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  • Top Docs 2022

    Top Docs List 2022

    1,000+ of metro Detroit’s leading physicians — nominated by their peers

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    Hour Detroit: October 2022 Digital Edition

    Our 2022 Top Docs issue highlights the metro Detroit doctors ushering in the future of medicine and saving lives with cutting edge technology such as artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and virtual reality.

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    Culture Calendar: Theatre Bizarre, Ringwald Theatre’s Sweet 16, and a New Book from Colpa Press

    Detroit’s Greatest Party Returns This Halloween Season After a pandemic hiatus, Theatre Bizarre returns to the Masonic Temple this year. Travel + Leisure has called it “the world’s most spectacular masquerade party,” and it’s not an exaggeration. Theatre Bizarre brings to life the artistic vision of John Dunivant, who marries the whimsy of Tim Burton’s […]

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    Editor’s Letter: Top Doctors List 2022

    I knew from the moment my scalpel sliced through the skin of the fetal pig that I did not want to be a surgeon. Or a doctor. Although I had some wonderful science teachers at Clawson Junior High and High School, it was just never my thing. Mrs. Dutton’s creative writing class, where I could […]

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    Spirited Stories in Detroit Bars

    As gathering places for the sharing of ideas and political opinions, for trade and storytelling and celebration and mourning, bars are powerful repositories of emotion — and spirits, in both the physical and ethereal senses of the word. One common rationale behind the existence of haunted structures is the stone tape theory, which holds that […]

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    Sweetgreen, Cheesesteaks & More Metro Detroit Dining News

    Sweetgreen plants roots in Michigan This health-focused chain of fast-casual eateries has opened its first Michigan restaurant in Birmingham. Sweetgreen offers salads, warm bowls, and sides that are fresh, seasonal, and “plant forward,” highlighting local ingredients like goat cheese from Zingerman’s Creamery and sweet potatoes from Visser Farms. Expect dishes like the Shroomami (shredded kale, […]

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    ‘Middlesex’ 20 Years Later

    Twenty years ago, an epic novel with an unconventional, intersex narrator (and a richly described Detroit backdrop)appeared on bookstore shelves, grabbing readers with this opening hook: “I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency […]

  • Medical Equity

    Moving Medicine Forward: Medical Equity is Possible with Technology

    Dr. Norman Beauchamp first witnessed disparities in health care when he was a child. He grew up on a farm near Michigan State University, and his mother was a mental health worker in downtown Lansing; through her, he learned how many people there were in need of care who simply weren’t receiving it. When he […]

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    Detroit-Based Sphinx Organization Provides Art Education for Black and Latinx Musicians

    Twenty-five years ago, Aaron Dworkin, a Black 26-year-old University of Michigan student had an idea: What if he started a competition for classical musicians of color as a way to increase representation in professional orchestras? The first Sphinx Competition took place in 1998 at Hill Auditorium, providing a competitive performance opportunity for the most talented young […]

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    Horror Filmmaker Builds ‘Horrortown’ at Abandoned Irish Hills Stagecoach Stop

    A construction marquee warns “FESTIVAL TRAFFIC AHEAD” as cars grind to a halt on U.S. 12 West in Onsted. The area, part of a normally sleepy resort community known as Irish Hills, is bustling with commuters on this particular July afternoon. Faster Horses — a country music festival held annually at the nearby Michigan International […]

  • EliteUSA Specializes in Finding Rare Luxury Items for Clients

    Metro Detroit’s luxury market has grown in the last two years — Gucci opened its first Detroit boutique in August; Hermès opened a location in the Somerset Collection in 2021 and brought its traveling Hermès in the Making exhibition there in June; and Louis Vuitton also opened its doors at the Somerset Collection last year. While these […]

  • The Grand Reopening of Michigan Central Station

    In the mid-1930s, when the Albert Kahn-designed U.S. Parcel Post Office opened next to the august, celebrated Michigan Central Station, there was precious little public fanfare. It was, essentially, a really big warehouse, and at the time it was so common for Kahn’s firm to have a hand in new Detroit-area structures that only a few […]

  • Essay: Brooklyn Street Local Is on Its Way Back

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    More than 10 years ago, Jason, my husband at the time, and I packed up our Toronto apartment to open a restaurant in a space we bought at 1266 Michigan Ave. in Corktown. We lived in the restaurant and slept on a futon mattress on the tables while we renovated and looked for an apartment. When […]

  • How 3D Printing is Making Difficult Medical Procedures Easier

    In the summer of 2022, a patient came into Henry Ford Hospital with an enormous hole in his heart. The hole was, more technically speaking, an atrial septal defect, a hole in the wall of tissue between the two upper chambers of the heart. An ASD can cause the two chambers to mix the incoming […]

  • How Augmented Reality Helps Patients Overcome Phobias

    Psychiatrists have found that one of the most effective ways of treating patients with phobias is to expose them to the very thing they are afraid of. Exposure therapy, as it’s called, is unique in that in order to help someone who is afraid of snakes, for example, you’d have to bring a live snake […]

  • Meet the Architect Overseeing the Michigan Central Project

    Ford executives, casting about for a firm to oversee a master plan for redeveloping Michigan Central Station and the 30-acre area around it, landed on a New York firm called Practice for Architecture and Urbanism, or PAU. Its founder, Vishaan Chakrabarti, 56, has focused his career on large-scale urban revival efforts. Notably, he helped concoct the groundbreaking idea […]

  • Worn Stories: Marsha Music Celebrates Detroit History in Style

    “People say, What are you?’ I’m a Detroitist.” This is how Marsha Music describes herself as a self-proclaimed, unofficial ambassador for the city. The 68-year-old Detroit-born, Highland Park-raised writer and historian — her full name is Marsha Battle Philpot — grew up absorbing the sounds of gospel, blues, and rock ’n’ roll at her late […]

  • Meet the Design Director of The Book Depository

    Like so many Detroit-area kids coming of age in the 1990s, Lily Diego and her friends misspent part of their youth traipsing through the vacant, hulking shells of monumental buildings left to decay along with the city itself. They’d swoop in for late-night electronica parties at the Packard Plant or the Russell Industrial Center or […]

  • Ahee Jewelers Celebrates 75th Anniversary

    When Edmund T. Ahee started his new business, he needed a cash register. He bought one at an auction in 1949, and as his business grew more successful, he deemed it his lucky charm. This 2-foot-wide, 3-foot-tall tan machine is topped with old typewriter buttons labeled with different dollar amounts. When the lever is pulled, one […]

  • How Wearable Technology Saved One Local Girl’s Life

    For 12-year-old Imani Miles, her Apple Watch is more than just an accessory. It is what she says saved her life. It was nighttime when Imani’s mom, Jessica Kitchen of Flushing, noticed the constant beeps from her daughter’s Apple Watch, alerting Imani to an abnormally high heart rate. “That’s really weird because it’s never happened […]

  • Acts of Service: How Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence is Giving Back to the Community

    Among Michigan’s (mostly) lily-white congressional delegation, U.S. House Rep. Brenda Lawrence stands out as the state’s only Black federal legislator. She made Southfield history when she became the first African American and the first woman to be elected mayor of the predominantly white city in 2001. And walking into the Skyline Club in a scarlet […]

  • A Look Inside Beaumont’s New Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

    Diane Moskal waited 14 years to see new parents and their babies get some sunshine. Moskal is retired now, having worked for 37 years at Beaumont Hospital in Troy, where she ended her full-time tenure as the clinical nurse manager of the neonatal intensive care unit and pediatrics. But on June 7, she was on […]

  • The Way It Was — D.M. Ferry & Co.

    1943 Detroit once had a seedy reputation, but not in the derogatory sense. The city was home to the world’s largest seed company, D.M. Ferry & Co., named after owner Dexter Mason Ferry (1833- 1907). The firm, which dates back to 1856, was renowned for its quality, selling only fresh seeds, and was the first […]

  • What’s Old is New: A Look Inside One Local Homeowner’s Restored 20th Century Kitchen

    After living in condominiums in Detroit for several years, Amy and Donald Rencher decided to act on something they had known for a while: They needed more space to raise a family. They found a 4,000-square- foot home built in 1910 in the city’s New Center neighborhood that met that need; the kitchen, however, was […]

  • Welcome to the Club: A Look Inside Detroit’s BasBlue

    When Nancy Tellem moved to Detroit in 2015, she met a lot of talented women from all walks of life but noticed there wasn’t a place where they could both network and get access to resources. “All the meetings I was having were at either restaurants or coffee houses or clubs that were really created […]

  • How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Future of Medicine

    When it comes to artificial intelligence, Dr. Cornelius James thinks media and pop culture too often portray it as something dangerous that shouldn’t be trusted. “One of the challenges is that people go to extremes,” says James, a primary care physician and clinical assistant professor at Michigan Medicine. He says that people think of The […]

  • Family Legacy: A Review of Leila in Detroit’s Capitol Park

    If an Arabic mom knew their kid was paying $14 for fattoush, she’d slap them,” said my friend as we perused the menu recently at Leila in Detroit’s Capitol Park. At first glance, the menu at this Lebanese restaurant looks like a typical menu from any Middle Eastern restaurant you’d find around metro Detroit. Staples […]

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    Women in the Workforce, Renting in Detroit, a Strange Podcast, and More

    Get stats on women in the workforce after the COVID-19 pandemic, along with details on how affordable renting in Detroit is. Plus, a macabre podcast that deals in all things strange in southeast Michigan. Detroit Digits 136,000 The number of Michigan women who left the labor force in 2020, according to a census data analysis by […]

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    Fall Foliage Tours in Michigan Worth The Drive

    Looking for a new place to peep the changing leaves this fall? Check out these five fall foliage tours with driving through this time of year. Huron River Drive Route: From Ann Arbor to Dexter This 10-mile stretch along the Huron River features five nature preserves (Barton, Bird Hills, Kuebler Langford, Brokaw, and Burns-Stokes) and three […]

  • How to Make Townhouse Detroit’s Home for the Night

    Looking for a delicious drink to try on your next night in at home? This copycat recipe for Townhouse Detroit‘s Home for the Night is a simple way to kick your at-home drink game up a notch. Ingredients: 2 ounces Pilar Dark Rum 1 ounce chai tea 1⁄2 ounce Amaretto 2 teaspoons Coco Real Cream […]

  • How to Make Pinky’s Rooftop’s Mushroom Toast

    Pinky’s Rooftop in Royal Oak is known for their sharable American- and Asian-inspired dishes along with their a fun (and pink!) atmosphere. Their Mushroom Toast is a delicious mix of butter herb mushrooms, sourdough and lemon ricotta, served on their weekend rooftop brunch menu. Make a similar dish at home with this copycat recipe. Ingredients 1 tablespoon […]

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