Lots to Love in Detroit
Just in time for Valentine's Day...
A list of 99 things to love about Detroit. Thanks to Real Detroit Weekly for coming up with many reasons reasons to adore the D.
Some favorites:
* Our NBA Hall of Famer and mayor Dave Bing
* Waking up in the wee hours of the morning on Fat Tuesday to rip open a fresh box of paczkis from our favorite Hamtramck bakery like kids on Christmas.
* 64,980 inland lakes and ponds. Take that, Minnesota.
* Feather bowling, mussels and Belgian brews at Cadieux Café.
* “Detroit is really a small big city with some of the friendliest, most amazing people you will ever meet,” says the Brazilian gal who's only lived here for 18 months.
* Introducing newcomers to the epic battle between Lafayette and American Coney Island.
* Opening Day. Yes, it is a religious holiday.
* Jimmy Fallon has a love affair with Detroit and continues to make sure his audience knows it. We didn't mind making friends with him either at random house parties in Woodbridge.
* Eleven Stanley Cup Championships, 10 American League Pennant Wins, four World Series Titles, three NBA Championships.
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"Feather bowling, muscles and Belgian brews at Cadieux Café."
I like the mussels at the Cadieux but there has to be a better place for muscles. Maybe a gym?
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What a great list of things to love about Detroit...for me many memories, good and bad. Gone for 30+ years but still love Detroit miss the grit.
Sitting here at my desk looking at my 1965 Hudson's Tiger Dugout Club card #4285.(encased in hard plastic) It says "keep this ticket safe. It could be your all-expense paid trip for 2 to a 1965 World Series Game."I was pretty sure I was going to win. It exemplifies to me the hopes I had growing up in a city I realize now I loved more than I thought.
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Treating yourself to a new Chapeau - whether you wear them much or not - from Henry the Hatter on Broadway in Downtown... been there since 1883....!
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The Detroit Institute of Arts.Where else can you be greeted by Rodin's The Thinker at the front door and walk inside to a cavernous room full of Diego Rivera murals? Not to mention the permanent collection.
The special exhibitions are top-notch, and some of them have only Detroit and maybe one other venue in the entire U.S.
Add to that a helpful staff, knowlegeable docents, and a cafeteria with good food at moderate prices, and it's worth a look any time you want to take in the arts. I visited frequently when I lived in Detroit (I'm a native Detroiter), and I make time for a day trip whenever I'm in town.
Honorable mention: Rocky's, across from the Farmer's Market. Among other things, the best variety of candy this side of Willie Wonka's Chocolate Factory.
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Come see a different side of Detroit
http://www.detroiturbansustainabilitytraining.org -
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And NOW our very own Detroit Lions!!! Tigers need to step it up though...
- <a href="http://twitter.com/TheDetroitHouse" target="_blank" class="beforetweet">TheDetroitHouse</a> After a year of learning, observing and understanding, TIME says goodbye to Detroit. Podcast: All Good Things... http://shar.es/0V3I7 - 2 years ago
- <a href="http://twitter.com/TheDetroitHouse" target="_blank" class="beforetweet">TheDetroitHouse</a> Our Donation to Detroit http://shar.es/0FX2T - 2 years ago
- <a href="http://twitter.com/TheDetroitHouse" target="_blank" class="beforetweet">TheDetroitHouse</a> Read Kristy Erdodi's "How Detroit Became My Sexy City" http://bit.ly/9zG13z - 2 years ago
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