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June 2023

  • Real Estate All-Stars 2023

    For Hour Detroit’s Real Estate All-Stars 2022, we commissioned Professional Research Services (PRS) to conduct a survey of all metro Detroit brokers and agents, to determine the top agents and mortgage professionals in the area.

  • Hour Detroit: June 2023 Digital Edition

    Our annual Best of Detroit issue is on newsstands now! Find out who you, Hour Detroit readers, voted as the city’s best from dining to retail and everything in-between.

  • Detroit Grand Prix Makes Its Return Downtown

    “Isle of beauty — Fare-Thee-Well,” an emigrant’s ballad chanted long ago, captures a sentiment that is part of the undercurrent as the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear moves from Belle Isle to a new course. Race promoters were so impressed last year by the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix, held on the […]

  • Culture Calendar: Top Metro Detroit Events in June 2023

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    Metro Detroit is always so full of events and other fun things to do that it can be tough keeping track of it all. To help you plan your weekend itineraries, we’ve asked Ryan Patrick Hooper, the host of CultureShift on 101.9 WDET to share his top June happenings in the area. Plus, save the dates for concerts, […]

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    Editor’s Letter: Best of Detroit 2023

    I went to an event recently where someone asked me, “Is working for Hour Detroit as fun as it seems?” While I paused for about five seconds thinking about this issue’s looming deadline, and how attending the event would set me back, I quickly said, in all honesty, “Yes, it is.” To write about what’s […]

  • Best of Detroit 2023

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    Featuring nearly 200 categories, Best of Detroit 2023 is your guide to the top places, people, attractions, and more the area has to offer — as nominated and voted upon by you, the Hour Detroit readers. Here’s who came out on top this year. Arts & Entertainment // Community & Personalities // Drinks // Health & Beauty // Food // Retail // Sports […]

  • The State of Gay

    To say that being queer in metro Detroit has been an emotional roller coaster these last few years would be an understatement. In the past two years alone, the oldest gay bar in the city, The Woodward Bar & Grill — usually shortened to just “The Woodward” and maybe even “The Woody” for those deeper […]

  • Restaurant Report: Host Utica

    Residents in Macomb County have a chip on their shoulders. When it comes to their culinary scene, they feel overlooked and underappreciated. And the mentality for many living in Detroit or its ring of suburbs usually adds up to, “With what we’ve got in our own backyard, why would we spend a Friday night driving […]

  • Local Litigator Jeffrey Lance Abood Shares His Style Tips

    Bold looks and custom suits — often in vivid colors and patterns — are not usually what comes to mind when you think of court cases and lawyers. Enter divorce and criminal defense litigator Jeffrey Lance Abood of Abood Law Firm. “I always tried to stay up with the latest trends,” Abood says. “When I […]

  • Remembering Filmmaker John Prusak

    When Dan Scanlon was about 9 years old, he entered the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. His father had died when he was young, a tragedy that would one day fuel his writing and directing of the Pixar film Onward, which would be nominated for best animated feature for the Golden Globe and Academy awards […]

  • Detroit’s Walk to Freedom, June 1963

    On June 23, 1963, 20 years after the deadly race riot that began on Belle Isle, an estimated 125,000 peaceful civil rights demonstrators participated in the Walk to Freedom led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other community leaders. The group marched for nearly a mile down Woodward Avenue to Cobo Arena, where […]

  • How to Make The Upright’s Piña Verde

    The Upright is an underground cocktail bar located inside of Oak & Reel that serves a “carefully curated cocktail menu that pays homage to classic drinks,” along with their own original drinks. This recipe will help you create one of their classic drink options, the Piña Verde, from the comfort of home. Ingredients 1 ounce […]

  • Producer Ashley Carey Talks Her Work Behind the Big Screen

    From the time she was in high school and produced a riff on a CeeLo Green music video, Ashley Carey was absolutely certain she wanted to work in a creative field. Her parents weren’t so sure. “Producer” wasn’t on their radar as a secure profession. They required her to write a report about it so […]

  • Influencer Asima Khan Shares This Year’s Summer Fashion Trends

    When it comes to style, St. Clair Shores-based fashion influencer/journalist/marketing professional Asima Khan loves balancing “a mix of high and lows,” she says. “I am 100 percent the kind of girl who will pair a $5 T-shirt with a $1,000 pair of jeans.” In 2017, after years of working in luxury retail at such shops […]

  • Fizzy Drinks Are All The Rage This Summer

    There’s a real knack to whipping up a great summer cocktail. You need fresh, seasonal flavors, with bright acidity and a cooling effect for warm, dry days. It takes a degree of know-how and caution to make one: Add too much fruit, and you’ve bogged down the drink with unnecessary sweetness; don’t add enough, and […]

  • How to Make Mrs. Fisher’s Pickled Cabbage and Pepper Slaw

    A Taste of History restaurant, which is located inside of Greenfield Village in Dearborn, features stations that highlight dishes from as far back as the 1700s. This recipe for Pickled Cabbage and Pepper Slaw comes from Abby Fisher — a Black woman from Alabama who was born into slavery and moved to California to write […]

  • A Look Inside a First-Rate Home Gym in Goodrich

    After an extensive three-year renovation process, Norm and Kim Barman’s home, located on 80 acres on serene Shinanguag Lake in Goodrich, has everything they dreamed of: a theater, a new second garage, a mother-in-law suite, a negative-edge pool, and the piece de resistance — an exercise room with all the bells and whistles. The couple, […]

  • Local Fitness Groups Creating Communities in Metro Detroit

    Exercise may fall under the self-care umbrella, but that doesn’t mean we have to go it alone. Meet a handful of local fitness groups for whom, when talking about health, community is just as important as activity. WeRun313 What started as a friendship between two runners from opposite sides of the city has become a […]

  • How to Make Pao’s King Crab Rangoon

    Pao Detroit calls itself “the city’s premier destination for upscale dining, live entertainment and craft cocktails. Their menu features lobster sushi, chilean seabags, charred octopus, and much more. Make a copycat version of their King Crab Rangoon with this easy at-home recipe. Ingredients For rangoons 1 pound Alaskan king crab meat 1⁄4 cup thinly sliced […]

  • Authentic Period Cuisine Offered at The Henry Ford and Greenfield Village

    Most metro Detroiters are likely very familiar with the sights, sounds, and tactile experiences that help visitors engage with history at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. But did you know there is a taste element of the learning experience as well? Guests at both sites on The Henry Ford’s campus in Dearborn can […]

  • The Way It Was — Navin Field

    Of all the visitors who came to Detroit in the first half of the 20th century, perhaps none was more famous than the New York Yankees’ legendary slugger Babe Ruth, considered by many to be the greatest and most popular ballplayer in Major League Baseball history. With 8,500 fans in attendance at Navin Field on […]

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