Featured Stories
Nicole Rupersburg
Thursday, November 01, 2012
What's next for Metro Detroit eateries? Where can you find the best local dining scene? If you can't ask the guy who was just voted Michigan's "Chef Of The Year" who can you ask?
Walter Wasacz
Thursday, November 01, 2012
Not to be missed, if possible, the Royal Drummers and Dancers of Burundi bring rhythm and sound to Detroit's Music Hall for the Performing Arts. Get all the details, and coverage of Metro Detroit's arts and culture beat in FilterD.
Natalie Burg
Thursday, November 01, 2012
Sometimes fast growing doesn't mean huge. In Rochester Hills a pair of companies with less than 50 employees have made the list of Michigan's top 100 fastest growing firms... repeatedly. Are they new fangled start-ups? Nope. Both have been around for decades.
Lauren Bigelow
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Has the investment community's Ground Zero moved from New York and Palo Alto to Detroit? Quite possibly. Lauren Bigelow, CEO of the Growth Capital Network, gives budding entrepreneurs a how-to on approaching financiers coming from around the country to the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition in Detroit next month.
Walter Wasacz
Thursday, October 25, 2012
The Michigan Brewers Guild is back with its 4th annual Detroit Fall Beer Festival at Eastern Market. Get all the crafty details in FilterD.
Patrick Dunn
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Architecture can catalyze a neighborhood or change the way we think about our community. It can be inspiring, iconic, or even controversial. So which buildings rate as game-changers in Metro Detroit? We asked a quartet of prominent local architects to select twelve buildings worth paying attention to.
Walter Wasacz
Thursday, October 18, 2012
The Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Festival features bands on porches, a studio crawl and a chance to navigate the streets of arguably Michigan's most walkable city on foot. Get all the details inside FilterD.
Natalie Burg
Thursday, October 18, 2012
With daily newspapers and national magazines taking to the web just what qualifies as a blog anymore? While the labels may be fuzzy, there's little doubt that citizen journalists and local bloggers have stepped in to fill whatever gaps the traditional media has missed.
Kim North Shine
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Last week Affirmations help celebrate National Coming Out Day with an event that introduced Metro Detroit to the next generation of LGBT leadership. The room was packed, the speeches and stories were inspirational, and Metromode's Kim North Shine was there to take it all in.
Megan O'Connell
Thursday, October 11, 2012
In an economy increasingly tilted towards service businesses, it's Detroit's artisans who are leaving a tangible imprint on the city's culture. Megan O'Connell, founder of Salt & Cedar Letterpress, writes about the unconventional funding of her press, mapping objects and stories, and the press as a cultural cache.
Walter Wasacz
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Free event Thursday at Ferndale's Affirmations Community Center celebrates local LGBT leaders of color. Get all the details inside FilterD.
Kim North Shine
Thursday, October 11, 2012
John and Elizabeth Bornoty are on a mission: To change people's opinions about salad. And it seems to be working. As the founders and owners of Grosse Pointe Woods' The Big Salad, the couple is building a fast-growing franchise that puts produce front and center as a healthy meal.
metromode staff
Thursday, October 04, 2012
The new DLECTRICITY festival of light-based art illuminates Detroit's Midtown night sky this weekend. Check out FilterD for all the high-flying details.
Natalie Burg
Thursday, October 04, 2012
More than just hookah bars and falafel joints, Metro Detroit's Arab-American economy has become a vital and increasingly intertwined part of our community. From halal pizzerias to hijab boutiques, a new generation of business owners is helping to blur our cultural and geographic lines.
Patrick Dunn
Thursday, October 04, 2012
Let's face it, pumping gas is a drag. Not just the price, but the physical act of standing around watching the little LCD monitor add more debt to your credit card. Well, one man's boredom is another man's business opportunity. Enter GSTV, a successful Birmingham company that wants to put a TV at every gas pump.