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Brian Barczyk, owner of The Reptarium in Utica, died on Sunday after ending his nearly year-long battle with inoperable pancreatic cancer and entering hospice...

In a Facebook post she wrote shortly after making the most dramatic career shift of her life, Ronnie Dahl shared her list of the...

New Year's Eve is traditionally the time to usher out the old and welcome the new. But here at Hour Detroit, January is when...

During a Detroit Lions road game last month inside the cavernous Caesars Superdome, Fox TV commentators couldn't help mentioning the huge swaths of Honolulu...

Last Halloween, a certain costume trend seemed to be in. Parties were filled with gold blond wigs, jet-black pantsuits, and dark purply lipstick — an...

In 2013, Amanda Case was flipping through a magazine — this magazine, in fact — when a particular article caught her attention. Case, a...

The year 2023 marked the 20th anniversary of the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy’s transformation of the riverfront.What was once an unsightly industrial wasteland along the...

Dominique Morisseau isn’t the type of playwright to shush you in a theater.Her “rules of engagement” printed in the programs of her shows spell...

In the moments before a press conference begins at St. John's Episcopal Church in Royal Oak, Bonnie Perry is orchestrating the scene. The sprite-size...

At a time when it seems like the title of activist can be procured with little more than a social media handle, it’s refreshing...

Detroit summer is a sun-drenched season of festivals and music. It's food trucks, yoga in the grass, and toes in sand at the urban...

The lights are back on at Michigan Central Station. After decades of looming over Corktown, a sad skyline all its own, the massive 1913...

Why do we think of Detroit as an all-time great music city?For Waajeed, the secret weapon has always been education. The producer and DJ...

2024 is here, and election season will be upon us this fall. You might be thinking about (or avoiding the thought of) the upcoming...

Last year wasn’t a big election year in Michigan, but there were many issues at stake. With a newly blue-majority state Legislature, Gov. Gretchen...

In our December 2023 issue, we shared some of the most interesting recent findings from Michigan researchers, along with some fun facts about the...

Over the last year, Hour Detroit has published hundreds of articles in print and online on metro Detroit food, development, arts, fashion, travel, and...

After six months of investigation and debate, the Growing Michigan Together Council, which was established by Gov. Whitmer in June 2023 to help “develop...

Detroit funk and soul singer, songwriter, and keyboardist, Joseph “Amp” Fiddler, reportedly died on Sunday at the age of 65 following an extensive battle...

Günther “Guy” Stern, Ph.D., holocaust survivor, war hero, and former provost at Wayne State University died on Dec. 7, 2023. He was 101. Stern, who...