March 4, 2011
Tweet Detroit is a beautiful city. Not in a potpourri-for-the-eyes type of way. But in the same way you appreciate the wrinkles in Grandma’s smile kind-of-way. She’s had better days, but she’s battle-tested. She’s mine. Don’t get it twisted: The city’s soul is mercilessly strapped to its manufacturing roots, its spine. For years, generations even, ...
July 15, 2010
Tweet Go to any major city in the United States and you will see a plethora of women in all stages of undress. And not that many men. It’s true that the club culture has catered to P.Y.T.s for as long as dancing and nightlife have existed. Thursdays, around the whole United States, is generally ...
January 14, 2010
Tweet Things have changed quite a bit since the mid-1980s when a certain Heathcliffe Huxtable used to KRS-ONE on TV. For Middle America, it was a chance to see the African-American family like never before: Healthy, vibrant, articulate, silly, normal. But looking back at it, and considering the Great Recession we find ourselves in now, ...