Sports/Entertainment News
05/21/12 The Detroit Red Wings' ownership reportedly has selected Dallas-based HKS Inc. as the architect for a new downtown hockey arena.
05/20/12 Players in metro Detroit's advertising industry remain mostly bullish on Facebook Inc.'s usefulness as a paid marketing tool despite news last week that one of the biggest advertisers around has lost faith in the social media giant's utility as a sales platform.
05/17/12 The nonprofit Detroit Sports Commission has launched its first membership benefits program, offering ticket discounts and other benefits.
05/16/12 AMC Entertainment Inc. won a liquor license transfer for the AMC Forum 30 theater on divided support in Sterling Heights and should receive a similar license for the AMC Livonia 20 by mail this week.
05/15/12 The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Kid Rock and Rock Ventures LLC met their goal to raise $1 million at a concert last weekend.
05/14/12 More than 110,000 boxes of "Fastball Flakes," featuring the image of Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander, have been sold since the limited-edition frosted corn flake cereal was launched in February.
05/14/12 Nathan Forbes, a principal in Rock Gaming LLC, said his firm thinks its new casino in Cleveland will attract about 5 million visitors in its first year and can capture a large part of what Rock Gaming estimates is $1.3 billion annually that Ohioans have been spending at casinos in adjacent states.
05/13/12 Detroit's three casinos are bracing for an impact that may take up to 5 percent of revenue when the Hollywood Casino opens in Toledo at the end of the month.
05/11/12 With a casino scheduled to open in Toledo at the end of the month, Detroit's three casinos will be bracing for an impact that may take up to 5 percent of revenue.
05/10/12 The Detroit-based Barden Cos. is reportedly trying to sell of the last of the late Don Barden's casino interests: its minority interest in Pittsburgh's Rivers Casino.
05/09/12 The latest fad statistic pushed by the college football-industrial complex is utterly meaningless spring game attendance statistics (link).
05/09/12 Add auto race sponsorship to the portfolio of Detroit online mortgage and real estate investor Dan Gilbert.
05/09/12 ALLEN PARK (AP) — Voters in Allen Park defeated a proposal to help cover $2.6 million a year in bond payments for a failed movie studio development.
05/06/12 In an effort to attract more customers 21 and older, AMC Inc. is seeking a liquor license for its Sterling Heights movie theater. If successful, the AMC Forum 30 would join the list of local theaters offering adult beverages.
05/04/12 The company that leases and manages Freedom Hill Amphitheatre in Sterling Heights plans to host its first summer concert season since 2009 after resolving a long-simmering dispute with Macomb County.
05/03/12 AMC Inc. seeks a liquor license for its Sterling Heights movie theater in an effort to attract more customers over age 21.
05/03/12 The Detroit Athletic Club will host the U.S.-based Pro Squash Tour's three-day 2012 World Championship Tournament starting Friday.
04/26/12 The Detroit Tigers today unconditionally released infielder Brandon Inge after 12 seasons, ending the Motown career of a player who had become a flashpoint of intense criticism from fans and baseball pundits.
04/26/12 DETROIT (AP) — A popular Detroit prom destination is taking a stand on what it considers inappropriate attire.
04/26/12 In March, the Detroit Lions gave wide receiver Calvin Johnson an eight-year, $132 million deal that made him the highest-paid player in the National Football League.
04/25/12 Interlochen Arts Academy saw a future in film studies before the state's film incentives made their grand entrance — and exit. But the Aaron and Helen L. DeRoy Center for Film Studies remains a marquee player as the northern Michigan academy enters its 50th year.
04/25/12 The Macomb County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday night to start the process that will put the millage that the Detroit Institute of Arts seeks on the August ballot.
04/24/12 The Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor will hold a new international film festival called Cinetopia May 31 through June 3.
04/22/12 The Detroit Lions will spend some money this week on new talent, but not as much as in the past.
04/22/12 Banner Sign Co. Inc. of Hazel Park, an 88-year-old family-run printing company, boasts clients such as Olympia Entertainment -- through which Banner does work for the Ilitch family-owned Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Tigers.
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