I finally saw Michael Moore’s new movie Sicko and I think it’s a movie that everyone in America should go out and see. And if you’re among the Americans who are struggling severely with health-care costs that I’m sure the director won’t mind if you have to resort to downloading the movie from the Internet. […]
It’s More Than Meets The Eye For GM And Its 4 ‘Transformers’
“You’re going to see these cars as the heroes. You’re not going to see the other actors,” said Dino Bernacchi, GM’s associate director of branded entertainment. “These cars are the stars, literally, in the movie.”
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The word “Camaro” is mentioned a handful of times by […]
Don’t forget that CityFest (previously known as TasteFest) starts tomorrow!
Comerica CityFest is a five-day outdoor food and culture rich entertainment street festival in Detroit’s historic New Center over each Fourth of July weekend. The event exemplifies city life, (what it is and what it could be), in one of Detroit’s fastest growing 24-hour districts.
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The International Metropolis blog which features lots of photos from both the Windsor and Detroit side of the Detroit River has recently had a lot of historical pictures from downtown Windsor from the 1940s and 1950s such as above. Back then Windsor, like Detroit and many other older cities had a lively downtown retail […]
Kids run through the multi-spout fountain on the big public plaza between General Motors’ headquarters and the river’s edge. There’s music. People on the many benches and ledges eat lunch, read, make phone calls and type briskly.Purposeful walkers, sightseers and strollers mix all along the RiverWalk from downstream (west) of Joe Louis Arena to the […]
A publication called fDi (shorthand for “foreign direct investment”), produced bimonthly by the Financial Times of London, recently released its biannual “Cities of the Future: North America” report. The publication invites cities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico to compete. Each is judged on economic potential, cost-effectiveness, human resources, quality of life, infrastructure, business-friendliness, and […]
The view of downtown Detroit from the soon to come Book-Cadillac condos with the Windsor skyline in the back.
The review of BG Korean Restaurant in the last issue of Metro Times got my mouth watering and my mind thinking and my fingers holding invisible steel Korean chopsticks. I salivate at the thought of bangan, the various small side dishes they always bring out at korean restaurants except for casual diners, and kimchi […]