June 2024
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Real Estate All-Stars 2024
For Hour Detroit’s Real Estate All-Stars 2024, 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.
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Hour Detroit: June 2024 Digital Edition
The 2024 Best of Detroit issue is finally here! It’s been six months since you nominated your favorite people, places, and things, and three months since you voted from among the finalists.
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Best of Detroit 2024
Featuring more than 200 categories, Best of Detroit 2024 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. Food// Drinks // Health & Beauty // Arts & Entertainment // […]
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Metro Detroit Culture Calendar for June 2024
Another summer concert season is here. And it’s a stacked one. You’ll notice a vast array of shows in Hour Detroit’s listings this month. On top of that, there are quite a few I want to share with you, and we’ll get to that point. But aren’t the best summer concerts around here about the […]
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Top Metro Detroit Events for June 2024
Ella, First Lady of Song Follow the inspiring 60-year career of jazz great Ella Fitzgerald at the Michigan premiere of this biographical musical by Lee Summers. Grammy-nominated artist Freda Payne will star in the titular role, performing some of Fitzgerald’s greatest hits along the way — including “Sweet Georgia Brown” and “It Don’t Mean a […]
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What’s Cooking: Metro Detroit’s Top Food and Beverage Headlines for June 2024
Taste-Tested Oak & Reel hosts Culinary Collective chef series In June and September, four tasting dinners by two renowned guest chefs are taking place at Oak & Reel as part of the restaurant’s Culinary Collective chef series. You can catch Chicago-based James Beard Award nominee Erik Anderson on June 6 and 7, or New York […]
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Editor’s Letter: Best of Detroit 2024
I think it’s only fitting that the Best of Detroit issue is published in June. For us, it feels like the end of a school year, where you ask friends to write in your yearbook and there’s a big graduation party when it’s all done. In this case, the Best of Detroit celebration on June […]
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Restaurant Review: Hiroki San
“Approachable,” “laid-back,” and “unpretentious” are words that many a writer (myself included) seems to be using a lot lately to describe many new, upscale restaurants in metro Detroit. However, they don’t particularly apply to Hiroki-San, a new, upscale Japanese restaurant tucked in the basement of downtown Detroit’s Book Tower. Lavish and alluring, it’s a place […]
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A Look at an Outdoor Paradise in a Birmingham Backyard
Sarah Kepic and her husband, Peter, love the transitional-meets-rustic look in their Quarton Lake Estates home in Birmingham. “We like a reclaimed look,” Sarah Kepic says. “Our interior has a lot of color, wallpaper, and texture.” In the fall of 2022 when they decided to create an outdoor oasis perfect for entertaining, their goal was […]
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Object Lesson: Top Thrill 2
***Editor’s note: Top Thrill 2 is currently under an extended closure while the ride’s manufacturer makes mechanical modifications. Check cedarpoint.com for updates. Last summer, Cedar Point unveiled plans for Top Thrill 2, its newest stomach-churning ride for the summer of 2024, and Hour Detroit readers were excited. The proof? Our web story about the news […]
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A Look at Metro Detroit’s Cigar Bar Culture
Whether or not he was the originator of the phrase “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,” Sigmund Freud was a connoisseur of fine cigars all of his adult life, even though they contributed to his death by oral cancer. Perhaps Freud enjoyed the ritual of a cigar: the careful cutting of the end, leaving […]
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A Conversation with Chef Garrett Lipar of The Dixboro Project
I first met Chef Garrett Lipar in 2013 at Torino, the critically acclaimed nine-table restaurant in Ferndale. His Scandinavian-influenced food, the ingredients for which were sometimes grown or foraged by him, was locally focused, edgy, creative, and sophisticated. He earned praise in publications like Hour Detroit, the Detroit Free Press, and Eater. He was also […]
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Meet the Man Who is Sharing a Detroit-Born Dance With the World
As a kid, Michael Manson Jr. danced in his bedroom, trying to imitate Michael Jackson’s moves, or Usher’s. “My mom would put me on punishment,” he says. “That would be OK because I had a radio in there.” When his mother realized her punishments weren’t going very far, she took away his radio. “I was […]
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The First Woman of Warren
During the 2023 election, residents of Warren had a mayoral ballot they hadn’t seen in a while. It was one without the name James R. Fouts. Three years earlier, in 2020, voters had approved a charter amendment that established a 12-year mayoral tenure limit, effectively making Mayor Fouts, who had served in the position since […]
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How to Make Hiroki San’s Soboro Don
Ingredients Steamed Rice 4 cups sushi-grade rice 4 cups water Soba Soy 1/2 cup sake 3/4 cup mirin 3 1/3 cups dashi broth 1/4 cup sugar 3/4 cup shoyu (dark soy sauce) Chicken Soboro 2 pounds ground chicken 1/4 cup sake 1 1/4 cups brown sugar 3/4 cup shoyu Directions Steamed Rice Wash the rice […]
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Made in Michigan: CNN’s Ryan Kadro
Today, his name is attached to six Emmys. But when Ryan Kadro graduated from Seaholm High School in 1993, he had no aspirations to go into television. At Albion College, he studied English, joined the soccer team, and performed around town with his band, Jabba the Funk. Post-graduation, he moved to Ann Arbor and tried […]
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Lady Drivers: A Closer Look at the Auto Collections of Two Local Women
When it comes to award-winning automotive collections, those of Karen E. Breen and Lauren Mendelson couldn’t be more different. You might call Breen’s the sleeper, while Mendelson’s is outré and exotic. Either way, the owners have realized childhood dreams. Breen, of Birmingham, and Mendelson, of Huntington Woods, met in 2022 while exhibiting in the Speed […]
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For the Love of PEZ
“If you quote me on anything, quote me on this: It’s not about a plastic toy; it’s about relationships,” says Jim Blaine, founder of the Michigan PEZ Convention, the second largest PEZ convention in the world. Since it launched in 2016, PEZ fans from all over, including Mexico, Germany, and Austria — where PEZ candy […]
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A Look Inside Cristy Lee’s New Metro Detroit Design Studio
Cristy Lee may be known best for her television career — but recently, she added “metro Detroit business owner” to her résumé. MotorCity Built, her newly opened interior design studio and state-of-the-art garage in Oakland County, marries her passions for all things home and automotive. Lee sees her new brick-and- mortar enterprise as a “fresh […]
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For Sale: Raw Mushrooms, Never Farmed
In the past four months, I’ve tried three memorable dishes: maitake dumplings at Marrow; a spaghetti squash at Freya prepared with chicken of the woods; and a schnitzel topped with morel rahmsauce at Alpino. What do the three have in common? They each feature a mushroom species that grows wild in Michigan. But how did […]
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How to Make Tallulah’s Cacio e Pepe
Ingredients 3 ounces fresh long pasta, such as linguini or fettuccine 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano or pecorino Romano 1/2 cup pasta water (reserved from cooking) 3 tablespoons butter Freshly ground black pepper Salt, to taste Directions Bring a large pot of water to a boil and season generously with salt. Add pasta and cook […]
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The Way It Was — Michigan Central Station
1913 In an undated photo, a stationmaster checks the ticket of a passenger ready to board a train at one of the 10 track gates at Michigan Central Station — located in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood — which served as the city’s principal railway depot from 1913 to 1988. Owned and operated by the Michigan Central […]
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Michigan Findings and Facts for June 2024
In our June 2024 issue, we shared some of the most interesting recent findings from Michigan researchers. Here, check out some of those findings, and get some fun facts that pertain to our state. Study Breaks Intriguing findings from researchers across Michigan. A Treat(ment) for the Eyes Infection with Zika virus during pregnancy is well […]
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How to Celebrate Juneteenth 2025 in Metro Detroit
Festivals, live music, film screenings, and more
