Like the name implies, the Great Commoner restaurant and cafe is hoping to offer something for everyone.
Preparing to open this month in Dearborn, the 6,200-square-foot restaurant will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner in the historic 125-year-old Wager Hotel building, part of the Wagner Place development. The menu is a collaboration between chef Matt Knio of popular Cannelle Patisserie, which has French-inspired cafes in Birmingham and downtown Detroit, and Brome Modern Eatery s executive chef Zane Makky.
A second location of the Great Commoner is coming to Ann Arbor at Main and Washington later this summer.
Sam Abbas, present of restaurant group Afor Concepts, says he wants the Great Commoner to be a daily stop for customers looking for locally roasted coffee drinks or fresh-pressed juices, a grab-and-go lunch, as well as a destination to sit down for a leisurely meal, espresso, cold brew or craft mocktail. Breakfast and brunch will have sweet and savory options, plus gou
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Hesitant bidders fought it out in a marathon auction for a deceased estate in the inner-west Sydney suburb of Haberfield on Saturday â and the hammer eventually fell at $3.255 million.
The four-bedroom Federation house at 46 Waratah Street drew a crowd of more than two dozen, including six registered bidders, but the parties were wary of overpaying as Sydney house prices rocket to record heights.
46 Waratah Street, Haberfield.Â
It was one of 762 homes scheduled for auction in Sydney on Saturday.
By evening, Domain Group recorded a preliminary clearance rate of 84.8 per cent from 584 reported results.
Only half the registered bidders threw their hats in the ring in what ended up being a painstaking 40 minute-long auction that started with an opening bid of $2.5 million.
Eremita (Anthologies) Harbors Appeal Beyond the Average Pandemic Response Movie
This anthology of shorts offers a precious peek at the directorial visions of five leading cinematographers.
Maxxie, Suzzee & Cinema
When the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world shuddering to a halt in March 2020, it forced virtually every film set on the planet to shut down, leaving many filmmakers across the globe twiddling their thumbs. In the weeks and months that followed, directors have responded to this enforced downtime the only way they know how: creating.
From Mati Diop’s
In My Room and Spike Lee’s
New York New York to Martin Scorsese’s quarantine film and the seventeen shorts that make up the anthology collection
The hourlong experimental documentary “Erēmīta (Anthologies)” is a collection of short films made by cinematographers from around the world, each having been tasked by Egyptian American filmmaker Sam Abbas, as curator, with one key creative restriction: cellphone cameras only, no added lenses or devices. The impetus was itself an overarching constraint this was March of 2020, when the pandemic had everybody in quarantine.
The shorts run the gamut from the avant-garde/impressionistic like Soledad Rodríguez’s “The Eagle and the Snake,” shot through what appears to be a tube to the observed, typically defined by a sense of being inside looking out. (The overall title translates as “hermit.”) American indie DP Ashley Connor’s “A Well Watered Woman” offers up a jaggedly edited bath starring her own body in close-up fragments, while Rome-based cinematographer Stefano Falivene (“Point of View”) contrasts the majesty of the ancient Coliseum (not a bad walki