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Top Metro Detroit News for April 2025

AfroFuture Detroit Announces Headliner and Full LineupAfroFuture, a vibrant music festival highlighting African talent that’s making its U.S. debut in Detroit this summer, unveiled...

Local Landmarks: Michigan Champion Bebb Oak

Near the busy intersection of Auburn and Livernois in Rochester Hills is a massive tree. A sign nearby reads: “Michigan Champion Bebb Oak —...

Meet Michigan’s Cannabis Alchemist

Chef Enid Parham may be known to many for pioneering professional cannabis cooking in Michigan, as well as for speaking out about cannabis criminal...

2025 City Guide: Suburbia

You'll often find me at Capital Grille for a good lunch meeting. I can never resist crab legs at O’Brien’s Crabhouse or grabbing...

City Guide 2025: The History of Woodward Avenue

Like the gristly patellar tendon that obstructs Dan Campbell’s kneecap theory of football, Woodward Avenue is Detroit’s inescapable, ungnawable sinew. Since 1805, it has...

City Guide 2025: Aloha, Detroit!

For 30 years, Emily T. Gail has thrived in paradise: Kailua-Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii. While her address has been in the...

City Guide 2025: A Second Look at Detroit

On the first morning of my second trip to Detroit, I opened the curtains of my 29th-floor hotel suite to a wide-screen view of...

Top Metro Detroit News for March 2025

Detroit Tigers Swept by Los Angeles Dodgers in Opening Series The Tigers only hit 4-for-32 with runners in scoring position during the three-game series. During...

Object Lesson: That ZigZag Tower at Domino’s Farms

What is it? It’s a cellphone tower. Gunnar Birkerts, an internationally esteemed Latvian American modernist architect who spent much of his career in metro Detroit,...

Alvin Ailey Dance Company Brings Workshops to Detroit Public Schools

Ahead of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s performances at the Detroit Opera House March 14-16, the company’s education branch has engaged the community through...

How the Rose Estate is Preserving “Her Story”

Tucked at the end of a private drive in Detroit’s Palmer Woods neighborhood, a house stands as a testament to resilience. Nearly lost to...

Where’s the Money? COVID Relief Funds, Gilberts’ Pledge to Detroit, and More

The Gilberts: Four Years After the Big Give In May of 2022, a year after the splashy press conference in a sunny high-floor room at...

ICYMI: Top Metro Detroit News From February 2025

Raising Cane’s Opens First Location in Metro Detroit Raising Cane’s, a fast-food chain known for its crispy chicken finger combos and Cane’s sauce (made with...

Made in Michigan: Editor Kelly Lyon

When it comes to comedy, timing is everything — and for Kelly Lyon, timing isn’t just a skill; it’s an art form she’s mastered...

Former Underground Railroad Stops Detroit and Windsor

Tower of Freedom The counterpart to Hart Plaza’s Gateway to Freedom sits across the Detroit River in Windsor. This sister monument depicts the arrival of...

An Hour Writer Follows in Their Footsteps

Conversations abound on how to foster empathy among people in positions of power. Real empathy, not the performative kind or the fleeting kind that...
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ICYMI: Top Metro Detroit News From January 2025

Detroit Lions Lose Several Coaches After Season Ending Game Following a devastating 45-31 loss against the Washington Commanders on Jan. 18 and losing another chance...
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Editor’s Letter: Detroit History and the 2025 Hour Detroiters

While January is a time for many to establish new habits, Hour Detroit favors a predictable routine. Every year, we kick things off with...

2025 Hour Detroiters: The 2024 Detroit Tigers

At the July 30, 2024, trade deadline, with the Detroit Tigers mired in fourth place, 15 games behind Cleveland, in the American League Central,...

2025 Hour Detroiters: Courtney Ebonique Smith

Between 7,000 and 14,000 children in Detroit are estimated to have been homeless in the 2017-18 school year, a University of Michigan analysis found....

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