Dearborn

Innovation was the name of the game as this past weekend saw hundreds of mad inventors and tens of thousands of watchers descend on Dearborn for Metro Detroit's first ever Maker Faire. There was a life-sized version of Mousetrap, flame-spewing vehicles, singing fish and the world's largest Coke meets Mentos experiment. Metromode's Dave Lewinski was there to capture it in all its crazed glory!
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Destination: Do It Yourself

By: Amy Kuras, 7/28/2010

A hybrid wind mobile. Monster Chess. The Sashimi Tabernacle Choir. Maker Faire is at The Henry Ford this weekend and if you don't know what this cooler than cool event is we'll have to revoke your hipster smartypants license. Metromode previews a trio of local projects featured at this celebration of epic-scale DIY.
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Team Detroit

By: Michelle Martinez, 5/12/2010

Think of them as a five-headed hydra of creativity and marketing savvy. Dearborn's Team Detroit melded the best and brightest from WPP's top agencies into a single ad shop bent on world domination. Or, at the very least, attracting lots of happy clients. Michelle Martinez gets under their hood and checks out how this engine of ideas operates.
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Blog/Patricia E. Mooradian

The Henry Ford in Dearborn is a campus of invention and cultural evolution. From living laboratories to the Rosa Parks bus, its 26+ million artifacts are the nation's most distinctive collection of American culture and innovation. Patricia E. Mooradian, president of The Henry Ford, explains how an American history museum stays relevant and fosters the next generation of thinkers.

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Video/Dearborn's Arab-American Festival

How do you fit quarter of a million people onto 14 blocks of Warren Avenue? Ask the organizers of Dearborn's Arab American Festival, the nation's largest Middle Eastern gathering... and a shining reflection of the city's unique and growing diversity. (more >)