This year’s Dally in the Alley was blessed with impeccable weather, providing an excellent draw to the popular annual street fair, celebrating its astounding 35th year. The all-day-into-night event features a variety of local vendors, culinary wonders/street food nightmares, the timeless practice of debauchery in the street and, most importantly, a wide, free assembly of […]

The winter program at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (a Knight Arts grantee) opened on Friday in a blowout event featuring live music, colorful attendees and the unveiling of two incredibly fascinating exhibits. “Vision in a Cornfield” has transformed the MOCAD’s main gallery into a truly otherworldly experience.  “Vision In A Cornfield“ is a […]

Over a Labor Day Weekend jam-packed with cultural events, this blogger had occasion to ponder the question of what makes something an “institution.” The Detroit Jazz Festival, still thriving in its 33rd year, is nothing if not a Detroit institution, and this year’s lineup featured a dazzling array of jazz notables and local favorites, including the […]

A Bay Area native, I spent the bulk of my free time as a disaffected high schooler either haunting coffee shops or catching triple-billed punk bands at Gilman St. in Berkeley, Calif., a tiny, volunteer-run club and launch pad for bands like Green Day and Rancid. No wonder, then, that approaching the Trumbullplex — a collectively […]

The Russell Industrial Center is a recognizable monolith and a herald for the passage into Detroit from the northern suburbs. The highly visible ex-industrial facility, once an auto-body supplier, now houses a series of privately leased studio spaces, home to a vivid array of more than 150 local artists, makers and businesspeople. A seamstress at […]