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Eater
16-07-2025
- Business
- Eater
Sister Pie Sets Summer Pop-Up Schedule as Lauded Bakery Plots Next Move
is the James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater's Midwest region, and in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He's a native Chicagoan and has been with Eater since 2014. Sister Pie popped up at the brewery the day before Sister Pie reopening for breakfast. The bakery will open again for breakfast on Tuesday, July 22, followed by lunchtime service on Friday, July 25. A staggered schedule will continue through early September with four Saturday appearances at Eastern Market mixed in. Ludwinski asserts this is no farewell tour. She says some of the online conjecture has amused and frustrated her. One person made a false assumption in asking her how retirement was treating her. The next two months should help shape her plans as she writes what she calls 'the final draft' of Sister Pie's future. Ludwinski is taking her time as the world faces uncertainty through federal tariffs and other variables that impact the cost of running a small business. Check out Sister Pie's summer schedule below. Tuesday, July 22: Breakfast at Sister Pie, 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Friday, July 25: Lunch at Sister Pie, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 26: Eastern Market Tuesday, August 5: Breakfast at Sister Pie, 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Friday, August 8: Lunch at Sister Pie, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, August 9: Eastern Market Tuesday, August 19: Breakfast at Sister Pie, 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Friday, August 22: Lunch at Sister Pie, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, August 23: Eastern Market Tuesday, September 2: Breakfast at Sister Pie, 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Friday, September 5: Lunch at Sister Pie, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, September 6: Eastern Market
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Eastern Market has always been a showcase for entrepreneurs - standing the test of time
The Brief Detroit's Eastern Market started in the 1800s and is as relevant to the metro area as ever. In addition to produce and food, it has provided a platform for entrepreneurs and vendors. Vendors are always welcome and the application process can be done online from mid-February to May 1st. DETROIT (FOX 2) - Best known for flower days, farmer's markets and Lions tailgates, Detroit's Eastern Market has a rich history dating back to the 1800s. If you've been there before, you likely think of the sheds - a hub for vendors to set up shop looking for fresh and local goods. The backstory "On a busy Saturday during the summer months, you will see several hundred businesses or vendors in the sheds," said Katy Trudeau. The market itself has always been a way to get fresh food to an area that is often underserved - and while much has changed in the past century, some things remain. "One of the things that all types of entrepreneurs are attracted to at Eastern Market, is that entrepreneurial spirit that started over 100 years ago," she said. That same spirit drew business owner Bethany Shorb to open Well Done Goods. "It started here just as a workshop," Shorb said. "We do all of our screen printing in-house too." Now, 20 years later, the workshop evolved to a brick and mortar location. "We just continued to grow as demand arose," she said. It's a similar story for the owner of Shops on Top, Deron Washington, he jumped at the chance to be a part of the rich history. "I used to come to Eastern Market as a kid and I'm like wow, now I've got a business here in Eastern Market," said Deron Washington. "What a blessing." Both Washington and Shorb have learned, it's easy to get customers when the sheds are open - the trick is giving people a reason to come back when they are closed. "I definitely lean into the customer service, but I do have some nice merchandise too," Washington said. "We (asked) what can we come up with in terms of our brand and we say, 'Y not Detroit'?" Whether it is building a brand, or being able to pivot to meet a need, success at Eastern Market is about carving your own path. "We constantly adapted. During Covid we made wild screen-printed ties and T-shirts and no one was wearing ties when they're in front of their Zoom computer, they are wearing sweatpants, so we started making masks." As for the bread and butter at Eastern Market, you can find it, and so much more, at one of the many sheds which are transformed during the weekends and summertime. "We brought back our Tuesday Summer Market and kicked off the Sunday Summer Markets on Sunday," Trudeau said. Market Days are a staple and something customers have come to rely on. "It's a really important commercial district to Detroit and the region's economy, but we also have to be attracting more residents in and around the area," she said. And more people means more opportunity. Vendors are always welcome, and the application process can be done online from mid-February to May 1st. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION. "Get on our website and check that out," she said. Trudeau added that it fills up quick. "We generally keep a waiting list of vendors to sell in the Saturday market," she said. Right now Eastern Market has plans to grow right alongside the neighborhood starting construction on Shed 7 this summer. The Source Information from interviews at Eastern Market contributed to this report.
Axios
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Things to do this weekend in Metro Detroit: June 6-8
⚾ The Tigers host the Chicago Cubs this weekend for a three-game homestand starting Friday at 7:10pm. Tickets are going fast, so you might want to check out the secondary market, where prices start at about $45. 🛍️ Shed 5 Flea, Eastern Market's monthly summer shopping series, starts Sunday and runs from 10am to 4pm. The market will encompass architectural salvage, handmade, home decor, fashion, vintage clothing and more. 🥯 Rotating DJs will be spinning chill house beats at The Congregation for Bagels & Beats on Sunday from 11am-2pm. Free! 🎸 Celebrate Prince's birthday at Soul on Ice on Livernois Avenue, where The Purple One's hits will be playing on Saturday from 7pm to midnight. Tickets start at $10. 🛹 Get extreme at the Geary Park Skate Jam in Ferndale on Saturday from 11am-3pm. The city's skate park will host competitions in four categories — skateboarding, inline skating, BMX and scootering. Vendors, music, games and food trucks will also be on hand. Stop by Geary Park for free, register for a contest for $10. 🎉 Bloc Party's tour to celebrate its debut album, "Silent Alarm," arrives at the Fox Theatre on Saturday at 7pm. Tickets start at $67. 🎻 Chandler Park Sounds of Summer, featuring members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, is Saturday at 2pm at the park's old tennis courts near the corner of Frankfort and Gray streets.
Yahoo
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rubin: A place, a price tag and an owner for RoboCop statue — but when will we see it?
Mike Wiza says he has the perfect location for that long-anticipated statue of RoboCop, which remains carefully wrapped and horizontal in an Eastern Market storeroom. Unfortunately, it's in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Wiza is the mayor of Stevens Point, which may have a more sensible claim to the character than Detroit does. Detroit's primary role in 1987's "RoboCop" was to be a toxic urban sludge pit, after all, and the movie was filmed in Dallas. His offer is meant more as a helping hand than a hostile takeover, though, and as senior grants manager Ryan Dinkgrave of Eastern Market put it in a chat with the Free Press, "That won't be happening." As for what will be happening, or has happened, we have news. We know where in the market RoboCop will be displayed when he finally clobbers his way out of storage. We know how much the project has cost, and it's a startling number — but fear not, citizen, because unless you personally wrote a check, none of the money was yours. And we know which giant corporation has come to own the 11-foot-tall, 3,500-pound bronze statue, 14 years after the most organic of grassroots campaigns brought the concept to life. What nobody knows for certain is when we'll see RoboCop on display. The latest fond hope is September, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of Murals in the Market, but that's much more a wish than a prediction. Increasingly long experience has taught Dinkgrave that "It's never as simple as getting a statue, digging a hole and standing him up." But another $50,000 might be all it takes to bring out the shovels. The star of "RoboCop" and "RoboCop 2" was Peter Weller, now 77. The start of Peter Weller came in Stevens Point, smack in the middle of Wisconsin, where he grew up on North Preserve Street. Wiza, 58, is a close friend and former high school classmate of a Weller cousin, and he governs in what's probably the only mayoral office anywhere with a signed "RoboCop" movie poster and a RoboCop arcade game. He first offered to adopt the statue in early 2021, when the Michigan Science Center rescinded its offer to berth the cyborg police officer. That was after earlier word had supposedly cemented the statue's future at Wayne State University's Tech Town. Amid pandemic grumpiness, Wiza said, the notion "really rallied our community. It was all anyone was talking about for weeks." Then the RoboGuy landed at Eastern Market, whose good intentions were blunted by annual unforeseen circumstances, the worst of them a bizarrely tragic shooting at a Detroit Lions tailgate last September in which an aggressor and a peacemaker were killed with the same bullet. "That put everything on pause," Dinkgrave said, and noting from afar the continued inaction, Wiza reached out to the Free Press to see whether the hulking artwork was once again in the wind. To the contrary, it now has a destination. Dinkgrave confirmed that RoboCop will alight in the northwest reaches of the 24-acre market, near a former fire station at Russell Street and Erskine, amid a welcoming patch of grass and loveliness. All that's standing between him and, well, standing, is $50,000, a final chunk of construction fundraising that will boost overall donations to $260,000. The grand total includes corporate pledges of six figures last year and $50,000 so recently it hasn't arrived yet, and most of it has been devoted to installation, Dinkgrave said. There have also been costs for engineering, design, permits and legalities; complications ensue, it turns out, with a massive reproduction of a copyrighted character. That all follows a 2011 Kickstarter campaign that followed a simple tweet. Someone in Massachusetts reached out to Dave Bing, Detroit's mayor at the time, to suggest a tribute to RoboCop, on the theory that Philadelphia has a statue of Rocky Balboa and "RoboCop would kick Rocky's butt." Bing dismissed the idea, but experimental filmmaker Brandon Walley and his friends at the arts nonprofit Imagination Station were amused enough to post a pitch online. In short order, they had raised $67,436, which turned out to be slightly less than $60,000 after commissions and unfulfilled pledges. Detroit sculptor Giorgio Gikas of Venus Bronze Works agreed to accept $65,000 to turn movie fans' whims into a monument. More: Rubin: 11-foot-tall Robocop statue is somewhere in Eastern Market awaiting new secret home Within the last few years, Walley said, Imagination Station gave the statue to Eastern Market. The title now rests with MGM Studios, Dinkgrave said, which is part of the licensing agreement. "They have to own it," he explained, "so that if it fell into disrepair, they could reclaim it, not that they have any intention of doing that." After assorted mergers, purchases and corporate devouring, MGM is no longer a stand-alone company. Bottom line, the ultimate populist project is now owned by Amazon — but the original spirit should shine. For Walley, as an artist, RoboCop will spark conversations about topics like class, design and race. Wayne State professor David Goldberg, speaking to the Free Press in July, dismisssed the movie as a cult classic "only for certain groups of people," and not the ones who have to defend Detroit as "actually having human beings in it." To Mayor Wiza, it's both more and less than that — a tribute to his city's most prominent past resident, a reminder of a good and enduring movie, and an 11-foot-tall portrait of joy. "If they still have the molds," he said, "I'd settle for a resin replica," to stand watch in front of city hall or in the roundabout at the north end of town. He'd still love the original for Stevens Point, he said, but he'll be part of the throng of tourists posing in front of it once it's unveiled here, and there's darned sure space for that photo on his wall. Reach Neal Rubin at NARubin@ The Free Press welcomes letters to the editor via February 2011 It started with a tweet from an account named @MT to then-Mayor Dave Bing: 'Philadelphia has a statue of Rocky & RoboCop would kick Rocky's butt. He's a GREAT ambassador for Detroit." Bing was not amused. Fundraising started with a Kickstarter campaign aiming to raise $50,000 to: 'Build a life size-monument of RoboCop in Detroit! Part man, part machine, all crowd funded.' Organizers raised more than $67,000 from 2,718 donors. Peter Weller stars in a "Funny or Die" video rebutting Bing's disinterest in a Robocop statue: "I don't find it silly at all." March 2011: Weller releases another video under the theme "RoboCharity" to raise money for Forgotten Harvest. August 2011: Organizers say they hope to host the statue at TechTown and to reveal it in spring 2012 January 2013: Organizers target spring 2014 to unveil statue. February 2014: Giorgio Gikas, owner of Venus Bronze Works in Detroit, is chosen to lead building of statue. May 2018: Organizers announce that Michigan Science Center will host statue. January 2020: Casting of the statue's parts is complete with the goal of unveiling it in spring or summer of 2020. February 2021: The science center can no longer take the statue amid pandemic-era financial challenges. Organizers look for a new home for the statue. November 2022: A new home for the Robocop statue emerges: Eastern Market. November 2023: Robocop star Peter Weller is indifferent about the statue, telling the Free Press' Julie Hinds that he "cannot endorse or dis-endorse the Robocop statue." July 2024: Robocop sits in an undisclosed location close to Eastern Market as organizers continue to raise money for the statue's public installation. June 2025: Organizers secure a spot in Eastern Market and continue to raise money for it. Compiled by Free Press intern Allana Smith from Free Press archives This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Wisconsin city wants Detroit's Robocop statue and location is set
Yahoo
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rubin: A place, a price tag and an owner for RoboCop statue − but when will we see it?
Mike Wiza says he has the perfect location for that long-anticipated statue of RoboCop, which remains carefully wrapped and horizontal in an Eastern Market storeroom. Unfortunately, it's in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Wiza is the mayor of Stevens Point, which may have a more sensible claim to the character than Detroit does. Detroit's primary role in 1987's "RoboCop" was to be a toxic urban sludge pit, after all, and the movie was filmed in Dallas. His offer is meant more as a helping hand than a hostile takeover, though, and as senior grants manager Ryan Dinkgrave of Eastern Market put it in a chat with the Free Press, "That won't be happening." As for what will be happening, or has happened, we have news. We know where in the market RoboCop will be displayed when he finally clobbers his way out of storage. We know how much the project has cost, and it's a startling number — but fear not, citizen, because unless you personally wrote a check, none of the money was yours. And we know which giant corporation has come to own the 11-foot-tall, 3,500-pound bronze statue, 14 years after the most organic of grassroots campaigns brought the concept to life. What nobody knows for certain is when we'll see RoboCop on display. The latest fond hope is September, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of Murals in the Market, but that's much more a wish than a prediction. Increasingly long experience has taught Dinkgrave that "It's never as simple as getting a statue, digging a hole and standing him up." But another $50,000 might be all it takes to bring out the shovels. The star of "RoboCop" and "RoboCop 2" was Peter Weller, now 77. The start of Peter Weller came in Stevens Point, smack in the middle of Wisconsin, where he grew up on North Preserve Street. Wiza, 58, is a close friend and former high school classmate of a Weller cousin, and he governs in what's probably the only mayoral office anywhere with a signed "RoboCop" movie poster and a RoboCop arcade game. He first offered to adopt the statue in early 2021, when the Michigan Science Center rescinded its offer to berth the cyborg police officer. That was after earlier word had supposedly cemented the statue's future at Wayne State University's Tech Town. Amid pandemic grumpiness, Wiza said, the notion "really rallied our community. It was all anyone was talking about for weeks." Then the RoboGuy landed at Eastern Market, whose good intentions were blunted by annual unforeseen circumstances, the worst of them a bizarrely tragic shooting at a Detroit Lions tailgate last September in which an aggressor and a peacemaker were killed with the same bullet. "That put everything on pause," Dinkgrave said, and noting from afar the continued inaction, Wiza reached out to the Free Press to see whether the hulking artwork was once again in the wind. To the contrary, it now has a destination. Dinkgrave confirmed that RoboCop will alight in the northwest reaches of the 24-acre market, near a former fire station at Russell Street and Erskine, amid a welcoming patch of grass and loveliness. All that's standing between him and, well, standing, is $50,000, a final chunk of construction fundraising that will boost overall donations to $260,000. The grand total includes corporate pledges of six figures last year and $50,000 so recently it hasn't arrived yet, and most of it has been devoted to installation, Dinkgrave said. There have also been costs for engineering, design, permits and legalities; complications ensue, it turns out, with a massive reproduction of a copyrighted character. That all follows a 2011 Kickstarter campaign that followed a simple tweet. Someone in Massachusetts reached out to Dave Bing, Detroit's mayor at the time, to suggest a tribute to RoboCop, on the theory that Philadelphia has a statue of Rocky Balboa and "RoboCop would kick Rocky's butt." Bing dismissed the idea, but experimental filmmaker Brandon Walley and his friends at the arts nonprofit Imagination Station were amused enough to post a pitch online. In short order, they had raised $67,436, which turned out to be slightly less than $60,000 after commissions and unfulfilled pledges. Detroit sculptor Giorgio Gikas of Venus Bronze Works agreed to accept $65,000 to turn movie fans' whims into a monument. More: Rubin: 11-foot-tall Robocop statue is somewhere in Eastern Market awaiting new secret home Within the last few years, Walley said, Imagination Station gave the statue to Eastern Market. The title now rests with MGM Studios, Dinkgrave said, which is part of the licensing agreement. "They have to own it," he explained, "so that if it fell into disrepair, they could reclaim it, not that they have any intention of doing that." After assorted mergers, purchases and corporate devouring, MGM is no longer a stand-alone company. Bottom line, the ultimate populist project is now owned by Amazon — but the original spirit should shine. For Walley, as an artist, RoboCop will spark conversations about topics like class, design and race. Wayne State professor David Goldberg, speaking to the Free Press in July, dismisssed the movie as a cult classic "only for certain groups of people," and not the ones who have to defend Detroit as "actually having human beings in it." To Mayor Wiza, it's both more and less than that — a tribute to his city's most prominent past resident, a reminder of a good and enduring movie, and an 11-foot-tall portrait of joy. "If they still have the molds," he said, "I'd settle for a resin replica," to stand watch in front of city hall or in the roundabout at the north end of town. He'd still love the original for Stevens Point, he said, but he'll be part of the throng of tourists posing in front of it once it's unveiled here, and there's darned sure space for that photo on his wall. Reach Neal Rubin at NARubin@ The Free Press welcomes letters to the editor via February 2011 It started with a tweet from an account named @MT to then-Mayor Dave Bing: 'Philadelphia has a statue of Rocky & RoboCop would kick Rocky's butt. He's a GREAT ambassador for Detroit." Bing was not amused. Fundraising started with a Kickstarter campaign aiming to raise $50,000 to: 'Build a life size-monument of RoboCop in Detroit! Part man, part machine, all crowd funded.' Organizers raised more than $67,000 from 2,718 donors. Peter Weller stars in a "Funny or Die" video rebutting Bing's disinterest in a Robocop statue: "I don't find it silly at all." March 2011: Weller releases another video under the theme "RoboCharity" to raise money for Forgotten Harvest. August 2011: Organizers say they hope to host the statue at TechTown and to reveal it in spring 2012 January 2013: Organizers target spring 2014 to unveil statue. February 2014: Giorgio Gikas, owner of Venus Bronze Works in Detroit, is chosen to lead building of statue. May 2018: Organizers announce that Michigan Science Center will host statue. January 2020: Casting of the statue's parts is complete with the goal of unveiling it in spring or summer of 2020. February 2021: The science center can no longer take the statue amid pandemic-era financial challenges. Organizers look for a new home for the statue. November 2022: A new home for the Robocop statue emerges: Eastern Market. November 2023: Robocop star Peter Weller is indifferent about the statue, telling the Free Press' Julie Hinds that he "cannot endorse or dis-endorse the Robocop statue." July 2024: Robocop sits in an undisclosed location close to Eastern Market as organizers continue to raise money for the statue's public installation. June 2025: Organizers secure a spot in Eastern Market and continue to raise money for it. Compiled by Free Press intern Allana Smith from Free Press archives This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Wisconsin city wants Detroit's Robocop statue and location is set
