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Comment by Kevin C Dormant on December 8, 2011 at 6:50am

Just saw this article in the Chicago Tribune. Any concerns?

Comment by globalguy on March 8, 2011 at 10:05am

Detroit Needs Robocop Now More than Ever: Why a proposed statue of the tragic hero is a good idea for the Motor City.

 

More here.

Comment by globalguy on January 28, 2011 at 9:47am

Given what's happening in Egypt, the a post to the BBC reports:

Jim, from the US writes: "I have a friend in Dearborn, home to one of the largest Muslim communities in North America. I've been told police are on alert for possible rioting this evening and this weekend. Local TV stations in Detroit, US have summoned-in off-duty news staff for possible coverage of rioting there."

Comment by globalguy on January 27, 2011 at 8:42am

And more (this time about the supposed Detroit supermarket deficit) still from Sweet Juniper, a very cool Detroit-based blog: He Flogs Dead Horses, Doesn't He?

Comment by globalguy on January 26, 2011 at 9:53am

And a fascinating counterpoint offered up by Guernica's online mag, Detroitism:

Red Dawn 2, the forthcoming sequel to the nineteen eighties B-movie about a Soviet occupation of America, was shot last year in downtown Detroit. A long-abandoned modernist skyscraper coincidentally undergoing demolition served as a backdrop for battle scenes between American guerrillas and the Communist occupiers, now Chinese. For weeks, Chinese propaganda posters fluttered in the foreground of the half-destroyed office building, whose jagged entrails were visible through the holes opened by the wrecking ball. A pedestrian routinely bumped into Asian-American extras with Michigan accents and fake Kalashnikovs, while a parking garage played the role of a Communist police station. It was an uncanny spectacle: the very real rubble of the Motor City’s industrial economy serving as the movie backdrop for post-industrial America’s paranoid fantasies of national victimization. What made it even weirder was the fact that the film’s producers just left the posters hanging when they packed up. A red-and-yellow poster on that same parking garage assured us for weeks afterward that our new rulers were “here to help.”

Comment by Andy Staub on August 30, 2010 at 1:13pm

Hey Chi-friends! The Detroit Criticak Mass has ben great this Summer,
Here is a video from last Fridays ride. Enjoy!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh4tKVOXhNQ

Comment by Joel on June 21, 2010 at 2:36pm

Has anyone done much road riding in SW Michigan? I was thinking of staying in South Haven and doing some day trips out to the wineries, chocolate places, etc. that are scattered about.

Comment by Joe TV on May 30, 2010 at 7:25pm

Comment by Joe TV on May 26, 2010 at 2:19pm

If you're in the D this weekend for Movement/DEMF whatever, you might be interested in a bike tour that takes you to the sights of Detroit's Techno History.

http://www.movement.us/?p=1813

Comment by Joe TV on March 28, 2010 at 5:08pm

What is BTT? Bicycle Transit Team? Bitchin' Trike Trails? Blowing Through Teamsters?

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