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Nina Misuraca Ignaczak

Nina Misuraca Ignaczak is Metromode's managing editor. Follow her on Twitter @ninaignaczak or on Instagram at ninaignaczak.

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Marie McCormick
Friends of the Rouge ED Marie McCormick on how the nonprofit is coping with the pandemic

Local nonprofits like Detroit’s Friends of the Rouge provide a way for residents to get involved in helping their local environment. FOTR executive director Marie McCormick shares how the 34-year old organization is coping financially while innovating new ways to help connect people with their watershed.

Civitas Coffee
Hazel Park moves with the times

Hazel Park may be the next Hazel Park, but it's not going to be the same as it was.

GRACE DETROIT
Will Hazel Park become Metro Detroit’s next artists’ enclave?

To grow an art scene, you need two things: affordable space and other artists. Hazel Park has both.

Dive bar still life at The Kozy Lounge in Hazel Park.
Hazel Park’s venerable ‘dive bars’ reimagine themselves in a changing city

Here's how three gritty old bars in Hazel Park are moving with the times while holding onto the regulars.

Doug's Delights
Doug’s Delights builds students’ job skills, adds street life to Hazel Park

Metromode popped up at Hazel Park's revitalized old-school ice cream spot to find out how it's become a center of the community and why customers love it.

Hazel Park Art Fair
Hazel Park’s annual art fair showcases local creative talent

Metromode visited the annual Hazel Park Art Fair in Green Acres Park, where we met a range of artists who live in or near the city. Here's who we met and what we saw.

VIDEO: How Sterling Heights’ manufacturing workforce diversified

Michigan's manufacturing workforce in Sterling Heights was once dominated by Eastern Europeans. Now, it's a melting pot of nationalities from all over the globe.Here's how it happened.

Laura Eagin. Photo by Anita Expert.
Q&A: Web expert Laura Eagin on growing up in Metro Detroit’s gig economy

This piece is the first of an occasional series on how Metro Detroit’s gig economy has evolved over the past decade, and where it’s going.

Listening tour: 7 things Metromode learned about Dearborn’s entrepreneurial ecosystem

As Midtown and Downtown Detroit boom, what strategies do Metro Detroit's suburban communities have to grow their entrepreneurial ecosystems, both in cooperation with Detroit and independently? Metromode is on tour to find out.

Fillmore 13 sets out to manufacture and distribute craft beers from Pontiac with $100,000 grant

Funds from Flagstar Bank will support the acquisition of canning and bottling materials as well as the hiring of 2 new staff to assist with distribution.

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