Our pseudonymous comrades roam the city in search of rare grooves, exceptional art, 21st century development on a 19th century block and try to find ways to get 90-year-old freight elevators to work again. Take it away, Blatz and Wymer.
This edition of SimmerD comes to you in living color from the spring edition of Detroit Restaurant Week. Photographer Marvin Shaouni and writer Noelle Lothamer go on a whirlwind tour, taking you inside seven of the 18 participating restaurants to give you a tasty tour of the scene.
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Real estate for big ticket clients is jumping right where it should -- in downtown Detroit skyscrapers, old and new. Video producer Tom Hendrickson points his camera where the action is in this new episode of Model D TV.
Our food and drink specialist gets a sneak preview of the next sumptuous 10 days ahead by visiting two Italian kitchens -- one classic, another a relatively newcomer to the culinary scene. We confess getting pangs of hunger seeing "zingy caponata of squash, tomatoes, olives and chunks of garlic" used in a sentence. You too? Bon appetit.
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