Nordstrom recently featured work by Detroit artist Shaina Kaszelan in their ad campaign for their collaboration with Vans. For a limited time, customers buying a pair of white vans will receive a free customization kit including puffy paint and rhinestones. Everything needed to make your own works of art. The sweet shout-out is the culmination of a relationship
Liz Blondy opened Canine to Five back in the middle of the 2000s when Midtown was still known as the Cass Corridor. This was back in pre-Whole Foods Detroit, when Cass past Wayne State was an avenue you sprinted your bike through at night. This was the neighborhood of the
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In the beginning, there was one. In 1941 a Farmer’s Market opened in downtown’s Cadillac Square. Soon after, in the 1950s, this market was split into two: An Eastern and a Western Market. Eastern Market was, well, where it still is, in the Eastern Market neighborhood.
Photographer Chris Gerard is Christian Alexander Gerard. You think you know someone until you realize you’ve had their name wrong the whole time. You think you’ve got someone pegged as one thing (solid product photographer) until another thing emerges. In the case of the latter, an
The White Stripes played their first show at the Gold Dollar Detroit on August 14, 1997, in the club’s opening year. Over the next five years, the Cass Corridor venue would become the IT place to experience live music. That was before the Internet when
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]There are plenty of reasons to celebrate the revival of Detroit. A city that once saw its street lights shut off has become a model of urban renewal. But there is a downside—notably a surge in traffic that in decades past would have led to
After hosting the Democratic Primary Debates, Detroit welcomed the politicians, pundits and provocateurs who could potentially define four years of the city’s – and the country’s – history. However, among other prominent cities in America, Detroit holds a different status. Both in terms of what
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