Stolen vehicle found stripped in Detroit
A vehicle stolen from the 1300 block of Stanley in Birmingham on Sunday, June 13, was found completely stripped and left in Detroit the...
Jun 25, 2021


Warming waters: Lakes signal climate change
Coming across a body of water in Michigan doesn't take very long. Whether it’s the Great Lakes, which, according to the United States…
Jun 23, 2021


Transgender, non-binary search for selves, rights
Blake Bonkowski grew up in Royal Oak uncomfortable in his own skin, not knowing who he was, bullied as an outsider throughout school because
Jun 23, 2021


July 2021
News editor Lisa's Brody's longform piece this month on the gender identity issue facing society couldn't be more timely as we close out...
Jun 23, 2021
Insightful McDonald interview
Insightful interview and article by your news editor, Lisa Brody, with Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald (July/Downtown). A good...
Jun 23, 2021
Ominous, divisive line
Downtown Newsmagazine draws a line as ominous and divisive as Woodward Ave. in suggesting that downtown property owners and businesses...
Jun 23, 2021
Parking and safety paths
You are "spot on" the issues of Triangle District parking and the need for safety paths in Bloomfield Hills, at least on Woodward...
Jun 23, 2021
Advisory safety path vote
Hopefully some members of the Bloomfield Hills government will at least consider Downtown’s suggestion to put an advisory question of...
Jun 23, 2021
Michigan's nuclear future
In the article “Avoiding Meltdown: Michigan’s nuclear future” (July/Downtown), Stacy Gittleman says that we “conjure-up” the three...
Jun 23, 2021


Monica Notaro
Monica Notaro has a broad range of talents and abilities – she is a chemist, professional singer, single mom and owner of URTH, a local...
Jun 23, 2021