This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Wildfires in western and central Canada spread rapidly this week, with smoke sweeping into the Midwest and triggering air quality alerts in several states. For some, it was a reminder of last year’s smoky conditions.

If Memorial Day weekend’s Movement Music Festival isn’t your thing — or even if it is, but you’re really ambitious — then here’s another event for your consideration. An event called Novi BBQ Fest: Ribs & Whiskey is set to return to the Twelve Mile Crossing at Fountain Walk mall. The festival will feature more than a dozen pitmasters from the ...

As Memorial Day weekend approaches, techno heads are gearing up to set out for Detroit’s Hart Plaza for the annual Movement Music Festival, happening May 25-27. However, most know that the true essence of the celebration comes alive after hours. For those who want to keep the techno spirit alive beyond the festival, we’ve compiled a list of the best ...

It looks like Detroit City Football Club’s time at Hamtramck’s Keyworth Stadium could be coming to an end. The Motor City’s hit soccer team announced Thursday that it has acquired the site of the former Southwest Detroit Hospital at the corner of Michigan Avenue and 20th Street, with plans to build a new soccer-specific stadium to open by the 2027 ...

You may have woken up Thursday to the good news that Detroit’s population is rising for the first time since 1957, a time when white people began flocking to the suburbs. Between July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023, Detroit gained 1,852 residents, putting the city’s population at 633,366, according to U.S. Census estimates released Monday morning.

We’re excited to share that your local alt-weekly has once again been recognized among the city’s top journalists by the Society of Professional Journalists Detroit chapter, with one of our reporters winning three awards in the Print Class category. Metro Times investigative reporter Steve Neavling won second place for his cover story “Black ...

Detroit’s East African food truck Waka, a sister brand of the Baobab Fare restaurant in the New center area, just announced the establishment of a permanent location in Eastern Market, taking over the former beloved Russell Street Deli space. Waka initially launched during Detroit’s Noel Night celebration in 2022, serving as a street food offshoot of ...

Polarizing reporter and best-selling author Charlie LeDuff dodged a conviction for allegedly assaulting his wife in December after she refused to testify against him at a trial Tuesday. Judge Jaimie Powell Horowitz dismissed a misdemeanor charge of domestic violence in 45th District Court in Oak Park.

Lara Richli moved to Detroit from New York just a few years ago, but when she arrived in the city she saw a lack of infrared yoga and Pilates classes. So, she decided to open Hot Bones, a dual-concept hot yoga and pilates studio featuring a bone broth bar in the lobby, aiming to simplify wellness by bringing movement and nutrition under one roof. Hot Bones ...

It’s almost summertime in Michigan, which can only mean one thing: a tall, cold Oberon Ale served with a slice of orange is likely in your future. This year, Bell’s Brewery is adding new Oberon flavors into the mix. The Kalamazoo-based brewery announced three new editions of the popular beer on Wednesday, which it is offering as Oberon Sunshine Shandy ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Polish-born author Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) didn’t begin to speak English until he was 21 years old. At 25, his writing in that language was still stiff and stilted. Yet during the next 40-plus years, he employed his adopted tongue to write 19 novels, numerous short stories, and several other books.

June 28, 1976 The two boys, one Arab, one Black, hopped onboard the Cadillac-Harper and took their seats in back of the bus. Eddie had about a buck left in change.

Film still, work in progress. Eric Froh, b. 1986, has been a sculptor in Detroit for more than 15 years. Part of our 2024 Fiction Issue.

December 16, 2023. My wife, Rana, and our two daughters have gathered with dozens of others in Market Square Park in Cleveland for the demonstration, our first one as a family. It’s cold and windy, the gray sky fading into dusk.

“Waawiyaatanong: From The Ashes, She Rises” By Hadassah GreenSky Waawiyaatanong, where the curved shores meet, otherwise known as Detroit. This place has been a sacred meeting point since the start of this world.

Mixed media poem using ink brush pen and graphic type. Kamelya Omayma Youssef is a writer, teacher, literary worker, and author of A book with a hole in it (Wendy’s Subway 2022) and lives between metro Detroit and NYC. Part of our 2024 Fiction Issue.

following Lumumba’s assassination exploitation of the Congo went on undeterred by democratic facade

When presented with the theme “resistance across borders,” I reflected on the sometimes hopeless feeling I can have around resistance. How can I, someone so random and so far away, make a difference in a cause?

I hear the call of resistance echoing through the fissures of American cities’ cracked pavements as Black and Brown people march hand in hand against frequent police brutality, where hope’s concrete rose blooms amidst the ashes of hate. I hear that same call in Palestine when the same nation that trains American police burns a Palestinian ...

The pencil must be razor sharp or it’s too hard to push. The pen must be very sharp and fluid also, or it will be a mess. Not too fluid though, or it will be a mess.

“Bouquet of our Struggle” By Jenin Yaseen (sr7aneh) This piece consists of figures like Razan Al-Najjar, a paramedic that was murdered in Gaza during the Right of Return March, my great grandmother who dedicated her life towards tending our land in Palestine, and a resistance fighter. Flowers are not only beautiful but they’re symbolic, ...

Loose me to a white world canvas Gather up the coloring for the portrait of change

“The People United Will Never Be Defeated” by Dave Robberts Sometimes described as a Svengali of the Detroit art scene, Dave Roberts has been an active gallerist and artist in the city for more than four decades. His approach and media are ever evolving but always harkens back to his affiliation with the Abstract Realist group of the mid 1990s.

And when the Outers left there was so much space. We took to our parking lots, our downtown plazas. Some of us drank their wine and sat in their cafes without fear or the cold blue watch.