Michael Hodges

Michael Hodges, covered the arts for The Detroit News, and is thrilled -- indeed, flabbergasted -- by the exhilarating uptick in Detroit's new-found sexiness.

[Michael Hodges @mhodgesartguy]

Reaction to my Salon piece on my search for my gay forebear has been moving - thanks to all. But NONE of this would have happened had I not taken Sue Shapiro's great online course on pitching editors on your stories! #sueshapiro #gaypride #familyhistory
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[Michael Hodges @mhodgesartguy]

Just in time for Gay Pride, my essay on searching for my queer forebear, my great-Uncle Allan, went up last night on https://t.co/fpJgFIdVYM, I'm delighted to say. https://t.co/xvG5Pe25sE

[Michael Hodges @mhodgesartguy]

Just in time for Gay Pride, my essay on searching for my queer forebear, my great-Uncle Allan, went up last night on https://t.co/fpJgFIdVYM, I'm delighted to say. https://t.co/xvG5Pe25sE

[Michael Hodges @mhodgesartguy]

"Birthday Candles," an original play commissioned and produced by the DETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE in 2018, is headed to Broadway with Debra Messing of "Will and Grace" in the lead. Read all about it in the Detroit News: https://t.co/adu3O5FLlt

[Michael Hodges @mhodgesartguy]

NAIAS Detroit auto show Charity Preview raises over $4 million for 8 kids’ charities.

[The Scarab Club @scarabclub]

This is the last week to see the 2018 #ScarabClub Photography Exhibition. Thank you @mhodgesartguy for stopping in to see the show last week! Read his article in the @detroitnews here; https://t.co/X8eM9HuMHr. 📷 by Kate Gowman

[Michael Hodges @mhodgesartguy]

@swhitall @detroitnews I would love to! I'm a total guitar slut.

[Michael Hodges @mhodgesartguy]

Calling all Joni Mitchell fans. My former Detroit News colleague Susan Whitall @swhitall just published an illuminating collection of interviews with the rock legend, "Joni on Joni." Read all about it in the Detroit News. @detroitnews / https://t.co/zzuHr4Fjrk

[The Detroit News @detroitnews]

Joseph Kahn fought to get "Bodied" made, and he fought to get "Bodied" released. He's used to fighting. https://t.co/G0pvlzDcLF

[Salvador Salort-Pons @SalvadorSalort]

Celebrated our new Robert and Katherine Jacobs Asian Wing with media and staff previews today. The work our staff & community members accomplished will enrich visitors for years to come, and helps us build new connections to residents of Wayne, Oakland & Macomb counties & beyond.

[Mary Helen Spooner @MH_Spooner]

On your way, Pinochet! The factory workers who fought fascism from Glasgow https://t.co/HagUBzb1Ki

[Michael Hodges @mhodgesartguy]

If you're in Detroit, do visit LA artist Doug Aitken's "MIRAGE" in our 1900 People's State Bank by McKim Mead & White. Aitken dropped a tract home made of mirrors into the grand neoclassical hall, lit by a mesmerizing light show. Read in Detroit News: https://t.co/6175UK3yrr

[Michael Hodges @mhodgesartguy]

@afarmerinohio @DAitken Hmm. Maybe I'll restructure that sentence. I was mostly trying to economize on length. Thanks for the good point. Michael Hodges / The Detroit News

[Kelley Root @kelleyroot]

Pewabic Pottery builds first expansion since 1912 https://t.co/0ByB7xtVMN via @detroitnews ⁦@mhodgesartguy⁩

[Detroit Homecoming @dethomecoming]

A total of $8 million will support innovation at five "anchor institutions" — the @DIADetroit , @DetroitSymphony, @SphinxMusic, @DetOperaHouse and @MOCAD https://t.co/m9VthR4Rba #WeAreDetroit via @mhodgesartguy

[Kenyon Review @kenyonreview]

“Books are meat and medicine
and flame and flight and flower
steel, stitch, cloud and clout,
and drumbeats on the air.”—Gwendolyn Brooks

[Michael Hodges @mhodgesartguy]

These are the things art critics live for. Just days after Aretha Franklin's death, a significant Detroit graffiti artist, Sintex, memorialized her with a new mural. Read all about in the Detroit News: https://t.co/CNkMu7Ebno

[Michael Hodges @mhodgesartguy]

I recently talked up Detroit architect Albert Kahn on NPR, discussing my new book, "Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit." There's more to Kahn than you'd guess -- like (!) guaranteeing Allied victory in WWII. Check it out: https://t.co/KUHRJAEL2U

[Michael Hodges @mhodgesartguy]

@sarah4nabj Sarah Glover - Michael Hodges at the Detroit News, hoping to get you on the phone for 10 minutes today (Thurs) or tomorrow to talk NABJ convention in Detroit. Email me if you can - mhodges at https://t.co/6BUO25lnKf, and THANKS

[Michael Hodges @mhodgesartguy]

@VickiethomasWWJ Vickie - Michael Hodges here -- one of Felecia's reporters -- at the Detroit News on Thurs, trying to get you on the phone for 20 mins today or early tomorrow to talk NABJ. Email me - mhodges at https://t.co/6BUO25CYBN, and TKS!