Follow Their Footsteps to Freedom On This Underground Railroad Tour
Conversations abound on how to foster empathy among people in positions of power. Real empathy, not the performative kind or the fleeting kind that...
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...
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....
Burning Questions for 2025
2025 is here, and it’s hard to know exactly what it will look like for Michiganders. But we can sure as hell speculate. For...
Burning Questions for 2024, Revisited
Every year, Hour Detroit asks area experts to answer some of our readers' top questions for the new year. Here, we take a look back at...
2025 Hour Detroiters: Amy Good
Amy Good was 11 when her family moved to Michigan from Pittsburgh in 1968, a year after the five-day Detroit rebellion that resulted in...
2025 Hour Detroiters: Danialle Karmanos
Walking the halls of Royal Oak’s Corewell Health Beaumont Hospital with Danialle Karmanos, one feels as if they’re in the presence of a celebrity:...
ICYMI: Catch Up on Metro Detroit’s News from December 2024
The Detroit Red Wings Hire a New Coach
Following a series of losses, the Detroit Red Wings fired head coach Derek Lalonde on Dec. 26,...
2025 Hour Detroiters: William Clay Ford Jr.
The ground level of Michigan Central Station, Bill Ford’s near billion-dollar love letter to the city synonymous with his family name, is a before-and-after...
YouthTank Detroit at Michigan Central
Before departing after 20years as a teacher at Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield Hills, Holly Arida asked her advanced entrepreneurship class to “design my next...
Local Landmarks: The Oxford Savings Bank Building
About 170 years ago, a wooden building that housed a saloon and general store stood on the corner of First Street and North Lapeer...
In Memoriam: Hospitable Legacy
Alexis Chingman-Tijerina
Chef Lex (as she was affectionately known) passed away June 25 at age 38. She’s remembered as a “caregiver to the nth degree”...
How Frank Ragnow Became a Positive Force for Others
Choosing Frank Ragnow as the Detroit Lions’ 2023 nominee for the NFL’s prestigious Walter Payton Man of the Year Award was a no-brainer for...
Object Lesson: The Detroit Christmas Tree
How long has Detroit had a holiday tree?
A giant decorated pine tree has been a hallmark of the holidays in Detroit for over 100...
Gift Ideas for Cannabis Lovers
Pictured clockwise from topBong Appétit: Mastering the Art of Cooking with Weed (hardcover), $30, at Barnes & Noble, barnesandnoble.com
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Editor’s Letter: Top Stories of 2024
Years ago, I worked on a story for a magazine where we asked TV actors to share their holiday traditions.What one actress said about...
Detroit Michelin Green Guide to Hit Shelves Soon
The Detroit Michelin Green Guide is planned to be available in U.S. bookstores “in the next few days,” announced Philippe Orain, Michelin Travel Guides Editorial...
Culture Convo: The Bong of Banality
Sneaking away from Christmas dinner with your family to smoke weed with your cousins is tradition in my family.Covertly trailing off from the conversational...