OLD FRENCH WINDMILLS
In early Detroit the French inhabitants brought with them their craft-ways and technology of the time. One technology was the mastery of windmill construction to grind grains and for water power.
2016
HB 5232: Is Detroit’s Architecture History?
Elegant, ambitious, ragged, desolate, triumphant, our story as a city gets told through our buildings. Rubble to ramparts, fuck with our buildings, you're fucking with us.
100 + Things We Love About Detroit
Normally, we publish our 100 + Things We Love About the City ...
happy endings with nikki boch
We've never met in person but I'm the gal that lives below you.
Up North | Women’s Winter Tour
Unlike other athletic events, the Women’s Tour features no stopwatches or numbered bibs. In fact, it’s entirely noncompetitive. Participants ski or snowshoe at their own pace, stopping along the trail for locally crafted wines, gourmet cuisine, desserts and chocolates
After Hour Pretties 02 | By Francis Spade
Street photographer Francis Spade captures life after dark in Detroit City
art/official
It’s easy to remember what the new year has already taken from us - Alan Rickman. David Bowie. Perhaps even some of your personal dignity. More likely than not, it’s taken your resolution.
Two Mounds For Bunnies and Braus In The Lower Penn
Crystal Mountain and Holiday Resort are part of Michigan's Winter Wonderland
A LIVING HISTORY
In honor of those Freedom Fighters that have come before us; James Baldwin, Bayard Rustin, Fannie Lou Hammer, Gordon Parks, Norman Lewis, Nina Simone - we continue their work to realize the dream of freedom for all.
ART/OFFICIAL
Some great tips and tricks to inject some 2016 culture into your life with a truly artistic bang.
The Happy Housewife | No Year’s Resolution
Have you ever observed the hunters and gatherers around the buffet table at a party? What is the obsession with filling a plate the size of a wine coaster to near catastrophe level?
Who What Wear | J.L Cappella • Moe’s Market Shoe • Orleans+Winder
A look at Detroit's creative class ...