The parade your grandparents watched from a Woodward curb is about to run for the 100th time. Detroit’s Thanksgiving parade, officially America’s Thanksgiving Parade, steps off Thursday, Nov. 26 at 8:45 a.m. at Woodward and Kirby in Midtown and marches
Zug Island sits at the mouth of the Rouge River, where River Rouge meets southwest Detroit. Most people only see it from the Gordie Howe Bridge approach, the Windsor riverfront or a Delray side street. The island is private industrial
The Billinghurst, a 1922 hotel on West Willis Street in Midtown, is set to come back as 31 apartments. The building has sat empty for at least 25 years, according to the developer’s plan filed with the city. On August
The Capuchin Soup Kitchen has fed Detroit’s east side since 1929. Next year, its original Meldrum Street dining room will do it differently. The Capuchins are renovating the building at 1264 Meldrum into Refettorio Detroit. There, guests will sit down
Detroit gets a blood moon tonight. A near-total lunar eclipse arrives the night of Thursday, August 27, and unlike this month’s solar eclipse, this one is worth staying up for. At maximum, about 93 percent of the moon slides into
Cider mill season near Detroit does not ease in, it flips on. The first mills are already pouring, a wave of openings hits this week, and the old guard unlocks its doors Labor Day weekend. Here is where the cider
Ste. Anne is older than almost everything in Detroit, because it is almost exactly as old as Detroit. The parish was founded on July 26, 1701, two days after Cadillac established the settlement that became the city. It is now
Janie Bradford helped write the song that told you exactly what Motown was after. She co-wrote Money (That’s What I Want), one of the label’s first hits, and she did it after walking in the door as a receptionist. Bradford
Updated Sept. 30, 2026. This page tracks 2026 dates as each bar confirms; unconfirmed spots are marked. Metro Detroit does Halloween pop-up bars well, and the good ones fill up fast. This is the running list for 2026, starting with
Detroit’s holiday season starts on Wednesday, Nov. 4, when the city’s Christmas tree arrives at Campus Martius Park, and runs to Sunday, Jan. 3, the last night of Wild Lights at the Detroit Zoo. In between are the 100th Thanksgiving
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