“Say Nice Things About Detroit”

Say Nice Things About DetroitLast week Scott Lasser was in town to promote his book, “Say Nice Things About Detroit”.  We were able to capture some of his time for an interview for one of our upcoming vidbits.   Scott is the kind of Detroiter that puts a spotlight on the talent this city breeds [...]

Arts and Scraps is a big part of Detroit Cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyIZ1k6nmto Arts and Scraps is one cool Detroit destination where the imagination of children explodes beyond boundaries you would never believe.   What a great idea for one of America’s key manufacturing locations: create robots, cars, dolls and many other things out of unused die-cut fabrics.  Peg has a building where she receives the scraps of [...]

City Year is a real gift to Detroit

This link is to a video worth watching on City Year.  Everyone needs to know what City Year is doing in our city schools.  It is an incredible win win program that changes the lives of the young adults who devote a year of their time to help inner city kids one on one.  And [...]

New Posts coming on Mike Stafford and Cranbrook

Stay tuned for  additional information on Cranbrook Institute of Science and the programs they produce for kids all over the state.  We will have a couple  more vidbits posted this week on our blog.  Mike’s stories about the Institute are fascinating.  Grey matter with your morning Joe.    Be sure and register your email address [...]

Our Blog will offer back story to our video interviews

Our Detroit personalities have more dimension than we can fit into a small email blast so we are going to continue the stories of these individuals through our blog posts with extended stories that add so much texture  to our Detroit Pockets of Cool story.