The Few Records has been heating up the local music scene this last year with funky up n' comer Will Sessions, and modern classicists New Music Detroit. Help celebrate the label's one-year anniversary with techno legend Carl Craig (pictured) this Saturday at the Majestic.

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As the French say, "Gratitude is the heart's memory." 

Metromode will be taking next week off to celebrate Thanksgiving. We hope our readers enjoy time with their families, friends, football, and good food. Not necessarily in that order. We'll be back December 3rd!

A veteran of both Wall Street and Silicon Valley, Terry Cross is WSU's first Entrepreneurial Executive in Residence. Metromode sits down with him to get his thoughts on economic reinvention and what lessons Michigan can take from the coasts when it comes to investment and transformation.

Long gone are the business card swap meets at the local Howard Johnson's. Welcome to the new millennium, where entrepreneurs, CEOs, creatives, and climbers Tweetup for drinks. On almost any day of the week you can find young, professional Metro Detroiters getting together to hang out. Cards and ties are optional.

Pho shops and Vietnamese businesses are popping up in Madison Heights like dandelions. What gives? Metromode looks into why the unlikely stretch between John R and Dequindre is turning into Metro Detroit's de facto Little Vietnam.

Creative director, former engineering student, and esteemed doodler, Tom Helland has merged his professional life and favorite pastime into an unending stream of inspiration. You might even say it's made him the success he is today. Next time the boss thinks your impromptu jots and sketches are a sign of inattention send him this article.

When times get tough people start looking for a reason to laugh. No one knows this better than comedy club veteran Mark Ridley, who's been busting the guts of Metro Detroiters for more than 20 years. And even in though credit is tight and the economy tighter, he's decided to renovate his storied Royal Oak Comedy Castle.

In Ann Arbor a buyout doesn't always mean a sellout. Even though innovative startups like Fry, Healthmedia, and T/J Technologies have been snapped up by larger out-of-state companies, they have decided to stay in the city that birthed them.