Featured Stories
Clare Pfeiffer Ramsey
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Panelists at our Speaker Series event last week urged Detroiters to tell their own stories. Here's a recap, or download the MP3 and listen to the discussion for yourself.
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Tom Hendrickson
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
In this webisode, we visit a new downtown space for teaching, producing, rehearsing and exhibiting the arts -- the Arts League of Michigan's Virgil H. Carr Cultural Arts Center.
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Model D Staff
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Model D teams up with MOCAD to look at the realities of going green in Detroit and some of the
greenest projects at the next speaker series on Dec. 16. Sign up now.
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Nicole Rupersberg
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Seems like all over the neighborhood, there's more new stuff in Midtown: New bars. Dim sum. Crepes. Upscale street fare. Midtown is always one-upping itself.
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Terry Parris Jr.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Dutch artist Diederick Kraaijeveld has scoured the city's scraps of wood to find pieces to bring to life his vision for Detroit 'Icons of Hope.' He wants his art to be part of rebuilding the city he's become so enamored of.
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Ryan Kelly
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Detroit will be the center of the biofuel industry, if TechTown entrepreneur Oliver Baer and associates at Clean Emission Fluids have their say.
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Monday, November 09, 2009
The media is obsessed with Detroit lately. Are they getting our best side? From Time's Assignment Detroit to local blogs, we'll ask the people doing the telling
at the next Speaker Series, this Thursday, Nov. 12. Sign up to be part of the
conversation.
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Marvin Shaouni
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
It's no secret: MOCAD's New Wave puts on one of the city's best Halloween bashes. Model D photographer Marvin Shaouni was at the party to catch the dancing, DJs, and costumes.
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Kelli B. Kavanaugh
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Especially since Mayor Bing brought it up recently, Detroiters are weighing in on what to do with Belle Isle. A gate with a toll? Make it a Metropark? Leave it be? What's a city with limited resources but a lot of love for its beautiful island to do?
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Welcome to the new Model D. Take a look around. Sample the merchandise. We're happy to serve you.
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Tom Hendrickson
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Wayne State's new $28 million engineering center blends traditional learning with business development opportunities. We check out the space in this week's video.
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Dennis Archambault
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Detroit's big running events -- and even those that have participants braving chilly weather -- are growing. But organizers say success isn't just in the numbers.
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Walter Wasacz
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Hauntingly beautiful music will fill the DIA's Diego Rivera Court this Friday when Christen Lien performs original compositions with her viola, which she plays through a looping machine and other electronic effects. Call it sonic art moderne in one of the world's most distinctive settings. Get all the lovely details inside FilterD, where you'll find lots more to do in the week ahead in metro Detroit.
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Terry Parris Jr.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
How do we know Detroit's the new media darling? Time Magazine is staked out in The Villages, every day the web lights up with a new Detroit story, and, above all, someone made a drinking game about it. So Model D sought out a
collection of journalists -- all from across the pond -- who came here to get the big story. Here's what they found.
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Tom Hendrickson
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
When the Kales Building was rehabbed into apartments downtown, it took the vacant Kresge HQ and transformed a corner of the city. Model D TV takes a look inside.
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