October 2025
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Don’t-Miss October Events in Metro Detroit
ALL MONTH FILM Celebrate spooky season at one of metro Detroit’s oldest and coolest movie houses with a stacked lineup of classic Halloween films. Highlights include a Ghostbusters shadow cast performance along with screenings of Candyman, Young Frankenstein, Edward Scissorhands, and The Evil Dead. Visit the website for a full lineup. $5+. Redford Theatre, Detroit; […]
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Hour Detroit: October 2025 Digital Edition
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Top Docs List 2025
Presenting over 1,000 of metro Detroit’s leading physicians – nominated by their peers
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Dave and Melissa Coulier Fight Cancer with Research Fundraising
In early April of this year, just days after Hour Detroit went to press with our annual Health Guide magazine, which included a cover story about actor and comedian Dave Coulier’s experience with cancer, the news broke that the St. Clair Shores resident was cancer-free. In our story, we interviewed Dave’s wife, Melissa Coulier, who […]
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Hiding in Plain Sight: The Stories of 3 Metro Detroit Couples Who Finally Found Each Other
These days, the advice for singles seems to be “date with purpose.” But oftentimes, the relationship you end up in feels like a big happy accident. Particularly in the age of online dating, which has both commodified and gamified the process of looking for love, the options can seem endless — to a detriment. Being […]
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A Tribute to Ed Terebus, Co-Founder of Pontiac’s Erebus Haunted Attraction
For thousands here locally, the month of October is synonymous with a visit to downtown Pontiac’s Erebus Haunted Attraction. 2025 will be its first year without Ed Terebus, who opened the popular haunt 25 years ago with his brother, Jim. Ed died suddenly on June 7 at the age of 62. Steve Shipp first met […]
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Hour Detroit Top Doc Amanda Kupstas, M.D. on Breast Health
Every year Hour Detroit publishes a list of the Top Doctors in metro Detroit. This year’s list contains more than 1000 physicians in 94 specialties — all nominated by their peers. With so many doctors at our fingertips we’d be remiss not to share some of their insights with you. Below is one of the […]
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Michigan Medicine Opening New Facility on Site of Former Kmart HQ
The site of the former Kmart world headquarters in Troy will soon see new life as the Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Troy Center for Specialty Care, a state-of-the-art medical center slated to open in the spring of 2027. The facility is partly the result of a $40 million donation to Michigan Medicine on behalf of […]
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Hour Detroit Top Doc Yusuke Terasaki, M.D. on Heart Health
Every year Hour Detroit publishes a list of the Top Doctors in metro Detroit. This year’s list contains more than 1000 physicians in 94 specialties — all nominated by their peers. With so many doctors at our fingertips we’d be remiss not to share some of their insights with you. Below is one of the […]
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The Way It Was: 1980, Baker’s Keyboard Lounge, & the Detroit Jazz Festival
Within a year after his parents opened a small restaurant at 20510 Livernois Ave. in Detroit in 1934, Clarence Baker, then in his mid-20s, installed a $35 upright piano and hired a local pianist to help boost business. When the young jazz enthusiast took over running the business in 1939 following his father’s stroke, he […]
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Hour Detroit Top Doc Megan Pesch, M.D. on Pediatric Viruses
Every year Hour Detroit publishes a list of the Top Doctors in metro Detroit. This year’s list contains more than 1000 physicians in 94 specialties — all nominated by their peers. With so many doctors at our fingertips we’d be remiss not to share some of their insights with you. Below is one of the […]
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Hour Detroit Top Doc Dana Zakalik, M.D. on Gene Editing
Dana Zakalik, M.D. // Photograph by Matt LaVere Every year Hour Detroit publishes a list of the Top Doctors in metro Detroit. This year’s list contains more than 1000 physicians in 94 specialties — all nominated by their peers. With so many doctors at our fingertips we’d be remiss not to share some of their […]
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Little Village: A Guide to the Art & Architecture of a Detroit Gem
Earlier this year, Time magazine named a Detroit venue as one of the world’s greatest places to visit. The magazine is known for including places that are both well known (like Paris’s Notre-Dame, also on this year’s list) and little known, but Motown’s nod went to a place that we’ve found most locals know little […]
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Paddy Lynch: A Lover and Preserver of Iconic Detroit Properties
Should Paddy Lynch decide to update his business cards anytime soon, what job title should go beneath his name? Developer? “Yes, I know some people have described me as a real estate developer, but I really don’t think that’s the case,” the Birmingham native muses. “I’m really not developing much at all.” Preservationist? “Yeah, I […]
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Hour Detroit Top Doc Jeffrey Zonder, M.D. on Myeloma and Amyloidosis
Every year Hour Detroit publishes a list of the Top Doctors in metro Detroit. This year’s list contains more than 1000 physicians in 94 specialties — all nominated by their peers. With so many doctors at our fingertips we’d be remiss not to share some of their insights with you. Below is one of the […]
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Cheers to Traverse City Beer Week
Respect the craft. Connect with friends and family. Celebrate everything else. Don’t miss TC Beer Week 2025.
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Editor’s Letter: Hour Detroit Top Docs 2025
The questions I am asked most by readers always begin with the same six words: “How do you come up with …?” And what follows is almost always about a list. Best of Detroit, Best Dressed, and this month’s cover feature: Top Doctors. Each of these lists comes together in a different way: Best of […]
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Hour Detroit Top Doc Monique Swain, M.D. on Fertility Preservation for Breast Cancer Patients
Every year Hour Detroit publishes a list of the Top Doctors in metro Detroit. This year’s list contains more than 1000 physicians in 94 specialties — all nominated by their peers. With so many doctors at our fingertips we’d be remiss not to share some of their insights with you. Below is one of the […]
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Restaurant Review: At Anano’s in Farmington Hills
MY FORMER HOME is Los Angeles. And in Southern California, the late, great Jonathan Gold was regarded as a saint. He was a vivid writer, a voracious eater, and a true appreciator of culture and cookery, turning over every stone in LA County to find where it lived. Gold was a champion of hole-in-the-wall restaurants, […]
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Hour Detroit Top Doc Mohammed Najeeb Al Hallak, M.D. on Pancreatic Cancer Treatments
Every year Hour Detroit publishes a list of the Top Doctors in metro Detroit. This year’s list contains more than 1000 physicians in 94 specialties — all nominated by their peers. With so many doctors at our fingertips we’d be remiss not to share some of their insights with you. Below is one of the […]
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Meet David Crain: One of Metro Detroit’s Most Beloved Personal Shoppers
Building Relationships — both with his team and his clientele — is a critical part of David Crain’s success as a personal shopper at Saks Fifth Avenue at the Somerset Collection. It’s a career he built from the ground up, moving to metro Detroit from a rural town called Corunna (located between Flint and […]
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Hour Detroit Top Doc Christina Shanti, M.D. on How to Support Your Child Undergoing Surgery
Every year Hour Detroit publishes a list of the Top Doctors in metro Detroit. This year’s list contains more than 1000 physicians in 94 specialties — all nominated by their peers. With so many doctors at our fingertips we’d be remiss not to share some of their insights with you. Below is one of the […]
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Home-Like Living, Family-Like Care
Heavenly Comfort AFC: Proud recipient of the Best of Senior Care – Assisted Living Hour 2025, where every resident is part of the family.
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Detroit’s Iconic Wellness Oasis: The Westin Book Cadillac
Settle into sanctuary at The Westin Book Cadillac Detroit where historic elegance meets modern wellness. Escape downtown stress, nourish your body, and revel in culinary delight.
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Kathleen McGovern Studio of Interior Design Takes on a Grosse Pointe Park Library/Game Room
When beginning to renovate their home, the first thing one Grosse Pointe Park couple wanted to do was create a library/ game room/cocktail bar. With busy careers (she’s an emergency room doctor, and he’s an engineer with his own company), the design-loving duo sensed they would need help to pull it all together. Not that […]
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Tips for the Best Bar Experience in Downtown Detroit Before a Game or Concert
Detroit is lucky. We’ve had a long history of phenomenal sports teams, never mind the occasional decades-long slump. We’re also the only city in North America with all of its major sports venues in a concentrated area downtown: The Lions, Tigers, Pistons, and Red Wings all play within a few blocks of one another. Add […]
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Looking Back on Detroit Pistons Covers of Hour Detroit
We’ve had several Bad Boys and great players on our starting lineup. Here are some of our favorite covers featuring Detroit Pistons players. May 2004 Ten years after he retired from the NBA, Bill Laimbeer, head coach of the WNBA championship-winning Detroit Shock, talks about coaching women and girls (his daughter’s teams) — and his […]
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Celebrating the 50th Season of George Blaha, Legendary Voice of the Detroit Pistons
On Oct. 23, 1976, at Cobo Arena, 32-year-old George Blaha completed his first play-by-play calls for the Detroit Pistons as the team lost the home opener to the Washington Bullets 98-97. The night before, President Gerald Ford and Democratic challenger Jimmy Carter had held their third presidential debate. A half-century later, Blaha will, remarkably, […]
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Stratford Is for Theater Lovers: A Weekend Trip to Canada’s Renowned Cultural Haven
Bury me in the public square in Stratford, Ontario! Is that too dramatic? That might be because I’m still buzzing from my second trip to this adorable, picturesque town, where everything is built around live theater — down to its name: Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. The Avon River flows through Ontario’s Stratford, […]
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Biodynamic Wines: The Future of Wine that Looks to the Past
Spend time perusing the shelves of your local wine shop, and you’re likely to encounter the term “biodynamic.” But what does it mean, and why is the century-old farming philosophy behind it suddenly making a resurgence at vineyards and wine bars around the world? Biodynamic farming is rooted in the teachings of Austrian philosopher Rudolf […]
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How a Former Michigan Crime Reporter Turned His Beat into a Book
Though many writers’ first books of fiction are thinly veiled autobiographies, Whitmore Lake-based journalist John Counts drew inspiration for Bear County, Michigan from what he’d heard while sitting in courtrooms, working as a crime reporter. “It’s just the material that you’re using,” Counts says. “Like, if you were a sculptor, you’d be using clay. These […]
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Meet Lila Shea: Metro Detroit’s Teenage Children’s Book Author
Following her own credo, “Only good can come of this,” 12-year-old Lila Shea sat down with her iPad and wrote a children’s book. In one hour. Today, at age 17, she’s a published author. Her book, Little Lola’s Beautiful Mess, was published in April by Palmetto Publishing — and a lot of good is coming […]
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How to Make The Apparatus Room’s Pan-Seared Scallops
Ingredients Scallops 1 pound scallops 4 1/4 cups water 1/2 cup kosher salt Cherry tomatoes Butter Fresh-picked herbs, such as basil, mint, fennel, dill, or chives Annatto Oil 1/2 cup neutral oil 4 tablespoons round annatto seed 1 1/2 tablespoons smoked paprika Fermented Corn 2 ears corn, shucked Salt Cantaloupe Curry 1/2 cup neutral oil […]
