Author: Robert Tompkins

Songs in the Key of ‘I’

Dec 30, 2019

Detroit’s Islandview community welcomes musicians and singers seeking spaces to perform new and familiar sounds.

On a Sunday in March, Angel’s Kitchen held its grand opening in the Fellowship Hall at the Church of the Messiah. Angel is a master in the kitchen, who had hoped one day to be able to start her own culinary enterprise – and to also compete on “MasterChef Junior” under the tutelage of Gordon Ramsay.

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