during the summer of 2025 i photographed models in detroit bathrooms. i shot abt 15+ rolls of film and in 15 bathrooms total I think. the inspo came from the insta page “detroitbathrooms”...
tearyeyed
July 20, 2026
fashion, culture - detroit city
On April 28, 2026, RATHAUS Films announced three Detroit-based filmmakers as the recipients of the 2026 Rathaus Film Grant. This funding opportunity was started by the company in 2023 as a way to support independent projects by local producers...
A Spotlight on the Winners
May 23, 2026
film, culture - detroit city
Trinosophes is one of the greatest cafes known to man. A vacuous space tastefully filled with the type of postmodern art I love (giant jigsaw pieces and a hi-fi soundsystem)...
Michael Hirsch
May 22, 2026
culture, columns - detroit city
In 2023, the team launched the eugenie Designer Grant in an effort to elevate local creators through financial and professional support. This grant is a natural extension of their commitment to nurturing a sustainable future through conscious design, seeking to support early or emerging designers from Detroit who work in the fashion, textile, and accessory industries. Panelists look for applicants who have a clear vision, professional experience, and a compelling brand story...
A Spotlight on the Winners
May 19, 2026
fashion, culture - detroit city
Fritz would tell me about a Vietnamese restaurant that was cooking food out of a dilapidated Coney. I would half-listen because I was a snob who thought he knew more than anybody. When I returned home, we went and it became one of the more important moments of my entire life. Immediately below getting cancelled and a few notches above my bar mitzvah...
Michael Hirsch
April 20, 2026
culture, columns - detroit city
On Joseph Campau there’s a restaurant we all know and love, with kinda-f luorescent lighting, murals of the mother country painted on the walls, zhug that can strip paint, toum that will ruin breath for the better part of a week…all perfectly delicious...
Michael Hirsch
March 20, 2026
culture, columns - detroit city
Driving rear wheel drive in a blizzard is an elite level of fun. You kind of just spin around fishtailing and pretending like it’s a movie. Except the stakes don’t exist because the roads are empty and I’m running from nobody...
Michael Hirsch
January 26, 2026
culture, columns - detroit city
I know Hunter House, Greene’s, Little Bros., and Telway; these are all staples in and around Detroit. They all look the same, built in the middle of the 20th century. White tile boxes with white tile interiors, usually some stools with chrome accents attached to the ground and the smell of grease and grilled onions giving olfactoringus to my nose.
Michael Hirsch
December 29, 2025
culture, columns - detroit city
Subgenre--Black Business, Mind Theirs: Christmas is not late, you are! But we got you covered with a shopping guide for those on CPT, shop local Black-businesses for your last-minute gifts that will really make someone smile!
Saybin Samone Roberson and Catie Goins
December 22, 2025
culture, columns - detroit city
Darting around the concourse after the first time out I spotted The Coop, an outpost serving up chicken tenders brought to you by the lovely people over at Tyson. How complicated could it be, eh? Chicken tenders are delicious and simple, just keep frying 'em up assembly line style and serving 'em out, right? No. Of course not. Things can’t be so simple.
Michael Hirsch
November 27, 2025
culture, columns - detroit city
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I’ve Friendzoned multiple Hinge matches just to have someone to get brunch with. So dining alone at Hamtramck’s Polish Village wasn’t something out of the ordinary. When I went down the basement stairs, I was skeptical, but immediately upon entering the dining room, I was converted. Twinkling lights and stained glass painted the room with a soothing bath of color. The notes of the Bill Evans Trio being played over the soundsystem dropped into the honey texture of the room like ice cubes plunking into a glass of Wiśniówka (Polish cherry liqueur)...
Michael Hirsch
October 30, 2025
culture, columns - detroit city
The first time I went to Louie’s Ham and Corned Beef was the summer going into freshman year of high school– and subsequently every weekend after that until I graduated. Due to some 8th grade delinquency issues, the courts ordered me to complete 40 hours of community service which my mother insisted I complete in their entirety at Tyree Guyton’s Heidelberg Project...
Michael Hirsch
September 29, 2025
culture, columns - detroit city
For anyone who has ever noticed the small old-time wooden hut during a casual stroll through Shed 4 of Eastern Market may have wondered what goes on inside. Maybe the window was closed to reveal a hand-painted clock by Tyree Guyton, but if it was open, you could see stacks of shoes spanning eras and trends, all waiting to be tended to by Moe Draper, the Detroit Boot Cobbler...
An Interview with Moe Draper
September 1, 2025
culture - detroit city
A small space with an even smaller menu, Chenin calls itself a “small wine bar” and that is as true as it gets. I doubt the place could fit more than 14 full-sized adults at a time and the fact that it doesn’t accept reservations means it maintains a frenetic friction that alludes to a bustling tabagie in Paris...
Michael Hirsch
August 28, 2025
culture, columns - detroit city
I can’t figure out what I want to say about this place. It was one of the first places I was craving in Detroit when I got back from 4 months of traveling across Asia and South America where I was eating some of the indisputably best street food in the world and I would safely put Gloria’s amongst their ranks...
Michael Hirsch
July 21, 2025
culture, columns - detroit city
The city is full of multi-talented ladies, and this photo series is dedicated to them all!
tearyeyed
December 30, 2024
fashion, culture - detroit city
Mr. Spotless celebrates it's fourth Halloween as Detroit's first haunted car wash. Here, Runner Magazine interviews Fathel Salha, who came up with the idea to start this spooky seasonal attraction at his family's buisness...
An Interview with Fathel Salha
October 23, 2024
culture - detroit city
Hamtramck, Michigan is the home of a few different ceramic studios, with the newest one being Porcelinen. Vanessa Beard has been working as a ceramicist for many years, officially starting her business in 2019, and opening a storefront and studio in 2022...
An interview with Vanessa Beard
August 26, 2024
art, culture - detroit city
When you show up at the coney, expect more than just a meal. Since the first Coney Island opened in 1917 and operated above a speakeasy downtown, Detroit’s working class has grown their reputation into a staple of food culture...
Amelia Gillis
September 11, 2023
culture - detroit city
With over 40 books in print, many of them sold out, there seems to be a vast array of different artists included in the Rotland Press collection, however there is a consistency in its visual and literary aesthetic, “mordant amusement and exuberant despair”...
An interview with Ryan Standfest
November 7, 2022
culture, literature - detroit city
‘A flower from home’ encourages discovery and learning through seasonal flora. Detroit-based foraging repurposes ephemera from the home garden, neighborhood alleys, abandoned lots, and landscaping debris to floral arrangements with sustainable and local material. Through a ‘gardener first’ floral mentality, native seedpods, fruits, foraged invasives, and lichen covered branches challenge what we consider beautiful.
Zoë Davis
August 8, 2022
culture - detroit city
The history of art in Detroit encompasses the story of C-Pop, an exhibition space that started when Michael Lask responded to Rick Manore's ad in The Metro Times about old concert posters...
Michael Lask and Rick Manore, narrated by Ashley Cook
April 18, 2022
art, culture - detroit city
B_KS@ is a Detroit-based bookstore that sources rare and high-quality magazines and books from around the world, offering locals the opportunity to access and acquire them in person...
A conversation between Ruben Cardenas and Ashley Cook
March 14, 2022
culture - detroit city