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People in winter coats admire fireworks at The Henry Ford
  • The Metro Events Guide

Metro Events Guide: Making spirits bright with comedy, music and dance

Natalie Albrecht, Sophia Jozwiak December 4, 2025

Hunkering down at home is tempting as temperatures drop and snow falls, but there are experiences worth braving the weather—at...

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Brittini Ward, Tia , LaMarr Ward
  • The Metro

The Metro: Many Tongues immersive exhibition explores how stories bind us across time, culture, and medium

Tia Graham November 3, 2025

Do you consider yourself a storyteller? It's in human nature to tell stories. Stories have been used to pass down...

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MOCAD reimagine
  • The Metro

The Metro: MOCAD’s Co-Director talks 20 years bringing fine arts to community

Tia Graham October 27, 2025

The Museum of Contemporary Arts Detroit is celebrating 20 years in 2026. As part of its anniversary, the museum is...

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A new InsideOut mural completed by Oshun Williams on the side of Yoshi Hibachi Grille on Livernois Avenue.
  • The Metro

The Metro: InsideOut Literary Arts celebrates 30 years with a new move and new programs

Tia Graham October 21, 2025

For almost 30 years now, InsideOut Literary Arts has helped countless Detroit students find a love and passion for creative...

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AfricanDance
  • The Metro

The Metro: Annual African dance conference uses dance as a tool for justice and equity

Cary Junior II October 7, 2025

Dance is typically understood as a physical artform. A non-verbal expression of creativity, emotions and narratives. Dance is a cultural...

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Cover art for "MetalGhost: Kashif and the Echoes from a Past Life," by author Ali Mohammad Rizwan.
  • Culture & Music
  • News

First-time author aims to bring Muslim representation to the superhero genre with new book

Nargis Rahman December 30, 2024

Ali Mohammad Rizwan, author of the book, "MetalGhost: Kashif and the Echoes from a Past Life," explores the life of...

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Ceramic work by Assyrian artist Kim Khamo, who creates under the label of Nahrain Ceramics.
  • Culture & Music
  • In The Groove

Still Life Studio’s winter ceramics show offers eclectic pieces from local artists

Ryan Patrick Hooper December 19, 2024

I’ve never thought of a ceramics sale as an art show until I rolled through the Still Life Studios in...

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Kaytranada portrait with cat
  • Culture & Music
  • Progressive Underground

The Progressive Underground: Hear new tunes from Kaytranada, Raveena and more

Chris Campbell July 1, 2024

On this episode of The Progressive Underground, I drop new tunes from Kaytranada, Raveena, Kowloon, Detroit-based saxophonist Mike Monford, and...

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An interior view of The Vinyl Society, a new upscale bar and lounge in downtown Detroit.
  • Culture & Music
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  • The Metro

The Metro: New upscale lounge The Vinyl Society has Parisian flair with Detroit history in mind

Sydney Waelchli June 26, 2024

Do you want to pull out your best dress or favorite suit and go out for a night on the...

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The 2024 Eco-Artist-in-Residence at Eliza Howell Park, Halima Cassells, will be using materials and waste collected during an Earth Day River Clean-up in her upcoming art installation.
  • Community & Quality of Life
  • Culture & Music
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  • News
  • The Metro

The Metro: New Eliza Howell Park art project to be made from Rouge River waste

The Metro April 16, 2024

Eliza Howell Park in Detroit's Brightmoor neighborhood will soon be seeing new art installations as part of Sidewalk Detroit's 2024...

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Detroit Opera's 2024–25 opera season will conclude with Anthony Davis’s "The Central Park Five," (May 10–18, 2025), a true-story adaptation of systemic discrimination that earned Davis the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2020.
  • Culture & Music
  • News

Detroit Opera 2024-25 season to feature ‘Central Park Five,’ AI-inspired ‘Così fan tutte’ and more

Jenny Sherman March 18, 2024

Detroit Opera's 2024-25 season will feature an eclectic variety of opera productions written over three centuries, as well as dance...

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