The CPKC Holiday Train will roll through Detroit on the evening of Sunday, Nov. 22, lit up on its way from Windsor to Chicago. It won’t stop for a concert anywhere in Michigan, so seeing it here takes a little
Detroit is 325 years old, and some of its best ghost stories are attached to buildings you can still walk into: a lumber baron’s mansion on Woodward, the oldest bar in the city, a 1,000-room temple in Midtown. Some of
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
Zoo Boo returns to the Detroit Zoo for four October weekends, and this year it starts an hour earlier and includes something that was not there last fall: the $49 million Fred and Barbara Erb Discovery Trails. Here are the
Delta is adding nonstop flights between Detroit and Athens, Greece, starting June 8, 2027. The route will run three times a week through October 28, Delta announced on September 25. It is the first time Detroit Metro Airport has had
Elmwood Alight turns Detroit’s oldest nondenominational cemetery into a lighted art walk for three nights, Oct. 1 through 3. Tickets are $25, kids under 10 get in free, and the ground you will be walking on is where the bloodiest
Historic Fort Wayne is getting more visitors than it has in decades, and the reason is parked next door. The Gordie Howe International Bridge’s pedestrian path lands beside the 1840s star fort on West Jefferson, and people walking the bridge
The Detroit Institute of Arts is showing Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings of buildings through January 3, 2027. The exhibition, Georgia O’Keeffe: Architecture, brings together about 35 paintings from the 1920s to the 1960s. Residents of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties can
Belle Isle drew more visitors last year than Yellowstone National Park. The 982-acre island park in the Detroit River counted 5.7 million visitors in 2025, while Yellowstone reported 4,762,988 recreation visits. Image: Tichnor Brothers / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) The
Stevie Wonder is playing Songs in the Key of Life from front to back at the Fox Theatre on Dec. 8 and 9, in a room about a quarter the size of the arena he filled the last time he
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