By Ian Perrotta Next week is the Hamtramck Labor Day Festival, and if you think you’re in for the same old festivities as in years past, you’re only partially right. You’re only partially right because, yes, while there will be food, music, rides and games, this year’s festival features so much more. The biggest change [...]
By Charles Sercombe Vampires were in Hamtramck on Tuesday. Not the blood-sucking kind, but the Hollywood type – as in a major movie production. And appropriately – and totally coincidentally – the production took place inside Record Graveyard on Caniff. How perfect can you get – a vampire movie scene inside a store called Record [...]
By Charles Sercombe Here’s one list Hamtramck Public Schools is glad to not be on. The Michigan Department of Education recently released a list of the bottom 92 schools in the state. Hamtramck Public Schools were nowhere near them. Out of the 92 schools listed for having failing grades and being lowest achievers, 42 of [...]
By Ian Perrotta It’s almost time for Hamtramck to reap the fruits of the festival committee’s labor. The Hamtramck Labor Day Festival is just two weeks away and it’s shaping up to be one for the books. For anyone who has been living under a rock for the past few months, earlier this summer there [...]
By Charles Sercombe Blight busting seems to be on the mind of many in town – including city officials. A growing number of residents are complaining about the never-ending amount of trash on the streets as well as graffiti and overgrown and weedy yards. A new kind of blight has swamped Hamtramck in recent years: [...]
By Omar Thabet Special to the Review How can you not like a guy nicknamed “Hippo”? Chances are if you went through Hamtramck Public Schools, you’ve met John “Hippo” Hypnarowicz. He’s been driving school buses here for 33 years, and next Friday is his last day on the job. Yes, the nickname Hippo comes from [...]
(Editor-at-Large Walter Wasacz writes a weekly column on life in Hamtramck.) By Walter Wasacz Faithful readers of Street Life might recall that last week’s column dealt with my personal experience with cleaning trash and pulling weeds around my house and in the neighborhood where I live. For those who missed it, the gist was that [...]
By Ian Perrotta Last Saturday’s (Aug. 14) effort to raise money for the Drug Education For Youth (DEFY) Mentor Program was a well-played – albeit ironic – hand. Officially titled the 2010 Hamtramck Poker Run, the fundraiser was set up in the form of a bar crawl with a twist. Participants went to five establishments [...]
Don’t touch our City Charter. That’s a message our City Council needs to keep in mind when considering major changes in Hamtramck’s new charter, which was adopted by voters just five years ago. Recently, Councilmember Cathie Gordon proposed a change to have the council and mayor appoint the city treasurer instead of having the city [...]
By Ian Perrotta As international as Hamtramck is, up until a few weeks ago it lacked one thing: a Chinese restaurant. Not anymore. After a few-years-long hiatus, Golden Hill Chop Suey is back in business. The restaurant re-opened about a month ago and has been busy ever since. Owned and operated by Kuen Kwong, a [...]
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