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The exhibition includes themes of solidarity and community, inspired by 1970s Detroit radio DJ The Electrifying Mojo

Tags: Arts, Music, News, Kresge Arts, Detroit artists, Michigan artists, Detroit art, sound art, music, visual art, poetry, Detroit poets, Slideshow

Organizers hope to expand the day of music, art, and poetry with more interactive activities

Tags: Arts, Music, Things to Do, MAP Fest, Detroit events, Detroit festivals, music, art, poetry, Detroit music, Highland Park, Avalon Village, Mama Shu, Rock Local Entertainment Cafe, Detroit artists, Detroit talent, Slideshow

The worker-owned co-op offers health screenings, therapy, and reiki healing with a sliding scale model

Tags: Culture, Health and wellness, Mobile City Motor Wellness, Culture, Detroit communities, Detroit worker-owned co-op

The long-awaited Neighborhood Grocery has finally opened with the help of a Motor City Match grant

Tags: Food News, Local Businesses, Neighborhood Grocery, Jefferson Chalmers Detroit, Black-owned businesses in Detroit, culture, food insecurity

A live exhibition will feature street art by Detroit artist ‘The Hood Picasso’

Tags: Arts, Local Businesses, Music, Things to Do, Visual Art, Art, Culture, Creativity, Mexican Independence Day, Latin heritage, food, graffiti, Pontiac Festival of the Arts

While the boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider, we’re going to ‘Build a Human Habitat on Mars’

Tags: Culture, Things to Do, Arts & Culture, Michigan Science Center, Build a Human Habitat on Mars exhibit, Things to do in Detroit, Culture

From vision to reality

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Arts & Culture, Music, Art, Poetry, Festivals, Community

Detroit poet promotes healthy living and local art at new coffee shop

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Arts & Culture, Coffee, Art, Coffee, Food, Poetry, Ypsilanti, The Deep End Cafe & Gallery

The museum is still in the final phase of its planned $65 million expansion

Tags: Culture, Music, Motown Museum, Hitsville USA, culture

Wiping the law from the books would send a strong message to Michiganders who have put it all on the line in the last couple of years for better working conditions

Tags: Michigan News, Labor, Views & Opinions, Michigan, Right to Work, Democrats, Republicans, unions, labor

273,000 workers across the U.S. joined unions in 2022 — though membership is still at an all-time low

Tags: Michigan News, Labor, unions, labor, Michigan, Michigan AFL-CIO, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Michigan has a long history of union activism, but the movement has fallen on hard times in recent years

Tags: Michigan News, Labor, NLRB, National Labor Relations Board, unions, labor, Michigan

Neighborhood Grocery has yet to open its doors, but that hasn’t stopped owner Raphael Wright from fighting food insecurity

Tags: Culture, Local businesses, Neighborhood Grocery, Raphael Wright, food insecurity, culture, local businesses

Massage therapists, clairvoyants, and psilocybin healers have set up shop in the building helmed by the owners of The Schvitz

Tags: Culture, Local businesses, The Schvitz, The Convent, health and wellness, Culture, Magdalene Airbnb

If anyone should be disappointed, it’s the workers being treated like capitalist slaves

Tags: Michigan News, Labor, Chipotle, union efforts, labor, news & views, Michigan news, Brian Niccol

The 84-year old Davis is one of few artists to be inducted into three halls of fame, and he’s playing at the Southfield library

Tags: Local Music, Music Feature, Billy Davis, the Billy Davis Rhythm Machine Band, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, local music, Southfield Library, music features, Jimi Hendrix

Detroit Public Thrift started as a pop-up and is finally getting a permanent storefront after three years of planning

Tags: Culture, Local businesses, Labor, Detroit Public Thrift, Hamtramck, Worker-owned business, Co-op business, Culture

Lizzo and openers Saucy Santana and Latto remind us it’s OK to be your wonderful, beautiful, boss bitch self

Tags: Local Music, Concert Reviews, Lizzo, Little Caesars Arena, The Special tour, Local music, concert review, music, Slideshow

The 34-year-old singer battled congestion during the set, but that didn’t stop her from twerking and playing the flute like a boss

Tags: Local Music, Concert Reviews, Lizzo, Saint Andrew's Hall, SiriusXM, SiriusXM Small Stage Series, local music, concert review

The hypnotic work features a rainbow color palette and three-dimensional geometric shapes

Tags: Marijuana News, Weed, Jars, mural, art, culture, marijuana, cannabis, Ferndale, Joey Salamon, JARS Cannabis, HYPE Cannabis