BY: MIROSLAV TOMOSKI Once the home of Motown legends like Aretha Franklin, Detroit’s North End has had a rough ride since the days when the city was known as “the Paris of the West”. As the auto industry declined this bustling…
The Republican Party is drowning in its own vanity and leaving the people of Flint behind
BY: M. TOMOSKI The frost on the windshield had finally cleared when the car ahead stopped at an overpass on the edge of Greektown. A hand reached out through the driver’s window and offered a coat to the young man…
Street artists are turning America’s most dangerous city into the world’s greatest open-air gallery
BY: M. TOMOSKI As the crowds emerge from Comerica Park and move onto Woodward Ave. clad in orange and blue they pour out of the city and back to the suburbs leaving behind the rusted arteries of what was once…
Science proves it could actually be your city that is making you depressed
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS A paper co-authored by academics at the University of British Columbia and Harvard has discovered the happiest and least happy cities in the United States. Joshua Gottlieb and his co-authors Edward Glaeser and Oren Ziv also discovered…
Detroit is decomposing: The beauty in decay (Photos)
BY: RYAN BOLTON He stood alone with a mammoth building looming behind him. There were puddles at his feet. The sky was slowly clearing up as beams of sun pierced through languid clouds. His dark sunglasses, well-kept mustache and military-grade buzzcut…