Myself, Christa & Jacqui went ice skating at Campus Martius in downtown Detroit Saturday night, and it was another of those experiences that makes me feel like Detroit is not dead. We decided to check it out later in the evening around 8:30pm thinking that it wouldn’t be busy and would arrive to have the [...]

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I went to my first Red Wings game last night at Joe Louis Arena, and it was a blast. Had a few beers & watched them cruise to a 5-3 win over the Nashville Predators. Between the 2nd and 3rd periods they tried to bring out a Toyota Tundra pickup for an advertising stunt. The [...]

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Went to the North American International Auto Show in downtown Detroit last night, and I’ve got to say I was completely underimpressed. We got there at about 7pm last night, and I was initially concerned we wouldn’t have enough time to completely explore the show. We ran the full circle around Cobo Hall in a [...]

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Detroit is in the midst of a revival, and while the wounds of years of neglect & rot will take some time to heal there truly are measurable strides that the downtown corridor is slowly returning to life. Just today I discovered an article in the paper about the resurgence of a neighborhood of spectacularly [...]

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…and everything is gray and depressing. And then I read this piece from the Metrotimes, and it all makes sense… There is one overall theme in the article; the love-hate relationship most people have with the city. Yet, there’s also something glorious about this city, something that you can’t find anywhere else in the world. [...]

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Tuesday, Google announced that they will be opening a facility in Ann Arbor. The facility will deal primarily with Google’s revenue-making Adsense and Adwords. It is projected that Google’s move will hire about 1000 people directly and create about 1200 jobs indirectly. Google’s reason for choosing Michigan? Larry Page, U of M alum and Google [...]

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I’ve spent the past few weeks since moving to the Detroit area panning thru the city of Detroit using the satellite imagery from google maps. It’s a great time, and it’s been quite an adventure & learning experience about the history of the city, as well as the plight and economic disparity still existing today. [...]

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It makes me proud to know I live 4 blocks from the city of Detroit, where stuff like this happens and no one acts too suprised. If you are too lazy to click the link this is my executive summary: A masked man ordered paramedics to step away from a teenager who lay bleeding on [...]

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