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In this video, dETROITfUNK<\/a> explores the Michigan Theatre<\/a>, reborn as a Gilded Age parking garage. On tours of Detroit’s fabulous ruins, the Michigan is a required stop, as the irony and symbolism is so over the top it seems more like a movie set than something that could actually happen. When I first arrived in Toronto, the facade of the University Theatre<\/a> on Bloor reminded me of the Michigan, as you could look through it into Yorkdale Park. Torontonians here longer will remember the parking lot that was there before the park, when that view was even more Detroitish. The facade is now part of the Pottery Barn store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"