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The Detroit Women of Comedy Festival brings laughs to Hamtramck

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By Alex Washington

May 18, 2022

If you’re down for a good chuckle, the Detroit Women of Comedy Festival is happening this weekend at Planet Ant Theatre and The Independent Comedy Club in Hamtramck. The mission of the Detroit Women of Comedy Festival is to use comedy to amplify the voices of marginalized voices...

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Dominique Morisseau’s ‘Detroit ’67’ will make you cry, laugh, and want to sing

The play takes place during the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, but themes of racial divide and police brutality are still relevant

By Randiah Camille Green
May 17, 2022
A rotation of 75 food trucks starts serving in downtown Detroit on Monday

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By Randiah Camille Green
May 11, 2022
Smile! Detroit’s Flower Day is back in Eastern Market this Sunday

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By Randiah Camille Green
May 11, 2022
Motor City Comic Con returns this weekend with cosplay, celebrities, and a ‘Superman’ celebration

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By Lee DeVito
May 11, 2022
Jack Harlow will bring tour to Detroit's Fox Theatre this fall

The City Girls will join the rapper on his North American tour

By Alex Washington
May 9, 2022
Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov is coming to Michigan to discuss latest novel and life in Kyiv during Russian war

The best-selling writer will be making stops in Hamtramck and Grosse Pointe

By Randiah Camille Green
May 9, 2022
Detroit Opera tells the story of Detroit Red with its performance of ‘X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X’

The opera shares the different phases of Malcolm X's life

By Alex Washington
May 9, 2022
You can catch wacky shorts at the seventh Detroit International Festival of Animation this Saturday

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By Randiah Camille Green
May 4, 2022
There’s a free ‘sound bath’ meditation event on Detroit’s Belle Isle this weekend

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By Randiah Camille Green
May 4, 2022
Detroit’s Tangent Gallery celebrates that bar from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away with ‘Space Dive’ events

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By Lee DeVito
May 3, 2022
Lil Nas X adds second Detroit show to upcoming tour

The pop star will kick off his first-ever tour at the Fillmore in September

By Alex Washington
Apr 28, 2022
Lil Nas X will kick off his first-ever tour at Detroit's Fillmore

The Long Live Montero tour will stop in the Motor City in September

By Alex Washington
Apr 26, 2022
Flipside Records will throw a Fam Jam Block Party to celebrate new Berkley store

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By Randiah Camille Green
Apr 26, 2022
Habatat Detroit Year of Glass50 exhibit will showcase extraordinary works of art in Royal Oak

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By Randiah Camille Green
Apr 26, 2022
Seth Meyers to perform comedy night to help Forgotten Harvest organization feed hungry metro Detroiters

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By Randiah Camille Green
Apr 26, 2022
Self-portraits of late Detroit artist Gilda Snowden exhibited in ‘Chronicle’

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By Randiah Camille Green
Apr 26, 2022
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony headed to Detroit’s Sound Board at Motor City Casino

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By Randiah Camille Green
Apr 26, 2022
Bedrock will bring outdoor roller rink back to downtown Detroit for another spin

The Monroe Street Midway will return next month

By Alex Washington
Apr 21, 2022
Pop culture convention Astronomicon heads to Livonia’s Burton Manor

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By Lee DeVito
Apr 20, 2022
2nd annual 420 Music Festival returns to Lansing

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By Randiah Camille Green
Apr 20, 2022

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Everything we saw at Tech N9ne’s ‘The Asin9ne Tour’ stop in Detroit

Rapper Tech N9ne made his return to Detroit with his latest tour, The Asin9ne Tour, on Saturday night at The Fillmore Detroit.…

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This $525K home is a mini castle in Detroit’s University District

Some people might think castles only exist in the countryside, but this one sits in University District on Detroit's westside. The turret-style…

By Alex Washington

May 10, 2022

This $525K home is a mini castle in Detroit’s University District

All the ‘Star Wars’ fans we saw celebrating May the Fourth in Detroit

For a few credits you could smuggle your way into Detroit's Tangent Gallery for Space Dive, and be transported to a galaxy…

By Mike Pfeiffer

May 7, 2022

Fans at Detroit's Space Dive event on Friday.

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