10 Things to Do in the D This Weekend - Feb. 20-22

[Lowell]

1. Attend an Oscars-viewing party at The Maple Theater.
2. Explore new worlds at The Ark’s 28^th annual Storytelling Festival.
3. Hear more than 15 Detroit bands covering other Detroit bands at Detroit X Detroit.
4. Celebrate the music of The Beatles at "Let It Be."
   
5. Listen to Tchaikovsky's "Romeo & Juliet" at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
6. Join a conversation with artist Tyree Guyton, creator of the Heidelberg Project.
7. Enjoy a performance of a live mystery radio play, "In the Heat of the Night."
8. Discover the Dinosaurs at Cobo Center.
9. Laugh at ROBOCOP! The Musical.
10. Walk the red carpet for Habitat for Humanity.

Kick-off list from Crain's Detroit Business. Add you suggestions and finds below.

[Kathleen]

11. Soup & Chili TasteFest, Saturday, February 21, 5pm @ Historic Trinity Lutheranhttp://www.historictrinity.org/soupandchili.html

12. Author Ken Coleman: Million Dollars Worth of Nerve, Friday, February 20, 2015, 7pm. Preservation Detroit hosts author Ken Coleman who discusses his new book Million Dollars Worth of Nerve, which profiles 21 African-American movers-and-shakers who made their mark on Detroit, with a focus on Paradise Valley, Black Bottom, and the Lower East Side.
http://preservationdetroit.org/2015/...n-coleman-220/

13. Interrogating the Housing Crisis in Detroit, Friday, February 20, 2015, 7:30pm. A Defining Detroit event hosted by the Marygrove Collect Institute for Detroit Studies, this program features a panel presentation and discussion with Jeffrey Cullors, Home Owner, Rosedale Park, and Detroit Eviction Defense Activist; Robert Day, Attorney, Legal Aid and Defender; Vanessa Fluker, Attorney; and Ted Phillips, Attorney and Executive Director, United Community Housing Coalition. Free and open to the public. The program takes place in the Madame Cadillac Building, Marygrove College. For more info: 313-927-1448.

14. St. Clair Shores Aqua Freeze Festival, Friday-Sunday, February 20-22, 2015. http://www.scsaquafreezefest.com/