October 2010

Doctor's Orders

Expert advice on maintaining muscle, heart, brain, skin, bones, and mind.

By Aleene Jinn George & Mark Kurlyandchik

Weight Loss: Weight Watchers is Chuck Bennett’s Gain

Wiser food choices, exercise, and Weight Watchers are helping him to make the right kinds of gains.

By Chuck Bennett

Weight Loss: A Sterling Heights Family Fights  the Obesity Threat

A Sterling Heights family fights the threat of obesity by striving to maintain a healthful existence.

By Ilene Wolff

Weight Loss: Larry Sherman Loses  370 Pounds Through Yoga

After being morbidly obese, Larry Sherman turned to the physical and mental benefits of yoga to lose weight

By Lara Takenaga

Books: 'Boneyards'

A new volume by Richard Bak explores metro Detroit’s cemeteries and burial customs.

By George Bulanda

Books: The Hanging Tree, by Bryan Gruley

Bryan Gruley's novel creates a dark mystery around Starvation Lake.

By Rebecca Powers

Books: Ladies of the Lights, by Patricia Majher

Patricia Majher details devoted women lighthouse keepers.

By Mark Kurlyandchik

Celebrities on the Prowl in Metro Detroit

Ashton Kutcher, Neil Patrick Harris, Erin Cummings, Hugh Jackman, Anne Heche make the scene and tweet about the Motor City.

By Mark Kurlyandchik

The Revival of Detroit's Sugar Hill

Midtown’s Sugar Hill takes shape as an arts center.

By Mark Kurlyandchik

The Hazards of Estrogen

Plant and environmental estrogens may contribute to breast cancer.

By Ilene Wolff

Geocaching

Metro Detroiters seek adventure through iPhone apps.

By Lara Takenaga

Documenting Detroit

Filmmakers focus on the Motor City.

By Mark Kurlyandchik

Spa Spy: Truth Beauty & Wellness

Truth Beauty & Wellness puts on a fresh new face in Birmingham.

Music Man Ron Harwood’s Illuminating Concepts

The former manager of Sippie Wallace has  bright ideas.

By Jim McFarlin

Frank Kelley: The ‘Eternal General’

An interview with Michigan’s long-serving attorney general.

By Jack Lessenberry

Metro Detroit's Popular Bloggers

Web writers post news and views on the city.

By Alexa Stanard

Books: The Hanging Tree, by Bryan Gruley

Bryan Gruley's novel creates a dark mystery around Starvation Lake.

By Rebecca Powers

Books: The Michigan Murders, by Edward Keyes

Edward Keyes, a New York journalist who died in 2002, presents an eerily suspenseful chronicle of Collins’ brutal rampage (the murders were all marked by unspeakable savagery), and he...

By George Bulanda

Arts and Entertainment

A Dose of Living Well

Unlike buildings, trees draw their lifeblood from nature — unless a human with a bulldozer severs the roots, that is.

By Rebecca Powers

Polio Vaccines at Herman Kiefer Hospital

This snaking line of people at the old Herman Kiefer Hospital in Detroit wait for oral vaccines, which, in 1964, was the recommended treatment.

By George Bulanda

Contributors: October 2010

Jim McFarlin, Ilene Wolff, Jack Lessenberry, Jacqui Oakley