Christina Clark

3 weeks ago | hourdetroit.com | Bill Dow |Christina Clark

The improbable journey and accomplishments of the Detroit Tigers and their ace, Tarik Skubal, in 2024 will no doubt be remembered for years to come. Not only did one of MLB’s youngest teams come out of nowhere to win 31 of their last 44 games to make the playoffs, but Skubal, a 2018 ninth-round draft pick who overcame two arm surgeries, became a first-time All-Star and was baseball’s best pitcher. In fact, it was on his 28th birthday, Nov.

3 weeks ago | hourdetroit.com | Bill Dow |Christina Clark

1955 Seventy years ago, Detroit demonstrated that achieving both urban renewal and historic preservation was possible. To make way for a new civic center development while the since-demolished Ford Auditorium (left) was being constructed, over a four-month period, the 6 million-ton Mariners’ Church (center) was moved 800 feet eastward on a complex arrangement of steel rollers to the current location next to the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel entrance.

1 month ago | hourdetroit.com | Danny Palumbo |Christina Clark

Finding a good mechanic — like finding a good hairstylist — is crucial to city living. You need someone dependable, honest, and unequivocally skilled at their job. My mechanic is all of those things — plus, he has great taste in food to boot. Ali Alhumaidi is the owner-operator of In & Out Auto Repair on East Vernor Highway. Ali was born in Yemen, specifically the capital of Sanaa. He grew up in the Bronx before settling in Detroit around 2016.

1 month ago | hourdetroit.com | Bill Dow |Christina Clark

1991 For 55 years, from 1934 to 1989, Little Harry’s restaurant at 2681 E. Jefferson Ave., known for its classic American cuisine and piano bar, provided a popular fine-dining experience for loyal patrons including visiting celebrities and corporate titans. Built in 1850 as the home of Alexander Chene, the rare Federal-style brick residence was renovated in 1902 before it became a University of Detroit fraternity house.

2 months ago | hourdetroit.com | Natalia Holtzman |Christina Clark

There’s a moment in “,” the play by MacArthur Genius Award-winning Dominique Morisseau, when a white student observes to her Black professor, “I was completely racist just there!”Her voice full of surprise — even wonder — she adds, “Just sort of creeps up on you.”The moment comes as one of many in which humor and a kind of hard, relentless truth unspool from the same source.