LoginThe Metro: Detroit’s culture, mystery, and memory — now in puzzle form
Walk through Detroit long enough and the city starts talking to you — in murals, in corner bars, in the way old streets bend and break.
A new puzzle collection tries to put that experience on the page.
On Saturday night, people who love this city enough to puzzle over it will gather at The Congregation in Detroit for the release of the new crossword book Block Party: Detroit Edition.
There are many things in Detroit to be surprised by — a block you thought you knew. A memory stirred by the sound of a bus rolling by. A building with an unexplored hallway.
This new crossword book leans into all of that. Every puzzle carries a bit of the city.
At the center of it all are two friends: Sala Wanetick and Emily Biegas. They write with curiosity, tease with wordplay, and hide little nods to the places they grew up and the corners they still wander. Their clues feel like conversations at a bar you’ve been going to for years.
They joined Cary Junior II on The Metro to discuss how a crossword becomes a portrait of a place, and why Detroit is perfect for this kind of puzzle.
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