Canfield Consortium, in collaboration with Sidewalk Detroit, unveiled the Detroit Remediation Forest, a green space that features a large-scale sculpture and air quality monitors.
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Emails: Murals meant to promote Detroit ended in controversy. Here’s how it happened
Emails reveal how Detroit officials sidestepped city rules and strategized to tamp down blowback after murals were painted without permits.
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Diana Ross, Big Sean part of Detroit-centric lineup for Michigan Central concert
Diana Ross, Big Sean, Jack White, Slum Village and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra are some of the artists that will perform at “Live From Detroit: The Concert” at Michigan Central Thursday at the Corktown train station.
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Detroit Riverfront Conservancy board fires CFO; CEO steps down
Mark Wallace stepped down but will remain with the organization as a transitional advisor, according to a press release.
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Movement Detroit 2024: Scenes from Hart Plaza
Photographer Quinn Banks captured the vibes and vibrations at the Movement Festival in Hart Plaza in Detroit.
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Analysis: How Detroit techno is preserving the city’s beating heart in the face of gentrification
Gentrification is not only making residential and commercial spaces unaffordable for longtime residents, but cultural communities are also threatened, the author writes.
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Saffron De Twah owner plans worker housing at new restaurant
Saffron De Twah’s Omar Anani is planning for a new brick-and-mortar restaurant at 16620 E. Warren. It will feature top-floor subsidized apartments for workers and a menu crafted with community input.
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Black women take center stage in Detroit theater company’s latest production
Plowshares Theatre Company will debut, “The House That Will Not Stand,” Thursday at The Carr Center.
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Waka by Baobab Fare coming to Eastern Market
The Waka food truck debuted in 2022 as a street food spinoff of the Baobab Fare restaurant in New Center. A brick-and-mortar is targeted for late summer.
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Artist jessica Care moore ready to take on new role as Detroit’s poet laureate
The multi-hyphenate moore – also an activist, recording artist, founder of book publishing company Moore Black Press, filmmaker and mother – is the city’s third poet laureate.