Photographing Detroit: A Conversation with Detroit Photographer Bruce Giffin
Images of Detroit have exploded in the media in recent years. Enamored with the urban decay they’ve seen covered in just about every major media outlet, tourists from around the world flock to the city...
View Article12 Michigan Moms Who Made Their Mark (or Raised Kids Who Did)
From former dancer turned First Lady Betty Ford, to Manon Rheaume—the only woman to ever play in the NHL—to Stevie Wonder’s mom Lula Mae Hardaway, who negotiated Stevie’s first record contract,...
View ArticleDream Cars of Futures Past: 10 Concept Cars From the Motor City You Wish You Had
Head on out to Detroit’s famed Woodward Avenue this week, and you “dream cruisers” are sure to see some of best muscle the Motor City ever produced. But you won’t find many of the most inventive and...
View ArticleOn The Road With Bob Seger: 1969-1974
It seems everyone who grew up in metro Detroit during the 1960′s has a story about seeing Bob Seger play at their local high school dance. Some of those stories are even true: Seger did do a fair...
View ArticleIn Photos: On The Road With Bob Seger 1969-1974
If a picture’s worth a thousand words, then Tom Weschler’s 4,500 photographs of Bob Seger must tell one hell of a story. From 1969 to 1974, Weschler traveled with Seger as his road manager and band...
View ArticleMichigan Winter: In Photos
We Michiganders need winter. She makes us feel important, bold, vulnerable, resilient. She’s the reason why we can count ourselves as some of the hardier souls in America. And, in a good year, she can...
View ArticleBelle Isle: In Photos
Among locals, the unofficial slogan for Detroit’s island oasis is “Belle Isle is for Everyone.” But a more accurate mantra, if you take into account the past several hundred years of the island’s...
View ArticleThe Ford Mustang: In Photos
The Ford Mustang marks its 50th birthday next year, but for a car this wrapped up in the American story, we thought we’d start the party a year early. It was 49 years ago this month that the first...
View ArticleWartime Michigan: In Photos
The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II Did you know that the real Rosie the Riveter was from Inkster, Michigan? Or that an infantry unit of Michigan soldiers fought a covert war against the...
View ArticleDave Jordano’s Detroit
HAKEEM IN HIS MEDITATION ROOM, DETROIT, 2012. // PHOTO BY DAVE JORDANO In all the photography that’s come out of Detroit in the past few years, we’ve yet to find someone like photographer Dave Jordano....
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