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Detroit’s members-only Carbon Athletic Club is opening to the public with live music
The curious can check out this hidden gem with a country music show by Texas troubadour Cactus Lee
By Lee DeVito
Tags: Metro Detroit, Bars, Music, Carbon Athletic Club, Delray, Southwest Detroit, social clubs in metro Detroit, Carbon Athletics Club
Birria-mania comes to Hazel Park’s Frame
Chef Eddie Vargas is serving his family recipe at a pop-up that runs through Cinco de Mayo
Tags: Food News, Restaurants, Critics’ Picks, birria in metro Detroit, Southwest Detroit, Frame, Eddie Vargas
Detroit’s Senate Theater celebrates Chicano History Week with free screening of ‘American Homeboy’
The film draws from interviews with Mexican American historians, academics, artists, activists, cholos, and former law enforcement officers
By Layla McMurtrie
Tags: Movies, Critics’ Picks, Movies, Things to Do, Senate Theater, Southwest Detroit, Chicano History Week
At Green New Deal for Michigan rally, activists call for more climate change policies, funding
Dearborn event takes place after Michigan House passed clean energy package last week
By Ken Coleman, Michigan Advance
Tags: Michigan, Environment, News, Government, Green New Deal, Rashida Tlaib, Southwest Detroit
Meet Al Poe, the citizen food journalist known as ‘The Stomach of Downriver’
Quoth the ravenous
By Robert Stempkowski
Tags: Food News, Chowhound, Food & Drink Features, Media, Al Poe, Southwest Detroit, Downriver Detroit
Detroiters rally against company’s request to pollute in city’s most toxic area
Southwest Detroit is already inundated with a toxic stew of chemicals
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Environment, Politics & Government, Southwest Detroit, Delray, environmentalism, environmental racism, Southwest Detroit Community Benefits Coalition, Edward C. Levy Company
First historical marker in Michigan honoring Mexican community placed in Southwest Detroit
The marker honors Tejano music and the legacy of Texas-Mexican migration to Michigan
Tags: Michigan Music, News, Music, Mexicantown, Southwest Detroit, historical maker, Tejano music, Texas, Detroit
Halloween-themed bar Nightmare on Bagley wants to get Detroiters in the holiday spirit
The new pop-up features Halloween-themed drinks and spooky decorations
Tags: Drink News, Bars, Bagley, Southwest Detroit, spooky season, fall, Halloween, Nightmare on Bagley
Yum Village has extended its takeover of El Club’s kitchen in Southwest Detroit
Chefs Godwin Ihentuge and Alex Wardwell are no respecters of boundaries, to diners’ benefit
By Jane Slaughter
Tags: Restaurant reviews, Restaurant Reviews, El Club, Yum Village, Godwin Ihentuge, Afro-Caribbean food in Detroit, Southwest Detroit, Alex Wardwell, YumVillage x Southwest (at El Club)
Detroit’s Martin H. Solis Jr. and other Tejano musicians get historical marker
It’s the first such honor for Michigan’s Mexican community
Tags: Music News, Music, Martin Huron Solis Jr., Southwest Detroit, Tejano music in Michigan, Conjunto Los Primos, Southwest Detroit
Annual community music festival SW Fest returns for third year
The Southwest Detroit event has continued to grow since it debuted in 2021
Tags: Music News, Critics’ Picks, Music, News, Things to Do, Music, Detroit, Mexicantown, Southwest Detroit, Art, Community, Festivals
Beyoncé donates $100K to Detroit School for Digital Technology
Southwest Detroit school gets help from Queen Bey
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Music, Detroit, Beyoncé, BeyGOOD, Detroit School for Digital Technology, Southwest Detroit, Detroit schools, Slideshow
Rising star Camilla Cantu went from planning SW Fest to headlining it
‘Nobody else will give Detroit artists the festival time they deserve,’ says the multifaceted artist
Tags: Michigan Music, Music, Camilla Cantu, SW Fest, Southwest Detroit, Detroit artists, women artists, Latin musicians
At queer prom, a trio of Southwest Detroit teenagers cultivate belonging for LGBTQ+ youth
Plastic spiders and fake blood and real joy
By Eleanore Catolico
Tags: Metro Detroit News, LGBTQ+, Southwest Detroit, LGBTQ+ youth in Detroit, Jezebel's Inferno, Cover Story
Chowhound: Don’t sleep on Southwest Detroit’s excellent La Jalisciense Mercado
Plus: A $200 No. 2
Tags: Food News, Chowhound, Southwest Detroit, La Jalisciense Mercado
Detroit’s PizzaPlex announces closing and crowdfunding campaign to help employees
The Southwest Detroit pizzeria will close its doors at the end of this month
By Alex Washington
Tags: Food News, Eats, Detroit pizza restaurants, Southwest Detroit, PizzaPlex
First look: Rusted Crow is opening a new Belleville location
After closing its downtown Detroit bar, the distillery is readying a new lakefront locale
Tags: Food News, Chowhound, Rusted Crow, Motor City Seafood, Belleville, Xochimilco, Southwest Detroit, Miller’s Bar, Dearborn, Bone Yard BBQ, Dearborn Heights, metro Detroit restaurants, Detroit restaurants
Detroit holiday pop-up bar Blitzen’s on Bagley is now Vixen’s on Bagley for Valentines Day
Apparently, the bar is going to keep changing themes seasonally
By Randiah Camille Green
Tags: Drink News, Drinks, Southwest Detroit, Vixen's on Bagley, Blitzen's on Bagley, drink news, Valentine's Day in Detroit, Vixen’s on Bagley
Opinion: Michigan’s blue trifecta will be judged by progress on environmental justice
There are many urgent issues on the table, but none deserve more attention than the right to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and raise our children free from cancer-causing pollutants
By Theresa Landrum
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Environment, Views & Opinions, Democrats, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Stellantis, 48217, Southwest Detroit, EGLE, Zug Island, Sierra Club
Detroit’s Hotel Yorba is back on the market
Immortalized in a White Stripes song, the motel could be reborn as apartments or a hotel
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Real Estate, Hotel Yorba, Jack White, Detroit, Southwest Detroit, Video
Now that it’s lit up, people seem to like Detroit’s new I-94 sign
Detroit’s City Winery music venue aims for 2025 opening
Cypress Hill’s love for Detroit runs deep
By Timothy J. Seppala