Every year around Halloween weekend, downtown Detroit becomes a fantasy land. For three and a half days, East Jefferson Avenue is overrun with superheroes, fairies, samurai, alchemists, pirates and ninjas...

Every year around Halloween weekend, downtown Detroit becomes a fantasy land. For three and a half days, East Jefferson Avenue is overrun with superheroes, fairies, samurai, alchemists, pirates and ninjas...

The first time I actually articulated that I was a tourist, I was in Detroit’s Fisher Building. As I stared up at the beautifully intricate tiled ceiling in the bank lobby, I was approached by a friendly...

As a city in an abnormal position, Detroit is beginning to find abnormal (and wonderful) solutions. It is not only its financial structure that puts Detroit in a different category of dwelling, but also...

Imagine a near-future Detroit in which we had a summer bringing in tens of thousands of festival goers to see a mixture of extreme sports, film and music events. While this seems like a far fetched dream,...