{"id":13003,"date":"2015-05-26T12:31:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T12:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/courtneyhardebeck\/?p=123"},"modified":"2015-05-26T12:31:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T12:31:44","slug":"recent-discoveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/recent-discoveries\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Discoveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have lived in Detroit for\u00a0 8 months now.\u00a0 It has been a lot\u00a0of fun and I\u00a0have been to some\u00a0really cool\u00a0places.\u00a0 However, this past month I stumbled upon some new treasures in the city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>West Village fun<\/strong>\u00a0| Recently my mom and two of my sisters came to visit me in Detroit.\u00a0 We ended up exploring\u00a0in West Village, which I had\u00a0not spent much time before.\u00a0 The four of us\u00a0started at <strong>Parker Street Market<\/strong> where we got some local honey, then stopped for cold brew coffee at <strong>Red Hook<\/strong>,\u00a0looked through records at <strong>Paramita Sound<\/strong>, grabbed\u00a0a smoothie at <strong>Vegan Soul<\/strong> and then\u00a0ate some pie at Sister Pie.\u00a0 Not only did these shops have a lot to offer in terms of products, but the people working at each of them were kind and helpful.\u00a0 It was a perfect afternoon!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/courtneyhardebeck\/files\/2015\/05\/West-Village-Day.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-126\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/courtneyhardebeck\/files\/2015\/05\/West-Village-Day-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"West Village Day\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UFO Factory<\/strong>\u00a0| My co-worker (and friend) Alyssa and I carpool to our office.\u00a0 For the past 8 months, we have driven by a retro-looking building off of Michigan Avenue in Corktown called UFO Factory.\u00a0 A few weeks ago we finally decided to check it out.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad we did!\u00a0 The atmosphere is eclectic, classic\u00a0and relaxed.\u00a0 The bartender was kind and conversational.\u00a0 We had a drink and some complimentary popcorn that was accompanied by &#8220;fun&#8221; seasoning, including some sort of Curry Powder.\u00a0 We also found out that the UFO Factory does weekly movie screenings, which we definitely want to check out!\u00a0 They are in the process of developing a food menu that will feature gourmet hot-dogs (which I am looking forward to!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/courtneyhardebeck\/files\/2015\/05\/UFO-Factory.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-125\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/courtneyhardebeck\/files\/2015\/05\/UFO-Factory-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"UFO Factory\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit |<\/strong>\u00a0My Challenge Detroit co-fellows and I recently had the opportunity to see the Mosaic Youth Theatre present The Tempest at the Detroit Film Theatre.\u00a0 After the performance we got to talk with the Executive Director, Rick Sperling.\u00a0 It was an incredible performance, filled with a lot of passion and professionalism.\u00a0 I definitely recommend getting on their website and looking for their next performance.\u00a0 Beyond the entertainment of their productions, the Mosaic Youth Theatre has a lot of heart.\u00a0 giving youth from schools across Metro-Detroit a safe and fun space to be creative.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/courtneyhardebeck\/files\/2015\/05\/Mosaic-Theatre.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-128\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/courtneyhardebeck\/files\/2015\/05\/Mosaic-Theatre-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mosaic Theatre\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have lived in Detroit for\u00a0 8 months now.\u00a0 It has been a lot\u00a0of fun and I\u00a0have been to some\u00a0really cool\u00a0places.\u00a0 However, this past month I stumbled upon some new treasures in the city. West Village fun\u00a0| Recently my mom and two of my sisters came to visit me in Detroit.\u00a0 We ended up exploring\u00a0in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}