Issue 87, Volume 1
Week of 10/2/08
48 Hours In Dearborn
By: Melinda Clynes,
10/2/2008
Got a friend coming in for the weekend? What other Metro Detroit community can boast that it's got two downtowns?From the morning call to prayer to a picnic at Greenfield Village to a midnight martini at the Double Olive, Dearborn is a destination unto itself. (
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Chris Johnston's Loving Touch
By: Ryan Allen,
10/2/2008
Someday Ferndale will erect a statue to Chris Johnston. Or better yet, replace the police officer in Woodward Avenue's Crow's Nest with his likeness. Entrepreneur, bar owner, restaurateur, rocker and driving force behind downtown's resurgence, only one question remains: When does he sleep? (
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Metromode Radio: Making Electricity Underwater
By: Chris McCarus,
10/2/2008
In the race to produce cheaper renewable energy, one U-M professor is looking to harness electricity from the Detroit River using experimental cylinders. Chris McCarus has the story on Metromode Radio's latest podcast. (
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FilterD
By: metromode,
9/25/2008
Late Iraqi musician Munir Bashir, who made the pear-shaped, string instrument called the oud famous, is given a proper tribute this week in Ann Arbor by the University Musical Society.
Find out what else is music to our ears inside
FilterD, your weekly guide to Arts + Culture in the Metro D.
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Blog/Chris Ramos & Jennifer Harlan
Chris Ramos decided to buy a bus. He wanted to get people from the suburbs into Detroit. Then he got the idea to run the bus on biodiesel; might as well help save the planet, right? So he quit his job, hired Jennifer Harlan and started
The Night Move. It wasn't as simple as it sounds. Chris and Jennifer will be blogging about starting a business in a recession, the obstacles they face and what they've learned so far. (
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Video/Welcome To Birmingham!
Birmingham has embraced the idea of smart growth, creating a 24-hour downtown that caters to all ages, tastes, trends, and incomes. Just a hop, skip and jump from Detroit, this inner ring suburb boasts the kind of walkable urban core other cities strive for and rarely achieve. Join resident Mark Nikita on Metromode's quick video tour. (
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