June 2025
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An Interview With Rip Hamilton
It’s been more than 20 years since Richard “Rip” Hamilton came to the Detroit Pistons. The relatively young and untested forward from the University of Connecticut landed in the right place at the right time. Along with Rasheed Wallace, Ben Wallace, Chauncey Billups, and Tayshaun Prince in what would become known as the “Goin’ to […]
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Hour Detroit: June 2025 Digital Edition
Lights, camera, action! The digital edition of our summer blockbuster issue has arrived — with an all-star ensemble cast of more than a thousand 2025 Best of Detroit winners and finalists selected in our annual readers’ online survey.
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Best of Detroit 2025
Food | Drinks | Health & Beauty | Community | Services | Arts & Entertainment | Sports | Retail Food All-night Eatery Winner: O.W.L., Royal Oak; owlwoodward.com Finalists: Duly’s Place, Fleetwood Diner, Nicky D’s, The Telway Appetizers Winner: Adelina, Detroit; adelinadetroit.com Finalists: Bell Bistro, Sexy Steak, The Ledger, West End Kitchen & Bar Bagel Shop Winner: […]
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Celebrating 30 Years of Hour Detroit Magazine
In May 2026, we will celebrate our 30th anniversary of bringing you the best metro Detroit has to offer. That means that this month is the start of our 30th year of publishing the magazine. In recognition of that, we are featuring content from the past on the pages of the magazine for the next […]
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Don’t-Miss Events for June 2025
Detroit Grand Prix This year’s three-day downtown event will feature the cars of the NTT IndyCar Series racing in the Chevrolet IndyCar Grand Prix, the Indy NXT by Firestone series, and the return of the IMSA Weathertech SportsCar series. You can find a place on the street to watch for free or purchase tickets for […]
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Culture Convo: The Best the City Sounds … To You
What makes the “best of Detroit” for someone is always a personal thing. Like the best relationships, my relationshipwith my city has grown and changed over the years. I love it. I hate it. I openly lament it, but when someone from out of town does the same, I defend it. This is about my […]
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Restaurant Review: Standby in Detroit
As Detroit’s restaurant scene grows, so does its risk of exploitation. Opportunistic outsiders in the form of real estate developers and restaurant groups cast a menacing shadow over the city like Nosferatu’s bony hand, and trendy, mechanical dining experiences that don’t reflect the needs of the community are more and more commonplace. It all raises […]
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Editor’s Letter: Our Best of Detroit
In every issue of Hour Detroit, we bring you a curated collection of articles that reflect the editors’ ideas of the most interesting people, places, and things in metro Detroit. Since 2000, the June issue has focused on your favorites with our Best of Detroit feature, comprising the list of the winners from our annual readers’ survey […]
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Swag for Dad
Chocolates may be a woman’s best friend, but this Father’s Day, a cocoa-hued leather Gucci jacket just might be his. This June, when searching for that perfect fatherly gift, take inspiration from the 2025 menswear summer collections, where rich browns, vibrant reds, cool blues, and pop-bright prints seemed to weave through the runways. For example, […]
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Setting the Record Straight
Something monumental happened in the baseball world in 2024, besides the Tigers making it to the postseason. The athletes who played for the Negro Leagues, the professional system first formed during segregation in the 1920s, finally had their statistics added into the MLB’s database. You’ll now find that Josh Gibson is Major League Baseball’s all-time […]
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Spotlight Dance Works Celebrates 25 Years
Not many dance teachers can say they’ve had four students accepted at Juilliard in just the last 15 years — especially in southeast Michigan — but Liz Schmidt, owner and artistic director of Spotlight Dance Works in Chesterfield, can. In her 25 years as director of the youth dance studio, it has become a hotbed […]
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How Detroit Food Academy Nurtures Homegrown Talent
In a city defined by its grit, perseverance, and creativity, the Detroit Food Academy is working to plant seeds of change — one young Detroiter and one local ingredient at a time. Founded by Noam Kimelman and Jen Rusciano in 2011, DFA is working to make cooking more accessible to Detroit-area students. The organization operates […]
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Multihyphenate Ben Sharkey Shares His Style Tips
It was the emergence of boy bands that stirred Ben Sharkey’s fantasies of becoming a singer. He knew he could sing, but he didn’t have access to training while growing up in the tiny village of Stockbridge, southeast of Lansing. It wasn’t until he transferred to Ann Arbor Pioneer High School that he started to […]
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Detroit Foundation Hotel Reopens After Renovation
Eight years after welcoming their first guests, the Detroit Foundation Hotel and its signature restaurant, The Apparatus Room, want to reintroduce themselves. Over the last several months, the space has been undergoing a series of understated, thoughtful improvements, all part of a $4 million investment in the property meant to ensure it continues to represent […]
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The Apparatus Room Offers Downtown Vibes, Local Ingredients
Armed with a new state-of-the-art kitchen, The Apparatus Room’s executive chef, Rece Hogerheide, returned in February with a menu that highlights hyperlocal produce and evokes the collective Midwestern memory. A friend and I went to check it out. Hogerheide knows how to make you eat your vegetables. The salads at The Apparatus Room, the signature […]
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A Conversation With Talia Clark, Executive Chef at Forest
For nearly 20 years, Forest, formerly Forest Grill, has remained a Birmingham beacon for elevated modern Italian cuisine in a fine-dining setting. Opened by renowned chef Brian Polcyn in 2008, it quickly catapulted to success: He collected Restaurant of the Year awards from Hour Detroit and the Detroit Free Press and four James Beard nods […]
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Alley Sports Born in Detroit
It’s a Midwest tradition to have some form of entertainment to accompany a beer (or three) while whiling away those long winter nights. Euchre and bowling have deep roots in Michigan. Plenty of bars offer dart leagues and shuffleboard, and numerous drinking venues have dedicated game spaces — from pinball arcades to axe throwing and […]
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The Way It Was — International Freedom Festival in Detroit, 1982
For the past 66 years, summer has unofficially begun with a massive multicolored pyrotechnics show full of fireworks exploding and cascading over the Detroit River. Beginning in 1959, the fireworks display, sponsored by the J.L. Hudson’s department store, was the highlight of the multi-day Detroit-Windsor International Freedom Festival held in late June and early July […]
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14 Pride Celebrations Taking Place in Metro Detroit
Ferndale Pride The annual Ferndale Pride event strives to recognize and support all corners of the local LGBTQ+ communities. Enjoy live musical performances, drag shows, food, vendors, information stands, and a kids’ area. May 30. Downtown Ferndale; ferndalepride.com. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ferndale Pride (@ferndalepride) Motor City Pride […]
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How to Celebrate Juneteenth 2026 in Metro Detroit
Festivals, live music, film screenings, and more
