As Steve Johnson of Motor City Brew Tours fills in for Jag, we talk to folks behind the Big Highland Park Art Show (20:26). Also, the ladies of Coriander Kitchen and Farm talk about their Paddle to Table dinners with Detroit River Sports (57:48).
Here's what's happening in metro Detroit for the week of July 23, 2018:
Concerts
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Wednesday 7/25: Chris Brown at DTE
- Wednesday 7/25: STR8 Jazz No Chaser Wednesdays at the Northern Lights Lounge
- Thursday 7/26: After 7 and Tony Toni Tone at Sound Board
- Friday 7/27: Friday Night Live! DakhaBrakha at The DIA on the north lawn
- Saturday 7/28: MoPop Festival – Sat & Sun –West Riverfront Park on the water. Bon Iver, The National, Portugal the Man, St. Vincent, Vincent Staples, Highly Suspect – pop, indie, hip hop – 22 acts in all
- Saturday 7/28: Jason Mraz at Meadow Brook
- Saturday 7/28: Monsieur Guillaume & His Zydeco Hepcats at the Blue Goose Inn in St. Clair Shores
- Sunday 7/29: Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters at the Crofoot
- Saturday 7/29: Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite at Saint Andrews Hall
- Tuesday 7/31: Jeff Beck, Paul Rodgers & Ann Wilson at DTE
Comedy
- Saturday 7/28: Jim Gaffin at DTE
- Saturday 7/28: Russell Peters at Caesars Windsor
- Saturday 7/28: Detroiters Celebrity Fowling Tournament at Mike's Pizza Bar
- Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle: Bill Hildebrandt, Mike Boner's Uptown Friday Night
- Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase: Dale Jones
- Punch Line Comedy Lounge in Southfield: Gerald Kelly
- The Holly Hotel: Tom McCarthy
- Big Tommy's in Novi: Calvon Brown
- 313 Comedy: Sunday night shows free at the Detroit Shipping Company
On Stage
- City Theater: Men are from Mars/Women are from Venus
- Thursday 7/26: Much Ado About Nothing at Starr-Jaycee Park
- Michigan Opera: Summer Serenade 7/24 at War Memorial, 7/25 at the Detroit Zoo, 7/26 at Grand Circus Park
Other Stuff
- Thursday 7/26: 313 in the D. Summer rooftop party benefiting Matrix Human Services
- Friday 7/27: Art & Music festival on the Dequindre Cut. DP2A: Underground– a pianist, the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings and local graffiti artists
- Friday 7/27 and Saturday 7/28: Vidlings and Tapeheads Film Festival at Planet Ant
- Saturday 7/28 and Sunday 7/29: the Maker Faire at The Henry Ford Museum
- Tuesday 7/31: Free birthday ice cream from Hudsonville at Cadillac Square Park from 11:30 to 1:30 on
- Batch Brewing in Corktown selected as one of their 20 craft breweries where the food is as good as the beer.
- Lobster lover's should head to Mudgie's in Corktown this week.
- Michigan Good Fund gives $100,000 in grant money to local businesses
- Denver based company Big Green gave grant to Oak Park Schools for organic learning gardens. Students will plant, maintain, and harvest the produce to take home to their families