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2 weeks ago | 
hourdetroit.com | Ronald Ahrens
Like the gristly patellar tendon that obstructs Dan Campbell’s kneecap theory of football, Woodward Avenue is Detroit’s inescapable, ungnawable sinew. Since 1805, it has bound the city through dire challenges and moments of glory. From Isamu Noguchi’s “Pylon” at Hart Plaza to the grand-finale Pontiac loop, a distance of 27 miles, Woodward Avenue has served as not only a transportation corridor but also a nexus for social activities.
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2 months ago | 
palmspringslife.com | Ronald Ahrens
Eric Ellenbogen and Dominic Ramos-Ruizknew little about Helen Abernathy until her grandsons called, wanting to share a portrait of their grandmother with those responsible for restoring her dream home. In the painting, Helen stands poolside in a short-sleeved blue dress with one hand tucked behind her and the other holding a brush to the easel. It’s the work of Robert C.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
hourdetroit.com | Ronald Ahrens
Days after the September 2024 release of his juicy new exposé about the Detroit Lions, author Bill Morris traveled from New York for the team’s season opener against the Los Angeles Rams at Ford Field.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
dbusiness.com | Ronald Ahrens
As a 19-year-old, Chuck Jordan received encouragement from his mother to enter a design contest sponsored by the Fisher Body Division of General Motors. Jordan spent 700 hours on his 1/12-scale dream car, which featured a convex windshield and a pillarless hardtop design. For his efforts in the 1946 Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild competition, he won the First Senior prize and received a $4,000 scholarship to be applied to his studies at MIT.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
hourdetroit.com | Ronald Ahrens
Soon after the city of Detroit filed its $18 billion bankruptcy case in July 2013, Jerry Rosen found that he had filled up a legal pad with notes, leaving only the tabula rasa of the cardboard backing. On this blank slate, Rosen, who likes to doodle, drew a box around “ART.” Dollar signs danced over arrows pointing to “State” on one side and “Pensions” on the other. The art in question was the collection of the municipally owned Detroit Institute of Arts.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
palmspringslife.com | Ronald Ahrens
The Thermal Club is taking the expression “build it and they will come” to new lengths — or, considering its elevation of 115 feet below sea level, depths. Last February, the private club welcomed the NTT IndyCar Series for an exhibition race, dubbed The Million Dollar Challenge and shown on NBC. IndyCar has confirmed its return in 2025, this time for a points-paying, regular-season race on March 23. Fox has acquired IndyCar broadcast rights for the coming campaign.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
palmspringslife.com | Ronald Ahrens
The International Harvester Metro that serves as the food pickup point at Luchador Brewing Company in Cathedral City has a little-known connection to a Palm Springs architectural wonder — the Raymond Loewy House in Little Tuscany Estates. Raymond Loewy and Associates, of New York, brought streamlining to the fore in American industrial design, creating the shapes of everything from the Sears Coldspot refrigerator to sleek railroad locomotives.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
palmspringslife.com | Ronald Ahrens
For comic effect, E. Stewart Williams liked to play up the architect’s miserable lot, as when he welcomed colleagues to the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway’s commanding 35,000-square-foot Mountain Station soon after its 1963 completion: “I suggest you make the most of the evening,” he told the crowd. “At 8,500 feet above sea level, this may be the closest to heaven an architect will ever get.” But then, he grew serious, emphasizing the “skill and sacrifice” required to create the mountaintop marvel.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
shop.palmspringslife.com | Maggie Downs |Will Cockrell |Olivia Krupp |Ronald Ahrens
Regular price$6.95 / In stock, ready to ship Backordered, shipping soon Palm Springs Life Magazine December 2024It Takes a VillageHow The Living Desert fosters wildlife protection through collaboration and community engagement. Story by Maggie DownsPhotography by David Fouts and Julia GuntherThe Accidental RanchersMike and Linda Rivkin went shopping for antiques one day and wound up buying a historic 400-acre ranch.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
palmspringslife.com | Ronald Ahrens
A natural-born car dealer, Keith McCormick grew up playing with Dinky Toys scale model vehicles. He repainted them and sold them to schoolmates. Today, he operates McCormick’s Classic Cars in downtown Palm Springs and a semiannual collector car auction that attracts approximately 20,000 buyers, sellers, and automotive enthusiasts who are eager to watch the hammer drop. Originally from Blackpool, England, McCormick moved to the desert in 1981.
