Where to find Filipino food in Metro Detroit
From cafeteria-style service to kamayan feasts, here’s where to get dishes like lumpia shanghai, pancit bihon, and regional specialties around town.
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JP Makes and Bakes to launch limited-run Ube purple yam soft-serve
Jonathan Peregrino’s love of food started at a young age. His mom cooked a lot, including making a dessert out of ube, a Filipino purple yam. This weekend he’s collaborating with Huddle, a soft-serve ice cream shop in downtown Detroit, to offer his UBE custard Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
5 youth-oriented nonprofits selected for inaugural phase of Marygrove Conservancy’s incubator
Marygrove Conservancy's Community Impact Incubator aims to help organizations build capacity but also provide support to leaders of color during these uncertain and challenging times.
Power through publishing: Detroit artists launch QTBIPOC and Disabled BIPOC centered zine press
Detroit artists and partners Bakpak Durden and Cyrah Dardas, who have been working as artists and with artists in the city, didn’t see a space for artists like them. So they made one of their own.
Amid protests in the face of a pandemic, Detroiters push for solutions and solidarity
Here's how Detroiters are using their platforms and talents to push for solutions to address the racial inequalities that have been brought to the forefront in recent days.
Partner Partner Content Eastern Market vendors — and the market itself — adapt in the wake of COVID-19
With drive-through markets, online ordering, and 2020 Flower Season, Eastern Market vendors and the partnership find ways to adapt amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bea’s Detroit wants to help small businesses flourish with art garden on Dequindre Cut
Several 3-by-3 canvases featuring local small businesses have popped up in Bea’s Small Business Art Garden next to Bea’s Squeeze lemonade stand, which launched in 2019 on the Dequindre Cut as a pop-up to market Beatrice and Eli Wolnerman’s upcoming coworking space in Eastern Market.
Shifting gears: As Detroit Bikes’ sales soar, company taps supply chain to buy PPE to help fill gap
In a nationwide trend, shops across the country have seen an uptick in sales. And for Detroit Bikes, known for its commuter bikes and models such as the Sparrow, sales have not only skyrocketed but it’s also presented a “heck of a side business”: buying and selling personal protective equipment to organizations that need it most.
Desai Sethi Foundation’s COVID-19 grants support community-based solutions
Winning projects so far include street outreach to people experiencing homelessness, a campaign to hire restaurateurs to feed marginalized communities, and 3D printed face shields.
COVID-19: How Detroiters are building community, creating solutions
From online therapy to grocery deliveries, here's how residents and community organizations are pulling together in response to coronavirus.
