VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - The Yankee Air Museum is kicking off a $6 million campaign to make its home at a former facility that built B-24 bombers during World War II.
Museum officials announced this week an effort to purchase and renovate part of the former Willow Run powertrain plant. The museum is housed at Willow Run Airport, near Ypsilanti in Wayne County's Van Buren Township.
Its original headquarters was destroyed by fire in 2004.
Dennis Norton, the founder and president of the Yankee Air Museum, has presented plans to Ypsilanti Township officials. The museum says it has until Aug. 1 to secure funding, and would buy the site from the Revitalizing Auto Communities Environmental Response Trust.
Ford Motor Co. built the plant for B-24 production. It later was taken over by General Motors.
If a gift is "inherently free," isn't it just free? On this edition of "That's What They Say," host Rina Miller and Professor Anne Curzan discuss those often annoying redundancies in the English language.
Other redundancies include the clunky "hot-water heater" in your basement, or perhaps that "plan going forward" that you've been anticipating. It's obvious that this trait in the English language just isn't logical, and Anne Curzan agrees.
"They aren't logical, and I'm not going to sit here and make an argument that they are logical," explains Curzan. "But what I am going to say is that languages aren't always logical, that I think we sometimes think they should be completely logical. But human languages are sometimes logical, and sometimes not."
So we know that our language is rife with illogical redundancies in both grammar and speech, but can these redundancies actually be helpful?
The art and artistry of dozens of Flint school children are on display this weekend in Washington D.C.
The Flint Institute of Arts and other Flint area arts groups are taking part in the trip as part of a U.S. Department of Education effort.
John Henry is the FIA’s director. He says the experience will help the students grow as artists.
“Most students are not exhibiting or performing until later in their career,” says Henry, “This is an opportunity for these kids to see how an audience reacts to their work.”
The Great Recession presented a challenge to virtually every business and organization in Michigan.
During that time, it was either change the way you've always done things, or risk being swallowed up by the crumbling economy.
The Detroit Three automakers rose to the challenge and today, they're alive and thriving. And so did one of the state's cultural jewels: The Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
We recently spoke with DSO executive Vice President Paul Hogle and with Maestro Slatkin and it's clear that the mood is upbeat and optimistic at Orchestra Hall.
It was only two years when the Orchestra was amidst a very bitter musicians' strike ended. Since then good vibrations have been felt amongst the rank & file.
The DSO has been using various kinds of community outreach and increasing it's web presence.
It has been getting the brand out there all around the area and the world without spending a lot of money. It is setting an example that many other arts organizations and non-profits from around the state can learn from.
Daniel Howes made the DSO the centerpiece of his column today in the Detroit News. We spoke with him to hear about the successes of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
'Colors-Detroit' is strengthening the city from the grassroots by providing job opportunities for the community’s unemployed residents.
Colors is not just any restaurant. It’s a restaurant with a strong mission to create fair and just working conditions for restaurant workers.
Colors is a project of the Restaurant Opportunities Center of Michigan, which is part of a nationwide movement to create fair and just working conditions for restaurant workers.
ROC-Michigan's research indicates that workers of color tend to be concentrated in the lowest-paying jobs in the restaurant industry and they are the ones most likely to have their rights violated.
Chef Phil Jones is head chef and general manager of Colors, which is located in the Paradise Valley area of downtown Detroit. You might know it as Harmonie Park right near the Detroit Opera House.
As the old saying goes, "everything old is new again."
Case in point, the cassette tape.
Those of us who were music consumers in the 70's and 80's remember those cassettes rattling around in your glove compartment.
They were so much smaller than those clunky eight-track tapes and no skipping or gunk on the needles like your vinyl records.
Many people went through the cassette era making their own mixes, working from a dual-tape unit and sharing them with friends, family and significant others.
Then came the CD, into prominence in the mid to late 80s. It was great to be able to jump right to the spot you wanted -no more fast forward and rewind.
Soon after the CD, the mp3 became popular and that is when the cassette tape became, for all intents and purposes, extinct.
But recently, the cassette tape is being revived and a Michigan-based recording label called 'Already Dead Tapes' is right out in front of this revival.
The label is run from Kalamazoo by Sean Hartman along with his Chicago-based partner Joshua Tabbia.
Sean and Joshua have said they don't think of Already Dead Tapes as a business because it's a "passion project."
Here is a video of Already Dead Tapes via the Chicago AV Club:
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