double the […]

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    Editor’s Letter: ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ Detroiters 2024 and Historic Michigan Moments

    New Year’s Eve is traditionally the time to usher out the old and welcome the new. But here at ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ Detroit, January is when we celebrate the past, present, and future. Our annual DetroitersΒ list features individuals who have made a significant impact on our region during the last year. Some made contributions specific to 2023, […]

  • ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ Detroit: January 2024 Digital Edition

    Ring in the new year with ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ Detroit. In our January issue, we reflect on what was β€” and what’s to come.

  • Upon Further Investigation: How Ronnie Dahl Became a PI

    In a Facebook post she wrote shortly after making the most dramatic career shift of her life, Ronnie Dahl shared her list of the β€œtop 5 reasons why leaving TV news to become a private investigator is the best decision ever”: “1. Save money on hair 2. Save money on makeup 3. Save money on […]

  • Book Review: Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine

    “I tell jokes nonstop. So many of them do not land,” says Ghassan Zeineddine, whose debut short-story collection, Dearborn β€” which is both moving and funny, tragic and comic β€” was recently published to great acclaim. In real life, Zeineddine says, his friends and his wife usually β€œjust roll their eyes” and dismiss his β€œsilly […]

  • A Look Inside One Historic Bloomfield Hills Home

    When it came to purchasing her historic Bloomfield Hills home and turning the master suite into the space she desired, Sissy Yellen had to practice the art of patience. First, the 1917 Georgian colonial, a landmark property along the Woodward Corridor, went off the market just as she and her husband, Brandon, were prepared to […]

  • Brittni “Bee” Brown Shares Her Style Tips

    Forget a thousand words β€” in Brittni Brown’s world an image is an epic poem. The work that the publicist-turned-personal brand strategist β€” known affectionately around town as β€œBee” β€” does with brands, organizations, and individuals is ultimately about storytelling. At Brown’s The Bee Agency in Detroit, fashion β€” more expressly, honing a signature style […]

  • The History of Shinola Hotel

    In the just over 10 years since it was founded, Shinola β€” the Detroit-based lifestyle brand known for its watches, bikes, leather goods, and more β€” has become nationally recognized for its superior craftsmanship and classic style. So maybe it should come as no surprise that the brand’s foray into hospitality, the Shinola Hotel, feels […]

  • How to Make Mai Tiki’s Big Sexy Goombay

    Mai Tiki is a speakeasy-style bar hidden behind a door in Ferndale’s TigerLily sushi restaurant that serves a variety of bar food alongside both modern and classic tiki drinks. One of those drinks is the gin-based Big Sexy Goombay, which you can make at home with this easy recipe. Ingredients 1 1/2 ounces McQueen and […]

  • Barcades in Metro Detroit

    The summer I was 11 years old, my best friend, Emily, and I rode our bikes everywhere. To the swimming pool, to the tennis courts, across Farmington Road to visit friends, to the pharmacy to snag forbidden candy bars. Mostly, we rode our bikes a mile or so up the road to Tally Hall, the […]

  • New Book Highlights Sustainability in Northern Michigan’s Food Industry

    It doesn’t get more local than Moomers Homemade Ice Cream on the west side of Traverse City. In a busy year, the creamery churns out 100,000 gallons of ice cream in over 150 flavors, such as Maple Walnut, Brownie Batter, and Cherries Moobilee. You can enjoy your confection in Moomers’ deck-wrapped parlor overlooking the 80-acre […]

  • The Scoop on Low- and No-Alcohol Drinks

    As a longtime veteran of hospitality and alcohol service, Emily Sweeney Handy knows more than most folks about choosing high-quality drinks, either at a bar or a store. She’s also racked up plenty of experience sussing out no- or low-alcohol alternatives β€” especially since she’s seven months pregnant when she sits down to talk with […]

  • The Way It Was β€” Coleman A. Young’s Oath of Office

    1974 A half-century ago on Jan. 2, former state Sen. Coleman A. Young was administered the oath of office as Detroit’s first Black mayor by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John B. Swainson (left) and U.S. District Judge Damon J. Keith (far right) before a crowd of 2,000 people at Ford Auditorium and a live television […]

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