look at what's happening around the D
this weekend we've got a great lineup of
events and our homeboy rich rice the
founder of the event planning company
Detroit by design is back with us my
friends done so are you too cool for
school or you too highbrow for
McDonald's bacon cheeseburger is that in
your wheelhouse doesn't work with my gut
maybe with a glass of red wine so you
can wash it all down and make it healthy
break it down buddy
keeping it in gonna see rich yeah
so let's start with a big anniversary at
the Detroit Historical Museum
it's Motown 60th anniversary celebration
yeah this is a cool event I had to call
your friend kaliesha and get the get the
skin night-night do you say hi kaliesha
so this is cool it's all this so they're
focusing on really sharing the legacy of
Motown with the next generation so I
know my parents grew up kind of through
the heyday of Motown we had 45s at home
we'd play on the records so families can
come down bring the next generation to
kind of experience the the Detroit
legacy there and they're doing a Motown
scavenger hunt they're gonna have a kind
of a craft table or you can make your
own microphones and then get
photographed and the step-and-repeat
museum backdrop and they're also showing
a really cool
Motown video Motown 25 that they made 35
years ago with a lot of really really
cool footage of the Jackson 5 watch that
live on out of here happened it was
great too old yeah from 11:00 a.m. until
4:00 p.m.
yeah that's free with museum admission
the circ is coming to town logo at
Little Caesars arena this weekend the
LCA the slice what's up with this yeah
it can be a little bit of Vegas and
Detroit this weekend this is one of my
favorites if you haven't been to circus
Olay that the scale productions just on
another level you know we do rigging for
for chandeliers and and drapes with our
events in Detroit they're gonna be
rigging these from the center of Little
Caesars Arena and have 50-plus
acrobats and musicians and performers
they'll be dangling from them and really
incredible production if you're ever
getting your value for a year for the
ticket price here which starts at $65
you're gonna get it this weekend
Thursday through Sunday
LCA I thought Cirque du Soleil on ice
last year oh yeah
and the rigging was crazy I was like
what's going on you know you keep
looking up and having almost like all
the time like yeah and a faller yeah
pretty cool yeah for those of you who
love music the music of Prince there's
something unique in the Dee this weekend
the Prince experience at st. andis my
old stomping grounds now I just went to
a dance party recently Prince Burt's
Michael Jackson old friend of mine
kegger puts on when I was a kid peddling
my newspapers on my roller skates I
saved up my money one summer and I
bought a triple speed dubbing dual
cassette jam box and the first cassette
tape I bought was Purple Rain okay I
used to play darling Nicky over and over
you know but Gabriel Sanchez is going to
be bringing that whole experience to
life there's going to be some
choreographed dancing and the costumes
and everything it brings all these
talented musicians with them it's only
13 bucks so something fun you can check
out and Saturday starts at 8 o'clock
that sounds like fun
cuz alright and finally we have a winter
festival happening in Metro Detroit cold
rush I like the name of that colder rush
Ice Festival so we grew up we grew up
with this one in Plymouth right Jason
the the Ice Festival every year this one
looks really caught in Warren it's a 12
mile on Van Dyke right across from City
Hall they've got an ice skating rink
they're gonna be teaching lessons and
they've got a cool an interesting take
on this one they're gonna be doing the
ice sculptures and making them into a
putt-putt course of so you can putt putt
through the ice sculptures you also have
all the standards there's gonna be
concessions and hot chocolate and a
little entertainment with this one $4
for kids of all ages and if you're over
65 it's only $2.00
so this is from 11:00 to 6:00 on
Saturday all right so we got a couple of
Plymouth i'ts here Lindsey and Linda
talking about how hot Plymouth is these
days as opposed to when you and I were
kid it was a little more sleepy a little
more quaint it's very cool
yeah I don't disagree I've been there
used to be the whole kind of pilgrim
thing they had the Mayflower Hotel there
yeah 40 years ago you know I was 8 years
old if it was the Penn theatre and the
Box bar and I don't remember maybe a
shoe store there was some years it was
really tough and they kind of reinvented
themselves a little bit like Royal Oak
did yeah and its really thrive salute
Plymouth all right thanks rich yeah
thank you you can check out what's
happening around the D by going to the
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