December 2025
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25 Can’t-Miss Holiday Events in Metro Detroit
Select dates, Nov. 20-Dec. 24 Wayne County Lightfest: Drive along a magical 5-mile stretch of Hines Park and take in 50 animated themed displays featuring more than 100,000 lights without ever leaving the car. Halfway through the show, guests are invited to stop at Perrin Park, where food trucks, restrooms, and photo ops await. $5+. […]
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Hour Detroit’s Holiday Gift Guide 2025
Hour Detroit‘s much-anticipated annual holiday gift guide is here. The 2025 edition includes six distinct mood boards — each made for a specific personality in your life — with more than 100 products you can buy locally. Keep scrolling to find the perfect gift ideas for the homebody, techie, fashionista, foodie, traveler, and/or entertainer in […]
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Hour Detroit’s Book Gift Guide of Michigan Authors
Treat the bibliophiles on your list with a new work from our book gift guide by a Michigan author. There are many to choose from! For the Memoir Addict Destroy This House By Amanda Uhle. Recounts the Ann Arbor journalist and nonfiction writer’s bizarre, whirlwind childhood with her striving fashion designer (and hoarder) mother and […]
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13 Winter Events and Activities Across Michigan to Check Out
Got your snow tires on? Here are 13 can’t-miss winter events and activities across Michigan that are worth a road trip this season. Charlevoix Bridge Drop Enjoy a full day of festivities including horse-drawn wagon rides and restaurant specials around downtown Charlevoix. Ring in the new year while watching the illuminated bridge drop at midnight. […]
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Holiday Favorites Gift Guide 2025
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Hour Detroit: December 2025 Digital Edition
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Mike Duggan: Looking Back at His 12-Year Tenure as Detroit’s Mayor & Looking Forward to His Future
On a blistering late June afternoon, with a Sahara-like breeze sweeping through the small white tent erected on a tarmac at Coleman A. Young International Airport, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan looks crisp and cool in his typical attire, a tieless shirt and plaid jacket. He’s in his element, which is to say he is at […]
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Hour Detroit’s 2025 Nurse of the Year: Dawn Stone
On Oct. 23, during Hour Detroit’s third annual Excellence in Care Soirée, we celebrated the local health care professionals featured on our Top Doctors, Top Dentists, and Top Chiropractors lists — and inducted one outstanding individual from each of these fields into our Hall of Fame. This year’s sold-out event, however, had a special addition. […]
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‘1969: Killers, Freaks, and Radicals’ Explores a Series of Ann Arbor Murders & How the Counterculture Impacted the Investigation
Between 1967 and 1969, the bodies of six young women were discovered in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, most of them raped and mutilated. Their deaths — and the subsequent police investigation — are the subject of a new documentary by Ferndale director Andrew Templeton, 1969: Killers, Freaks, and Radicals, which makes its Detroit premiere at […]
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How to Integrate Eco-Friendly Items Into Your Holiday Décor
Want to make your holiday decorations more “green” this season? Here are some suggestions on how to integrate eco-friendly holiday décor in your home this season and beyond. Real Christmas trees Fresh, sustainably sourced evergreen trees like fir, spruce, or pine, make for a classic, aromatic centerpiece that can be decorated and later recycled or […]
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30 Years of Hour Detroit: Looking Back at Our Gift Guides
Our gift guides have certainly evolved with the times and latest trends. Here’s a look back at some of our favorite items from our December Gift Guides over the years. (And don’t forget to check out the 2025 edition if you’re still trying to find the perfect gift for a special someone on your shopping […]
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Achatz Pies & Pie Collective: Three Decades of Delicious History With More in Store
For Dave Achatz, restaurants are in his blood. His parents, Vince and Irene, owned a catering company and restaurant. Dave’s younger brother, Steve, ran Achatz Soup in Marine City until it closed in 2017. His cousin, Grant Achatz Sr., owned Achatz Riverview Restaurant in Richmond, where his son, legendary Chicago chef Grant Achatz, got his […]
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Montee Holland: His Journey in Becoming One of Michigan’s Most Successful Fashion Designers
I was at Montee Holland’s warehouse in Taylor recently, styling Love Island’s Austin Shepard and Charlie Georgiou for the Season 7 reunion show … really. They needed to look sharp in suits, and I knew Holland’s brand, Tayion Collection, would have the options the network executives were after: impeccable fit and detailing that would translate […]
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How to Make Apple Dumplings from Achatz Handmade Pie Co. / Pie Collective by Achatz’s
Ingredients Dough Dough 2 cups unbleached flour (Pro tip: Use pastry flour for a flakier crust) 1 teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon sea salt 1 cup shortening or butter ½ cup chilled water (Pro tip: As an alternative, you can use ¼ cup of water and ¼ cup of vodka for a flakier crust) If you’re […]
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A Look Inside the Kitchen of Local Interior Designer Carrie Long
Interior designer Carrie Long and her husband, Greg Sobol, founder and owner of Tekiah Kosher Spirits, celebrate the eight nights of Hanukkah much as she did growing up. “We usually have people over for a couple nights, and then some nights it’s just us. One or two nights we celebrate it big with presents and […]
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Editor’s Letter: Looking Back on 2025
On Nov. 4 at 9:12 p.m., the Associated Press declared Mary Sheffield the winner of Detroit’s mayoral race, which will make her the first woman and the first millennial to hold this position. It’s not as though her win came as a surprise — the Detroit City Council president handily won the primary back in […]
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7 Best Breakfast Sandwiches in Metro Detroit
The Egg & Cheese Pita at Mitsos Greek Food and Coffee I would happily submit Mitsos’s Egg & Cheese Pita as the Motor City’s official breakfast sandwich. It’s deceptively simple and yet provides a consistently satisfying breakfast for under $5 — exactly what a sandwich in the morning should be. Mitsos’s sandwich features a fluffy […]
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Best Looks from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Opening Night Gala
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra held its Opening Night Gala on Sept. 27 to kick off the 2025-26 season. The black-tie event featured a concert by the DSO conducted by Music Director Jader Bignamini and featuring renowned tenor Juan Diego Flórez. Afterward, gala supporters were treated to a formal seated dinner. The gala raised over $1 […]
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Development Projects That Helped Transform Detroit in 2025
Hudson’s Detroit Once the focal point of the Detroit skyline, the former J.L Hudson’s building was the tallest department store in the world until 1961. But after its demolition in 1998, the block it occupied remained vacant until construction began on the multi-use Hudson’s Detroit complex in 2017. With its shimmering glass facade and staggered […]
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How to Make Mezcal’s Tamales De Pollo
Ingredients Filling 3 pounds cooked shredded chicken 8 Roma tomatoes 1/2 large white onion, peeled 8 garlic cloves, peeled 2 habanero peppers (remove seeds if you want less heat) 1/4 cup water 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1 tomato bouillon cube Salt and pepper, to taste Dough 5 pounds fresh (wet) masa (this can be found […]
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The Way It Was: Simmons and Clark
Among the thousands of loyal customers over the decades at the Simmons and Clark jewelry store, now celebrating its 100th anniversary on Broadway across from the Detroit Opera House, perhaps none has been more famous than legendary Detroit Tigers slugger Hank Greenberg. The Hall of Famer is pictured here (left) in 1937 purchasing a solid-gold […]
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One Last Look at 2025, With Help from Ticket Stubs
My collection of ticket stubs is my memory keeper. In a year with so much to look back on, they help me keep track of it all. I’ve saved almost all of them since I was a gregarious teenager moshing at punk shows in old houses in bad neighborhoods in Detroit. Now, it’s mostly operas, […]
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A Final Toast to 2025 & Its Bar Trends
How, and I mean, how in the absolute world, is it almost 2026 out here? It’s been a whirlwind of a year on the Detroit drinks scene, from star-studded openings to quiet moments at old faithful bars. Back in October, I had the chance to bask in the autumn sunshine with an old friend on […]
