Troy,
Mich – Three-wheeled vehicles are coming
to Meadow Brook Concours d’Elegance. Sidecar motorcycles
will make their debut appearance when the world-famous
event with its stellar lineup comes to Rochester on
August 3.
Spanning the early 1900s to the late 1960s, Meadow Brook
will feature legendary examples of the motorcycle
world’s best.
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DETROIT,
MI – As the Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix race venue
continues its rapid assembly, construction has been
completed on the new Internet home of the Grand Prix.
Event officials are proud to unveil a new design
complete with new features and new functionality at
www.DetroitGP.com.
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DETROIT,
MI – The Westin Book Cadillac Detroit will open its
Recruitment Center on July 14 to fill an expected 250
positions. The 455 room hotel now undergoing a $200
million restoration will open on October 1, 2008. Jobs
are available in accounting, administrative, banquets,
engineering, food and beverage services, front office,
guest services, housekeeping and security.
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than seven decades after the innovations of the Quintette du
Hot Club de France, featuring guitar virtuoso Django
Reinhardt, combos called Hot Clubs carry on the gypsy jazz
sound around the globe—in Tokyo, San Francisco, Seattle,
Sweden, Norway, Austria, and many other locales. None,
however, offers a fresher take on the tradition than does
the Hot Club of Detroit, led by fast-fingered Reinhardt
disciple Evan Perri.
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"Gran
Torino" portrays Clint Eastwood as disgruntled
Korean War vet Walt Kowalski trying to reform his
neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal his
prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.
Eastwood is only the most resent movie maker to take
advantage of subsidies signed into law this spring by
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, including rebates
of up to 42% of production costs.
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DETROIT--The
barbecue sauce isn't all that's hot at the Ribs N Soul
Fest this year!
Righteous Entertainment is partnering with The Salvation
Army to host a clothing drive in celebration of the
launch of its DVD "Blaze: The Truth Through Hip Hop."
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Although
Philadelphia and Detroit may currently be at odds over
the 76ers-Pistons playoff basketball series, the two
cities will share their musical talent for the 29th
Detroit International Jazz Festival from Aug. 29-Sept. 1
in downtown Detroit.
Dubbed as "A Love Supreme: The Philly/Detroit Summit"
for 2008, it is the largest jazz festival in North
America and expected to draw a crowd around 750,000 and
generate $90 million in revenue. More
ROYAL
OAK, MI—Motor City artists, musicians and producers with
links to the early days of Motown and Detroit rock n’
roll, have collaborated to create a new, original
song—Drive On!—for the Woodward Dream Cruise, as the
group continues to work on completion of an entire CD of
official cruisin’ music.
Drive-On!, the CD’s title and first single, is the
brainchild of long-time Detroit performer, writer and
producer RG Dempster, on who’s Detroit Rocks!
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DETROIT
– Joan A. LeMahieu, President, The Parade Company and
Matthew P. Cullen, Chair, Michigan Thanksgiving Parade
Foundation, are pleased to announce that The Parade
Company was recently awarded an $110,000 grant from The
Skillman Foundation.
The Skillman Foundation sponsors the Annual Skillman
Foundation’s Float and Balloon Design Contest for
America’s Thanksgiving Parade®.
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Detroit’s award-winning, premier jazz restaurant and
supper club launches the best Sunday Gospel Brunch in
town featuring top choirs and praise teams from across
the city
DETROIT
– Seldom Blues, Detroit’s premier jazz restaurant and
supper club, is pleased to announce that it has
transformed its popular Sunday brunch into the new
Sunday Gospel Brunch weekly from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Mildred Gaddis of WCHB-AM will host the brunch on the
first Sunday of each month.
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