Eastern Market After Dark. Love Eastern Market on a Saturday afternoon? Just wait until you see it on a Thursday night! Celebrating the end of the growing season this Thursday with our favorite market night of the year—and our top three activities: shopping, gallery hopping,
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] If you haven't heard of Jay OhSo, now's your chance. He's a lyricist at the top of his game, spittin' rhymes for the better half of the 2010s. He is also gearing up for the release of a new body of work, as well as
The Tobacco Industry. It is a phrase that does not make you think of Detroit, but if you add cheap labor, space to grow, and shipping access, Detroit was a prime center for cigar making. https://youtu.be/n5WA5roKf_U Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel here.
For a time in the late 1800s, Corktown Resident and carriage maker, John Shire, was the only velocipede manufacturer in Detroit. Velocipede = Bicycle.* Shire’s bikes were predecessors to the safety bike—two equal(ish) sized wheels with rubber tires. Except his bikes had wooden frames and steel tires and thus called bone-shakers because they literally
Cass Corridor lives on in Dally in the Alley. The one-day festival is Detroit’s largest and longest running community run festival in the city—and no small feat for an event known to generate crowds of 80,000 +. Nor is it something to be taken for granted in a neighborhood that’s starting to feel more corporate than we’re
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
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