The official storyteller of Detroit
September 8, 2017 8:11 AM   Subscribe

Detroit mayor Mike Duggan has appointed Aaron Foley to the position of Chief Storyteller. Foley is a journalist, former editor of BLAC Detroit Magazine, and author of How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass.

Foley's work will include production of TheNeighborhoods TV channel and TheNeighborhoods.org, a new site with an interactive map profiling each of the city's 200+ neighborhoods, stories of individual Detroiters, podcasts, videos, and resources for citizens. According to the city's press release about the project, The Neighborhoods will have a staff of six and a project cost of approximately $250,000 covered by revenues from the city's cable TV franchises.

Highlights so far: This episode of "Spokes People" about the Matrix Center's midnight boxing program for kids, a story about the RollerCade skating rink which opened in the Boynton neighborhood in 1955, and a project to help police catch illegal dumpers .
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This is definitely the advent of the Singers from 'Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones', right?
posted by DSime at 9:05 AM on September 8, 2017


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