GREAT BEER, especially their signature favorite Market Day IPA
Elephant Shack foodtruck outside
They can actually can beers for you to take home with the Michigan-made Oktober Designs Mk16 Can Seamer!
Detroit’s Eastern Market Brewing Company!
Also, be sure to walk down the street and check out the new home of Henry the Hatter (2472 Riopelle, Detroit).
And if you go to the annual Detroit Fall Beer Festival at Eastern Market Shed 5 later this month, definitely make sure you walk down to Eastern Market Brewing Company!
Congrats to the crew at Eastern Market Brewing Company! Come join us for an amazing grand opening!
Tour the Detroit News & Free Press Printing Press!
We will be touring the Detroit News & Free Press Printing Press this Saturday, October 7th, 2017.
We only have 10 spots left, so hurry! Due to limited space, you must be pre-registered for this event.
You must RSVP with Ryan Place by emailing him: ryanplace @ fastmail dot fm.
The tour begins promptly at 1pm and ends at 2:30pm.
Cost is $10.00 per person. You can pay either in cash or check made payable to “The Book Club of Detroit”. We are using this tour as a fundraiser for the Club. You will give your money to Ryan before the tour begins.
Photography is allowed.
There is unfortunately no wheelchair access. And wear good shoes because there is a lot of walking and steps.
Detroit News & Free Press Printing Press
6200 Metropolitan Parkway
Sterling Heights, Michigan
Tour the Detroit News & Free Press Printing Press!
About the Facility:
480,000sq ft 6-story facility opened in 1971 and became one of the most technologically advanced printing facilities in the world in 2005.
The entire facility is an engineering marvel of high-tech wizardry, consolidation and automation.
Both the Detroit Free Press (c. 1831) and Detroit News (c. 1873) are printed here after agreeing to combine their business operations in 1987.
The facility consists of six MAN Roland GeoMAN 75 offset press lines. Each towering press line is 6-stories (90ft) high, 540ft long and can print 75,000 full newspapers (ie: 7-sections, 80pgs, 40pgs of color) per hour. 30 roll stands per line.
Press line is “offset” because the paper itself never actually touches the printing plate. For higher quality, printing blankets (big rubber cylinders) offset the ink and image on the paper.
Fun Fact:
Prior to 1884, daily newspapers were 8-pages long maximum because of the labor required to typeset with moveable type. In 1884, the Linotype machine was invented.
Tour the Detroit News & Free Press Printing Press!
LONNI THOMAS @ 1st annual Detroit Festival of Books @ Eastern Market!
Huge THANK YOU to everyone for making this event fun and successful! Extra special thank you to Eastern Market’s Sunday Market Manager Lonni Thomas. Without her love & support, this festival would not exist.
Official estimates say that we had approximately 10,000+ attendees throughout the day for the 1st annual Detroit Festival of Books at Eastern Market.
WARNING:
These are not professional photos. These are just some fun, random, candid photos we took of the event. Perhaps we will have a bigger budget next year to hire a pro photographer.
Detroit Lions football player DON CAREY will be at Detroit Festival of Books!
Detroit Lions safety Don Carey (26) will be at the Detroit Festival of Books signing a limited number of advanced copies of his book ‘It’s Not Because I’m Better Than You‘ which will be officially released by Waldorf Publishing on October 15th, 2017.
Mr. Carey has been a safety for the Detroit Lions since 2011. He specializes in tackles and forcing fumbles and in 2015, he led the NFL in solo special teams tackles.
Detroit Lions football player DON CAREY will be at Detroit Festival of Books!
Don J. Carey III was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on February 14th, 1987. He overcame enormous obstacles in his life to eventually play in the NFL. He is founder of C&R Preferred, Don Carey International Ministries and hosts free youth football camps in Detroit.
As an Ambassador for Athletes to Charity, Mr. Carey has donated over 10,000 books to kids in Detroit schools to help promote literacy.
He is also currently studying to receive his Masters in Theological Studies with a focus in the Old Testament at Moody Theological Seminary.
Detroit Lions football player DON CAREY will be at Detroit Festival of Books!
Detroit Lions press release on Don Carey @ Detroit Bookfest
Jeff Milo is a well-known freelance journalist in Detroit who covers entertainment & the music scene for the Detroit Free Press, Paste Magazine, Detroit Metro Times, Ann Arbor Current, The Oakland Press, Ferndale Patch, etc. And he also runs a talk show!
Recently, Detroit Bookfest was honored to be featured on Episode #18 of The Milo Show upstairs at The Marble Bar in Detroit.
Hosted by Jeff himself, The Milo Show is a collection of filmed interviews with creative people from the community and musical guests. According to Jeff, The Milo Show is “shot in mysterious new locations around Southeast Michigan every month.”
Jeff Milo of Detroit’s The Milo Show!
Jeff also does great work for the Ferndale Area District Library and has degrees in journalism from Wayne State University and Michigan State University.
If you haven’t been there before, you should check out The Marble Bar. It’s a great two-story bar with a live music stage and expansive back patio beer garden with a vintage car DJ booth!
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