Completed in February, Ice House Detroit is an abandoned house in Detroit sprayed with water and frozen by two artists seeking to dramatize the foreclosure crisis. The project was funded through Kickstarter, an arts-funding web site that we wrote about last September. Here is the Flickr pool of photos of the house, and below is [...]

Spotted on Facebook, two photos from Detroit, by Dan Haddad.  

Intrepid blogger Mary Hannington writes about the perils of living in crime-afflicted Detroit. Guns and the Weber Grill Wars (Vagabond Guru) I don’t know if it was a trend unique to my city or if it was popular everywhere, but everyone I knew in Detroit had a Weber grill and we barbequed all summer. We [...]

We’ve posted before about hard-hit Detroit, which by some counts is sporting a 45% unemployment rate. The following excerpts are from The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit, a play by Mercilee Jenkins, which received a staged reading at Detroit’s Matrix Theatre Company last year. The play is intended to be performed by two actors, a black [...]

In December, the Detroit News reported that the unemployment rate of the city, officially at 27%, was really closer to 45%. Here’s a nicely observed blog post from Detroit native M. Hannington about some of the people on the lowest rungs of the city’s economic ladder.