Photo of the Week: Michelin Green Guide for Detroit

Multi-colored book cover of the Michelin Guide Detroit, highlighting the gorgeous born and yellow clock from the Guardian Building lobby.

When I learned in December 2024 that Detroit was the 10th US city with a Michelin Green Guide, I couldn’t wait to get my own copy.

Visit Detroit’s press release about the Michelin Green Guide for Detroit announced the English version of the guide would be available in late December 2024.

When I searched for the guide throughout January 2025, I couldn’t find any place where I could buy the English version.

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Photo of the Week: Michigan Central Ticket Lobby Clock

A white marble-faced clock with mahogany trim sits on a mahogany ledge about 30 feet above the floor on a rosy-yellow limestone archway.

Visiting Michigan Central Station in Detroit’s Corktown area was one of my favorite family moments over the 2024 end-of-year holiday break.

With holiday decorations throughout the station, it was hard for me to stop oohing and aahing as I walked through the station with my son.

I had to point out the ticket lobby clock to him the moment we stepped inside Michigan Central. I heard a bit of a sigh from him as I gave a brief summary of how the clock came to be restored. (I’m sure my son is tired of the history stories I’ve shared with him over the years.)

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Remembering Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024

Jimmy Carter wearing dark sunglasses, a brown cap, and brown collared shirt with Jimmy Carter Work Project emblems sits behind a podium during the Jimmy Carter Work Project 2025 press conference in Detroit, Michigan in June 2005.

Like many others, I was saddened to read the news of former President Jimmy Carter’s death.

In June 2005, I photographed and published stories for Habitat for Humanity Detroit on their website about the 2005 Jimmy Carter Work Project (now called Carter Work Project) in Detroit.

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