I’ve had a lot of great experiences in Detroit during my time here, and I’m sure I’ll continue to keep this trend going, but I wanted to quickly highlight my time spent at the corner pub – The Woodbridge Pub.
The Woodbridge Pub can be best described as an analogy, it’s the ‘hang out’ spot that […]
Having spent several months in Detroit, driving to and from various locations around the city to meet with project partners and non-profit organizations, I’ve had plenty of time to think about the topography passing by me during my commutes. It can take roughly anywhere from twenty to twenty five minutes to drive from one end […]
By now, we’ve all heard about Detroit’s walking man, a man with an average twenty-or-so mile commute. By many American’s standards, such a commute is a non-issue, but only considered average when traveling by car. When his story made its way into the news feeds of millions of social media users, an outpouring of support […]
I’ve not been in many major U.S. cities. Most of my life was spent in the Metro-Detroit area, save for a few trips over to Canada, and a couple of highway-bound routes through Ohio. And yet, while I’ve increased my exposure to a couple of more capitals over the past several years, I’d define my […]
Often times, I’ll find myself thinking about how Detroit’s history unwound itself into such unfortunate circumstances, particularly during project challenges that encourage us to navigate the city’s more disparate areas. What follows is generally an evening of me digging around on the internet for more information, regardless of how many times I’ve done it before, […]
Cinema Detroit is a movie theater in Detroit, the only truly independent theater in the city. You’re be able to come to this conclusion by yourself, should you become aware of the theater’s presence during a drive past the empty lot or a short stroll near an open window on the street-side face of the […]
The holiday season is meant to bring friends, family and many times people of no affiliation together, and it’s done in a relatively intuitive way – by taking advantage of what I like to call ‘universal human unifiers.’ Food, music, gifts; these are understood by everyone, primarily because they can be enjoyed by everyone, and […]
Detroit was founded in 1701 with a population of 100 French soldiers, farmers and merchants. The first women arrived the next year. Some time later, the city became a magnet for immigrants, particularly before World War I, when over one-third of its population was composed of immigrants. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 47.53% of […]
Many modern-day entrepreneurs are inspired to take action because they want to become agents of change while simultaneously supporting themselves. This is, in its most basic form, the idea of a ‘social enterprise.’ To start a businesses with the ability to provide for the community, and ideally help change the systems that have for so […]
Many of us already know that our minds seem to instinctively latch on to patterns. You’ve probably read it somewhere before; your mind is a pattern-seeking machine finding and making inferences where they probably don’t exist.
Patterns allows us to learn. They grant us a degree, however small it might be, of foresight. Understandably then, there […]