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The city’s full of cheap symbolism–neighborhoods abandoned by humans to be reclaimed by nature, homeless people frozen in ice, the gleaming mass of irony that is the Renaissance Center–and its post-apocalyptic aura makes it a perfect subject for fear porn aimed at people who think downgrading from a mini-mansion to a normal-size house puts them just inches away from living in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
The Detroit Electronic Music Festival is another one of the good things about the city, and even though its rebranding as the Movement fest and the corresponding introduction of admission fees has made it less of a class-crossing populist dance-music utopia than it once was, it’s still a killer event and an amazing example of a city embracing elements of its native music culture that don’t appeal to middle-aged white people.
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