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  • Tarik Skubal is Armed and Ready for the 2025 Season

    The improbable journey and accomplishments of the Detroit Tigers and their ace, Tarik Skubal, in 2024 will no doubt be remembered for years to come. Not only did one of MLB’s youngest teams come out of nowhere to win 31 of their last 44 games to make the playoffs, but Skubal, a 2018 ninth-round draft […]

  • 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 skyscrapers and parking structures glowing under a rising sun. The funny thing about second trips to new places is you are sort of familiar, but still a stranger; I could name […]

  • City Guide 2025: Detroit Murals

    With some of the best museums in the country, like the Detroit Institute of Arts (named the best art museum in the country by USA Today readers two years in a row), countless art festivals throughout the year, and many monuments to admire, the city of Detroit is every art enthusiast’s dream. With color and […]

  • 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 Aloha State, however, her heart has remained in Detroit. As have several of her possessions. “I’ve kept a storage unit here for 30 years!” says Gail, the perpetually grinning entrepreneur, race […]

  • 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 bound the city through dire challenges and moments of glory. From Isamu Noguchi’s “Pylon” at Hart Plaza to the grand-finale Pontiac loop, a distance of 27 miles, Woodward Avenue has served […]

  • 2025 City Guide: Suburbia

    You’ll often find me at Capital Grille [in Troy] for a good lunch meeting. I can never resist crab legs at O’Brien’s Crabhouse or grabbing popcorn at Emagine theaters. Honestly, everything I do tends to weave in food somehow — and I’m perfectly OK with that!” – Radio and TV host (100.3 WNIC and Fox […]

  • Don’t Miss Metro Detroit Events in April 2025

    Deftones The Grammy Award-winning alternative metal band will embark on its first headlining tour since 2023 following a successful festival run in 2024, which included performances at Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Primavera Sound. The band’s most recent release — 2020’s Ohms — was praised by critics and fans alike as a return to form, characterized by […]

  • Culture Convo: Defining Detroiter

    If you don’t feel confident as a Detroit sports fan, I don’t blame you. It’s been a while since we’ve been world champions … since our jersey has hung on “The Spirit of Detroit” in true victory, not just as a prop. In the meantime, the Detroit Lions have taken us to the edge — […]

  • Restaurant Report: Highlands

    For the better part of the past 48 years, the top two floors of Michigan’s tallest building have been a place to eat, drink, and celebrate special occasions. But depending on the Renaissance Center’s fate, it could all be reduced to a memory. When chef Shawn McClain opened Highlands in 2019, it was the third […]

  • A New Season for Detroit City FC

    Spring has arrived in Hamtramck, and with it returns the echo of familiar drum beats and the lingering scent of Enola Gaye smoke bombs — Detroit City Football Club is back for its 2025 season at historic Keyworth Stadium. Ahead of the new season, which started on March 8, Hour Detroit compiled these notable club […]

  • Meet a Northern California Couple Who Planted Roots in Detroit

    Like many folks around the world, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Mike Wong and Tammie Soto realized remote work offered the opportunity to live anywhere. They had been residents of Oakland, California, for 15 years, and the high cost of living in their two-bedroom, 1,100-square-foot apartment propelled them to look elsewhere. Determined to find a […]

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    Editor’s Letter: Baseball and This Year’s City Guide

    Before we made the final decision to put Tigers ace Tarik Skubal on our cover, I did some digging in the Hour Detroit archives (after all, baseball is a game of stats). First, I wanted to see how many times a Tiger had graced our cover. The answer? Five. Interestingly, two of the covers were […]

  • Metro Detroit Gets Big Boosts for Hands-on Learning

    Much has been written about the benefits of experiential learning. It can provide students with a better understanding of course materials, as well as further their skills, interests, and values — which in turn builds confidence. Within the past year, a suburban high school and city school district have made significant investments in providing their […]

  • Bold Looks Are In This Spring

    From cobalt blue to pistachio green, canary yellow, cardinal red, powder pink, and so many more, when it comes to picking a color to wear this spring, the brighter the better. What we love about this trend is that you can choose to take the monochrome route, wearing a singular pop-bright shade from head to […]

  • Made in Michigan: Victoria Chang

    Consider prominent poets with ties to Michigan. There’s Philip Levine and Robert Hayden, both U.S. poet laureates, though Hayden served long enough ago, in the 1970s, that the role was called something else. Internet lists include Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates, a pair surely more famous for their novelistic exploits. But where, Google and […]

  • How to Make Shrimp BLT with THC-infused Lemon Dill Aioli

    Ingredients For the Aioli: 1 1⁄2 cups mayonnaise 2 1⁄2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1 tablespoon lemon zest 3 garlic cloves, minced 1⁄4 cup chopped dill, packed 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard 40 milligrams MCT THC drops* Kosher salt Freshly ground pepper For the Sandwich: Four 4-by-4-inch slices focaccia bread, toasted 1 pound large shrimp, peeled […]

  • 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 justice reform and sustainable farming. But before realizing her calling, Parham worked in notable Detroit kitchens including those of Wright & Co., Brooklyn Street Local, and Punch Bowl Social. Her fascination […]

  • Food Focus: Where to Get Toum in Metro Detroit

    Toum has made a home out of Detroit. At the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern restaurants sprawled throughout the city, you’ll find this starkly white condiment on just about every table. And though toum unites Levant cuisine, it also welds together some of Detroit’s greatest Arabic restaurants. For the uninitiated, toum is a powerful condiment made […]

  • 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 — Our Bebb Oak is over 200 years old and may be the largest in America!” Intrigued by this sign, we contacted Rochester Hills Museum Manager Pat McKay for some facts and […]

  • Look Inside This “Magic Treehouse” in Bloomfield Hills

    Fond memories of her own childhood treehouse prompted designer Martine Ilana, of Temescal Creative in Franklin, to design and build a backyard getaway for her 7-year-old twins, Opal and Oscar. “I absolutely loved my treehouse,” she reminisces. “It was a calm, comfortable, and simple space — close enough to my family’s house so that I […]

  • Is Automation the Future of Bartending?

    I found myself at Las Vegas’s massive CES technology show in January. There, thousands of companies showed off the latest and greatest in gadgets and gewgaws. Artificial intelligence was the big draw this year, from talking refrigerators to baby cribs that auto-rock when they sense restlessness. Want a perfect Manhattan? What about a “sweet but […]

  • An Interview with Nadim Azzam

    “I love hip-hop the most,” says Nadim Azzam, “but people seem to like when I sing.” Azzam, an Ann Arbor musician who describes his sound as “alternative soul,” performs with a collection of Detroit-based musicians who grew up playing gospel. As influences, he cites acts as varied as Tyler, the Creator; the Red Hot Chili […]

  • How to Make Dime Store’s Veggie Benny

    Ingredients Veggie Benny 4 English muffins, toasted 1 cup mushrooms (shiitake and oyster), sliced 1 clove garlic, minced 1 sprig thyme, leaves picked and chopped 2 roasted Roma tomatoes (see recipe) 2 cups baby spinach 1 avocado, quartered and thinly sliced 8 poached eggs (see recipe) Sriracha Hollandaise sauce (see recipe) Salt and pepper, to […]

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