November 2017
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Health and Beauty Go Hand in Hand
Looking to enhance your smile, improve your figure, or take years off your face? Upgrading your appearance can have a positive effect on your health and your outlook on life.
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Shop ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ November 2017
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Red Dunn Kitchen Boasts an Imaginative Menu with Plenty of Originality
Detroitβs restaurant scene has become an urban chrysalis, a launchpad that keeps giving flight to a flock of one interesting new butterfly after another.
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Are the Detroit Suburbs Headed for Trouble?
Brent Savidant has never eaten at a Chiliβs nor Outback Steakhouse and sees no reason to start now. Itβs an improbable streak, really, given that he lives in the Detroit exurbs (Clarkston) and works in the suburbs (Troy), where chain restaurants can feel like a way of life.
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Could this Detroit Native be the Next Pope?
Marie Terese Tobin knew the oldest of her 13 children was whip-smart and also caused a bit of trouble in the southwest Detroit alleys around Holy Redeemer Catholic Church.
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Why Your Next Wood Project Should Be Made Out of These Salvaged City Trees
Wood means home to me. Even the smell of the lumber section at Home Depot conjures up childhood memories β usually of me sitting on one of those orange carts, begging to go home.
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Expert Tips for Making Your Lipstick Last
Lipstick enthusiast and founder of The Lip Bar Melissa Butler shows you how to make the season’s top lipstick trends stay from home to happy hour
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Inside Detroit Mercy’s Civil Rights ‘Immersion’ Course
Led by professors Greg Sumner and Roy Finkenbine, the week-long road trip made stops at historical sites in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama, one of which was the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery.
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This Detroit Lawyer Turns Cookie Maker on the Weekends
Patty Corkeryβs fascination with the delicate French cookie, the macaron, started at the source. It was on her first trip to Paris, where she discovered that shops specializing in the elegant treat are on every other block.
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Try These Locally-Inspired, Bite-Size Candy Apples
As tasty as the selection created by the more than 11.3 million apple trees in commercial production in the state can be, adding a candy coating can make them even more enjoyable.
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Recipe: Nutella Pizza
“We love this pizza because it has flavor characteristics every relationship should have … sweet, salt, and a little nutty,β says Gabriella Rodriguez, co-chef with her fiancΓ© Michael Baldwin at Testa Barra in Macomb Township.
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Molly’s Picks: Common Pub and Kruse & Muer on Woodward
Fans of Atlas Global Bistro, which shuttered in 2013, should be happy to learn that some of the principals may be found at this spot in the Belcrest Apartments.
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River Bistro is One of Detroit’s Hottest New Restaurants & It’s Not in Downtown
For years, Northwest Detroitβs Grandmont Rosedale community longed for a sit-down restaurant. So Maxcel Hardyβs River Bistro benefitted from the pent-up demand.
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Michigan’s Microbrew Scene is Stocked with Some Edgy Labels
To beer or not to beer? While craft brewers arenβt exactly Shakespeareans, it takes a creative bunch to name a brew.
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Cocktail Recipe: Run For Your Money
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. But when your favorite brewpub/restaurant doesnβt have liquor? Have them make you a βbeer-tail.β
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Prohibition Relics Hide in Plain Sight at Abick’s Bar
Abickβs Bar is on a corner near family homes and old-growth trees in southwest Detroit. The barβs centerpiece is an elaborate cash register made of marble, wood, and brass.
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Making the Auction House Cool Again
Centuries-old dΓ©cor, modern art, fashion, and memorabilia outline the Persian rug-covered pathway of DuMouchelle Art Galleries, an auction house in downtown Detroit.
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New Cranbrook Exhibit Remembers Keith Haring
In 1987, American artist Keith Haring painted a temporary mural at the Cranbrook Art Museum. Known for his 2D-iconography and use of primary color, Haring created the piece with color washes, dark line drawing, and paint brushes, which he nailed to the galleryβs wall upon completion.
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How to Look Sharp for Your Next Dinner Party
Since starting his blog The Big Fashion Guy, which focuses on fashion for big-and-tall gentlemen, Detroit-native and menswear stylist Michael-Anthony Spearman has been dishing out advice about style and trends.
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Essay: Why Being an ‘Ally’ Can Be More Complicated Than You May Think
“Allyβ can be a dirty word if you really donβt mean it. In the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer)Β community, words help you quickly distinguish between friend or foe β or the ever-popular third option: woefully ignorant.
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An ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ With… Steve Neavling
According to Columbia Journalism Review, βSteve Neavling may be one of the most hated men in Detroit.β
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The Way It Was – The Great Depression, 1930
The Great Depression hit the world like a sucker punch, but it slammed Detroit like a tsunami. Cars being more or less a luxury than a necessity back then, the manufacturing of automobiles narrowed to a wafer-thin production, and countless workers lost their jobs.
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Let’s Go Shopping for a City!
At press time, Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert and a team of nearly 60 people were burning the midnight oil to answer Amazonβs βRequest for Proposal.β
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Contributors: November 2017
ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ Detroit, November 2017
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The Sky’s the Limit
Lorenzo Lizarralde isnβt just a winemaker; heβs also a pilot. You may have figured it out from the name of his winery: Chateau Aeronautique, a nod to the French word for βaeronautic.β
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ΒιΆΉ·¬ΊΕ Detroit’s Chairs for Charity presented by Mahalo
On Nov. 2, the First Annual Chairs for Charity fundraiser showcased the talent of the local art and design community at the Garden Theater in Detroit. During the unique pop-up gallery of extraordinary chair installations, attendees sipped cocktails, enjoyed gourmet bites, and bid on the chairs to raise funds for dozens of local charities participating in the Give Detroit Challenge.
