by Ryan Place | Mar 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
“Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus” (“We hope for better things. They will rise from the ashes.”) Father Gabriel Richard (Detroit, 1805) In life, it’s good to celebrate progress, honor the past and always give credit to the architects and...
by Ryan Place | Jun 16, 2017 | Exclusives, Uncategorized
Cafe D’Mongo’s Speakeasy 10-year Anniversary Party Thursday, June 29, 2017 5:30pm-11pm Café D’Mongo’s Speakeasy is the Rick’s Café of Detroit. Humphrey Bogart ran Rick’s Café in Casablanca and his equally dapper counterpart Larry Mongo runs Café...
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...
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