Tag: DETROIT

Musicians at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra have been on strike for months now and, unsurprisingly, fans have opinions on it. It's also no surprise (to everyone but the management) that much of the argument has been taken to the official Facebook page with people in positions of power stooping to bait that they shouldn't. Earlier this year, for example, management set off a firestorm of ...

Barely a week after Detroit's mayor tweeted that a RoboCop statue wouldn't be erected in the city, the Detroit Free-Press is reporting that a group of artists and fans who supported the idea have raised more than $50,000 toward its construction. The group will continue to solicit donations on its Kickstarter page until March 29th. After that, it will determine how much to spend and hire sculptors ...

Bad news, world: Detroit will not be building a statue of RoboCop. The cyborg who convinced us that, dead or alive, we're going with him will not be immortalized à la Rocky in Philly. Detroit mayor Dave Bing has been reaching out to the community for ideas to revive the inner city, and the public's continued insistence to see Officer Alex Murphy in stone will just simply not be heard. ...

Despite the pervasiveness of social networking, some observers still decry sites like Facebook and Twitter as promoting impersonal and intangible relationships. One entrepreneur in Michigan, though, is aiming to add a physical aspect to social networking by implementing a micro-land grab in Detroit. According to NPR, Detroit real estate developer Jerry Paffendorf recently purchased a vacant ...

Jay Leno loves cars and owns over 80 of them. When he voices an opinion on the matter, we tend to listen, so it was good to hear him talk about the much-hyped Chevrolet Volt. Leno, who performed a free comedy show at the Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit this past Monday, also got a chance to test drive the Volt. After his visit, Leno had this to say to the Detroit News about the floundering ...

We've heard it said that you can't trust everything you read on the Internet, and that's especially true on April 1st. In the last few years, the Web has taken April Fool's Day to new heights, with everybody from Qualcomm to Google, from Cash4Gold to The Guardian, getting in on the mischief. Although most Web pranks are regarded as harmless fun, the wheel-mag Car and Driver backfired yesterday ...

Soon-to-be president Barack Obama was on 'Meet the Press' Sunday, and made the point that any bailout of the US auto industry would include specific requirements about what sort of vehicles they would produce. That's cool and all, but Earth2Tech's Kevin Kelleher has tackled the subject of taking things a bit further, namely the notion of a "'Manhattan Project' for Detroit" of open source, ...

When you're caught red handed, there's nothing to do but beg forgiveness. And that's exactly what Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of Detroit was forced to do last night in a televised plea. The mayor is under investigation over claims that he lied under oath about having an affair with his chief of staff Christine Beatty. Mayor Kilpatrick went into hiding last week after a Detroit news paper reported that ...