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The music man

The little girl struggles to hold the heavy clarinet in her hands.

Amira Chambers, all of 5 years old, sits inside the cold air of the Metro Music store, with her winter coat still on, and b ...

Auto zone

It’s early January in Detroit, which brings certain predictable things every year — weather charitably described as miserable, amateur skaters doing face-plants on the Campus Martius ice ri ...

Soul kitchen

They stand in line so patiently, you’d never know some of them haven’t eaten since yesterday.

That line’s so long it winds from the soup kitchen door, along the wall and around the cor ...