January 2011
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Motor City Lovin'
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner (does 22 days actually count as just around the corner??) Erin Rose over at Positive Detroit and Ashley Woods have 99 Reasons to Fall In Love with Detroit in the upcoming Valentine’s Day edition of Real Detroit Weekly.
A few of the many highlights from the list:
1. We have an NBA Hall of Famer as our Mayor. Cincinnati had Jerry Springer....
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A thought on Detroitism and the ruin porn
It’s a bit of a lengthy read but well worth it.
John Patrick Leary of Guernica Magazine explores what has recently become somewhat of a hot topic in regards to the increased amount of attention Detroit has seen the past few years.
More specifically, Leary focuses his argument on what has been dubbed “ruin porn” - otherwise known as the hundreds of thousands of pictures taken of...
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The State News: Getting revved up
MSU students travel to the auto show for networking opportunities
By Josh Sidorowicz
The State News
Photo by Josh Sidorowicz/The State News
When mechanical engineering junior Scott Smith arrived at the 2011 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, he wasn’t there solely to gawk at cars.
He was there to forge his career path.
Every January more than half a million people descend on...
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Detroit 2011: Best of edition
Need a reason to come to Detroit this year?!?! Well don’t look too hard because CBS Detroit put together a list of 15 things worth looking forward to in 2011 in the D.
Among the highlight:
2011 North American International Auto Show
Kid Rock’s 40th Birthday Ford Field concert
Movement: Detroit Electronic Movement Festival
Woodward Dream Cruise
Check out the full list here!
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MSU grad, entrepreneur and Detroit advocate
…otherwise known as the trifecta in my book.
Thanks to @CharlieCurve (i.e. Charlie Wollborg of Curve Detroit) on Twitter, I came across a great interview with Henry Balanon on MetroMode. Balanon, who I had the opportunity to meet with a few times over the summer during my business and marketing internship, is not only one of the most likable guys around but is also the founder of his own...
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A thought on why I blog Detroit
It has been quite awhile, too long in fact, since I have been able to sit down and actually write something for this dear blog of mine. But nonetheless, no matter how busy I get with school and work and family and friends and, and, and……
No matter what, the city of Detroit and the people working endlessly to make it a better place are always on my mind. Naturally, not too long ago, I got to...
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Kid Rock in Real Detroit Weekly
Local rocker and self-proclaimed badass (though no one is arguing) Kid Rock graces this cover of this week’s Real Detroit Weekly available now online and on newsstands. Inside the Kid sits down to discuss, among other things, his evolution as an artist, his ascension into stardom and his fast-approaching milestone 40th birthday.
There’s also a great and entertaining section called...
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The #Backchannel Back Story
What is the #backchannel exactly? And how’d it come to be? This video does a pretty good job of summing up one of the biggest steps forward in television news broadcasting since, well, the television. Channel 7’s own Stephen Clark explains:
Stephen Clark’s #Backchannel from Tim Davis on Vimeo.