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A CRASH COURSE IN UNCERTAINTY For both veteran and rookie teachers, COVID-19 means a school year fraught with difficult decisions.

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A LINE IN THE WATER The battle over Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinac isn’t going away. Here’s a primer on how we got here. Plus: Stellantis? Really?

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ABOUT FACES The case of a Farmington Hills man wrongly identified by facial recognition has amplified opposition to the controversial technology.

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MADE IN MICHIGAN Ann Arbor native and former education secretary Margaret Spellings on the state of the GOP. Plus: What’s cooking in Michigan research labs.

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A VIEW WITH A ROOM Metro Detroiters looking for a peaceful getaway are embracing the big joys of small cottages.

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PRINTED WITH LOVE A local home décor designer creates minimalist, eco-friendly prints, with a touch of Detroit pride.

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A BICYCLE CHAIN REACTION When quarantine started, cycling soared, leaving bikes and bike parts nearly impossible to find.

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FALL ARTS Tracking down the arts this fall will take extra legwork, so we’ve rounded up everything from virtual jazz and indie cinema to in-person arts.

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A SUMMER SEND-OFF Fire up the grill and let the drinks flow. If Labor Day means leaving summer behind, make the final feast count.

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CULTURE IN THE TIME OF COVID Veteran arts writer Christopher Porter reflects on the inadequacies of online events — and why we should embrace them anyway.

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JUST CALL HER AMANDA No matter what you call her, Dearborn-based food blogger, activist, and entrepreneur Amanda Saab sure has range.

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STILL TALKING TEDxDetroit is still on — online, that is — with a packed lineup of inspiring speakers. Plus: Past talks that are still worth checking out.

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GOING THE DISTANCE With cool weather coming, food writer Zahir Janmohamed ponders the uncertain future of distanced dining.

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CORE VALUES INTACT Detroit Month of Design is altered but still ambitious, offering a full slate of live and virtual events.

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When schools closed in mid-March, parents across the state became teachers overnight.

That transformation left me at times channeling my inner Mr. Incredible as I tried to help my kids with elementary school arithmetic that bore no resemblance to what I learned back in the 1970s. “Why would they change math?” I’d mutter. “Math is math!

Math. Is. Math!”

If spring was a time for relearning multiplication and division, summer’s calculations have been far more complex. Call it the calculus of COVID-19 — various formulations of the pros and cons of in-person vs. virtual learning that, no matter how we parents puzzle them out, never quite produce a satisfactory answer.

Educators and childhood development experts agree kids would be better off back at school. They’ll learn better there. They need the social interactions. And, as Ann Arbor native and former U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings tells Hour in this issue, school is a safe harbor for many children, a place where teachers can spot abuse or special needs that otherwise might go unaddressed.

Meanwhile, many working-from-home parents still have PTSD from spring’s hellscape of Google classrooms, Zoom calls, and forgotten passwords. So much so that we rationalize away the risks of shoving our little social animals back into classrooms that we all know are festering petri dishes in even the best of times. Dear god, they’ve gotta go back!

But then we hear about the Georgia summer camp that tried its best to protect its charges and ended up with more than 250 sick campers anyway.

We watch as MLB’s efforts to keep its multimillion-dollar stars virus-free collapse in less than a week. And suddenly the danger to our kids — and, perhaps worse, to us adults, who are at greater risk of serious illness or death — becomes astonishingly clear. No way I’m sending them back!

And so it goes. As Omar Sofradzija’s piece on page 15 explores, teachers are weighing similarly fraught choices. Rookie teachers who imagined first classrooms full of life and joy must make peace with beginning their careers isolated both from their students and from the colleagues who could mentor them. And many older or immunocompromised teachers find themselves considering retirement or taking leave rather than risk their lives.

Some districts have settled the question already, deciding early on that they’ll start the year virtually. Others still planned as of early August to offer both in-person and remote options, leaving us parents to continue our agonizing, no-win deliberations through the waning days of summer.

One way or another, though, school will start, and parents, teachers, and kids together will embark on an unprecedented experiment in pandemic-era education that we promise to chronicle in the pages of this magazine.

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Contributors

Who was your favorite teacher?

Isabelle Bousquette: “My favorite teacher is Edward James Olmos in Stand and Deliver — tough, inspirational, and looks killer in a pair of thickrimmed 1980s reading glasses.” Bousquette is a freelance journalist and a StorySlam champion at The Moth. Her writing has appeared in the Detroit Free Press, Bronx Times, and Weekly Humorist. Her interview with photographer Philip Jarmain, whose photos of Detroit architecture are collected in the forthcoming book American Beauty, can be found on page 54.

Jason Raish: “My favorite teacher was Mrs. Falvey, my high school art teacher. Growing up in a rural western New York town, art was my only outlet, and she was a gentle soul and encouraged me in that less-cultured area of the country and kept me going until I was able to go to New York City to study illustration.” After a six-year adventure living the freelancer’s life in Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul, Barcelona, London, and Paris, Raish is back in the U.S. living in Brooklyn. He can often be found jogging in the park with his rescue husky, growing tomatoes, and brewing beer. Find his illustration of University of Michigan cybersecurity expert Alex Halderman on page 36.

Megan Swoyer: “My most memorable teacher was Madame Larpenter, my high school French teacher. She was super sophisticated, and not only did she know how to teach a foreign language well, but she seemed to be the personification of all things French, even the way she dressed. I was so inspired by the classes I took from her that I took several more foreign language courses in college.” Swoyer is the editor of Hour Media’s Detroit Design magazine. Her features have been published in the Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, and Hour Detroit magazine, among other publications. When she’s not writing or editing, she teaches watercolor painting. She and her husband and their two sons love to spend time at their cottage Up North. Her story on the big joys of small cottages can be found on page 21.

Martin Vecchio: “My favorite teacher is anyone who is an expert who will let me watch them. My learning style is to learn by watching, and later by doing. All the skills in my life that I consider assets have come from watching people who are experts perform their craft. Sometimes the nuance is hard to see and pick up on, but the broad strokes are there. I’m then able to take those broad strokes and add my own flavor. In that regard, my parents are probably my most significant teachers.” Vecchio is a Detroit-based architecture and interiors photographer, and a graduate of Wayne State University. When he’s not behind the camera, he can be spotted riding his bike around the city, near his home studio in southwest Detroit. His photos for our piece on small cottages can be found beginning on page 21.

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From Our Readers “[Jeremiah Wheeler] is a wise, young man! (‘Wayne State’s Black Student Union President on Making This Moment Matter,’ July). It’s comforting to know that Jeremiah is coming up. Strong roots! May God continue to bless his efforts.”

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“I support AG [Dana] Nessel (‘Dana Nessel Doesn’t Mess Around,’ July). It’s refreshing for me to not entertain the paranoia of searching out the ulterior motives of our AG when I haven’t seen evidence that there are any. Motivations and agendas, sure. Wondering what they are? Nope.”

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A CRASH COURSE IN UNCERTAINTY For both veteran and rookie teachers, COVID-19 means a fall fraught with difficult decisions // BY OMAR SOFRADZIJA

ILLUSTRATION BY PETE RYAN

AT SUMMER’S START, SARAH BROOKS THOUGHT SHE WAS NEARING THE END OF A

decade-long journey to becoming a teacher. Brooks, born and raised in Lafayette Park, was so eager to get into the classroom that she completed her education master’s degree in a grueling one-year accelerated program at the University of Michigan this spring and had a job offer from a Detroit charter school for this fall.

But at first, COVID-19 left the invite uncertain and possibly unsafe. She understood her employment to be conditional on the resumption of in-person learning, and Brooks’ type 1 diabetes made her wary of turning schoolhouses into super-spreader sites.

“While I was gung-ho about just pushing through, the more I heard from schools and the more I heard from the government, the less certain I felt that this would be the safest decision for me — and really anybody, for that matter, but probably especially for a first-year teacher who is a type 1 diabetic,” the 27-year-old says.

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first-graders online. “It’s not quite what I had in mind,” Brooks says with a laugh. “I knew the landscape of education would be hard. I didn’t quite expect this.”

Nor did thousands of teachers across metro Detroit and the nation as a new school year dawns under the clouds of a still-raging COVID-19 outbreak, alarm over the well-being of students who took unevenly to this spring’s sudden shift to remote learning, and a toxic partisan tugof-war over whether and how to resume in-person classes.

“I am hearing about retirements, I am hearing about medical opt-outs, I am hearing about sabbaticals and things like that,” says Kevin Ozar, 45, a Detroit native who teaches eighth-graders at Farmington STEAM Academy. “Most of what I hear, however, are teachers who want to do right by their learners and at the same time want to be valued and respected. And we haven’t felt terribly valued and respected in this country as educators for a long time.”

A June survey of Michigan Education Association members found 87 percent were “very concerned” about coronavirus health risks associated with reopening schools, and one-third were seriously considering retiring early or leaving the profession, MEA spokesman David Crim says.

“If teachers don’t feel safe, how will they move to the high level of thinking and processing that they need to meet 35 kids’ needs all at the same time?” Ozar asks.

Fall plans were expected to vary by district and were works in progress well into the summer. Various districts and education associations declined to comment on their intentions, and many teachers said they were in the dark about whether to plan for learning in person or on-screen.

“Schools may be face-to-face or, if they’re faceto-face, they’ll probably be on modified schedules of some sort,” says Gail Richmond, the director of teacher preparation programs at Michigan State University’s College of Education. “They could be hybrids. They could be fully online. No matter what, it will be a challenge.”

To minimize COVID-19 risks that grow with proximity and age, some experts recommend inperson learning with as much social distancing as possible. That can mean desks 6 feet apart, lunches eaten in solitary fashion, or students rotating attendance days. Many educators want to teach in person but worry that political decisions and a lack of resources could put them in harm’s way. “No matter what decisions are made, teachers will need the kind of professional support that will allow them to successfully meet these new challenges on behalf of their students,” Richmond says.

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“Most of what I hear, however, are teachers who want to do right by their learners and at the same time want to be valued and respected.

And we haven’t felt terribly valued and respected in this country as educators for a long time.”

— K E V I N O Z A R , FA R M I N G T O N S T E A M ACADEMY TEACHER

“It turns out, that is the most important part: time with real, live kids.”

—RICHARD INGERSOLL, E D U C AT I O N A N D S O C I O L O G Y PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF P E N N S Y L VA N I A

“No matter what decisions are made, teachers will need the kind of professional support that will allow them to successfully meet these new challenges on behalf of their students.”

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“I can barely breathe when I go into Whole Foods for 30 minutes.

I can’t imagine trying to teach and show my emotions to the students.”

—JESSICA GARDINER, LANSING E L E M E N TA R Y S C H O O L T E A C H E R

confrontations with students and parents over adhering to safety rules.

“How do you require a kid to wear a mask in school if mom or dad don’t want them to?” asks MacLeod, a 19-year veteran of Stevenson High.

“You’re dealing with teenagers, elementary school kids. They’re not going to always take it as seriously as they should.”

Kathryn Bauss, 60, a kindergarten teacher at Roberts Elementary School in Shelby Township, is determined to make the unworkable work.

She’s proud of how she innovated in the spring to boost her remote learning plan. “I put three chairs in my vehicle and my sanitizing equipment, gloves and masks, and all my assessment tools and balloons,” she says. Then she drove to the homes of each of her 20 students and met with them outside.

Bauss, who is entering her 30th year as a teacher, wants to keep innovating this fall, but her son, a Sterling Heights firefighter paramedic, isn’t so sure that’s a great idea. “He says, ‘Mom, I’m concerned for you,’” she says. “But that’s one of the commitments we make as teachers. You’re working with people.”

While veteran educators braced for change, rookie teachers readied themselves to enter a socially distanced learning world that would look nothing like the one for which they had prepared.

“I’ve heard that when you get your first teaching job it’s exciting and overwhelming — but then you add COVID and all this, [and] it’s a new set of uncertainty,” says Jessica Gardiner, 23, a recent U-M master’s program graduate who took a job for the fall at a Lansing elementary school. “It’s hard to get to know somebody over Zoom because you miss out on all those in-person nonverbal signals.”

On the other hand, in-person teaching may require her to wear masks all day. “I can barely breathe when I go into Whole Foods for 30 minutes. I can’t imagine trying to teach and show my emotions to the students” behind a mask, she says.

Gardiner and Brooks, like thousands of newly minted teachers around the country, lost important field training to the spring’s COVID-19 lockdown. That could make the start of their careers bumpier than usual, says Richard Ingersoll, an education and sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania. “With COVID, a lot of the new batch of teaching candidates probably curtailed or skipped entirely the practice teaching,” he says. “It turns out, that is the most important part: time with real, live kids.”

Ozar, like many, insists he will soldier on one way or the other: “I can’t picture in my head how we can safely do what we’ve done in the schools this fall. I just don’t see it. I just don’t know how all that’s going to work. But I will partake. I will support my students and I will try and teach.”

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A Line in the Water

Whitmer wants Line 5 gone. Enbridge has tunnel vision. A court battle is cresting. // BY STEVE FRIESS

For almost 70 years, a pair of 20-inch oil and liquified natural gas conduits known as Line 5 that cross the Straits of Mackinac have moved billions of gallons of petroleum for the Canadian energy conglomerate Enbridge with little fanfare. In the past decade, though, concerns about its age and stability have made it one A University of Michigan study using of Michigan’s most celebrated environmental causes. As of computers to model the potential path early August, one pipe remained shut by court fiat afof spilled oil from Line 5 in the turbulent ter sustaining damage. Neither Enbridge nor Gov. Straits shows 700 miles of coastline, plus 15 Gretchen Whitmer, who wants it shuttered for percent of Lake Michigan and 60 percent of Lake good, will give up any time soon. Here’s Huron are vulnerable in the worst-case scenario. a primer on how we got here.

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Enbridge completes the 645-mile pipeline known as Line 5 to ferry crude oil and natural gas liquids from Superior, Wisconsin, to Sarnia, Ontario, in a route that includes crossing the Straits of Mackinac about 270 feet below the water. A pumping station at Rapid River in the Upper Peninsula provides natural gas liquids used for propane for residents there, and another station near Detroit allows for crude oil to go to refineries in Detroit and northern Ohio. Currently, though, 70 percent of the petroleum is destined for Ontario, with Michigan used primarily as a shortcut.

2010 // Line 6B, another Enbridge conduit, breaks open near Marshall, Michigan, releasing 1.1 million gallons of crude oil into the Kalamazoo River in one of the nation’s largest inland oil spills.

The clean-up takes five years and costs Enbridge $1.21 billion. A federal probe later determines the rupture occurred because of unchecked corrosion on Line 6B.

2012 // Following the Marshall spill, environmentalists take notice of the existence of Line 5 and its location at the seam of lakes Michigan and Huron. Notably, the National Wildlife Federation publishes “Sunken Hazard: Aging oil pipelines beneath the Straits of Mackinac an ever-present threat to the Great Lakes,” which was the first time many activists, Michigan locals, and lawmakers learned of Line 5, its advanced age, and its potential to despoil one of the world’s most important sources of fresh water.

2013 // Enbridge increases Line 5’s capacity by 50,000 barrels a day following a $100 million project that upgraded pumping stations but not the pipes themselves. That news prompts a new group, Oil & Water Don’t Mix, to hold its first rally against Line 5 near the Mackinac Bridge.

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A study commissioned by Gov. Rick Snyder’s office on the impact of shutting down Line 5 finds it would increase the cost of gas in metro Detroit by 2 cents per gallon and for propane in the Upper Peninsula by as much as 25 cents per gallon.

// 2018 Anticipating the likely elections of Line 5 foes Gretchen Whitmer as governor and Dana Nessel as attorney general and attempting to starve the Democrats of authority to shut Line 5 down, the Snyder administration makes a deal with Enbridge to install new pipes and build a tunnel to encase them by 2028 at a cost of up to $500 million. Enbridge also agrees to stop pumping through the Straits if waves hit 6.5 feet for more than an hour. In December, Snyder signs a bill creating an independent authority to oversee Line 5 and its tunnel, an effort to enshrine the arrangement and legally tie Whitmer and Nessel’s hands.

// 2019 After six months of fruitless talks with the Whitmer administration, which insisted the tunnel deal between Enbridge and the state was invalid, Enbridge sues to establish its validity and enforceability. Shortly thereafter, Nessel files a lawsuit seeking to shut down and permanently decommission Line 5. In October, the Michigan Court of Claims rules in favor of Enbridge that the tunnel agreement is enforceable, and in the spring of 2020 an appeal by Nessel fails. Nessel’s legal fight continues.

// 2020 Days after oral arguments in Nessel’s effort to decommission Line 5 on grounds of various safety and procedural violations, Enbridge reports damage to an anchor support holding up the eastern pipeline. No oil is spilled. Nessel persuades the judge overseeing her case to shut down both parts of Line 5 in late June. In early July, the court allows Enbridge to reopen the non-damaged line, leaving the damaged line closed. In mid-July, the state demands Enbridge sign an agreement to assume all financial responsibility for a potential oil spill. The company declines, saying existing agreements already make it liable. In July, Enbridge says it has narrowed the cause of the damage to “small to moderately-sized” ships dragging a cable. Four of the five ships Enbridge says might be the culprits were under contract with Enbridge as part of the Line 5 tunnel construction.

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, a Republican, releases a damning report showing the potential for problems on Line 5 and says, “You wouldn’t site, and you wouldn’t build and construct pipelines underneath the straits today.” Still, he refuses to commit to decommissioning it and later opposes such efforts.

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ABOUT FACES A case study in mistaken identity and fallible technology

What’s in a Name? For Stellantis, Jokes Galore. // BY STEVE FRIESS USUALLY IT’S CAR NAMES THEM-

// BY ASHLEY WINN IN JULY OF LAST YEAR, DISGRUNTLED DETROITERS

packed weekly board of police commissioners meetings, heatedly voicing their concerns about facial recognition software, which police had been using for two years without approval from the board. With a vote finally called, residents pointed to recent studies that found the technology disproportionately misidentified people of color.

At the very same time, the technology was being used on surveillance footage from the Shinola store in Midtown to identify a Black man who had stolen $3,800 in watches — a scan that would eventually bring the controversial technology back to the forefront of Detroit politics.

It wouldn’t be until early this year that Detroit police would approach the man the software had pegged as a match. On Jan. 9, 42-year-old Robert Williams was arrested in his Farmington Hills driveway while his wife and two children looked on in disbelief.

After spending 18 hours in custody at the Detroit Detention Center, Williams was finally taken to an interrogation room, where investigators presented him with the surveillance images — proof, they said, that he was the thief. After repeated assertions that he was not the man pictured, Williams lifted one of the grainy images and held it next to his face. “I hope y’all don’t think all Black people look alike,” he told the officers. According to Williams’ defense attorney, Victoria Burton-Harris, the interrogation didn’t extend much beyond that. Police never even asked for his alibi, she told The Detroit News — though the investigators did let slip to Williams that it was “the computer” that had wrongly singled him out.

Nevertheless, an arraignment was scheduled. In addition to paying a $1,000 bond for his temporary release, Williams would have to hire a lawyer and appear in court before his case ultimately was dismissed by the Wayne County prosecutor’s office for insufficient evidence. Prosecutor Kym Worthy has made no secret of her skepticism about facial recognition technology, declining to prosecute any case that lacks corroborating evidence to supplement matches made by the software.

One of the few pieces of additional evidence offered in Williams’ case was his identification by a private security guard from a photo lineup, despite the guard having observed the perpetrator only via the same footage that was used for facial recognition analysis.

Williams doesn’t consider the dismissal of his case a true victory. “I don’t even know what it’s worth to not be arrested in front of your children,” he says. Because his case was dismissed without prejudice — meaning the prosecutor is free to file the same charges against him again at any time — Williams worries he could face the same ordeal a second time.

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a complaint it filed with the Detroit board of police commissioners in June. Phil Mayor, senior staff lawyer for the ACLU of Michigan, who is representing Williams, says simply dismissing the case is not enough. “In addition to the thousands of dollars he had to spend on a defense attorney to protect himself against baseless charges, he’s had to live with the fact that there is no guarantee this injustice and harassment are over for him,” Mayor says.

Williams’ complaint calls for the dismissal of his case with prejudice, removal of all photographs of him from facial recognition databases, a public apology from the Detroit Police Department, and an end to the department’s use of what Mayor calls “racist” and “inefficient” technology.

Despite frequent assurances by Detroit police Chief James Craig that the software is used simply as an investigative tool and is not, on its own, used to secure a warrant, Mayor says the use of facial recognition — which he calls a “high-tech stop-and-frisk” — will result in more false arrests and a continued waste of public resources. “The idea that they’ll conduct an investigation after facial recognition, where that investigation appears to consist of nothing more than a lineup, is a joke,” he says.

The Detroit City Council was scheduled to vote on whether to renew the police department’s contract with facial recognition software provider DataWorks in June. The decision was delayed, however, when the expectation that its members would vote in favor of renewal drew renewed public outcry.

Mayor hopes his client’s experience will shed further light on what he sees as the dangers of facial recognition: “This is just another tool used to over-police already oppressed and over-surveilled communities.”

The wrong man: Robert Williams with his family in the driveway where he was arrested in January.

selves that are ripe for mockery. The Mazda Titan Dump, the Ford Probe, and the Nissan Friend-Me were all actual monikers rolled out with a straight face.

And Fiat only took on its derisive nickname — Fix It Again, Tony — because of its products’ reputation for costly unreliability. But in July, when Fiat’s parent company, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, and Peugeot, the French automaker it expects to merge with, announced their new corporation name-to-be — ◊ Stellantis — it went over like, say, an Edsel.

The name is derived from “stello,” Latin for “to brighten with stars.”

Here’s the July 15 press release explanation, such as it is: “The name’s Latin origins pay tribute to the rich history of its founding companies while the evocation of astronomy captures the true spirit of optimism, energy, and renewal driving this industry-changing merger.” ?

Sure, sure. The announcement prompted the internet to take a brief break from toxic political discourse and cancel culture to rejoice in this comedic gift.

“Do not take Stellantis if you are pregnant or might become pregnant,” wrote @Midnightdorifto. The tweeter behind @MotorTrend, alluding to the word’s similarity to the erectile dysfunction drug Cialis, urged: “Ask your doctor if Stellantis is right for you.” Other jabs were more practical. “If your company is named Stellantis and [you’re] not building star ships, you’re disappointing everyone,” tweeted @NoACSlater.

Corporate name changes often bemuse the internet. Alphabet, the name Google chose for its parent company in 2015, is usually ignored by all but the most straitlaced business journalists.

In 1987, United Air Lines announced it would change its corporate name to Allegis, which none other than shareholder Donald J. Trump said sounded “like the next world-class disease.” The name was abandoned the following year. In the case of Stellantis, Chad Livengood, the Crain’s Detroit Business scribe, wondered derisively whether it was the brainchild of “the former executives of TRONC,” the name given in 2016 — and given up in 2018 — to Tribune Publishing Co. Stellantis does have at least one highprofile pseudo-defender. Autoblog’s Greg Migliore’s praise in a blog post included the not-so-effusive note that it “could be worse.” It’s better, he notes, than “FCA-PSA or PSA-FCA.” And, perhaps most important: “Your Jeep will not say Stellantis on the fender.”

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MAGARET SPELLINGS The former education chief on pandemic schooling and the state of the GOP

What’s Cooking In Michigan Labs // BY LINDSAY KALTER

// BY STEVE FRIESS

of Margaret Spellings, the nation’s eighth secretary of education. She rose to prominence helping then-Gov. George W. Bush of Texas devise school reforms that would become the basis for the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act during his presidency. Later, she served as president of Bush’s foundation and library.

Yet Spellings, who was born in Ann Arbor while her father was earning a doctorate in geology at the University of Michigan (the family later moved to Texas), is among the many old-line Republicans who are unhappy with the current administration. In Spellings’ case, the distress is amplified by dismay over what she considers inadequate guidance from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for schools facing the start of a school year amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s why she joined up with Texas 2036, a think tank for centrists seeking to put forth policy ideas that can draw bipartisan support.

In fact, Spellings, 62, and Obama Education Secretary Arne Duncan have joined forces this summer to offer their suggestions, she says, to fill the void coming from Washington. She spoke with us in late July about that as well as her Michigan roots and her assessment of the current GOP. HOUR DETROIT: What were the differences between growing up in Michigan and then Texas?

Oh, gosh. Obviously, the weather. As a young child, I remember snow, which we don’t have in Texas. And that university community, that small-town feel, whether it was Ann Arbor or when my grandmother lived in Wayne. Houston is big and sprawling and always has been. In the early 1960s, Ann Arbor wasn’t.

MARGARET SPELLINGS:

Republican governors and served eight years for a Republican president, no, I don’t recognize a lot of what I hear and see.

Did you vote for President Trump in 2016?

I’d rather not say.

Will you vote for him this year?

No. Will you vote for Joe Biden?

I haven’t decided.

How are Betsy DeVos and the president handling the question of how or whether to open schools this fall?

What came out of the administration was either untimely — i.e., too late — or not useful locally. The CDC guidelines only came out last night. Schools for months have been thinking about and planning for fall returns based on local health conditions and their populations and their workforce, and rightly so. One thing that would have been useful was for the administration to convene experts in facilities planning and mental health and health experts and on and on. Not that it would be a directive, but guidance and useful expertise would have been helpful. Alternatively, people have had to invent all of that on their own.

You have said kids can and must go back to school, but many school districts are opening virtually.

Paramount to that is recognition of the local conditions and adaptability. In Texas, our commissioner has said pick a mode — online, blended, or in-person — for a grading period. You can change your mind — just give us some notice. All policymakers recognize we can’t sit in our state capitals or in Washington, D.C., and say, “You must go Do you regard yourself as a Texan and a Midwestback to school even though you live with a cancerous, erner? I really do claim Texas as my home diabetic grandmother or whatever.” But I don’t state. But I have a lot of affection and affinity want it to get lost in all this that the NationMargaret Spellings sees “no risk-free and respect for Ann Arbor in particular and al Academies of Science and the American way” to get kids the great university that is the University of Academy of Pediatrics are very concerned, as back to school.

Michigan — so much so that my child went am I, about the lack of productive learning. there.

Teachers are the first adults to observe issues related to child abuse, hunger, or mental health, What are your thoughts on the current not to mention learning issues. To the maxistate of the GOP? mum extent possible, students need to be It’s regrettable. Americans yearn for with their teachers and learning with their their elected leaders coming together peers. There is no risk-free way to do that to solve problems, and they underin fall 2020, but that is the balancing act. stand that the dreaded c-word, comHas anyone in the federal government promise, is necessary to advance the asked for advice from you or Secretary interests of the American people. As Duncan? No. That’s not their way in terms my youngest daughter tweets, SMH. of the pandemic or otherwise. [DeVos] Shaking my head. For somebody probably doesn’t feel like she has who worked for the Republican any reason to be in touch with Party of Texas on a couple of us, I guess. occasions and worked for two

A video game that reports domestic abuse: Amelia “Mimi” Rave, a computer science major at the University of Michigan, is creating a downloadable Google Chrome extension that looks like a game but is actually a way for users to alert authorities about a dangerous home situation. The rising senior expects the tool to be ready in August. The game, inconspicuously named CoMude, will include prompts that ask users questions about their home lives. If answers indicate signs of abuse or neglect, authorities will receive a notice letting them know where the user is based on their IP address.

Nanoparticles that feast on deadly plaques: Bryan Smith, a biomedical engineering professor at Michigan State University, is among a group of scientists who created a nanoparticle that can eat through plaques that cause heart attacks.

The particle, dubbed Trojan Horse, engulfs dead or diseased material, reducing the amount of plaque. The goal is to use the nanoparticle as a future treatment for atherosclerosis, an arterial disease and a leading cause of death in the United States.

Researchers published a study on the Trojan Horse’s effectiveness in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. Smith has filed a provisional patent and will begin marketing it later this year. The next step is to test the nanoparticle in animals and people. —Lindsay Kalter

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Studying octopuses to build better prosthetics: Michigan State University neuroscientist and neuroengineer Galit Pelled received a $2.35 million grant this spring from the National Institutes of Health to study the complex movements of octopuses. The goal is to understand how they control their tentacles and then use that knowledge to build “smart prosthetics” that can be controlled by the brain. Pelled and her team are using electrodes to study the impulses that dictate the octopus’ movements, which are tracked and analyzed by artificial intelligence software and waterproof video cameras. Each octopus tentacle has an axial nerve, much like a spinal cord, with a large range of motion.

Pelled says her work may someday improve the lives of people who have lost limbs.

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‘A VIEW WITH A ROOM’ Discover the immense appeal of a tiny waterside getway // BY MEGAN SWOYER

Dawn and Chris Jacobs’ 450-square-foot retreat in Holly offers stunning views of Spring Lake.

PHOTOGRAPH BY BETH SINGER

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Tiffany Edison is contemplating her next getaway. Edison, owner of Birch Design Associates, is heading to the 1,200-squarefoot 1955 log cabin-style retreat she and her husband recently purchased in Webster Township, not far from their home in Ann Arbor.

The busy designer is a pro at spotting small-cottage potential.

It was just three years ago that she put her skills to work on everything from the kitchen to the sleeping spaces in her previous cottage on Portage Lake in Dexter Township. That cottage, built in the 1940s, measured 764 square feet.

When Edison bought her first cottage, she had no idea how comforting such a small space could be. Since then, her miniretreat has come in handy for escaping everything from Ann Arbor’s hustle and bustle to COVID-19. Because she knew how beneficial casual and relaxed cottages are, especially for her merged family of five children, deciding to buy the red cabin, situated on a canal off the Huron River, was a no-brainer.

Less than an hour from Edison’s port is another wee wonder, where interior designer Dawn Jacobs and her husband, Chris, take in the beauty of Holly’s pastoral offerings.

“I [enjoy] sitting on my picnic table working, looking out to gorgeous surroundings and serene Spring Lake,” says Jacobs, the owner of Artichoke Interiors in downtown Holly. Her 20-by-20foot retreat is about 450 square feet (there’s also a splendid loft, where the master bedroom is located). Jacobs says the cottage is “pretty much one room, with the kitchen and living room all in one space. I call it a ‘view with a room.’”

“I like the idea of small, more intimate getaways,” says interior designer Denise Seifferlein. As owner of D’Avignon Interiors in Clarkston, she’s worked on a variety of projects and says that if she were designing a second home, it wouldn’t be immense.

Designers, homeowners, and those in the real estate business are finding that little equals big. Small waterside getaways provide the feel of an escape without the headaches and expenses that come with purchasing large second homes.

Mark and Christine Kilmer, sales agents for Heritage House Realty Oscoda-AuSable, sell lakeside homes from Tawas to Black River (from about 800 to 3,000 square feet) in northeast Michigan, and the ones on the small side right now are selling faster than the speedboats that zip around the region’s inland waters.

“We’ve just about sold out everything on Cedar Lake [in Alcona County],” says Mark, a longtime real estate agent and entrepreneur. “If agents up here don’t make it now, they never will. If it’s on the water, it’s gone.”

From her professional and personal observations, Realtor Suzanne Walker of Max Broock-Birmingham notes that buyers are more excited when they’re buying second homes that are on the smaller side. “They’re more affordable, and less money is spent on upkeep,” Walker says.

Tucked away on northeast Michigan’s Little Island Lake sits an enchanting updated cottage where fresh, watery blues (on both the exterior and indoors) mingle with peaceful neutral hues.

“It was a plain brown cottage, both inside and out,” interior designer Seifferlein says. She was called on by its homeowners to transform the cottage, located in National City, about 15 minutes west of Tawas City, into an inviting getaway.

“My husband wanted a small, nice house that’s turnkey,” the wife explains. She and her husband bought the cottage in 1995 and started its transformation about five years ago. “Denise [Seifferlein] is awesome. She figures out her clients’ personalities, 2 2 HOURDETROIT.COM // SEPTEMBER 2020

Small wonder: Tiffany Edison’s log cabin-style cottage in Webster Township offers a low-maintenance escape.

“I didn’t want a ‘lake home.’

This is fun and easy, and you don’t get upset when people track sand in.”

—T I F FA N Y EDISON

and that’s hard to do.”

Indeed, the designer whipped the nondescript brown bungalow into the beauty it is today, while retaining all of its endearing qualities. “We had an upholstered headboard made for the master bedroom, and all the window treatments and throw pillows were custom-made,” Seifferlein says. The color inspirations came from fabric patterns that included blues in the main living space and eclectic oranges and blues in the guest bedroom. The rest of the cottage was furnished modestly.

“The family has enjoyed the place for snowmobiling and boating, but now they want it to be cozier, welcoming, and to use it for entertaining their friends,” Seifferlein says. She worked with a local contractor to add height and square footage to the main living space, and they added more windows to “bring the outdoors in.” She also added a front entryway. “Before, there was a door that opened to the driveway; now there’s an entryway to the home.”

Like Seifferlein’s project, Edison’s Dexter Township oasis needed a dose of curb appeal. When Edison bought the bungalow-style cottage, it was white with black shutters. “I had it THIS PAGE: PHOTOGRAPH BY MARTIN VECCHIO; OPPOSITE PAGE: INTERIORS

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Small-Space Design Tips  Think multipurpose.

“A cutting board can be a serving tray,” says interior designer Dawn Jacobs, of Holly-based Artichoke Interiors. “And a storage trunk can be a coffee table.” Adds interior designer Denise Seifferlein, of D’Avignon Interiors in Clarkston: “Furniture that’s easily movable can do double duty, like ottomans or kitchen seating.”

Left: Designer Denise Seifferlein used watery blues and peaceful neutrals to transform a plain brown cottage on Little Island Lake.

Below: Tiffany Edison relaxes at her tiny lakeside retreat.

 Consider creative storage systems. “For example, beds can have drawers under them,” Jacobs says. Tiffany Edison of Birch Design Associates adds: “A custom banquette/ eating area was constructed in a corner of our family room and provides storage under the seating surfaces.”  Add sleeping space.

Main living areas can accommodate overnight guests, especially if there’s a sofa that pulls out to become a bed, Edison notes.

 Skip heavy drapery.

“Consider window shades for privacy, and keep those colors light,” Seifferlein says.  Go with white. Edison used Sherwin-Williams’ Snowbound paint in a satin finish on all the first-floor walls and used a semigloss finish on her wood ceilings.

The white theme was continued throughout the galley kitchen, with floorto-ceiling subway tile in the same hue.  Retain character.

Edison’s original enamel sink unit maintains the character of the space.

It was reglazed to match the newly installed kitchen cabinetry, lending a seamless aesthetic.  Up your entertaining game. “We built a deck on for extra seating for entertaining,” Edison says.

painted light gray with white trim and selected cobalt blue for the shutters to add a pop of color,” she says.

As for the interior, she sensed she could turn it into a delightful retreat. “It had lots of paneling, including wood on the ceilings. I knew that when I painted all the paneling white, it would look sharp.” The stark white of the space is broken up with a bold cement floor tile throughout the kitchen and firstfloor bath, featuring a geometric pattern of white, navy, and turquoise.

Small-cottage owners and designers are often some of the first to discover that luxurious appointments don’t necessarily create the perfect getaway. “The goal for the [Little Island Lake] cottage wasn’t to bring in high-end things, but to create a space that maintains that cozy feel the homeowners wanted,” Seifferlein says.

Homeowner and designer Jacobs admits she had entertained the idea of making her mini-retreat in Holly larger and grander, and perhaps turning it into her family’s main home. “But then you don’t have a getaway anymore,” she says, “and we love that feeling of leaving home to go to the cottage.”

Designers stress that to maintain the carefree nature of small getaways, homeowners should aim for function first, and then beauty.

For example, Seifferlein says, “We only put rugs in the bedrooms, so there’s a cozy spot for feet when getting out of bed.

Most of the home’s flooring is a light, maintenance-free, wideplank-engineered wood flooring that doesn’t show dust and is easy to clean. The biggest issue in small spaces is storage, so we [added] a pantry and a stackable washer and dryer in the utility room to allow for more in-house storage.”

Jacobs says her tiny Holly chalet’s greatest appeal is the view: “With the entire back of the home all glass, you just see water and trees from the inside.”

Back in Ann Arbor, ideas are taking shape for Edison’s vintage red cabin. “I’m looking forward to making some great changes,” she says. “It already has its rustic cabin vibe and is taking on a good feeling.

“These smaller cottages are carefree and easy to clean,” she adds. “I didn’t want a ‘lake home.’ This is fun and easy, and you don’t get upset when people track sand in.”

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your home décor, Detroit-based print, pattern, and textile designer Shayla Johnson of Scarlet Crane Creations makes the case for minimalist screen-printed art, home goods, and textiles made with all-natural fabrics and eco-friendly inks.

It was in Chicago that Johnson, 43, started her business selling stationery featuring her illustrations. After moving to Detroit with her husband in 2012, Johnson soon found her place in the city’s maker community and began designing patterns for fabric. She sold stationery and tea towels at The Rust Belt Market and presented her work at art fairs and expos in Detroit, Ypsilanti, and Ann Arbor. In 2017, she moved into the local retail shop and craftwork studio Post by Mutual Adoration, where her printing house is located, and where she does watercolor and screen-printing demonstrations.

“I learned about [Detroit’s artistic community] even before I moved here,” Johnson says. “People were telling me, ‘Wow, it would be a great place for you because artists are finding some great places to create.’”

Her inspirations are rooted in her surroundings. The Detroit Collection, done in partnership with local cut and sew businesses, pays homage to the city’s architecture. It features throw pillows, tea towels, and bags with Art Deco motifs inspired by the Guardian, Fisher, and Penobscot buildings. Her botani-

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“When I see [my vision] really hit home for some people, that just makes me smile.”

— S H AY L A JOHNSON

cal watercolor prints depict abstract poppies and lavender, and dahlias found at the organic cut flower farm Detroit Abloom.

Johnson also designs fabric patterns for licensing and hopes to expand her offerings to more apparel and painted wall art, a new pastime she picked up during quarantine.

Johnson is an ambassador of Nest’s Makers United program in Detroit. Launched in June, the program is coordinated by fashion designer Tracy Reese and the nonprofit Nest to provide resources for local artisans.

Johnson says nothing is more rewarding for her than when people understand her vision: art that is both useful and beautiful. “When I see it’s really hit home for some people, that just makes me smile,” she says.

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A BICYCLE CHAIN REACTION The pandemic got lots of people back on the road — for better or worse // BY PAGE GARDNER

A rise in new cyclists calls for a refresher on cycling etiquette. Here are a few pointers for riding responsibly:

“IT’S AS EASY AS RIDING A BIKE.”

That is, if you can find one.

When local bike shops began gearing up for their usual spring sales, none could have foreseen what was coming down the road: an unprecedented bicycling boom that, combined with pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions, left bikes and bike parts hard to come by this summer.

As quarantine began, bike sales soared. Besides being a fun and dynamic workout, cycling is easy to do at a safe distance from others, making it an ideal quarantine activity. By midspring, bike supplies had dried up and shops were left empty-handed. Sales of bikes and bike parts, as well as spending on repairs, almost doubled from March of 2019, according to market research company The NPD Group.

After just “two weeks of nonstop bike sales,” Zachary Pashak, owner of Detroit Bikes, realized he was going to have trouble keeping up with demand. “Online sales were 10 times higher than they were at the same time last year,” he says. “It was almost overwhelming.”

Those not rushing to buy new bikes were busy dusting off their old ones and hurrying to get them road-ready. Rob West, head mechanic for Velofix Detroit, says the repair business has been “off the charts.” Velofix is the only fully mobile bike repair service in metro Detroit, meeting customers at their chosen location. “We never closed down because I don’t have to have contact with people to do my work,” West says. “Because there’s no contact, and we fix bikes on the spot, you don’t have to leave them at a shop for weeks at a time. We’re extremely backed up.”

While repairs may be backed up, for Detroit

“I have a lot of different customers than what I had seen before. I’m doing a lot more work for families. If there’s any bright spot in all of this, it’s that.”

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Remember These Rules Of the Road

 Go with traffic.

If you’re road biking, going against the grain can be deadly. Going with the flow of traffic makes you more visible to drivers and makes it safer for them to get around you.  Know your local laws.

A quick search for “Michigan bicycle laws” will tell you all you need to know about the legality of your ride. Failing to abide by the rules can result in a civil fine.

A classic: Detroit Bikes has started manufacturing the iconic Schwinn Collegiate cruiser.

Bikes, not having as many bikes to sell has brought opportunity. Amid the national shortage, Pashak says Detroit Bikes is “back in full force. … The factory is slammed trying to keep up with the demand. We have all kinds of customers — individual, institutional. We’re building them all and just trying to keep up.”

On top of working furiously to meet demand for their own models, Detroit Bikes staff members have begun production of a classic Schwinn model, the Collegiate cruiser, bringing production for the iconic bicycle brand back to the U.S. for the first time since 1982. Schwinn Collegiates made by Detroit Bikes were expected to be available online through Walmart starting sometime in August.

Despite the depleted stock and long waits for repairs, West says the future of cycling as a hobby is looking bright. “There’s been some good things about this all, too, because there’s a lot more families out riding,” he says. “I have a lot of different customers than what I had seen before. I’m doing a lot more work for families. If there’s any bright spot in all of this, it’s that.”

For those searching for a bike who are unable to get their hands on one, Pashak recommends the MoGo bike share program in metro Detroit, which offers an efficient and fun way to cruise around the city. Stationed throughout 10 neighborhoods, MoGo hubs offer rentals of standard, electric, and adaptive bikes for just 25 cents a minute.

And if that’s not your speed, Pashak suggests a more DIY solution: “Pull out your old bike, pop on a YouTube video, and get to work.”

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 Make yourself known.

Vocally and visibly, it’s important to make others aware of your presence.

If you’re passing someone, let them know you’re coming with a loud “On your left/right!” Wearing bright colors will also increase your visibility to other cyclists and drivers.  Limit headphone use.

As important as it is to make yourself known, it’s just as important to be aware of your surroundings to avoid injury and accidents. This is especially important on mountain bike trails: Leave the headphones at home.  Take care of the trails.

If you’re mountain biking, make sure it doesn’t turn into off-roading. Going off the trail can widen the path, which can destroy local flora, as well as worsen trail conditions for others. Don’t mountain bike when it’s wet, either, as that also worsens trail conditions. And make sure you pack up any trash you bring with you on the trail and dispose of it responsibly. —PG

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In basements, garages, and makeshift gyms, these elite athletes are keeping their Olympic dreams alive

GLORY DELAYS IT’S NOT EXACTLY THE WORLD-CLASS GYM HE’S ACCUSTOMED TO, BUT THE CAVE WILL

have to do for Myles Amine of Brighton. The garage at his cousin Jordan Amine’s house is outfitted with mats, weights, and a speaker system blaring motivational music. Weightlifter Kate Nye of Berkley and softball player Amanda Chidester of Ann Arbor have made similarly crude but necessary shifts.

All three were supposed to have competed in the Olympics in Tokyo this summer. Instead, thanks to COVID-19 and the ensuing global shutdowns, they’ve got at least another year to prepare. The games are now planned for July and August 2021, assuming the pandemic has been tamed and such large-scale events can convene again by then.

All of this leaves these top Michigan athletes in limbo. On the cusp of the ultimate competition and the opportunity to bring home the gold not just to the nations they represent but to their home state too, they wait, hope — and work to stay in top condition.

Hour Detroit wanted to know both how they came to the threshold of glory and how they’re holding up in unusual circumstances that, for the modern Games, can only be likened to the canceled 1916 and 1944 Olympics. 

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KATE NYE: WEIGHTLIFTING

AMANDA CHIDESTER: SOFTBALL

This wait will be a test of her inner strength AS HER 108,000 INSTAGRAM FOLLOWERS WHO

Thrown a curve, she sees a silver lining — time to build chemistry AMANDA

CHIDESTER

THOUGHT

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already overcome the biggest hurdle between her and the Olympics. After a 15-year softball career that included being a two-time All-American for the University of Michigan and winning several international titles with Team USA, she failed to make the national roster in January 2019.

The 30-year-old Allen Park native was crushed — and motivated.

“I could either look for people to blame or figure out what went wrong,” the slugger says. “I took an honest look at myself and knew I needed to play better defense and take full ownership of my training. I became even more dedicated, working out every day of the week and creating better habits, which set me up for success.”

Chidester, a catcher and infielder, signed on to play for the Chicago Bandits, a team in the National Pro Fastpitch league — the U.S.’s pro softball association — and dominated in the 2019 season. She batted .374 in 45 games with 15 homers — a better overall batting average with more home runs per season than she ever managed in her four seasons at U-M and a clear indication that she’d returned to form.

That left her brimming with confidence at tryouts for the 2020 Olympic team. Opportunities to play Olympic softball don’t come along often; the sport was last featured in the 2008 games and won’t be part of the 2024 lineup.

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Thus, the Tokyo games are almost certainly Chidester’s one shot at Olympic softball. At the tryouts in Oklahoma City in October 2019, she competed with 29 other women for 15 spots. On Oct. 6, she received the email: She was Tokyo-bound.

“I went into tryouts with a chip on my shoulder and ready to prove I belonged,” she says. “What a relief.”

The subsequent months saw the newly formed Team USA training, traveling, and playing exhibition games to tune up for the Olympics. They were in Seattle in March when the spreading pandemic halted the tour. Chidester headed to Orange, California, to ride out the start of the nationwide shutdown at her brother’s place. While she was there, the International Olympic Committee announced the 2020 games’ postponement.

“I was actually glad about the games being moved to 2021 because I started to think there was no way we were going to have enough time to really prepare as a team, and now we do,” she says.

Chidester stayed fit by running, playing basketball, biking, and practicing yoga. “I just kept moving,” she says.

She returned to Ann Arbor in late May before heading to Chicago to train with some of her Bandits teammates who, like her, have signed on to play for Chicago’s entry into a new pro softball league, Athletes Unlimited, that was scheduled to debut in August. The 2020 NPF season is canceled.

Then, she hopes, she and Team USA can get back to preparing for Tokyo.

“We should still have plenty of time to work together, build team chemistry, and be ready for the Olympics,” Chidester says.

“We will be bringing a team capable of winning gold to Tokyo, no doubt.”

devour her workout videos can attest, Kate Nye is strong.

In February, one clip showed her lifting a 330-pound barbell off a pair of wooden crates to her shoulders. Last year, the 21-year-old squatted 400 pounds.

That strength propelled the Rochester Adams High graduate to an Olympic berth in the 168-pound weight class based on her performances at several 2019 competitions, including being named the International Weightlifting Federation’s Female Lifter of the Year.

Yet by the time USA Weightlifting officially chose her for the team in May, the 2020 Olympics had been shoved into 2021 by the COVID-19 outbreak. On Twitter, she wrote that she was “absolutely crushed.”

“It’s pretty devastating,” she told WOOD-TV. “You plan for four years; you train for four years just to have an event. … It’s pretty hard.”

A couple months later, Nye is trying to keep her spirits up and looking ahead.

“I struggled with the news at first because I had to change my training for an Olympics that was now more than a year away rather than a few months away,” Nye says. “I had to be sure I was staying motivated and not getting burned out training.”

To that end, Nye stepped away from her at-home weight room — the garage — in Berkley for two weeks in May. She walked her dogs, did yoga, and road-tripped to Traverse City with her husband, Noah, whom she married when she was 19.

“I was fortunate to be training full time at home, so that continued as normal,” she says.

An Oakland University student studying health sciences, Nye embraced the switch to online classes and scored a 3.7 grade-point average for the spring semester, she says.

In mid-May, Nye painted the Olympic rings on a garage wall, just below where her awards hang. There are many; last year, she took gold in the World Weightlifting Championships in Thailand, becoming the youngest-ever American world champion lifter.

“I thought painting the rings would give me something else to do while sheltering at home and keep me motivated,” Nye says. “Awards above the rings show how far I’ve come, but the rings are a reminder there is still so much more I want to accomplish.”

PHOTOGRAPH OF AMANDA CHIDESTER BY JADE HEWITT; PHOTOGRAPH OF KATE NYE COURTESY OF USA WEIGHTLIFTING; PHOTOGRAPH OF MYLES AMINE BY KADIR CALISKAN/DPA VIA ZUMA PRESS

The Olympics take up most of the quadrennial oxygen, but four metro Detroit natives were hoping to head to Japan this summer, too, for the Paralympics, which are held immediately after the main games take place in the host city. They, too, must now hold out for at least another year.

Here are the elite local athletes you need to know about: WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL

Darlene Hunter, 38, of Walled Lake A Team USA standout who helped win gold in the 2016 Paralympics in Rio. She has a Ph.D. in family studies from Texas Women’s University and teaches about disabilities and social work at the University of Texas at Arlington.

She also founded the Lady Mavericks wheelchair basketball team. She lost her ability to walk after a spinal injury at age 4.

WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL

Matt Scott, 35, of Detroit A four-time Paralympian who helped Team USA win gold in 2016 and bronze in 2012. Scott, born with spina bifida,

began playing the sport at 14 and was nominated for an ESPY Award as best male athlete with a disability in 2008. In 2007, he appeared in an inspirational Nike “No Excuses” ad, and this year, The Undefeated has dubbed him the Steph Curry of wheelchair basketball.

WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL

Mike Paye, 37, of Warren A four-time veteran of the Paralympics for Team USA and a 14-year veteran of a German professional wheelchair basketball team. Paye, born with arthrogryposis, began playing at age 12 and won two National Wheelchair Basketball Association Intercollegiate Championships at the University of Texas at Arlington.

GOALBALL

John Kusku, 36, of Commerce Township A silver medalist for Team USA in Rio. Kusku took to goalball, a game played by people who are blind or visually impaired that involves rolling a hard rubber ball with bells inside through an opponent’s goal, at age 10. Kusku, who has the degenerative eye condition retinitis pigmentosa, is also a math and physics teacher at Oakland Schools Technical Campus-Southwest in Wixom.

—Mark Spezia

MYLES AMINE: WRESTLING

PARALYMPIC ATHLETES STUCK IN LIMBO, TOO

In a family of wrestlers, he’s not grappling with this alone THIS WAS THE SUMMER THAT SAN MARINO

was going to have its first Olympic wrestling entry. Myles Amine, a three-time University of Michigan All-American and two-time state champion for Detroit Catholic Central, was heading to Japan on behalf of the world’s fifth-smallest nation, the birthplace of his maternal grandfather.

Amine, 23, finished fifth in the 189-pound class at the 2019 World Championships in Kazakhstan last September to qualify to compete in Tokyo for San Marino, with which he holds dual citizenship with the U.S. Proving his mettle there, he bested two past World Championships medalists and the 2019 Pan Am Games gold medalist.

“Even though that was my first World Championships, I went in confident I could become an Olympian,” Amine says. “It’s a goal I kept written down. I could see how tough qualifying was going to be with all World Championships medalists in my bracket, but I just concentrated on getting through each matchup, and things ended up in my favor.”

Amine followed that performance with a silver medal at the 2020 European Championships in February in Rome just prior to Italy’s coronavirus shutdown. Then it was back to Ann Arbor to complete his business degree and prep for the Olympics at the Michigan Regional Training Center at U-M under supervision of two-time Olympic gold medalist Sergei Beloglazov.

That didn’t last long. COVID-19 shut down all university facilities in March, sending students home and moving classes online. Days

later, the Olympics were pushed to 2021.

Undeterred, Amine shifted his training to the basement of his parents’ home in Brighton with his brother, also a former U-M wrestler, and to his cousin Jordan Amine’s garage. There, he also worked out with Jordan’s brother, Cameron, also a U-M teammate.

“I was lucky training continued to go very well even when the stay-at-home order went into effect,” Amine says. “I still had great outlets for training and quality training partners.

I have never appreciated the workout areas at my house and my cousin’s more. The Olympics delay was tough at first, but I’m going to be better prepared with another year of training, so there’s no reason to be negative.”

Amine, who took last season off from the U-M team to focus on Olympic training, has one season remaining with the Wolverines because he’s going to graduate school for a sports management degree. That season will begin in November if the school doesn’t cancel or shift that, too.

“With the progress Myles made before the World Championships, it didn’t surprise me he qualified for the Olympics,” says U-M head coach Sean Bormet. “He’s very passionate and understands the great opportunity in front of us next season. Myles gets how important it is to just be present, enjoy camaraderie, and have fun in the midst of grueling training in order to truly be ready when special moments arrive.”

Amine intends to thrive when his Olympic moment arrives: “At first, my goal was to become San Marino’s first wrestling medalist.

Then I was like, ‘If I’m good enough to win a medal, I’m good enough to win gold.’”

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FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE EIGHT YEARS

IS YOUR Why notoriously pessimistic U-M election security expert Alex Halderman is kinda, sorta optimistic about November. In Michigan, at least.

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SECURE?

I’ve been writing about him, Alex Halderman has something positive to say about an election system. He’s usually a cheerful person, until the conversation turns to cyberthreats to democracy, and then he becomes the fellow who three years ago sat before the U.S. Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence, to darkly declare, “I know America’s voting machines are vulnerable because my colleagues and I have hacked them — repeatedly — as part of a decade of research studying the technology that operates elections and learning how to make it stronger.”

So when I ask him how well-prepared swing-state Michigan is as our calendar hurtles toward a presidential election — amid a pandemic — that features an incumbent who is already declaring the results tainted, I brace myself for the sort of doomsday assessment that is customary from the University of Michigan’s star computer security expert.

And then the twist: “There’s a lot of positive things happening in Michigan.”

Huh? Huh! “The state has so far resisted the urge to allow remote voting by email,” Halderman, 39, says via phone from his parents’ home in suburban Pennsylvania, where he and his wife are hunkered down amid the pandemic. “It continues to offer paper ballots, and, unlike states that have implemented ballot-marking devices for every voter, the vast majority of ballots in Michigan are filled out by hand. Michigan added online absentee ballot applications and voter registration — which does require careful security practice to implement well — but unlike online voting, that’s something we now have reasonably secure.”

Also, Michigan is likely to conduct a special kind of post-election review known as a risk-limiting audit, or RLA, of the 2020 presidential race that is designed to detect any major discrepancy between the paper ballots and the machine-counted tally that could suggest widespread vote-changing fraud. Halderman and others have been pushing states to do this for years, and now, finally, Michigan is one of eight states with plans for some form of RLAs, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Four other states, including Ohio, have made RLAs optional.

Perhaps it shouldn’t be so surprising that Halderman is relatively pleased — he does have what he calls “caveats” that we’ll get to — with where Michigan is right now. After all, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson appointed him in March 2019 as co-chair of her Election Security Commission, an 18-person panel that includes elections officials and other computer scientists. The group was due to issue a report by SEPTEMBER 2020 // HOURDETROIT.COM 3 7

the end of the summer; it was delayed from earlier this year by the coronavirus crisis, but the core recommendations include the RLA, Benson spokesman Jake Rollow says.

Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum, a member of the commission, says the meetings were a chance for cybersecurity experts like Halderman, who often rail to the media about problems they observe, to speak directly with elections officials who actually have responsibility for securing the vote. Often, she says, Halderman and others like him will draw public attention to security lapses based on lab conditions in which they have unlimited access to voting machines or tabulators, but such access is quite rare.

That may have helped Halderman come to a more accurate understanding of the risks, she says.

“We are able to speak to each other, and a lot of the preconceived thoughts about elections and how secure or insecure we were or will be were debunked,” she says. “Rather than throwing stones, we were speaking to each other. That is the first step to making our elections more secure.”

Motivated by 2000 IN COMPUTER SCIENCE CIRCLES, Halderman was a rock star long before he went to Capitol Hill to scare the bejesus out of everybody about the fragility of American democracy. As a Princeton graduate student, he and his mentor, professor Ed Felten, showed how easy it was to defeat Sony BMG’s attempts to prevent piracy.

Not long after that, Felten drew the promising young researcher into a project that would go on to inform much of Halderman’s career: electronic voting security. After the 2000 election debacle in Florida, with all those hanging chads and confusion about voter intent on paper ballots, Congress gave states more than $3 billion to modernize their voting machinery. This led to a widescale switch to touch-screen balloting and computerized tabulations, yet few states or equipment vendors would give independent researchers access to assess how secure those machines were. So, in 2006, Felten made contact with an elections insider willing to slip him a commonly used model.

This set up a scene reminiscent of a spy novel, with Halderman, then 25, meeting in an alley with a man in a trench coat who handed him a large leather briefcase containing the contraband voting machine. A few months later, the team posted a video online, showing the machine being hacked in a mock election in which Benedict Arnold wins the presidency despite voters clearly choosing George Washington.

That sort of cheeky antic became a signature feature of Halderman’s efforts to alert the public to technological insecurities. In 2010, most notably, the District of Columbia was planning to allow residents to vote via the internet in municipal elections. Online voting is, to Halderman, a particularly terrible idea and one he has worked against

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“An RLA for the November presidential election would be a major additional source of legitimacy and integrity.”

–ALEX HALDERMAN

by exposing security flaws in systems used in Australia, Estonia, and Norway.

To demonstrate and test the district’s system to the public, the city held a mock election a few weeks before Election Day. Halderman — then in his second year at U-M — saw this as “a fantastic opportunity to test out attacks in a live system but not an actual election.” His team easily broke in, altering votes without detection. In fact, the only reason anyone noticed the breach was the music on the “thank you for voting” page: His students had set the system to play “The Victors.” D.C. officials ditched the online voting idea and never returned to it.

This June, Halderman was at it again as Delaware attempted to allow voters to download ballots, mark them electronically, and then email them in for the state’s July 7 primary. Ballot-marking software, which is used widely to help people with physical disabilities fill out their ballots at home, can be manipulated by software to change votes as the ballots are transmitted via the internet to their destination. That problem is usually prevented by the voter printing out the ballot and mailing it in, but Delaware wanted to let people skip that step.

After Halderman co-wrote a June 7 paper describing the system’s vulnerabilities, Delaware hit pause on the email option. “My team and I did the security analysis and, basically, there’s no magic to it,” Halderman says. “It’s just another online portal for uploading or sending PDF files. That means that there’s no way for election officials, the voter, or the company who makes the system to actually be sure that the ballot that the voters filled in is the same as what election officials receive and count.”

Halderman is especially pleased with the emphasis on paper ballots in Michigan and renewed concerns about how they’re managed. In 2016, he led a large group of computer scientists that urged Democrat Hillary Clinton, who declined, and then

Mock the vote: Alex Halderman holds an experimental election at the University of Michigan in 2018 to show how vulnerable voting machines are to hacking.

Green Party candidate Jill Stein to demand recounts of votes cast in several states to ensure that the reported outcomes — narrow wins for Donald Trump — were accurate. That led to weeks of drama that bled past Thanksgiving and included a full recount in Wisconsin and a partial one in Michigan before state courts halted it.

In Michigan, recounts in many Detroit precincts were impossible because poll workers had not stored the paper ballots and the tabulator counts properly. Since then, Rollow says, the Legislature has provided matching funds to jurisdictions seeking to replace older and more vulnerable tabulators, and Benson’s office has emphasized training on how to handle elections materials after Election Day. Also, the expected RLA is a big deal. A risk-limiting audit is a process by which a certain number of ballots are selected at random for a hand check.

If the results are within a small margin of error of the results reported by the machine count, statisticians determine that the machine count is accurate and there’s no evidence of widespread fraud.

If the results are out of whack, more ballots are hand-counted at random until either the results do match the machine outcome or until all ballots are hand-counted. Such an audit is cheaper and faster than going directly to a full recount.

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Michigan conducted its first statewide RLA — the largest ever in the U.S. — as an experiment after the presidential primaries on March 10. State officials rolled dice to decide which 669 ballots from 277 jurisdictions would be randomly sampled and found that the results “mirrored the state’s official election results within 1 percentage point for the leading candidates in each primary, suggesting if an actual audit had been conducted the outcome of the election likely would have been confirmed,” a press release announced. “An RLA for the November presidential election would be a major additional source of legitimacy and integrity,” Halderman says.

Plenty of Risks Remain THIS IS NOT TO SAY HALDERMAN is unconcerned about Michigan. One eye-opening incident in June 2019 is an important reason.

My homeowner association in Washtenaw County held its membership meeting in the Superior Township meeting hall where, shockingly, the township’s ballot tabulators sat out unprotected in the back of the room. Sensing a major security risk, I emailed Halderman, and 15 minutes later, he and his graduate students came by to snap photos. Nobody touched the machines, but Halderman says an attacker easily could have infected one of the

“Seeds of doubt can easily be sown the longer it takes the results to come out.”

–BARB BYRUM, INGHAM COUNTY CLERK

tabulators with an undetectable vote-changing virus.

What’s more, when those tabulators went online to transfer the vote tallies to the county, had they been hacked, a virus could have entered the countywide system and then the state system, he says.

“This equipment is supposed to be stored securely in between elections, and if it’s not, it would be much easier for an attacker to have that kind of physical access to tamper with the programming in-

side the machine,” Halderman says. “Of course, we didn’t. But if the students I brought over with me and I were criminal attackers, we could have reprogrammed those machines so that they would cheat in subsequent races. It would be very, very difficult for election officials to tell that that had happened.”

Nobody from Superior Township returned calls for comment.

The incident also reflects why Halderman isn’t entirely at ease with Michigan’s voting. The state’s elections system is so decentralized that the front-line defense of democracy is left to township employees who often lack the imagination to understand how a lackadaisical approach in their office could undermine the confidence of an entire nation. There is often a “big disconnect between election officials’ realization that elections face cybersecurity risks and their own assessments of their own local jurisdictions’ security,” Halderman says.

Halderman is pleased that election security is finally being taken more seriously, although he and others are troubled by President Trump’s repeated and false claims that mail-in ballots “are very dangerous for this country because of cheaters.” While Halderman notes that “a large fraction of all documented cases of electoral fraud that are prosecuted in the United States have to do with absentee ballots,” he says that’s because those attacks are exceptionally easy to detect and foil.

Rollow agrees: “It’s not just a matter of you have to have access to somebody’s mail and all of that, but you have to have access to their signature; you have to be able to copy it correctly. The risk that somebody would be taking to do this and the difficulty that they would have to entertain to do it at any scale to make any difference in a large election, it doesn’t really pan out. That’s why it’s so infrequently attempted.”

The bigger vote-by-mail problem, Halderman and Byrum agree, is that elections officials may not be prepared to handle the massive surge in absentee ballots expected this year. Byrum and others have been calling on the Michigan Legislature to allow county clerks to process ballots — that is, take them out of their envelopes, match the signatures, and prep them for the tabulators — before Election Day. “If the Legislature doesn’t act, it’s going to be perhaps not a late night but a late morning after and perhaps a late afternoon after,” Byrum says.

“Seeds of doubt can easily be sown the longer it takes the results to come out.”

That is exactly what Halderman has spent a career fretting about. While he believes Michiganders can have confidence that their electoral votes will go to the correct presidential candidate, he also worries.

“Our election systems still, by and large, are not engineered to produce evidence that people can scrutinize in order to gain confidence in the results,” he says. “It’s likely to be quite a noisy fight for the trust of the public in November.”

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Cravahlo also generated some buzz back in April when she came out as bisexual via TikTok, in perfect Gen Z fashion.

While Ronen Rubinstein, 26, was born in Israel, his latest television role is deeply American. On Ryan Murphy’s 9-1-1: Lone Star, Rubinstein plays T.K. Strand, an openly gay firefighter and recovering opioid addict who relocates with his father (Rob Lowe) to Austin, Texas. Rubinstein says the show, which premiered in January this year, has inspired many first responders to come out to him.

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Growing up, the North Carolinanative often drove to New York with her family to watch her aunt perform in student acting showcases at Juilliard. Through her performance as Kiesha Williams on Lena Waithe’s Showtime drama The Chi, Baker hopes to amplify the voices of missing and abused Black women. On the third season, which aired June 21, Baker’s character was promoted to a series regular. She’ll also play the main character in the forthcoming short film Circuit, which sheds a light on human trafficking.

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CULTURE IN THE TIME OF COVID

Virtual arts are a pale imitation of transcendent live experiences, but let’s appreciate them nonetheless

BY CHRISTOPHER PORTER

I WANTED TO BARF.

My midsection was pressed against the upstairs balcony railing, which was acting as a kickstand for the broken-down bicycle that was my body.

My legs — and throbbing brain — had gone to jelly on that March 8, 1992, evening at Saint Andrew’s Hall during My Bloody Valentine’s extreme exploration of “You Made Me Realise.” The song is a 3-minute, 46-second noise-pop blast on record, but in concert, the Irish shoegaze pioneers weaponized it, holding a single chord anywhere from 15 minutes all the way to an anti-social 35.

It’s the sort of thing you might imagine being subjected to at a CIA black site, and this regular portion of My Bloody Valentine concerts came to be known informally as the “holocaust section.” But the band approached this nightly assault not as torture but as a search for transcendence.

Drowning out the pain in pursuit of pleasure.

When my legs finally gave out, I slid down the railing and fell against it, my hands smashed against my ears, my mind filled with alternating sensations of regret, bliss, aches, and the electricity of life.

It was like an indie-rocker’s Temptation of Christ: If you could withstand the desire to run out of the club, if you could suppress the urge to have your dinner exit your piehole, if your rib cage could just hold its frame around your heart a bit longer, it would feel like angels were administering to your soul and you would come out the other side touched by the hand of God. After I passed through the vomit stage of MBV hammering “You Made Me Realise,” then past the legs-not-working plateau and the fear of my liver exploding, the band’s wall of feedbacking amps finally felt like heaven to me.

The possibility for this sort of art-induced spiritual sensation is what I miss most during the COVID-19 crisis, where the smart people among us have necessarily turned to virtual living to mitigate the virus’ spread.

It’s not that I’m prone to Stendhal Syndrome, named after the 19th-century French writer (née Marie-Henri Beyle) who was so overcome by the frescoes at Florence’s Basilica of Santa Croce during his 1817 visit to Italy that he felt physically weak. As Stendhal wrote in his autobiography, Souvenirs d’égotisme (Memoirs of an Egotist), “I was in a sort of ecstasy, from the idea of being in Florence. ... Absorbed in the contemplation of sublime beauty ... I reached the point where one encounters celestial sensations. ... Everything spoke so vividly to my soul. ... I had palpitations of the heart, what in Berlin they call ‘nerves.’ Life was drained from me. I walked with the fear of falling.”

As much as I want a Facebook Live concert by my favorite musician to give me the “fear of falling,” it won’t happen. Staring at my phone, or my laptop, or my TV and watching a concert is a 2D experience in a 3D world, a stereo blip in a continuous surround-sound existence. My constitution is a little more robust than Stendhal’s, so the last time I went to the Detroit Institute of Arts, I didn’t spit up on my shirt with excitement after viewing the Diego Rivera mural, and the physical response I had at the MBV concert isn’t how I usually react to a concert — I clap like the rest of you.

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an artistic experience in the flesh. Feeling that wave of emotion that sweeps a room when an author reads a gripping passage.

The way an audience holds and exhales its collective breath as a dancer makes and lands an impossible leap. The sense of awe when a saxophonist nails an otherworldly solo. The supreme uplift people feel at the end of a stage production — the crowd, the actors, and the stage crew all sharing a moment of appreciation for one another.

COVID-19 isn’t going away anytime soon, and shared emotional experiences will mostly be online for the foreseeable future. But don’t let COVID-19 take away your humanities. (Pun intended.)

While the endless string of virtual concerts from musicians’ bedrooms can’t replace 5,000 people roaring at the end of a song at the Fox Theatre, you owe it to yourself not to let music become something that’s pushed to the background of your life.

This is true of any cultural activity, but since we began with music, let me treat it as a stand-in for all the arts.

It’s common to quote that one line about music by Duke Orsino from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, but the whole stanza is worth meditating on in our current circumstance.

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

The duke sounds drunk in love with music, but he’s speaking from a place of melancholy — self-important and whiny ILLUSTRATION BY JOE FICORELLI

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BY CONNOR MCNEELY REMEMBER “GOING TO THE MOVIES”?

It’s one pre-pandemic pleasure that has been nearly impossible to recreate — unlike, say, dining out — even as the state’s safety restrictions have eased.

Sure, drive-ins have allowed us to watch movies on the big screen.

The 70-year-old Ford-Wyoming Drive-In in Dearborn even ranked as the top-grossing theater in the country for a time in June. But that’s no substitute for slipping into a cushy chair in a darkened theater, surrounded by fellow cinephiles and the scent of buttered popcorn as a projector casts characters from behind us like images in a dream.

It may be a while before we get to enjoy that experience again.

In the meantime, local, independent cinemas specializing in artsy, indie, and foreign films have leaned into virtual offerings to keep movie lovers occupied. Here’s what two are doing until they can welcome patrons in person once again.

I miss even a fraction of the passion that welled up in me when I could share an artistic experience in the flesh.

though he may be — due to his unrequited adoration for Lady Olivia. Rather than deal with his emotions, the duke wants to gorge on his passion, hoping that a surfeit of sounds will soothe his broken heart.

Now is the time for all lovers of music, art, theater, film, and written word to stuff ourselves sick with our passions, to support the creators we love, and to become our own demiurges by shaping the physical world around us using all the virtual tricks that are offered in The Internet Age. Just because we are confined to our homes doesn’t mean our homes have to confine us, our creativity, our desire to connect with humanity through artistic expressions.

Take the virtual culture world for what it’s worth — a temporary measure, a crucial stopgap — and allow it to be your ballast where there is none, an anchor in an unmoored time, and a feast when it feels like there is no food.

Do not let your appetite for art sicken and die during this painful time, because you’re gonna need a post-COVID-19 appetite the next time My Bloody Valentine comes to Detroit and tries to make you transcend your last meal.

Christopher Porter Porter is an editor and writer who helms a2pulp.org, the Ann Arbor District Library’s arts and culture blog.

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THE FILM LAB

CINEMA DETROIT

As a nonprofit, Cinema Detroit is metro Detroit’s “only truly independent theater,” curating seven-day-a-week screenings of contemporary, indie, cult, genre, and classic films. The building in Midtown is the former Weber Furniture Store, and it proudly carries Faygo among its concessions. It’s now offering ticketed, virtual screenings through its website, showing titles that have included John Lewis: Good Trouble, a 2020 documentary about the late congressman and civil rights legend. It has also hosted well-received drive-in screenings of the Prince classic Purple Rain at the city’s former Herman Kiefer Health Complex.

Hamtramck’s microcinema and craft cocktail bar is situated in an old Polish Legion of American Veterans building and still retains the original 1920s marble bar.

It’s not your typical red-cushionseat theater, but rather a woodpaneled cocktail lounge with tables and chairs for seating. It has also recently provided virtual screenings through its website and will be hosting a virtual edition of its fourth annual Cine Mexico Now Film Festival — a celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 through Oct. 15) and Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16). The cinema has also been having Summer on the Patio screenings, featuring such films as Pan’s Labyrinth and The Thing.

View The Film Lab’s lineup of films at thefilmlab.org.

View Cinema Detroit’s lineup of films at cinemadetroit.org.

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IDEAS

STILL TALKING

Its ambitious 2020 plans upended, TEDxDetroit pivots to keep the ideas flowing with a lineup of online talks

BY KATHY GIBBONS

TEDxDetroit has had to pivot from the way it normally presents its annual celebration of ideas.

Since 2009, TEDxDetroit has featured more than 250 doctors, filmmakers, educators, engineers, poets, and others it describes as offering game-changing concepts in an annual one-day event. It was originally scheduled for Sept. 30 this year as a full schedule of live talks, exhibits, videos, performances, and more at a new venue, Ford Field, with a hope of accommodating 5,000 to break previous attendance records. Organizers have now made the decision to take it virtual for attendees — and possibly speakers, too.

Janet Tyler, a leadership development expert and executive coach with her own consultancy, Novi-based True Depth, has been a key TEDxDetroit leader for 11 years. As one of four volunteer executive producers — there’s no paid staff — she serves as marketing and communications director, also assisting in planning, coordination, and coaching and preparing presenters.

At press time, she and other leaders were continuing to work out the way this year’s event, still scheduled for Sept. 30, will look. They were also hoping to identify a pared-down speakers’ lineup by mid-August. Access to view the talks will be free, Tyler says, as opposed to typical ticket prices of $75 to $125 to attend in person. Here, Tyler shares her thoughts about the event and its impact — regardless of format.

LIKE JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE IN THESE COVID TIMES,

HOUR DETROIT: So what do you know about 2020 so far?

JANET TYLER: For us, it doesn’t matter whether the event is virtual — whether the speakers will be on stage and we are recording or [they are] doing it from home. We are really hoping it will allow for some kind of mixed event. If we’re able to do an in-person component — I’m thinking 50 people — they would really be there to support the speakers in some way. The rest would be virtual just to keep everyone safe.

How did TEDxDetroit get started and how has it evolved?

My counterpart Charlie Wollborg saw that TED was opening up local licenses and they were going to be called TEDx and he jumped on it. It started at Lawrence Tech. There were a very small number of attendees at that show … then it moved into downtown and started rotating the venues (Gem Theatre, Masonic Temple, Fox Theatre, and Detroit Institute of Arts among them). We have 11 under our belt.

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Better days: TEDxDetroit’s Janet Tyler speaks at a pre-COVID-19 live event.

How did you get involved?

I was born and raised in Detroit, so in the beginning, it was really just shining a light on the absolutely positive stories … to show off these beautiful theaters and also a little bit of the “Detroit has a lot of positive things happening.” We were really taking our licks in the media 10 years ago. It was difficult to get people to come downtown from the suburbs and attend an event in the city, so for me it was really a point of pride. Now, looking at how far the committee has come, the attendees, our fans — we’d love to be able to say we had a little small part in the resurgence. Now it’s more about the renaissance of Detroit, but back in the day it was part of the fuel.

What do you look for in speakers?

Presenters have to have a connection to Detroit. So, if you are either a boomerang, or you may have the gentleman from Pixar [Detroit native James Murphy] who obviously doesn’t live in Detroit any longer but was from Detroit, so there’s a connection. We want it to be a relatively strong tie to the region, the five-county region around Detroit. It’s really egalitarian. You’ve got the area’s leading thinkers, designers, entertainers, entrepreneurs, artists, students.

What about the themes?

We’re looking for the interesting idea, the idea that’s worth sharing, and … there is not necessarily a call to action, but what is the learning someone can take away from that talk — whether it’s to educate, to inspire, or simply to entertain. I kind of look at TED talks through those three lenses. Sometimes you get two out of three, sometimes you get three out of three, and that to me is the magic sauce. When all of those things come together under one TED talk, it’s a wonderful mix.

Any thoughts beyond 2020?

2021 is going to be a great year for us. That’s one thing we do know. We have the energy, we have the volunteers, we have the history behind us and, like many events, we’re going to do something virtual [in 2020] that won’t be exactly the same, but we do want to connect with our community and the people who are fans of what we’ve built. But we’re going to see you next year bigger and brighter than we’ve been in the past, and hopefully at Ford Field, to hit that target number of 5,000.

PHOTOGRAPH OF JANET TYLER BY SHAUN WILSON COURTESY OF TED X

MUSIC ROBERT GLASPER

These Detroit TEDx Talks Are Still Fresh

Scheduled to perform Monday, Sept. 7

WHILE DETROITERS WILL MISS OUT ON seeing this year’s local TEDx talks in person, the good news is the talks will live in perpetuity online — just as presentations from every year do. Below are a handful of talks from previous years that truly stood out, as recommended by TEDxDetroit’s organizers. These and other talks are available on YouTube. WENDELL BROWN AND MATT LISTON Making an Extreme Positive from an Extreme Negative Matt Liston of Strike Media Inc. and a group of strangers teamed up to help free former Detroit high school football player Wendell Brown, an innocent American, from a Chinese prison. Brown shares his story and message of positivity. KATE BIBERDORF Creating a STEM Army of Women Kalamazoo native Kate “The Chemist” Biberdorf fires up the TEDxDetroit crowd about science, STEM education, evidencebased conversations, and inspiring the next generation of women scientists. JAMES FORD MURPHY Reinvention, Failures and Collaborative Inspiration Born in Detroit and now a director with Pixar Animation Studios, Murphy takes the audience behind the scenes to discuss how an idea becomes a film — and a song. CHRISTINE GIBBONS Using Sound Waves to Destroy Cancer Gibbons is the CEO of Ann Arbor-based HistoSonics, which uses the mechanical (not thermal) properties of focused ultrasound to precisely target tissues without damaging surrounding tissue or structures. She talks about how sound energy can destroy cancer. AMER ZAHR We’re Not White Raised in Philadelphia but a longtime Detroitarea resident, this Arab American comedian who is the child of Palestinian refugees shares his views on why Arab Americans need their own box on the U.S. Census.

A Note of Normalcy Tune out troubling news by tuning in to Detroit Jazz Festival’s virtual concerts

BY CHRISTOPHER PORTER A FEW MONTHS AGO, when everything was being canceled due to the pandemic, it seemed likely the Detroit Jazz Festival would have to accept the same fate. But the organizers of this Labor Day weekend tradition for the past 40 years had more time to figure out how the fest might proceed compared to the early summer festivals that had no choice but to call off their events.

That’s why the 41st Detroit Jazz Festival will run in 2020, in a safe and virtual way.

During the four-day fest (Sept. 4-7), three stages at the

SAM WHITE Shakespeare in Detroit Artist, activist, and entrepreneur Sam White founded Shakespeare in Detroit. Her talk — featuring actor Peter Knox as King Lear — explores what it takes to pursue a crazy dream. AARON DRAPLIN That Underdog Spirit: Tall Tales from a Large Man The graphic designer’s talk traces his own path from growing up in northern Lower Michigan to achieving success with his own business and associated enterprises. DR. RITA FIELDS How Eating From the Garbage Can Taught Me How to Lead Growing up with a mentally ill mother in Detroit, Fields became a homeless, pregnant high school dropout. Today, she’s a consultant and university professor who earned her doctorate. —KG

PHOTOGRAPH OF ROBERT GLASPER, PHAROAH SANDERS, MARION HAYDEN COURTESY OF DETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL

MARION HAYDEN Scheduled to perform Monday, Sept. 7

Renaissance Center Marriott will host 40-plus concerts shot with three cameras and broadcast in high-definition audio and video to a variety of platforms, including TV, radio, the festival’s website, and its new app. There will be no replays or on-demand options; you’ll have to watch and listen in real time.

Vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater is this year’s artist-in-residence, and she’ll be performing with a variety of ensembles every day of the festival, from a duo to big bands. She’ll kick off the fest on Sept. 4 with the Woodshed Network Ladies, and then jazz giant Herbie Hancock will take the stage.

That’s a terrific one-two punch, which will be followed by three more days of knockouts, from legends like Pharoah Sanders, Abdullah Ibrahim, and Kenny Barron to Detroit-area artists and collegiate groups. Other major names include Kurt Elling and Broadway star Ben Vereen, Gregory Porter, Robert Glasper, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Terri Lyne Carrington, dual pianists Omar Sosa and Marialy Pacheco, and The Manhattan Transfer combining its talents with Take 6 for a jazz-vocal extravaganza.

Days two through four of the

PHAROAH SANDERS Scheduled to perform Friday, Sept. 4

Detroit Jazz Festival will feature eight to 10 hours of performances, so you should head over to detroitjazzfest.org to map out the days and times of the artists you want to watch. Or you could just have the festival playing in the background at your house via Detroit Public Television, Channel 22 (Detroit’s new arts and culture station), WRCJ 90.9 FM, WDET 101.9 FM, or the Detroit Jazz Fest LIVE! app. For $20, the app will also give you access to all Detroit Jazz Festival livestreams for the next year.

COVID-19 changed everything. But it’s comforting to know the Detroit Jazz Festival found a way to present itself in 2020, a balm of tradition during a time when so many of our customs have been smashed.

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DESIGN

Core Values Intact

Altered but not ended by the pandemic, Detroit Month of Design offers an ambitious lineup

BY RACHAEL THOMAS THE PANDEMIC HAS PUT A DAMPER ON MUCH OF DETROIT’S

creative scene, but it hasn’t derailed Detroit Month of Design.

In fact, the event’s organizers even managed to add an ambitious new program this year with a bit of help from Gucci.

Created by the nonprofit Design Core Detroit, Detroit Month of Design has become an internationally recognized, month-long celebration held every September. Now marking its 10th year, the highly anticipated multidisciplinary festival promotes design as a catalyst for economic growth in the city, showcasing all facets of the field, including apparel and accessory design, architecture, urban planning, graphic design, animation, and user experience design.

“Design Core’s mission is to establish Detroit as a globally valued and recognized resource for creative talent,” says Kiana Wenzell, Design Core’s director of culture and community.

The event also honors Detroit’s designation as a UNESCO City of Design, a recognition the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization bestows to celebrate the unique design industries of select cities around the world. Detroit is the first and only U.S. city to receive the designation.

In a typical year, tens of thousands are drawn to Month of Design’s workshops, seminars, exhibits, tours, and open studios. In a concession to the pandemic, more than 20 of this year’s 65 events will be virtual, while in-person events will either be outdoors and guided or will require registration to control capacity.

Despite the pivot, Design Core is introducing a new program this year called Design in the City. Powered by a $45,000 grant from Gucci’s Changemakers North America Impact Fund, the program aims to support budding fashion and accessory designers. Seven self-taught and academically trained designers each received a $2,000 stipend to create installations and were paired with local commercial spaces to host their work through September. Five recent graduates of Detroit’s College for Creative Studies will also present a self-funded joint installation.

The participating designers received virtual mentorships from both the program’s support team and from an industry advisory council, which provided business plan and marketing support and guidance on creating their installation layouts.

The new program is modeled after a similar one in Graz, Austria, a fellow UNESCO City of Design. Wenzell and Design Core’s director of business programs, Bonnie Fahoome, submitted their Design in the City program idea — which they modified to focus specifically on fashion and accessory designers, with an emphasis on women and people of color — to the open call for Gucci’s grant program in late December. The project was selected in January in the first round of recipients.

“It’s our first year doing it, but it’s eye-opening and it’s a professional development program,” Wenzell says. “And that’s what some emerging designers really need to have a long-term career in the industry.”

One of those emerging designers is Katherine Johnson, 23.

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Designer and curator Katherine Johnson addresses systemic racism’s effect on the Black community in her installation, Internal Inferno.

Costume designer Nabeela Najjar’s installation, Softly Away, features garments and floral pieces inspired by nature and her dreams.

Artist and researcher Cristin Richard investigates the future of sustainability and the relationship between humans and nature in her installation, Excess Baggage.

since she started working on it. As an artist, she is inspired by events that directly affect her, her family, and the Black community, and her installation originally focused on the health disparities the Black community has faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. But the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor moved Johnson to take her installation a step further to address systemic racism as a whole.

“I wanted to break that down in my exhibition.

Speaking to my personal experience, hoping to sympathize with others and uplift the Black community,” Johnson says. “Speaking on systemic racism, but also our resilience and our beauty … how we’ll continue to rise and reach within ourselves and our communities and be the change that we want to see.”

Internal Inferno is hosted at Detroit-based cooking demonstration space The Kitchen, by Cooking with Que. Johnson will cover the space with digitally printed wallpaper and furniture coverings in an original textile featuring imagery that represents her and her ancestors.

Johnson will also present four garments that explore the “transformation from fire to love.” One will be her version of a hazmat suit: a hybrid of firefighting gear and personal protective equipment, in part symbolizing the virus.

Johnson’s installation is just one example of why Design Core thought it was important to emphasize women and people of color for the Design in the City program.

“You look at the design industry — there’s a lack of diversity,” Wenzell says. “It’s really important for me to have more multicultural voices heard and part of design processes. Because we’re all users of design, but we don’t always have a say … in the process of design.”

Visit designcore.org for the full list of Design in the City winners and installation locations.

PHOTOGRAPH OF KATHERINE JOHNSON, NABEELA NAJJAR, CRISTIN RICHARD, LOCAL COLOR: NATURAL DYES OF DETROIT, LINDSAY SPLICHAL COURTESY OF DESIGN CORE DETROIT

ART

A Detroit Month Of Design Sampler

See Art, for Real

Yes, you can still take in visual arts up close and personal. Here’s where and how to do it.

THIS YEAR’S DETROIT MONTH OF

Design will feature 65 virtual and in-person workshops, competitions, tours, and other events — below is a taste of what’s in store. Visit designcore.org for the entire festival lineup, registration information, and updates.

BY ASHLEY WINN

Something we’ve all shared throughout this tumultuous and divisive crisis has been our collective deprivation of meaningful, in-person experiences. Yes, many of us have taken part in online experiences — including virtual art classes and exhibitions — to fill the void. But there’s nothing quite like seeing the rich texture of brush strokes in the heavily layered oil paint of Van Gogh’s “Vase with Carnations” or the crags in the clay of an ancient African sculpture. So, we’ve curated a list of metro Detroit spaces that are finding safe ways to offer in-person connections with the visual arts.

Music x Design Enjoy house and techno music spun by DJs from Berlin, Chicago, and Detroit during this 24-hour livestream music event organized by AIGA Detroit. Celebrating these cities’ contribution to electronic music, each city will present four DJs who will each play a two-hour set. Sept. 3 and 4. No cost.

The Detroit Institute of Arts has reduced its hours to make way for ampedup cleaning and even a private viewing hour for art lovers considered “high-risk.” It has instated a number of new safety measures — including a temporary requirement that all visitors book tickets in advance — but all of its artistic wonders remain the same. The DIA boasts extensive collections of American art, international pieces, cultural works, famous European classics, and contemporary art, in addition to rotating special exhibitions.

Current habitants include From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700, which showcases works from a pivotal period in Northwestern European art. Aside from its namesake artists,

Local Color: Natural Dyes of Detroit Created by Kayla Powers, a Detroit-based textile artist and owner of Salt Textile Studios, Local Color is a yearlong study of natural dye plants and the presence of nature in an urban environment, presented through 12 tapestries that Powers dyed using plants foraged from around the city and wove from 50 skeins of wool. The weavings will hang in an outdoor installation along the Dequindre Cut for people to view at any time. Sept.

1-30. Opening event on Sept.

5. No cost. Dequindre Cut Greenway, Detroit.

Building Materials Printmaker and sculptor Lindsay Splichal’s exhibit explores her family’s construction heritage and the connection between architecture, space, and the mediums of sculpture and print. Organized

by Playground Detroit, Splichal’s exhibit will include monotypes designed with foam, paint, cement, asphalt felt, acrylic, and Xerox transfers. Attendees can register for a 30-minute individual or group viewing of the outdoor installation. Sept.

17-Oct 7. No cost. 8711 Grand River Ave., Detroit. —RT

the exhibit encompasses drawings from such masters as Hendrick Goltzius and Bartholomeus Breenbergh. Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313833-7900; dia.org The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit launched its Peter Williams: Black Universe exhibition at the beginning of the year, but it has since become particularly timely. Former Wayne State University instructor Peter Williams employs allegories, historical allusions, and references to his own personal experiences to create colorful and lively abstract works. Black Universe is a commentary on dominant modern culture that addresses social issues, such as discrimination and climate change, making it the ideal learning experience for those of



MUESEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT Peter Williams: Black Universe (curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah and Rebecca Mazzei) is on view through Jan. 10.

PHOTOGRAPH OF PETER WILLIAMS: BLACK UNIVERSE, COURTESY OF MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT, THE ARTIST AND LUIS DE JESUS, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. PHOTOGRAPHER: TIM JOHNSON; 48.174: SELF PORTRAIT IN A VELVET CAP WITH PLUME COURTESY OF THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART

us seeking a fresh or expanded perspective on race and culture in light of recent injustices and unrest. New screening and disinfecting protocols are in place to keep visitors safe. Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 4454 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-832-6622; mocadetroit.org Summer is usually full of art fairs and shows that offer rising artists patronage and exposure. With such events all but wiped out, local artists have found themselves in a slump. With that in mind, Royal Oak’s popular, annual art extravaganza, Arts, Beats & Eats — though also canceled — has initiated “Art by Appointment” sessions. On Sept. 5 and 6, patrons can schedule appointments to view works from up to 20 participating juried fine artists in person. Only 50

OLD MASTERS See From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700 at the DIA. Pictured is Rembrandt’s “Self Portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume.”

tickets will be sold for each time slot to allow for safe social distancing. Tickets are $30 and come with a $25 voucher to go toward your favorite piece.

Visit the website to see a gallery of work from participating artists.

Soaring Eagle Arts, Beats & Eats, Royal Oak; 248-541-7550; artsbeatseats.com Upon reopening in late July with reduced capacity and added safety precautions, the Cranbrook Art Museum launched Shapeshifters: Transformations in Contemporary Art. Steeped in themes of transcendence and metamorphosis, the exhibition showcases works that, despite their places among the museum’s permanent collection, are rarely on display.

Housed across four separate galleries, each of which explores a different facet of transformation, the exhibit conveys the personal evolutionary journeys of artists such as Agnes Martin, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol. Cranbrook Art Museum, 39221 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills; 248-645-3323; cranbrookartmuseum .org

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BOOKS

Detroit at Dusk

Philip Jarmain’s photos capture the grandeur of the city’s pre-Depression architecture at a moment of transition

BY ISABELLE BOUSQUETTE // PHOTOGRAPHS BY PHILIP JARMAIN

down in the months — or even just weeks — after Jarmain photographed them. main stood outside Michigan Central StaThe American Beauty Electric Iron buildtion at dusk. The building, when it opened ing off Woodward Avenue, designed by the for service in 1913, was the tallest rail station prolific architect Albert Kahn, was erected in the world. Once a glorious beacon of the in 1908. “It had these huge steel letters that Beaux-Arts architecture style, the building were falling apart but were above the buildhad fallen into ruin since it closed in 1988. ing that said, ‘American Beauty,’” Jarmain Jarmain set up his camera and waited says. “I really wanted to photograph it.” Unfor the perfect light. “It was really cold,” he fortunately, the building was demolished recalls. “Well below freezing.” And he clicked with very little warning two weeks before the shot. It was the first image in a series Jarmain planned to visit. that he would later call American Beauty.

“I never got to shoot it,” he says. “That’s The collection — 18 images standing 5 why the project is called American Beauty. feet tall — was first presented at a show in It’s the photograph that never actually hapSan Francisco in 2013. The idea behind their pened.” size was to show the architecture in detail Fortunately, there were many other pho“so you wanted to see the hand-painted tos that did actually happen, including a ceilings, you wanted to see the ornate plashaunting shot of the Michigan Theatre, ter work,” Jarmain says. which was famously featured in Eminem’s He has continued photographing in De8 Mile. The theater, which was built in 1926, troit since then. He’s now in the midst of a briefly became a nightclub in the 1970s. LatKickstarter campaign to raise the money er, the interior was gutted and needed to turn the series — turned into a parking lot. Still, which has grown to 60 imthe building maintains the the ages — into a photo book. If ALL ABOUT ater’s iconic ceiling. “It’s pretty successfully funded, it will be AMERICAN BEAUTY surreal that there’s a three-levavailable this fall.

Philip Jarmain’s el parking garage inside an Jarmain’s goal was to docuAmerican Beauty abandoned theater with that ment the opulence of pre-Dephotos are palatial ceiling from the origipression-era architecture in available as fine nal theater,” Jarmain says.

Detroit. “It [was] one of the art prints through In a way, the Michigan Thekostuikgallery. most significant cities in the com. To learn atre’s transformation into a world in the Industrial Age,” he more about garage is fitting. It was origisays. The city’s architecture riJarmain’s project nally built on the site of the valed that of New York, Chicaand upcoming garage where Henry Ford ingo, and London. book, visit vented his first automobile: He took his first pictures philipjarmain.net the quadricycle. when the city was still reeling Jarmain had the idea to from the 2008 financial crisis compile his photo series into and continued photographing a book a few years ago and to accompany throughout the years after Detroit filed for each shot with a history of the building. But bankruptcy. it didn’t happen. “The problem was time. It Jarmain, who lives in Vancouver, took takes a long time to write the history behind more than a dozen trips to Detroit while each building, edit it, and do all the layout working on the American Beauty series. He design,” he says. “The one thing that COVconnected with local historian Sean Doerr, ID-19 did [give me] was time to actually put who taught him the history behind each the book together.” building. “We’d start our mornings at CoUltimately, he selected nearly 60 images ney Red Hots in Highland Park,” Jarmain rethat tell a story about the city, embracing calls. “We’d go there for breakfast” and then the dichotomy between opulence and ruin, spend most of the day scouting locations. loss and recovery, past and future.

All the exterior shots were taken at dusk, “I think it’s important that Detroit recthe “magic hour where you don’t get any ognize that they have some of the most harsh shadows [and] you get this nice glow important architecture in North Amerion the buildings.” ca. They need to do the best they can to In some ways, Jarmain’s project was a take care of it,” Jarmain says. “Obviously, race against time. These pre-Depressionnow, it’s tough times, but I think Detroit era buildings were already crumbling. They will make it through this. You know the city were especially vulnerable when it became motto of Detroit? It’s ‘Detroit will rise from clear that the city didn’t have money to spend on preservation. Many were torn the ashes.’”

IN 2010, PHOTOGRAPHER Philip Jar-

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Faded beauties: Philip Jarmain has collected 60 images of Detroit’s iconic architecture at times of neglect for his planned book, American Beauty. Among the buildings photographed are (from top) Michigan Theatre (2013), Belle Isle Aquarium (2011), and the Woodward Presbyterian Church (2012).

School Name

City

Website

Grades

Phone Number

Student / Teacher Ratio

Tuition Range

Academy of the Sacred Heart

Bloomfield Hills

ashmi.org

Infant to 12 - girls; Infant to 8 - boys

248-646-8900

12 to 1

$18,410 - $22,370

Archdiocese of Detroit Office for Catholic Schools

Detroit

aodschools.org

Pre-K to 12

313-237-5800

Varies

Varies

Bishop Foley High School

Madison Heights

bishopfoley.org

Grade 9 to 12

248-585-1210

17 to 1

$10,800

Bloomfield Christian School

Bloomfield Hills

bloomfieldchristian.com

K to 12

248-499-7800

12 to 1

$6,565 - $11,210

Bright Horizons at Farmington Hills

Farmington Hills

brighthorizons.com/farmingtonhills

Infant to Pre-K

248-538-5374

Varies

Varies

Bright Horizons at Midtown Detroit

Detroit

brighthorizons.com/midtowndetroit

Infant to Pre-K

313-871-2100

Varies

Varies

Bright Horizons at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Oakland

Pontiac

brighthorizons.com/stjoe

Infant to Pre-K

248-858-6667

Varies

Varies

Brookfield Academy - Livonia Campus

Livonia

brookfieldacademy.net

Toddlers to grade 5

734-464-2789

Varies

Email brookfield.livonia@ brighthorizons.com

Brookfield Academy - Rochester Hills Campus

Rochester Hills

brookfieldacademy.net

Toddlers to grade 5

248-375-1700

Varies

$8,500 - $19,000

Brookfield Academy - Troy Campus

Troy

brookfieldacademy.net

Toddlers to grade 5

248-689-9565

Varies

$8,500 - $19,000

Brookfield Academy - West Bloomfield Campus

West Bloomfield

brookfieldacademy.net

Pre-K to grade 5

248-626-6665

Varies

$8,500 - $19,000

Brother Rice High School

Bloomfield Hills

brrice.edu

Grade 9 to 12 - all boys

248-833-2000

15 to 1

$13,750

Cranbrook Schools

Bloomfield Hills

schools.cranbrook.edu

Pre-K to 12

248-645-3610

Varies

$13,300 - $49,100

De La Salle Collegiate

Warren

delasallehs.com

Grade 9 to 12 - all boys

586-778-2207

15 to 1

$12,950

Dearborn Heights Montessori Center

Dearborn Heights

dhmontessori.org

Pre-K to 8

313-359-3000

Varies

Call for tuition

Detroit Country Day School

Beverly Hills

dcds.edu

Pre-K to 12

248-646-7717

Varies

$10,980 - $32,200

Detroit Diesel - UAW Child Development Center

Detroit

brighthorizons.com/detroitdiesel

Infant to Pre-K

313-592-5437

Varies

Varies

Detroit Waldorf School

Detroit

detroitwaldorf.org

Pre-K to 8

313-822-0300

10 to 1

$7,725 - $14,150

Eton Academy

Birmingham

etonacademy.org

Grade 1 to 12

248-642-1150

10 to 1

$28,075 - $30,150

248-241-9012

Varies

$5,510 - $14,450

Everest Collegiate High School and Academy

Clarkston

everestcatholic.org

Pre-K to 2 coed Grade 3 to 12

Gesu Catholic Elementary School

Detroit

gesuschool.udmercy.edu

Pre-K to 8

313-863-4677

20 to 1

$4,500 - $4,600

Greenhills School

Ann Arbor

greenhillsschool.org

Grade 6 to 12

734-769-4010

8 to 1

$26,270 - $26,880

Holy Family Regional School - North

Rochester

holyfam.org

Y5 to 3

248-656-1234

Varies

$7,200 - $8,700

Holy Family Regional School - South

Rochester Hills

holyfam.org

Grade 4 to 8

248-299-3798

Varies

$7,200 - $8,700

Holy Name Catholic School

Birmingham

school.hnchurch.org

Pre-K to 8

248-644-2722

15 to 1

$3,365 - $7,625

Japhet School

Clawson

japhetschool.org

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A SUMMER SEND-OFF Fire up the grill and let the drinks flow — if Labor Day means leaving summer behind, make the final feast count

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Charred Shrimp with Spicy Orange Marmalade Shrimp is a no-fail summer menu item. It’s easy enough to prep — just season or marinate and pierce with a skewer — cooks in minutes on a grill, and can be enjoyed at room temperature. Plus, serving a few of them as kabobs minimizes guests having to touch serving spoons after one another. “Individual items, like kabobs, are great to serve for those concerned about COVID-19,” Sklar notes.

LABOR DAY. THOUGH

intended to honor the American labor movement, the first Monday in September has come to signal the unofficial end of summer. A proper outdoor party is the only way to bid adieu to a season that’s come and gone too quickly. The kind of party where snow cones get a New Orleanian flair, charred shrimp are doused in orange marmalade, and refreshing salads are served with stone fruits and tangy vinaigrettes. This year, the occasion comes with precautions — individual servings and socially distanced place settings — but Zack Sklar, chef and owner of Cutting Edge Cuisine, a Ferndale catering company, offers tips for designing a safe yet impressive Labor Day bash.

1

Take It Easy Sklar’s biggest tip is this: “Be a guest at your own event.”

All too often, hosts spend more time prepping, cooking, and cleaning up than enjoying the party. “It’s all about preparation,” he says.

“Focus on food that is labor intensive upfront but doesn’t take a lot of work on the back end.” Here, Sklar curates a menu that’s simple enough to prep and serve for your Labor Day fête. But if you really just want a day off, all of the dishes pictured here are available for order at Cutting Edge Cuisine.

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Tomato, Burrata, and Michigan Cherry Salad “I love the idea of pairing stone fruit with tomatoes,” Sklar says, adding his affinity for sweet-savory combos. Like most cheeses Sklar recommends for outdoor parties, the burrata is best served at room temperature — no pressure to keep it chilled.

E N T E R TA I N I N G // Honeydew and Fennel Salad with Green Olive Vinaigrette When it comes to salad, Sklar recommends steering clear of lettuce-based dishes. “Choose your greens wisely. If you use a delicate lettuce like butter, watercress, arugula, or spinach and dress it and let it sit, in 15 minutes it’ll be wet and watery at the bottom.” Instead, he recommends opting for heartier vegetables, such as kale or fennel, that can last the duration of the event without wilting.

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SingleServe It Whether in a mason jar or shot glass, consider serving drinks, condiments, and starters in individual vessels

Serve your gazpacho in simple shot glasses.

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Prepare (or purchase) refreshing batch cocktails.

TRY: La Feria Spanish Tapas Sangria, $25 for 30 oz.; 4130 Cass Ave., Detroit; 313-285-9081; laferiadetroit.com

Present summer dips in personal bowls.

TRY: Mex Large Guacamole, $10.50; 6675 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills; 248-723-0800; mexrestaurants.com

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4

Make It from Scratch

Broken Corn Cake with Salsa Verde, Crema, and Pico de Gallo

Through her work as an influencer, model, writer, event host, and all-around “it” girl, Detroit native Amber Lewis has parlayed her love of the arts, music, and culture into a parttime career as a music curator.

Under her pseudonym “The Playlist Princess,” Lewis has prepared song lists for events across the city of Detroit. Here, she shares tips for preparing a playlist of your own.

INGREDIENTS:

1 lb. butter 1 ½ cup fresh masa 1 cup cornmeal 2 tsp. baking powder 1 cup sugar

SET THE TONE

½ tsp. cayenne pepper 2 Tbsp. salt ½ cup cream 1 ½ qts. fresh corn, pulsed in food processor

Tomato, Burrata, and Michigan Cherry Salad

DIRECTIONS:

Heat oven to 350 degrees. (If using a convection oven, use low fan.)

PICO DE GALLO

Spray a 12-by-10-inch pan with cooking spray.

¼ cup small diced white onions

Cream the butter and masa together. Mix dry ingredients in a separate bowl, then add to the masa mixture. Add cream and pulsed corn. Place mixture in pan, cover with film wrap and foil, and place in a water bath for 2 hours. Remove and let cool.

Can be served warm or room temperature.

Juice from 1 lime

FOR THE SALSA VERDE , use

your favorite brand or recipe.

CREMA can be purchased in

most Latin food stores or replaced with sour cream.

Curate a Killer Playlist

4 small diced Roma tomatoes, ripe 1-2 tsp. small diced jalapeños

2 cups honeydew, diced or scooped

1 tsp. olive oil

½ fennel bulb, shaved

½ tsp. ground cumin

2 radishes, shaved

½ tsp. ground coriander

2 tsp. fennel fronds

1 Tbsp. cilantro to taste

1 burrata 5 cherries ¼ red onion 2 Tbsp. + 1 tsp. aged balsamic vinegar 1 Tbsp. + 1 tsp. extra virgin olive oil 2 tsp. Himalayan pink sea salt or Maldon sea salt DIRECTIONS:

*OLIVE VINAIGRETTE

DIRECTIONS:

Mix all ingredients and season with salt and pepper to taste.

Freeze the Sweets

1 medium heirloom tomato

¼ cups Olive Vinaigrette*

Salt and pepper to taste

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Honeydew and Fennel Salad with Green Olive Vinaigrette

2 Tbsp. green olives 2 Tbsp. shallots 1 Tbsp. red wine vinegar ½ tsp. Dijon mustard ½ cup extra virgin olive oil DIRECTIONS:

Mix all vinaigrette ingredients together. Assemble salad and drizzle dressing over top.

Toss the red onion in 1 tsp. of balsamic vinegar and 1 tsp. of extra virgin olive oil. Season with salt and pepper, then place on a hot grill until it’s slightly charred.

Quarter the tomato and pit the cherries. Tear open the burrata and place the tomatoes, cherries, and onion around the burrata. Drizzle with the aged balsamic vinegar and extra virgin olive oil. Finish with a sprinkle of sea salt.

First things first, Lewis says it’s important to define your event vibe in order to curate a playlist that’s in sync with the party setting. “The right song can make a good moment more memorable. Be sure to select songs that match the time, place, and energy you want to create for your guests.” Though you may ordinarily be a heavy metal fan, she says, the genre may not be a fit for an intimate and relaxed dinner party.

CONSIDER YOUR GUESTS “Your guests are your audience and you are the DJ.” Lewis recommends asking yourself what type of music partygoers will enjoy, perhaps even surveying the guest list prior to the event, and working some fan favorites into the mix.

“Everybody loves when their jam comes on.”

PLAN ACCORDINGLY Putting a great playlist together goes well beyond compiling a few great songs. Lewis says it’ll take some strategizing to develop a strong song list that flows with your event’s agenda.

“The first few hours might be spent mixing and mingling, while there may be a dedicated time for dinner that could be a bit more mellow. Dancing and drinks after dinner would be more up-tempo,” she says.

“Cater your song selection to the flow of the show.”

GO LONG

New Orleans Style Sno-Ball with Ginger, Tequila, and Lime-Flavored Syrup Garnished with Sweetened Condensed Milk and Tajin Take the classic ice cream cone up a notch with a dessert that guests can have fun with. “The Sno-Balls offer an Instagrammable moment,” Sklar says. “You can serve them in really cute cones and friends can pour the finishing syrups on top.”

Another consideration: the estimated length of your party.

“You don’t want a playlist that’s too short and will end up on a loop during your event.”

Follow Lewis on Instagram @theplaylistprincess and DM her for bookings.

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Just Call Her Amanda Dearborn-based food blogger, activist, and entrepreneur Amanda Saab sure has range // BY LYNDSAY GREEN

AMANDA SAAB IS NOT EASILY DEFINED.

You could call her a baker, but for every tantalizing photo she posts of a buttercreamfrosted sheet cake or iced cinnamon rolls, there’s a savory entrée executed with the same level of mastery that goes into her sweet treats. On her Instagram page, where Saab, 31, shares recipes from her blog, Amanda’s Plate, with more than 30,000 followers, a serving of creamy tiramisu is posted just behind elote topped with crushed Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. She delivered crab cakes that celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay called “magical” on season six of the hit Fox series MasterChef, and stunned judges on Food Network’s Big Time Bake earlier this year with her Caraway and Orange-Spiced Sugar Cookies.

You could also call her an entrepreneur.

In 2017, the self-taught baker and chef founded Butter Bear Shop, a pop-up bakery specializing in American pastries with Middle Eastern flavors inspired by her Lebanese heritage. The same year, she garnered attention from media outlets including the Today show for “Dinner With Your Muslim Neighbor,” a dinner series she created to bring people of different religious and cultural backgrounds together for conversation over a hot meal. And in 2018, while Butter Bear settled into a Livonia brick-and-mortar, Saab filmed Chef in Hijab, a video series documenting her journey through Asia to taste “some of the best halal eats in places where they are almost impossible to find.”

You could even call Saab an activist.

Where many food bloggers have just recently started to explore the role social justice plays in the food realm, Saab has, since her

“I have this internal dialogue that if brands are going to see my advocacy posts and not want to work with me, I don’t think I want to work with them either. This is just what feels right.” — A M A N D A S A A B PHOTOGRAPH OF AMANDA SAAB BY MALAIKA HILSON; PHOTOGRAPH OF CAKE AND BAKLAVA BY AMANDA SAAB

Floral notes: Amanda Saab (above) gives sweet treats a photo-ready finish with botanic garnishes, such as a chocolate sheet cake (top right) adorned with pink peonies, and baklava cheesecake topped with dried rosebuds.

earliest days of blogging, consistently used her platform to bring awareness to matters of race, culture, gender, and religion. Last year she participated in a bake sale fundraiser for Planned Parenthood of Michigan, and earlier this summer, she joined Baker’s Against Racism, a national bake sale benefitting efforts to end systemic racism.

“It’s my responsibility as an influencer to speak on these issues,” says Saab, who earned a master’s degree in social work from Wayne State University and works full-time as an opportunity manager in the civil rights department for the City of Detroit. “You’re always told to be clear with your messaging to monetize your platform, and I think that’s why people are more hesitant to share certain things. But at the same time, I have this internal dialogue that if brands are going to see my advocacy posts and not want to work with me, I don’t think I want to work with them either.

This is just what feels right.” In July, Saab joined The Food and Wellness Equity Collective, a new platform that unites content creators to amplify the voices of women and bloggers of color.

Of all the things she might be called, it was ultimately a name her family members gave her as a child that inspired the name for Butter Bear Shop, which closed its doors in January. “My nickname growing up was ‘Manda Panda Bear,’ and butter makes everything better, so Butter Bear Shop just flowed for me,” she says.

When she eventually opens a new bakery concept, though, Saab says she’ll likely operate under a new business name. She confesses that her haste in choosing a name caused her to overlook the similarity to a fantasy beverage thought up by J.K. Rowling.

“The name was tricky,” she says. “So many people associate it with butterbeer from the Harry Potter series.”

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Going the Distance

How sustainable is socially distant dining when eating out is inherently a social experience? One writer has been thinking about that a lot.

BY ZAHIR JANMOHAMED // ILLUSTRATION BY CORNELIA LI AS A FOOD WRITER, I EAT OUT A LOT. AND I TALK A LOT WHEN I EAT OUT, TOO,

especially to chefs and servers. I do this because food is my portal: Food is how I understand people, culture, and cities. But sometimes, a meal is so good, and the energy is so overwhelming in a restaurant, that I forget about my reporting and disappear into my plate.

This happened to me a few days before the pandemic hit in mid-March when I dined at Selden Standard for the first time. I ordered the lamb kafta, which was perfect, but what I loved about that evening was the way I felt inside the restaurant. My wife is a professor at Bowdoin College in Maine, and I spend part of the year there. Maine is arguably the whitest state in America, and when I eat out in Portland, where she lives, I often feel unwelcome.

Sometimes I try to make my body and voice smaller, so that, as a person of color, I don’t stick out as much, but it never works. At Selden Standard, though, I could forget about those anxieties, because most people in the room looked like me. I sat at the chef ’s counter and spent most of the evening talking with one of the line cooks. I don’t remember his name — this pandemic has exhausted my memory — but I can’t forget the bond he and I shared, of us both being brown men navigating life in a changing America.

That’s sort of why I eat out — to find community. I kept trying to replicate this experience at the start of the pandemic. When Covid-19 first hit the state, I drove to Hamido, my favorite Lebanese spot in all of Michigan, to grab a chicken shawarma, but as I sat in the parking lot eating in my car, it just wasn’t the same. I missed sitting inside, watching Arabic TV, taking in the sights and sounds of Dearborn. Dining out, I came to realize, was changing and perhaps would never be the same. So I tried something new: I redefined my ideas about eating out, in much the same way that restaurants have had to redefine themselves.

Dining out, I came to realize, was changing and perhaps would never be the same.

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In reaching out to restaurants to understand what they were going through, what struck me was how much restaurants are doing — and spending — to adapt. Evan Hansen, a partner at Selden Standard, told me the restaurant now has large French doors that open up to Second Avenue “effectively creating a second outdoor space.” This, coupled with an outdoor patio, allows for diners to sit 6 feet apart. Hansen says Selden Standard will “certainly invest in some measures like space heaters to extend the patio season a bit come fall.”

He says that before the pandemic, the restaurant could seat around 120 people. The outdoor patio allows it to keep that number about the same, but as soon as outdoor dining is closed, it will only be able to accommodate around 65 people.

Most restaurant owners say that if they’re lucky, they’re able to accommodate 50 percent of their usual capacity due to social distancing restrictions. And as soon as the weather turns, jackets and heating lamps won’t cut it for many diners. The number will drop even lower when patios shut down entirely. Less seating, inevitably, means less revenue.

Restaurants that have opened outdoor spaces have done so at a huge financial cost. Mike Ransom, the chef and owner of the popular noodle chain Ima, recently shared with Brenna Houck of Eater Detroit that adding outdoor seating, in addition to closing and reopening, has been financially taxing, almost matching the cost of opening a new restaurant from scratch.

For some restaurants, outdoor dining is simply not possible, either because of logistics or cost. In Hamtramck, several places, including Balkan House, have been offering indoor dining as long as diners observe social distance. But according to Razi Jafri, who’s making a documentary about Hamtramck, some restaurants are considering shutting down indoor dining because they’re worried that COVID-19 can spread through microscopic respiratory droplets in enclosed spaces. As a workaround, restaurant owners have come up with innovative approaches. The popular brunch eatery Folk added a charming walk-up window. The celebrated Moroccan spot Saffron De Twah is sticking to curbside pickup, at least for now.

Things will continue to be uncertain this fall, and some restaurants may not be able to survive. According to new data from Toast, a popular restaurant technology company, revenue at Detroit restaurants was down 64 percent this July compared to last year. In April, when the pandemic first hit, restaurants suffered an 80 percent drop. Detroit is also experiencing a slower recovery in the restaurant industry than many other cities, Toast reports.

If I’m being honest, I don’t think socially distant dining is sustainable. I wish I could say it is, but I look at the numbers — and the health risks — and I just don’t see it working. At the start of the pandemic, I kept thinking it was our responsibility as customers to keep restaurants alive. I bought gift certificates from restaurants, donated to Patreon campaigns for restaurant workers, and ordered a bunch of take-out meals. But now I realize that for restaurants to survive, the government needs to step in and offer relief. Until then, what we can do, I believe, is to change our expectations as diners and to be more empathetic about what restaurant owners and workers are having to endure in these surreal times.

Zahir Janmohamed is a Zell writing fellow at the University of Michigan and co-founder of the James Beard-nominated podcast Racist Sandwich.

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of thin-crust pizzas. Salads are sized to be main dishes. Beer and wine are part of the package (there or to go). 1049 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-285-8006. B,L,D daily.

AMERICAN Apparatus Room $$$$ NEW AMERICAN • The Foundation Hotel’s restaurant, the Apparatus Room, once housed the Detroit Fire Department headquarters.

The cooking of chef Thomas Lents, who earned two Michelin stars while at Chicago’s Sixteen, is refined and highly skilled. A separate Chef’s Table restaurant offers a pricey but delicious option. 250 W. Larned St., Detroit; 313-800-5600.

B,L,D daily, BR Sat.-Sun. Avalon Café and Bakery $$ ORGANIC BAKERY • The bakery’s mini-empire includes a café on Woodward Avenue in Detroit.

Its bread is also the basis for dishes such as Avocado Toast with tahini, thinly curled cucumbers, lime, and chili flakes. Vegetarian fare includes a frittata oozing with goat cheese. Meatier highlights include the pork shoulder, a steak sandwich, and a trout Reuben. There’s also a handful

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Babo $ NEW AMERICAN • This all-day café settled into the Midtown Park Shelton building in June 2019, serving elevated comfort food made from local, small-batch producers. The self-described gourmet diner offers espresso drinks and such dishes as Avocado Toast, Chilaquiles, Pasta al Limone, and the Babo Burger, which features a challah bun from Avalon Bakery. 15 E. Kirby St., Ste. 115, Detroit; 313-974-6159. B,L,D daily.

Baker’s Keyboard Lounge $$ SOUL FOOD • This iconic lounge serves soul food: beef short ribs with gravy, creamy mac and cheese, collard greens, and sweet cornbread muffins. 20510 Livernois Ave., Detroit; 313-3456300. L Tue.-Fri., D daily.

Bash Original Izakaya $ JAPANESE • A new Japanese pub from the proprietor of Canton’s popular Izakaya Sanpei

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opened its doors in Woodbridge in January.

Occupying the former home of Katsu, Bash maintains much of that eatery’s Asian-inspired décor, such as hanging lanterns and bamboo shades. Bash’s drink menu focuses on Japanese craft beer, while the food menu of small plates and sashimi includes Gyoza, Tempura Udon, and fried octopus balls called Tako Yaki. 5069 Trumbull Ave., Detroit; 313-788-7208; D Tue.-Sun. Bobcat Bonnie’s $ GASTROPUB • The menu is eclectic, with fried goat cheese, Korean beef bowl, vegan tacos, and chicken fingers coated with Cap’n Crunch.

The weekend brunch with a Bloody Mary bar and all the classics is a hit. 1800 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-962-1383. L,D daily, BR Sat.-Sun. 240 W Nine Mile Road, Ferndale; 248-677-0158.

L,D Mon.-Fri., D Sat.-Sun. Brome Modern Eatery $ BURGERS • This healthy spin on a classic serves never-frozen, grass-fed, antibiotic-free, organic burgers. There’s beef, chicken, haddock, and vegetarian dishes — but no pork, as the restaurant is halal. There’s also a cold-pressed juice bar.

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22062 Michigan Ave., Dearborn; 313-996-5050.

L,D Mon.-Sun. Brooklyn Street Local $ BREAKFAST/BRUNCH • This Corktown spot serves breakfast, lunch, and brunch with fresh, locally grown, and organic ingredients. It lists its sources on a chalkboard and is vegan-friendly.

Poutine — hand-cut fries, cheese curds, and mushroom or beef gravy — is the tip-off that the proprietors are from Canada. 1266 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-262-6547. B,L Tue.-Fri., BR Sat.-Sun. Capers $ STEAKHOUSE • This is the type of place longtime Detroit natives describe like an old friend.

On Gratiot Avenue between Seven and Eight Mile roads, this place has been packing them in for nearly 35 years. There’s a massive a-la-carte menu, but the main draw is steak by the ounce, at market price. 14726 Gratiot Ave., Detroit; 313-527-2100. L,D Mon.-Sat., D Sun. Caucus Club $$$ TRADITIONAL AMERICAN • The reborn spot emphasizes service and a traditional steak and

$ Affordable (less than $12)

$$ Moderate ($13 to $20)

$$$ Expensive ($21 to $30)

$$$$ Very Expensive (more than $30)

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seafood theme, with such tasty signature dishes as dry-rubbed and wood-grilled ribs, prime rib, and steaks. 150 W. Congress, Detroit; 313-9654970. L,D Mon.-Fri., D Sat. Central Kitchen & Bar $$ CREATIVE COMFORT • The space facing Campus Martius is done up in gray and white under industrial light fixtures. Crowd-pleasers include buttermilk fried chicken, shrimp and grits, burgers, and salads. 660 Woodward Ave., Ste. 4A, Detroit; 313-963-9000. L,D Mon.-Fri., BR, D Sat., BR Sun. Chartreuse Kitchen & Cocktails $$ NEW AMERICAN • Generally, there are five “cold” starters, five offerings from the “vegetables” category, and six “hot” items that could be considered main dishes, including duck confit and Lake Superior whitefish. The wine list is brief and esoteric. 15 E. Kirby St., Detroit; 313-818-3915.

L,D Tue.-Fri., D Sat.-Sun. Chili Mustard Onions $ VEGAN • This is Detroit’s only Coney Island with a completely plant-based menu. Choose from a selection of traditional favorites including the Coney Dog, Southwest Nachos, and chili fries, all complete with owner Pete LaCombe’s secret vegan “cheeze” sauce. 3411 Brush St., Detroit; 313462-4949. L Mon.-Sat. Cliff Bell’s $$ EUROPEAN-INSPIRED • This restored Art Deco hotspot offers small plates such as duck wings “a l’orange,” and savory merguez meatballs and artisinal burrata. Large plates include shrimp and grits and steak frites. Jazz prevails on the bandstand. 2030 Park Ave., Detroit; 313-961-2543. D Tue.-Sun., BR Sun.

Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe $$$ GASTROPUB • A jazz club with top guest musicians and an American bistro menu in a traditional interior. Starters include crab and salt cod cakes, pan-fried calamari with chorizo and Korean beef rib. 97 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe Farms; 313-882-5299. L Tue.-Fri., D Tue.-Sat. Empire Kitchen and Cocktails $$ NEW AMERICAN • This relaxed Cass Corridor eatery with patio seating serves artisan pizzas and new American bistro fare. Highlights include scallops, Empire Burger, and white pizza.

3148 Woodward Ave.,Detroit; 313-315-3131. empirekitchenandcocktails.com Fishbone’s Rhythm Kitchen Café $$ NEW ORLEANIAN • New Orleans dishes including jambalaya, muffulettas, and fried catfish beignets. Come for breakfast, lunch, dinner, happy hour, or carry-out. 400 Monroe St., Detroit; 313-965-4600. 29244 Northwestern Hwy., Southfield; 248-351-2925. 23722 Jefferson Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-498-3000. B,L,D (downtown), L,D Southfield and St. Clair Shores.

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Ford’s Garage $$ BURGERS • Henry Ford’s legacy is celebrated on Dearborn’s main thoroughfare. There are at least 12 variations on the classic American burger. Other appealing dishes include lobster mac and cheese, and chicken wings. 21367 Michigan Ave., Dearborn; 313-752-3673. L,D daily.

Grand Trunk Pub $ NEW AMERICAN • Breads from Avalon Bakery and meats from Eastern Market anchor the hearty fare, which pairs well with a selection of Michigan beers. Staples include a reuben with Poet Stout Kraut and the Ghettoblaster beer-battered fish and chips. 612 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-9613043.; L,D daily, BR Sat.-Sun. Green Dot Stables $ NEW AMERICAN • The menu of sliders — with 20-plus eclectic bun toppings, including Cuban, Korean, and “mystery meat” — packs in fans.

Local beers are spotlighted along with chicken paprika soup, a nod to the neighborhood’s Hungarian origins. 2200 W. Lafayette Blvd., Detroit; 313-962-5588. L,D daily.

Grey Ghost $$ NEW AMERICAN • The cuisine at this Brush Park hotspot isn’t easily defined, but the results are original and well-prepared. For example, the miso glazed cedar plank salmon, and lump crab cake served with a honey mustard remoulade sauce from their Ghost To-Go pickup menu.

47 Watson St., Detroit; 313-262-6534. D daily.

BR Sun. Highlands $$$ STEAKHOUSE/NEW AMERICAN • Occupying the top two floors of the Renaissance Center, Highlands comprises three separate concepts.

A steakhouse of the same name provides a high-end dining experience, while the more

casual Hearth 71 serves locally sourced dishes cooked over an open fire. The third concept within the space is the appropriately named High Bar, where guests can choose from a vast collection of spirits and decadent desserts. 400 Renaissance Center, Floors 71 and 72, Detroit; 313-567-3126; D Mon.-Sat. The Hill Seafood & Chop House $$ TRADITIONAL AMERICAN • The menu is balanced between seafood and meat, with an emphasis on premium ingredients and organic produce. Swordfish, prime New York strip, and Colorado lamb chops are signatures. 123 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe Farms; 313-886-8101. L,D Mon.-Sat. The Hudson Cafe $ BREAKFAST/BRUNCH • The fresh, well-prepared fare from the kitchen of this breakfast/lunch spot has creative takes on the eggs Benedict theme, pecan-banana pancakes, and apple-walnut stuffed French toast, as well as lunchtime sandwiches and salads. One of our favorite brunch spots downtown. 1241 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-237-1000. B,L daily.

R E S TAU R A N T OF THE YEAR 2011 Iridescence $$$$ UPSCALE AMERICAN • A stylish white-linen restaurant, with a 16-story view from the top of the MotorCity Casino Hotel. The menu varies with the seasons. Check out the glass-fronted mechanical

Detroit Club $$$$ FRENCH-AMERICAN • The formerly shuttered Detroit Club was magnificently restored before reopening in 2018 — and now, the public is invited.

It now operates as a boutique hotel, serving a light breakfast and full lunch and dinner. The old dining room, known as the Grille Room, looks very much as it did more than three decades ago. The food is excellent, as is the service. 712 Cass Ave., Detroit; 313-338-3222. L,D Daily.

Detroit Soul $ SOUL FOOD• A hidden gem in the city’s East Side.

Detroit Soul serves its namesake with a healthy twist. Owners Sam Van Buren and Jerome Brown draw from the recipes of their grandparents, who relocated to Detroit from Alabama in the 1940s.

The turkey is a standout. This is the kind of place that every soul-food lover must visit. 2900 E. Eight Mile Road, Detroit; 313-366-5600. L,D Tue.-Sun. Detroit Vegan Soul $ VEGAN • The popular spot offers your classic soul food favorites but with plant-based twists — mac and cheese, maple-glazed yams, collard greens, and interpretations of catfish and pepper steak.

8029 Agnes St., Detroit; 313-649-2759. L Tue.Sun., D Wed.-Sat. 19614 Grand River Ave., Detroit; 313-766-5728. BR Sun. Dime Store $ BREAKFAST/BRUNCH • This breakfast/lunch spot adds just the right retro touch to a contemporary American menu typified by omelets and Benedicts early in the day. 719 Griswold St., Ste. 180, Detroit; 313-962-9106. B,L Mon.-Sun.

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wine vault and the huge Dale Chihuly-like glass panels flanking the open kitchen. A place for a special evening. 2901 Grand River Ave., Detroit; 313-237-6732. D Wed.-Sun. Ivy Kitchen and Cocktails $$$ NEW AMERICAN • This black woman-owned restaurant was founded by Nya Marshall to bring fine dining to the East Jefferson Corridor where she grew up. The spot serves New American fare with international influences in a modern, elevated space bathed in neutral tones. The Mezcal Wings with pickled jalapeño and cilantro bring a Mexican kick to the table, while dishes like the Shrimp Linguine Pomodoro contribute European flavors. 9215 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit; 313-332-0607; D Daily

R E S TAU R A N T OF THE YEAR 2012 Joe Muer Seafood $$$$ SEAFOOD • This reborn Detroit legend is stellar for a romantic evening or a quiet business lunch or dinner. Located on the main floor of the GMRenCen, it has sweeping views of the Detroit River and a menu that walks the line between oldtime favorites and hipper Asian-influenced seafood, sushi and raw bar. There’s also a Bloomfield Hills location. There are reminders of the past as well: white-bean relish, smoked fish spread, creamed spinach, and stewed tomatoes. A true Detroit classic. 400 Renaissance Center, Ste. 1404, Detroit; 313-567-6837. L Mon.-Fri., D daily, BR Sun. 39475 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills; 248-7929609. L,D Mon.-Sat., BR,D Sun. Jolly Pumpkin $$ BREWERY • Jolly Pumpkin’s brews rule the offerings, along with other Northern United Brewing Co. beverages, such as North Peak and Grizzly Peak beers and “Civilized Spirits.” Pizzas with creative toppings abound. 441 W. Canfield St., Detroit; 313-262-6115. 419 S. Main St., Ste. 9, Royal Oak; 248-544-6250. L,D daily.

Karl’s $$ AMERICAN • The luncheonette is part two of the Siren Hotel’s partnership with Lady of the House Executive Chef Kate Williams. Inspired by the East Side bakery of the same name that Williams’ great-great grandparents once owned, the menu features diner staples. 1509 Broadway St., Detroit; 313-855-2757. B,L,D daily.

Karl’s Cabin $$ AMERICAN • Dishes from their currently rotating drive-through menu such as pecan crust whitefish and beef tenderloin medallions with sautéed shrimp and bearnaise sauce surpass typical roadhouse food. 6005 Gotfredson Rd., Plymouth; 734455-8450. L,D daily.

The Kitchen by Cooking with Que $$ VEGAN • This eatery created by Detroit-based cooking blogger Quiana Broden serves lunches of smoothies, salads, and sandwiches. Broden also often offers live cooking demonstrations. 6529 Woodward Ave., Ste. A, Detroit; 313-462-4184. L Tue.-Sun. Kuzzo’s Chicken and Waffles $ SOUTHERN COMFORT • Several recipes, including a signature thin waffle, are family-owned at exNFL player Ron Bartell’s spot. Think comfort food kicked up a notch: fried catfish, salmon croquettes, shrimp and grits, and biscuits. Drink the

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Jolly Pumpkin’s South Pacific Pizza features a colorful assortment of toppings, including bacon, candied pineapple, jalapeño, and black sesame seeds.

Kool-Aid, too. 19345 Livernois Ave., Detroit; 313861-0229. B,L,D Tue.-Sat., B,L Sun. Le Culture Cafe $$ SOUL • Eastern Market’s Le Culture Cafe is bridging fine-dining with comfort food. Start with the Maryland crab cakes, then the Mamba Chicken Pasta or the Lobster & Crab Grilled Cheese. 1428 Gratiot Ave., Detroit; 313-285-8137. D Tue.-Sun. Lady of the House $$$ NEW AMERICAN • This Corktown restaurant combines subtle Irish influences with hyper-localized ingredients. Each meal begins with a seasonal teaand-cracker service, followed by a menu featuring snout-to-tail butchering, housemade charcuterie, and shareable entrées. 1426 Bagley, Detroit; 313818-0218. D Tues.-Sun. London Chop House $$ STEAKHOUSE • The kitchen turns out classics such as oysters Rockefeller, French onion soup, and sautéed perch. This is the place to come when you need to satisfy a craving for steak in elegant surroundings with hospitable service.

155 W. Congress St., Detroit; 313-962-0277. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat. Lovers Only $ BURGERS • The star at Lovers Only, located in downtown’s Capitol Park, is pasture-raised beef from Ferndale’s Farm Field Table. Other key ingre-

dients, including baked goods, are local as well.

There’s also craft cocktails and beer. 34 Grand River Ave., Detroit; 313-986-1174. L,D daily.

Lumen Detroit $$ NEW AMERICAN • A contemporary American menu and a Victor Saroki setting make the restaurant overlooking downtown’s Beacon Park one of the best of recent entrants onto the scene. Appetizers such as freshly made pretzels prelude main courses such as salmon with chimichurri herb sauce. 1903 Grand River Ave., Detroit; 313-6265005. L,D. Closed Mon. Mercury Burger & Bar $ BURGERS • This Corktown joint seats 70 around the zinc-covered bar set with Mercury (Liberty) dimes. The burger is available in a variety of iterations, such as Southwest Detroit with a chorizo slider, jalapeno, Müenster cheese, tortilla strips, avocado, and pickled spiced carrots. 2163 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-964-5000. L,D daily.

Monarch Club $$$ NEW AMERICAN • At the 14th floor of the revamped Element Detroit Hotel located at the Metropolitan is the Monarch Club. It’s one of the most recent rooftop bars to open in metro Detroit and serves a variety of delicious small plates along with classic cocktails. 33 John R St., Detroit; 313-306-2380. D daily.

Motor City Brewing Works $ BREWERY • Just 10 mostly nontraditional pizzas on excellent, chewy crust, and the option to build your own pie with various toppings. Plus, salads from locally grown greens to accompany the house-brewed beers. 470 W. Canfield St., Detroit; 313-832-2700. L,D daily.

Mootz Pizzeria & Bar $$ ITALIAN-AMERICAN • Bruno DiFabio, a six-time World Pizza Games champ, rejects the label New York-style for his fare. “It’s authentic New York pizza,” he says. In a hurry? Grab a slice from Side Hustle, Mootz’s by-the-slice counter next door. 1230 Library St., Detroit; 313-243-1230. L,D daily.

Mudgie’s Deli $ DELI • Seats are often filled in search of the O’Leary (pastrami, Swiss, and greens) or the Brooklyn (beef brisket, bacon, and beer cheese).

The dinner menu features meat and cheese boards as well as build-your-own pasta and meat and potato options. It’s a delicious place for a meal any time 1413 Brooklyn St., Detroit; 313-961-2000. L,D Mon.-Sat., BR Sun. Nosh Pit $ VEGAN • This vegan staple in Hamtramck, and its roving food truck, have been dishing up delicious plant-based takes on classic deli sandwiches for years. Try their latkes with banana jam, the house made Coney Carrot Dog with all

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Rocky’s of Northville $$ NEW AMERICAN • Menu includes sea scallops and Gulf shrimp. At dinner, look for grilled rainbow trout. 41122 W. Seven Mile Road, Northville; 248-349-4434. L,D daily.

Rose’s Fine Food $ BREAKFAST/BRUNCH • The menu is straightforward, based mainly on fresh ingredients and from-scratch preparation. Breakfast eaters can choose from a variety of egg dishes, such as the ESD (egg sandwich of the day). For lunch, there’s a selection of creative sandwiches. 10551 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit; 313-309-7947. B,L daily.

Rusted Crow $$ ECLECTIC AMERICAN • Mussels marinated in white wine and lemon sit alongside spinach artichoke dip. Craft cocktails utilize house spirits. Try the Rosemary’s Baby, made with Detroit Steam vodka and ginger beer. 78 W. Adams Ave., Detroit; 313-782-4751. L Tue.-Sun., D daily.

The Sardine Room $$$ SEAFOOD • A seafood restaurant and raw bar, it’s fresh, fun, and energetic, with a clean-line décor and a menu full of surprises. For starters, there are New England lobster, oysters, sashimi tuna, and shrimp cocktail. Worthwhile is a porchetta slider of slow-cooked pork served on a brioche bun with arugula, pickled onions, and a salsa verde. And don’t forget the signature fresh Portuguese sardines grilled in butter. 340 S. Main St., Plymouth; 734-416-0261. D daily, BR Sun.

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R E S TAU R A N T OF THE YEAR 2018 Parc $$$ NEW AMERICAN • Excellent food, exceptional service, and a crisp and formal but distinctly unstuffy atmosphere set this Campus Martius gem apart. Appetizer highlights include a bright and fresh tuna tartare and wood-roasted oysters. Mint gremolata and lemon chili oil add a zippy touch to oysters on the half shell. Main courses are exceptional, including an interesting blend of Italian food, wood-grilled whole fish, and organic Scottish salmon. There’s also a large selection of dry-aged gourmet steaks, wood-grilled and served tableside. The wine selection is impressive and caters to a diverse set of price ranges and wine drinkers, so you won’t be disappointed with any bottle here. 800 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-922-7272. L,D daily.

BR Sat.-Sun. Parks & Rec Diner $ BREAKFAST/BRUNCH • Breakfast and lunch are the focus, from a single menu that offers traditional breakfast dishes and sandwiches, as well as dishes such as shrimp and grits with harissa and chili atop a cornbread waffle. Standards such as buttermilk biscuits with sausage gravy are also available. This spot is a classic for whenever you crave brunch food. 1942 Grand River Ave.,

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Detroit;313-446-8370. B,L daily.

R E S TAU R A N T OF THE YEAR 2019 Prime + Proper $$$$ STEAKHOUSE • Downtown Detroit dining gets a major shot of glamour with this over-the-top steak and seafood emporium on the corner of Griswold and State streets. Although red meat, from prime dry-aged Tomahawk ribeye to Wagyu strip is the focus — and yes, there’s a burger made with a dry-aged butcher’s blend — oysters, king crab, and caviar are not far behind. An elegant white and gold setting backgrounds it all.

The niceties are maintained by an impeccably dressed staff. 1145 Griswold St., Detroit; 313-6363100. D daily.

Prism $$$ NEW AMERICAN • Greektown Casino-Hotel’s renamed eatery is located off the main casino.

The menu features local ingredients, steaks, and fresh seafood. 555 E. Lafayette St., Detroit; 313309-2499. D Tue.-Sat. Rattlesnake Club $$$$ NEW AMERICAN • The restaurant on the river remains one of the most appealing spots in town.

The casually elegant space offers appetizers, entrees, and desserts. Dishes that typify its style include seared diver sea scallops, an 8-ounce filet and a 24-ounce porterhouse. 300 River Place, Detroit; 313-567-4400. L,D Tue.-Fri., D Sat.

Red Dunn Kitchen $$ NEW AMERICAN • The Trumbull and Porter hotel’s spiffy restaurant is an ambitious undertaking, offering three meals a day. Chef Jay Gundy’s style is best experienced at dinner, with a la carte offerings such as foie gras-stuffed quail, smoked and marinated salmon collars, braised lamb leg, and bacon-wrapped duck breast with polenta. 1331 Trumbull Ave., Detroit; 313-887-9477. B,L,D daily.

Red Smoke Barbeque $$ BARBEQUE • Hickory and applewood-smoked ribs, pulled pork, Amish chicken, and classic sides are served in one of the most attractive two-story buildings still left on Monroe Street. 573 Monroe St., Detroit; 313-962-2100. L,D daily.

Republic $$ NEW AMERICAN • This tavern offers rich and bold dishes befitting its castle-like home in the renovated Grand Army of the Republic Building. The locally sourced menu showcases Old World preservation methods and nose-to-tail cooking. While the menu may be meat-centric, vegetarians won’t feel left out. 1942 Grand River Ave., Detroit; 313-446-8360. L Tue.-Fri., D Tue.-Sun. Roast $$$ STEAKHOUSE • Meat is the focus at chef Michael Symon’s restaurant at the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel, as underscored by the rotisserie slowly roasting the “beast of the day.” There’s much more on the a la carte menu, including dry-aged steaks, branzino, pork, and reginette.

SavannahBlue $$ SOUL FOOD • Highlights include the twicedredged fried chicken and the shrimp and grits.

Accompaniments and appetizers include yam casserole, catfish fritters, and a Georgian Hummus that substitutes black-eyed peas for chickpeas. There’s also a great bar. 1431 Times Square, Detroit; 313-926-0783. D Mon.-Sat., BR Sun. Scotty Simpson’s Fish & Chips $ SEAFOOD • Head to this Brightmoor spot for perfectly prepared fish and chips. The key to Scotty’s longevity is the batter that coats the cod, perch, shrimp, chicken, onion rings, and frog legs. 22200 Fenkell St., Detroit; 313-5330950. L,D Tue.-Sun. Second Best $ RETRO AMERICAN • The talents behind nearby Grey Ghost have unveiled a second, more casual spot with a retro spin in Brush Park. The menu of lighter dishes includes deviled eggs, ramen noodle salad, and fried chicken sandwiches that accompany drinks that were popular more than a few years back. 42 Watson St., Detroit; 313-3153070. D nightly.

R E S TAU R A N T OF THE YEAR 2016 Selden Standard $$$ NEW AMERICAN • What sets Selden Standard apart is that it is moving Detroit into a new era in which upper-end dining with starched linen and tuxedoed waiters doesn’t hold much interest anymore. Chef Andy Hollyday, a multiple James Beard semifinalist, does farm-to-table scratch cooking with ideas borrowed from around the world. A key to his cooking is the wood-fired grill.

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3921 Second Ave., Detroit; 313-438-5055. D daily, L Mon.-Fri., BR Sat.-Sun. Slows Bar BQ $$ BARBEQUE • The brick-and-wood original in Corktown gained a following for its pulled pork, ribs, and chicken. They expanded with a “to go” spot in Midtown, as well. This is a true Detroit classic in every sense of the term. Corktown location: 2138 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-962-9828.

L,D daily. Slows To Go in Midtown: 4107 Cass Ave., Detroit; 877-569-7246. L,D daily.

Smith & Co. $$$ NEW AMERICAN • This Cass Corridor bar and restaurant is housed in the old Smith Welding Supply & Equipment Company building — hence cement ceilings and exposed brick that evoke an industrial vibe. The menu features small plates, sandwiches, and entrees such as Mushroom Toast; Michigan Pork Belly; the Fried Chicken Bowl with sweet sesame sauce and kimchi; and the Smith Burger, marinated in a soy-ginger blend and topped with a fried egg.

Beverage options include craft beer, wine, and fresh takes on classic cocktails. 644 Selden St, Detroit; 313-947-7100. L&D Mon-Sat., B,L,&D Sun. Standby $$ NEW AMERICAN • The libation menu — categorized by spirit — is longer than the food menu, but both food and drinks are equally emphasized.

The fare ranges from small plates of chicken liver mousse and duck confit ravioli to entrees such as a waygu strip steak and red duroc pork belly.

225 Gratiot Ave., Detroit; 313-736-5533. D daily.

Not wheelchair accessible.

They Say $$ GASTROPUB • Many folks pass right by on their way to Atwater Brewery, Andrews on the Corner, or the Rattlesnake Club. But Chene Park regulars know They Say does triple duty as a great place to grab dinner before a show. The food is grouped into “opening acts, intermission, and encores.” 267 Jos Campau Ave., Detroit; 313-446-4682. L,D daily.

Union Street $$ NEW AMERICAN • The extensive dinner menu includes such tasty highlights as fried calamari, pistachio-encrusted salmon, a J.L. Hudson Maurice salad, filet mignon, beer-steamed mussels, fish tacos, chicken wings, and several vegetarian options. 4145 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-831-3965. L,D daily.

Vivio’s Food & Spirits $ SANDWICH/DELI • This Eastern Market classic has been run by the Vivio family for more than 40 years. Sandwiches and burgers are mainstays, but diners also appreciate the steamed mussels.

2460 Market St., Detroit; 313-393-1711. L,D Mon.Fri., BR,L,D Sat., L,D Sun. The Whitney $$$$ NEW AMERICAN • The historic 1890s mansion is still going strong. The menu is typified by classic beef Wellington, wrapped in spinach, prosciutto, and pastry; and pan-roasted Scottish salmon. Tableside cooking, by reservation only, is an optional feature. Don’t forget

The Katherine McGregor Dessert Parlor for a sweet treat.4421 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-832-5700. L Mon.-Fri., D and high tea daily, BR Sun. Wine Dotte Bistro $$ WINE BAR • This interesting wine bar and restaurant offers a view of the Detroit River. The menu includes shrimp scampi, lobster tails, tenderloin medallions, and lamb chops. The wine is displayed in a cabinet across one wall and it’s the main focus. 2910 Van Alstyne St., Wyandotte; 734-556-3195. L,D Tue.-Sat., BR Sun. Wolfgang Puck Steak $$$$ STEAKHOUSE • Decorated with tasteful photographs of Detroit, the dining room offers bar seating or the more secluded dining room.

The menu features red meat but also includes stuffed shrimp and whole Maine lobster. Steaks include 10- or 12-ounce dry-aged New York sirloins. MGM Grand Detroit, 1777 Third St., Detroit; 313-465-1644. D daily.

Wright & Co. $$ NEW AMERICAN • The collaboration between chef Marc Djozlija and Dave Kwiatkowski of the popular Corktown craft cocktail bar Sugar House gives new life to the second-floor space in the vintage Wright Kay building. Small plates such as tuna tartare with pickled pears and wontons, and pork tenderloin with goat cheese purée are the focus. 1500 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-962-7711. D Mon.-Sat., BR Sun.

Vertical Detroit $$$ WINE BAR • This wine-centric restaurant puts the focus on pairing Chef Matt Barnes’ innovative cuisine with owners Jim and Rémy Lutfy’s nationally recognized wine program. The menu emphasizes locally sourced protein, seafood, and produce. A must-try for any wine enthusiast. 1538 Centre St., Detroit; 313-732-9463. D nightly. Not wheelchair accessible.

ASIAN Al Ameer $$ LEBANESE • This Lebanese restaurant is a recipient of the prestigious James Beard America’s Classics Award. The Al Ameer platter is perfect for sharing: two grape leaves, two fried kibbeh, chicken shawarma, tawook, kabob, kafta,and falafel. 12710 W. Warren Ave., Dearborn;313-582-8185. 27346 Ford Road, Dearborn Heights; 313-565-9600 L,D Mon.-Sun. Flowers of Vietnam $$ VIETNAMESE • Chef/owner George Azar transformed a former Coney Island into a destination. The bar exudes industrial cool, but the neighborhood joint vibe remains. The menu is largely shaped around Azar’s appreciation of Vietnamese food, but it has a very personal twist. 4430 Vernor Hwy., Detroit; 313-554-2085.

D Wed.-Sun.

Street Beet $ VEGAN • The popular vegan pop-up Street Beet has landed a permanent spot at Midtown’s 3rd Street Bar, serving up plant-based riffs on quintessential fast foods. Try the Kentucky Fake Chicken sandwich, with fried tofu, pickles, and spicy mayo, or the Taco Hell Crunchywrap, with walnut chorizo and cashew nacho cheese. These faves and additions like the Phony Cheesesteak are available via counter service, carryout, and online ordering. 4626 Third Ave., Detroit; 313-312-4669; L&D Sun., D Mon., D Tue.-Sat. Sweet Soul Bistro $ SOUL FOOD • The large menu includes homages to Detroit musicians, from Stevie Wonder Wonderful Wings to Aretha Franklin Catfish Bites. Also notable are the crab cakes. In the evening, the bistro transforms into a club. 13741 W. McNichols Road, Detroit; 313- 862-7685. L,D daily.

Table No. 2 $$$$ NEW AMERICAN • This black-owned, white-linen eatery offers a wide-ranging, seasonal menu of contemporary American dining like Lake Michigan Walleye and the Great Lakes Surf and Turf Burger. 18925 Livernois Ave., Detroit; 313-3409550. D Tue.-Sat.; L Sun. Tap at MGM Grand $ SPORTS BAR • More than 40 HD flatscreen TVs for sports fans, plus sports memorabilia. The menu features comfort food and pub classics: burgers, wings, and fried mac and cheese.

Pizza and more upscale entrees are also available, as are more than 50 beers. Bring your family and friends for a very entertaining night on the town. 1777 Third St., Detroit; 313-465-1234. B,L,D daily.

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TAP at MGM Grand Detroit’s collection of tap pulls makes for an artful accent wall — and showcases its assortment of great beers.

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Ima $ JAPANESE-INSPIRED • Japanese-inspired fare with a Midwest emphasis. Ima tacos trade the traditional shell for a slice of jicama-stuffed spicy shrimp, roasted tofu, or garlic chicken.

Appetizers include edamame, dumplings, and clams. 2015 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-502-5959.

D Mon.-Sun. Johnny Noodle King $ JAPANESE-INSPIRED • This noodle shop offers bowls topped with pork belly, confit chicken, and tofu as well as seaweed salad and gyoza.

There are several fusion bowls as well like the Southwest topped with shredded chicken and housemade crema. 2601 W. Fort St., Detroit; 313-309-7946. L,D Tue.-Sun. Pao Detroit $$$ FUSION • Visit this upscale Pan-Asian fusion restaurant for Asian-themed cocktails and dishes, such as fried oyster, charred octopus, filet mignon, and Alaskan king crab legs. The interior combines new and old. 114 W. Adams Ave., Ste. 200, Detroit; 313-816-0000. D Mon.-Sat. Park Grill $$ MEDITERRANEAN • Mediterranean fare gets a Balkan spin. The menu offers tasting plates, pita-wrapped sandwiches, and salads, as well as entrees including chicken and beef shawarma, beef and pork kafta, lemon-pepper pork tenderloin, and lamb chops. Service is friendly and informal. 15102 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe Park; 313-264-1997. L,D daily.

Pho Lucky $ VIETNAMESE • This charming Midtown Vietnamese spot serves authentic fare emphasizing pho. Bowls of spicy broth with noodles, round steak, and meatballs come in several variations. Other noteworthy dishes include summer rolls and crisp spring rolls. Look for Asian beers and robust Vietnamese coffee. 3111 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313338-3895. L,D daily except Tue. when it’s L only.

Takoi $$ THAI • Thai-Laotian fare might seem out of place in Corktown, but virtually everything on the menu has distinction. There’s a depth, concentration, and balance between heat and coolness, the range of spices, the delight of moving from one superb bite to the next. 2520 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-8552864. D Mon.-Sat. Urban Ramen $$ JAPANESE-INSPIRED • Urban Ramen serves bowls of steaming broth filled with house-made, springy ramen noodles topped with fixings like bamboo, egg, pork chashu, and sesame seeds. The menu also includes sushi, poke, and sides such as garlic edamame and Japanese fried chicken. 4206 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-285-9869. L,D Mon.-Sat.

EUROPEAN Amore da Roma $$ ITALIAN • Guy Pelino, Roma Café’s chef, took over the ownership reins of this restaurant on the edge

of the Eastern Market. He retained the menu, adding a charcuterie board and updating the wine list, and didn’t change the character of the old-school restaurant, known for its steaks and pastas. 3401 Riopelle St., Detroit; 313-831-5940. L,D daily.

Antonio’s Cucina Italiana $$ ITALIAN • The Rugieros have impressed restaurant guests for decades with authentic cuisine. Signature dishes include Gnocchi Rita and Chicken Antonio. There’s a full bar and a very extensive wine list. 2220 N. Canton Center Road, Canton; 734-981-9800. 26356 Ford Road, Dearborn Heights; 313-278-6000. 37646 W. 12 Mile Road, Farmington Hills; 248-994-4000. L,D Mon.-Fri., D Sat.-Sun. Atwater in the Park $ GERMAN • At this casual spot, traditional Germanstyle beer is the beverage of choice. Chef Chris Franz’ noteworthy menu is compatible with such additions as a platter of local bratwurst and other sausages teamed with housemade red cabbage and sauerkraut, plus amazing potato pancakes and daily soups. 1175 Lakepointe St., Grosse Pointe Park; 313-344-5104. L,D daily.

Besa $$$ EUROPEAN-INSPIRED • This modern fine-dining eatery takes its name from Albania — where the owners trace their heritage — and means “pledge of honor.” Choose from starters suchas honeyroasted rutabaga, pastas like ramen noodle raviolo, and entrees like Michigan-raised lamb belly porchetta. 600 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-315-3000. D Mon.-Sat.

Cadieux Café $$ BELGIAN • This eastside institution was like a slice of home for early Belgian immigrants. They serve up four varieties of mussels, and a wide range of hearty dishes such as Belgian Rabbit, but there also are classic sandwiches. 4300 Cadieux Road, Detroit; 313-882-8560. D daily.

Café Nini $$$ ITALIAN • This intimate spot offers well-prepared food that includes eight appetizers, a half-dozen pasta dishes, and five main plates, notable among which are tournedos di vitello — medallions of veal filet in a fresh mushroom sauce. The wine list is impressive as well. 98 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe Farms; 313-308-3120.

L Mon.-Fri., D daily.

Cantoro Italian Market and Trattoria $$ ITALIAN • A restaurant inside the market serves great traditional Italian food. Do not miss the tagliatelle alla Bolognese: wide pasta with a meat sauce made of ground veal, beef, sausage, and pancetta. A delicious Italian feast you can conveniently pick up on your way home. 15550 N. Haggerty Road, Plymouth; 734-420-1100. L,D Mon.Sat., L Sun. Cork & Gabel $$$ EUROPEAN-INSPIRED • Corktown’s newest eatery takes the form of a 4,450-square-foot renovated beer hall and is an ode to filling European staples.

Try the crispy braised chicken wings slow-cooked in house spices and served with blue cheese.

Simply delicious! 2415 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-638-2261. D daily.

Dakota Inn Rathskeller $ EUROPEAN-INSPIRED • The sausages are the kind that snap when you cut them. The combo plate features one bratwurst and one knack-wurst, served with hot German potato salad and sauerkraut. And yes, sing along with the schnitzelbank song. 7324 John R St., Detroit; 313-867-9722.L Wed.-Fri. D Thu.-Sat. Giovanni’s Ristorante $$$ ITALIAN • This old-school Italian restaurant offers housemade pastas, including an outstanding lasagna. Elaborate veal and seafood dishes and desserts like orange Creamsicle cheesecake round out the delicious menu. 330 Oakwood Blvd., Detroit; 313-841-0122. L,D Tue.-Fri., D Sat. The Greek $ GREEK • Plaka Café was a presence on Monroe Avenue for years, and now its space is in the hands of the founders’ children. Notable dishes include spinach pie, grilled salmon, lamb chops, and New York strip steak. 535 Monroe Ave., Detroit; 313-209-6667. L,D daily.

Grandma Bob’s $ PIZZA • If you’re wondering what that psychedelic building on Corktown’s Michigan Avenue is, it opened last March as a pizzeria known as Grandma Bob’s. Executive chef Dan De Wall, previously of Wright and Co., offers a small, delicious menu of pies, including sausage and pistachio with mascarpone cheese and thyme. Or try the Big Mack — the vegan pizza version of the popular burger. 2135 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-315-3177. L,D Wed.-Sun.

Johnny Noodle Co.’s Pad Si U’s wide rice noodles are stir-fried with broccoli, fried egg, and your choice of protein in a sweet oyster-based sauce.

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La Dolce Vita $$$ ITALIAN • Traditional Italian cuisine is key at this Palmer Park hideaway. Recommended is the lake

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perch in white wine sauce, the veal scaloppine with artichokes, and the lasagna. 17546 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-865-0331. L,D Tue.-Fri., D Sat., BR,D Sun. La Lanterna $$ ITALIAN • The founder of Da Edoardo, the first Edoardo Barbieri, started it all in 1956 with a restaurant called La Lanterna. Now his grandchildren have revived it. Although the white and red pizzas — like Margherita, Liguria, and Bellagio — dominate, there’s more, including a number of elegant pastas like the Lasagna Alla Bolognese. 1224 Griswold St., Detroit; 313-9628821. L,D daily.

Lucy & the Wolf $$ SPANISH • This Anglo-sounding restaurant offers very good Spanish-inspired tapas dining. Standouts include ceviche, double charred chicken wings, and a grilled flank steak in chimichurri sauce. 102 E. Main St., Northville;248-308-3057.

D Mon.-Sat. Mario’s $$$ ITALIAN • This Midtown Detroit classic dates to 1948. Linen-covered tables, framed paintings on wood-paneled walls, expert waiters clad in black tie, and tableside preparation survive here.

Italian dinners always begin with an antipasto tray and continue through soup, salad, pasta, and entree. 4222 Second Ave., Detroit; 313-8321616. L,D daily.

Michigan and Trumbull $$ ITALIAN-AMERICAN • After a successful fourmonth run at Fort Street Galley, Michigan and Trumbull left the nest in January, making it the latest in a long line of Detroit-style pizza joints to open in the area. Far from your traditional carryout joint, Michigan and Trumbull is housed in a sleek, refurbished car-repair garage. The menu features square, deep-dish pies with Detroitinspired names, such as Packard Pepperoni and Vernor Vegan. 1441 W. Elizabeth St., Detroit; 313-637-4992; L&D Mon., Wed.-Sat.; D Sun. Nico & Vali $$ ITALIAN • This eatery offers favorites with unexpected twists. The artichokes and chilies appetizer boasts battered and fried artichokes with Fresno and jalapeno peppers, tossed with fresh basil in white wine. Popular choices include Vermouth Lamb Porterhouse. It’s a classic Italian spot with an update that’s worth a visit. 744 Wing St., Plymouth;734-207-7880. L,D daily, BR Sun. Ottava Via $$ ITALIAN Chef Ariel Millan sends out great thincrusted pizzas as well as interesting small plates typified by bruschetta, calamari, roasted garlic, and whipped goat cheese to be spread on paperthin crostini. 1400 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313962-5500. L,D daily.

Pegasus Taverna $$ GREEK • The cry of “opa!” resounds in St. Clair Shores at the second edition of the longstanding Greektown restaurant. The resturant boasts an extensive menu, from moussaka and spinach pie to gyros and roast lamb. 24935 Jefferson Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-772-3200. 558 Monroe St., Detroit; 313-964-6800. L,D daily.

PizzaPlex $ ITALIAN • This pizza isn’t just authentic, it’s straight-up certified. PizzaPlex’s fare earned the title of Vera Pizza Napoletana (VPN), or real Nea-

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Supino Pizzeria offers a range of pizzas, such as the Bismarck, topped with smoked ham and egg; pastas, and salads.

politan pizza, from Naples-based Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana. 4458 Vernor Highway, Detroit; 313-757-4992. D Wed.-Sat. Polish Village Café $ POLISH • The “Polish plate” includes stuffed cabbage, pierogi, kielbasa, sauerkraut, and mashed potatoes and gravy. The dill pickle soup and city chicken are standouts, too. A Polish staple in Detroit, where there aren’t too many. 2990 Yemans St., Hamtramck; 313-874-5726. L,D daily. Cash only. Not wheelchair accessible.

Roman Village $ ITALIAN • The Rugiero family has been serving authentic Italian cuisine since 1964. They’ve launched three additional Antonio’s Cucina Italiana locations. Roman Village is the original and features their signature gnocchi Rita. 9924 Dix Ave., Dearborn; 313-842-2100. L,D Mon.-Fri., D Sat.-Sun. San Morello $$$ ITALIAN • This Italian gem serves pizzas, pastas, and wood-fired dishes that draw inspiration from the coastal towns of Southern Italy and Sicily out of the Shinola Hotel. Think Tartufi Pizza with fontina and black truffle, handcrafted

by James Beard Award-winning chef Andrew Carmellini. 1400 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-209-4700. D daily.

Savant $$$ FRENCH • This addition to the Midtown restaurant

scene made headlines with its “caviar bumps” — bite-sized portions of caviar intended to be eaten off the back of one’s hand — when it opened in September. In a cozy-yet-upscale interior with leather couches and an open kitchen, Jordan Whitmore and Rebecca Wurster, formerly of Apparatus room, serve up rotating European-inspired menu items, including Champagne Chicken, Foie Gras Clair, Calamari, and — for vegan diners — Ratatouille Confit. 51 W. Forest Ave., Detroit; 313-285-9294.D Tues.Sat., L Sun.

R E S TAU R A N T OF THE YEAR 2020 SheWolf Pastificio & Bar $$$ ITALIAN • Chef Anthony Lombardo takes fresh and housemade to a new level with this Midtown restaurant that serves only dinner from a menu inspired by Italian cooking specific to Rome. Milling all of his own flour for his pastas, breads, and polenta in house, Lombardo, well known as the former executive chef at Bacco, serves a selection of simple but elegant regional Italian dishes. 438 Selden St., Detroit; 313-315-3992. D Tue.-Sun. Supino Pizzeria $$ ITALIAN • Relax with one of the town’s best thincrust pizzas — they come in more than a dozen variations, with or without red sauce. A few dishes from the La Rondinella menu made

the list as well, such as paninis, salads, and small plates such as polpette and fagioli. Beer, wine, and cocktails add to the appeal. 2457 Russell St., Detroit; 313-567-7879. L,D Tue.-Sat. Trattoria Serventi $$ ITALIAN • The brick pizza oven turns out an array of thin-crust pizzas and there’s an interesting daytime menu that offers a real bargain. In the evening, such dishes as veal Tosca, and manicotti alla trattoria, recalling chef Aldo Ottaviani — who was instrumental in setting up the original Andiamo menu — typify the style. 20930 Mack Ave., Grosse Pointe Woods; 313-886-9933. L,D daily.

INTERNATIONAL Bucharest Grill $ MEDITERRANEAN-AMERICAN • This bustling sandwich shop, now with five locations, is a cult favorite with its fresh Mediterranean fare, notably the best chicken shawarma wrap sandwiches in town. We’re serious. 19492 Livernois Ave., Detroit.

110 Piquette St., Detroit. 2684 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit; 313-965-3111. L,D daily.

Common Pub $ GASTROPUB • Fans of Atlas Global Bistro, which shuttered in 2013, should be happy to learn that

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Folk’s market and restaurant concept offers seasonal produce, artisan cheese, and smoked fish, plus, salads, baked goods, and specialty foods.

some of the principals may be found at this spot in the Belcrest Apartments. The well-edited menu includes duck rangoon and a burger. 5440 Cass Ave., Detroit; 313-285-8849. L,D Tue.-Fri., D Sat. Detroit Shipping Company $ FUSION • This bi-level destination, created out of shipping containers, offers a variety of food options ranging from the Caribbean-fusion dishes at Coop to chipotle-roasted grasshopper at Brujo Tacos + Tapas to Thai fare from Bangkok 96 and more. 474 Peterboro St., Detroit; 313-462-4973. L,D daily.

Eatori Market $-$$ SPECIALTY GROCERY • This stylish spot overlooking downtown’s Capitol Park. The menu has steamed mussels with leeks, garlic, and fresh oysters. International flourishes abound with truffle aioli for the burger. 1215 Griswold St., Detroit; 313395-3030. L,D daily.

El Barzon $ ITALIAN-MEXICAN • Norberto Garita prepares Italian and Mexican cuisines alongside his wife, Silvia Rosario Garita. Authentic Mexican entrees include mini tacos with beef, chicken, steak, barbecued goat, or sausage, and mole poblano, while the Italian influence takes the form of spaghetti carbonara and Suppa di pesce (seafood soup). 3710 Junction Road, Detroit; 313-8942070. D Tue.-Sun. Folk Detroit $ AUSTRALIAN • A charming Corktown storefront

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dishing up an all-day brunch menu. It’s an offshoot of the Farmer’s Hand grocery and farmers market. The menu focuses on beautifully plated dishes like salads, quiche, meat pies, all beautifully plated and nutritious. 1701 Trumbull Ave., Detroit; 313-290-5849. BR Wed-Mon. Frita Batidos $ CUBAN • Since opening in 2010, Ann Arbor’s Frita Batidos has been cherished for its spicy Cubaninfluenced chorizo burgers and tropical milkshakes made with fresh fruit. Now owner and Top Chef: Las Vegas alum Eve Arnoff has opened a second location in downtown Detroit. The casual eatery is the mirror image of its older sibling — bright and urban, with white walls, picnic tables, and exposed ductwork. Also featuring a full bar, the restaurant offers local craft beers, tropical cocktails, and the option to add a splash of rum to your milkshake. 66 W. Columbia St., Detroit; 313-725-4100. L,D daily.

Leila $$$ LEBANESE • The restaurant from the proprietors of Birmingham’s Phoenicia is named after the owner’s mother — just one facet of the establishment that pays homage to family traditions and heritage. The menu includes various Lebanese dishes, from falafel to Leila’s Bolognese, featuring spaghetti, pine nut, and basil. Other menu items include sujuk — a spicy Armenian sausage — and tabbouleh made of parsley, cracked wheat, and spices. The beer and wine lists offer plenty of options to accompany any meal. 1245 Griswold

St., Detroit; 313-816-8100; leiladetroit.com; D Sun., L&D Mon.-Sat.

is the whole chicken with yassa. 21611 Grand River Ave., Detroit; 313-472-5885. L,D daily.

Magnet $$ MEDITERRANEAN • The newest restaurant from the proprietors of Takoi opened in September with a primarily vegan and vegetarian-based menu of wood-fired Mediterranean and Middle Eastern-inspired dishes. Anchored by a bar which sits in the middle of the establishment, Magnet’s interior is warm, urban, and casual.

The menu comprises small and large vegetarian plates of blistered corn, eggplant, oyster mushroom, and more, as well as Branzino, Prime Rib, and Leg of Lamb among meat and fish options.

4842 Grand River Ave, Detroit; 313-656-2640.

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Norma G’s $ CARIBBEAN • Lester Gouvia, the Trinidadian chef who brought us the famed food truck, recently opened a full-service restaurant under the same name. Stop in for a plate of Chicken Pelau: a tasty blend of rice, diced chicken, squash, peppers, and golden-brown baked chicken. 14628 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit; 313-290-2938. D Tue.-Sat.

Marrow $$ MEAT-FORWARD • This West Village restaurant and butcher shop hybrid is an ode to meat, especially unusual cuts. Diners must walk through the butcher shop, bypassing cases of pastrami and sausage, before entering the restaurant. Offerings include seasonal pork yakitori and local duck breast as well Mapo Mushroom.

8044 Kercheval Ave., Detroit; 313-652-0200.

D Wed.-Mon. Maty’s African Cuisine $$ AFRICAN • A small storefront in the Detroit Old Redford neighborhood is decidedly Senegalese.

Fataya, a deep-fried pastry with savory fillings, are reminiscent of an empanada. The star of the show

Ollie’s Lebanese Cuisine $$ CARIBBEAN • Well-prepared shish tawook, shish kafta, lentil soup, and fresh salads are on the menu. Fresh fruit and vegetable drinks accompany the fare. 16351 Ford Road, Dearborn; 313-2531010. 26348 Ford Road, Dearborn Heights; 313914-2660. L,D daily.

The Peterboro $$ ASIAN-FUSION • A contemporary take on American-Chinese fare gives new life to the cuisine with robustly spiced dishes, including an “absurdly delicious” cheeseburger spring roll and a take on almond boneless chicken. 420 Peterboro St., Detroit; 313-833-1111. D daily.

Revolver $$$$ FUSION • Chefs and prix fixe menus rotate, hence the name, but the conviviality is constant. A cozy setup — five tables in a modern, minimal space — fosters communal dining. Cuisines run the gamut — one week it may be rustic Italian, another week SEPTEMBER 2020 // HOURDETROIT.COM 7 9

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may be sushi. 9737 Joseph Campau Ave., Hamtramck; 313-757-3093. D Fri.-Sat. Seva Detroit $$ VEGETARIAN • Seva offers such dishes as black bean and sweet potato quesadillas, gluten-free options, and colorful stir-fries — some vegan as well as vegetarian. There’s also a full bar as well as a juice bar. 2541 Jackson Ave., Ann Arbor; 734-662-1111. 66 E. Forest Ave., Detroit; 313-974-6661. L,D daily.

Traffic Jam & Snug $ GASTROPUB • Michigan’s first officially designated brewpub is fresh and eccentric. The menu is diverse, and somewhat slanted toward vegetarian diners with such veggie-forward dishes as spinach lasagna, quiche, and portobello mushroom soup. No worries, there’s meatloaf and crabcakes, too. 511 W. Canfield St., Detroit; 313831-9470. L,D daily.

Yum Village $ AFRO-CARIBBEAN • The former food truck opened a full-service restaurant in the North End in April. The space is bright and fun with wooden tables, mismatched chairs, and a colorful, geometric paint job. And the food is just as bold. The restaurant serves up piquant dishes like Lemon Pepper Jerk Chicken. 6500 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-686-2839. L,D Tue.-Sat.

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Vicente’s Cuban Cuisine $$ CUBAN • An evening at this lively spot is more than just Cuban and Spanish dining. Appetizers and tapas include the outstanding Tapa de la Casa, pork leg marinated in mojo; a Spanish chorizo and fresh mushrooms concoction with flambéed sherry wine; and empanadas,a Cuban turnover filled with ground beef or chicken. 1250 Library St., Detroit; 313-962-8800. L,D daily.

OAKLAND AMERICAN Ale Mary’s $$ GASTROPUB • There’s no mistaking that the name of the game here is beer, and the bartenders can help with narrowing down the options.

There’s a separate vegan menu, plus such highlights as Cajun shrimp tacos, Southern fried chicken, creative burger options such as one with a mac-and-cheese bun, and a lot of whiskey.

Come hungry, ready to drink, and you will not be disappointed. 316 S. Main St., Royal Oak;248-2681939. L,D daily. BR Sat.-Sun. Beans & Cornbread $$ SOUL • Upscale soul food is the premise: wings, Hoppin’ John, catfish, and a gravy-smothered pork chop. Tempura battered fried shrimp comes with a choice of cocktail or spicy BBQ sauce, and there’s a notable Louisiana-style gumbo. 29508

Northwestern Hwy., Southfield; 248-208-1680.

L,D Tue.-Fri., D Sat.-Sun. BR Sun. Beverly Hills Grill $$$ NEW AMERICAN • Breakfast near noon is compatible with the Grill’s dawn-to-dark schedule.

Fare includes crab cake Benedict, corned beef hash with poached eggs, and omelet du jour.

There are plenty of lunch and dinner options, typified by black bean chili, Caesar and spinach salads, and a notable burger. 31471 Southfield Road,Beverly Hills; 248-642-2355. B,L,D daily.

Big Rock Chophouse $$$ STEAKHOUSE • This old railroad station is a great setting. Portions range from a dainty filet to a huge porterhouse. There are also a variety of small plates to choose from including tuna tartare, crab cakes, mac and cheese, and more. 245 S. Eton, Birmingham;248-647-7774. L,D Mon.-Sat. Café ML $$ NEW AMERICAN • Café ML is contemporary, both in décor and its “globally inspired food.”

Such dishes as short rib steamed buns, Chinese chicken salad, Singapore street noodles, and Korean fried chicken share the menu with burgers, steak frites, and fresh seafood. Garage door-style windows open onto the patio on warm days. 3607 W. Maple Road, Bloomfield Township; 248-642-4000. D daily.

Capital Grille $$$ STEAKHOUSE • Hand-cut, dry-aged steaks and

fresh seafood are the stars. An outstanding wine list features over 350 labels. The setting is appropriate for business and social events and includeswell-appointed private dining rooms.

2800 W. Big Beaver Road, Troy; 248-649-5300.

L,D Mon.-Sat., D Sun. Churchill’s Bistro & Cigar Bar $$$ TRADITIONAL • You can buy your cigar and smoke it, too. Plus, there are dry-aged steaks, pan-roasted sea bass, seasonal East Coast oysters, and lamb chops, among other options. A full bar boasts a large selection of whiskey, scotch, and bourbon — and plenty of wine. 116 S. Old Woodward, Birmingham; 248-647-4555. L Mon.Sat. D daily.

Como’s $$ NEW AMERICAN • This Ferndale favorite reopened in May 2019 under the ownership of Peas & Carrots Hospitality with a trendier, fresher look. The warm, homey feel is still intact, but it’s ditched the old menu for — among other things — chef Zack Skylar’s square, deep-dish, Detroit-style pizza that’s leavened from a sourdough starter as opposed to commercial yeast. 22812 Woodward Ave., Unit 100., Ferndale; 248-677-4439. L,D daily.

Diamond’s Steak & Seafood $$$ STEAKHOUSE • Now with a second location in Royal Oak, this Howell-based restaurant is the perfect location for New York strip steak, gulf shrimp, or a classic cheeseburger. The Royal Oak location also sports the highly anticipated lush

El Asador Steakhouse $$ MEXICAN • A concentrated cuisine with little modern flairs that also stays faithful to traditional Mexican cooking. Don’t miss the Camarones en Salsa de Langosta: breaded shrimp stuffed with cheese, fried to a golden dark brown, and topped with a lobster cream sauce. It’s a delicious dinner spot you don’t want to miss and an unassuming Latin-American find in Detroit’s Springwells Village. 1312 Springwells St., Detroit; 313-297-2360.

L,D Tue.-Sun. Evie’s Tamales $$ MEXICAN • This Mexicantown restaurant makes some of the best tamales around. Pork or chicken is jacketed with sturdy masa, a dough of ground corn, and then wrapped in a corn husk and steamed. Eat in or order a dozen for later.

3454 Bagley St., Detroit; 313-843-5056.

B,L,D Mon.-Sat., B,L Sun. M Cantina $ MEXICAN • Nuevo Latino street food is the premise at this surprising spot where everything from the tortilla chips to the salsas are made inhouse in the open kitchen. Juices are freshly squeezed and the menu of tortas, tacos, tapas, and salads from the kitchen of Heidi and Junior Merino from Hawaii and Mexico is distinctive.

13214 Michigan Ave., Dearborn; 313-399-9117.

B,L,D daily.

Mi Lindo San Blas $$$ MEXICAN • Heaping platters of seafood such as shrimp, octopus, and scallops, tell the story at this spot that brings a corner of Mexico’s seaside Nayarit region to southwest Detroit. On weekends when live music is added, the tables are often pushed back to create a dance floor. 1807 Livernois Ave., Detroit; 313-789-5100. L,D daily.

El Asador’s Cazuela de Mariscos stars sautéed shrimp, salmon, mahi mahi, scallops, mussels, calamari, and lobster in a smoked chili broth.

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rooftop bar called Pinky’s that opened this spring. There’s a buffet-style brunch at both Diamonds locations on weekends. 100 S. Main St., Royal Oak; 248-291-5201. D daily; 101 W. Grand River Ave., Howell; 517-548-5500. D daily.

Eddie’s Gourmet $$ NEW AMERICAN • Chef Eddie Hanna’s gourmet diner is a simple concept that works to perfection.

The menu offers standard selection of breakfast items, burgers, sandwiches, and lunch specials, but the real draw is the counter-side gourmet and pasta specials. Offerings include Veal Marsala and Chicken Milano 25920 Greenfield Road, Oak Park; 248-968-4060. L,D Mon-Sat. The Fly Trap $ ECLECTIC AMERICAN • This “finer diner” typifies fashionable Ferndale with its tin ceiling, red-topped tables, and counter with swivel stools.

It offers sandwiches, salads, pastas, and omelets.

22950 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248-399-5150.

B,L Tue.-Sun., D Tue.-Fri. Forest $$$ EUROPEAN-INSPIRED • The menu is brief but designed to let the kitchen assemble sharp flavors from various farm and market ingredients. Try the delightful Mandilli pasta with pistachio pesto and Tuscan kale, and the understated “Farm Egg.” 735 Forest Ave., Birmingham; 248258-9400. D Mon.-Sat. BR Sat.

Garage Grill & Fuel Bar $$ NEW AMERICAN • The car-themed rooms of a former 1940s gas station are as fresh and appealing as the dishes themselves. The kitchen serves up a variety of seafood starters and “full-size sedan” entrees, as well as pizzas. 202 W. Main St., Northville, 248-924-3367. L,D nightly, BR Sat.-Sun.

also: Kruse & Muer Roadhouse, 801 S. Lapeer Road, Lake Orion; 248-814-9500. L,D daily; Kruse’s Deer Lake Inn, 7504 Dixie Hwy., Clarkston; 248-795-2077. 134 N. Adams Road, Rochester Hills; 248-375-2503. L,D daily; and the latest addition, Kruse & Muer on Woodward, 28028 Woodward Ave., Royal Oak; 248-965-2101. L,D daily.

Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse $$$$ STEAKHOUSE • This plush modern steakhouse offers dry-aged prime and Kobe-style wagyu beef in a fun, clubby setting. An extensive wine list accompanies the restaurant menu that also features platters of chilled fresh seafood. 201 S. Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-594-4369. D daily. 17107 Haggerty Road, Northville Twp.; 248679-0007. D Tue.-Sat.

Lockhart’s BBQ $$ BARBEQUE • The heart of this joint’s authentic barbecue is the dry-rubbed meat smoker, which can smoke up to 800 pounds of meat at a time.

Choices such as pork ribs, pulled pork, beef brisket, burnt ends, and chicken are served atop butcher paper on metal trays for the true experience. 202 E. Third St., Royal Oak; 248-584-4227.

L,D daily. BR Sun.

J-Bird Smoked Meats $$ BARBEQUE • Offering wood-smoked meats served with the traditional sides of cornbread, buttermilk slaw, and mac and cheese, popular dishes include the Three Meat Sampler and JBird Gumbo, as well as St. Louis Ribs and old-fashioned JBurgers. If you love meat, this is your place. 1978 Cass Lake Road, Keego Harbor; 248681-2124. D daily. BR Sat.-Sun.

Luxe Bar & Grill $$ NEW AMERICAN • The simple menu offers burgers on brioche buns and interesting salads and sides, as well as entrees typified by wildcaught salmon, prime filet, and Greek-style lamb chops. 525 N. Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-792-6051. 115 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe Farms; 313-924-5459. L,D daily.

Kruse & Muer $$ SEAFOOD • The menu features seafood — lobster and shrimp in saffron cream — and pastas, pizzas, and sandwiches. There’s also beef, chicken, and a children’s menu. 327 S. Main St., Rochester; 248-652-9400. L,D daily, BR Sun. There’s

Mabel Gray $$$ NEW AMERICAN • Chef James Rigato produces some masterful dishes on this tiny menu, which does not miss a beat. The menu includes a multicourse tasting option, as well as a daily listing of changing items that never miss. It’s a fine dining experience that is certainly worth experienc-

ing. 23825 John R Road, Hazel Park; 248-3984300. D Tue.-Sat. Mad Hatter Bistro, Bar & Tea Room $$ ECLECTIC AMERICAN • The whimsical setting inspired by Alice in Wonderland welcomes far more than the tea-sipping set with burgers and sandwiches, rabbit Porchetta, truffle risotto bites, and baked brie with pistachio, honey, and pomegranate. There are also pastries and other sweets, of course. 185 N. Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-540-0000. L,D daily, BR Sat.-Sun. Tea by reservation. Lower level not wheelchair accessible.

The Meeting House $$ ECLECTIC AMERICAN • This eclectic American menu includes lobster fettuccini, steak frites remarkably close to those at Paris bistros, and housemade potato chips with a hot Jarlsberg dip.

Or, try the roasted carrot risotto made with house labneh, pistachio, pomegranate gastrique, and Za’atar. 301 S. Main St., Rochester; 248-7594825. D daily, BR Sat.-Sun. The Morrie $$ NEW AMERICAN • Music and munchies can be a great combination when served in the right proportions. Such offerings as the smoked chicken wings, Teriyaki salmon and Baja sweet potato tots, as well as the requisite burger and steak, appeal to a wide demographic. The rock’n’roll-themed eatery also brought its much-loved American dishes and cocktails to Birmingham in 2019. 511 S. Main St., Royal Oak; 248-216-1112. D daily. 260 N. Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-940-3260. L,D Mon.-Fri., B,L,D Sat.-Sun. BR Sat.-Sun. Ocean Prime $$$$ SEAFOOD • An upper-end steak-and-fish place and a popular business lunch site. The menu features naturally harvested fresh fish and prime aged beef. Don’t miss the chocolate peanut butter pie or the carrot cake. A tried-andtrue metro Detroit spot. 2915 Coolidge Hwy., Troy; 248-458-0500. L Mon.-Fri., D daily.

One-Eyed Betty’s $$ ECLECTIC AMERICAN • Picnic-style tables and blackboards lettered with scores of brew choices add a beer-hall sensibility to this popular spot.

The kitchen delivers New Orleans-themed dishes such as po’boy sandwiches and Cajun chicken and sausage as well as a mouth-watering bacon burger. Weekend brunch features delicious housemade doughnuts. 175 W. Troy St., Ferndale; 248-808-6633. D daily, BR Sat.-Sun. Otus Supply $ NEW AMERICAN • This Ferndale stunner has delightful food, superb service, and one wild look.

The menu offers eight main courses and shared plates, as well as pizza and sandwiches. Can’tmiss: The housemade rigatoni made with Italian sausage and shredded boar. There’s also a concert venue called The Parliament Room.

345 E. Nine Mile Road, Ferndale; 248-291-6160.

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Mad Hatter Bistro’s Chicken & Waffles top a spiced waffle with crispy tea-brined chicken tenders.

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O.W.L. $ MEXICAN-AMERICAN • This Royal Oak spot offers 24 hours of sustenance. Step up to the counter and order from the letterboard menu before grabbing a stool at the counter or along the window ledge. Dishes include such diner musts as eggs, sausage and potato hash, burgers, and chicken wings as well as tacos and nachos served from the open kitchen. 27302 Woodward Ave., Royal Oak; 248-808-6244. B, L,D daily.

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Park 600 Bar + Kitchen $$ EUROPEAN INSPIRED • Seating includes the central bar, in front of the blazing pizza oven, at a communal table and conventional tables, and on the terrace overlooking Paint Creek Trail. The menu has an array of small plates and sandwiches at lunch along with intriguing dinner entrees. Royal Park Hotel, 600 E. University Drive, Rochester; 248-453-8732. B,L,D daily and afternoon tea ($39 per person) Thurs.-Sun. by reservation.

Prime29 Steakhouse $$$$ STEAKHOUSE • The 29-day aged prime beef, including the 24-ounce tomahawk bone-in rib-eye, still stars here. There’s also Chilean sea bass, Loch Duart salmon, and lamb chops with lobster fried rice. The service is notable, as is the Award of Excellence from Wine Spectator. 6545 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield; 248-7377463. D daily.

Public House $$ SMALL PLATES • This Ferndale classic once known for its sliders recently received a menu update courtesy of executive chef Nick Erven and head chef Jasmine Hughes. While old favorites like deviled eggs are still present, they’ve been updated with pork rind, and the restaurant now offers “Fancy Ass Hash Browns” with caviar and fried chicken with spicy tomato ranch. The desserts are really worth a try. 241 W. Nine Mile Road, Ferndale; 248-850-7420. L,D Mon.-Fri, B,L,D Sat.-Sun. Redcoat Tavern $ BURGERS • The half-pound choice beef hamburger is always atop the list of local favorites.

But a low-fat, high-flavor Piedmontese beef one is tastier than the original. This is the place for your burger craving. 31542 Woodward Ave., Royal Oak; 248-549-0300. 6745 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield Township; 248-865-0500. L,D Mon.-Sat.

always two soups: a bisque and a chowder. Favorites include the smoked whitefish melt at lunch. A delicious restaurant for all palates to enjoy and feel comfortable in. 273 Pierce St.Birmingham; 248-645-9123. L Mon.-Fri., D daily.

Three Cats Restaurant $ BREAKFAST/BRUNCH • Formerly a small café serving customers of the boutique Leon & Lulu, Three Cats is now a full-fledged restaurant and bar. Located in the former Clawson movie theater next door to the shop, the spot serves small, simple plates, including vegetarian and vegan options for brunch, lunch, and dinner. The beverage menu features local selections, such as vodka from Ferndale’s Valentine’s Distilling Co. and wines from grapes grown on the Leelanau Peninsula. Patrons can even take home the colorful, quirky chairs or tables they’re dining at, as most of the furniture in the restaurant is for sale. 116 W. 14 Mile Road, Clawson; 248-288-4858. L,D Mon.Fri., B,L,D Sat.-Sun. Toast, A Breakfast & Lunch Joint $ BREAKFAST/BRUNCH • It’s fun, it’s breezy, and the food is very, very good. The house specialty smothered burrito has plenty of fans, as does huevos rancheros: fried eggs upon corn tortillas, pintos, and cheese. Toast, a Neighborhood Joint, the spinoff of the Ferndale original has a more elaborate setting pairing ’50s retro with sleek contemporary in a pair of rooms. The new menu features twists to comfort food. 23144 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248-398-0444. L daily, B

Sat.-Sun. 203 Pierce St., Birmingham; 248-2586278. B,L Mon.-Sat., B,L Sun. Toasted Oak $$$ BRASSERIE • The menu revolves around the charcuterie — crispy pork belly, live paté, beef short rib, etc. — sold in the market next door and a list of hot grill items, such as grilled steaks with béarnaise sauce. 27790 Novi Road, Novi; 248277-6000. B,D daily, L Mon.-Fri. Townhouse $$$ NEW AMERICAN • This popular Birmingham spot has several exceptional offerings on its menu, such as the specialty 10 ounces of 28-day dryaged beef hamburger on brioche. 180 Pierce St., Birmingham; 248-792-5241. L,D daily, BR Sat.-Sun. 500 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-723-1000. L,D Mon.-Sun. BR Sun. 220 Merrill $$$ CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN • The menu includes apps and small plates as well as crispy Key West shrimp, pan-roasted sea bass, and fried calamari. There are heartier entrees as well, like the braised beef short ribs. 220 Merrill St., Birmingham; 248-646-2220. L,D Mon.-Sat. BR Sun. Union Woodshop $$ BARBEQUE • Part of the ever-growing Union Joints restaurant group, this is a self-described wood-fired joint, where pulled pork, ribs, chicken, and beef brisket come from the smoker, and Neapolitan-style crisp-crusted pizzas from the

wood-burning oven. And definitely check out the mac and cheese. There’s also a delicious kid’s menu for any youngsters in your party.18 S. Main St., Clarkston; 248-625-5660. D Mon.-Fri., L,D Sat.-Sun. Vinotecca $$ WINE BAR • Proprietors John and Kristin Jonna, the father-daughter duo who also collaborates on Vinology in Ann Arbor, have come up with an eclectic menu, including Loch Duarte salmon and a Kona coffee-rubbed filet. 210 Old S. Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-203-6600. D Tue.-Sun., BR Sat. and Sun. Vinsetta Garage $$ NEW AMERICAN • This restaurant in a vintage car-repair shop offers well-prepared comfortfood classics such as burgers on pretzel buns, macaroni and cheese, spaghetti and meatballs, pizzas, and roast chicken. A restaurant that pays true homage to Detroit. 27799 Woodward Ave., Berkley; 248-548-7711. L,D daily.

Voyager $$ SEAFOOD • Fresh seafood with emphasis on oysters is the premise in this hard-to-find location.

The space entails convivially close quarters for such dishes as peel-n’-eat shrimp, chili crab spaghetti and grilled swordfish. The premium bar offers short but notable lists of beer and wine as well as craft cocktails. 600 Vester St., Ferndale; 248-658-4999. D Tue.-Sat.

Rochester Chop House $$ NEW AMERICAN • Two restaurants in one; Kabin Kruser’s and the Chop House. There’s a throwback roadhouse-style feeling about the Chop House, which has a menu divided between red meat and fresh fish and seafood. Signature dishes include calamari, Maryland jumbo lump crabcakes, and a large selection of aged steaks, rack of lamb, and steak/seafood combinations. 306 S. Main St., Rochester; 248-651-2266.

L Mon.-Fri., D daily Rugby Grille $$$$ NEW AMERICAN • At the Townsend Hotel’s upscale restaurant, the classics remain, including boned-at-the-table Dover sole and hefty steaks.

They also introduced a new menu last year. Michigan-produced ingredients from local farmers and ranchers are still a focus. 100 Townsend St., Birmingham; 248-642-5999. B,L,D daily.

Social Kitchen & Bar $$$ NEW AMERICAN • The energetic Birmingham spot allows guests a view of the kitchen action.

It has a creative and varied menu typified by falafel lettuce wraps, fried chicken sandwiches, crispy Brussels sprouts, and salmon with braised lentils, crispy kale, and a mustard vinagrette. 225 E. Maple Road, Birmingham; 248-594-4200. L Mon.-Fri., D daily, BR Sat.-Sun. Streetside Seafood $$ SEAFOOD • Small and cozy yet sophisticated, the restaurant has a pared-down menu of fresh fish and seafood on a seasonal menu. There are

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Coffee & Dessert Café for something sweet.

27566 Northwestern Hwy., Southfield; 248-9968922. L,D daily.

168 KTV Bistro $$ PAN-ASIAN • Don’t judge by its unassuming strip mall location. It’s a unique experience that meshes food, karaoke, and pop party culture into a one-stop destination. The dining room offers dishes blurring the lines. Standouts include stirfried snow pea leaves with garlic and stir-fried udon. The traditional Korean noodle dish chap chae is a strong option. 32415 John R Road, Madison Heights; 248-616-0168. D daily.

Phoenicia $$$ LEBANESE • This long-standing Lebanese spot has clean, contemporary lines that complement the French door-style windows. Don’t miss the morel mushrooms or roasted garlic cloves with tomato and basil as an appetizer. The menu expands to unexpected items such as baby back ribs. 588 S. Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-644-3122. L Mon.-Fri., D daily.

Quan Nem Ngon $ VIETNAMESE • This gem of a bistro in a handsome space adds to the local Vietnamese offerings. Dishes such as cha gio (elegant little eggrolls), bun bo nuong sa (grilled steak atop angelhair rice noodles), and banh mi made with fresh ingredients. 30701 Dequindre Road, Madison Heights; 248-268-4310. L,D daily.

Ronin’s Tuna Tartar features ahi tuna, roma tomatoes, red onions, avocado, and garlic soy, and is served with crisp wonton chips.

ASIAN Adachi $$$ JAPANESE-INSPIRED • Downtown Birmingham’s Ford-Peabody mansion transforms into a much buzzed-about restaurant. Heading the kitchen is Lloyd Roberts, who has trained in the kitchens of celebrity chefs such as Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Nobu Matsuhisa. 325 S. Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham. D daily, L Mon.-Fri. Anita’s Kitchen $ LEBANESE • With pita pizzas and lamb chops, the Lebanese food here is some of the best around. And there’s vegetarian and gluten-free fare, too. Healthy, nutritious, and delicious. 22651 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248-548-0680. 150 W. Jefferson Ave., Detroit; 313771-3030. L,D daily.

Antihero $$ JAPANESE-INSPIRED • This Izakaya — a Japanese pub-style bar or eatery — opened in fall 2018. Its food is focused on small plates along with an endless array of craft cocktails, beers, and more. 231 W. Nine Mile Road, Ferndale; 248307-7383. D Wed.-Sun. Bi Bim Bab $$ KOREAN • Though sushi and a small selection of Japanese entrees share the bill here, it’s

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Korean food at center stage — on barbecue grills, on which meat and seafood are grilled to order.

Or come for the restaurant’s namesake. 43155 Main St., Novi; 248-348-6800. L,D daily.

Elie’s Mediterranean Grill/Bar $$ LEBANESE • The lamb and chicken shawarma, shish kafta, kibbee nyeh, and other Lebanese dishes are emphasized by the décor, including photomurals of old Beirut and strings of blue beads cascading from the ceiling. A fun place to frequent for a quick lunch or a night out with friends. 263 Pierce St., Birmingham; 248-6472420. L,D Mon.-Sat. Hong Hua $ CHINESE • One of the best area restaurants dedicated to Asian food offers some rare delicacies — shark’s fin and bird’s nest soups, fresh abalone — as well as more customary items. One signature dish is stir-fried yellow grouper fillet with vegetables. 27925 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills; 248-489-2280. L,D daily.

Kaizen Ramen $ JAPANESE • A downtown Royal Oak space with exposed ductwork, orange booths, and a lively, floor-to-ceiling, black-and-white robot mural may not seem like the obvious choice for authentic Asian noodles. But this casual spot offers a variety of vegan and meat-based ramen dishes, as well as gyoza, poke, spring rolls, and karaage — Japanese-style fried chicken. Don’t skip out on desserts like mochi ice cream and cheesecake

tempura. 411 S. Washington Ave., Royal Oak; 248-677-1236. L,D Mon.-Sat. Lao Pot $$$ CHINESE • In early December, the owners of Madison Heights’ international market 168 Asian Mart opened Lao Pot, which specializes in Chinese Hot Pot cuisine. Hot Pot is a traditional method of cooking, using a pot of simmering broth, which sits in the center of the dining table.

Lao Pot gives diners the chance to customize and cook their meals right at their tables, combining great food and a memorable experience. 32707 John R. Road, Madison Heights; 248-689-9888.

L,D daily.

R E S TAU R A N T OF THE YEAR 2008 Mon Jin Lau $ ASIAN-FUSION • Explore such dishes as Singapore noodles, combining chicken, shrimp, chilies, and curry with angel-hair pasta; Mongolian beef; or seared scallops with corn chili sauce and a side of fried taro. The patio opens up and the dining room transforms into a dance floor for weekly events. 1515 E. Maple Road, Troy; 248689-2332. L Mon.-Fri., D daily.

New Seoul Plaza $$ KOREAN • An all-in-one spot for Korean eats that opened in fall 2018, New Seoul Plaza offers a dish for every craving. Try Daebak KBBQ for Korean barbeque, Jinji for traditional dishes or Myomee

Ronin $$ JAPANESE • The sushi menu, ranging from spicy tuna rolls to yellowtail and salmon eggs and well beyond, is augmented by a concise menu of cooked fare. Front windows open onto the sidewalk, making the cocktail lounge open-air during the warm months. 326 W. Fourth St., Royal Oak; 248-546-0888. D daily.

Take Sushi $$ JAPANESE • Crisp salads, miso soup garnished with the tiniest dice of tofu, sashimi and sushi, oversize bowls of soba or udon noodles, and all the familiar — and some not-so-familiar — entrees, combine together to make this spot special. 1366 Walton Blvd., Rochester Hills; 248-652-7800. L Mon.-Sat., D daily.

Yotsuba Japanese Restaurant & Bar $$ JAPANESE • The semi-circular sushi bar is the center of this restaurant. Sushi chef Bobby Suzuki has a loyal following for his precise nigiri rolls.

There are also tatami rooms and conventional seating. 7365 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield Township; 248-737-8282. 2222 Hogback Road, Ann Arbor; 734-971-5168. L,D daily.

Zao Jun $$ ASIAN FUSION • Adachi chef Lloyd Roberts has brought his refined yet imaginative Pan-Asian cuisine to Bloomfield Township. More casual than Roberts’ first local outpost, Zao Jun boasts an eclectic menu, influenced by traditional East Asian traditions as well as New Age techniques.

Alongside an extensive drink menu of wine, beer, sake, and Asian-inspired cocktails, Zao Jun offers creative dishes such as Duck Macao, Kani Crab and Green Apple salad, and Mongolian Beef. 6608 Telegraph Road., Bloomfield Twp.; 248-949-9999. D daily.

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sautéed with fresh pomodori; gnocchi with porcini mushrooms; and meaty prawns finished with lemon, white wine, and herbs. For dessert, try the crepes 30715 W. 10 Mile Road, Farmington Hills; 248-474-3033. L,D Mon.-Fri., D Sat.

Andiamo Restaurants $$ ITALIAN • Steak and Italian pasta are the focus, but dessert is also impeccable. The more casual but as just delicious spots are known as Trattorias. Flagships: 400 Renaissance Center, Detroit; 313-567-6700. 21400 Michigan Ave., Dearborn; 313-359-3300. 6676 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Township; 248-865-9300. 7096E. 14 Mile Road, Warren; 586-268-3200. 14425 Lakeside Circle, Sterling Heights; 586-532-8800. Trattorias: Fenton. D daily. Clarkston. L,D Mon.-Fri, D Sat.-Sun.

Crispelli’s Bakery Pizzeria $ ITALIAN-INSPIRED • This hybrid offers artisanal pizzas from a brick oven, salads, paninis, and soups. A bakery offers crusty breads, desserts, and meals to go. Two patios add to the appeal.

28939 Woodward Ave., Berkley; 248-591-3300.

625 E. Big Beaver Road, Troy; 248-680-0066.

6690 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield; 248591-3300. L,D daily.

Assaggi Bistro $$$ ITALIAN • Seasonal offers encompassing rustic Italian, country French, and authentic Lebanese are all created in the open kitchen. Standouts include Moroccan duck legs, porcini-dusted day boat sea scallops, and cioppino (seafood stew).

330 W. Nine Mile Road, Ferndale; 248-584-3499 D Tue.-Sun. Bacco $$$ ITALIAN • Chef-owner Luciano Del Signore’s pastas are like pure art. Try the Strozzapreti Norcina: Italian sausage, truffles, tomato, and white wine, tossed in hand-rolled pasta. From local grass-fed beef to sustainably farm-raised sea bass, the ingredients are top-end. A true Italian gem in the suburbs. And the desserts, are not to be missed. 29410 Northwestern Hwy., Southfield; 248-356-6600. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat.

Due Venti $$ CUISINE • Everything is precise and balanced at this northern Italian gem: food, service, and atmosphere. Try the “fritelle” of sliced cauliflower fried in olive oil or the gnocchi with 14-hour braised lamb shank ragu. Desserts include affogato, a flourless torta with chocolate cake and raspberry mousse, and biscotti — everything is completely delicious. 220 S. Main St., Clawson; 248-288-0220. D Tue.-Sat. La Strada Dolci e Caffé $ ITALIAN • A slice of European elegance offers an

impeccable little menu of Italian dishes and rich coffees and espresso. Paninis, delicious fresh green salads, hearty minestrone soup, pastas, pizzas, and decadent and artistically crafted pastries are prettily served and very tasty.

243 E. Merrill St., Birmingham; 248-480-0492.

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And that’s a good thing. Parties dine on square pizzas with crisp crust that’s faintly charred around the edges. Hailed by food critics and Detroiters alike as arguably one of the most classic Detroit style pizzas in the city — so it’s well worth a trip. 23141 Dequindre Road, Hazel Park; 248-547-1711. L,D Wed.-Sun.

Lelli’s $$ ITALIAN • Dinners begin with an antipasto tray, creamy minestrone, salad, side dish of spaghetti, and then — nine times out of 10 — a filet mignon with zip sauce. 885 N. Opdyke Road, Auburn Hills; 248-373-4440. L Mon.-Fri. D daily.

Market North End $$ ITALIAN • Joe and Kristin Bongiovanni opened this eatery just across the street from the family’s other two restaurants, Salvatore Scallopini and Luxe Bar & Grill. It represents a younger, casual alternative with a serious kitchen that offers American dishes with global touches.

474 N. Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-712-4953. L,D daily.

Loccino Italian Grill $$ ITALIAN • Loccino is a “family-friendly” yet upscale Italian restaurant. Choose from fresh seafood, steak, chicken, and veal dishes, plus traditional pastas, pizzas, salads, and more.

They also offer happy hour specials from 3-7 p.m. weekdays. A great special occassion place or delicious workday lunch spot for whevener you need a break from the office. 5600 Crooks Road, Troy; 248-813-0700. L Mon.-Fri., D daily.

Loui’s Pizza ITALIAN • Sure, you can now get a Michigan craft beer, but not much else has changed.

Polka Restaurant & Beer Café $$ POLISH • Servers in traditional garb greet you near original murals, and light woodwork is enhanced with painted floral panels. Try the dill pickle soup, city chicken, and beef short rib, plus other favorites like pierogis, schnitzel, stuffed cabbages, and several kielbasa styles. 2908 E. Maple Road, Troy; 248-817-2601. D Tue.-Sun.

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Bar Verona $$ ITALIAN • Helmed by celebrity chef Fabio Viviani, who has appeared on Bravo’s Top Chef, the upscale-casual eatery offers updated Italian favorites in a modern atmosphere. The menu features homemade pastas, such as garganelli with shiitake mushrooms and truffled porcini cream; and pizzas, including the Verona with Tomato Cream, Black Forest Ham, and Burrata, as well as a selection of steaks and seafood dishes. See website for locations; barverona.com Bella Piatti $$ ITALIAN • The location right across from the Townsend Hotel has inspired a number of visiting celebrities, professional athletes, and film crews who stay there to check out the Italian fare at this restaurant. The menu of such dishes as Gemelli pasta with fresh tomato sauce, salmon baked with spinach, kalamata olives, white wine, and tomatoes, and tagliatelle Bolognese stands on its own. It’s one of our true favorites in the area in terms of Italian restaurants. 167 Townsend St., Birmingham; 248-494-7110. L,D Tue.-Fri., D Sat. Bigalora: Wood Fired Cucina $$ ITALIAN • The pizza concept from chef Luciano Del Signore, a four-time James Beard Award nominee, features small plates, fresh pastas, wood-roasted meats, and a range of distinctive Neopolitan pizzas. 29110 Franklin Road, Southfield; 248-750-2442. L Fri.,D daily. 711 S. Main St., Royal Oak; 248-544-2442. L,D daily. 3050 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor; 734-971-2442. L,D daily. BR Sun. Café Cortina $$$ ITALIAN • Selections include prosciutto di Parma stuffed with greens and mozzarella; squid

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Imperial $ MEXICAN-INSPIRED • The brief menu offers California-style tacos on soft tortillas, including lime-grilled chicken, carnitas, and marinated pork, as well as slow-roasted pork tortas, and guacamole, 22828 Woodward Ave., Ferndale, 248850-8060. L,D daily, BR Sun.

MACOMB AMERICAN Bad Brad’s $$ BARBEQUE • The rustic setting is just right for the menu of St. Louis ribs, brisket, and pulled pork.

3437 S. Baldwin Road, Orion Charter Township; 248-977-5910. 35611 Green St., New Baltimore; 586-716-9977. 6525 23 Mile Road, Shelby Township; 586-254-7010. L,D daily.

Butter Run Saloon $ GASTROPUB • Solid American fare that’s beyond bar food (although their burgers are certainly noteworthy). There’s escargot, perch, steaks, and a huge whiskey selection — 900 at last count.

27626 Harper Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-6752115. L,D daily.

Sherwood Brewing Co.’s Breadtzels are pretzel breadsticks baked fresh to order, and served with herbed cream cheese or beer cheese soup.

dale restaurant serves well-prepared Italian dishes paired with an ambitious wine program. The fairly brief menu starts with a list of pizzas, then moves to pastas, but has all the classics to hit the spot. 280 W. Nine Mile Road, Ferndale; 248-2684806. D Tue.-Sun. Sal’s $$ ITALIAN • Formerly known as Salvatore Scallopini, this old-school Italian eatery has long been known in for its classic handmade pastas. Still, it’s more recent menu additions — bold seafood dishes that reflect the Bongiovanni family’s Sicilian heritage— hold up just as well. 505 N. Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-644-8799. L,D daily.

is served by the glass, the pitcher, or bottle. 155 S. Bates St., Birmingham; 248-731-7066. D Mon.-Sat.

food-trend-followers. HRD is the ultimate neighborhood hangout. 34977 Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-671-1714. B,L,D daily.

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Bistro Joe’s $$$ GLOBAL • Part of Papa Joe’s Gourmet Market, Bistro Joe’s is in a mezzanine overlooking the open kitchen and market. There is an eclectic list of dishes like Spicy Tuna “tacushi,” steamed mussels, and tasty flatbread pizzas. 34244 Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-594-0984.

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Culantro $$ PERUVIAN • Native Peruvian Betty Shuell brings a taste of her home to Ferndale. The casual, homey, seat-yourself establishment is named after an herb that is often used in preparation with the more familiar cilantro. An especially notable dish is Pollo a la Brasa, marinated chicken served with French fries, rice, and a variety of Peruvian dipping sauces. 22939 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248-632-1055. L,D daily.

Silver Spoon $$ ITALIAN • This quintessential slice of Italy features excellent food, knowledgeable staff, and friendly service. Try the bucatini made with pancetta, onion, red wine, and fresh tomato sauce. Also worth trying: saltimbocca alla Romana, or veal scaloppini sautéed in white wine. A truly delicious place for any kind of outing. 543 N. Main St., Rochester; 248-652-4500. D daily.

The Fed $$ GASTROPUB • An attractive restaurant with great food and a delightfully refreshing atmosphere.

The menu crosses boundaries, from tacos and wood-fired dishes to assorted flatbreads and sushi rolls. The interior is also Instagrammably beautiful. 15 S. Main St., Clarkston; 248-297-5833. D daily, BR Sat.-Sun.

Tallulah Wine Bar & Bistro $$ WINE BAR • Understated monochromatic décor and a pared-down menu of seasonal dishes make this spot a Birmingham classic.

The kitchen turns out dishes like Lamb Belly Ragu with housemade pasta; and Alaskan Halibut with mushroom ragu and asparagus. Wine

Hazel, Ravines & Downtown $$ ECLECTIC • This is an inventive, casual and fine-dining eatery, grab-and-go market, and bar all in a 10,000-square-foot space in downtown Birmingham. The restaurant itself offers three menus.

Hazel focuses on comfort food. Ravines is for the seasoned traveler. While Downtown appeals to

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Gran Castor $$ LATIN STREET • From the duo behind hit spots like Vinsetta Garage and Union Woodshop comes this vibrant Latin-American café and restaurant.

Diners can choose to sit behind one of the two bars, a cozy café, or in the 245-seat dining room all decked in colorful textiles. At Gran Castor, the dining room is equally as decadent as the food and drinks served. 2950 Rochester Road, Troy; 248-278-7777. D Mon-Sun. Honcho $ LATIN FUSION • From the owners of Vinsetta Garage and Union Woodshop, this restaurant

Detroit Fish House $$ SEAFOOD • This restaurant feels like a true coastal eatery, serving an extensive menu of fresh fish and seafood in a well-designed setting. Choose from a wide variety of fresh fish and meaty seafood, ranging from salmon to Lake Superior whitefish. 51195 Schoenherr Road, Shelby Charter Township; 586-739-5400.

L,D Mon.-Sat., D Sun. J. Baldwin’s Restaurant $$$ NEW AMERICAN • The menu showcases talented chef Jeff Baldwin’s contemporary American food: cedar-planked salmon, chicken fettuccini alfredo with pesto, and herb-crusted chicken, with housemade breads. The desserts include chocolate bumpy cake, spiced carrot cake, apple cobbler, chocolate mousse layer cake, and banana foster bread pudding. Overall, J. Baldwin’s serves up really amazing food. 16981 18 Mile Road, Clinton Township; 586-416-3500.

L,D daily, BR Sun. Mr. Paul’s Chophouse $$$ STEAKHOUSE • This bastion of red meat as well as classic dishes is still going strong. Try oldschool tableside presentations such as Chateaubriand and Caesar salad. There’s a solid selection of fresh seafood and pasta, too. The founding family still runs the place and emphasizes great hospitality and a heckuva good time. 29850 Groesbeck Hwy., Roseville; 586-777-7770. L,D Mon.-Fri., D Sat. Sherwood Brewing Co. $ GASTROPUB • Quality local ingredients raise Sherwood’s fare to well above “elevated pub grub.” Some notable choices include the hearty

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Blue LLama Jazz Club’s Salt Roasted Beet Carpaccio is topped with goat cheese, toasted coriander, and chestnut crisps.

House Beer Chili, savory Better Made-crusted fish and chips, and spicy Buffalo Mac. Homemade extends to dessert, including Cashew Outside Cookies. This isn’t just bar food, it’s elevated bar food. 45689 Hayes Road, Shelby Township; 586-532-9669. L,D daily.

Twisted Rooster $$ SPORTS BAR • This “Michigan-centric” chain (Chesterfield Township, Grand Rapids, and Belleville) has takes on classics, with mac & cheese variations and steaks with “zip” sauce.

45225 Marketplace Blvd., Chesterfield; 586-9491470. L,D daily.

Vast Kitchen and Bar $$ NEW AMERICAN • Chef Nicole Justman heads the kitchen at this fresh spot that brings a touch of Birmingham to Shelby Township. A contemporary menu includes ginger-crusted salmon and filet mignon. 52969 Van Dyke Ave., Shelby Township; 586-991-6104. L,D Mon.-Sat. Waves $$ SEAFOOD • Seafood covers most of the menu at this Nautical Mile favorite. It’s a tough task choosing between such popular appetizers as Cuban-spiced crawfish tails, grouper nuggets, and steamed mussels. Entrees include pastas and several choices from “ over the wave,” such as Lamb Chops and New York strip steak, plus crab cakes, and beer-battered cod. 24223 Jefferson Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-773-3279. L,D daily.

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EUROPEAN Da Francesco’s Ristorante & Bar $$ ITALIAN • Da Francesco’s has been around for more than 15 years, but its massive new facility is packing in the crowds offering an upbeat modern twist to traditional Italian dining. 49521 Van Dyke Ave., Shelby Township; 586-731-7544. L,D Tue.-Fri., D Sat., L,D Sun. Gaudino’s $$ ITALIAN • The trend toward combining a food market with a restaurant has a good example at this spot. It offers imported pastas and sauces, plus a butcher counter with sausages and a wine assortment. The menu offers pasta and pizza, salads, and entrees, including a Chicken Milanese.

27919 Harper Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-8796764. L,D Tue.-Sun. Testa Barra $$ ITALIAN • The newest spot from talented chef and restaurateur Jeffrey Baldwin and his wife, RoseMarie, offers modern Italian fare in a lively, upbeat setting. Pastas are made in-house.

48824 Romeo Plank Road, Macomb Township; 586-434-0100. D nightly D Tue.-Sun.

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Black Pearl $$ SEAFOOD • This seafood and martini bar is especially popular during patio season. But step inside for a host of craft cocktails, then stay for dinner. A seafood-dominated menu includes a notable roasted scallop dish. The Pasta Gone Bayou is also worth a try, with shrimp, chicken, andouille sausage, and a Cajun cream sauce.

And make sure to order dessert. The Sweet Potato Beignets and gluten-free Black Pearl Molten Cake are exceptional. 302 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; 734-222-0400. D daily.

Blue LLama Jazz Club $$ CREATIVE AMERICAN • Come to this swanky jazz club for the music, which includes headliners such as the Grammy-nominated Ravi Coltrane Quartet, but stay for Chef Louis Goral’s delicious food. Try the crispy foie gras PB&J with Marcona almonds and strawberry jam.

There is also a delicious Sunday brunch with decadent orange blossom beignets and strawberry pancakes. 314 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; 734-372-3200. D Wed.-Sat., BR Sun. The Common Grill $$ SEAFOOD • Owner and chef Craig Common’s skilled work has drawn the attention of Gourmet magazine and the James Beard House — as well as the Purple Rose Theatre crowd. This mainstay is known for fresh oysters and seafood, but all the fare is expertly prepared. A tried-and-true foodie destination with a range of desserts, including coconut cream pie, lemon pudding cake, and cherry cobbler. 112 S. Main St.,Chelsea;

734-475-0470. L,D Tue.-Sun., BR Sun. Grange Kitchen and Bar $$$ NEW AMERICAN • If the charm of the brownstone storefront brought you in, regionally sourced ingredients will make you stay. From fried pig head to pig-ear salad, every scrap of the hog is used, reflecting a philosophy of sustainability.

118 W. Liberty St., Ann Arbor; 734-995-2107.

D Mon.-Sat., BR Sun. Logan $$$ NEW AMERICAN • The menu is American, with strong global influences, including pork dumplings and ceviche for starters. For entrees try the Tagliatelle & Burrata with caramelized onions and tomatoes. 115 W. Washington St., Ann Arbor; 734327-2312. D Tue.-Sat. Seva Ann Arbor $$ VEGAN • Seva offers such dishes as black bean and sweet potato quesadillas, gluten-free options, and colorful stir-fries — some vegan as well as vegetarian. There’s also a full bar as and juice bar. Choose from one of the most extensive vegetarian menus in the area. 2541 Jackson Ave., Ann Arbor; 734-662-1111. L,D daily.

Zingerman’s Deli $ SANDWICH/DELI • This is a must-try staple in Ann Arbor. The temptations at Zingerman’s are endless: fresh breads and a menu of filling sandwiches, olive oils and housemade balsamic vinegars, chilies, and mustards. 422 Detroit St., Ann Arbor; 734-663-3354. B,L,D daily.

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Zingerman’s Roadhouse $$$ CLASSIC COMFORT • This eatery celebrates American food from various cities across the country. From fresh Maryland crab cakes to the delicious delicacies of New Orleans, every last bite of the country is represented here.

The buttermilk biscuits are beyond-this-world.

2501 Jackson Ave., Ann Arbor; 734-663-3663.

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the Tandoori Lamb Chops marinated in yogurt, ginger, and garlic, which is best eaten with flavorful garlic naan. 307 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; 734-663-1500. L, D daily.

Slurping Turtle $ JAPANESE • This fun, casual restaurant owned by celebrity chef Takashi Yagihashi offers plenty of shareable dishes, such as hamachi tacos and duck fat fried chicken. 608 E. Liberty St., Ann Arbor; 734-887-6868. L,D daily.

ASIAN EUROPEAN Miss Kim’s $$ KOREAN • This spinoff from the Zingerman’s mini empire comes courtesy of chef Ji Hye Kim and is a go-to spot for healthy Asian eats. Kim often incorporates ancient Korean culinary traditions, such as rice syrup and plum extracts, into her dishes. Some of the restaurant’s standouts include the Wasabi Sugar Snap Peas and Korean BBQ Ssam Plate to name just a few. 415 N. Fifth Ave., Ann Arbor; 734-275-0099. L,D Tue.-Sun. Shalimar $$ INDIAN • Offering North Indian, Tandoori, and Mughlai dishes, Shalimar is suitable for carnivores and herbivores alike. Standouts include

fresh and perfectly executed to suit your tastes.

341 E. Liberty St., Ann Arbor; 734-769-6700. L Tue.-Fri., D Tue.-Sun., BR Sun. Paesano $$ ITALIAN • With a friendly waitstaff and decked in vibrant colors, this lively restaurant is not to be missed. The innovative menu changes seasonally. Must-tries have included the pasta carbonara, featuring shrimp, duck bacon, and Italian greens, as well as beet and ricotta gnocchi. 3411 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor; 734-971-0484. L,D daily.

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KouZina Greek Steet Food $ GREEK • The Greek “street food” at this popular spot comes in lamb and beef, and chicken. Try the lentil soup for a delicious lunch or go for something more filling like falafel. Either way, you can’t go wrong with this excellent spot. 332 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; 734-997-5155. L,D daily.

Mani Osteria & Bar $$ ITALIAN • This popular casual restaurant infuses freshness with lower prices than most osterias.

It’s a well-rounded blend of modern, eclectic Italian with classic standbys. The pizzas are hot,

The Blue Nile $$ ETHIOPIAN • The real treat of the meal at this Ferndale restaurant is that it’s scooped up with a spongy bread called injera, and all the lentils, often seasoned with Ethiopian spice mixture known as Berber, and vegetables are delicious.

221 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor; 734-998-4746.

D Tue.-Sun.545 W. Nine Mile Road, Ferndale; 248-547-6699. D daily.

chicken, goat, and vegetable dishes, in which the rice is first cooked then baked. All the Indian favorites are available, such as Chicken Tikka Masala, Lamb Rogan Josh, and made-fresh garlic naan. It’s the ideal spot for when you’re craving the classics. 1739 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor; 734-662-2877. L,D Tue.-Sun. Vinology $$$ ECLECTIC • Natural brick walls blended with dark-wood booths and tables lend warmth to the dining room at Vinolgy, while tall ceilings contribute to a spacious feel. The menu draws on assorted cuisines to produce dishes such as Vegan Dumplings, Short Rib Tacos, Fig and Gorgonzola Flatbread, and Filet Mignon with black truffle garlic butter and burgundy reduction. As implied by the name of the venue, the wine list here is incredible. 110 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; 734-222-9841. L Mon.-Fri. D daily.

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Continue to “move more” to maintain your mobility, improve your mood, increase energy levels, and reduce your risk for chronic diseases. Bundle up and walk or run outdoors.

Try Pilates, join a gym, take a fitness class, or find an online workout.

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How can a smile be improved with cosmetic periodontal surgery?

A: As some people age, their gums recede — making their teeth look much longer and their smile appear older. Periodontist Dr. Joseph Nemeth uses the minimally invasive Chao Pinhole Gum Rejuvenation Technique® to lengthen the gums.

“We make a small pinhole in the gum above the teeth to be treated.

With special instruments we loosen up the gum tissue and bring it down over the receded areas, where it should be. The Pinhole Technique

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dental techniques, including porcelain veneers, one-visit CEREC porcelain crowns, and Invisalign® invisible braces,” Dr. David Whalen notes.

“When your smile is sparkling, protect your investment,” advises Dr. Marcy Goldin, an adjunct clinical lecturer at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. “Take care of your oral health by following a healthy diet, brushing, flossing, and scheduling regular dental checkups and cleanings.”

I need physical therapy. How can I be sure I’m safe?

A: At Team Rehab, the safety and

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you can enjoy life again. Whether you’re missing one tooth or more, we can replace them with beautiful, natural-looking dental implants,” adds Dr. Goldin, a Diplomate of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists. “State-of-theart dental implants and Prettau zirconia implant bridges can last a lifetime and allow you to smile, chew, and speak comfortably, with renewed confidence.”

“We provide an array of the latest

improves the smile tremendously.

Patients are extremely happy, and we’re seeing excellent long-term results,” says Dr. Nemeth, the first gum specialist in Michigan to be certified in this innovative technique.

Some people are embarrassed because they have a “gummy” smile. Dr. Nemeth does periodontal plastic surgery to sculpt the excess gum tissue, so the teeth look appropriate and beautiful.

“With these procedures, patients

have little to no discomfort. We typically use intravenous sedation so patients are asleep or in a very relaxed state during their treatment,” says Dr. Nemeth, who has certification as a Master in the College of Sedation in Dentistry.

“We love doing cosmetic periodontal surgery,” he adds. “Our patients enjoy a healthier, more attractive smile, and it changes their life.”

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Why is maintaining mobility so important as we age?

A: Aging is tough on the body.

and owner of Pilates Fitness & It causes decreases in muscle mass, Physical Therapy Center in Southfield. strength, and bone density, as well “But,” he cautions, “it must be attained as thickening of cartilage around without causing damage to the joints. the joints. All of these factors make This is where Pilates and Gyrotonic® mobility increasingly challenging. are so beneficial.”

The problem is that a decrease Both methodologies work with in mobility can have a significant structured, intentional, and informed impact on a person’s well-being. actions with no jarring movements.

“This is why mobility is key for Employing these aligned movements healthy aging,” says Ron Jegadeesh, and proper biomechanics in a low- or Pilates instructor, physical therapist, no-impact environment keeps the

joints safe at any stage of life, from young to not-as-young.

Performing movements in a controlled and balanced way — as is done in Pilates and Gyrotonic — is essential for avoiding injury.

Nothing puts the kibosh on mobility like an injury, so keep on moving.

But do so safely. It’s the best way to ensure you can continue to enjoy all that life has to offer, no matter where you are on that path.

Pilates Fitness & Physical Therapy Center Ron Jegadeesh, PT, MBA Certified PMA, Polestar Pilates, Stott Pilates, Gyrotonic, and Gyrokinesis Instructor 17418 W. 10 Mile Rd. Southfield, MI 48075 248-552-1012 pilatesfitnessevolution.com ron@pilatesfitnessevolution.com

HEALTH & BEAUTY Q&A Q:

My gums hurt. I know I should have them checked, but I’m afraid treatment will be painful and I might be exposed to COVID-19. Can you ease my fears?

A: For two decades, Pristine Periodontics & Implants has earned a reputation for excellence and offering the highest level of patient care. The entire team is here to support their patients every step of the way.

Pristine Periodontics uses medications, IV sedation, and lasers to reduce, control, or eliminate pain.

The PerioLase MVP-7 dental laser targets and destroys bacteria in the gums without cutting or stiches.

LANAP® is a gentle, minimally inva-

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office to control or kill the virus.

Their HVAC system has filters and there’s UV light in the ductwork.

Pristine’s air purification systems have six-stage filtration, so the air quality is equal to or better than the air quality in hospitals. The positive pressure air supply in surgical rooms are operating-room-grade.

Pristine Periodontics’ goal is to remain a COVID-free facility.

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I’ve found the perfect dress for my sister’s wedding, but my regular bra doesn’t work with it. Can Harp’s help with this?

A: There’s nothing worse than an ill-fitting bra.

Nine out of 10 women wear the wrong size bra. When you come to Harp’s, expect an expert fitting and one-on-one personal service. A properly fit bra can

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sive, FDA-cleared laser treatment that can regenerate bone, tissues, and ligaments destroyed by gum disease.

COVID-19 is a severe challenge, and the safety of patients and staff is of paramount importance to the Pristine Periodontics team. They enforce universal safety precautions and are working with Beaumont doctors to test staff and patients for the virus.

As COVID-19 particles can remain in the air for hours, they’ve made significant changes throughout their

help eliminate shoulder problems, improve your posture, and change your silhouette. The team at Harp’s can smooth bulges, flatten tummies, add or subtract from your bustline, and make you look and feel great no matter what

you’re wearing. In fact, the right size bra can give the illusion of taking 10 pounds off your figure.

Hard-to-fit sizes are Harp’s specialty. They’ve been fitting generations of women since 1947.

Experience the Harp’s difference!

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Searching for the perfect swimsuit can be so frustrating. How is the experience different at Custom Swimwear by Exelnt Designs in Royal Oak?

A: Custom Swimwear by Exelnt Designs takes the frustration out of buying a swimsuit because their suits are designed by women to fit women.

The company specializes in all shapes, sizes, and bra cup sizes.

They give their customers personal and private assistance through every step of the process, from

choosing styles and sizes to picking up your suit.

All swimsuits are hand-cut and sewn on location, and can be customized to fit every need.

Custom Swimwear by Exelnt Designs Trish Crowder-Karalla Owner 4732 Rochester Rd. Royal Oak, MI 48073 248-439-2323 customswimwear.com

PROFESSIONALS

Team Rehabilitation’s Lung Strong Program Aims to Strengthen Respiratory Function

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esponding to the COVID-19 crisis has been a challenge for all areas of medicine, and it’s no different for the outpatient physical therapy clinics of Team Rehabilitation. For Jeffrey Dehn, PT, OMPT, Clinic Director of the Livonia 2 Clinic, the past few months have been like no other. In March, he began experiencing a sore throat, cough, fatigue, and shortness of breath. Before feeling ill, Dehn — who exercises regularly, runs marathons, and plays indoor soccer — was in great shape.

“While I was sick I did breathing exercises, because I could feel that my right lung was not functioning well. After recovering from the initial symptoms, I still felt really tired,” says Dehn, who has been a certified orthopedic manual physical therapist — a concentration that focuses on improving rib mobility, thoracic mobility, and breathing — since 2008. He became a tai chi instructor two years ago, and says that discipline also emphasizes breath control.

As Dehn was coping with his own lung function challenges, and as those infected with COVID-19 continued to increase, he and fellow Team Rehab physical therapists joined together to establish a specialized program to aid in improving strength and respiratory function for those recovering from the virus.

“I thought that for patients who may have started out deconditioned, or for clients who were hospitalized, they would need a recovery plan,” Dehn says. Under the guidance of Gwynne Waters, PT, DPT, OMPT, SCS, Vice President of Continuing

Education at Team Rehab, the Lung Strong Program was established. The team consulted with expert physicians and respiratory therapists to develop the program, which was designed so it can be implemented via telemedicine or in the clinic, and then tailored to the needs of individual patients.

The virus’s effect on the body is extensive, and while it targets the lungs, a lack of oxygen and widespread inflammation throughout the body can harm the kidneys, liver, heart, brain, and other organs. For patients who have fought the virus, the recovery process and road to wellness can be long.

“We really thought there would be a need, and as it turns out we have more than 55,000 people in Michigan alone who have recovered from COVID-19,” Dehn says.

Lung Strong aims to help patients restore their strength, endurance, and normal breathing capacity; help people resume their participation in activities of daily living and recreational activities; and resolve new issues with pain, stiffness, or weakness. The program utilizes breathing exercises as well as strength and endurance exercises, and monitors vitals. Although Dehn initially thought patients would mostly be elderly, as the illness is skewed toward impacting this population, his first client was in her 30s and wanted to improve her strength and stamina in order to go back to work.

Team Rehab screens every patient and staff member every day, utilizing a series of questions and monitoring temperatures. All staff and patients are required to wear masks, which are provided if needed.

Each Team Rehab clinic has also made a significant reduction in the number of patients in the clinic at any one time, to allow greater physical distancing. Dehn’s clinic has accomplished this by changing the schedule so only two or three therapists are in the clinic at the same time. Clinics have been encouraged to create more space or put barriers between treatment tables. The treadmill may be in an area where it can be blocked by a curtain, and anything touched is sanitized prior to patient use. Hand sanitizers are located throughout the clinic, and staff and patients are encouraged to offer any other ideas about ways to maximize safety.

“Things changed so quickly throughout this crisis. Fortunately, we’ve been able to continue to adhere to our core principle: Do what’s best for our patients,” Dehn says.

Team Rehab Physical Therapy We have a location near you! team-rehab.com (See website for convenient locations and phone numbers.)

GILDA’S AROUND TOWN WALK & 5K

12TH ANNUAL VIRTUAL TOASTING HOPE TASTING EVENT The 12th annual Toasting Hope Tasting is going virtual! This format change will still include the opportunity to bid on auction lots, the chance to enter a drawing to win valuable packages, and the ability to deepen your connection with the Epilepsy Foundation of Michigan’s mission. The event will culminate with a Facebook and YouTube live event co-hosted by Alicia Smith, anchor for WXYZ, and our event chairs.

There are so many unique ways to engage in Toasting Hope this year; please join us in our quest to end epilepsy and our toast to hope! To participate, become a sponsor, or make a donation, visit epilepsymichigan.org/toastinghope or call 1-800-377-6226, ext. 1231.

FORGOTTEN HARVEST'S WOMEN'S HARVEST LUNCH Look out for more information on Forgotten Harvest’s Women’s Harvest Lunch! Join us for a virtual version of our annual Women’s Harvest Lunch this fall, which helps to raise vital funds for Forgotten Harvest Farms. Forgotten Harvest’s mission is dedicated to relieving hunger and preventing nutritious food waste, and the organization envisions communities that work together to end hunger and increase individual, neighborhood, economic, and environmental health. Please check forgottenharvest.org for further information and sponsorship opportunities.

VIRTUAL TRAILBLAZE CHALLENGE Blaze your own trail and help make wishes come true for Michigan children battling critical illnesses. By participating in the Virtual Trailblaze Challenge, you can help Make-A-Wish® Michigan continue to grant the wishes that are safe to grant today and ensure that vital funds are in place for the wishes of tomorrow. Instead of gathering for an in-person event, you can walk or hike the 21 miles over the course of hike weekend, Sept. 11-13, wherever you live. There are more than 800 Michigan children waiting for their wishes, and you can help bring hope to these children at a time when they need it most. There is no registration fee or fundraising minimum to participate. To learn more about how you can register as a virtual hiker and help grant transformational wishes for children in your community, visit trailblazechallengemi.org.

WILD HAPPY HOUR & AUCTION

Take a walk on the culinary wild side with Meadow Brook Hall’s biggest annual fundraising experience reimagined for 2020 on Sept. 17. Make your next night out different by making an impact at Meadow Brook’s 15th annual Wild Happy Hour & Auction fundraiser. It’s an evening you won’t soon forget. Sip cocktails, enjoy delectable hors d’oeuvres, and explore our unique selection of silent auction items along the loggia terrace as the sun sets over the Great Estate. Fantastic fare. Inspired auctions. Support that is totally wild. Tickets are $80 per person. Visit meadowbrookhall.org/wildgamedinner for details.

Physically distanced and socially engaged! — It’s time to gather your family, friends, and neighbors and join us for Gilda’s Around Town Walk & 5K Run on Saturday, Sept. 12. Register today to start participating in our weekly challenges leading up to event day.

Each participant will receive a T-shirt, sidewalk chalk, and a yard sign. On Sept. 12, we hope that you will join us — on the walking path of your choice — to share the sense of community and hope that Gilda’s Club brings to so many touched by cancer. Last year, we celebrated more than 900 walkers and runners raising more than $160,000 for our courageous cancer community in metro Detroit! We are hoping to crush that goal this year, so register today at gildaswalkandrun.org.

SPARK OF HOPE TRIBUTE GALA Life Directions, Detroit’s peer-to-peer mentor organization, will host its signature fundraising event, the Spark of Hope Tribute Gala, on Saturday, Sept. 19, at 6 p.m. at the GM Wintergarden Renaissance Center. The evening’s festivities include a VIP reception; live and silent auctions; dinner; entertainment with the Swing Shift Orchestra; an afterglow; and networking with corporate, community, and student representatives. Lila Lazarus will emcee the event. Ed Peper, U.S. vice president of General Motors Fleet, will be the honorary gala chairman.

Kim Adams House, head of all brands for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, will be honored for the Lifetime Achievement Award. Paul Glantz, co-founder and chairman of Emagine Entertainment Inc., will be honored for the Guiding Light Award. All proceeds help to provide the right tools for young people to lead their lives in a more purposeful direction! Tickets and sponsorships are available at lifedirections.org or by calling 313-420-0310.

VETERANS 4USA GOLF OUTING Golf, anyone? We at Professional Golf Planners of America (PGPA) invite you to lend your support for Veterans 4USA by registering for our upcoming golf outing Monday, Sept. 21, at Paint Creek Country club.

Registration is at 8:30 a.m. with a 10 a.m. shotgun start.

There are golfer and sponsor opportunities still available.

Veterans 4USA is making the world a better place for all veterans. This nonprofit organization assists homeless veterans in need of clothing and toiletries. Veterans 4USA also provides contact information to our veterans for the organizations that may be helpful and available in their quest for assistance. PGPA is proud to partner with and support the fundraising efforts of this outstanding organization. PGPA is “chipping in to make a difference.” Register today for our early birdie discount at progolfplanners.com/veterans4usa.

* PLEASE NOTE, EVENT DATES MAY HAVE BEEN CANCELED OR POSTPONED. CHECK WITH INDIVIDUAL EVENT ORGANIZERS FOR MOST UP-TO-DATE CHANGES. TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HOUR MEDIA SPONSORED EVENTS AND SEE PHOTOS FROM THOSE EVENTS, VISIT

HOUR DETROIT.COM Learn about local non-profits, the work they are doing in our community, and ways you can help their causes in the digital edition of Give Detroit: A Charitable Registry at hourdetroit.com.

The Way It Was

1934

IT’S A PRETTY SAFE BET THAT WHEN THE NEW YEAR ROLLS AROUND ON JAN. 1, 2021,

few will shed any tears about the passing of 2020, a year of a deadly pandemic and the concomitant dark theaters, silent concert halls, empty sports arenas, limited social interaction, closed schools, and police brutality protests. One could say we need a break. With a new year springs fresh hope.

On the Jewish calendar, the new year, Rosh Hashanah, rolls around even earlier, beginning this year at sundown on Friday, Sept. 18, and concluding at sundown Sunday, Sept. 20. It’s a time of celebration, yes, but also of repentance and reflection, leading to Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, which begins this year on the evening of Sept.

27. Perhaps these worshippers at Beth David (“House of David”), in the thick of the Great Depression, also looked forward to a sunnier new year as they congregated for Rosh Hashanah services on the evening of Sept. 9, 1934. Detroit Tigers fans also will remember this as a time when Hank Greenberg struggled with his conscience over whether to play the next day, when the Tigers were in a heated pennant race. In the end, he did play, smashing two home runs as the Tigers topped the Boston Red Sox, 2-1, but Greenberg refrained from playing several days later on Yom Kippur. Beth David was located at Elmhurst and 14th streets in what was then a predominantly Jewish enclave. Jewish Detroit, by Irwin J. Cohen, notes that the Moorishstyle synagogue opened in 1928, but the congregation was much older, having been founded by Russian immigrants in 1892, according to michjewishhistory.org. Its first rented house of worship was at Hastings and Gratiot. It dedicated its first edifice in 1900 on Adelaide. Sadly, Beth David went bankrupt in the Depression and lost its rights to its appellation, so it was renamed B’nai David (“Children of David”). In the late 1950s, the congregation moved to Southfield, and its old building was sold to the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church. —George Bulanda

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