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I give up. In any other city in the U.S. this would have been Hospitality 101.

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<<Arrived at Cobo a little before 8 this morning and found Cobo Roof parking was already full. I asked the attendant to recommend an alternative, and he said, " get here...

I think I'll miss this, but it's worth noting that Marcus Garvey back in the day had some support from the original KKK.

OK, I'll be the optimist.

1) An emergency financial manager is appointed, but, as in Hamtramck and Highland Park, the sky doesn't fall. Council members howl mightly but are roundly ignored.

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Authentic simple Chinese dishes, very tasty: Lucky Kitchen in Ann Arbor [[two locations, East University and Plymouth Rd). Order from the items posted on the wall, not the takeout menu.

That's when I go. Midafternoon weekdays when I can get away.

It's funny ... one time I went there and my server completely disappeared for about half an hour. I was getting ready to chalk it up as another example of the good food/bad service phenomenon, and...

I wondered what that huge ilne was! They are indeed extraordinary. But I saw several other good acts [[Hana Malhas at Biggby's, Lac La Belle at Scarab Club), all streets and buildings were packed, and...

<<At the intersection of two through streets they would construct a diagonal berm barrier effectively cutting the intersection into two disconnected L-shaped streets. After that, neither street was...

Ann Arbor has them for streets used as cut-throughs, so I don't think it's a state issue. My street has them, and I'm happy, because people used to go down it at 50 mph. There was a hue and cry at...

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This would be a good, fairly low-cost way to goose the area between Woodward and the Masonic, and the money could mostly come from elsewhere. Walking through Short North today in Columbus it's hard...

So tired of the if-you-get-robbed-it's-your-own-fault mentality here. Of course nobody owns up to it, but the victim is always blamed somehow. I've lived so many places, and there's nothing like it...

Firefox 7.0.1 for Mac Pussycat [[aka Lion) 10.7.2, lookin' good!

That's him—Sherman Sharpe. Couldn't remember the name. Google seems to reveal nothing after the Harlequin closed. Wonder where he went.

Yep, I'd love to see them in different parts of the city.

And, to answer an earlier question, there were port-a-johns on site.

Completely empty—was by there the other day. The harlequin painted over the door is still there. I miss that place—quirky as hell, but could be very good indeed. Is the chef still in the area/working...

Beers were $4 [[Grand Circus and a few others) and $6 [[Jolly Pumpkin); foods were $5. Yes, they did check ID at the gate and give you a wristband. I was kind of pleased because earlier in the week I...

Zingerman's is great, but don't forget that Mudgie's is several dollars cheaper across the board for similar sandwiches—extraordinary value.

Went with a friend and it was a smashing success. They got exactly to the point of being full without being out of hand. The People's Pierogi and bratwurst stands were doing good business and really...

Enoteca/Vine is no longer really a wine bar. It's just another Detroit bar with sort of soul food specials and a few wines and basic bar drinks—pleasant, friendly place but not what you're looking...

Have you offered to blurb his next book?

This said, Detroit is evolving into a sort of acid test for his "cool cities" theory—can a decent-sized creative class revive even a city that is really...

What brought it down in New York, which had well over 2,000 murders a year, close to Detroit levels? People differ about that, but few would argue that the combination of close community policing and...

The Opera House is really a model project. It's a very unusual and attractive building, it's a good size that's suitable for lots of different presenters to use it without wagering the future of...

It's now on hold because the city hasn't updated the meters yet. The whole thing just exudes incompetence, but at least somebody said hold on.
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