ZANA SMITH : SPECTACLES Four Decades of Style, Culture, and Detroit Soul In 1984, when downtown Detroit was quiet enough that you could “roll a bowling ball and not hit a thing,” Zana Smith opened the doors to a new kind of boutique. Her shop, Spectacles, was never meant to be just a retail space…
THE FUNKY PEOPLE’S FORGE Adriel Fantastique and Detroit’s Underground Legacy Long before the world caught on, Detroit’s underground was already alive with the future. For Adriel Thornton—known to many as Adriel Fantastique—techno wasn’t a genre, it was backyard barbecue music. As a kid in late-80s Detroit, he heard Cybertron and Kraftwerk not in nightclubs, but floating through…
