Vice.com's Mike Pearl dropped by Detroit recently to check out America's biggest bankrupt city, and he delivers a report heavy with, believe it or not, irreverence, humor and irony.
"Detroit is Already Starting to Gentrify," reads the headline.
"Midtown is Detroit’s neighborhood with fixies and really small dogs, so it’s only natural that, like Williamsburg, Silver Lake, San Francisco's Mission district, and their ilk, despite Midtown’s relative affluence, the poor are just a few blocks away. Having a Whole Foods there is a “game changer,” according to Mayor Dave Bing, and “Detroit’s 112th grocery store,” according to those who regularly buy food there."
Vice compares the “proud-to-be-here, pro-Detroit messages in Whole Foods as overcompensating in "an “Ooh a gay wedding! Fun!” kind of way. "
And its correspondent interviews Detroiters named Colin, Andre, Cynthia, Roger, Alissa, Zach and George.
