TheDetroiter.com

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{{Infobox website

| name = TheDetroiter.com

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| url = http://www.thedetroiter.com

| commercial = Yes

| type = news

| language = English

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| owner = Y-Arts DetroitIn 2008, the Sousanis brothers passed the reins of the site over to YArts, the Arts and Humanities branch of the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit. thedetroiter.com continues to grow and evolve, working hard to fulfill its mission as a service to this creative community. {{cite web |url=http://site.y-artsdetroit.org/programs/thedetroitercom/ |title=Y-artsdetroit.org | thedetroiter.com |accessdate=2011-08-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101227161345/http://site.y-artsdetroit.org/programs/thedetroitercom/ |archivedate=2010-12-27 }} Previous owner = John Sousanis and Nick Sousanis

| author = John Sousanis and Nick Sousanis

| launch_date = October 2002

| current_status = active

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TheDetroiter.com is a website providing articles, blogs, interviews, a calendar of events and editorials for the Detroit, Michigan arts and cultural community. Its motto is "Unearthing a great American city, one story at a time."See article about thedetroiter at Model Media, http://www.modeldmedia.com/inthenews/detroiter10607.aspxAlso see the New York Daily News brief mention of thedetroiter.com as the Motor City's fine art webzine in its coverage of author Marc Dones, Mhttp://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2006/01/30/2006-01-30__i_should_get_to_say_two_wor.html

Brothers John Sousanis and Nick Sousanis launched TheDetroiter.com in October 2002.{{cite web

| title = Call for Artists: Game Show Detroit

| url = http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2006/02/13/33688.html

| accessdate = 2009-02-04}}

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.{{cite web

| last = Shea

| first = Bill

| title = Nick Sousanis, 33.(Thedetroiter.com)(Biography)

| publisher = Crain's Detroit Business

| date = 25 September 2006

| url = http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-18717123_ITM

| accessdate = 2009-02-04}}

TheDetroiter also offers short histories on some of Detroit's art galleries.{{cite web

| title = TheDetroiter.com tells what came before the galleries

| date = August 14, 2007

| url = http://www.modeldmedia.com/inthenews/detroiter10607.aspx

| accessdate = 2009-02-04}}

TheDetroiter helped find art galleries and designed the gallery guide for Art Detroit Now, a Detroit area gallery crawl.See the article in Crain's Detroit about thedetroiter.com's help with the gallery crawl, http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20080505/SUB/805050302/-1#{{cite web

| last = Voss

| first = Elizabeth

| title = Gallery crawl to spotlight arts community

| date = May 5, 2008

| url = http://www.crainsdetroit.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080505/SUB/805050302/-1

| accessdate = 2009-02-04}}

It provides current, in-debth cultural critiques about various Detroit art venues, which include the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit,{{cite web |url=http://www.mocadetroit.org/press.html |title=Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit |website=www.mocadetroit.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070113070554/http://www.mocadetroit.org/press.html |archive-date=2007-01-13}} the Detroit Institute of Arts,{{cite web |url=http://www.thedetroiter.com/v3/2011/07/the-hinterlands-present-the-premiere-of-their-original-performance-manifest-destiny-there-was-blood-on-the-saddle/ |title = Local artists spotted in the Detroit Institute of Arts}} the Contemporary Art Institute,{{cite web |url=http://www.thedetroiter.com/v3/2009/11/2009-actual-size-biennial/ |title = 2009 Actual Size Biennial}} Re:View Gallery,{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsimonedesousagallery%2F|title=Log into Facebook|website=Facebook}} and the Detroit Artists Market.{{cite web |url=http://www.thedetroiter.com/v3/2011/07/review-dam-unmentionables/ |title = Review: DAM Unmentionables}} The following Detroit based writers have contributed to the online publication:

  • Tom Carbone
  • Gregory Tom
  • Vince Carducci
  • Tommy Onyx
  • Heather McMacken
  • William Eric Graham
  • Rima Nickell
  • Dennis Alan Nawrocki
  • Christine Hill
  • Lynn Crawford
  • Jacque Liu
  • Miroslav Cukovic
  • Eric C. Novack
  • Cedric Tai Cedric Tai an artist and educator, was born in Detroit in 1985. He grew up in Northville, Michigan and received his BFA in studio art and teaching certification from Michigan State University. He has a studio practice in the Russell Industrial Center and works as an educator at both the College for Creative Studies, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and the Detroit Institute of Arts. He works actively to promote the Detroit arts community through curated shows, and through thedetroiter.com. Cedric was recently named Kresge Artist Fellow in the Visual Arts. One of 18 inaugural fellows selected to receive 25K. In the near future he will be attending the Glasgow School of Art for his MFA. http://www.thedetroiter.com/v3/2011/08/a-tour-two-pours-and-a-sunrise/
  • Clara DeGalan {{cite web |url=http://www.thedetroiter.com/v3/2011/05/%e2%80%9cunhooked-from-time%e2%80%9d-at-gallery-project/ |title = "Unhooked from Time" at Gallery Project}}
  • Colin Darke http://www.thedetroiter.com/v3/2011/01/ruin-porn-or-artists%e2%80%99-beacon%e2%80%94what-is-the-2010-take-away-for-detroit%e2%80%99s-art-scene-by-colin-darke/comment-page-1/#comment-15990 www.colindarke.com

References

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5. Voss, Elizabeth (June 20, 2008). ["YMCA buys thedetroiter.com."] DetroitMakeItHere.com. [http://www.detroitmakeithere.com/article/20080620/DM01/429853907 YMCA buys thedetroiter.com] Retrieved 2010-04-17.