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Riding around Detroit's derelict Packard plant on a homemade dirt-bike
A reader writes, "In late October, we shot some video in Detroit's abandoned Packard plant. The reasons included, to test a motorcycle I built, and also to practice flying our drone. This is not a...
View ArticleHistoric "mixfilm" in Detroit this weekend
Archivist Rick Prelinger sez, "I'm bringing a new archival 'mixfilm' on Detroit's rich history to the beautifully restored, vintage-1927 Detroit Film Theatre this weekend. This is the fourth of my...
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Michigan's Penguicon will focus on crypto and privacy this year
Scott sez, "Privacy and security has been a huge problem since the Snowden revelations, and midwest SF/open source software convention Penguicon [ed: near Detroit!] wants to be part of the solution....
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SF predicting the present: novel anticipated Detroit water crisis
Paul Di Filippo describes Ben Parzybok's new novel, Sherwood Nation: "The book is obviously as headline-friendly as the Ferguson riots, inequality debates, Occupy protests and climate change reports;...
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NZ's National Party sued by Eminem for copyright infringement
The National Party was instrumental in passing the harsh "strict liability" NZ copyright laws that offer no relief from liability, even for people who buy licenses that turn out to have been offered...
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WATCH: Detroit ruin porn in reverse - David Whitney Building
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3jHyIS3Luo The Detroit News has an uplifting story about the David Whitney Building, newly renovated in time for its centennial celebration. Think reverse ruin porn....
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Detroit News documents the decimation of one city block
Over the holiday weekend, The Detroit News published a remarkable analysis of what happened in Detroit's foreclosure meltdown. One block on Greensboro Street saw 33 of 38 homes go into mortgage or tax...
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WATCH: Drone-eye view of a Detroit hotel demolition
Detroit's historic Park Avenue Hotel was demolished on July 11, and YouTuber TheGadgetGuy1 caught all the action via drone. (more…)
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Incredible Science Machine team seeks Rube Goldberg record with chain...
Chain reaction artists and domino builders have collaborated to create what they hope will go on record as the largest chain reaction in history. (more…)
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Gorgeous nerdy textiles
Detroit's Cyberoptix make hundreds of beautiful, nerdy textiles: linen library due-date scarves (also available as silk ties); bandana print neckties; chemical warfare ties; civil defense med-kit...
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Man claims he don't take no orders from no women
He admits he's from Mars. An unpleasant gentleman whose flatbed truck dumped a bunch of wood all over a residential street tells Detroit 7 Action News he don't take no orders from no women. Good to...
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Yes, Trump just said "titties" (Update: sadly no)
At a rally in Detroit, Donald Trump said "titties" while attempting to say "cities." (more…)
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Watch formerly homeless people make jackets that double as sleeping bags
The Empowerment Plan is a Detroit-based organization that creates manufacturing jobs making EMPWR coats that double as sleeping bags: Via designboom: the empowerment plan is a detroit-based, nonprofit...
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This little library in Detroit looks like Doctor Who's TARDIS
We have little free libraries where I live in California but none as are half as cool as this one in Detroit, Michigan. Dan Zemke spotted an empty lot across the street from his house on Detroit's...
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The juggalos, class struggle, and the left
The juggalos are marching on DC this weekend, to protest the FBI's classification of the music fandom/subculture as a dangerous gang, placing it on a watchlist alongside the Aryan Nation. (more…)
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More than 5,000 Detroiters sing Allee Willis' love song to the city
If there's one thing I know about Detroit-born multimedia artist Allee Willis, it's that she's unstoppable. And not knowing how to do something hasn't keep her from pursuing her dreams and becoming...
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Poor Detroit neighborhoods, abandoned by telcos and the FCC, are rolling out...
40% of Detroiters have no internet access. The Detroit Community Technology Project and similar projects across the city are skipping over the telcos altogether and wiring up their own mesh broadband...
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These guitars are made from former Detroit landmarks
For better or worse, Motorcity ain't what it used to be. But, having survived bankruptcy, corruption and bad luck that nearly broke its back, Detroit is making a slow comeback. While most of the city's...
View ArticleCourt case seeks to clarify that photographers don't need permission to...
Mercedes has asked a court to verify that a commercial photo of one of its cars driving down a street in Detroit does not violate the copyright of the artists who painted a public mural visible in the...
View ArticleDetroit charter school salutatorians use their graduation speeches to condemn...
Zainab Altalaqani and Tuhfa Kasem both graduated from Detroit's Universal Academy this year, and to honor their academic achievements, school administrators named them co-salutatorians, which meant...
View Article"Just don't have a face": what it's like to opt-out of US airports'"optional"...
Privacy advocate Allie Funk was surprised to learn that her Delta flight out of Detroit airport would use facial recognition scans for boarding; Funk knew that these systems were supposed to be "opt...
View ArticleDetroit's police commissioner arrested at commissioners' meeting for...
Alan Wendt writes, "Detroit commissioners arrested the police commissioner Willie Burton during a public meeting because he wouldn't stop talking about the secret meetings where the commission decided...
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Man urinates on other passenger on red-eye flight
When you're a pastor from North Carolina taking a late night flight leaving Las Vegas, consider urinating in the airplane bathroom and not on your fellow passenger while she sleeps. Alicia Beverly of...
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Sammy Davis Jr.'s Tonight Show love song to a city
Frank Sinatra sang for New York and twice for Chicago, Tony Bennett crooned for San Francisco but it wasn't until 1984 that Detroit had any kind of high-profiler singing an anthem about it. "Hello,...
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Detroit's 3500 lb. RoboCop statue seeks a new home
A decade later, the circus of absurdity that is the internet has turned a tweet about a city statue honoring RoboCop into a reality. "Philadelphia has a statue of Rocky & Robocop would kick Rocky's...
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Pizzeria owner paints thick blue line on street after customers get unfair...
When the city of Detroit obnoxiously gave $150 tickets to drivers who unwittingly parked in unmarked handicap spots, a pizzeria owner across the street thought it was outrageous. The problem was, there...
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The MC5 are back to kick out more jams, motherf**er.
Wayne Kramer and his proto-punk band the MC5 have returned in a new form to kick out more jams, motherfucker. The group will release their first new music in 50 years and kick off a US tour in May. A...
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Watch: Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 audition for Motown in 1968
In 1968, a 9-year-old Michael Jackson and his brothers auditioned for Motown Records in Detroit, which led to the group's signing. Although Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. was not present, other...
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Faulty facial recognition lands pregnant woman in jail for carjacking
Porcha Woodruff, a 32-year-old Black woman, was eight months pregnant when she was falsely arrested in February by Detroit police for robbery and carjacking, reports The New York Times. Police claimed...
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