| New in Midtown: Cheap but good dining, from crepes to dim sum |
Seems like all over the neighborhood, there's more new stuff in Midtown: New bars. Dim sum. Crepes. Upscale street fare. Midtown is always one-upping itself.
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| Model D TV: Virgil H. Carr Arts Center |
In this webisode, we visit a new downtown space for teaching, producing, rehearsing and exhibiting the arts -- the Arts League of Michigan's Virgil H. Carr Cultural Arts Center.
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| Next Model D Speaker Series Dec. 16: Green Initiatives in Detroit |
Model D teams up with MOCAD to look at the realities of going green in Detroit and some of the
greenest projects at the next speaker series on Dec. 16. Sign up now.
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| Reflecting Detroit in the (new) media: Speaker series follow up and download |
Panelists at our Speaker Series event last week urged Detroiters to tell their own stories. Here's a recap, or download the MP3 and listen to the discussion for yourself.
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| Selling Detroit as a creative haven |
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| Kauffman CEO says entrepreneurs can revive city |
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| Tweet of the Week |
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| Vice President Joe Biden grabs a coney at Lafayette |
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| Redesigning Detroit with what it already has |
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| Can Detroit be a tech-hub? |
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| O Street chimes in on her participation in last weeks Model D speaker series |
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| Make Detroit's Funk Night the best party in America ... again |
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| Soap starts from 'Days of Our Lives' reaches out to Detroit |
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| Artists taking an artistic approach to Detroit's mortgage crisis |
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| Muslims given strong role in Hamtramck after election |
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| Dutch artist searches Detroit, finds inspiration and 'Icons of Hope' |
Dutch artist Diederick Kraaijeveld has scoured the city's scraps of wood to find pieces to bring to life his vision for Detroit 'Icons of Hope.' He wants his art to be part of rebuilding the city he's become so enamored of.
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| A forest of trees coming to Jefferson |
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| Detroit's 'Creative Corridor' will need strong business relationships to work |
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| The Nation: Detroit elects openly gay City Council President |
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| Tweet of the Week: The votes are in |
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| One TechTown entrepreneur's biodiesel dreams for Detroit |
Detroit will be the center of the biofuel industry, if TechTown entrepreneur Oliver Baer and associates at Clean Emission Fluids have their say.
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| Sign up for the Speaker Series this Thursday: Detroit in the media |
The media is obsessed with Detroit lately. Are they getting our best side? From Time's Assignment Detroit to local blogs, we'll ask the people doing the telling
at the next Speaker Series, this Thursday, Nov. 12. Sign up to be part of the
conversation.
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| Photo essay: MOCAD's You're Gonna Die! |
It's no secret: MOCAD's New Wave puts on one of the city's best Halloween bashes. Model D photographer Marvin Shaouni was at the party to catch the dancing, DJs, and costumes.
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| Dear Detroit: New look, new features, same great Model D |
Welcome to the new Model D. Take a look around. Sample the merchandise. We're happy to serve you.
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| Model D TV: Wayne State's new engineering building |
Wayne State's new million engineering center blends traditional learning with business development opportunities. We check out the space in this week's video.
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| Belle Isle: How to manage Detroit's island beauty |
Especially since Mayor Bing brought it up recently, Detroiters are weighing in on what to do with Belle Isle. A gate with a toll? Make it a Metropark? Leave it be? What's a city with limited resources but a lot of love for its beautiful island to do?
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| Run Detroit Run: More Races Bringing More Faces to Detroit |
Detroit's big running events -- and even those that have participants braving chilly weather -- are growing. But organizers say success isn't just in the numbers.
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| FilterD: This Week's Picks |
 Hauntingly beautiful music will fill the DIA's Diego Rivera Court this Friday when Christen Lien performs original compositions with her viola, which she plays through a looping machine and other electronic effects. Call it sonic art moderne in one of the world's most distinctive settings. Get all the lovely details inside FilterD, where you'll find lots more to do in the week ahead in metro Detroit. Click here for more information.
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| Quelque Chose, Irgendwas, Qualcosa, Something Detroit: Foreign Journalists Invade the City |
 How do we know Detroit's the new media darling? Time Magazine is staked out in The Villages, every day the web lights up with a new Detroit story, and, above all, someone made a drinking game about it. So Model D sought out a
collection of journalists -- all from across the pond -- who came here to get the big story. Here's what they found. Click here for more information.
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| Model D TV: Kales Building |
 When the Kales Building was rehabbed into apartments downtown, it took the vacant Kresge HQ and transformed a corner of the city. Model D TV takes a look inside. Click here for more information.
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