Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Martha Jean the Queen—Patron Saint of Blue Collar Detroit

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Martha Jean the Queen painted by DeVon Cunningham (1976)   A couple of radio executives from WCHB-AM in Detroit were driving through Memph...
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Thursday, January 19, 2023

Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts

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The Rivera Courtyard In 1932, noted Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera was commissioned by the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) to pai...
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Friday, January 13, 2023

Connie Kalitta "The Bounty Hunter" vs. Shirley "Cha-Cha" Muldowney

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Baby Boomers who grew up in the Detroit area and listened to Windsor radio station CKLW were familiar with advertisements for the Det...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Delray Lives on in Florida

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Detroit's Village of Delray is all but a memory today, but its namesake Delray Beach is going strong on the east coast of Florida. My wi...
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Saturday, November 26, 2022

One-Million and a Quarter Fornology Pageviews and Counting

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Sue and I at Detroit Bookfest 2022. Come join us next July. After a decade of writing my Fornology blog, I'm going to release my last an...
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Friday, November 11, 2022

Eddie Wingate: Black Detroit's Big Daddy

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Eddie Wingate One of the economic Titans in Detroit's African American community of the 1950s through the late 1970s was Eddie Wingate. ...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Ann Arbor High Graduate Becomes Mr. Las Vegas

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Moe Dalitz in Las Vegas publicity shot. Morris "Moe" Dalitz was born in Boston but his family moved to Detroit where he gre...
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