June 2010

Best of Detroit 2010

Thousands of readers — the largest number ever — played favorites in online voting for Hour Detroit’s 2010 Best of Detroit list. Check out the 251 winners, and then go play tourist in your...

Makeup Masters

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...

By Chuck Bennett

Code of Conduct

The tired but happy woman reluctantly surrenders her newborn to a nurse, who deftly pricks the infant’s heel with a lancet and squeezes a drop of his blood into an analyzer. Then, as the nurse...

By Ilene Wolff

Prop Culture

In The Shawshank Redemption, Red was a man who could get things. It has been 16 years since Morgan Freeman starred in that highly acclaimed film. Today, moviemakers want metro Detroit-ers who know...

By Rebecca Powers

Road Runners

Road rallies are a grand motoring tradition dating back as far as the first automobiles. Point-to-point road trips with drivers and co-drivers crisscrossed Europe in the first half of the last...

By Aleene Jinn George

First String

Outside of Congress, very few people get to string along the White House. Yet after long and deep deliberation, Juilliard-trained violinist and Troy resident Sonia Lee opted to decline an...

By Jim McFarlin

A Bit of Britain

Six friends from England bought six plane tickets to visit a grad-school chum in Detroit — a trans-Atlantic excursion with two goals: Hang out with the guy with whom they’d spent many a drunken...

By Terry Parris Jr.

Specialty of the House

Just start down the basement steps in the old house on Avery Street, and you’ll hear the soft chatter of locals and smell the half-pound of fresh beef that just hit the grill.

By Samantha Walsh

The Wall of Fame

In The Right Stuff, the 1983 film based on the lives of America’s first astronauts, there’s a scene in which a young woman inquires about photos displayed on the wall of a bar. “What’s a...

By Robert del Valle with George Bulanda and Rebecca Powers

Arts and Entertainment

June 2010

We’ve Got Mail...

Let’s Take the Road from Ruin

Detroit is the new reality TV. Want a hit of shock and awe for a national report? Send a camera crew here. Need some OMG footage? Poverty porn? Jet into DTW.

By Rebecca Powers

Contributors: June 2010

Chuck Bennett, Christian Northeast, David Lewinski, Roy Ritchie