Tag: detroit
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Hastensandchastens
For reasons that defy geography, Detroit is in the Eastern time zone, which is great in the summer, with our 10 PM sunsets. But darkness often descends around 3:30 in the winter, and we’re all wishing we were home in front of a fireplace, not at the office in front of spreadsheets. This was the…
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Brilliance
It’s a story replete with incredible failures, and almost laughable. A few folks living in the suburbs, tending towards the end of successful careers, decide it’s time to “fix” what’s “wrong” in the big city they border. They develop a plan of their own, then foist it on some unsuspecting mayor or community leader, only…
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Hamtramck
Hamtramck is a Detroit enclave with Polish roots, a part of town where, in the day, neighbors would scrub their sidewalks together until you could eat off them. It’s a wonderfully diverse neighborhood now, still hosting a Paczki run each Lenten season, named after the Polish donut with a zillion calories you eat on Fat…
Six O'Clock Sky 