You will be redirected to the page you want to view in seconds.
The food truck trend that’s picking up steam in Detroit lately isn’t new to southwest Detroit residents. Taco trucks have been serving up tasty, affordable food there for over a decade. You can find them scattered along main drags and tucked into neighborhoods you might not visit otherwise. But they offer a delicious reason to explore.
This Corktown lot - down the block from the vacant Roosevelt Hotel, next door to two burned-out houses -- actually is a miniature golf course known as “Roosevelt Par.”
Detroit — Imagine 40 film directors coming together to make one film. Then imagine that those filmmakers are based in 23 countries on five continents.
These days philanthropy is being fueled by regular folks funding local projects they feel a passion for. And their modest contributions really add up for projects that may need only a few hundred (or thousand) dollars to get off the ground.
If you happen to be walking by the old Tiger Stadium field on the third Saturday of the month, you may be surprised to find it full of dogs — and their owners. Since the pop-up Dog Party at Tiger Stadium began nine months ago, the number of dogs (and humans) has grown from a handful to last month’s 50 to 60 four-legged revelers and their humans. And that was on a blustery sub-freezing day.
Born in Bayonne, N.J. and raised in Royal Oak, photographer Donna Terek -- nicknamed "Turk" -- lives and works in the city of Detroit. Once upon a time she worked the graveyard shift in a GM bearing plant, put those tiny brushes in nail polish bottles for L'Oreal, taught English in Greece, night-staffed in a home for developmentally disabled adults, collected loans for a bank, served cocktails in Omaha, ran a phone bank in Atlanta, taught high school in rural Minnesota and bummed on a beach in Mexico where the locals claim to have invented surfing.
Terek was tolerated as a token hippie at Miami University and got her M.A. in journalism at the University of Minnesota. Today she lives with her husband and two dogs, C.C. Ryder and S.O. Terek, in one of Detroit's historic neighborhoods.
"Donna's Detroit" was named best online column by the Society of Professional Journalists in 2010 and by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists in 2009, the column's first year.
Seen in the PhotoStore
Purchase Detroit News images of historic events, scenes, places and people.
Go to the PhotoStoreThe Detroit News Apps
Our apps connect you with the best news, sports, auto and entertainment coverage from our team of award-winning journalists.
Archives
See our paid archives for news older than a week.
