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The city of Detroit is rectifying its failure to properly administer federal funding for a program designed to support entrepreneurs by renovating eight lower-income apartment buildings and keep...
After an abundance of backyard fireworks across Detroit to celebrate the Fourth of July, the sky looks hazy, the air smells smoky, and the city is currently the most polluted in the country, acc...
Two beloved Michigan-based restaurant chains are joining forces. Southfield-based Big Boy and Livonia-based Olga’s Kitchen have announced a new partnership that will see Olga’s open guest ki...
https://www.metrotimes.com/food-drink/big-boy-and-olgas-kitchen-team-up-36717006
Detroit’s long-standing Irish pub is getting ready to try something new. The Old Shillelagh will launch walk-up window service on Wednesday, July 17, serving healthful fare like breakfast bowl...
https://www.metrotimes.com/food-drink/the-old-shillelagh-opens-walk-up-window-36700809
Actor Hill Harper has been out and about in Detroit actively engaging with community members as he campaigns for the U.S. Senate seat held by Debbie Stabenow. As a progressive Democrat, Harper i...
A Black Detroiter has sued the city’s Shinola Hotel for racial discrimination, alleging the luxury hotel responded to his resume only after he reapplied with a white-sounding name. The lawsuit...
https://www.metrotimes.com/news/racial-discrimination-lawsuit-filed-against-shinola-hotel-36700231
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https://www.metrotimes.com/news/bad-for-your-health-36690783
By now it’s pretty widely known that Dutch Girl Donuts, the iconic shop on Woodward that occupies a spot in the metro Detroit food pantheon alongside the greats like Faygo, American Coney Isla...
https://www.metrotimes.com/food-drink/is-detroits-new-dutch-girl-donuts-as-good-as-the-old-36690776
Excerpted from Raw Deal: The Indians of the Midwest and the Theft of Native Lands by Robert Downes. A little background: Detroit has a long history with the Indians of Michigan. It was establish...
https://www.metrotimes.com/news/the-day-detroit-fell-without-firing-a-shot-36690400
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The “nirvana fallacy” is the belief that because something is less than utterly perfect, it is gravely defective or even irredeemably broken. Wikipedia says, “The...
https://www.metrotimes.com/arts/free-will-astrology-july-3-9-36690378
So I’ve been writing a cannabis column for about two years now, focusing primarily on the dispensaries in Washtenaw County. My mission: to find the cleanest smoke in the Great Lakes State. Lat...
Nearly 20,000 people are expected to gather from July 12-14 at Detroit’s Hart Plaza to celebrate the beauty, strength, and spirit of the African diaspora at the 41st Annual African World Festi...
In a letter to local families on Monday, the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit announced the closure of The Boll Family Early Learning Center at Detroit's Boll Family YMCA due to "a combination of fa...
Detroit homeowners are nearing the truth about whether their houses are still being overtaxed after the city council on Tuesday approved hiring an independent auditor to review property value as...
Among the growing chorus of voices calling for President Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 election amid signs of deteriorating health is Marianne Williamson, the best-selling self-help author a...
Michigan is home to 21% of the world’s fresh water, but in recent years the Great Lakes have had a problem with invasive carp. Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced on Monday that Michigan has s...
Gone are the days when homes in Detroit were absurdly cheap. Now, even reasonably priced houses are hard to come by. Metro Detroit now has the most overpriced housing market in the U.S., accordi...
https://www.metrotimes.com/news/metro-detroit-leads-us-in-overpriced-homes-study-finds-36680832
The historic Blue Bird Inn on Detroit’s west side is getting closer to reopening. The building at 5021 Tireman Ave., once a renowned music venue where jazz legends like John Coltrane and Miles...
https://www.metrotimes.com/music/detroits-blue-bird-inn-gets-19m-grant-36679396
When they took the kids to the splash pad that hot mid-June day, the grownups of Oakland County didn’t expect the splash to come from bullets that drew blood. But that’s just what happened i...
Detroit’s swanky riverfront Rattlesnake Club Restaurant has closed its doors for good. According to a press release sent Saturday by its vice president and CFO Mark Tuttle, the fine-dining est...
https://www.metrotimes.com/food-drink/detroits-rattlesnake-club-has-closed-36666084
There’s no spinning it — Thursday night’s presidential debate was just plain painful to watch. Donald Trump spouted a firehouse of lies that President Joe Biden, plagued with a cough, was ...
https://www.metrotimes.com/news/help-us-gretchen-whitmer-youre-our-only-hope-36656138
Civil rights activists on Friday announced a “groundbreaking settlement agreement” in connection with a lawsuit filed by a Black man who was arrested by Detroit police based on a false facia...
Michigan is one of only two states that shields the governor’s office and the Legislature from providing records under the Freedom of Information Act. That could soon change after the state Se...
Until its abrupt closure around three years ago, few restaurants in metro Detroit belonged in the same breath as Sullaf, the small Iraqi spot that was the last restaurant standing in what reside...