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Detroiters with deep Gaelic roots share stories of life in the food and beverage business
Telling innkeeper tales
By Robert Stempkowski
Tags: Saint Patrick's Day, Bars, Music, Restaurants, Local Businesses, Saint Patrick's Day in metro Detroit, metro Detroit Irish American community, Corktown, Detroit Saint Patrick's Day parade, Cover Story
How an artist-turned-tech startup founder envisions a better life for Detroit’s Morningside neighborhood
The believer
By Eleanore Catolico
Tags: Metro Detroit, Local Businesses, Longform, Transportation, DaTrice Clark, Morningside, Detroit, Detroit bus system, digital redlining in Detroit, tech entrepreneurs in Detroit, TechTown Detroit, Black Tech Saturdays, Cover Story
At Hoopfest, Detroit’s Northwest Goldberg community unites
Long live the legends
Tags: Detroit Sports, Sports, Hoopfest, Detroit, Northwest Goldberg, Curtis Jones Park, Cover Story
The 2023 Metro Times Fiction Issue
Included in this year’s issue are stories of joy, exploration, growth, and loss
Edited by Nandi Comer and Casey Rocheteau
Tags: The Fiction Issue, Detroit, fiction, Detroit writers, Solomon David Johnson, Esperanza M. Cintrón, Vanessa Reynolds (Venusloc), Morgan Mann Willis, Yasmine Roukiaya, Mieyoshi Ragernoir, Melba Joyce Boyd, Carole Harris, Shawntai Brown, Miranda Kyle, Jazmine Cooper, Kikko Paradela, Kristen Gallerneaux, Manal Shoukair, Rochelle Marrett, Kylie Lockwood, Katelyn Rivas, Chris Turner, Tariq Luthun, Sterling Toles, Cover Story
Black Detroiters are fleeing the city at an alarming rate
We spoke to 10 former Detroiters about why they left, where they went, and whether they have any regrets
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Longform, Detroit, Mayor Mike Duggan, Black Detroiters, Cover Story
How Tay Crispyy took a fender-bender and a wig and became one of Detroit’s most distinctive characters
The social media star is launching a new YouTube talk show
By Kahn Santori Davison
Tags: Culture, Television, Tay Crispyy, Mr. Reporting Live, Detroit, Cover Story
Detroit’s long history of evicting Black people for profit
There’s a human cost to the city’s failure to enforce its new right to counsel ordinance
By Eli Day
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, right to counsel, renters, landlords, slumlords, Mayor Mike Duggan, Detroit City Council, Cover Story
Nonprofit helps metro Detroit women rebuild their lives with reused auto parts
Mend on the Move sells jewelry, purses, and other gifts made from salvaged materials
By Peg Bessette Knight
Tags: Gift Guide, Gift Guide, Mend on the Move, Detroit, Cover Story
Spying on the Queen of Soul
For 40 years, the FBI surveilled Aretha Franklin and other Black ‘radicals.’ We got the recently declassified files.
By Jenn Dize and Afeni Evans
Tags: Music News, Music, Longform, Aretha Franklin, Detroit, FBI, Queen of Soul civil rights movement, Cover Story
Detroit soul man J.J. Barnes looks back on his career ahead of what he says could be his final live performance
The ‘Chains of Love’ singer is set to perform at northern soul festival Detroit-A-Go-Go
By Adam Stanfel
Tags: Local Music, Music, J. J. Barnes, Detroit, Detroit-A-Go-Go, northern soul, Motown, the Dirtbombs, Cover Story, Video
Metro Detroit’s Eloise Asylum rises from the dead as world-class haunted attraction
The long-abandoned psychiatric hospital has a sordid history, but those behind the multimillion-dollar development say they, too, just want to help people
By Lee DeVito
Tags: The Halloween Issue, Halloween, Eloise Asylum, Westland, Detroit, David Carry, Reverend B. Dangerous, Cover Story
A look inside Michigan’s Anatomy of Death Museum and the ‘king of weird’ who runs it
The Mount Clemens attraction opened in 2019
By Randiah Camille Green
Tags: The Halloween Issue, Halloween, The Museum of Death, Mount Clemens, Detroit, Cover Story
For Sweetest Day, a look at how three Detroit-area couples navigate work, family, and marriage
Work hard, love hard
By Alex Washington
Tags: Culture, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Sweetest Day, AYV x Fresher, Cover Story
Detroit’s first themed Nike Air Jordan release solidifies its place in sneaker culture
Shoe game
Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Nike, Burn Rubber, Two 18, Roland Coit, Air Jordan 2, Cover Story, Slideshow
‘For the heads’: An oral history of EXAT, Detroit’s legendary ’90s experimental and ambient techno night at Zoot’s Coffeehouse
The influential Monday-night ‘Experimental and Ambient Techno’ event was where the scene’s movers and shakers congregated after a weekend of partying
By Michaelangelo Matos
Tags: Local Music, Music, Zoot's Coffeehouse, Detroit, techno, EXAT, Cover Story
Rapper Pretty Brayah talks beef, bars, bisexuality, and being the baddest bitch in Detroit
Good girl gone bad: This rising emcee is turning heads
Tags: Local Music, Music, Pretty Brayah, Detroit, rap, hip-hop, Cover Story, Video
Forget about those digital ‘immersive’ exhibits — the DIA has the good stuff with upcoming ‘Van Gogh in America’
Will the real Van Gogh please stand up?
Tags: Fall Arts Guide, Arts & Culture, Vincent Van Gogh, DIA, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Fall Arts Guide, Cover Story
Detroit muralist Ijania Cortez paints the city neon
In living color
Tags: Fall Arts Guide, Arts & Culture, Ijania Cortez, Detroit, murals, LGBTQ+, Cover Story
Grungy Detroit T-shirt brand reminds wearers to ‘Be The Light’
Brand owner Blight Hernandez talks meditation, homelessness, and coming out as a trans artist
Tags: Fall Arts Guide, Arts & Culture, LGBTQ+, Blight Hernandez, Be The Light, Southwest Detroit, Detroit, Cover Story
Young Detroit artists turned former Greektown PizzaPapalis into a fashion pop-up and gallery
Fashion-forward
By Amber Ogden
Tags: Fall Arts Guide, Arts & Culture, PizzaPapalis, Greektown, Cover Story
Michigan’s ‘Bikers, Buds, & Brews’ taps Marcy Playground and Soul Asylum
Detroit illegally inflated taxes on lowest value homes, study suggests
Detroit’s ‘NSFW’ art and music exhibit is not what you think