Voices include Wojo, Devin Gardner, Tyree Guyton, Jim Schaefer and a Deadline reader.
“This is nothing. We’ve been here 27 years, and this isn't going to stop us.”
-- Tyree Guyton, Detroit artist, quoted in Detroit News on Heidelberg project fires
“The Heidelberg Project is behind only the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Motown Museum in international visitor attendance. The city should have put up gates and charged admission.”
-- Peter Williams, Freep reader in posted comment
"If he says he's black, he needs to turn in his black card. Right now."
-- Steve Hood, Fox 2 political consultant, referring to Charlie LeDuff on “Let It Rip”
"I thought Lauren Podell's on-air f-bomb was f-bombing hilarious. Dudes, that's me ten times a day, except I work for a newspaper so only a few people hear it."
-- Diana Thomas McNary, Detroit News page designer, on her Facebook page

“I got a lot of hate mail. It comes with the territory.”
-- Devin Gardner, UM quarterback, quoted in Detroit News

"Still cannot believe the amount of pixels spilled over Anthony Bourdain and his Det travelogue. And we thought we were a big city."
-- Nancy Nall Derringer, local journalist, on her Facebook page
"Motortown's chattering classes have to stop caring so much about what other people think of it, good or bad. Don't live or die by the validation -- or excoriation -- of others."
-- Jeff Karoub, AP reporter, on his Facebook page
“Jeff Wattrick shaved off his beard. Did he lose a bet or did the wife make him do it?”
-- Steve Dibert, Deadline reader on Facebook
Graphics by Lauren Ann Davies.