Digging Detroit meets Paul Wasserman, owner of Henry the Hatter on Broadway in Detroit, whose father Seymour purchased the haberdashery from the original Henry in the early 1950s and suddenly moved his family from New York. Hats and history go hand-in-hand as Wasserman shares the ups and downs of hat popularity as well as the trending […]
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New Student-Documentary: Paris Burton on Restoring Theaters, Revitalizing Neighborhoods in Detroit
Updated June 14, 2015: Digging Detroit is excited to support the next generation of storytellers. Below is a student documentary and journey with producer Paris Burton, a new graduate from University Liggett. We also take an exciting look at the school’s unique senior year Academic Research Program. (See press release on Paris and her collaboration with Digging Detroit.) […]
Episode 8: Cinema Detroit – 100 Year-Old School Thrives as Indie Film House
As the Cinetopia Film Festival opens in Detroit on June 5th, a film festival of all great film festivals, one of its venues is a 100 year-old school on Cass Avenue–Cinema Detroit, owned and operated by husband and wife Tim and Paula Guthat, who followed their dream to create a venue in Detroit for independent films that were […]
Fostering Detroit’s Next Generation of Storytellers…
As a video productions teacher, I realized that the most important grade a student can receive on a project wasn’t from me but from a client. One of my favorite assignments was to have the students find someone in the community that needed an ad or a story to be told, do the research, conduct […]
New Episode of Digging Detroit! Inside Detroit’s Music Vault at the DPL
In Episode 3, Digging Detroit’s Thomas J. Reed, Jr. joins curator Romie Minor as they explore the fabulous treasures inside the Detroit Public Library’s E. Azalia Hackley Collection (link). The collection and its corresponding concert started in 1943 by Detroit musicians and artists to honor the legacy of Ms. Hackley, a former Detroit Public School teacher who went on to […]
New Podcast: Dodge, Detroit & Women in Industry
Digging Detroit’s Tom Reed and Pete Kalinski discuss the early days of Detroit’s automotive history with experts Bailey Sisoy Isgro and Madelyn Rzadkowolski. Topics include: Advertising’s current portrayal of the Dodge Brothers Dodge’s famous dependability—and fix-it-yourself car kits General Patton and the Dodge military contract Women and Detroit’s cigar industry as a vehicle for entry into the […]
Video: The Backstory of Digging Detroit
The guys behind Digging Detroit share how the idea got started, their backgrounds and their visions for the show. Featuring: Thomas J. Reed, Jr., Pete Kalinski and Kevin Walsh Template not foundTemplate not found
Digging Detroit: Three-Weeks-Old and Counting…
We’ve had a great first three weeks of existence at Digging Detroit and want to once again thank Tom Burelle, owner of Tommy’s Detroit Bar & Grill, for letting us launch our show in his basement/speakeasy. (See it again below!) We’ve had over 1,300 YouTube views, 425+ Facebook likes and 1,200 visitors to this site. […]
Digging Detroit: Episode 1 – Inside a Speakeasy – Tommy’s Detroit Bar & Grill
Read about the making of Episode 1 on Huffington Post In our first episode from October 2014, “Tommy’s,” Digging Detroit takes a look at a 170-year-old building that has served spaghetti, soldiers and gangsters. Take a look inside a speakeasy with its generous host, Tom Burelle. On March 30, 2015, Channel 4’s News also ran […]