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Yesterday — 22 December 2025Main stream

Tenants plan rally over alleged ‘hostile takeover’ of Detroit’s historic Leland House

✇Detroit Metro Times
By: Steve Neavling
19 December 2025 at 19:58

Tenants of Detroit’s historic Leland House plan to rally Saturday afternoon, accusing city officials of blocking them from retrieving their belongings after a sudden evacuation earlier this month and raising alarms about what they call a “hostile takeover” of the troubled and storied downtown building.

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Before yesterdayMain stream

Detroit nightclub sued over alleged racist and homophobic abuse of worker

✇Detroit Metro Times
By: Steve Neavling
18 December 2025 at 17:39

A downtown Detroit restaurant and nightclub is facing a civil rights lawsuit after an employee says he was subjected to racist and homophobic slurs, physically assaulted by a coworker on the job, and then fired after complaining that management failed to protect him. The lawsuit, filed this week in Wayne County Circuit Court by Marko […]

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The Metro: The Windsor Film Festival makes Detroit its first international stop

✇WDET 101.9 FM
By: Tia Graham
15 October 2025 at 04:04

Our neighbors across the Detroit River have hosted the Windsor International Film Festival for 21 years. This year will be the first time the event will showcase outside of Canada. 

WIFF is working with with the Downtown Detroit Partnership so more film lovers have a chance to partake in the festival. 

Campus Martius Park will act as a satellite location and offer two films for audiences to watch. 

Vincent Georgie is Executive Director and the chief programmer for WIFF, and David Cowan is Chief Public Spaces Officer for the Downtown Detroit Partnership. They joined The Metro to talk more about the film festival. 

 

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DER Weekends: New brunch spot Haus of Brunch offers halal soul and Middle Eastern food

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By: Nargis Rahman
30 August 2025 at 12:01

On this episode of Detroit Evening Report Weekends, we speak with Maher Obeid, owner of a new halal brunch spot in Detroit called Haus of Brunch at the Westin Book Cadillac.

In this story, we discuss how halal food is becoming a booming industry, expanding to different genres of cuisine — including halal soul food — in downtown Detroit.

Listen to the episode using the media player above. 

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