September 2023
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鶹 Detroit: September 2023 Digital Edition
Our much-anticipated September issue, featuring fall fashion and a fall arts preview, is here. For our annual Fall Fashion story, we took to the streets — and shops — of Birmingham to showcase the season’s hottest looks.
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Bodies in Motion: Michigan’s Auto Industry Then and Now
Ever since Charles Brady King sketched his “road carriage” in 1893, Detroit has led the world in automotive innovation. By day, King drudged away, drafting rolling stock at the Michigan Car Co. in Grand Trunk Junction. By night, he doodled and tested. In his road carriage, a steering wheel — quite a novelty! — stood […]
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Detroit Fall Fashion Report for 2023
Tailored pieces, bold colors, sheer fabrics, and school-girl style are trending this fall. Here’s how we do it in Metro Detroit. Photographs taken in downtown Birmingham. Balmain Top in Black Multi, $1,890, Lana Mega Gloss Blake Cascade Earrings in Yellow, $1,990, Christian Dior MissDior B1U Sunglasses in Shiny Gold DH Smoke, $1,490, and Cult Gaia […]
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2023 Fall Arts & Entertainment Preview
Fall is coming, and now is the perfect time to get in some fun before the snow flies. Get details on the hottest concerts, theater shows, dance performances, and more coming to Metro Detroit in the fall of 2023 with this handy guide. September | October | November September Mlima’s Tale Witness the Michigan premiere […]
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Culture Calendar for September 2023
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 of CultureShift on 101.9 WDET, Detroit’s NPR station (weekdays from noon-2 p.m), to share his top September happenings in […]
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Editor’s Letter: 2023 Fall Arts and Entertainment Preview
Sometimes I go to the library for fun. It’s a habit I’ve had my whole life, from taking part in story times as a child to attending lectures as an adult, and years of browsing books, CDs, and movies along the way. A recent lunchtime visit to the Troy Public Library brought up memories of the […]
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Jacki Graham Karns on Being a Presenter for the Detroit Auto Show
Born into an automotive family, Jacki Graham Karns was destined to have a love for cars. “I remember walking through auto shows as a kid and being fascinated by the cars but also by the women onstage presenting them,” says the Livonia native. “I had a love for automotives as well as a love for […]
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A Look Inside A Midtown Loft Turned Real Estate Office
Often, when a couple has a child and lives in a city loft, they make the decision to move into a house with more space and outdoor areas for their family. Nika Jusufi did just that, but there wasn’t a chance she’d sell the renovated loft she and her husband lived in before moving. It […]
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What’s in the Works at Michigan Central
In April, the tech incubator Newlab opened its Detroit headquarters in the rehabilitated Book Depository building in the Michigan Central innovation district. Newlab hosts startups and small established companies that pay a monthly fee for space and the use of workshops. Here, we introduce a selection of those ventures. Energy storage safety products international During […]
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Meet Detroit Opera’s New Music Director
Roberto Kalb says there are no dumb questions when it comes to trying to understand what a music director does for Detroit Opera, but I tried to push the limits of his patience anyway. Like, what exactly does a music director do? “A conductor’s life is 95 percent sitting and studying,” laughs Kalb, who was […]
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Restaurant Report: Venue in Ann Arbor
At 25,000 square feet with essentially four restaurants and a bar under one roof, not to mention a podcast studio, a gourmet market, coworking and office space, and an event room that plays host to everything from dinner and wine events to social media sessions, Venue is big — and its size matches the big […]
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Blake’s Hard Cider Celebrates 10 Years
Andrew Blake doesn’t look like a beverage industry titan. He doesn’t even have his own office, instead working out of his truck most days. Dressed in cargo pants, flip-flops, and a faded T-shirt, he’s using his building manager’s office for the day. One telltale feature points to his real job, though: The distinctive farmer’s tan […]
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Writer Joya McCrory Talks Her Work on ‘Abbott Elementary’
Tales of would-be starlets heading to Los Angeles in droves in the hopes of making it big on the screen have been the narrative since the Hollywood era of moviemaking began. But in recent years, that narrative has expanded to include the many writers who also pack up and head west with the same moxie […]
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How to Get Unpastuerized Milk
It’s not unusual to see lines outside Corktown’s Brooklyn Street Local on Saturday mornings. But not everyone’s waiting for a table. Many are here for milk. Raw milk. Sweet. Creamy. And situationally illegal. State regulations prohibit retail and direct-to-consumer sales of raw — unpasteurized — milk. And yet, here are people getting gallons of it without […]
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How Body20 Can Amp Up Your Workout
Steven was already buzzing by the time I arrived. 鶹 Detroit’s junior art director, Steven had agreed to join me at Body20, a fitness studio in Royal Oak that offers a new type of workout in which clients don superhero-style suits that electrically stimulate muscles during a workout, intensifying the results over less time — […]
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Red Hot Looks for Fall
We were seeing red (everywhere) when designers took to the fall runways in fiery fashion around the world this year. One of the most electrifying takes on the hothouse hue was at Gucci’s fall/winter 2023 fashion show in Milan this past February, where the beloved Italian label paired the classic color with unexpected pops of […]
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How LifeLab Kids in Ferndale Builds Community for Kids on the Autism Spectrum
In 2007, Jai Reddy confronted the huge task of addressing his son’s recently diagnosed autism. He was soon surprised at the difficulty involved and knew there had to be a better way. “Back then, we had only about 30 percent of the resources that exist today,” he says. “And the facilities that were available were […]
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How to Make BESA’s Beet The Heat Cocktail
BESA in Detroit aims to create an exceptional Adriatic experience with a balanced menu of Mediterranean-inspired dishes including Caledonian Blue Prawns and Double Cut Lamb Chops. Their drink menu offers a rich selection of wines alongside specialty cocktails and mocktails, including the mezcal- and beet juice-based Beet the Heat cocktail. Learn how to make the […]
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Visting Hamtramck’s Disneyland
Snuggled between two duplexes in Hamtramck is a folk art installation that has remained open, with constant tinkering, before it relaunches this fall. Hamtramck Disneyland, a 1,945-square-foot exhibit created in 1992 by retired General Motors Co. employee Dmytro Szylak, is inspired by the actual Disneyland and Ukrainian folk music. It lives atop two large duplex […]
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The Stories of the Girl Groups of the ’60s
For a time, harmonizing Black female teens — “girl groups” who wore matching dresses and sang doo-wop — dominated the pop music charts. There were The Marvelettes, who, while some members were still in high school, catapulted Motown Records into the national spotlight with “Please Mr. Postman” (1960); The Bobbettes, who wrote the hit “Mr. […]
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How to Make Mithai & Chai’s Lentil Soup
Northville’s Mithai & Chai offers traditional Indian recipes with a healthy twist including naan paninis, hot and cold tandoori chicken wraps, chicken biryani, and several kinds of soup including a lentil soup that you can make at home with this easy-to-follow recipe. Ingredients 1 cup split lentils 3 cups water 2 tablespoons oil 1/2 teaspoon […]
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The Way It Was — Iconic Detroit Athletes
1963 Sixty years ago, on Sept. 8, The Detroit News published a cover story in its Sunday pictorial magazine that featured these future Hall of Famers whose faces could otherwise have been sculpted into a Mount Rushmore of Detroit sports legends. Pictured here are the Tigers’ 28-year-old perennial All-Star right fielder Al Kaline, 35-year-old Red […]
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Michigan Findings and Fun Facts for September 2023
In our September 2023 issue, we shared some of the most interesting recent findings from Michigan researchers. Here, check out some of those findings, and get some fun facts that pertain to our state. Study Breaks Intriguing findings from researchers across Michigan for September 2023. When it comes to climate change, size matters The faster […]
