10 things to do this weekend - August 8 - 10

1. Enjoy eats and beats at the Ribs and R&B Music Festival at Hart Plaza.
2. Watch the Thunder Over Michigan Air Show at the Willow Run Airport.
3. Attend the newest gallery at the Red Bull House of Art.
4. Get to Belle Isle for the first OABI Beach Festival.
5. Enjoy the Caribbean Cultural Festival at New Center Park.
6. Spend some time at the Brighton Dance Festival.
7. Join the Water Works Theatre Co. for the closing weekend of its Shakespeare in the parkperformances.
8. See a showing of "BURN," a film about the lives of Detroit firefighters, at the Detroit Historical Museum.
9. Spend some time at the Shelby Township Art Fair.
10. Watch the Detroit Lions take on the Cleveland Browns in a preseason game at Ford Field.

From Crain's Detroit Business

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/apps/pb...v=201405231302

Better yet stay home, relax on the couch for 3 hours watching the Tigers try to score more than one run.

11. Eat at one of the nearly dozen or so new restaurants that opened downtown.
12. Watch Godzilla on Friday night or A Hard Days Night at Stoney Creek Metropark - brought to you by the DFT
13. Take the kids to the newly opened water exhibit at the Ann Arbor Hands On Museum

Find a dark spot and watch the Persied Meteor showers tomorrow-Sunday

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Find a dark spot and watch the Persied Meteor showers tomorrow-Sunday

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Holy cow thank you for reminding me! I always forget. OK...

14. Go to Cranbrook and check out the Persieds in their observatory.

15. Check out one of the shows at the Detroit Improv Festival.

http://www.detroitimprovfestival.org/

16. Support your local historic preservation group Preservation Detroit by taking one of their Saturday morning walking tours: Downtown, Eastern Market, or Cultural Center.
http://preservationdetroit.org/tours...eritage-tours/

17. Catch Ernie at the City Theatre. Only 9 performances left!
http://www.ernietheplay.com/august.html

18. Watch the Junior League World Series in person at Heritage Park in Taylor-it starts tomorrow.

19. Tour replicas of the Nina and Pinta at Bishop Park in Wyandotte Fri - Sun from 9am to 6pm

What an awesome thread!

20. Diamond Jack Boat Tours. The three ships [[Diamond Jack, Diamond Belle, Diamond Queen) offer a wonderful cruise of the river! This will be a great weekend!

http://diamondjack.com/

21. Zumiez Best Foot Forward: August 9 - Michigan Theater

22. Once Around Belle isle
https://www.facebook.com/OABIDetroit

There's even a Slow Roll for those that miss the Monday Evening Madness.

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Find a dark spot and watch the Persied Meteor showers tomorrow-Sunday

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Tonight is the night. Uncle NOAA says it'll be overcast Saturday and Sunday.

^^^ Will you be able to see the shower from within the city?

There's also Milford Memories!

http://www.milfordmemories.com

The 3 days of traffic drives be a bit batty, but a few hours at the beer tent and I forgive/forget. :cool:

We also have a new brewery in town that should be packed with this weekend's festivities.

http://riversedgebrew.com/

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^^^ Will you be able to see the shower from within the city?

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I'm able to see the shower from my kitchen! [[snaredrum) I have seen meteors from both Belle Isle and the Detroit shore, but it's a onesy-twosy thing. I have seen it out @ Whitmore Lake a few years back, and it was mesmerizing. You really want to be somewhere where there are no City lights to interfere. I'm thinking about taking a drive to Cranbrook [[even that's becoming more lit up as the sprawl crawls) but I want to look up whether or not they'll be open.

Also this weekend is the mass mob at St. Albertus Church in Detroit at 11:00 am

I'm about 20 miles from Ypsi, but I think I just saw part of the airshow fly over. Wild.
[[old military planes)

After attending St. Albertus for mass mob...stop by Sweetest Heart of Mary for our annual Pierogi Festival!!!

Watched filming of a scene for "Batman vs Superman" about a block from Campus Martius yesterday evening. That was pretty cool.

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I'm thinking about taking a drive to Cranbrook [[even that's becoming more lit up as the sprawl crawls) but I want to look up whether or not they'll be open.

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Cranbrook is in a valley, and most of the sidestreets surrounding it don't have streetlights. The sky is as inky-black as you're going to get without going way up into northern Macomb or north-west Oakland. They have a really nice observatory open later on Fridays and Saturdays, otherwise the entire campus is closed to the public at night.

Had a great time downtown this weekend. All kinds of different people coming down to play. They had Monroe blocked of several times with the people in the streets, very fun. Saying hi to everyone is my favorite part.