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Father Gabriel Richard Brought Michigan’s First Printing Press to Detroit in 1809!

Father Gabriel Richard Brought Michigan’s First Printing Press to Detroit in 1809!

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...
Exclusive Interview: LARRY MONGO the Legendary Owner of Café D’Mongo’s Speakeasy in Detroit Celebrates Café D’Mongo’s 10-Year Anniversary!

Exclusive Interview: LARRY MONGO the Legendary Owner of Café D’Mongo’s Speakeasy in Detroit Celebrates Café D’Mongo’s 10-Year Anniversary!

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...
Exclusive Interview: FRANCIS GRUNOW, co-creator of the annual Marche du Nain Rouge, Detroit’s Mardi Gras Parade!

Exclusive Interview: FRANCIS GRUNOW, co-creator of the annual Marche du Nain Rouge, Detroit’s Mardi Gras Parade!

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...
Exclusive Interview: JOHN KING, owner of John K. King Used & Rare Books in Detroit, internationally voted one of the World’s Best Bookstores!

Exclusive Interview: JOHN KING, owner of John K. King Used & Rare Books in Detroit, internationally voted one of the World’s Best Bookstores!

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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