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Bonnie Caprara is a writer and editor for The Paragon Life. A seasoned veteran of the journalism world in the Detroit area, she's also been associated with other Detroit area entertainment and small business online magazines.
If you’re going to get in a good walk and enjoy the spring weather, make it count in more ways than one. Join Team Paragon in this year’s Make-A-Wish Foundations’ Walk for Wishes event at The Detroit Zoo on Saturday, May 5. The employees from Paragon Properties and old and new friends will spend...
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A record store? What is that? I know, it’s too easy to click a button and download a song into iTunes or stream something on Pandora or Spotify, but there’s a real “feel good” feeling about spending time in a record store – especially on Record Store Day, which is on April 21. As...
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For years, Paul Mecurio led a double life as a Wall Street investment attorney by day and a stand-up comic by night. “I was writing jokes and keeping them on my computer,” Mecurio says. “I saw Jay Leno at a private function. I got to meet him after the show and I gave him...
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I’ve never met anyone who didn’t like bacon. Oddly, I don’t care for eating strips of bacon, fried or baked. Instead, it’s my go-to ingredient to kick up otherwise pretty ordinary dishes. It’s killer in the chopped turkey salad from Pronto in Royal Oak that I’ve replicated in my kitchen – sliced iceberg lettuce,...
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I have a writer friend who says he likes sharp contrasts in his writing: “Hot/cold … Light/dark … Dominant/submissive …” I assume that he would say black and white, too. But lots of women are saying they’re more into “Fifty Shades of Grey.” A half-million copies of the book were released last week, and...
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I had my first taste of Bakon Vodka a few months ago when my parents brought home a bottle they picked up at a duty-free store. At first, I thought it would just be a novelty, but I was blown away by the balance of an incredibly smooth and light vodka base and very...
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Most artists spend quite a bit of time trying to get their work into art galleries, but about 470 works of art by 7th-12th-grade students are filling the walls and spaces of the Anton Art Center through April 22. The art in the Anton Art Center’s Annual Macomb County Secondary Student Show comes from...
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There’s no bigger party in Detroit than Opening Day. “It’s not just about the baseball game,” says Regina Stocco, founder of The Social Connection. “It’s about spring.” It’s her and her staff’s job to help get the party started and get it started early on eight motor coaches that will take about 400 people...
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It seems as if every big city has a restaurant week, and Troy, with its Million Dollar Mile on Big Beaver Road, is no exception. Normally, you’d have to have shell out quite a few bucks to eat or wait to celebrate a special occasion at one the fine dining establishments in Troy, but...
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It’s not yet old enough to drive, if it could, but Harvey’s Seatbeltbags is celebrating its 15th birthday. The first seat belt bag was created while Dana and Melanie Harvey were restoring a 1950 Buick. While installing the seatbelts into the car, Dana decided to make a matching handbag – a basket weave bucket...
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