Hour Detroit

Hour Detroit is a monthly magazine that focuses on the Metro Detroit region. It is published in a glossy, larger format and includes articles about dining, arts and entertainment, as well as fashion and décor trends. Since its launch in 1996, it has been a proud member of the City and Regional Magazine Association (CRMA). Besides the print version, readers can also subscribe to access the magazine on their iPads.

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In Conversation With Mike Laing of Mawby in Suttons Bay

1 week ago | hourdetroit.com | Megan Swoyer

Since its start 52 years ago, Mawby wines has been pouring out some new ideas, including an alcohol-free bubbly and a second family-run winery on its property. Like a fine wine that gets better over time, Mawby has undergone growth and expansion while maintaining its intimate, special Michigan vibe. In 1973, the award-winning winery’s founder, Larry Mawby, planted his first grapevines on Leelanau Peninsula property near Traverse City.
Public and Private Garden Tours in Metro Detroit

2 weeks ago | hourdetroit.com | Megan Swoyer

The Metro area is abloom with eye-popping landscapes this month, and there are plenty of ways to enjoy them all summer long, from garden-club tours featuring private home gardens to public facilities offering everything from Mother’s Day feasts to plant sales. Of course, garden events are nothing new.
Enjoy Big-City Vibes at Otis Harbor Springs

2 weeks ago | hourdetroit.com | Juliana Lumaj

Downtown Detroit’s renaissance has brought countless modern bars, cozy cafés, and extravagant hotels with it, all developed with the Midwestern hospitality Michiganders have grown accustomed to. Now, imagine a similar experience, but instead of tall buildings and electric scooters, you’re surrounded by towering trees and galloping horses. Otis Harbor Springs opened last summer, introducing a style of modern boutique hotelnot often available in northern Michigan.
What’s Cooking? Dining News for May 2025

2 weeks ago | hourdetroit.com | Jack Thomas

Hot and Fresh: Some of the Latest Metro Detroit Restaurant OpeningsAmong the most recent metro Detroit restaurant openings, Bev’s Bagels is now open daily in Detroit’s Core City, following a soft launch phase that already resulted in several early sell-outs and even praise from a senatorial candidate.
Teaming Up for a Seat at the Table

2 weeks ago | hourdetroit.com | Khristi Zimmeth

Strength in numbers. That hope and philosophy prompted nine Detroit-based female architects, architectural designers, and landscape architects to join forces last year in an effort to raise awareness of their work and the possibilities it represents for transforming Detroit.
Veronica Beard Opens First Michigan Location

3 weeks ago | hourdetroit.com | Juliana Lumaj

The sisters-in-law, AKA the Veronicas, behind Veronica Beard, a modern luxury fashion retailer that offers a combination of classic, chic, and eclectic goods, opened their first Michigan location at Somerset Collection on May 15. Located across from Shinola and Alo, which also opened its first Michigan location last November, Veronica Beard offers everything from dresses featuring hand-beaded designs to Italian stretch linen pants.
How Mitch Albom Became 'The King of Hope'

3 weeks ago | hourdetroit.com | Scott Atkinson

About halfway through Tuesdays with Morrie, the book that took Mitch Albom from local columnist to internationally famous and bestselling author, he asks his old professor Morrie Schwartz, who was then dying from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, aka Lou Gehrig’s disease, about aging. Albom was 37 at the time and wanted to know if Schwartz really meant what he said about getting older being a good thing.
Shop the Closet of a Baroness in Downtown Detroit

3 weeks ago | hourdetroit.com | Juliana Lumaj

Purchasing couture is one thing, but the opportunity to purchase a plum Andre Laug Haute Couture wool skirt suit, worn by a baroness while meeting the President of Equatorial Guinea, doesn’t come around very often.
A Sneak Peek at Frankenmuth’s First Luxury Boutique Hotel

3 weeks ago | hourdetroit.com | Megan Swoyer

In 1848, just a few years after Frankenmuth was founded, the Hubinger brothers builtaflour mill on the banks ofthe Cass River, an energetic waterway. The mill was torn down in the 1950s and 30 years later, a replica was built in its spot. Once it closed, after several ownership changes and concepts, the facility sat empty for years, until the Zehnder family purchased it in 2022.
Editor's Letter: Covering Michigan Central

3 weeks ago | hourdetroit.com | Kate Walsh

While this column in usually about what is in this month’s issue, I’d like to talk about something that happened last May. On the 20th of that month, we finally got word that Michigan Central would be opening. It was a project that we — and everyone else in Detroit — had been following since June 2018, when the massive historic renovation by Ford Motor Co. was announced.