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DINING Buddy’s celebrates 75 years of pizza National Detroit-Style Pizza Day set for June

BY MELODY BAETENS The Detroit News etroit-style pizza is enjoy- ing a moment in the na- Dtional spotlight right now, just as the brick-and-mortar restaurant where it all began celebrates 75 years in the square pizza business. Buddy’s Pizza will honor the milestone with events and spe- cials throughout 2021, including the first annual National De- troit-Style Pizza Day on June 23. Since 2011, that date has been known locally as Buddy’s Day. Gus Guerra opened Buddy’s Rendezvous in Detroit on Co- nant just north of McNichols in with his wife’s two uncles from the “old country,” and started selling pizza in 1946 using a recipe from either his Sicilian mother-in-law Crucifissa Passa- lacqua or employee Connie Piccinato (the source varies depending on who you ask). Guerra sold Buddy’s on Co- nant in 1953 and went on to start ‘DETROIT another award-winning brand, Cloverleaf Pizza. Others who have worked at Buddy’s over the years — namely Louis Tourtois who worked at Sheild’s Bar and STORIES’ later opened Loui’s Pizza in Alice’s Please see Buddy’s, Page 2D Godfather of shock rock releases his new album, recorded locally with Detroit musicians, on Friday

BY ADAM GRAHAM month. “That’s a badge of honor for me.” The Detroit News Cooper shows off that badge with “Detroit Stories,” lice Cooper’s got Detroit on his mind. a 15-track collection inspired and informed by the On Friday, the legendary shock rocker and sounds and soul of the city. Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is releasing his Cooper, born Vincent Furnier, recorded the album Alatest album, “Detroit Stories.” It’s his 21st solo in fall 2019 with a cast of Detroit musicians — MC5’s album, and it harkens back to his Motor City roots, Wayne Kramer, Bob Seger’s Motor City Horns and where Cooper was raised in the 1950s and where he cut Grand Funk Railroad’s Mark Farner among them — at his teeth as a rocker in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Rust Belt Studios in Royal Oak. The set includes covers earMUSIC “I’ve lived in California and Arizona for 60 years, of songs by Seger (“East Side Story”) and Detroit pow- Alice Cooper’s “Detroit Stories” and when people ask me, ‘where are you from?’ I say will be released Friday. Detroit,” says Cooper, who turned 73 earlier this Please see Cooper, Page 4D

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