The talent of Dearborn’s young photographers betrays their age
Photography is about more than taking pictures. That’s why the Arab American National Museum’s Sura Arts Academy focuses on things outside a viewfinder
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Q&A: Dearborn’s Black Box Gallery owner Ray Alcodray on embracing creativity and structure
You’d never guess Ray Alcodray was an engineer in a past life. Well, until you start asking the downtown Dearborn Black Box Gallery’s owner about the business model of running an art gallery. Then his love of processes is impossible to miss.
Dearborn has a wealth of youth programs to combat the ‘summer slide’
Just because it’s summer doesn’t mean Dearborn kids have an excuse to play Fortnite all day.
Dearborn’s Monroe business corridor owners see bright future
This piece is first in a series that looks at Dearborn’s commercial districts outside of its two downtowns.
FIRST does more than teach kids how to build robots, it prepares them for the future
Anna Munie says the most impressive thing about the FIRST Robotics World Championship wasn’t a robot piloted by a goldfish. It was how prepared for the working world the competitors already were. Munie is a resource planning analyst for Consumers Energy and a FIRST volunteer.
The future of mobility in Detroit is more fixed route transit
For all the talk of the future of mobility taking root in Detroit, 91 percent of trips are still completed in private cars.
Dearborn’s Andalus Mediterranean Grill thrives thanks to word of mouth
Abbas Ahmad can’t deny the good fortune he’s had in West Dearborn. That's why he's growing elsewhere in the community.
Artificial intelligence is no match for the real thing when it comes to autonomous driving
Fatal car crashes are a rarity, but there are still 40,000 of them every year in the United States alone.
Prepping the runway for Israeli mobility startups in southeast Michigan
PlanetM and the Israel Innovation Authority want to collaborate some of Israel’s one-of-a-kind startup culture to Michigan. According to the 2018 Global Startup Ecosystem Report, Tel Aviv has the highest number of startups per capita in the world and the highest GDP investment in research and development.
When Alexa rides shotgun the possibilities are ‘endless’
If you know where to look, you’ll spot Amazon’s Alexa at NAIAS this week. Except at Cobo Center the digital assistant isn’t shutting off the kitchen lights, it’s identifying why your check engine light turned on.
