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Norm Silk and Dale Morgan make a living creating centerpieces and designing social spectacles. But their decision to buy and restore a famous-pedigree house in Detroit brought a role reversal of sorts: Suddenly, they were in the spotlight.
By Rebecca Powers
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September 2010 |
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Photographed at Cranbrook
House & Gardens, Bloomfield Hills
Styling by Taryn Bickley; Hair & Makeup by Gjysta Nuculaj from Mijo-à Beauty Studio
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September 2010 |
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If life were like a Saturday-matinee serial, the further adventures of Vincent Markowski would have had a more upbeat, action-packed ending. However, this was Hamtramck, not Hollywood, and Markowski — better known to the world as Tom Tyler — had come to his sister’s large frame house on Moenart Street to suffer a slow, tedious death. Only 50, the celluloid action hero and Western movie actor was afflicted by a rare and frightening disease that had already cost him his looks, his marriage, and his livelihood.
By Richard Bak
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September 2010 |
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She sits like Queen Victoria on Woodward Avenue in Detroit’s Cultural Center. First referred to as the “Temple of Art” when the Beaux-Arts building opened in 1927, she covers 658,000 square feet, houses more than 100 galleries, and, with some 60,000 works of art, possesses one of the largest, most breathtaking collections in the country.
By Sheryl James
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July 2010 |
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When Chef Brandon Johns left Ann Arbor’s Vinology a year ago to open his own place, Grange Kitchen and Bar, it had much promise to be something special.
By Christopher Cook
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July 2010 |
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For Al Taubman, it all started in the 1930s with that little blue tin box. Most Jewish families had one of those boxes. They were used for collections for the Jewish homeland in Israel, Taubman says of his boyhood days in Pontiac, “and we collected change. When I went to the store for my mother and came back, she’d say, ‘Put the change in the box.’ And when the box got filled, she gave it to whoever was in charge in those days. They planted trees and bought land in Israel. This was in the ’30s and ’40s, and we didn’t have a lot of money in those days. “That was the first real philanthropy I ever saw.”
By Sheryl James
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July 2010 |
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By Richard Bak
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July 2010 |
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My makeup, my makeup!” was the popular line from the award-winning Detroit Zoo commercial that ran in the 1980s, depicting the animals preparing for their daily “show” for visitors to the park.
What’s funny is how important those lines seem to be for human celebrities these days, with the popularity of red-carpet events, the advent of high-def TV, and aggressive paparazzi lurking around every corner.
By Chuck Bennett
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June 2010 |
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Before it became the public Grosse Pointe War Memorial, the Alger mansion was a lovely
private residence. Its centennial is being celebrated this month.
by ann marie aliotta
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May 2010 |
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In schools, men are rarely at the head of the class. Low pay and bias against male teachers interacting with kids are blamed, but reformers want
to boost the number of guys.
By George Bullard
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May 2010 |
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