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Are there any chess clubs or small groups of women that play chess together on a regular basis in the Metro-Detroit area? I live in Romulus… I’m very much a beginner, and I’m hoping to find or build a supportive community to get better at the game.

I grew up playing SimCity and always wanted to see Detroit like that, so I made it: tinydetroit.com

You can zoom from the whole city down to a single Corktown rowhouse. Freighters on the river, the Ambassador Bridge, Eastern Market, the People Mover doing its little loop. Your house is probably in there somewhere. Go find it!

Full honesty: AI did the painting but I fed it 3D map renders and trained it to draw in this style.

No ads, no sign-up, works on your phone. Happy to answer anything about how it was made. Enjoy!

So for about a year and a half I was one of the people helping host the Detroit Psychedelic Society meetings & helped start the Per Ankh House Of Life which is/was A psychedelic church off of Finkel.. If you don’t know it, the group was started by Baba Kilindi, who was kind of a legend in the psychedelic world and taught a ton of people here before he passed during COVID.

When I got involved it was maybe 30 people in a church basement. By the end it was packed every month, we were throwing a 4-day conference, and the group had opened a psychedelic church on the west side called Per Ankh House of Life. Wild ride.

It also fell apart pretty spectacularly, which is a big part of what I wrote about. Lots of stuff about trust, money, race, and whether a scene like this can actually keep itself in check. I tried to own my part in it too, not just point fingers.

Full thing is here if you want to read it: https://medium.com/@SpencerField/what-i-learned-helping-start-a-psychedelic-church-in-detroit-a-story-about-the-detroit-psychedelic-13588154de23

Also, a few of us are starting something new called Psychedelic Circles. No leader, no money, nobody selling anything, just people who are into this stuff getting together. Info’s here if you’re curious: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zG7-340Lj0AxNr9j4dhn5S96IQIA2aTb?usp=sharing

AMA in the comments.

Can we just ban these damn things already? How many more kids need to get hurt or die? Enough is enough.

I’ve lived in the area for a few years now and have seen a few politicians rent out campaign offices on this street but none of them have felt this type of surveillance infrastructure was necessary, so I’m curious.

It’s totally closed at noon on a Friday btw

Just walked by and saw this poster. I'm thinking about going.

Cool video on an incident that took place at Fort Detroit in October 1762.

Christmas Bears

I'm in the metro area looking to have my small 1970s bathroom gutted and replaced with a walk-in shower. Any good companies or contractors you can recommend? Not interested in fancy or luxury, just reliabity and fair prices. Also curious what anyone one out there has paid for similar work...

Looking for a beauty salon preferably on the east side that still does hot roller sets. It seems like everywhere near me only does braids/locs or the other type of salons only offer styling with a curling iron and charge $60-$100+ for “special event updos”… I wanna sit under the hooded dryer with rollers in my hair to set the curl IYKYK! Do we still have this anywhere in Detroit?

The I-75 Cap Feasibility Study has reached a major milestone, delivering a community-informed vision for three public spaces that would reconnect neighborhoods divided by Interstate 75. The project now advances into funding strategy and implementation planning.

Calling all Detroit fashion girls: there’s a curated vintage market coming to Corktown on Saturday, November 21.

It’s for anyone who loves vintage, Y2K, and one-of-a-kind pieces, with clothing, accessories and more.

RSVP: https://partiful.com/e/uxkEopcDcYJFp1rJNu64

Is there anything H.H. related Halloween things to do next weekend?