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The newly announced initiative from the Gilbert Family Foundation gives $150,000 over three years to 10 BIPOC artist-led organizations

Tags: Arts, Local Businesses, Visual Art, Seed and Bloom, BIPOC artists in Detroit, Gilbert Family Foundation, Norwest Gallery of Art, arts

Other businesses include a restaurant, hair salon, waxing and lashing studio, and bridal boutique

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Local Businesses, Real Estate, Retail, Development, retailers, business, Midtown, Detroit, the Platform, restaurants, Pure Barre

Community gardens and urban farms will be exempt from the land tax increase while side lots will see a small increase

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Nature, Politics & Government, Detroit Land Value Tax Plan, Urban farming, Detroit property taxes, News

Kevin Johnson is bringing Fixins' Soul Kitchen to the D

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Detroit executive chef Jared Bobkin leads culinary experience in upcoming tour

Tags: Food News, Things to Do, Michigan, Detroit, Food, News, Wine, Belle Isle, Events, Restaurants

Pending state approval, it would be the first major Michigan festival to be licensed for cannabis consumption

Tags: Concert Announcements, Music, Things to Do, Arts, Beats & Eats, Royal Oak, Michigan festivals, House of Dank

Festival organizers now have to get the appropriate state licenses

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Raised in metro Detroit, Scales calls his music ‘dive bar soul’ — and it’s getting him noticed

Tags: On tour, On Tour, Phillip-Michael Scales, Otus Supply, rock 'n' roll, blues

Twelve Starbucks stores in Michigan have formed a union since May.

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Labor, Starbucks, Royal Oak, union, coffee, coffee shop, business

Pastor Jesse Vargas’s victim says he ‘remorselessly stole’ her childhood

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Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort and House of Dank have invested more than six figures into on-site lounges

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The service ranks the credibility of publications based on nine criteria

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After a bitter battle to unionize, baristas are forced to move on

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Labor, Coffee, Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Co., labor unions, Detroit, business

Lineup for Labor Day festival is loaded with 1990s and mid-2000s throwbacks

Tags: Music News, Music, Arts, Beats, & Eats, Flo Rida, 311, Royal Oak, Music, Labor Day

Here's what our readers were interested in this week

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Rejecting religion won’t defeat the evangelical right — it’ll just push more voters into their arms

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City officials say, ‘maybe next year’

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Select events happening in metro Detroit

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The Detroit Sound Conservancy hopes the project could be a catalyst for new development on the west side — and highlight all Motor City music

Tags: Music News, The Blue Bird Inn, Detroit, Detroit Sound Conservancy, jazz, blues, music