by Ryan Place | Apr 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
A QUIET PASSION is a highly rated biographical tale about the life and work of American poet Emily Dickinson (starring Cynthia Nixon) and it will be opening in Detroit on April 28th, 2017 at the DIA’s Detroit Film Theatre! And we have THREE PAIRS of movie...
by Ryan Place | Mar 29, 2017 | Exclusives, Uncategorized
“Backgammon is 70% skill and 30% luck.”- Maurice Barie Backgammon is an ancient game. Enjoyed by millions of people over thousands of years, the basic concept of the game has remained relatively unchanged. Backgammon consists of two players who each move 15 solid...
by Ryan Place | Mar 20, 2017 | Exclusives, Uncategorized
*The Nain! (photo by: Kate Sassak) Detroit legend has it that a taunting, menacing red dwarf with glowing, piercing crimson eyes, sinisterly named The Nain Rouge, terrorizes the City of Detroit for fun. This devious trickster is the ingenious creator of 10,000...
by Ryan Place | Mar 5, 2017 | Exclusives, Uncategorized
You have to hand it to John King. He’s a self-made businessman who built a fifty-year powerhouse of books. He’s outlasted Borders Books, watched the rise of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, and survived razor-thin years of the Great Recession. Even with...
by Ryan Place | Feb 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Father Gabriel Richard Brought Michigan’s First Printing Press to Detroit in 1809! “Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus” (“We hope for better things. They will rise from the ashes.”) Father Gabriel Richard (Detroit, 1805) In life,...
by Ryan Place | Jan 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
Not only did he kick butt from San Fran to Hong Kong and popularize kung fu marital arts globally, Bruce Lee also had an extensive library with over 2,000 books!
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