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Michigan

Erik Prince pitches mass deportation plan to Trump administration

The brother of Betsy DeVos is calling for private security forces to run processing camps and carry out immigration raids

By Steve Neavling
Feb 25, 2025

Tags: Michigan, Government, Immigration, Erik Prince, Michigan, West Michigan, politics, Donald Trump, deportation, Southwest Detroit, ICE, immigration raids
Politics & Elections

Opinion: Re-electing Council Member Santiago-Romero is vital for Detroit

When a water main burst in Southwest Detroit last week, flooding the streets with freezing water, Gabriela Santiago-Romero was quick to act

By Andrew Wright
Feb 24, 2025

Tags: Politics & Elections, Government, Views & Opinions, Detroit City Council, Gabriela Santiago-Romero, Southwest Detroit
Metro Detroit

Immigration rights groups urge schools to protect students from ICE

At some schools, as many as half the students are not showing up because of deportation fears

By Steve Neavling
Feb 5, 2025

Tags: Metro Detroit, Education, Immigration, ACLU of Michigan, Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, schools, Southwest Detroit
Metro Detroit

Fear of ICE crackdowns paralyzes Detroit’s immigrant communities

With federal agents increasing patrols in Detroit neighborhoods, many people are afraid to leave their homes

By Steve Neavling
Feb 5, 2025

Tags: Metro Detroit, Civil Rights, Immigration, Hey Y'all Detroit, Detroit, Southwest Detroit, Immigrants, Donald Trump, ICE, Detroit Public Schools Community District, Southwest Detroit Business Association, One Michigan
Gig alert

Detroit’s El Club launches nostalgic early 2000s urban music series

The intimate concerts will feature acts like Day 26, Tweet, and J-Kwon

By Kahn Santori Davison
Jan 6, 2025

Tags: Gig alert, Music, On Tour, El Club, Connect With Lo, hip-hop, R&B, Southwest Detroit, Video
Food News

Detroit’s Takoi celebrates ten-year anniversary with special tasting menu

The Thai-inspired restaurant is also hosting a “Ten Year Anniversary Tour” across Michigan and the Midwest

By Layla McMurtrie
Sep 23, 2024

Tags: Food News, Restaurants, Local Businesses, Takoi, Corktown, Southwest Detroit, Slideshow
Metro Detroit

Michigan Central extends public viewing through Labor Day weekend due to popular demand

If you haven’t checked out Ford’s rehab of Detroit’s iconic train station yet, you have more time

By Lee DeVito
Aug 8, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Critics’ Picks, History, Ford Motor Co., Michigan Central Station, Corktown, Southwest Detroit, Slideshow
Restaurant reviews

Why aspire? Hamilton’s aims to elevate the familiar in Corktown

The menu may imply a respite for the weary business traveler, but the chef does the classics well

By Jane Slaughter
Jun 19, 2024

Tags: Restaurant reviews, Local Businesses, Views & Opinions, Hamilton’s at the Godfrey Hotel, Corktown, Southwest Detroit, restaurants in downtown Detroit, Chickpea Hospitality
Metro Detroit

DCFC wants to build a new stadium in Southwest Detroit

The hit soccer team wants to build a new home on the site of the abandoned Southwest Detroit Hospital

By Lee DeVito
May 16, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Sports, Real Estate, Detroit City FC, Southwest Detroit, Southwest Detroit Hospital
Metro Detroit

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
Apr 12, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Bars, Music, Carbon Athletic Club, Delray, Southwest Detroit, social clubs in metro Detroit, Carbon Athletics Club
Food News

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

By Lee DeVito
Apr 1, 2024

Tags: Food News, Restaurants, Critics’ Picks, birria in metro Detroit, Southwest Detroit, Frame, Eddie Vargas
Movies

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
Jan 29, 2024

Tags: Movies, Critics’ Picks, Movies, Things to Do, Senate Theater, Southwest Detroit, Chicano History Week
Michigan

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
Nov 6, 2023

Tags: Michigan, Environment, News, Government, Green New Deal, Rashida Tlaib, Southwest Detroit
Food News

Meet Al Poe, the citizen food journalist known as ‘The Stomach of Downriver’

Quoth the ravenous

By Robert Stempkowski
Oct 25, 2023

Tags: Food News, Chowhound, Food & Drink Features, Media, Al Poe, Southwest Detroit, Downriver Detroit
Metro 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
Oct 24, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Environment, Politics & Government, Southwest Detroit, Delray, environmentalism, environmental racism, Southwest Detroit Community Benefits Coalition, Edward C. Levy Company
Michigan Music

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

By Layla McMurtrie
Sep 29, 2023

Tags: Michigan Music, News, Music, Mexicantown, Southwest Detroit, historical maker, Tejano music, Texas, Detroit
Drink News

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

By Layla McMurtrie
Sep 25, 2023

Tags: Drink News, Bars, Bagley, Southwest Detroit, spooky season, fall, Halloween, Nightmare on Bagley
Restaurant reviews

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
Sep 7, 2023

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)
Music News

Detroit’s Martin H. Solis Jr. and other Tejano musicians get historical marker

It’s the first such honor for Michigan’s Mexican community

By Lee DeVito
Aug 25, 2023

Tags: Music News, Music, Martin Huron Solis Jr., Southwest Detroit, Tejano music in Michigan, Conjunto Los Primos, Southwest Detroit
Music News

Annual community music festival SW Fest returns for third year

The Southwest Detroit event has continued to grow since it debuted in 2021

By Layla McMurtrie
Aug 16, 2023

Tags: Music News, Critics’ Picks, Music, News, Things to Do, Music, Detroit, Mexicantown, Southwest Detroit, Art, Community, Festivals

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