October 2022
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Top Docs List 2022
1,000+ of metro Detroit鈥檚 leading physicians 鈥 nominated by their peers
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黑料网 Detroit: October 2022 Digital Edition
Our 2022 Top Docs issue highlights the metro Detroit doctors ushering in the future of medicine and saving lives with cutting edge technology such as artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and virtual reality.
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Culture Calendar: Theatre Bizarre, Ringwald Theatre’s Sweet 16, and a New Book from Colpa Press
Detroit鈥檚 Greatest Party Returns This Halloween Season After a pandemic hiatus, Theatre Bizarre returns to the Masonic Temple this year. Travel + Leisure has called it 鈥渢he world鈥檚 most spectacular masquerade party,鈥 and it鈥檚 not an exaggeration. Theatre Bizarre brings to life the artistic vision of John Dunivant, who marries the whimsy of Tim Burton鈥檚 […]
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Editor’s Letter: Top Doctors List 2022
I knew from the moment my scalpel sliced through the skin of the fetal pig that I did not want to be a surgeon. Or a doctor. Although I had some wonderful science teachers at Clawson Junior High and High School, it was just never my thing. Mrs. Dutton鈥檚 creative writing class, where I could […]
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‘Middlesex’ 20 Years Later
Twenty years ago, an epic novel with an unconventional, intersex narrator (and a richly described Detroit backdrop)appeared on bookstore shelves, grabbing readers with this opening hook: 鈥淚 was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency […]
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Moving Medicine Forward: Medical Equity is Possible with Technology
Dr. Norman Beauchamp first witnessed disparities in health care when he was a child. He grew up on a farm near Michigan State University, and his mother was a mental health worker in downtown Lansing; through her, he learned how many people there were in need of care who simply weren鈥檛 receiving it. When he […]
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Detroit-Based Sphinx Organization Provides Art Education for Black and Latinx Musicians
Twenty-five years ago, Aaron Dworkin, a Black 26-year-old University of Michigan student had an idea: What if he started a competition for classical musicians of color as a way to increase representation in professional orchestras? The first Sphinx Competition took place in聽1998 at Hill Auditorium, providing a competitive performance opportunity for the most talented young […]
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Horror Filmmaker Builds ‘Horrortown’ at Abandoned Irish Hills Stagecoach Stop
A construction marquee warns 鈥淔ESTIVAL TRAFFIC AHEAD鈥 as cars grind to a halt on U.S. 12 West in Onsted. The area, part of a normally sleepy resort community known as Irish Hills, is bustling with commuters on this particular July afternoon. Faster Horses 鈥 a country music festival held annually at the nearby Michigan International […]
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Metro Detroit’s luxury market has grown in the last two years 鈥 Gucci opened its聽first Detroit boutique in August; Herme虁s opened聽a location in the Somerset Collection in 2021 and brought its traveling Herme虁s in the Making exhibition there in June; and Louis Vuitton also opened its doors at the Somerset Collection last year. While these […]
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The Grand Reopening of Michigan Central Station
In the mid-1930s, when the Albert Kahn-designed U.S.聽Parcel Post Office opened next to the august, celebrated Michigan Central Station, there was precious little public fanfare. It was, essentially, a really big warehouse, and at the time it was so common for Kahn鈥檚 firm to have a hand in new Detroit-area structures that only a few […]
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How 3D Printing is Making Difficult Medical Procedures Easier
In the summer of 2022, a patient came into Henry Ford Hospital with an enormous hole in his heart. The hole was, more technically speaking, an atrial septal defect, a hole in the wall of tissue between the two upper chambers of the heart. An ASD can cause the two chambers to mix the incoming […]
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Follow the Reiki: Lauren Scott鈥檚 life-changing journey focuses on spiritual healing
After the death of her father, Lauren Scott was in desperate need of 鈥渟piritual healing.鈥 She discovered Reiki, a natural healing process that restores physical and emotional well-being using life energy. It was a life-changing experience for Scott, who founded Reiki Euphoria in Rochester and is now helping others find their spiritual healing.
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How Augmented Reality Helps Patients Overcome Phobias
Psychiatrists have found that one of the most effective ways of treating patients with phobias is to expose them to the very thing they are afraid of. Exposure therapy, as it鈥檚 called, is unique in that in order to help someone who is afraid of snakes, for example, you鈥檇 have to bring a live snake […]
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Meet the Architect Overseeing the Michigan Central Project
Ford executives, casting about for a firm to oversee a master plan for redeveloping Michigan Central Station and the 30-acre area around聽it, landed on a New York firm called Practice聽for Architecture and Urbanism, or PAU. Its founder, Vishaan Chakrabarti, 56, has focused聽his career on large-scale urban revival efforts. Notably, he helped concoct the groundbreaking idea […]
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Worn Stories: Marsha Music Celebrates Detroit History in Style
“People say, What are you?鈥 I鈥檓 a Detroitist.鈥 This is how Marsha Music describes herself as a self-proclaimed, unofficial ambassador for the city. The 68-year-old Detroit-born, Highland Park-raised writer and historian 鈥 her full name is Marsha Battle Philpot 鈥 grew up absorbing the sounds of gospel, blues, and rock 鈥檔鈥 roll at her late […]
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Meet the Design Director of The Book Depository
Like so many Detroit-area kids coming of age in the 1990s, Lily Diego and her friends misspent part of their youth traipsing through the vacant, hulking shells of monumental buildings left to decay along with the city itself. They鈥檇 swoop in for late-night electronica parties at the Packard Plant or the Russell Industrial Center or […]
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Ahee Jewelers Celebrates 75th Anniversary
When Edmund T. Ahee started his new business, he needed a cash register. He bought one at an auction in 1949, and as his business grew more successful, he deemed it his lucky charm. This 2-foot-wide, 3-foot-tall tan machine is topped with old typewriter buttons labeled with different dollar amounts. When the lever聽is pulled, one […]
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How Wearable Technology Saved One Local Girl’s Life
For 12-year-old Imani Miles, her Apple Watch is more than just an accessory. It is what she says saved her life. It was nighttime when Imani鈥檚 mom, Jessica Kitchen of Flushing, noticed the constant beeps from her daughter鈥檚 Apple Watch, alerting Imani to an abnormally high heart rate. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 really weird because it鈥檚 never happened […]
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Acts of Service: How Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence is Giving Back to the Community
Among Michigan’s (mostly) lily-white congressional delegation, U.S. House Rep. Brenda Lawrence stands out as the state鈥檚 only Black federal legislator. She made Southfield history when she became the first African American and the first woman to be elected mayor of the predominantly white city in 2001. And walking into the Skyline Club in a scarlet […]
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A Look Inside Beaumont’s New Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Diane Moskal waited 14 years to see new parents and their babies get some sunshine. Moskal is retired now, having worked for 37 years at Beaumont Hospital in Troy, where she ended her full-time tenure as the clinical nurse manager of the neonatal intensive care unit and pediatrics. But on June 7, she was on […]
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The Way It Was 鈥斅燚.M. Ferry & Co.
1943 Detroit once had a seedy reputation, but not in the derogatory sense. The city was home to the world鈥檚 largest seed company, D.M. Ferry & Co., named after owner Dexter Mason Ferry (1833- 1907). The firm, which dates back to 1856, was renowned for its quality, selling only fresh seeds, and was the first […]
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What’s Old is New: A Look Inside One Local Homeowner’s Restored 20th Century Kitchen
After living in condominiums in Detroit for several years, Amy and Donald Rencher decided to act on something they had known for a while: They needed more space to raise a family. They found a 4,000-square- foot home built in 1910 in the city鈥檚 New Center neighborhood that met that need; the kitchen, however, was […]
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Welcome to the Club: A Look Inside Detroit’s BasBlue
When Nancy Tellem moved to Detroit in 2015, she met a lot of talented women from all walks of life but noticed there wasn鈥檛 a place where they could both network and get access to resources. 鈥淎ll the meetings I was having were at either restaurants or coffee houses or clubs that were really created […]
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How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Future of Medicine
When it comes to artificial intelligence, Dr. Cornelius James thinks media and pop culture too often portray it as something dangerous that shouldn鈥檛 be trusted. 鈥淥ne of the challenges is that people go to extremes,鈥 says James, a primary care physician and clinical assistant professor at Michigan Medicine. He says that people think of The […]
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A new vision of optical retail
Join us to celebrate the grand opening of the new LensCrafters store in Bloomfield Hills and discover a personalized eye care experience.
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Women in the Workforce, Renting in Detroit, a Strange Podcast, and More
Get stats on women in the workforce after the COVID-19 pandemic, along with details on how affordable renting in Detroit is. Plus, a macabre podcast that deals in all things strange in southeast Michigan. Detroit Digits 136,000聽The number of Michigan women who left the labor force in 2020, according to a census data analysis by […]
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How to Make Townhouse Detroit’s Home for the Night
Looking for a delicious drink to try on your next night in at home? This copycat recipe for Townhouse Detroit‘s Home for the Night is a simple way to kick your at-home drink game up a notch. Ingredients: 2 ounces Pilar Dark Rum 1 ounce chai tea 1鈦2 ounce Amaretto 2 teaspoons Coco Real Cream […]
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How to Make Pinky’s Rooftop’s Mushroom Toast
Pinky’s Rooftop in Royal Oak is known for their sharable American- and Asian-inspired dishes along with their a fun (and pink!) atmosphere.聽Their Mushroom Toast is a delicious mix of butter herb mushrooms, sourdough and lemon ricotta, served on their weekend rooftop brunch menu.聽Make a similar dish at home with this copycat recipe. Ingredients 1 tablespoon […]
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Fall Foliage Tours in Michigan Worth The Drive
Looking for a new place to peep the changing leaves this fall? Check out these five fall foliage tours with driving through this time of year. Huron River Drive Route:聽From Ann Arbor to Dexter This 10-mile stretch along the Huron River features five nature preserves (Barton, Bird Hills, Kuebler Langford, Brokaw, and Burns-Stokes) and three […]