Articles

Ali Rose VanOverbeke's Genusee Eyewear turns Flint’s used water bottles into glasses

The Upcycler

• By Violet Ikonomova
• Tags: The People Issue, Ali Rose VanOverbeke, Genusee Eyewear, Flint water crisis

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Made in Michigan: Road trip edition

• By Lee DeVito
• Tags: Made in Michigan, Made in Michigan, Michigan road trips, Marquette, Flint, Traverse City, Mackinac Island, Port Austin, Cross Village, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Cover Story

Detroit dressmaker Harry Rich Clothier brings teenage dreams to life

The Showstopper

• By Violet Ikonomova
• Tags: The People Issue, Harry Richmond, Harry Rich Clothier, Detroit Summer

How Boggs School principal Julia Putnam is rethinking education

The Mediator

• By Michael Jackman
• Tags: The People Issue, James Grace Lee Boggs School, Julia Putnam, Detroit Summer

The Hummer cocktail: Born in Detroit

How bartender Jerome Adams’ mix of the moment became a worldwide phenomenon

• By Michael Jackman
• Tags: Sloshed

As rapper Tiny Jag, Jillian Graham unleashes her inner beast

The Wildcat

• By Jerilyn Jordan
• Tags: The People Issue, Tiny Jag, Jillian Graham, People Issue

Here are some of Michigan's top resorts

• By MT Staff
• Tags: Made in Michigan, Michigan, hotels, resorts

Michele Oberholtzer helped Detroiters stave off foreclosure — now she's running for state rep

The Advocate

• By Violet Ikonomova
• Tags: The People Issue, Michele Oberholtzer, Detroit Art Week, foreclosures, Downtown Detroit

Street food comes indoors

How a global variety of flavorful treats earned a place at the table

• By Michael Jackman
• Tags: EAT: A 2014 Detroit Dining Guide, Street food, Detroit dining

Metro Detroit's spookiest haunted houses and other attractions

Get Spooked

• By Matthew Millen
• Tags: The Halloween Issue, Detroit Haunted Houses, Detroit Haunted Attractions, Halloween

The Booker: Virginia Benson, El Club

The People Issue

• By Jack Roskopp
• Tags: The People Issue, Virginia Benson, Detroit People, El Club

Under Shahida Mausi, Chene Park is a family affair

The Matriarch

• By Lee DeVito
• Tags: The People Issue, Chene Park, The Right Productions, Detroit

These Detroit bars have kept us coming back for generations

Drinking in the history

• By MT Staff
• Tags: Sloshed, Drink Issue, Cas Bar, Jumbo's Bar

The Commentator: Aaron Foley

Writer and Detroit patriot

• By Ryan Felton
• Tags: Detroit People, Aaron Foley, Writer, Detroit People

‘Beyond the blasé'

Jamaican Queens' rap-pop-alien hybrid

• By Jeff Milo
• Tags: Music Issue

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Metro Times Blowout

Band profiles and more!

• By Metro Times Staff
• Tags: Blowout, Cover Story

Great walls of Detroit

Dirk Bakker photographs a city full of painterly odes to work....
• Tags: Summer Guide, Arts, Love & sex, Savage Love, Politics and Prejudices, Labor, Politics, Media, Back Words, Visual arts, Summer Guide, Cover Story

How artist Jim Crawford rolled with the Cass Corridor scene, disappeared from Detroit, only to return next month to talk eggshells and big ideas

Seeing there

• By Michael Jackman
• Tags: Fall Arts Guide, Jim Crawford, Cass Corridor

How Bumbo’s became a finely tuned arts-weirdo bar in Hamtramck

Dive redux

• By Mike McGonigal
• Tags: Sloshed, Bumbo's, Hamtramck

Michigan made, Michigan proud

An introduction

• By MT Staff
• Tags: Made in Michigan, Made in Michigan, Special Issues, Metro Times

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Five excellent metro Detroit waterfront restaurants to visit by land or sea

• By Tom Perkins
• Tags: Boat Issue, Boat Issue, Lake St. Clair, Detroit River, Detroit waterfront, Windsor, Cover Story

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15 low-key beaches within driving distance of Detroit

• By MT summer interns
• Tags: Summer Guide, Michigan, beaches, Detroit, Cover Story

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Your guide to Detroit's festival season

Festivals for the rest of us

• By MT Staff
• Tags: Festival Guide, Detroit Jazz Festival, Arts, Beats & Eats, Dally in the Alley, Cover Story

Flint, the Vehicle City, has plenty of reasons to toot its horn

• By Scott Atkinson
• Tags: Made in Michigan, Flint, Capitol Theatre, Vehicle City

Mike Flores continues to build the LGBTQ community at Affirmations

The Heart

• By Lee DeVito
• Tags: The People Issue, Affirmation, LGBTQ, Ferndale