TheDetroiter.com
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TheDetroiter.com is a website
Website
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 providing articles, blogs, interviews, a calendar of events and editorials for the Detroit, Michigan
Detroit, Michigan
Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...

 arts and cultural community. Its motto is "Unearthing a great American city, one story at a time."

Brothers John Sousanis
John Sousanis
John Sousanis is publisher and co-founder of TheDetroiter.com.John served as an entertainment writer, theater critic, and weekly columnist for the Oakland Press from 1996 through 2003...

 and Nick Sousanis
Nick Sousanis
Walter Nickell Sousanis is the former editor-in-chief and co-founder of thedetroiter.com.In addition to managing the daily operations of thedetroiter.com since its founding October 2002, Sousanis authored art reviews and editorials, and was responsible for editing all content and updating the site...

 launched TheDetroiter.com in October 2002.
At the time, Oakland Press theater critic John Sousanis focused on coverage of the performing arts, while Nick concentrated on the fine arts. Conceived as a small series of web pages, John and Nick were responding to what they recognized as a lack of media coverage of a vibrant arts and theater scene in Detroit. In its first four years of operation, TheDetroiter.com has grown from coverage of performing and fine arts to reviews of restaurants, editorials on urban development and documentation of lifestyles in Detroit.
TheDetroiter also offers short histories on some of Detroit's art galleries.
TheDetroiter helped find art galleries and designed the gallery guide for Art Detroit Now, a Detroit area gallery crawl.

It provides current, in-debth cultural critiques about various Detroit art venues, which include the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Contemporary Art Institute, Re:View Gallery, and the Detroit Artists Market. The following Detroit based writers have contributed to the online publication:
  • Tom Carbone
  • Gregory Tom
  • Vince Carducci
    Vince Carducci
    Vince Carducci is a cultural critic and social researcher. His essays, feature articles and reviews on the arts and culture have appeared in numerous publications since the mid 1980s, including Art and Australia, Art in America, BrandChannel.com, the Journal of Consumer Culture, Logos and Sculpture...

  • Tommy Onyx
    Tommy Onyx
    Tommy Onyx is a technology/multimedia artist from Detroit Michigan.He moved to Detroit from Boston in 1988 and soon came to local prominence as keyboard player with the Alt Rock band The Charm Farm....

  • Heather McMacken
  • William Eric Graham
  • Rima Nickell
  • Dennis Alan Nawrocki
  • Christine Hill
  • Lynn Crawford
  • Jacque Liu
  • Miroslav Cukovic
  • Eric C. Novack
  • Cedric Tai
  • Clara DeGalan
  • Colin Darke
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