September 2010

Rescuing a Landmark

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...

By Rebecca Powers

Scene Stealers

Photographed at Cranbrook House & Gardens, Bloomfield Hills

Styling by Taryn Bickley; Hair & Makeup by Gjysta Nuculaj from Mijo-à Beauty Studio

A Hero From Hamtramck

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...

By Richard Bak

Mac Truck

Drive through quaint downtown Clarkston, and you might spot a micro van reminiscent of Scooby Doo’s Mystery Machine carefully cruising down Main Street.

By Lara Takenaga

High-ranking General

Like Lee Iacocca, he’s been called “the man who saved Chrysler.”

By Chuck Bennett

Detroit 1-8-7

A prime-time cop drama premiering Sept. 21 (ABC, 10 p.m.), is already receiving backlash from critics who say the production perpetuates the perception of Detroit as dangerous — not to mention...

Saving Face

Façadism, which refers to the act of surgically preserving a building’s street-facing exterior wall during demolition, sounds as though it could be a mental illness right out of the Diagnostic...

By Mark Kurlyandchik

Note-worthy

At Walsh College, doodling is a good thing.

By Lara Zade

A Road Show for City Cyclists

A century ago, bustling Detroit was dubbed the Paris of the West.

By Lara Zade

Triple Play

Variety, as they say, is the spice of life — even (or maybe especially) when it comes to exercise.

Aleene Jinn George

Setting the Scene

Meadow Brook Theatre, Michigan’s largest non-profit professional theater, opens its 45th anniversary season on Oct. 6 with Dracula: A Rock Opera. The musical will be the first show directed by...

By Julie Yolles

Positive Portrait

Luis Croquer, who came from New York’s El Museo del Barrio in 2008 to be director of MOCAD, considers Detroit a seedbed of artistic opportunity. Eighteen months into his role, Croquer, who was...

By Giovanna Costantini

Fall Arts Preview

Arts and Entertainment

Lighting the Way to Fall

My terrier trots ahead of me, sniffing the olfactory evidence of change in the wind. I’m left to observe the more obvious signs of transition: the resounding chorus of crickets and cicadas...

By Rebecca Powers

The Detroit Museum of Art, 1915

Since 1927, Detroit’s repository of great art has been housed in the sprawling Paul Cret-designed Italian Renaissance building on Woodward.

By George Bulanda

Contributors: September 2010

Justin Maconochie, Lara Takenaga, Lara Zade, Taryn Bickley