If you want to get into the holiday spirit this month, Detroit has plenty of options.
Arts & Culture
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Culture Canvas: A holiday show with a twist
If you don’t celebrate Christmas, there’s the upcoming Menorah in the D and the Motor City Kwanzaa celebration to look forward to.
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Black American life, love the center of Detroit Opera’s ‘Highways and Valleys’
Detroit Opera is opening its 2025-26 season with the double bill, “Highways and Valleys – Two American Love Stories,” which premieres Sunday.
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Detroit’s own crime-fighter RoboCop finally stands guard in Motor City
The statue was finished in 2017 but has been stuck in storage since then.
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Thanksgiving compromise to Detroit legacy: Sweet Potato Sensations carries on after loss of patriarch
This holiday season, one family member is noticeably absent from the hustle and bustle of the daily operations — co-founderJeffery Thomas.
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Detroit’s Spirit Plaza on Woodward to get a new layout
The layout is similar to how Spirit Plaza had been arranged before, but new amenities are meant to be more permanent through winter months.
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‘We all need community:’ Q&A with Detroit Repertory Theatre director Antoine McKay
Actor and Inkster native Antoine McKay is making his directorial debut with the play “Primary Trust,” which focuses on Black mental health.
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This Detroiter built her career on ‘the art of giving’
Since 2017, Bettye Wright has spent most of her time caring for senior citizens on the city’s southeast side at a nonprofit she founded with her grandfather’s namesake.
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Previewing new PBS docuseries ‘The American Revolution’ and sitting down with filmmakers behind it | One Detroit
One Detroit contributor Stephen Henderson of American Black Journal sits down with Burns and co-director Sarah Botstein.
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Tony Award-nominated performer Brandon Victor Dixon is coming to Detroit on November 15 | One Detroit
Brandon Victor Dixon, a Grammy Award winner and three-time Tony Award nominee, will be in Detroit Nov. 15 for “Cabaret 313: An Evening with Brandon Victor Dixon.”