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			<title><![CDATA[City of lights: Detroit at night]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As has been noted, ArchBlogger has finally mastered -- manfully, he would like to say -- the art of the tripod and the shutter-release delay. This has enabled him to tackle a longtime ambition: nighttime photogaphy.
A.B. was out running around downtown several Sundays ago, on an evening that]]></description>
			<author>(Michael Hodges)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:15:20</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A salute to DTE Energy]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...for the cool reflecting pool in front of their downtown Detroit headquarters, perked up by three contemporary fountains -- and all nicely illuminated at night.
The waterworks in front of their Bagley office tower -- right across Third Street from the new MGM Casino and Hotel -- were part of a]]></description>
			<author>(Michael Hodges)</author>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:07:01</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ArchBlogger to speak in Royal Oak]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ArchBlogger will give a lecture and slide show entitled &quot;On Detroit Urbanism&quot; at the Royal Oak Public Library Monday, Oct. 26. The program will run from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the library's Friends Auditorium, and is free.
The library is located at 222 E. 11 Mile Road. Questions? Call]]></description>
			<author>(Michael Hodges)</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:41:57</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ah, the Fisher Building]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ArchBlogger has lately mastered the tripod and the time-release shutter mechanism on his digital SLR. It's been sort of a slow learning curve.
This new skill lured him into the Fisher Building this past Saturday, up to the third floor overlook that rings the lobby. One is familiar with how]]></description>
			<author>(Michael Hodges)</author>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:55:49</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ArchBlogger does Chicago]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[When ArchBlogger moved from Brooklyn to Detroit some 18 years ago, he thought, &quot;This is excellent! Mid-way between Chicago and Toronto. I'll be in one of them every month.&quot;
Sadly, apart from a few quick business trips, that mostly didn't turn out to be the case. So over Labor Day, A.B.]]></description>
			<author>(Michael Hodges)</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:26:47</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Downtown Detroit under dramatic clouds]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Gusty, tempestuous clouds drew ArchBlogger, camera clutched in hand, towards the New Center and downtown on Saturday. He spent a good long time with the Fisher Building, and then camped in his car at Cass and Charlotte, where there's a particularly good vista on the towers along the river.
The]]></description>
			<author>(Michael Hodges)</author>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:16:08</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Home-design guru Sarah Susanka to visit Detroit]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sarah Susanka, the architect who wrote the marvelous &quot;Not So Big House&quot; series of books, will be signing her newest title starting at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at the grand opening of the new Marvin Design Gallery in Bloomfield Hills at 2350 Franklin Rd.
The new book is]]></description>
			<author>(Michael Hodges)</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:15:20</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Urbanism comes to Harbor Springs]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ArchBlogger spied these admirable new cottages down a side street about a month ago while driving into Harbor Springs, Michigan's answer to New York's Hamptons.
The Bay Street Cottages, as they're called, turned out to be adorable, historic recreations of little lakeside houses that look like they]]></description>
			<author>(Michael Hodges)</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:22:55</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Catch the Lafayette Building's windows -- fast]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Lafayette Building, a v-shaped structure across from the marvelously restored Book-Cadillac (Westin) Hotel, is doomed. The Detroit City Council, in its infinite wisdom, has decided it has to come down -- and that yet another dusty, empty lot with a fence around it is somehow preferable to a]]></description>
			<author>(Michael Hodges)</author>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:05:01</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Missed opportunity at Greektown Casino Hotel]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[What first struck ArchBlogger when the Greektown Casino Hotel was nearing completion a year or so ago were the varied shades of dark blue with which the designers clad the exterior.
It all felt a bit daring and Miami -- Detroit really isn't accustomed to a lot of strong color in its skyscraper]]></description>
			<author>(Michael Hodges)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:41:10</pubDate>
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