Archive for September, 2011
New York Inspiration: Interview with Saúl Montiel
As Detroit Restaurant Week winds down (and Royal Oak’s Restaurant Week starts up), I reached out to a successful and inspiring New York restaurateur to offer insight to our readers about running a restaurant, and to offer his advice to would-be restaurateurs in Michigan. Saúl’s story is a lovely mix of determination and passion that [...]
Conversation Continued, Concluded, and Started Again by Colin Darke and Robin Grearson
The conversation started here, was continued here, and below is a third installment of my conversation with Robin Grearson, the art enthusiast/writer from New York. Through this conversation we try to vet our ideas about art. Please join the conversation! And please check back every Thursday to see where this conversation goes.
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Robin Grearson: [...]
Thoughts about TEDx by Carol Hofgartner
In a couple of weeks, we will introduce you to Carol Hofgartner who is the Executive Director of Art Road, which is an amazing organization that brings art education to schools in need. Carol will provide thedetroiter.com with insight about art education and she will provide us with updates about the great work her organization [...]
Artist Spotlight: Audrey Pongracz
Audrey Pongracz is in art shows throughout Michigan and California and New York and then back again. As Metro Times and Real Detroit (among others) have noticed, Audrey is a rising art star. In true Michigander style, she works hard to hone her talent, which is apparent from her current work: She is confident and [...]
Detroit Restaurant Week’s Global Cuisine
Planning my dinner excursions for Detroit Restaurant Week (DRW), I chose to start off with Atlas Global Bistro. The restaurant offers an eclectic ‘global’ menu with influences from French, Indian, Asian and Middle-Eastern cuisines, which ultimately translates into a flavorful meal!
Walking into Atlas we were promptly greeted and seated in their spacious dining area, where [...]
Gallery Week Introduction: Center Galleries
Gallery Week
As promised, Jack Summers has been busy taking pictures of the various galleries that will participate in this year’s Gallery Week. This slideshow is the first installment in his introduction to Detroit’s galleries. Jack took pictures of the College for Creative Studies’ Center Galleries. The Center Galleries has nearly 6,000 square feet of exhibition [...]
Monday’s Roundup
As mentioned last week, ArtPrize is in full swing already. This year the ArtPrize team added guest speakers to the mix, which include Reed Kroloff, who is the new director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills
As mentioned in my previous posts, I am not the biggest fan of ruin porn [...]
Letter from the Editor . . . “Mmmm, bacon”
“Mmmm . . . bacon,” Homer Simpson. Did you know that if you add bacon to any food – seriously any food– it tastes better: a sandwich (check), a salad (check, check), a water chestnut (check), or an ice cream sandwich (I haven’t tried this, but probably check)? Detroit Restaurant Week returned this past Friday [...]
Detroit Twits
Here is our weekly roundup of Tweets about Detroit:
@jerrysaltz Jerry Saltz Imported From Detroit; Matthew Barney’s epically mystic Egypto-industrial sculpture. -Jerry Saltz
@TheArtDirection The Art Direction x Real Detroit Weekly
@merchantsrow Merchants Row Lofts LOMR residents can step outside to view Woodward Windows, a public art project. 1400-1500 Blocks, Woodward, Detroit.
@hyperallergic A Brooklyn-based art group @artefacting [...]
Cliff Bell’s Chef Matt Baldridge holds court at Detroit Restaurant Week
Restaurant week is in full swing! And we asked one of the newest participants, Cliff Bell’s, to give us an inside view of the events.
Here is a typical call that we field in the office at Cliff Bell’s:
CB: “Cliff Bell’s, May I help you?”
Caller: “Is this Cliff Bell’s?”
CB: “Yes.”
Caller: “Um….What is this place?”
Indeed. We reopened the [...]
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