March 2025
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Top Looks from the 2025 Detroit Auto Show Charity Preview
The Charity Preview returned to Huntington Place in January, and as is tradition, brought the snow with it. But inclement weather never stops the attendees from turning out in grand style to get a sneak peek of the vehicles at the Detroit Auto Show and raise money for a variety of children’s charities across southeast […]
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Treasured Romance: 2025 Bridal Fashion Trends
Justin Alexander Signature Shakespeare Gown, $3,300, and Pronovias Crepe Cape, $650, at Piera’s Bridal Couture, 46509 Hayes Road, Shelby Township, 586-566-7800, pierasbridal.com; Diamond Drop Earrings, Round Bloom Diamond Ring, and Diamond Scroll Bracelet, contact the store for pricing, at Lucido Fine Jewelry, Birmingham, Rochester, and Sterling Heights; lucidojewelry.com. Étoile Quincy Gown, $1,995, at Bridal Couture […]
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Where’s the Money? COVID Relief Funds, Gilberts’ Pledge to Detroit, and More
The Gilberts: Four Years After the Big Give In May of 2022, a year after the splashy press conference in a sunny high-floor room at One Campus Martius where Dan and Jennifer Gilbert announced their $500 million, 10-year charitable pledge to revitalize Detroit’s neighborhoods, the money’s stewards launched a new, impressive-sounding initiative. The Gilbert Family […]
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Restaurant Report: Sana’a Yemeni Cuisine
Finding a good mechanic — like finding a good hairstylist — is crucial to city living. You need someone dependable, honest, and unequivocally skilled at their job. My mechanic is all of those things — plus, he has great taste in food to boot. Ali Alhumaidi is the owner-operator of In & Out Auto Repair […]
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Top Metro Detroit Events for March 2025
Post No Bills Turkish artist Burhan Dogançay evoked the ever-changing nature of urban environments by mimicking the rough textures and haphazard layers commonly found on bulletin- and graffiti-laden public walls. Dogançay traveled to more than 100 cities over the course of his career, including Manhattan, where inspiration for the idea first struck him. This marks […]
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Culture Convo: All The Lonely People
As the rest of the world gets lonelier are we suffering the same fate here in Metro Detroit? An increasingly isolated world isn’t just a hot take from me. The data paints an equally fragmented reality for Americans. We spend more time at home than ever before, not engaging with our friends and neighbors — […]
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Editor’s Letter: Bridal Fashion
Bridal fashion has been a Detroit staple at Hour Detroit since 1998 (the first year we published 12 issues). Normally, an annual feature like this can cause me some stress — “What are we going to do this year?” — but I don’t have much to worry about with this one. It’s in the hands of […]
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How the Rose Estate is Preserving “Her Story”
Tucked at the end of a private drive in Detroit’s Palmer Woods neighborhood, a house stands as a testament to resilience. Nearly lost to time, the 1927 Tudor revival known as the Rose Estate now holds court revived and blooming with the stories of artist and feminist Patricia Hill Burnett and music legend Aretha Franklin, […]
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Check Out Detroit’s Oldest Party
“I heard a pow!” Just a big pow!” That’s what Gerald Stevens believes to have been an electrical fire sparking in the old reach-in coolers at Nancy Whiskey. Stevens recalls, “It was a crowded Saturday night. The band was going. We all looked at each other: ‘What was that?’” Hours later, he would receive frantic […]
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Get More Than Just a Mani-Pedi at The Ten Nail Bar
Those who frequent nail salons know it’s not just about adding a fresh coat of polish to your nails. It’s also about escaping from your everyday responsibilities by indulging in a luxurious experience — an experience The Ten Nail Bar co-founders Kelli Coleman and Anika Odegbo believed to be missing from Detroit when they first […]
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Local Company Helps You Explore the ‘Edge of the World’
Anyone who has researched hiking in Patagonia is likely familiar with the W-Trek, a five-day hike across Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park. But if you’re looking for ways to avoid the crowds, you may want to look more locally — at Pygmy Elephant, a Royal Oak-based travel agency whose specialty is self-guided hiking trips. […]
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Every Late Rock Star Had Their ‘Rock’
As a kid growing up in Detroit, Lori Tucker-Sullivan dreamed of writing about rock ’n’ roll. And while she abandoned this dream in young adulthood, it came to fruition anyway with the recent release of her book I Can’t Remember If I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy. The inspiration for the book […]
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An Interview with Screenwriter Rob Edwards
You may not know the name Rob Edwards, but in Hollywood, the Detroit native is a legitimate A-lister … according to the script. Perhaps best known as a screenwriter for the Oscar-nominated Disney animated features Treasure Planet and The Princess and the Frog, he entered the Marvel universe this year as first writer on the […]
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Leaps and Bounds
Genevieve Penn-Nabity has always loved pushing the limits of ballet. From a daredevil 11-year-old sliding across the stage en pointe at local youth dance competitions to a principal dancer at The National Ballet of Canada tackling everything from the daunting classics to cutting-edge contemporary works, the Casco, Michigan, native has retained her passion for threading […]
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Object Lesson: That ZigZag Tower at Domino’s Farms
What is it? It’s a cellphone tower. Gunnar Birkerts, an internationally esteemed Latvian American modernist architect who spent much of his career in metro Detroit, designed the tower as well as the Domino’s Farms Office Park (home to the Domino’s Pizza world headquarters) and the still-standing model for the never-built Leaning Tower of Pizza (originally […]
