This mid-century dome home on Crystal Lake is a retro hideaway — let's take a tour

Dome is where the heart is and our mid-century-loving heart wants to call this Frankfort dome home, well, home. Built in 1968,…

By Metro Times editorial staff

Image: This mid-century dome home on Crystal Lake is a retro hideaway — let's take a tour
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20 beach camping spots within driving distance of Detroit

Life is a beach — if you're lucky. Thankfully for us Michiganders, we are surrounded by endless opportunities to slip into the…

By Metro Times editorial staff

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This 'wedding cake' house in Grand Blanc is an art deco lover's dream — and it has a ballroom you could probably roller skate in

Weddings are supposed to be the most important day of many people's lives. It's stressful and exciting and marks the beginning of…

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All the beautiful 'boaters' we saw celebrating President Trump's 74th birthday on the Detroit River

Hundreds of beautiful "boaters" participated in a “Make America Great Again” flotilla parade on Saturday afternoon to celebrate President Trump’s 74th birthday,…

By Metro Times editorial staff

Image: All the beautiful 'boaters' we saw celebrating President Trump's 74th birthday on the Detroit River
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Everything we saw at the Detroit protest against police brutality on Saturday, June 13

Protesters marched for the 16th straight day in Detroit on Saturday to rally against police brutality and to call for mass reforms…

By Metro Times editorial staff

Image: Everything we saw at the Detroit protest against police brutality on Saturday, June 13
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This architecturally significant home in Ann Arbor needs some love or a Patrick Bateman — and it's just been reduced by $50k

Do you like Huey Lewis and The News? Um, nevermind. Anyway, usually when you see a house in need of some TLC,…

By Metro Times editorial staff

Image: This architecturally significant home in Ann Arbor needs some love or a Patrick Bateman — and it's just been reduced by $50k
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Detroit area restaurants and bars with patios and rooftops you should be getting day drunk at right now

Summer ain't summer if you're not basking in the sun on a restaurant patio or cheating death with one-too-many on a rooftop…

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Pinky's Rooftop 100 S. Main St., Royal Oak; 248-291-6506; pinkysroyaloak.com Pinky’s may sound like something you might search on WebMD, but for metro Detroiters, it means good food and a good view. Oh, did we mention the decor? Yeah. So, it looks like Instagram ads had sex with a Pinterest board and then baptized its spawn in rose gold. What we’re saying is, come for the food, stay for the Instagram opportunity, and then keep staying for the food, which you can eat on a rooftop. Photo via Pinky’s Rooftop/Facebook
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This historic 1896 Victorian home in Gaylord is $425k and is basically grandma's house on steroids — and we want cookies

If you're anything like us, then one of your life goals is to retire early. No, like really early. We're taking early…

By Metro Times editorial staff

Image: This historic 1896 Victorian home in Gaylord is $425k and is basically grandma's house on steroids — and we want cookies
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Detroit's ninth day of Black Lives Matter protests turned into a dance party

Hundreds of protesters peacefully marched through Detroit on Saturday for the ninth straight night to rally against police brutality. Protesters primarily marched…

By Metro Times editorial staff

Image: Detroit's ninth day of Black Lives Matter protests turned into a dance party
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Calling all plant parents — this Franklin home has a solarium for all your leaf-bearing children

While people claim that millennials have killed many things, like shitty chain restaurants, the dairy industry, napkins, divorce, fabric softener, and blood…

By Metro Times editorial staff

Image: Calling all plant parents — this Franklin home has a solarium for all your leaf-bearing children
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Everything we saw at Detroit's Black Lives Matter protest on Friday, June 5

Protesters marched for the eighth straight night to rally against police brutality and the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, who…

By Metro Times editorial staff

Image: Everything we saw at Detroit's Black Lives Matter protest on Friday, June 5
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Everything we saw at the Black Lives Matter protest in Detroit on Tuesday, June 2

Police arrested 127 protesters for defying Detroit's 8 p.m. curfew during the fifth straight day of rallies in the city on Tuesday.…

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Image: Everything we saw at the Black Lives Matter protest in Detroit on Tuesday, June 2
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Everything we saw at the Black Lives Matter protest in Detroit on Monday, June 1

Hundreds of protesters marched for a fourth straight day in Detroit to rally against police brutality and the death of George Floyd…

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Image: Everything we saw at the Black Lives Matter protest in Detroit on Monday, June 1
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Everything we saw at the Black Lives Matter protest in Detroit on Sunday, May 31

Protesters gathered Sunday for a third straight day in Detroit to rally against police brutality and the death of George Floyd at…

By Metro Times editorial staff

Image: Everything we saw at the Black Lives Matter protest in Detroit on Sunday, May 31
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Everything we saw at the Black Lives Matter protest in Detroit on Saturday, May 30

Black Lives Matter protesters demonstrated outside Detroit’s Public Safety Headquarters on Saturday, May 30, following the death of George Floyd at the…

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Image: Everything we saw at the Black Lives Matter protest in Detroit on Saturday, May 30
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Everything we saw at the Black Lives Matter protest in Detroit on Friday, May 29

Black Lives Matter protesters demonstrated outside Detroit’s Public Safety Headquarters on Friday, May 29, following the death of George Floyd at the…

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Calling avid anglers and aspiring cult leaders — this massive riverside ranch in Northern Michigan is for sale for $7.2 million

Seeing that there doesn't appear to be any available space flights to Earth 2 (where coronavirus, Donald Trump, and systematic racism exist),…

By Metro Times editorial staff

Image: Calling avid anglers and aspiring cult leaders — this massive riverside ranch in Northern Michigan is for sale for $7.2 million
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This $1.39 million Grosse Pointe Park home built by architect Wallace Frost has several selfie-worthy tiled bathrooms — let's take a tour

They say that the average person spends 92 days in the bathroom during their lifetime. That's a lot of prepping, priming, and,…

By Metro Times editorial staff

Image: This $1.39 million Grosse Pointe Park home built by architect Wallace Frost has several selfie-worthy tiled bathrooms — let's take a tour
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There's a $14.9 million palatial estate in Northville that has movie theatre that gives us 'I Dream of Jeannie' vibes — let's take a tour

Should we ever stumble across a genie's lamp, we will absolutely wish for a sexy night in this palatial Northville estate. We…

By Metro Times editorial staff

Image: There's a $14.9 million palatial estate in Northville that has movie theatre that gives us 'I Dream of Jeannie' vibes — let's take a tour
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This fully restored Frank Lloyd Wright house in Okemos is for sale for just $479k — and it's full of surprises

Good things come in small packages — the exception, of course, being those mini 100-calorie packs of muffins. (We want full-sized muffins,…

By Metro Times editorial staff

Image: This fully restored Frank Lloyd Wright house in Okemos is for sale for just $479k — and it's full of surprises
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17 low-key beaches within driving distance of Detroit to responsibly escape to

Despite all our rage, we're still just rats in a cage — and we're breaking out, baby. But not so fast. Just…

By Metro Times editorial staff

Rosy Mound Grand Haven; 2 hours, 57 minutes Honestly? We feel wrong saying Rosy Mound in public. The beach is so sequestered that it’s bound to feel like a private getaway. Photo via Screen Grab/YouTube
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Devastating photos show historic flood damage after dams fail in Midland, Michigan

Michigan can't seem to get a break. Thousands of Midland residents were forced to evacuate their homes after days of torrential rainfall…

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Image: Devastating photos show historic flood damage after dams fail in Midland, Michigan
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This creepy $2.65 million hunting lodge filled with taxidermy in western Michigan could be new MAGA HQ

Nothing says serenity quite like gunshots and the sounds of animals whimpering in their final moments. If you worship at the altar…

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Image: This creepy $2.65 million hunting lodge filled with taxidermy in western Michigan could be new MAGA HQ
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Twitter reacts to Lansing's 'Operation Haircut,' where barbers protested Whitmer's stay-at-home order

From the folks who brought you "Operation Gridlock" comes... "Operation Haircut." On Wednesday, paranoid QAnon people once again stormed Lansing, this time…

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Image: Twitter reacts to Lansing's 'Operation Haircut,' where barbers protested Whitmer's stay-at-home order
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20 essential metro Detroit barbecue spots to get your meat sweats on right now

You know you haven’t gotten laid during quarantine if the words “dry-rubbed and smoked low and slow” get you all hot and…

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Woodpile BBQ Shack 303 S. Main St., Clawson and 630 E. 11 Mile Rd., Madison Hts., woodpilebbqshack.com This ain't your run of the mill shack. It's shack-a-delic, baby, yeah. OK — we are clearly delirious from looking at Clawson-based Woodpile BBQ Shack's menu, which promises all meat has been dry rubbed and smoked low and slow. Groovy! Photo via Woodpile BBQ Shack/Facebook
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30 of the best Photoshop reactions to Detroit's water gun priest

We don't know on which day god created the water gun but it doesn't matter now because Detroit has something no one…

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Everything we saw at the anti-Whitmer 'Judgement Day' protest in Lansing

Hundreds of protesters, some carrying guns, flouted social-distancing measures on Thursday at the "Judgement Day" rally (their spelling, not ours) at the…

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Image: Everything we saw at the anti-Whitmer 'Judgement Day' protest in Lansing
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This strange and unusual $249k historic Hartford house gives us Tim Burton vibes — let's take a tour

Make Tim Burton Great Again! OK — so we love the filmmaking master of strange and unusual but we argue some of…

By Metro Times editorial staff

Image: This strange and unusual $249k historic Hartford house gives us Tim Burton vibes — let's take a tour
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This $4.75 million Grosse Pointe Park mansion is basically an art museum complete with hand-painted ceiling murals — let's take a tour

Ah-ha! It was Colonel Mustard with a candlestick in the library! Oh, sorry. A virtual tour of this Grosse Pointe Park mansion…

By Metro Times editorial staff

Image: This $4.75 million Grosse Pointe Park mansion is basically an art museum complete with hand-painted ceiling murals — let's take a tour
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This '70s Bay City fixer-upper features at least 20 different patterned surfaces— and it's only $199k

Come one, come all! Welcome to the House of a Thousand Wallpapers... and carpets. And other heavily patterned surfaces. Built in 1975,…

By Metro Times editorial staff

Image: This '70s Bay City fixer-upper features at least 20 different patterned surfaces— and it's only $199k
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This $750k Northern Michigan house is an architectural labyrinth — let's take a tour

Part pioneer cabin, part southwestern adobe, part Pinterest board gone awry. OK — so, we don't really know what we're looking at,…

By Metro Times editorial staff

Image: This $750k Northern Michigan house is an architectural labyrinth — let's take a tour
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This vertical Franklin Michigan home designed by Sigmund Blum is a modernist's wild dream — and it keeps dropping in price

We're getting closer and closer to being able to afford this historic home designed by legendary Detroit-area architect, Sigmund Blum, as his…

By Metro Times editorial staff

Image: This vertical Franklin Michigan home designed by Sigmund Blum is a modernist's wild dream — and it keeps dropping in price
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