It was another great year for Back to the Bricks, the city’s biggest and most extravagant car show. In talking with My City Magazine, B2B Chairman Al Hatch credited fair weather for this year’s success. “The weather was perfect over the entire weekend,” he said. “There wasn’t any rain, and the temperatures were great.” Hatch

Thousands of people jam the streets of Downtown Flint. It’s a beautiful, and oftentimes hot and humid August morning. The air is alive with energy and excitement as runners stretch their legs and mentally prepare for a grueling 10-mile run. Thousands of spectators are fired up, smiling, laughing and ready to wildly cheer for friends

The idea for the Bobby Crim Road Race was “cooked up” 37 years ago at Lois Craig’s kitchen table. Lois, a Flint native who would become the founding race director, was administrative assistant to Bobby Crim when he was Michigan’s Speaker of the House of Representatives. Lois was responsible for scheduling the Speaker’s events, and

John Jerome, an avid member of the River Bend Striders Running Group, is keeping the string going! And his “string” is quite an accomplishment – referring to the number of years he’s completed the 10-mile run in the Health Plus Crim Festival of Races. On Saturday, August 24, he’ll run it for the 36th time,

It is a joy to see and experience the developments in Flint of late, particularly those Downtown. New restaurants and dozens of events make for memorable nights on end. A recent transplant to the city or returning resident might mistake novelties to Downtown as places with a longstanding tradition, but only a handful of the

Fair weather awaited a crowd of people on June 21 for the Downtown Development Authority’s Taste of Downtown event. Now in its third year, the Taste of Downtown serves as a collection of choice restaurants from Downtown Flint, offering the public samples of their respective cuisine accompanied by the live music of select bands. Participating

Where can one find live music, chalk art, graffiti art, people dancing with electronic hula-hoopers, welders, vendors and zombies at the same place and at the same time? Why, Buckham Alley Fest, of course! Now in its third year of awesome, the 2013 Downtown Flint Buckham Alley Fest was a riotous rumpus on the Saturday

In Flint, August is the month in which the bricks of S. Saginaw St. see the most traffic: thousands of feet and countless car tires rolling in for the annual celebration of all things auto: Back to the Bricks, now in its ninth year. The 2013 installation of this classic event will take place on

With all the novel ideas of things to do in Downtown Flint, the Flint & Genesee Convention and Visitor Bureau’s most recent event, Be a Tourist in Your Home Town, really caught my eye, although I will admit that I didn’t know exactly what to expect. Indeed, I understood the concept: I was to pay

Many of us have enjoyed the recent business additions to Downtown Flint, an area almost completely devoid of life in the late 1990s that now teems with new ventures; but few of us know the men behind many of these projects, and even fewer know of their desire to see a better Flint. The men

Sunday, May 18 was bright and breezy with temperatures soaring into the 80s – perfect weather for planting flowers in Downtown Flint. Wearing hats and work gloves, volunteers filled 68 planters lining South Saginaw Street from Court Street to University Avenue. This year marked the eighth annual Flower Planting event of the Flint Downtown Development