Some Detroiters regard DALLY IN THE ALLEY as the first sign of autumn in the city’s Cass Corridor. Others see it as a chance to extend summer festival season by … Keep Reading…
Adult activities • Patriot Week with Bloomfield Township Senior Services featuring University of Detroit history professor Roy E. Finkenbine is 10:30-11:30 a.m. Sept. 13 at the Bloomfield Township Senior Center, … Keep Reading…
Aretha Franklin’s impact on music is sure to be felt for generations to come, and there’s proof all around Metro Detroit. Dozens of musicians said Franklin inspired them. Her legacy is … Keep Reading…
A previous version of this calendar listed the “Summer White Concert” as happening Saturday at the Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill. The concert has been postponed and moved to … Keep Reading…
The great American soul singer Aretha Franklin has died at the age of 76, her representative has said. She was reported to have been gravely ill with her family at her bedside. … Keep Reading…
The Belle Isle Art Fair returns August 4-5 with some favorites and some new surprises. The fair has grown to over 100 juried artists from twenty states and includes all … Keep Reading…
Margaret Mayan Glinke (“muggs”) was born in Merrill, Michigan and graduated from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids. Her painting technique consists of an impasto layer of gauze, sand and modeling … Keep Reading…
The 37th Annual Allen Park Arts and Crafts Street Fair will be held August 3-4, 2018. This annual community event attracts over 50,000 visitors to downtown Allen Park. The event … Keep Reading…
In nearly a quarter-century leading Wayne State University theater productions, Tony Schmitt loved laboring to awe audiences. “Tony could cover the spectrum,” said Blair Anderson, a former WSU theater department chair. … Keep Reading…
Red, white and blue-festooned buildings, classic summer tastes, fifes and drums and fireflies are the backdrop for the most robust expression of the Fourth of July — connecting with family, … Keep Reading…
Meadow Brook Theatre finishes the season with Burt & Me, May 30-June 24. In this romantic musical comedy featuring the music of Burt Bacharach, Joe and Lacey are high school sweethearts who drifted apart … Keep Reading…
It’s hard to believe that Cinetopia 2018 has already come and gone (where does the time go?), but that doesn’t mean that the news about some of the films shown at the … Keep Reading…
Michigan Music Festivals are often scheduled in the summer, but there are a few here and there that take place in other seasons. While the summer music festivals vary by … Keep Reading…
Every Saturday and Sunday, including June 18, you can see the Greenfield Village Lah-De-Dahs play by Henry Chadwick’s 1867 Base Ball Book of Reference rules. During these historical games, a … Keep Reading…
Pewabic Street Team kicks off its 2018 summer season of pop-up raku events today with the first of monthly visits to the Detroit RiverWalk, 1-4 PM near Rivard Plaza, 1340 … Keep Reading…
We were invited to a fun evening last Saturday, to an English workhouse/ orphanage, some of the seedier parts of London, a local pub, a posh townhouse in the city’s … Keep Reading…
In 1926, Alfred and Matilda Wilson acquired a special painting to decorate the 110-room home they were constructing on their Meadow Brook Farms estate. ”Infant St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness,” by Bartolome … Keep Reading…
Downtown Detroit Partnership works collaboratively with businesses, institutions, and key stakeholders in Downtown Detroit. http://downtowndetroit.org/ Detroit Unspun posts some pretty cool stuff. http://blog.thedetroithub.com Detroit Stock Photos is a great site to see pictures … Keep Reading…
Five years and 100 hours of film footage later, Michael Bolton’s cinematic love letter to Detroit is finally hitting the big screen. “American Dream: Detroit,” which explores the entrepreneurial and cultural … Keep Reading…
That aquarium the Detroit Zoo wants to build alongside Hart Plaza? Mayor Mike Duggan says the idea won’t float.He’s not ruling out the aquarium, which zoo director Ron Kagan recently … Keep Reading…