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DONATE NOW: PONYRIDE NEEDS FUNDS TO COMPLETE RESTORATIONS FOR NEW BUSINESSES

Ponyride is in their final days of their crowdfunding campaign to reach their  $30,000 goal by this Friday and they need your help. Located in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood, Ponyride has businesses and organizations waiting to move into their shared office space. Money raised from the crowdfunding campaign will be used to finish the renovations at Ponyride.  Specifically, these funds will go […]

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LIBRARY STREET COLLECTIVE CURATES INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS FOR NEW DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT

Library Street Collective, a Detroit-based fine art gallery specializing in modern + contemporary art, is excited to announce a global arts project in the heart of downtown Detroit.  Over the course of the next few months, Library Street Collective will host more than two dozen artists from around the world to participate in this exciting […]

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SHINOLA BRINGS DETROIT TO NYC WITH THE OPENING OF FLAGSHIP IN TRIBECA

Detroit-based brand Shinola recently opened their second storefront, the first being in their hometown, and the later in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood.  Shinola prides itself on its artisan goods; they produce watches, bicycles, and leather products all made in the USA, their watches and bicycles are hand-crafted and assembled in Detroit with a trained local team of […]

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NYC GUNS + BUTTER RESTAURANT POPS UP IN DETROIT AT PONYRIDE

Guns + Butter is a pop-up restaurant and dining experience with an edge, it’s name is derived from the economic theory. Craig Lieckfelt is the man behind the what some might call a ‘Foodie dream.’  All last month, Guns + Butter offered a prix fixe meal that harmonized fresh and local ingredients; everything including the paper […]

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COLLISION WORKS KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN FOR FIRST CONTAINER STARTS TODAY

Collision Works is an innovative boutique hotel, co-working lab, and public event space growing in the Eastern Market district of Detroit. The concept comes from Shel Kimen, founder of  Collision Works; she left New York City in 2011 for Detroit with an idea to build a 36-room boutique-style hotel built of re-purposed shipping containers.  They just launched their ambitious Kickstarter […]

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ART DETROIT NOW HOSTS ‘3RD THURSDAY’ TO ENCOURAGE GALLERY VISITS

Art Detroit Now is hosting 3rd Thursday, a new monthly art gallery ‘crawl’ in Detroit which as the name implies, takes place the third Thursday of every month. There are 30 galleries participating for this exciting new addition to the art scene. Hour Detroit Magazine recently interviewed Milana Duthie, who is the managing director of […]

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PONYRIDE LOOKS AT THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THE FORECLOSURE

  Pony Ride is a recently developed project from Detroit’s media favorite and PLAYGROUND DETROIT Supervisor Phillip Cooley. He aqcuired the building- previously an unused, old office space- in Corktown for a steal and transformed it into a community space. The diverse group of tenants now occupying the 30,000 sq. ft space literally pay dimes per square-foot to rent there, enabling […]

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DON’T MISS THIS NYC EVENT: BEYOND THE HIGH LINE, “TRANSFORMING DETROIT”

Tonight at the NYC Highline in Chelsea: Phillip Cooley and Faye Alexander Nelson speak about public space development in Detroit. A presentation and discussion of new and revived public spaces in Detroit like the International Riverfront and Riverwalk, the Dequindre Cut, Roosevelt Park, and Ponyride. Faye Alexander Nelson of the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy, and Phillip […]

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SIGNAL RETURN LETTERPRESS ENCOURAGES ART & EDUCATION IN EASTERN MARKET

Signal Return is a storefront letterpress print shop in Eastern Market, Detroit led by Director, Ryan Schirmang. The main focus of Signal Return is art, followed by education, culture, and community outreach. What Ryan explained, is that “the backbone of the space are the learning workshops they offer. So many people spend so much time on […]

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VACANT WOODWARD WINDOWS NOW OCCUPIED WITH ART FROM STREET CULTURE MASH X 323EAST GALLERY

In the heart of Downtown Detroit runs Woodward Avenue: it cuts from the downtown riverfront through the city of Detroit, through various suburbs, extending to Pontiac. Before it turns into a round-a-bout at Campus Martius downtown near Hart Plaza, there are blocks of various vacant storefronts, which used to surround the once glamourous HUDSON’S department store (which has […]

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IS BUSHWICK THE NEXT ART GALLERY DISTRICT IN NYC? VIA NEW YORK TIMES

According to this New York Times article it seems so. Of course the NY Times doesn’t have to tell PLAYGROUND DETROIT. The majority of the NYC-based team resides in the industrial ‘up and coming’ neighborhood, Bushwick. We can testify to the multiplying galleries in the surrounding nearby area, in addition to new bars and restaurants popping […]

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REWIND: READ ‘DETROITISM’ BY JOHN PATRICK LEARY IF YOU HAVEN’T

John Patrick Leary’s essay, “Detroitism” explores the most common rhetoric that Detroit as a city and a symbol, often falls victim to—in addition to critically analyzing—the validity of ‘ruin porn’ which attempts to document but often exploits its history. Leary is a American literature teacher at Wayne State University in Detroit. The essay explores in-depth the shallowness of popular ruin pornographers, […]

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