10 Things to Do in the D This Weekend - Jan. 16-18

1. Listen to jazz violinist Regina Carter with the Oakland Jazz Quartet.
2. Motor over to the opening weekend of the North American International Auto Show.
3. Shake off the cold at the Anti-Freeze Blues Festival.
4. See a live stage performance of "I Love Lucy."
5. Join The Future Starts Here, the 2015 AutoGlow at Ford Field.
6. Get on the A Train, Michigan’s second-largest model train show.
7. Attend the Canton One Acts Festival.
8. Enjoy live music, CCS student demonstrations, food and more at Shinola Detroit.
9. Take the family to "A Snowy Tale" at the Leslie Science & Nature Center.
10. Go to the last weekend of Detroit Before the Automobile at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

Kick-off List from Crain's Detroit Business. Add your suggestions and finds below.

11. Amazingly Crain's did not add the biggest even tin town 'Visit the Detroit Auto Show' [aka North American International Auto Show]

Erratum. Oops they did. #2 tkx Rick Beall and HT. Need to clean my glasses.

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11. Amazingly Crain's did not add the biggest even tin town 'Visit the Detroit Auto Show' [aka North American International Auto Show]

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11. 2015 Michigan Winter Dog Classic, Thursday-Sunday, January 15-18 @ Suburban Collection Showplace, Novi
http://www.themichiganwinterdogclassic.com/

12. Arts & Scraps Open House, Saturday, January 17
http://www.artsandscraps.org/

13. It's A Mad Mad Mad World, Saturday, January 17, 2pm & 8pm @ Senate Theatre
http://www.dtos.org/

14. 2nd Annual Royal Oak Beer Fest "Polar Beer Club", Saturday, January 17 @ Royal Oak Farmers Market
http://www.royaloakbeerfest.com/

15. Wild Winter Weekends @ Detroit Zoo, Saturdays and Sundays through March
http://www.detroitzoo.org/events/wild-winter

16. MLK, Jr. Day: Bring the Dream to Life, Monday, January 19 @ Detroit Historical Museum
http://detroithistorical.org/things-...ing-dream-life

17. The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant is open for tours during the North American International Auto Show. Saturday and Sunday, January 17-18
http://fordpiquetteavenueplant.org/

18. Motor City Brew Tours/Show Me Detroit Tours present their Bumpers & Brew Bus Tour during the North American International Auto Show.
Saturday, January 17, 10am
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/motor-ci...78195?ref=ebtn

18. Pure Detroit offers free tours of the historic Guardian Building [[Wirt Roland, 1929) and Fisher Building [[Albert Kahn, 1928).
Fisher Building - Saturday, January 17 – 11am & 1pm
Guardian Building - Saturday, January 17 – 11am & 1pm
http://www.puredetroit.com/index.php...tober-286.html

19. Third Friday Lecture: Troubled Assets, Friday, January 16, 2015, 7pm. Preservation Detroit hosts photographer Geoff George for a lecture on his print exhibition of Instagram series Troubled Assets that is on view at the Mackenzie House. Troubled Assets aims to categorize and document the abundance of historic neighborhood bank buildings in the City of Detroit and surrounding areas.
http://preservationdetroit.org/2015/...ff-george-116/

20. 202nd Anniversary Commemoration of the Battles of the River Raisin, Saturday, January 17, 2015. Schedule: 11am Tactical Demonstration; 12pm Ceremonies at the River Raisin Battlefield Visitors Center; 2:30pm Program at the Monroe County Historical Museum. Free and open to the public. http://www.riverraisinbattlefield.org/events.htm

21. Erie Ice Daze, Saturday and Sunday, January 17-18.
This event takes place at the Lake Erie Metropark Marshlands Museum and Nature Center.
http://www.metroparks.com/Lake-Erie-Metropark/Events