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  • Operation Breast Density

    Our mission is to empower women with knowledge about their breast health to prevent missed or delayed cancer diagnoses.

  • Life Directions

    Life Directions’ mission is to motivate young adults ages 13-35, especially the economically disadvantaged and “at-risk,” to mature into responsible, productive adults through self-direction.

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    12 Don’t-Miss November Events in Metro Detroit

    Nov. 2-Feb. 22 Art Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley: Twin brothers Nikolai and Simon Haas are known for materially rich pieces that blend art with craft, design, and technology. Full of fictional characters, imaginary creatures, and unearthly realms, their whimsical work explores the convergence of nature, fantasy, and human experience. $12. Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills; […]

  • Lighthouse MI

    Lighthouse endeavors to build equitable communities that alleviate poverty in partnership with and in service to individuals, families, and organizations.

  • The Helm at the Boll Life Center

    To inspire and enable residents in Grosse Pointes and Harper Woods to enjoy the gift of longevity, living healthy and meaningful lives, as they age

  • Capuchin Ministries

    Inspired by the gospel of Jesus and the example of Francis of Assisi, the Capuchin friars, together with our partners in ministry, prayerfully build sister-brotherhood in the world.

  • MiSide Community Impact Network

    MiSide’s mission is to ensure children, individuals, families, and communities have access to great health care, quality education, a comfortable home, and the money needed to build a life they desire.

  • The War Memorial

    The War Memorial serves as a gathering place for the southeast Michigan community, supporting arts and enrichment activities, along with honoring and celebrating military veterans.

  • The Heat and Warmth Fund

    Our mission is to empower and stabilize Michigan families, keeping them healthy, safe, and warm.

  • Impact100 Oakland County

    We bring women together to engage in impactful, large-scale giving to support nonprofits serving Oakland County.

  • Schoolcraft College Foundation

    The Schoolcraft College Foundation empowers the college’s mission by partnering with donors, businesses, and private foundations. We secure vital resources, steward investments wisely, and serve as passionate ambassadors to strengthen Schoolcraft’s impact across our community.

  • Song Foundation

    The Song Foundation invests in ideas, people, and organizations that amplify equity, power, prosperity, and joy throughout southeast Michigan.

  • Joyful Journeys Wellness Center

    Joyful Journeys Wellness Center is committed to providing comprehensive and compassionate behavioral health services to empower individuals to achieve mental wellness and enhance their quality of life.

  • Focus: HOPE

    Recognizing the dignity and beauty of every person, we pledge intelligent and practical action to overcome racism, poverty, and injustice.

  • PIME Missionaries

    The PIME Missionaries are Catholic missionaries who devote their lives to providing the most vulnerable with physical and spiritual aid in 19 countries across the globe.

  • Hour Detroit: November 2025 Digital Edition

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  • Judson Center

    To provide expert, comprehensive services that strengthen children, adults, and families impacted by abuse and neglect, autism, and developmental, behavioral, and physical health challenges so they can achieve whole health, well-being, and maximum potential.

  • Coalition on Temporary Shelter (COTS)

    COTS creates opportunities for families to collaborate, thrive, and succeed in building strong and stable households, neighborhoods, and communities.

  • Vista Maria

    Vista Maria fosters restorative relationships and delivers innovative care, treatment, and education so that vulnerable youth and families believe in their worth, heal, and build the skills for success.

  • Co.act Detroit

    Co.act Detroit is a nonprofit hub dedicated to accelerating collaborative action in southeast Michigan’s nonprofit community.

  • Empowerment Plan

    Empowerment Plan employs and empowers unhoused individuals to break the generational cycle of homelessness by producing a sleeping bag coat for those in need.

  • Eton Academy

    Eton Academy is committed to the education of students who learn differently. We build essential skills and confidence that foster lifelong success.

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    Editor’s Letter: Detroit Sports & Hour’s 2025 Best Dressed List

    When this issue gets to your mailbox or local store, fall will be in full swing and the WorldSeries will be wrapping up. As I write this, in late September, we are still enjoying summer temperatures and seeing the Tigers in the first game of the postseason. Whether they make it past the wildcard series […]

  • Joumana Kayrouz

    30 Years of Hour Detroit: Looking Back at Our Best Dressed Lists

    Over the years, Hour Detroit‘s Best Dressed lists have featured some of metro Detroit’s most popular athletes, business professionals, community leaders, and more. Here is a roundup some of our favorite looks and honorees from the past 18 years. Curtis Granderson The Tigers’ All-Star center fielder told us in 2009, “I like wearing what everybody […]

  • Portrait of University of Michigan men's basketball head coach Dusty May

    Dusty May: The Energetic Force Leading U-M Men’s Basketball

    The Michigan Wolverines corralled the sports media into Crisler Center on a Sunday in July to let reporters get a look at — and footage of — the returning men’s basketball players and latest recruits in action. Reporters got 20 minutes to quiz second-year head coach Dusty May, an hour to watch athletes run drills, […]

  • Ashley Robin Shammami, who co-owns a 24-hour infrared fitness studio in Rochester Hills, wears a dress by Nili Lofan, a blazer by The Frankie Shop, Saint Laurent shoes, a Cartier bracelet, and jewelry from her personal collection.

    Hour Detroit Best Dressed List 2025: Ashley Robin Shammami

    If Detroit is the Motor City, then when it comes to fashion, our Best Dressed honorees are driving in the fast lane – with no turn signals and plenty of flair. From boardroom boldness to brunch-ready brilliance, this year’s list proves that style in the D isn’t just worn – it’s wielded. These fashion phenoms […]

  • A young fashion prodigy, Evan Eisenberg wears a vintage Balenciaga jacket, vintage trousers by Galliano for Dior, Balenciaga boots, and vintage jewelry.

    Hour Detroit Best Dressed List 2025: Evan Eisenberg

    If Detroit is the Motor City, then when it comes to fashion, our Best Dressed honorees are driving in the fast lane – with no turn signals and plenty of flair. From boardroom boldness to brunch-ready brilliance, this year’s list proves that style in the D isn’t just worn – it’s wielded. These fashion phenoms […]

  • Katrina Malota, whose styling clients have included Eminem, 50 Cent, Robin Thicke, and Snoop Dogg, shows off her own style with an Amazon dress, earrings and a choker by Jennifer Fisher, plus additional jewelry from her collection. Not pictured are shoes from Fendi.

    Hour Detroit Best Dressed List 2025: Katrina Malota

    If Detroit is the Motor City, then when it comes to fashion, our Best Dressed honorees are driving in the fast lane – with no turn signals and plenty of flair. From boardroom boldness to brunch-ready brilliance, this year’s list proves that style in the D isn’t just worn – it’s wielded. These fashion phenoms […]

  • Recognized as one of “America’s Top Wealth Advisors” of 2025 by Forbes, Jeffrey Fratarcangeli shows off his closet with a custom-tailored Cicchini suit and Ferragamo shoes.

    Hour Detroit Best Dressed List 2025: Jeffrey Fratarcangeli

    If Detroit is the Motor City, then when it comes to fashion, our Best Dressed honorees are driving in the fast lane – with no turn signals and plenty of flair. From boardroom boldness to brunch-ready brilliance, this year’s list proves that style in the D isn’t just worn – it’s wielded. These fashion phenoms […]

  • The founder of a local boutique advertising agency, Rick Van House wears a vintage bow tie, an Armani tuxedo with his own cuff links, Vinci Python loafers, and a Brightling watch.

    Hour Detroit Best Dressed List 2025: Rick Van House

    If Detroit is the Motor City, then when it comes to fashion, our Best Dressed honorees are driving in the fast lane – with no turn signals and plenty of flair. From boardroom boldness to brunch-ready brilliance, this year’s list proves that style in the D isn’t just worn – it’s wielded. These fashion phenoms […]

  • The daughter of the late Baron and Baroness of Dudley in England, Detroit resident Abimbola Fernandez’s look is heavy on the vintage, with a Valentino suit, Femme shoes, Chanel belt, and a choker. The hoop earrings are by Panconesi.

    Hour Detroit Best Dressed List 2025: Abimbola Fernandez

    If Detroit is the Motor City, then when it comes to fashion, our Best Dressed honorees are driving in the fast lane – with no turn signals and plenty of flair. From boardroom boldness to brunch-ready brilliance, this year’s list proves that style in the D isn’t just worn – it’s wielded. These fashion phenoms […]

  • With her husband, Doug, Hilary Schwartz owns what may be Detroit’s only single-vacancy hotel. Posing in a hotel that has 100 times as many rooms, she wears a Zara top and vintage leather gloves, with pants and shoes both from Khaite.

    Hour Detroit Best Dressed List 2025: Hilary Schwartz

    If Detroit is the Motor City, then when it comes to fashion, our Best Dressed honorees are driving in the fast lane – with no turn signals and plenty of flair. From boardroom boldness to brunch-ready brilliance, this year’s list proves that style in the D isn’t just worn – it’s wielded. These fashion phenoms […]

  • An academic leader, researcher, and roboticist, Tarek Sobh sports a Ralph Lauren suit coat with a Loro Piana button-up and a Versace tie. An Hermès belt holds up his Hugo Boss trousers — the cuff links are Ferragamo, as are the shoes.

    Hour Detroit Best Dressed List 2025: Tarek Sobh

    If Detroit is the Motor City, then when it comes to fashion, our Best Dressed honorees are driving in the fast lane – with no turn signals and plenty of flair. From boardroom boldness to brunch-ready brilliance, this year’s list proves that style in the D isn’t just worn – it’s wielded. These fashion phenoms […]

  • Known for her wearable art pieces that often feature butterflies, Randi Matalas is pictured here in a silver mini Balmain dress, Prada shoes, and a Bulgari watch.

    Hour Detroit Best Dressed List 2025: Randi Matalas

    If Detroit is the Motor City, then when it comes to fashion, our Best Dressed honorees are driving in the fast lane – with no turn signals and plenty of flair. From boardroom boldness to brunch-ready brilliance, this year’s list proves that style in the D isn’t just worn – it’s wielded. These fashion phenoms […]

  • For his second look, Jalen Rose wears a Richfresh tracksuit with Puma shoes. The colors are reminiscent of his alma mater, the University of Michigan, where he and others in the “Fab Five” led the Wolverines to the 1992 and 1993 NCAA men’s Division I basketball championship games.

    Hour Detroit Best Dressed List 2025: Jalen Rose

    If Detroit is the Motor City, then when it comes to fashion, our Best Dressed honorees are driving in the fast lane – with no turn signals and plenty of flair. From boardroom boldness to brunch-ready brilliance, this year’s list proves that style in the D isn’t just worn – it’s wielded. These fashion phenoms […]

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    16 Metro Detroit Holiday Markets to Check Out This Season

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    NOV. 7/DEC. 13 Downtown Rochester’s Cookie Stroll / Rochester Spend the day in Downtown Rochester collecting cookies as part of the city’s Cookie Stroll. On Nov. 7, you can pre-order a special Cookie Stroll Cookie Tin for $40. Then, on Dec. 13, you’ll use that tin to collect up to 14 cookies from participating Downtown […]

  • Meg and Jack White

    The White Stripes’ Rock Hall Induction Further Cements Detroit’s Musical Importance

    The White Stripes are part of a stacked 2025 induction class for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, whose induction ceremony airs live on Disney+ on Nov. 8. Along with the dynamic duo of Jack and Meg White, the other artists and figures being inducted this year include Bad Company, Lenny Waronker, Chubby Checker, […]

  • Spirited Lanterns "gingerbread-style" lanterns decorate a mantel for the holidays.

    All Things Detroit Returns This Weekend for Early Holiday Shoppers

    Thanksgiving is widely considered the start of the holiday season, but metro Detroiters know better: The shopping and celebration kick off with All Things Detroit, which is returning to Eastern Market on Sunday, Nov. 9. The event — held twice a year, in the spring and fall — will bring together 200-plus Michigan-based vendors in […]

  • The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald

    The Way It Was: 1975 & the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald

    Fifty years ago this November 10th, the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald freighter battled gale-force winds, nearly 100 mph gusts, monstrous 35-foot waves, and a blinding snowstorm before breaking in two and sinking more than 500 feet to the bottom of Lake Superior in Canadian waters near Whitefish Bay. As immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 ballad “The Wreck […]

  • Aramis Torres, a former U.S. Marine and the current executive chef at Lumen, poses in Beacon Park outside the restaurant in downtown Detroit.

    In Conversation With Aramis Torres: Former Marine and Current Executive Chef at Lumen

    For Aramis Torres, the roots of leadership were planted when he was a kid. He looked up to his father, Cesar Torres, who was the mayor of their municipality in Puerto Rico. “I learned a lot from watching him taking care of people, and the way he was with the public, and how he was […]

  • Tom Selleck Returns to His Roots

    This past August, more than 700 people of all ages—wearing red Hawaiian shirts, Tigers hats, fake and real mustaches, khaki shorts, and aviator sunglasses—attended a Sunday afternoon game at Comerica Park. These costumes were not part of an official Detroit Tigers promotion. They were worn by participants of the “unofficial” 16th annual Magnum P.I. Day […]

  • A variety of Better Made snacks on a table.

    Better Made: Celebrating the 95th Anniversary of the Classic Detroit Brand

    All over Detroit, you’ll find shiny bags of Better Made chips in gas stations, grocery stores, bars, and even restaurants. Locals flock to these crinkly sacks of fried potatoes; their eyes dart to the regal-looking Better Made logo, a trademark that effectively acts as a stamp of approval. This year, on the heels of its […]

  • Sameer Eid posing for a photo.

    Remembering Sameer Eid, Founder of Phoenicia

    The funeral for Sameer Eid drew thousands, one attendee estimates. And seemingly everyone there had a story to share about the larger-than-life man who founded Phoenicia, one of metro Detroit’s longest-running Lebanese restaurants, in 1971. Among them was Norm LePage, who considers Eid his best friend. The two first became acquainted about 35 years ago, […]

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