July 31: Detroit City Futbol League commissioner Sean Mann has been at Belle Isle since 9 a.m. marking the pitches and setting up goals. The activities have become part of his summer routine since the first game kicked off May 17. Today is tournament day: the inaugural Copa Detroit will determine the champion of...
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Mary J. Blige paused seven songs into her set at Chene Park last Wednesday to acknowledge her near-rapturous fans. “I’m taking it all in,” she panted. “There’s so much love out here.” She looked about to cry, overwhelmed by either exhaustion or emotion. To buoy her, the crowd began to chant, “Go Mary, Go...
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The Georgia Street Community Collective is fighting a continuous, low-grade battle with city bureaucracy to purchase seven lots and preserve its community garden.
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Baseball, right-sizing, entrepreneurs and Eminem
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In the the Children's Social Forum and Youth Space, young folks are coming together.
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At 10:30 a.m., before the first workshop sessions are scheduled to start, the second United States Social Forum is slowly coming together.
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The video for Insane Clown Posse's "Miracles" has garnered more than 2.2 million YouTube views, a Saturday Night Live Parody (below) and a firestorm of responses — some positive, some negative, mostly, "What the fuck??"
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Henrietta Epstein, Detroit poet and avid supporter of the literary arts in Michigan, died June 5, at the age of 80. Born in 1930, Epstein grew up on Normandy Street in the Martin Park neighborhood of Detroit, and attended Wayne State University in the late 1940s. She became involved in poetry and writing circles,...
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