7 places in metro Detroit to pamper your pooch
Bow Wow Baketique You won’t find artificially flavored or brightly colored dog treats at Bow Wow Baketique, the owners have dedicated their business to creating tasty, wholesome, and well-made goodies for your canine companion. Bow Wow Baketique owner Lisa Bardy even hosts an ice cream social (serving a frozen yogurt treat that dogs love) every…
20 killer Detroit obscurities
Planning a road trip around the city, and want to impress yourself? Are you in need of new tricks, having long since exhausted the available supply of MC5, Motown, Belleville Three, Gories, and P-Funk jams? Our panel of experts has compiled a list that will blow your socks off, Tiger. Detroit Sex Machines, “The Stretch”…
Made-in-Detroit concoctions for your consideration
The Last Word Era: Summer 1916 Origin: The Detroit Athletic Club Inventor: Unknown, often incorrectly ascribed to entertainer Frank Fogarty Recipe: 3/4 ounces Plymouth gin, 3/4 ounces lime juice, 3/4 ounces green Chartreuse, 3/4 ounces maraschino liqueur, shaken together with ice and strained Glass: Chilled cocktail glass What makes the drink special: Even for an…
Snappy answers to silly statements about Detroit
Detroit: Everybody thinks they know it, but even lifelong residents have a hard time truly understanding its nuances. It’s a hotbed of class, race, and tough economics, a city of extremes. And yet it has this hilarious tendency toward brittleness, toward exploding in a person’s grill. It’s a place where cynics upbraid people for their…
12 yoga studios in metro Detroit that make you actually want to exercise
Yoga is a niche workout that never seems to go out of style. Whereas cardio drumming was cool for a season or two, yoga’s remained a powerful way to exercise one’s mind and body for centuries. The practice has evolved little throughout the years, yet people still feel drawn to the spiritual and physical toil…
10 moments in history that helped make Detroit what it is — for better or for worse
1. What if La Salle had settled Detroit instead of Cadillac? On the morning of Aug. 10, 1679, the French ship Griffin arrived at the mouth of the Detroit River. That voyage’s chief chronicler, Father Louis Hennepin, described a well-situated area of fertile soil and vast meadows, with grapevines, game, and groves of trees bearing…
The craft of live theater lives on in metro Detroit
If you haven’t been a spectator of live theater in a while, what you find might surprise you. In a day and age when overblown CGI graphics appear in lieu of character-driven drama, and when absolutely instantaneous videos on YouTube have shortened our attention spans, turning your cellphone off and giving yourself over to in-person…
Metro Detroit has plenty of annual attractions year-round
Spring Marche du Nain Rouge March 26; Detroit; marchedunainrouge.com This relatively new Detroit tradition occurs on the Sunday after the Vernal Equinox, making it the start of spring. It mixes a Mardis Gras-esque spirit with Detroit folklore, featuring a parade in which revelers chase out the impish Nain Rouge (the legendary “Red Dwarf”) out of…
Nomad Grill brings downtown’s top talent to the suburbs
Long before he served as head chef at the iconic Coach Insignia restaurant in downtown Detroit’s Renaissance Center, chef Kevin Green got his culinary start in the suburbs. Growing up in Livonia, Green says he developed a passion for cooking by helping his grandparents in the kitchen. “Helping them out, doing odds and ends, washing…
A guide to the Motor City’s driveable outdoor art
Why waste one of Detroit’s rare sunny days inside a stuffy art gallery? The city boasts an increasingly incredible outdoor art supply, from an ever-evolving eyeball-grabbing mural district to public sculptures and more. Get a car, hit the road, and check out some of these outdoor works of art. (Many of these spots — and…
An unscientific roundup of Detroit’s hottest restaurants
Dining in Detroit has come a long way in the past few years. Where there were once only a couple of fine dining restaurants mixed in with an abundance of take-out places, there are now a slew of destination eateries. Some are fancy white tablecloth places while others are more casual joints, but all of…
These metro Detroit ice cream places will satisfy any craving
Sometimes you want to go out to eat, but the stars just aren’t aligned for a sit-down dining experience. If the hang-up is the fact that you have two or three kids just a bit too young for table manners, there’s no reason to worry. That’s why there’s such a thing as ice cream. There…
A taste of Detroit’s distilleries
Two James Spirits 2445 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-964-4800 Founders: David Landrum and Peter Bailey Year: 2013 Story: With the help of a grant from the Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy, two entrepreneurs cranked up their small-batch stills in a hulking old Corktown building, gaining the first distillery license in Detroit since Prohibition. Tasting room: In an…
A week’s worth of Detroit’s best breakfast dishes
The ‘What up, doe?’ Kuzzo’s Chicken & Waffles 19345 Livernois Ave., Detroit; 313-861-0229 Kuzzo’s abound with breakfast possibilities, including salmon croquettes and shrimp and grits, but chicken and waffles are Kuzzo’s reason for being, and so it only makes sense to zoom in on their grandest presentation. Michigan chicken gets brined in a mixture that…
Down to get down? These five Detroit clubs are highly recommended
City Club Inside the Leland Building, 400 Bagley Ave., Detroit; 313-962-2300 This may be the closest any club in the country in 2017 can come to keeping alive the club kid vibe of the late ’80s and early ’90s. Only swap out that scene’s bright costumes with some bondage gear and maybe a gas mask.…
Metro Detroiters love beer — here are a few places to find it
When it comes to places to do craft beer crawls, you could do much worse than the Detroit area. The Michigan craft beer scene is still growing, and metro Detroit sports dozens of quality craft brewers. Even some far-flung tastemakers say Michigan is beginning to be seen as a “great beer state.” One thing you…
Is vinyl manufacturing Detroit’s latest growth industry?
When the subject of industry in Detroit comes up, most people aren’t talking about vinyl production — but yet here we are, in 2017, about to become one of the only cities in the entire world with not one but two vinyl pressing plants. Third Man Records, you know. How could you not? The White…
