“Detroit Revealed: Photographs 2000-2010,” a multimedia show at the Detroit Institute of Arts (a Knight Arts grantee) will conclude its six-month run next Sunday, April 29. The show features video and still photographs from eight contemporary artists, all taking a view on Detroit in the last decade, and has run in tandem with a series of […]

When I think of my relationship to Detroit, the word “transplant” comes to mind. Though not native to this city or this soil, it’s the place I’ve chosen to put down roots, inspired in large by the burgeoning urban gardening movement that is the subject of the documentary “Urban Roots,” which screened last night as […]

Anyone who has taken the Lafayette exit off 375 into downtown Detroit has seen Lafayette Towers, a residential apartment complex and nearly the sole element of the Eastside skyline. It takes closer observation or a die-hard architecture junkie to identify the planned community of two-story townhouses directly across the street from the Towers. Both were […]

True story: I got in a fight with my significant other right before The Moth event at Cliff Bell’s this Thursday night. Not a big, life-ending fight, but enough of one so that if there had been any chance before of going to The Moth together, it most certainly wasn’t happening now. That’s how I […]

The work currently occupying half of the Re:View Gallery, at 444 W. Willis St in the heart of the Cass Corridor, is “Forever the Future,” an exhibition of conceptual art by Detroit artist Megan Heeres. Her work seems to discuss the interplay between creator and creative mechanisms, boldly inviting the viewer to consciously consider artistic […]

This post has been updated.  Originally from Bismarck, N.D. — and having spent his formative years in Midland, Mich. — Jonathan Ryan Rajewski now calls Detroit home. I first met Rajewski at a reading for his literary press, called [sic] — which he co-founded with Achille Bianchi — but didn’t get to sit down and […]

To say the drive-in is a dying institution gives too much credit to the handful still in operation (including the nation’s largest remaining — the Ford Drive-In, in Dearborn). Ours is the last generation that knows what a drive-in is, or even remembers watching a movie with feet kicked up on the dashboard, hearing the […]

This past Sunday, I took in a performance by the Detroit-based band, Jöjjön (pronounced “yo-yon”), as part of the Sunday night acoustic series at PJ’s Lager House. Jöjjön is an unconventional group, to say the least, playing music I would describe as Hungarian-influenced folk-pop. Kinga Osz-Kemp, the group’s leader singer, manages to tap into her […]