So, let’s get this straight. I haven’t been sick all year, but with two days left of break I get a sore throat? Which means my tickets to the Fillmore for New Years may be in vain, and the 6 lectures on Wednesday will be worse than I expected?
Awesome.
I just skyped from Detroit with my Grandma on the Cape, while she was on her iPad. I love technology. And she loves my new apartment!
When I said I was fine to drive with the windows down, I assumed we were going through the city and not doing 80mph on the highway!
Sunset from my apartment. Detroit, Michigan.
“At dusk, the dining room sparkles with the panorama of the Detroit River. Pink light from the sunset bounces off glass buildings on the Windsor side, sending the rosy glow shimmering back across the water to Detroit. The red Caesars casino sign dominates the Windsor night skyline, as commercial boats slowly ply upriver toward Belle Isle…
There’s a progression from past to present in all aspects of Joe Muer Seafood — not just in the food. The atmospherics at Muer take their cue from the past, but also blend comfortably and authentically with the modern.
In so many American cities, the pattern has been that once an icon like Joe Muer Seafood disappears it becomes part of the past, and that’s it. So it says admirable and even remarkable things about the people willing to take a risk like this, and about the city, as well, when we see a figure of Muer’s stature return. The signs are good. They point up, instead of down.
Every big city needs a superb fish house. And in Detroit, we’ve got ours back. Joe Muer Seafood is a place to make everyone proud.”
Read it all.
by Tom Walsh, Detroit Free Press
General Motors CEO Dan Akerson and his wife, Karin Akerson, will donate $1 million today to kick-start a new Habitat for Humanity initiative called Leaders to ReBuild Detroit, aimed at stabilizing the MorningSide neighborhood on the city’s east side.
An event today at the J.E. Clark Preparatory Academy will launch the $25-million effort to aid at least 500 MorningSide families by 2014. The Akersons will be there, joined by Roy Roberts, the emergency manager for Detroit Public Schools, and city and Habitat officials.
“All you have to do is drive around the city of Detroit and you can see the economic devastation,” Akerson told me in an interview this week. “The contrast between Grosse Pointe and MorningSide… is pretty dramatic. You look to the left and you see one world, and you look to the right— and in my humble opinion, it shouldn’t be that way in America, but it is.”
While large corporate foundations play a big role in addressing societal challenges , personal involvement is also a key catalyst for action, Akerson added. “To me, everything in life is personal. People need to see people stand up to it, not just institutions.”
Although the Akersons’ gift will focus on building and upgrading homes in Detroit’s MorningSide area, especially around the Clark and Robert Brown Academy elementary schools, it’s also part of statewide $225-million ReBuild Michigan Habitat for Humanity campaign in its early stages.
Read the full article here: http://www.freep.com/article/20120222/COL06/202220421?fb_ref=artsharetop&fb_source=home_oneline
Guardian Building, Detroit. Detroit has one of the best collections of art deco architecture in the world, and the Guardian Building might be its best example.
(via det-riot)
Looks like Chicago, right? Nope. Detroit.
absolutely breathtaking. the fox theatre, detroit.
and then I went to med school
