Tsz Yan Ng’s large-scale photographic hand-weaving in its finished state at 2739 Edwin Gallery. The evening of Saturday, Sept. 7 was the closing reception for the work that artist and architect Tsz Yan Ng (aka Tn) has been creating over the course of the last month in the gallery space at 2739 Edwin in Hamtramck. […]

In the continuing motif of culture-seeking off the beaten trail, Sunday, Sept. 1 found me busting moves down at the Old Miami, for a special Detroit installment of the NY Night Train Soul Clap and Dance Off, presided over by DJ Jonathan Toubin. I was, of course, busting moves on the Fish Tales Williams classic […]

Labor Day Weekend was full of city celebrations that are well-known and much-loved entities, including the 34th Annual Detroit Jazz Festival down at the Detroit riverfront; the Hamtramck Street Festival presenting its usual mishmash of Polish nationalism and American carnivalism (not to mention Elvis impersonators); and “Oakland County’s favorite summer festival,” Arts, Beats, and Eats made its […]

A large-scale photo weaving installation in progress at 2739 Edwin Gallery. “Factory Setting: the space of labor” is an installation-in-progress by Tsz Yan Ng, taking place at 2739 Edwin Gallery with viewing hours from 1-5 p.m. every Saturday (including tomorrow, August 31, and the closing reception next Saturday, September 7, from 6-9 p.m.). These are […]

On Friday, August 17, the Cadieux Café hosted a record release party for the album No Man’s Fran from Man Francisco, an oddity of an act that centers around the constant of Francis Jaramillo, who has performed original music since 2008 with various configurations of other musicians, including outside collaboration with Bayard Kurth, who writes […]

The Greening of Detroit has contributed to green infrastructure, practiced reforestation and provided support to urban gardeners in the city for more than 20 years. Tomorrow, August 24, from 12-3 p.m. at the Eastern Market, The Greening of Detroit in partnership with edibleWOW magazine will be hosting its 3rd annual Live, Love, Local celebration. The […]

On Saturday, August 16, the main branch of the Detroit Public Library hosted a lecture by Rashid Nuri. Nuri is Boston-born and Harvard-educated, and served as USDA Deputy Administrator under the Clinton Administration in his lifelong career in the promotion of urban agriculture. His work with agricultural policy revealed to him the historic inequities visited […]

“The Chase Series” (2012) print triptych and powder coated steel statues by HACER. “Out With The Old” is the newest show at Library Street Collective, a modern and contemporary art gallery that opened just last year in the burgeoning art district developing downtown between Woodward and Comerica Park. The gallery represents a wide array of […]

The newest installation at 2739 Edwin takes on a topic that is of great interest to me as a former Garment District worker. Artist Tsz Yan Ng draws upon her firsthand childhood experience in textile manufacturing, as well and her more recent experience in architectural production, to create “Factory Setting: the space of labor,” which […]

It was a great week for bike riding, with a continuation of the unfathomably cool July weather extending into August. Accordingly, there were a number of fantastic bike-based events available for two-wheeling Detroiters who like to bike with a purpose. Monday’s Slow Roll crowd assembled outside the Motown Museum on Grand Boulevard. Photo courtesy of […]

With another action-packed weekend in an unusually cool summer behind us, here’s the wrap-up for anything you may have missed! Over on the East side on Saturday, August 3rd, the Backpack Music Festival returned to Belle Isle, for an exercise in concertgoing with a philanthropic bent. The festival, which features techno, house, funk, electronic and hip-hop performances, […]