Yum Village Will Bring The Fire In Detroit’s Takeout Dining Scene This Winter
Experience all three dimensions of Yum Village– and then get you some jerk chicken.
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Business & Economics
The Record Store Slash Venue: A Quaint, Necessary Reminder of Pre-COVID Times
In St. Paul, after imaging Afro Deli, I stopped into Eclipse Records, a mainstay of the Twin Cities retail music
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Detroit Fairgrounds Site: Alternatives to Permanent, Monumentally Bad Decisions
The State Fairgrounds site is centrally located, and it’s huge. Too huge to make some monumentally bad decisions about permanently turning it into a Shelby Township-style strip mall.
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Postcards from Des Moines: A Trip To RAYGUN
Returning from Minneapolis and on a roundabout, triangular route to Dubuque, I stopped into RAYGUN, the Midwest’s favorite t-shirt shop,
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Trillion-Dollar Company: “Have You Considered Doing A Free Internship?”
Someone from one of the world’s largest corporations suggested that maybe my best bet is to do an unpaid internship. We’re still doing that in 2020?
Read More2020 Took No Prisoners; Didn’t Even Spare Clearance Sales
COVID has sweeping effects on retail, leading to questions about why we spend time in stores like Marshalls in the first place.
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Detroit’s Far East: The Warren Corridor is Headed For A Makeover
Detroit’s East Warren corridor is getting some love– from the city’s Strategic Neighborhood Fund, and from entrepreneur’s attracted by a broad range of opportunity and affordable real estate.
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I’m Getting An MBA Because You People Are Wrong
A tweet about Kamala Harris highlights how woefully ignorant many people are about financial markets and how this harms us in the quest for formulating
meaningful policy, change, and discourse.
Blood on the Louis Vuitton: Is Looting In Chicago A Referendum On The Zeitgeist?
As Chicago struggles with an epidemic of gun violence, one Gold Coast resident is worried that a looting spree last night on the Magnificent Mile will be used as a pretext for violent crackdowns on the Black Lives Matter movement. This is clearly unrelated to Black Lives Matter. But are not both the looting and the civil rights movement loud referenda on the current state of class relations in America?
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WOCCS Resiliency Summit: Women of Color in Sustainability
Nat attended a few amazing sessions at the Collective Resiliency Virtual Summit, organized by the Women of Color Collective in Sustainability, a co-creation of POCACITO fellow Jordana Vasquez.
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