About Detroit Weekly

Corbin Gulgowski covers Detroit's working-class neighborhoods through the lens of small business survival, tracking how corner stores and auto shops adapt to shifting industrial tides. He gravitates toward the unglamorous moments—a landlord's rent ledger, a line at a food pantry—that reveal the city's real economic weather.

Dejon Bins hunts for the city's pulse in its late-night diners and early-morning bus routes, where he translates the unsung logistics of everyday survival into urgent prose. His reporting sidesteps the obvious landmarks to trace how Detroiters move, eat, and connect—finding the heartbeat of the city in its most transient moments.

Dorcas Walsh listens for Detroit's multilingual rhythms, from the Cantonese menus of Grand River kitchens to the Arabic greetings of Warren Avenue fishmongers. Her stories trace how immigrant families pass down skills and stubborn hope across generations, weaving a new layer into the city's cultural fabric.

Marco Dickens traces the city's forgotten infrastructure—abandoned rail lines, buried creeks, and obsolete street grids—to expose how Detroit's physical bones still dictate its social fabric. His reporting pairs archival maps with contemporary interviews, revealing the invisible systems that shape where opportunity thrives and where it stalls.

Ubaldo Langosh tracks Detroit's contested green spaces—community gardens, vacant-lot orchards, and the political tugs-of-war over who stewards the city's soil. He follows the hands that plant and harvest, framing urban agriculture as both survival and quiet defiance against decades of disinvestment.

Veda Franecki finds her stories in the quiet negotiations of Detroit's back alleys and front porches, where she documents the city's unofficial economies and the quiet dignity of its long-term residents. Her writing treats the mundane—a repaired gutter, a rescheduled bus, a hand-painted sign—as the truest evidence of the city's unglamorous persistence.