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Detroit Zoo animals will receive an extraordinary treat on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, when Buddy's Pizza delivers specially created "enrichment pizzas". Prepared in collaboration with the Zoo's animal welfare staff, the pies will be topped with such culinary delights as fish, peanut butter, bones, bugs and worms.
The special delivery is to kick off a multi-year agreement between the Detroit Zoological Society and Buddy's Pizza recognizing the restaurant group as "Proud Pizza Partner of the Detroit Zoo".
Detroit Zoo visitors are invited to watch the animals devour their pizzas at the following times:
* 9:30 a.m. – polar bears (tundra) – giant pizza with fish and peanut butter
* 10 a.m. – snow monkeys – personal pan pizzas with cereal, honey, craisins and crackers
* 10:30 a.m. – wolverines – pizza with bones, meat and scents
* 11 a.m. – tigers – meat lover's pizza
* 11:30 a.m. – reptiles – vegetarian pizza with bugs, worms and veggies
* 1 p.m. – penguins – frozen pizza with fish and krill
* 1:30 p.m. – meerkats – pizza with baby food and meal worms
* 2 p.m. – coatis – pizza with honey and crickets
* 2:30 p.m. – anteaters – pizza with avocados, oranges and bananas
Enrichment is provided daily at the Detroit Zoo to help make the environments of the animals more dynamic and engaging. It includes the introduction of novel and sometimes unpredictable elements such as objects, sounds, scents or other stimuli that give the animals choice and control in their environment and encourage them to respond in species-typical ways.
As the Detroit Zoo's pizza partner, Buddy's Pizza will provide discount coupons to Zoo guests who purchase tickets to rides and attractions such as the Tauber Family Railroad, Wild Adventure Ride and Wild Adventure 3-D/4-D Theater. Buddy's will also subsidize field trips to the Zoo for underserved elementary students throughout Metro Detroit.
Posted by Erin Rose at 12:59 PM Labels: Detroit Dining, Places to Go People To See Links to this post
In the first six weeks after Chrysler launched its "Imported From Detroit" commercial on the Super Bowl, the Wieden + Kennedy spot generated nearly 10 million views on YouTube alone. Never mind that it was made by a Portland, Ore., agency for a company run by Italian Fiat executives who have been moving Chrysler's manufacturing base to Mexico. The original two-minute commercial struck a patriotic chord, offering a defiant response to the city's—and its eponymous industry's—demonized image in popular media.
Last month, new Census data provided even more ammunition to the death of Detroit story. It showed that the city lost 25 percent of its population over the last decade, reducing it to the size it was in 1910, just after Henry Ford began selling his first Model T. Detroit inhabitants continue to flee a city of ravaged infrastructure and public services, bankrupt schools, abandoned buildings, and an industry that can no longer support them.
A city once emblematic of America's industrial might will never return to its golden era of manufacturing. The formerly liberal electorate is turning to political outsiders–businessmen like Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and Republican Michigan Governor Rick Snyder—to turn a place built on union muscle into something more modern: businesses aligned with intellectual capital and services, technology, and entrepreneurial endeavors. But there's still a small circle of nostalgists and optimists who believe in Detroit and in automobiles: the American adman.
There may not be a more co-dependent relationship in the marketing business. Advertising not only created the vast demand for new cars, but it also celebrated car culture. Having a car account was the sine qua non of agency status. You couldn't be in the advertising big leagues without a major auto brand.
Arguably, as goes Detroit, so has gone the ad agency business–its former bravado and profitability laid low by Detroit's long decline. A fair corollary might also be: If the executives of Detroit screwed up the business, their faithful admen retainers didn't do the business any favors either.
But now it is not only a new set of auto execs trying to reinvent a new, albeit much smaller, American auto industry, but a new set of admen trying to reclaim, however wistfully, the Big Car Account, prompting the obvious question: Can you go home again?
Toby Barlow, the chief creative officer at Team Detroit, WPP's joint venture of agencies dedicated to Ford, came to Detroit nearly five years ago after working in New York and San Francisco. He's one of Detroit's most vocal supporters–the industry and the city. He lives downtown in a Mies van der Rohe townhouse he bought for $100,000 and is part of a group of young entrepreneurs and artists moving into the city. He rides his bike on Detroit's quiet, wide boulevards, the first to be built in America. He passes by urban ruins like the empty Michigan Central Depot–once the tallest rail station in the world–which remains majestic in its decay. There are blocks of once-neat rows of houses, structures that now stand burned or abandoned.
"As you ride, you get the feeling that this city was built for something great, that this was truly the American dream. Actually, this wasn't a dream; it was the actuality of it. You could be an immigrant and get into the UAW and have a nice home and a place up north," Barlow muses. "This city is a tragedy of success. The people who won left, and the people who were left behind are always the ones left behind. The decline in the perception of the automotive business and the decline of Detroit are inextricably connected."
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|Photograph by Danny Clinch
Esquire Magazine
Five musicians dressed in the season's best jackets and jeans, one great American city, and a simple challenge: write, perform, and record an original song inspired by our phrase.
Why Detroit: When we started thinking about where we would base our songwriting contest this year, we had nothing but options. Los Angeles, Austin, Asheville: All warm and welcoming and rich with jukebox cred, but none of them felt right, at least not right now. None of them reflected the social and economic forces transforming American life today, and none of them embodied the very things that inspire our favorite songs. Love. Loss. Redemption. Hope. Cars.
So we came to Detroit.
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Our Date for Friday, April 29th is about what is the Absolute Best in the Detroit Region!
This is the largest Metro Times party of the year to celebrate their Best of Detroit issue!
The party is invite only and all you can eat and drink from the area's finest restaurants.
Last year's party still has people talking! Don't be the one that misses out this year!
Winners receive two V.I.P passes to the Metro Times Best of Party at Soundboard at the Motor City Casino Friday, April 29th 2011.
Official After Party at Amnesia Ultra-Lounge at 11 pm.
You Must Sign Up As a Dater By Friday, April 22 2011!
Voting Begins at 9am Monday, April 25th!
Directions To Register:
1. Go to http://pickmidate.com
2. Click on the "Register To Date" Button
3. Fill Out The Most Hilarious Dating Form Online
4. Click "Submit"
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"Dining in the D," a locally-produced show featuring Detroit area restaurants known for exemplary food, service and atmosphere, will premiere on WTVS/Detroit Public Television/Channel 56 on Wednesday, May 4, at 7:30 p.m.
"After a four-episode run on CMNtv, we're pleased to be picked up by WTVS to bring a positive show about the Detroit culinary community to a much wider audience," says "Dining in the D" Executive Producer Michael Whitenack, of Troy.
"Dining in the D" will continue to highlight four area restaurants in each episode. Host and chef consultant, Tom Keshishian (known as Chef Tom to viewers), takes viewers from the front of the house to the kitchens and talks with owners and chefs about their restaurants, signature dishes and the interesting stories behind them.
"This has been my first foray in TV, and I've really enjoyed talking chef-to-chef with some of the truly remarkable talent in the Detroit area," says Keshishian, of Walled Lake. "There are so many interesting stories about what goes on in these places, especially the food, that foodies can't get anywhere else. Plus, the owners and chefs we've met have made conscious efforts to stay in the Detroit area and have found ways to stay viable and even open during the last few economically challenging years. We believe this is a show that WTVS viewers, and we hope many new viewers, will enjoy.
Restaurants featured on "Dining in the D" range from elegant, white tablecloth establishments to everyday family-friendly fare.
"Good food doesn't necessarily mean expensive or exotic food; it's available at a variety of price points, cuisines and dining styles," Keshishian says.
WTVS has signed "Dining in the D" to a 10-episode contract. The first 30-minute episode will feature Berkley Bistro and Café in Berkley, Lily's Seafood Grill & Brewery in Royal Oak, and Woodbridge Pub in Detroit.
Of the 39 restaurants to be featured in the series, 16 are in the City of Detroit.
"We want to show there are great restaurants in Detroit that are worth the drive to visit," Keshishian says. "It's an area that needs the support of the surrounding community in order rebuild and prosper."
Underwriting opportunities to support the show's spring-summer season are available.
For more information on "Dining in the D," visit the show's website at http://dininginthed.com.
For information on underwriting, contact Whitenack at firstname.lastname@example.com.
"After a four-episode run on CMNtv, we're pleased to be picked up by WTVS to bring a positive show about the Detroit culinary community to a much wider audience," says "Dining in the D" Executive Producer Michael Whitenack, of Troy.
"Dining in the D" will continue to highlight four area restaurants in each episode. Host and chef consultant, Tom Keshishian (known as Chef Tom to viewers), takes viewers from the front of the house to the kitchens and talks with owners and chefs about their restaurants, signature dishes and the interesting stories behind them.
"This has been my first foray in TV, and I've really enjoyed talking chef-to-chef with some of the truly remarkable talent in the Detroit area," says Keshishian, of Walled Lake. "There are so many interesting stories about what goes on in these places, especially the food, that foodies can't get anywhere else. Plus, the owners and chefs we've met have made conscious efforts to stay in the Detroit area and have found ways to stay viable and even open during the last few economically challenging years. We believe this is a show that WTVS viewers, and we hope many new viewers, will enjoy.
Restaurants featured on "Dining in the D" range from elegant, white tablecloth establishments to everyday family-friendly fare.
"Good food doesn't necessarily mean expensive or exotic food; it's available at a variety of price points, cuisines and dining styles," Keshishian says.
WTVS has signed "Dining in the D" to a 10-episode contract. The first 30-minute episode will feature Berkley Bistro and Café in Berkley, Lily's Seafood Grill & Brewery in Royal Oak, and Woodbridge Pub in Detroit.
Of the 39 restaurants to be featured in the series, 16 are in the City of Detroit.
"We want to show there are great restaurants in Detroit that are worth the drive to visit," Keshishian says. "It's an area that needs the support of the surrounding community in order rebuild and prosper."
Underwriting opportunities to support the show's spring-summer season are available.
For more information on "Dining in the D," visit the show's website at http://dininginthed.com.
For information on underwriting, contact Whitenack at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Drum Roll Please.....Pick Mi Date is Sending Their Next Round of Daters to the Detroit Music Awards!
They can't let all the secrets out, but can say Mayer Hawthorne (a PMD fave) will be performing!
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That's not even the Most Exciting Part!
The winners will be sitting at a VIP table, surrounded by all the nominees, musicians, and celebrities!
What are you waiting for?!
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About Pick Mi Date:
Part game show. Part match-making. AND all fun! Pick Mi Date is a whole new way of meeting people. We put eligible singles online and let the public have their say about who should hook up. The winning match ups will be sent on an all-expense paid date to one of Detroit's sweetest establishments. Best of all, the tab is on us!
For more information, go to PickMiDate.Com
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The Michigan Film Office says the HBO series "Hung" has been approved for tax incentive worth about $1 million for the show's third season.
The film office said in a release Tuesday that the series was awarded the incentive based on about $2.6 million of projected in-state expenditures. The series is set in suburban Detroit and is partially shot in the area.
Gov. Rick Snyder has proposed setting an annual $25 million cap on the tax credits, which currently are unlimited. The Republican-led Legislature still must approve the GOP governor's plan, but the film office is operating under the $25 million target.
The statement says "Hung" is the third project approved under the new policy and guidelines.
According to the Detroit Free Press, filming should begin this month.
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This is a plea to Ellen Degeneres to have Detroit Dog Rescue on her show. They need to raise money for Detroit's first no-kill shelter and help the 50,000 - 100,000 stray dogs in Detroit. Come on Ellen!!! We love ya!
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Local Multimedia Designer and Social Entrepreneur To Launch First Ever Collaborative Pop-Up Shop for Emerging Artists in Detroit
"Detroit is bustling with young entrepreneurs, creatives, and thought leaders who are ready to take advantage of the great opportunities the city has to offer. In fact, I started my blog I Am Young Detroit (www.iamyoungdetroit.com) to highlight just that. However, the average creative just getting started, can't even think about owning and running their own retail space. Most of them are forced to work their day job just to maintain their bills. They pursue their real passion as a side hustle, often setting up an etsy.com shop and attending local fairs to sell their wares," said Margarita Barry, publisher of I Am Young Detroit.
She added, "I surveyed over 400 local designers with products to sell, and 90 percent of them were dissatisfied with the number of opportunities they've had locally to pursue their entrepreneurial passion. Because of that, I saw a need to provide a new and innovative model for these emerging creative entrepreneurs to showcase and sell their locally made products." The ultimate goal is to showcase 71 local artists and designers who would otherwise not have the opportunity to own their own retail space—this might include low income, emerging, or student artists. 71 POP's companion website 71Artists.com will highlight its impact by documenting the artists living, working, or showing in and around the 71 POP space.
Here's how it will work:
1.) Designers will submit an application to detroitpop.com.
2.) Select designers will be chosen to team up with local and national brand sponsors. The sponsors will offset much of the costs for these designers. Student and low-income designers will have the chance to apply for full or partial shop grants, while others will pay a nominal fee to set up shop in the space.
3.) All designers will have the opportunity to design a custom "shop" around their brand and aesthetic.
4.) All operations will be handled, including marketing, e-commerce sales, and launch event consulting. 71 POP will also provide optional paid services to help take the designers' brands to the next level.
In addition, out of over a hundred applicants, Barry was named the Arts & Culture winner of the IDEA: Detroit Conference, sponsored by Crain's and Advertising Age. During the conference on March 23rd, she had the opportunity to publicly announce her 71 POP concept to the masses. The IDEA: Detroit conference brought business leaders from around the country to share successful stories and learning that exemplifies thinking about traditional business differently with an emphasis on Detroit and Michigan natives who have built successful businesses in other corners of the world and are passionate about bringing their thinking to their hometown.
To jumpstart 71 POP's inaugural year, she's launched a Kickstarter campaign to provide artists grants for the first year of shop owners, as well as to raise funding to cover the costs of the space, equipment, and operations. She gathered a few of Detroit's leaders in the creative and fashion community to produce a video for the campaign.
She's asking the Detroit community at large to consider supporting by backing the project on Kickstarter. "This is something that's going to impact the entire community," Barry said. "We could use more distinct shopping experiences in the city and emerging creatives need more options to turn their passion into a profit."
Kickstarter is a community tool to fund and follow creativity that allows users all over the world to discover and support projects that spark their enthusiasm and interest. Donations are made to the project in exchange for tangible rewards from the artists, while they retain full creative control of their work. To make a contribution or help the spread the word, check out this link.
The home for 71 Pop will be located at 71 Garfield, a former abandoned property that has been converted into a combined housing and studio space for artists. Situated in Midtown, the area is known as Detroit's Cultural Center. Within its boundaries is The College for Creative Studies--one of the leading art schools in the country, Wayne State University--home to thousands of young urbanites, and the newly named Sugarhill Arts District that houses the Museum of Contemporary Art, and The George N'Namdi Art Gallery, it's an innovative spot for Detroit's up and coming young, creative class. Aside from being a great property with great foot traffic potential, 71 Garfield is completely green: geothermal, solar and wind and water retention systems will reduce net energy consumption and the waste stream to near zero. For additional info on 71 POP, please visit the website at www.detroitpop.com or visit us on Twitter and Facebook.
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Posted by Erin Rose at 10:41 AM Labels: Detroit Art Links to this post
Wayne Cares, DO Foundation and Covenant House Michigan to organize a Basic Needs Drive, April 4-20.
The groups will collect travel-size toiletries to be distributed to the homeless in areas surrounding Wayne State University during "W" Week, April 25-30. Additionally, donations will go to Covenant House Michigan for distribution to the youth they serve, as well as to the DO Foundation's "Hit the Streets" outreach mission.
The goal is to collect enough items to assemble 1,000 toiletry kits for those in need. For a complete list of suggested donation items and drop-off locations, visit http://govaffairs.wayne.edu/cares/basic-needs.php or call Candice L. Turner at 313-577-3048.
The groups will collect travel-size toiletries to be distributed to the homeless in areas surrounding Wayne State University during "W" Week, April 25-30. Additionally, donations will go to Covenant House Michigan for distribution to the youth they serve, as well as to the DO Foundation's "Hit the Streets" outreach mission.
The goal is to collect enough items to assemble 1,000 toiletry kits for those in need. For a complete list of suggested donation items and drop-off locations, visit http://govaffairs.wayne.edu/cares/basic-needs.php or call Candice L. Turner at 313-577-3048.
Posted by Erin Rose at 10:34 AM Labels: Detroit Schools Links to this post
Yahoo Sports
As it was 25 years ago when the Detroit Pistons drafted him out of a small college in Oklahoma, Dennis Rodman didn't come to Detroit this week as much of a basketball player.
He had spent a good portion of the week doing what Dennis Rodman does now -- making personal appearances at product releases, in casinos, surrounded by filtered libations, flashing lights and flirting lasses. Prior to Friday's ceremony to retire his No. 10, Rodman took part in a pregame news conference sporting a hat with a clothing manufacturer's logo prominently featured. He's a pro at this now, to use one of his favorite words, "bro."
Something changed on Friday, though. Perhaps it was the shot of a young Rodman on the marquee outside the Palace at Auburn Hills, unfettered by jewelry or skin-and-ink artistry. Maybe it was the Palace setting itself -- the building was rightfully hailed as years ahead of its time when it debuted in 1988, but now even some of its gaudier elements seem quite tame. Perhaps it was the nostalgia, which has a way of both humbling and enervating even the person that's being paid tribute to. For whatever reason, as it was 25 years ago, the Detroit Pistons turned Dennis Rodman into a basketball player again on Friday night.
Detroit couldn't help it. They'd seen from afar the tattooed Rodman, the guy with the crazy hair and outlandish (for the 1990s, at least) style who courted Madonna and posed nude on the cover of his bestselling books as he played for the Spurs and Bulls. But Detroit never knew that guy. No, they knew the shy and sensitive Rodman that sheepishly made his way onto the Pistons roster as a 25-year-old rookie in 1986.
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Posted by Erin Rose at 10:17 AM Labels: Detroit Sports Links to this post
The Harlem music teacher whose real life story inspired the Academy Award-nominated film Music of the Heart starring Meryl Streep, will visit to Detroit to share her expertise with local music students and their teachers. The public is invited to attend this free event titled "A Roberta Guaspari Masterclass" on Friday, April 8 and Saturday, April 9 at Cornerstone Schools.
A renowned ambassador of music education, Guaspari was also the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary Small Wonders. Guaspari and her son, cellist Nick Tzavaras of the Shanghai String Quartet, will lead two days of string workshops and hands-on clinics. Students and teachers from Cornerstone, as well as a dozen Detroit public and charter schools are participating. An Informance, a student finale concert, concludes the event on April 9 at 5 p.m.
A violinist, Guaspari galvanized her community while teaching in East Harlem in the 1970's. When funding was cut in 1991, parents, city leaders, philanthropists and world-class musicians including Itzhak Perlman, Isaac Stern and Quincy Jones rallied to save it.
Today, Guaspari continues teaching at the Harlem School of Music. She has been featured on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, the New York Post and Vogue magazine.
For more information or to attend this event co-hosted by the Michigan State University College of Music, please visit www.cornerstoneschools.org.
Posted by Erin Rose at 10:08 AM Labels: Detroit Music, Look Who's Comin' to Town Links to this post
By Clay Evans
Boulder Daily Camera
Whole Foods' inaugural "Do Something Reel" film series celebrates Earth Month with six documentary films that explore green issues.
"(W)e want to raise awareness of environmental and food issues and support filmmakers who are creating films that inspire people to question the impact our choices have on our health, body and environment," says Walter Robb, co-CEO of Whole Foods Market. "We see film as an inspirational medium that can spark an active dialogue and encourage people to take action locally."
"Urban Roots" Directed by Mark MacInnis. 94 minutes. An exploration of the emergence of hundreds of urban farms in the most unlikely of places, inner-city Detroit. Once an industrial powerhouse, the Motor City was considered the most affluent and modern of metropolises. Now, it has lost half its population and the resulting civic collapse is evident in thousands of abandoned buildings, home and neighborhoods that litter the landscape. But urban farmers, who, against all odds, have risen out of the ashes and are creating "a vibrant, healthy and robust farming culture that already feeds thousands."
Posted by Erin Rose at 8:00 AM Labels: Detroit Film Industry, Keeping the planet clean Links to this post
|Photo from mtv.com
Yobi TV
Yobi: Act With Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino
Co-star in the Random Talent web series with Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino!
Random Talent is a hilarious spoof of TV talent shows. Mike will play the role of a famous hip-hop star who is asked -- begged, actually -- by the producer to be the lead judge.
The burden of keeping Mike's character happy falls to the second judge, played by YOBILaugh Season One Winner Ben Green, who was sent from England (where the show originated) to create a successful US version based in Detroit.
The YOBIAct winners will play the third judge and the Director-Producer of this hilarious series where the judges have nothing in common but need to find the next huge talent before the producer loses the show sponsors!
Voting is now open - Get your entries in HERE!
*Please keep in mind that this is not an audition for Jersey Shore.
Posted by Erin Rose at 10:38 AM Labels: Detroit Film Industry, Look Who's Comin' to Town Links to this post
|Photo from iamyoungdetroit.com
By Haya El Nasser
Educated 20- and 30-somethings are flocking to live downtown in the USA's largest cities — even urban centers that are losing population.
In more than two-thirds of the nation's 51 largest cities, the young, college-educated population in the past decade grew twice as fast within 3 miles of the urban center as in the rest of the metropolitan area — up an average 26% compared with 13% in other parts.
Even in Detroit, where the population shrank by 25% since 2000, downtown added 2,000 young and educated residents during that time, up 59% , according to analysis of Census data by Impresa Inc., an economic consulting firm.
"This is a real glimmer of hope," says Carol Coletta, head of CEOs for Cities, a non-profit consortium of city leaders that commissioned the research. "Clearly, the next generation of Americans is looking for different kinds of lifestyles — walkable, art, culture, entertainment."
In Cleveland, which lost 17% of its population, downtown added 1,300 college-educated people ages 25 to 34, up 49%.
"It tells us we've been on the right track," says David Egner, president and CEO of Detroit's Hudson-Webber Foundation. Three anchor institutions —Wayne State University, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit Medical Center — recently launched "15 by 15," a campaign to bring 15,000 young, educated people to the downtown area by 2015.
Among the lures are cash incentives: a $25,000 forgivable loan to buy (need to stay at least five years) downtown or $3,500 on a two-year lease.
Preference for urban living among young adults — especially the well-educated — has increased sharply, data show:
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Posted by Erin Rose at 10:23 AM Labels: Detroit Making Headlines Links to this post
By Jennifer Still, Entertainment Reporter
Digital Spy
Kim Cattrall has confessed that she loved gaining weight for the title role in Meet Monica Velour.
The AP reports that the Sex and the City actress put on 20lbs for the part of a former porn star who develops an unlikely friendship with one of her biggest fans, an experience which she relished after years of dieting.
"It was actually kind of a relief. It was like getting rid of the Barbie doll and throwing it out and starting again," she told reporters.
"We were shooting in Detroit, and there's a lot of great bars in Detroit. So I ate and I drank for about six weeks."
Meet Monica Velour opens in the US on April 8.
Cattrall previously admitted that she struggles to continue dieting to maintain her figure as she gets older.
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|LEGO City with Detroit Buildings
from DecoJim
By Mark Binelli
The Atlantic
Urban experts and politicians have decided among themselves that "right-sizing" Detroit by shrinking the city is the only way to save it. They couldn't be more wrong.
As with much of the bad news coming out of Detroit, last week's abysmal census inspired a peculiar mix of solemn pity and barely concealed delight in the media.
The U.S. Census found the city's population had plummeted a staggering 25% in ten years -- down to a pre-Model T low of 713,000. News writers rebooted their Detroit-as-failed-state storylines. Did you know the city possesses enough vacant land to hold the entire city of San Francisco? That the Pontiac Silverdome sold for the price of a modest one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan? That there are 50,000 stray dogs roaming the streets? The census numbers raced around the Internet, made the front page of the New York Times and lots of other papers.
Local politicians responded quickly, and many all but demanded a recount. City Council president Charles Pugh insisted on Facebook that the count was "way low." He even explained away the numbers by suggesting a large number of Detroit residents were doing prison time in other cities. Many of the news stories also referenced Detroit Mayor Dave Bing's euphemistic "right-sizing" plan to shrink the city. The plan is still quite vague in its outlines, but it correctly hopes to incentivize citizens living on isolated urban prairies to move to denser, more easily serviced neighborhoods.
A prominent official under former Mayor Dennis Archer's administration told me that shrinking Detroit "betrays who we are." Instead, he said, we should be doing the opposite of right-sizing.
"How did Philly grow?" he said. "It grabbed up the suburbs. How did LA grow? It grabbed up the suburbs. Think about it: Detroit is older than the country. [The city was established in 1701 as French trading post.] This place was founded with frontier spirit. And now we're here in 2010, a bunch of wusses."
I've come to learn my friend's idea is a favorite thought experiment among a certain subset of Detroit-area urbanophiles. Sometimes they will reference David Rusk, the former Albuquerque mayor whose book Cities Without Suburbs makes the case for the economic vibrancy of "elastic" cities (like Houston, Austin, Seattle and Nashville) whose central hubs have the capability to annex or otherwise regionalize their surrounding suburbs into a unified metropolitan area.
The takeaway from the census stories was that Detroit plummeted to 19th place on the U.S. city-size list, behind Austin, Jacksonville and Columbus (Columbus!). But the Detroit metropolitan area -- which we'll define, for these purposes, as Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties -- still retains a population of nearly four million. If our territorial-expansion fantasia could have been magically enacted with even two-thirds of this figure, the Greater Detroitopolis would easily vault past Chicago to become the third-largest city in the U.S., behind New York and Los Angeles. This would translate into more state and national clout (and allocated funds, many of which are based on population) and eliminate the need for much of the wasteful duplicate spending inherent in maintaining dozens of tiny separate municipalities, especially at a time when many of these suburban communities have announced their own cutbacks. (In February, the westside suburb of Allen Park announced plans to eliminate its entire fire department.)
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Posted by Erin Rose at 4:10 PM Labels: Detroit Making Headlines Links to this post
I'm extremely delighted to be able to begin sharing today a series of posts that previously appeared in the Where blog. This blog, which ran from 2007 to 2010, was one of the single most inspiring urbanist sites on the web. Originally a project of Brendan Crain, it grew into a very popular group site before going the way of all blogs. I've previously shared some material from Where contributor Drew Austin, and I'm stoked that Brendan himself has allowed me to re-post some of his pieces as well. They certainly deserve to be read far and wide. Brendan himself is not blogging at the moment that I'm aware of, but some of his old Where contributors are still going over at Polis, which is definitely worth checking out for an international take on cities. Thanks so much to Brendan and I hope you all enjoy these posts that will appear in the coming weeks and months. - Aaron ]
As the city that has fallen on the hardest times (in America, at least), Detroit has the most potential as a proving ground for new solutions. The city is a massive laboratory for urban theorists, developers, and boosters alike. How, many wonder, can Detroit be saved? Or can it be saved at all? Certainly one of the more interesting answers to these questions has come from Tyree Guyton, the man behind the Heidelberg Project, which has appropriated several blocks of the city's near east side into a spectacularly off-the-wall community art project/revitalization effort.
It's certainly not what you'd traditionally refer to as "revitalization," but that's kind of the point. On its website, the Heidelberg Project explains its vision thusly: "The Heidelberg Project envisions neighborhood residents using art to come together to rebuild the structure and fabric of under-resourced communities and to create a way of living that is economically viable, enriches lives, and welcomes all people." What this translates to in the physical environment of Heidelberg Street is a collection of abandoned houses — and their surroundings — covered in murals, knick-knacks, mannequins, coins, pie tins, pieces of repurposed trash, stuffed animals, and (literally) just about anything else you could think up. It's like the Watts Towers, but even more organic.
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The Huffington Post
Bank of America, the country's largest bank by assets, has announced an initiative to demolish one hundred abandoned Detroit homes currently under the bank's ownership, a task that CEO Brian T. Moynihan says will "help 'right-size' the city," according to the Detroit Free Press.
The bank, which estimates the costs at $1 million, says the land plots will be donated to the city "for green space, urban farming or redevelopment."
Bank of America also plans to donate ten renovated homes to Detroit police officers willing to move into one of Mayor Bing's two designated-need neighborhoods, Boston-Edison and East English Village. Mayor Bing hopes to draw police officers -- and eventually firefighters -- back into the neighborhoods they service. Many have left for the suburbs since a bill ended residency requirements for officers in 1999.
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"Detroit is a blank canvas waiting for some more visionaries like Mies [van der Rohe]. People describe it as being dangerous, but they don't describe Malibu as being dangerous, and it's always on fire. That seems pretty dangerous to me. And Arizona is always on the brink of running out of water. That seems dangerous too."
~Toby Barlow
Move To Detroit Quickly While There's Still Time
Paul Gunther
Huffington Post
Demographers and scientists alike broadly predict that once the history of the 21st century is written, water will have emerged as the primary commodity driving the socioeconomic forces shaping world politics and the well-being of the global population estimated even by mid-century to exceed nine billion. (Almost a 30% increase from now for those keeping track...)
Whatever energy alternatives the vicissitudes of oil pricing and availability drive along the way, concerns with accessible power sources will pale alongside the specter of thirst and hunger arising from a shortage of the world's most basic source of survival, H2O.
That's why Detroit's alarming population decline first reported last week in the Times signals what can only be a temporary passage in the patterns of global settlement beginning right here in America. The built world is going to need places like a city, named after the French word for strait, along a river dividing two of the greatest freshwater lakes on the face of the globe (by size, the fourth: Michigan, and the tenth: Erie).
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Lake Superior at Pictured Rocks.
Just 2.5 percent of the world's water is fresh, and according to environment correspondent Alec Kirby of the BBC, "two-thirds of that is trapped in icecaps and glaciers." (No reprieve therefore from global warming, as, whether one believes it's caused by man or not, the lion's share of the resulting melt-off turns salty from the first liquefied droplet.) He goes on, "The amount of fresh water available for human use is less than one percent of all the water on the planet."
Which brings us back to Detroit and the colossal supplies surrounding it. It's the Saudi Arabia of fresh water! (Add in the ease of navigation from its surrounding waterways, stretching as they do from the Atlantic to the Mississippi by lake and canal.)
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As a group of Ford Motor Co. (F) managers in blue jeans sat down to interview a suit-wearing candidate from a California technology company this month, they jokingly offered to cut off his tie to put him at ease.
Auto industry executives are trying to make Silicon Valley engineers feel at home in Detroit. With a burgeoning number of technology job openings to fill, they're scouring Internet companies for workers, wining and dining applicants, and seeking promising students at schools such as Stanford University.
"We have a whole slew of job postings out there currently," said Doug VanDagens, director of Ford's connected service solutions, who has been trying to lure engineers to the automaker to design software. "We're just on a growth binge."
Expertise in cloud computing, mobile software applications and energy management are in demand in the Motor City as automakers replace car stereos with Internet radio and gasoline engines with motors powered by lithium-ion batteries. Technology job postings in the Detroit area doubled last year, making it the fastest-expanding region in the country, according to Dice Holdings Inc. (DHX), a job-listing website.
"There's a war for talent out there, and it's only going to get worse," said Jim Bazner, vice president of human capital solutions at MSX International in Southfield, Michigan, which helps automakers find specialized employees. "There are hundreds of jobs, and all the automakers are hiring."
Dearth of Graduates
Ford and General Motors Co. (GM) are rapidly hiring graduates from local universities as fast as they can -- there just aren't enough of them.
"If we filled every opening that's been posted or recruited just in the Lansing area, we'd be able to hire out all of our graduates three times over," said Garth Motschenbacher, who helps place computer-science graduates at Michigan State University. About 70 percent of the school's 54 students scheduled to graduate in May have jobs lined up, he said. "The number of students has not kept up with the opportunities."
Still, attracting engineers to Detroit rather than Silicon Valley can be a challenge. The San Francisco area is home to more technology companies offering more job openings than Detroit. California's mild climate and history of innovation are also a draw. Yet Detroit is bouncing back.
Companies that work with automakers on in-car entertainment systems, such as online streaming music providers Pandora Media Inc. and Mog Inc., have opened offices in the Detroit area. Google Inc. (GOOG), based in Mountain View, California, has an office in Birmingham, Michigan, where it's looking for sales associates to work with the auto industry.
New Wave
Marty Zacharias is part of the wave of new hires. The former Nissan Motor Co. and Ford employee joined Berkeley, California-based Mog last month -- in its new Detroit office. He'll work directly with companies such as Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW)'s Mini and others to get Mog's Web-based subscription music service into vehicles.
"Many more Detroit-based automotive industry employees will follow a similar path to mine," Zacharias said in an e- mail, "or join advanced technology divisions within the established automotive companies."
The expansion has caught the eye of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which announced in December that it will open its first satellite office in Detroit. The region's high percentage of scientists and engineers, as well as its patent output, spurred the decision, said Paul Fucito, a patent office spokesman. The 4,000 patents granted to Michigan in fiscal 2010 ranked seventh among U.S. states, he said. The facility is likely to create about 100 new jobs to review patent filings.
Recession's Toll
One reason why the job growth in Detroit appears so high is because the recession's toll went so deep, said Tom Silver, senior vice president of Dice Holdings and author of the jobs report showing a surge in the area.
"The recovery there is actually looking pretty substantial, but it's also a reflection, to some extent, that Detroit was probably hit a little harder than the other markets," he said.
The hiring demand comes as Detroit's population fell to the lowest official tally since 1910. According to 2010 U.S. Census data released this week, Detroit's population declined 25 percent, to 713,777, down from a peak of 1.85 million in 1950.
Michigan lost about 413,000 jobs from December 2007 through December 2009, including 83,200 jobs in the Detroit area, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Things picked up last year, as jobs in the Detroit-area professional and business-services sector, which include many of the tech jobs, rose almost twice as fast in December as the overall Michigan job market, according to the bureau.
Light-Rail Project
Not all tech jobs in Detroit are related to the auto industry. Dan Gilbert, chairman and founder of Quicken Loans Inc., helped fund a planned light-rail project for downtown, formed a venture capital firm to invest in startups, and purchased a historic theater with plans to renovate it as an incubator space for budding technology companies.
"I want to see this city come back in a big way," Gilbert said in an interview. "Part of it also was for business -- we want to create that urban feel, that urban core environment downtown where people in their 20s and 30s really want to be."
Last year Gilbert, owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team, moved 1,700 of Quicken Loans' employees into Compuware Corp. (CPWR) headquarters in Detroit's Campus Martius Park area, the center of the city's tech industry, where he plans to add 2,000 more workers.
In the building, graffiti from local artists decorate many of the walls and floors, and mini kitchens on every floor offer free slushies and snacks. When the space is fully finished, Quicken also will have a basketball court for employees.
Venture Funding
Gilbert's venture capital firm's goal is to fund social media, cloud computing and other software companies in Detroit. So far, Detroit Venture Partners has received more than 200 proposals for investments and has term sheets under consideration for six that may be signed in the next 30 days, said Josh Linkner, one of the three founders, in an interview.
Venture capital firms invested $79.9 million in 13 Detroit companies last year, according to National Venture Capital Association data. That's the most companies since at least 1990 and the third-highest total investment, the data show.
Even with efforts to mimic Silicon Valley office culture, recruiting people to move from the West Coast to Detroit is difficult, said Micky Bly, GM's executive director of electric vehicles, battery and infotainment systems.
"I don't want to categorize it as an issue, but it is tough," he said. "You don't have people begging to come to the Michigan area."
Salary Gap
Compensation is one reason why. While average salaries for Detroit technology jobs rose 2.3 percent last year to $71,445, that's still less than the national average of $79,384, and about 28 percent lower than the $99,028 paid in Silicon Valley, according to Dice Holdings. More than 940 technology jobs are currently available in the Detroit metro region, compared with more than 5,060 in Silicon Valley.
Still, Bly says the quality of life can be attractive for some. "They can get a whole lot of house in Michigan for what they can get in San Francisco," he said.
The workplace culture among automakers is also relaxing, as they attempt to adopt some of the perks more common at startups, like wearing jeans to work or telecommuting. That's a big change from when Bly started at GM 20 years ago, when everyone wore a collared shirt and a tie.
"The variation was in your pant color -- you could have gray, black or blue," Bly said. While things have changed, the perks still aren't the same as in Silicon Valley, he said.
"Do we have a free cafeteria like Google? No, but our stock isn't up to $400 a share yet" Bly said. Google currently trades at about $587 a share, while GM's stock sits at $31. "When we get $400 a share, I'll make sure we have free meals for everyone here."
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The story of Detroit (my home town) is an unfinished book.
In Chapter One, our city was born with the DNA of creativity, innovation, and a passion for change. Creators like Henry Ford put our city on the map by imagining a better tomorrow and then making it happen through entrepreneurial fire. And with this passion, our city prospered. Chapter One was all about original thinking, fresh ideas, and innovation.
Chapter Two, also known as the dark ages, came next. We left our entrepreneurial roots and shifted to a mindset of entitlement. Our arrogance and hubris changed us from creators to protecting hoarders. We felt unbeatable. We built stifling bureaucracies. We stopped inventing and dreaming. We stopped creating. And we stopped winning.
As the evil forces of bureaucracy, finger-pointing blame, and protectionism emerged – our city crumbled. We ended Chapter Two as a national punch line. The rest of the country gave up on us, and we were spinning with hopelessness and despair.
Now we enter Chapter Three. It's the beginning of this chapter, and we all have a choice. We can continue to point fingers, cry in our soup, and long for the days gone by. Or we can DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. We can own it, fix it, and rebuild it. This is our time. This is our defining moment.
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The story of Detroit (my home town) is an unfinished book.
In Chapter One, our city was born with the DNA of creativity, innovation, and a passion for change. Creators like Henry Ford put our city on the map by imagining a better tomorrow and then making it happen through entrepreneurial fire. And with this passion, our city prospered. Chapter One was all about original thinking, fresh ideas, and innovation.
Chapter Two, also known as the dark ages, came next. We left our entrepreneurial roots and shifted to a mindset of entitlement. Our arrogance and hubris changed us from creators to protecting hoarders. We felt unbeatable. We built stifling bureaucracies. We stopped inventing and dreaming. We stopped creating. And we stopped winning.
As the evil forces of bureaucracy, finger-pointing blame, and protectionism emerged – our city crumbled. We ended Chapter Two as a national punch line. The rest of the country gave up on us, and we were spinning with hopelessness and despair.
Now we enter Chapter Three. It's the beginning of this chapter, and we all have a choice. We can continue to point fingers, cry in our soup, and long for the days gone by. Or we can DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. We can own it, fix it, and rebuild it. This is our time. This is our defining moment.
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After years of disrepair, the 4,300-square-foot home that Dorothy Turkel commissioned in 1955 is shiny, new, and begging for a Mad Men party. It's the only two-story Usonian automatic home that Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed and therefore attracts photo-snapping architecture enthusiasts to its lawn with a bit more regularity than its current residents, Norman Silk and Dale Morgan, would like. Curbed reporter (and friend of Positive Detroit) Sarah F. Cox sat down with the couple, who are partners in life and a local floral business, to talk about what it's like to live behind all that glass.
Curbed National: When you saw this house for sale in a state of disrepair, what made you want to take that on?
Dale Morgan: We've lived in Palmer Woods [the Turkel House's neighborhood] for 25 years. Most of the houses aren't modern at all and we'd always lived in a traditional home; we had a beautiful Mediterranean villa. We wanted to do something contemporary because we had redone that house three times so we were looking around for options; at first we didn't even realize that that this was truly a Frank Lloyd Wright home.
Norman Silk: I was driving by one day and saw the "For Sale" sign in the yard and stopped. It was a really sunny day and the light was streaming in; the whole house was empty and everything we have now was here, but badly faded, like the benches and shelves. There was old white upholstery and water-stained wood and the color of everything was butter yellow. You could see the red floors, which are polished concrete, but they still had carpet glue on them and they were dirty. But I saw the bones of the house and I thought that is really an interesting, cool house.
CN: It's pretty amazing that you just stumbled upon a Frank Lloyd Wright home. How was its history so unknown?
NS: This house had been in decline for the 25 years we'd lived here; it had never been a vibrant house. It was unkempt and overgrown, no one had ever done much with it, and there wasn't much conversation in the neighborhood about it being truly a Frank Lloyd Wright. In our minds, we thought it was a student of Wright or just in the style of Wright; once we knew what it really was that piqued our interest.
DM: After we bought it everyone said, "Oh I was going to buy that house." It had been on the market a lot of times over the years and so a lot of people had looked at it.
CN: How did you bring your design aesthetic into the home?
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Though the last film in the franchise is still warm (only being three years post-release), Universal is rebooting their Brendan Fraser-starring "Mummy" franchise.
John Spaihts ("Prometheus") is co-writing the reboot, says The Hollywood Reporter.
1999's "The Mummy" spawned two sequels plus a series of spin-off films centering on the character of 'The Scorpion King'.
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How did the wedding photographer avoid disrupting the day? Great with candids? Action shots? Portraits?
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Counterfeit Gold Bars
For those who intend to buy gold, here is something to consider:
Density of gold is 19.30 g/cm3; density of tungsten is 19.25 g/cm3.
The article below is from FoxNews.com published on September 19, 2012
Fool's gold: Counterfeit bars turn up in New York
A jeweler in Manhattan's Diamond District learned the hard way that all that glitters is not gold.
Ibrahim Fadl, a chemical engineer who owns a business near 47th Street and Fifth Avenue, bought four 10-ounce gold bars and decided to check them out further since he heard counterfeits were making the rounds, MyFoxNY.com reports.
Fadl, who paid $100,000 for the merchandise, drilled into several of the bars and found gray tungsten, which has nearly the same density as gold, making it difficult to detect. The same thing reportedly happened in Great Britain earlier this year, and finance blog ZeroHedge.com reported that in 2010 German refiner W.C. Heraeus claimed to have received a 500-gram bar from an unnamed bank that proved to be filled with tungsten.
The scheme purportedly involves a genuine gold bar that is purchased with serial numbers and authentic documents and is then hollowed out to be replaced with tungsten. The bar is then closed up to finalize the sophisticated operation, the website reports.
Manfra, Tordell & Brookes, the Swiss manufacturer of the gold bars, warned customers to only buy from reputable dealers. Raymond Nessim, the company's CEO, said he has reported the incident to the FBI and the Secret Service.
Secret Service officials, meanwhile, told FoxNews.com an investigation is ongoing, declining further comment.
Fadl, who could not be reached for comment, told NY1.com that the shell of the gold was sold to him by a customer at his gold refinery business and peeled off like foil on a candy bar.
"It's got to be somebody really, really professional," Fadl told the website. "When I analyzed them, it showed they were tungsten."
Fadl said a colleague tipped him off to the scam, prompting him to further inspect the gold bars.
"Sick to my stomach, but thank God we didn't sell this to somebody," he said when asked how he felt. "People are selling their homes to buy gold, it's a big issue."
FoxNews.com's Joshua Rhett Miller contributed to this report.
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Dang,bet he's going to play hell getting his monies back…


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Jim, Ran, et al:
I had always understood that streaky breeders like 'Dorothy Benedict
' could not be reproduced in TC. Ergo the cost and rarity. Do streaked
unstable sports show up in TC randomly? I assume yes. This year I bought a
dozen TC seedlings of 'Spilt Milk'. Since this is an unstable streaked
breeder I assumed that it could not be produced in TC in any numbers.
Looks like I was wrong. Also I understood that the original plant did not
develope its milky streakedness until the 4 th or 5 th year. If this is
true then in what manner does Tc accelerate a maturing pattern process? I
gathered from reading what you people had writtten that this whole process
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streaked seedlings from the SM seeds has been almost futile.
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Holy rollin' novocaine
my face, a carnival of pain.
oooh it's gone, oh not again....
manky tooth oh please refrain,
it hurts me every time i eat,
it makes real tears stream down my cheeks.
I want to pull the bugger out,
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It wakes me up when i'm asleep.
It's there each time i try to chill,
i'm curling up, a crumpled heap
my face is fat
i look dead ill.
Oh evil tooth of misery,
embedded there
just taunting me,
when you are gone i will be free
to eat my nacho's happily.
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|We are a professional, selective, mature cpl, "she" is at the highest point of her sexual prowess, eager to please! we have great personalities in and out of the bedroom. We are a sexual /sensual cpl, very well groomed and spotless. We can honestly say that our sex life has been fantastic, we are in awe of each others company and open mindedness and eagerness to proceed with like minded others. We are both well traveled, enjoy fine wine, good food and conversation, no real sexual hangups. love to go out to clubs, love sexy dancing and attend swing party's.
|We are Dave and Carol, a playful, down-to-earth, adventurous couple happily in a loving and open marriage who's fun to be around and always looking for a good time within limits. We are long time members of the lifestyle and enjoy all aspects of it however pain definitely is not our thing. We enjoy playing with singles and couples, video and photography, meet and greets, swing clubs, house parties, gang bangs, and group sex/orgies. We will and do play on the first meeting if everything clicks but it definitely has to be mutual with both parties. We like seduction, eroticism, sensuality, and special moments. We're both predominately straight but bi-comfortable. We do live very busy lives as well as have small children at home so it is not always convenient for us to meet up but we like to play a little whenever possible. Each of us has a hall pass to play alone and come back and retell the sexy details! We love to hear about each others experiences with others and especially love it when we can view it via photos or video. We do like playing together when the opportunity arises as well as seeing the acts first hand however we usually don't have the opportunity to do so. Both the male and the female play separately the vast majority of the time. We live in Phoenix but travel frequently to Southern California, the greater Las Vegas area, the greater Denver area and the greater Kansas City area. Drop us a line and let us know what you are looking for as we're sure we can figure something out! "Some do. Some don't. We might."
|We are both completely Bisexual, and enjoy both men and women equally. We are very open to everything, and we are both quite versatile, meaning we can "Top" and/or "Bottom". We also play together and separately, and can entertain one person or a large group of people. It's all good. We are very secure in our relationship so we will also play on our own without the other present, but only with people that we know and are comfortable with. The other always knows what is happening, as we don't "cheat" an each other, but enjoy a truly open Lifestyle. We will admit that the "Couples Only" concepts of the '80s and '90s just aren't for us anymore, even though we also do play with other couples. Just the rigidity that some people have has become a bit of a turn off for us. We really don't take our sex too seriously, as sex is supposed to be fun, and not a porn movie. So our desires are people that have fun with their sex and take it lightly. We also believe that friendship greatly enhances the sexual pleasure between like-minded people, so another desire is to have sex with the friends we make We have never considered ourselves "hot" or "sexy" as that truly is in the eye of the beholder. What is sexy to one person, may not be to another. We are just your average, fun-loving couple, and after you read our profile and view our pictures, you can (and will) make your own judgement. We really are no longer into playing dress-up or doing the "sexy clothes" thing, which is the main reason we no longer go to Swing Clubs. We just like to be natural and comfortable, and we like the people we meet to feel the same way. Swinging is a Lifestyle, not a Fashion Show We have been in the Lifestyle a long, long time, and are quite "experienced" (whatever that means) although we still consider ourselves only occasional swingers. We are a very open and friendly couple, and really enjoy meeting and talking with new people, and are usually quite comfortable in most situations. We only practise safer-sex, so condom use for either anal or vaginal penetration is a must. But we both enjoy oral sex bareback, and we both love to swallow as much CUM as we can be fed. We prefer partners who feel the same way about safer-sex as we do. So, if what we say is of any interest, please just message us. We also feel that since we took the time to write this, you should take the time to tell us a bit about yourselves. If another single guy writes us with something like "Let's meet" and nothing else, I'll scream! We answer all sincere e-mails, but will disregard quick messages with no true content to them. We also appreciate pictures, especially from the single guys. We've just been misled too many times. Thank you for your time, Carol xoxoxo & Danny BIG NOTE THAT WE WISH PEOPLE WOULD ACTUALLY READ: As we both work on the Internet for a living, we are not into private chats, instant messaging or webcams, other than for an initial meeting or quick notices. We also do not trade pictures, so please don't ask, there should be more than enough in our profile to satiate any curiosity. We are not into phone sex in the least. Our preference is to meet in a public place, like a bar or coffee shop. We live in the West Island area of Montreal, and neither of us speak a word of French (transplanted Anglos). SIDE NOTE ABOUT MESSAGES: We don't answer any messages until we both have had a chance to read it. You will get a response that your message to us was read, but it may take a day or two for us to respond due to the personal requirement that we BOTH read before responding. Please have a bit of patience. We also will ignore messages from people who don't have a proper profile or pictures and who want to "hook up". Would you agree to meet someone sight unseen? No, us either.
|I have always been curious sexually and really enjoy both voyeurism and exhibitionism. I am probably more bi-sexual at this point than just bi-curious. I have had a few experiences and have enjoyed them all. I guess I can share a few with you. I talked my wife into going to a swinger's club just to watch 6 or 7 years ago. We both really enjoyed the atmospher and the voyeurism. She was afraid that people would approach her or would pressure us to have sex with them; but that didn't happen and the people were actually very friendly, nice and sociable. Since then we have been to dozens of clubs together (most of these clubs only allow couples). I would love to swing and swap partners with another couple; but my wife is not ready to see me with another women. About 5 years ago, we went to a club in New York city. They have a policy that if you want to go back into the play rooms, you have to take your clothes off. My wife decided to humor me; so we got naked and joined the action. She was seated on a couch and I was in front of her eating her out while a large black guy was doing the same to his girlfriend who was sitting right next to my wife. I watch as he slowly slid up and placed his huge cock at the entrance to his girlfriend's pussy. I couldn't take my eyes off of his cock, but as I glanced down at my wife, I saw that she was watching the same thing that I was. After a few minutes, the guys politely asked if he could feel my wife's 34G breasts. I turned to her and whispered in to her ear, "he asked me if he could feel your breasts?". She surprised me by saying, "Really? He actually asked you if he could feel my tits?". I said, "Yes". So she said "OK". I turned back to the guy and gestured for him to help himself. As he reached over to caress her boobs, I slowly inserted my cock into my wife's pussy. I couldn't believe how wet she was. After a minute, the guy removed his hand, so I leaned forward to say thank you to my wife. But she surprised me again and said "I bet you would like to see him fuck me with that huge cock, wouldn't you?" I just nodded and then said "why? would you do it?" She said "yes." As quick as I could, before she changed her mind, I turned to the black guy and asked him if we would like to fuck my wife. In the blink of an eye, he reached for another condom, opened the package with one hand, pulled out of his girlfriend and unrolled the condom onto his gigantic cock. I quickly moved up next to my wife so I had a good view and then the guy slowly started to inch his thick dick into my wife's dripping cunt. A thousand emotions flashed through my mind in that moment; but I was out of my mind turned on. Anyway, he very fucked her very sensuously for a few minutes until my wife came. He wasn't finished but politely pulled out and went back to fucking his girlfriend. Nothing has come close to the excitement of that moment. I have been hooked on watching my wife fuck and suck other men ever sense. We attended a few gang-bang parties where lots of pre-screened men show up to allow women to fuck as many guys as they want. I really got off watching my wife pick out the guys and blow or fuck them. Next we found a straight guy on the internet that my wife was willing to meet for a MFM threesome. He was a nice guy and we met him 5 or six times. During one of those meetings, I slid up behind my wife while she was riding his cock and inserted my dick into her ass. She went absolutely crazy. She is usually very quite during sex, but this time she was yelling and screaming "God YES!! Fuck Me!". She came like crazy over and over. We did that again once and it was just as good the second time; but then that guy got a girlfriend and didn't want to play anymore. We have met up with about half-dozen other men. One of them had a beautiful dick about 8 inches long but a reasonable width. He saw me fascinated by his dick and asked me if I wanted to touch it. I shyly said yes. Then I took ahold of it and slowly started to stroke it up and down. I wanted so bad to take into my mouth but was afraid i would freak him out; so instead I offered it back to my wife. After that, I couldn't stop thinking about sucking a cock. I finally found an adult bookstore where I read that all types attended. Gay guys are the most common, but bi-guys and women looking for gang-bangs also show up from time-to-time. I visited there several times and had witnessed some interesting things; but on this one particular evening, there was only me and one other guy in the place. He was sitting on the other side of the room looking strangely at each other. He suddenly got up and walk over to me. He was standing in front of me and he said "Hi, my name is Joe". I said "Hi." He then asked me if I ever sucked a cock before and I said "No." He then said "Would you like to?" I said, "Yes. I think I would." He then pulled his shorts down and off. He wasn't wearing any underwear so his flaccid penis was directly in front of my face. It looked really small, and I was actually a bit surprised. But I leaned forward and placed my lips around his entire shaved cock and balls. It felt really strange: spongy and soft yet rubbery at the same time. He immediately started to get hard; and within a few seconds, it had grown to a couple of inches. So I started moving my mouth up and down on his cock while he stood in front of me. I was enjoying the fact that I could take his entire cock in my mouth; but that didn't last long. His dick kept on growing and was soon too big to fit comfortably in my mouth without gagging; so I moved my hand up and started stroking his shaft while moving my lips and tongue on the head. I felt a strange sense of power at that point that was out of character for me. I reached up, grabbed his hips and turned up toward the couch and made him sit down. I then moved between his legs and continued to give him a blow job. I was afraid he might come in my mouth; so I started jacking his cock with both hands paying extra attention to his frenulum while teasing his head. He started moaning like crazy and saying "Oh my god, I'm going to come!" I stroked his shaft more trying not to touch the head hoping that it would stretch it out; but he soon shot a rope of come up over my head. I really couldn't believe it. It happened so fast and afterwards, I was disappointed that I didn't let him come in my mouth. I really wanted to know what it would have felt like to have that powerful shot of come hitting the back of my throat. At that point, the owner of the shop popped his head in the door and shouted out that it was closing time. We picked up our things and left. I went straight out to my car and masturbated to one the most powerful orgasms of my life. Again, I was hooked. I went back to that same bookstore a couple of months later. This time, I told my wife that I wanted to jerk-off another guy and she said "Ok. You can play with other guys; just no playing with other women." I hadn't told her about my first experience. I'm sure she would have been fine with it; but for some reason just felt like something I should keep to myself. I had a few more bookstore experiences; but the fear of STS's keeps me from going back there. I got the curiosity out of my system; so now I only want more traditional experiences. My wife and I were approached by a guy who listed himself as bi and seemed nice and cute. My wife, knowing that I wanted to suck a cock but not knowing that I already had, asked me if I wanted to try a threesome with him. I jumped at it and we did hook up with the guy. My wife and I started out by sharing his cock with each of us taking turns sucking and licking his head or shaft. We moved to the bed and my wife continued to blow him while he sucked my dick. My god, did he know how to suck cock! Anyway, he came in my wife's mouth and she swallowed it all. He got up to go to the bath room and my wife turned to me and said "Oh my god, he tasted so good. You would have loved it!" I was really disappointed then. From that point on, I couldn't get the idea of swallowing a load of cum out of my mind. We found another bi-guy that joined us for a play date and I finally got taste my first load of cum only he didn't cum much so I barely knew it happened. I have never tried anal sex with a man (giving or getting); but I do fantasize about it. I guess that would have to be under the right conditions. At this point, I am really up for trying just about anything once. The only thing I am not into is male-on-male intimacy like hugging and kissing and I am not really into getting my nipples pinched or sucked. I would, however, really like to find a bi-guy for some occasional fun when the urge strikes (him or me). I would love to find someone that I trust enough to play with from time to time - no strings attached - that won't turn into a drama and wonit disrupt my otherwise normal life. While my wife accepts my needs when it comes to other men; I still prefer to keep it discrete and private.
|Are there any bi clubs in the houston area? If so would some one be kind enough to provide me with details. Thx
|When we were down in the Philadelphia area a couple of months ago, we went to several on-premise clubs, the one we liked best was The Farm near York, Pa. But if you are looking off-premise clubs, especially NASCA sponsored clubs then I have no idea....
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|Out of towner coming to Houston in January. I need to know where to go to have "fun". Clubs to meet and greet especially needed, and places where I might meet fun couples or singles.
Thanks for the help.
Dr. TarHeel
|As a bisexual swinger it is dificult to find bisexual-friendly swing clubs. There are many posts in the "swing club" forum from people looking and there are some replies about clubs in various areas. It is very time consuming digging through page after page of posts to find information that may not exist.
Can you add a section to list swing clubs sorted by areas? And maybe even allow members to write reviews of the various clubs from a bisexual perspective?
|Hey All you xxy men out there in Houston cum and meet me I live in Houston cum and get to know me. hugs and kisses to all . We'll have lots of Fun I Promise .
|I am a BI male looking to get together with a couple in Houston. I will be in Houston June 10 -15 on business. Send me an email
|We are a Houston Cpl looking for another Houston Cpl to hang out, drink, dance and possibly enjoy the evening with and maybe more.
|does anyone know if there are any sex clubs or swinger clubs in so calif iam a 43 yr old male looking for a wild time
|Husband and I are new to joining and are wondering if there are clubs in Detroit or Chicago that we could go to see whose out there. If not clubs where else could we go to meet people in social settings? Thanks! (we'll beposting real pictures soon)
|I will be in Vegas the week of May 2nd... Can anyone tell me if there are any Bi/gay clubs(night and sex clubs) in Vegas area? or any all nude clubs? thanks.... hope some of you will be there in vegas the same week I am.....
|I'm looking for a bi woman in the San Antonio area to become a swinging couple. Someone to go to swingers clubs and parties with. She is free to do as she pleases at these clubs and parties.
|Delilah, there's gotta be some club like that downt here, I know they have at least 2 swingers clubs - I'd only be concerned about the environment itself. It tends to get a bit sleazy in some areas. Considered inquiring about Philly? That town is a den of inequity... A new thread on Tgirl clubs in south Jersey might get more attention though???
|Well actually this is how i came to appreciate sucking a mans cock. I've attended swing clubs in the past, first as a couple then later as a single male. as a sinlge male i've learned if a woman asks me if i was "open to new things" this met was i willing to have sex with her husband as well as her. at first, i'd only let a husband suck me...then after a few experiences i became interested in how it felt and I learned to return the favor.
I've come to learn when a couple wants to play with me alone in a closed room, that most likely sex between me and her husband will come up.
Interesting enough, sex between men at swing clubs in public rooms still seems to taboo and reason to be kick out of some clubs or asked not to come back at the least.
There are very few swing clubs that have special bi nights where two men fucking or sucking in public is completely acceptable...and womening are getting to enjoy and experience two men fucking
|Hello I travel to Houston on a regular bases love to hook up with you I also live close to Houston also would like to meet or talk drop me a few lines
|Shangi la is the resort - family nudists
There are 2 nudist clubs, both family...don't think any swinger clubs exists.
|Looking for EXPERIENCED bi sexual males in the Houston area... north Houston would be great, but we don't to narrow our choices... My hubby hasn't gotten any from a guy in a looong while... Anyone interested?? Drop us a line... again, experienced only....
|Looking for a transexual that is DF. It would be my first. thanks
ive always wanted to be a transexual prostitute.
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|Cock Sucking With A Transgender
I once picked up a transexual,but didn`t know it at the time. She was so passable, but when I found out she had a cock it didn`t matter. I love both cock and pussy. She was such a knock out for a black gurl. We got to her place and she took off her top to expose the most sensual tits. She notice me looking at her crotch and told me she was a he or use to be. She then took off her shorts and there was the best looking black cock I ever saw. I gave her a good blow job until she let loose in my mouth, It was like being in heaven. I swallowed every drop of her juice. She then returned the favor. I didn1t last long because when I saw those lips wrap arouond my cock I was still reeling from me giving the same treatment to her. That was such a good time. you transexuals.


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Neil Alden Armstrong (1930-2012), first man to walk on the moon, July 20, 1969. Navy pilot during Korean war completing 78 combat missions.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/science/space/neil-armstrong-dies-first-man-on-moon.html?pagewanted=all
Lift-off of the Saturn V rocket, carrying astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr, along with 6,700,000 pounds (3,039,000 kg) of fuel and equipment into the Florida sky, bound for the Moon, on July 16th, 1969. (NASA)
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