• Burger and fries
  • Ribs, Blues and Hockey
  • Winter Blast
  • I love weekends, because they are perfect for sleeping in, kicking back, turning on some blues and hanging out. Artists like John Lee Hooker or Mose Allison always sound great while cooking up breakfast or lunch. Next weekend though, you don’t have to do the cooking—let The Emory in...

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  • Ferndale Blues Fest Brings in Hockey Stars To Judge Rib Burn Out When the 5th Annual Rib Burn Out hits the coals on Saturday in Ferndale with eight teams competing, look for some “old time hockey” as NHL greats Eddie Mio and Darren McCarty sit down to judge the...

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  • One of the more exciting festivities for urbanites (21+) traveling downtown to Winter Blast this year is the “Sno-torious” Bar Blast featuring Detroit’s most popular drinking establishments. Bar Blasters can pre-purchase wristbands at neptix.com or at any of the participating bars for the February 11 night of consumption. A...

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  • Here is another “Cool Stuff” Idea from our cool Urbane Life friend, also a noted speaker and author Michael Angelo Caruso. Michael will be providing interesting Cool Stuff Ideas here every Saturday going forward. We hope you find them helpful. If you see Michael around town, tell him you saw him here first, we will give...

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Emory in Ferndale hosts Blues Brunch

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January 31, 2012
Burger and fries

I love weekends, because they are perfect for sleeping in, kicking back, turning on some blues and hanging out. Artists like John Lee Hooker or Mose Allison always sound great while cooking up breakfast or lunch. Next weekend though, you don’t have to do the cooking—let The Emory in Ferndale do it for you....
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Ribs, Blues and Hockey

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January 30, 2012
Ribs, Blues and Hockey

Ferndale Blues Fest Brings in Hockey Stars To Judge Rib Burn Out When the 5th Annual Rib Burn Out hits the coals on Saturday in Ferndale with eight teams competing, look for some “old time hockey” as NHL greats Eddie Mio and Darren McCarty sit down to judge the competition. Both former Red Wings...
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Bar Blast at Winter Blast

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January 30, 2012
Winter Blast

One of the more exciting festivities for urbanites (21+) traveling downtown to Winter Blast this year is the “Sno-torious” Bar Blast featuring Detroit’s most popular drinking establishments. Bar Blasters can pre-purchase wristbands at neptix.com or at any of the participating bars for the February 11 night of consumption. A continuous shuttle is provided between...
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5 Cool Ideas to Get Teams Started

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January 29, 2012

Here is another “Cool Stuff” Idea from our cool Urbane Life friend, also a noted speaker and author Michael Angelo Caruso. Michael will be providing interesting Cool Stuff Ideas here every Saturday going forward. We hope you find them helpful. If you see Michael around town, tell him you saw him here first, we will give you secret gift, really we...
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Ferndale Blues and Music Festival Preview: Murrow’s Boys

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January 29, 2012
Ferndale Blues and Music Festival Preview: Murrow’s Boys

Like any other Americana group worth its salt, Murrow’s Boys draws from centuries of American tradition and pop-culture quirks, filtering topical lyrics and stories through an acoustic-based roots sound. What comes out is a music that is familiar yet modern. It’s part country, part folk, part blues, and part rock. You know: Americana. Murrow’s...
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Ferndale Blues and Music Festival Preview: Murrow’s Boys

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January 29, 2012

Like any other Americana group worth its salt, Murrow’s Boys draws from centuries of American tradition and pop-culture quirks,...
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Funny Japanese McDonald’s Commercials

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January 29, 2012

You can get a Royal With Cheese in Paris, and now you can get a Tomato McGrand in Tokyo....
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Ferndale Blues and Music Festival Preview: My Pal Val

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January 28, 2012

“The stranger the better / the more you can see” is a lyric by Detroit rock trio My Pal...
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TONIGHT Detroit MONA Re-Opens!

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January 28, 2012

Tonight the Detroit Museum of New Art (MONA) re-opens after shutting its doors for almost one year. The opening...
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Orchid is New Ferndale Hotspot

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January 27, 2012

When walking by Club Orchid it’s hard not to stare. It looks like a swanky Manhattan club but then...
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Big Breasts, Big Difference

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January 26, 2012

A new study shows that women with breast implants have significantly different sexual tendencies than women without breast implants....
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White People Are Slutty and Black People Are Withholding

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January 25, 2012

Contrary to centuries of stereotypes,  black people are more sexually conservative than white people. At least that’s what was...
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A Driver Service That Takes the Keys … and Your Car

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January 25, 2012

So maybe you drive a Volkswagen Routan instead of a Rolls Royce, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have...
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