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The Food Issue

How a slice of the Cass Corridor became an upscale culinary haven

A decade of fine dining

By Steve Neavling
Feb 21, 2024

Tags: The Food Issue, Food & Drink Features, Restaurants, Local Businesses, Selden Standard, SheWolf, Mad Nice, Cass Corridor, Midtown, Detroit restaurants, Cover Story, Slideshow
Culture

Curtis Chin tells Detroit history with a side of Chinese food in new memoir

‘Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant’ is out next week

By Randiah Camille Green
Oct 11, 2023

Tags: Culture, Books, Cass Corridor, Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, Curtis Chin, books about Detroit
Drink News

'Neighborhood dive' Lenny's Bar opening on Detroit's eastside this month

The owners hope to create a space based on 'radical inclusion' and 'radical hospitality'

By Layla McMurtrie
Oct 5, 2023

Tags: Drink News, Bars, Dive bars, bars, Lenny's Bar, eastside, Grosse Pointe, Drink News
Fall Arts Guide

The Ron Allen Project memorializes a poet and playwright from Detroit’s Cass Corridor

A second act

By Lee DeVito
Sep 13, 2023

Tags: Fall Arts Guide, Visual Art, The Ron Allen Project, Ron Allen, Cass Corridor, Detroit playwrights, Detroit poets, Cover Story
Arts

Cass Corridor’s Simone DeSousa Gallery changes name to Matéria, adds second location in Core City

The new gallery will open this September during the Detroit Month of Design

By Randiah Camille Green
Aug 17, 2023

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Arts & Culture, Visual Art, Local Businesses, Simone DeSousa Gallery, Matéria, Core City Detroit, Cass Corridor, art galleries in Detroit, Detroit Month of Design 2023, Matéria Core City, Matéria Cass Corridor
Metro Detroit

Asian Americans lament loss of landmark in Detroit’s old Chinatown, demand cultural site

Demolition of the historically significant building smacks of ‘arrogance’ and ‘greed,’ activist says

By Steve Neavling
Jul 31, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Chinatown, Chinese Merchants Association, Chinese Americans, Asian Americans, Cass Corridor, demolition, Ilitch Family, Sen. Chang, Gabriela Santiago-Romero
Metro Detroit

Outcry grows as old Chinatown building in Detroit faces threat of imminent demolition

The 140-year-old structure was as a hub for social, educational, recreational, and religious activities for Chinese Americans

By Steve Neavling
Jul 27, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Chinatown, Detroit, Cass Corridor, 3143 Cass Ave., Stephanie Chang, Rising Voices, Chinese Americans, Gabriela Santiago-Romero
Metro Detroit

Old Chinatown building in Detroit must be demolished ‘immediately,’ Duggan’s team says

The city council’s decision to delay demolition by at least a month ‘has no legal force,’ the city’s building director says

By Steve Neavling
Jul 26, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Cass Avenue, Cass Corridor, Detroit, Ilitch family, Olympia Development, David Bell, BSEED, historic preservation, Detroit Chinatown
Metro Detroit

Fight to save Ilitch-owned landmark from demolition heats up at last minute

The 140-year-old building in the Cass Corridor was ‘the heart’ of Detroit’s Chinatown

By Steve Neavling
Jul 24, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Chinatown, Detroit, demolition, Cass Corridor, Detroit City Council, Ilitch family, Olympia Development, Gabriela Santiago-Romero
Metro Detroit

Cinema Detroit to close in huge blow to local arthouse scene — but it’s not ready to give up

After a decade in business, Detroit has lost another movie theater

By Steve Neavling
Jun 9, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Movies, Cinema Detroit, films, movies, Arthouse theater, Cass Corridor, Detroit, Paul Guthat, arts and entertainment
Metro Detroit

Were you priced out of downtown or Midtown?

Metro Times wants to hear about your experience

By Steve Neavling
Jun 1, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Midtown, Gentrification, Downtown, Detroit, Riverfront, Cass Corridor, Corktown, Eastern Market, apartments, rent
Metro Detroit

Tlaib, Thanedar demand an end to $800M in tax incentives for District Detroit

The Ilitches already received roughly $400 million to develop neighborhoods around Little Caesars Arena that never came to fruition

By Steve Neavling
Mar 13, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Ilitches, Rashida Tlaib, District Detroit, Detroit, tax incentives, Shri Thanedar, Detroit People's Platform, Cass Corridor
Food News

Italian restaurant Mad Nice set to open this weekend in Detroit

It’s the latest edition to Midtown’s growing upscale dining scene

By Steve Neavling
Mar 6, 2023

Tags: Food News, Eats, Mad Nice, restaurant, Cass Corridor, Detroit, Italian, Myles McVay, Otis Supply
Metro Detroit

Ilitches want hundreds of millions of dollars in additional incentives for District Detroit

The billionaire family’s organization already received about $300 million in taxpayer funding

By Steve Neavling
Jan 11, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Ilitch family, Olympia Development, Cass Corridor, Little Caesar's Arena, Mayor Duggan, Detroit, housing, Stephen Ross, Related Cos
Food News

Detroit restaurant The Peterboro is reopening soon

A smaller menu and new(ish) leadership are on deck

By Randiah Camille Green
Dec 19, 2022

Tags: Food News, Dining, The Peterboro, Detroit dining scene, Cass Corridor, Food News
Michigan Music

With his music project the Imaginatron, Steven Pivalsky wants to make you move ‘like an ouija board’

The act performs as part of ‘The Imaginatron Moving Company’s Mandatory Holiday Jamboree’ at the Old Miami

By Jeff Milo
Dec 14, 2022

Tags: Local Music, Music, The Imaginatron, Old Miami
Food News

Where to eat on Thanksgiving in metro Detroit if you don’t want to cook

Nobody got time to be slaving over a stove and washing dishes

By Randiah Camille Green
Nov 16, 2022

Tags: Food News, Dining, Thanksgiving in Detroit, Metro Detroit thanksgiving, where to eat in Detroit, dining
Food News

Midtown Detroit Italian restaurant Sauce replaced by Mad Nice, a near-identical concept

The spot was supposed to open in 2020

By Randiah Camille Green
Nov 7, 2022

Tags: Food News, Dining, Mad Nice, Sauce, Midtown Detroit, Cass Corridor, Heirloom Hospitality Group, food news, Detroit restaurant
ICYMI

Raising Cane’s and ‘The Baddest Man on the Planet’: The top 10 headlines

Here’s what our readers clicked on the most

By Alex Washington
Oct 21, 2022

Tags: ICYMI, ICYMI, Top Ten, Mike Tyson, Big Sean, weed, cannabis, Raising Cane's, Dining, Detroit, chicken, food, foodie
ICYMI

Fungi farms and pizza-making robots: The top 10 Metro Times headlines

Here's what our readers clicked on this week

By Alex Washington
Oct 14, 2022

Tags: ICYMI, ICYMI, mushrooms, shrooms, fungi farm, Air Jordan, Nike, Air Jordan 2, Detroit, Pink Panties, Cannabis, Infused, Pizza, Detroit Dining, Dining