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Becks Davis [[aka Detroit Moxie) shares a look at Detroit through the eyes of visitors relaxing yesterday at Nancy Whiskey’s in north Corktown, including four from the U.K.Yeah, a familiar echo here...

'Rapid Growth,' a West Michigan zine that's part of the metromode empire, reports here today on a Detroit tour by 52 Grand Rapids visitors.

The goal was "breaking down these false walls that keep...

I see your billboard, Packman, and raise you a few more bits of local automotive lore:


A year before this spectacular photo, Bill Metzger [[Detroit High, '85) was among founders of the Cadillac...

That notion crossed my mind, too, DN. Though it seems a stretch, might be a factor indeed.

As for "gets drilled" and "mean spiritedness," Swingline, neither was intent of original post. I just...

Good news: The 'Moving back to Detroit...maybe' thread started March 27 by 'El Jimbo' inspires an upbeat DetNews column today.

Not so good: Non-forumers [[or anyone inattentive here) have no clue...

Detroit Econ Club luncheon attendees on Thursday got advance copies of the Nov. 22 issue, hitting mailboxes and the Interwebs Friday [[Nov. 12) with an 8-page 'Assign Detroit' coda by Dan Okrent and...

DetroitBob: Didn't know that . . . and agree it has a bearing, to say the least.

iheartthed: Thread was solely on lunch remarks, which I also actually got more out of than I posted in interest of...

-- Steven Gray, former bureau chief, 'Assignment Detroit'


With Harbortown Market just a mile from Time's house on Parker Street in the West Village, I sure wasn't surprised to hear grumbles and...

The use of 'strip' suggests you don't mean the late Draper Hill, editorial page cartoonist at The News . . .

. . . but I toss out his name anyhow as another pre-digital memory yellowing and...

I miss Charley Manos, June Brown, Pete Waldmeir and Susan Stark . . .

. . . NOT one bit.

Redford Township Trustee Miles Handy lobbed f-bombs at an officer asking him -- on a third visit -- to turn off loud music after 11 p.m. at an Octoberfest party for ninth graders.

WXYZ has a...

And I love that thought-stirring observation about possible forebears, atl_runner.

An intriguing prospect, indeed, and perhaps a likely one. [[Go ahead, give us a wave if an ancestor was here in...

Time blogger Karen Dybis today shares vignettes suggesting the impact -- at least anecdotally -- of young newcomers who don't leave downtown after work.
Yes, the post has a defensive tone at spots...

Yeah, this column in today's Sun-Times starts with a backhanded compliment [["imagine my surprise . . . I actually wanted to stay longer"), but zips uphill from there.It's one result of this past...

Y'all have hit the top-tier highlights, so I'll just savor the business diversity that unites Chop Suey, 2-in-1 Shoe Polishes, Bowling, Draughting Room Supplies, Auto and Vehicle Material, and...

OK, I may have been too harsh yesterday morning.

Thanks y'all for pointing that out constructively and civilly. It's a timely 'answer,' in effect, to another thread also started yesterday AM.

Sensible observation, Kielson. Well-said, too.

Thanks for engaging.

I use it to share and find useful heads-ups about articles, events, history [[Shorpy!) and topics worth discussing.

I enjoy the passionate, informed, generally mature colloquy and ignore what I...

I read it, rjlj, and have an overall impression that David Byrne sounds quite naive for a 58-year-old world traveler. Well-intentioned, no doubt, but simplistic at times.Ahem, that's why they -- like...

This lengthy essay, illustrated with images he snapped here, went up on Byrne's personal site last week -- and is flagged [[not flatteringly) today at a certain local blog, which led me to it.

The...

Give the man a cigar for solid recall of an Oct. '08 conversation preserved here that also involves Townonenorth.

And while we're riffing on details in the evocative photo, I'll note that the...

Work can wait, y'all - - Check out A Rant About 'Scrappers' by Darrell Dawsey.

It's pegged to the Packard Plant insider-stripping [DY thread on 9.20.10 DetNews article here], with powerful...

Dan and Sean talk about their 'Lost Detroit' book with Craig Fahle at 11 a.m. THIS morning [[Wed., 9/15) and here:



City Bird -- Sept. 16, 4-9 p.m. release party

U245 Gallery, College for...

[Please 'scuse me if this echoes another thread -- tough to keep up sometimes.]

Time isn't the only newsweekly focusing on Detroit. Interesting video titled 'More Than Just Ruins' [[5:30) went up...

S U P E R B !

Thanks for the Labor Day gift, Doma. The weather was your friend that day. Safety harness, too -- and not necessarily in that sequence.

Random lyric bursts as I clicked through...