A quarter of a century after a returning Vietnam veteran started painting colorful dots on old houses in his east-side Detroit neighborhood — and well after two mayors unleashed demolition crews at this now-acclaimed art installation — the Heidelberg Project drew an estimated 1,000 metro Detroiters today to a festival called Detroit’s Got Talent.
The event’s inclusive name meant it could spread its aesthetic arms beyond the locale’s famed visual street art, to poetry readings, music, a game of street hoops and even the ad hoc offering of Ned’s Gourmet Mobile Food Trailer — the Heidelburger, a sandwich of pulled pork loin and Worchestershire sauce, which sold briskly at $6.50 apiece.
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