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DetroitWiki
The DetroitWiki Project is a volunteer-driven effort to collect information about Detroit that anybody can freely edit. The idea is to create a space where different things that make the City can live -- historical records, current topics, meeting plans, biographies. This is a place to make a page for something that wouldn't otherwise be online.
detroit  michigan  wiki  tfyl 
december 2009 by bkerr
FT.com / Weekend / Reportage - The travails of Detroit
The old song: "Detroit is no longer the nation’s worst-case scenario, but on its leading edge."
detroit  michigan 
march 2009 by bkerr
The Onion | GM Covered With Giant Tarp Until It Has Money To Work On Cars Again
"According to Wagoner, the automotive giant spent its last $18 on cinder blocks to help secure the tarp."
detroit  delta  city  (s_y-so-srs) 
november 2008 by bkerr
detroitblog | Oasis
"Eight years ago, Detroiter Tom Milano, 60, wanted to show his eastside neighbors a glimpse of the beautiful side of nature by creating a thick pond garden in the front yard of his old brick bungalow home. The display was so well received that creating gardens for others turned into his unusual job."
detroit  garden  bullshitshed 
august 2008 by bkerr
IMDB | Bill Bonds
"Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) .... TV Newscaster"
detroit  tv  planet  of  the  apes  escape-from  via:revgeorge 
june 2008 by bkerr
Sweet Juniper! | It will rise from the ashes
The old Detroit Public Schools Book Depository: "Pallet after pallet of mid-1980s Houghton-Mifflin textbooks, still unwrapped in their original packaging, seem more telling of our failures than any vacant edifice."
detroit  detritus  michigan  rustbelt  book  preservation  entropy  archive  big-here 
january 2008 by bkerr
ArborWiki | Speed Line
Detroit -- "What time is it?" Ypsilanti -- "Ten minutes to twelve." Detroit -- "Let us go to dinner." Ypsilanti -- "Aye, aye."
arborwiki  speed-line  detroit  ypsilanti  telegraph  lunch  word-lines  word-falling  hailed-by-lightning  bright-stars-of-the-west  time  annihilated  party-like-it's-184x 
november 2007 by bkerr
Freep | Buyouts offered at Free Press, Detroit News
Each time this happens, shit like this is always said: "The cuts should not affect news coverage, Ellwood said. 'Something we’re not going to change is our commitment to providing the right amount of coverage,' she said."
detroit  michigan  dirty-media  newspapers  journalism  reduction 
october 2007 by bkerr
Vacuum | tigerstadiumsale.com -- Detroit Tiger Stadium auction is open
"Lot: 1 : At The Corner Of Trumbull And Michigan Stands This Sign. The Old English D On Top And Tiger Stadium sign Below The Winning Bidder On This Item Will Be Responsible For All Removal Costs Involved."
detroit  tigers  stadium  auction  stick-around-michigan 
september 2007 by bkerr
AATA offers service to Detroit Metro Airport - Latest from the Ann Arbor News
"The Ann Arbor Transportation Authority has teamed up with Michigan Flyer, a private bus company, to offer a new bus service from Ann Arbor to Detroit Metro Airport -- as well as to Jackson and East Lansing."
aata  annarbor  ypsilanti  detroit  lansing  jackson  $10  airport 
september 2007 by bkerr
Freep | Walking the whole way up Woodward
"The avenue from Detroit to Pontiac is paved with 26 miles of history -- and it's celebrating its 200th anniversary."
detroit  pontiac  woodward  michigan  walking  urban  ranger  walk-away-from-the-sea  via:vielmetti 
august 2007 by bkerr
Detroit premiere of film "The Holy Modal Rounders... Bound to Lose" at Detroit Film Center (Sunday, August 5, 2007) - Upcoming
Movie starts 7PM @ DFC: "The film chronicles the bizarre forty year history of The Holy Modal Rounders, a 1960's Greenwich Village psychedelic folk duo (sort of like 'A Mighty Wind on Amphetamines')."
detroit  film  events  movies  holy-modal-rounders  psychedelic  folk  music  documentary  fun 
august 2007 by bkerr
Memoranda from The Director of Operations
"Welcome to Maproom Systems, Earth's newest and final historical organization."
ypsilanti  detroit  weblogs  image-lines  word-lines 
july 2007 by bkerr
Detroit Guerrilla Queer Bar
"...is a traveling gay bar, of sorts. It was created as an alternative to the traditional Detroit gay bar and circuit party venues."
detroit  michigan  micro  ad-hoc  events  don't-clone-colonize 
may 2007 by bkerr
Shorpy | Rush Hour, Detroit: 1942
"Traffic at 5:30 on 2nd Avenue at West Grand Boulevard, Detroit. July 1942 ... The picture was taken from the 28-story Fisher Building (green copper roof) across the street." Count the streetcars.
detroit  detritus  michigan  images  past  public  transportation 
april 2007 by bkerr
Shorpy | The Motor City: 1942
"Looking south along Woodward Avenue from the Maccabees Building at Warren Avenue, with downtown Detroit in the distance. July 1942 ... Note the yellow streetcars -- at least four."
detroit  detritus  michigan  images  past  public  transportation 
april 2007 by bkerr
Freep | Live from the Megabus
"I hear a scream. It is the bridal party having fun. I have not slept yet." Reader commentary: "Wow, Free Press, this is really incredible journalism."
detroit  annarbor  chicago  megabus  public  transportation  journalism  failures  via:vielmetti 
april 2007 by bkerr
90% Crud | Detroit Roundup
George on Rep. Walberg's quote: "What's great about this is that the analogy is arguing that 80% of Iraq and Detroit are 'reasonably under control' which means the guy is using Detroit as a point somewhere on the line between IEDs and Broadway musicals."
detroit  detritus  michigan  rustbelt  real-estate  future  combat  employee  compensation  etc 
march 2007 by bkerr
Refresh Detroit
"3.7 designs" guy, didn't get the name, publicizing this weblog.
a2b3  detroit  annarbor  web  standards  network 
march 2007 by bkerr
Common Monkeyflower | Praying for structural change
"It's once again time for Ann Arbor's biennial budget process, and the news is bleak. If Ann Arbor's bringing up the rear of the pack [of cash-strapped Michigan cities], the pack's a lot tighter than I'd thought."
annarbor  ypsilanti  detroit  michigan  cities  budget 
march 2007 by bkerr
John Manoogian III | Why I Left
Interesting meditation on networking in SE Michigan (skim over the Richard Florida crap)
detroit  rustbelt  via:deusx 
january 2007 by bkerr
Detroit News | Take train to work? Few jobs near line
"Only a fraction of the people who live on a planned rapid transit line connecting Detroit to Ann Arbor could likely take it to and from work each day because jobs in the area are so spread out, an analysis of commuting patterns shows."
annarbor  detroit  public  transportation  trains  via:vielmetti 
january 2007 by bkerr
Mannequin fetishist could get life - Yahoo! News
"A man who has a history of smashing windows to indulge his fetish for female mannequins could draw a long prison term for his latest arrest."
detroit  weird  crime  fetish  via:deusx 
january 2007 by bkerr
Transportation Riders United (TRU)
"The mission of Transporation Riders United (TRU) is to improve transportation access and mobility in Greater Detroit. TRU is incorporated in Michigan as a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization."
annarbor  detroit  michigan  public  transportation  nonprofit 
november 2006 by bkerr
Upcoming.org | Rapid Transit Meet-up at AADLfreespace (Tuesday, November 28, 2006)
"Come to a meet-up with Transportation Riders United (TRU), a non-profit group working to improve public transit in southeast Michigan."
annarbor  detroit  michigan  rapid  public  transportation 
november 2006 by bkerr
beermapping.com - detroit beer map
More of a sprawl booze map -- extends all the way out to our fair & reality-surrounded bubble of Ann Arbor.
detroit  annarbor  booze  google  maps  via:briancors 
october 2006 by bkerr
The Goodspeed Update | Michigan Plans ‘Aerotropolis’
Rob reports on student projects from a January 2006 design exercise in developments re: activity around DTW and Willow Run airports. Aficionados of RoboCop will note the similarity of several designs to "Delta City."
michigan  detroit  airport  architecture  urban  planning  future 
september 2006 by bkerr
World Can't Wait | Drive Out the Bush Regime - Event Listings
October 5 - Day of Mass Resistance, events in Detroit, Kalamazoo, and Lansing (and elsewhere in your area).
politics  collective  action  protest  events  detroit 
september 2006 by bkerr
Model D | Detroit is Flat
Lou Glazer's take on a "flat" / post-industrial / whatever Michigan economy.
michigan  detroit  economics  mobile  future  narrative  design 
june 2006 by bkerr
NPower Michigan Education | Volunteers Needed for Tech Inventory Day
April 28, 2006, help orgs inventory their tech stuff w/ TechAtlas.
annarbor  detroit  nonprofit  tech  party  stlc  si  cicumich 
april 2006 by bkerr
Internet Archive | Detroit: City on the Move (1965)
"Promotional film made for the City of Detroit, an unsuccessful bidder for the Olympic Games. With views of city highways, automobile manufacturing, a diverse population, and social activities, all shot prior to the city's economic decline."
urban  advertising  detroit  past  via:revgeorge 
february 2006 by bkerr
ypsi~dixit | Trains and Trolleys of Ann Arbor
Drafty version of an article about the network of "interurban" trains and streetcars which used to run through the area.
annarbor  detroit  michigan  urban  transportation  past  via:vielmetti 
october 2005 by bkerr
Detroit Docs
Documentary film festival, November 2-7.
detroit  annarbor  documentary  film 
october 2005 by bkerr
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