Italian Wine Tasting at John Cowley & Sons

[ April 1, 2009; 7:00 pm; ] Wednesday Night Wine Tasting
 
Italian Wines on April 1st at 7pm
German Wines on April 15th at 7pm
 
Join us twice a month for our Wednesday night wine tasting featuring Sommelier Mike Larranaga. We will sample four wines each paired with a regional cuisine small plate prepared by Chef Zachariah Peterlin.
 
$30/person – Reservations Required [...]

Hoop it Up Flash Mob with Inside Detroit

[ April 1, 2009; 12:00 am; ] Our friends at Inside Detroit have the inside scoop (of course!) on when the basketball teams will be arriving at their hotels, and the folks on the planning committee want to make sure that they feel welcomed when they arrive. When their arrival times and locations are announced, you’ll receive an email telling you when [...]

Art Alexakis at the Hard Rock Café

[ April 1, 2009; 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] The new tour from Everclear frontman Art Alexakis has been personally designed to give the audience a unique and intimate experience. It cleverly incorporates audio and video elements woven together by the down to earth presence of the man himself.

The evening offers an insight into the life and perspective behind one of America’s most respected [...]

Donald Mayberry and Friends at the Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church

[ March 29, 2009; 4:00 pm; ] This is the second of our four free monthly jazz concerts at Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church. The “Jazz at Jefferson” series. This month we have the pleasure of presenting Donald Mayberry.

Don Mayberry is truly a “Musician’s Musician”. Highly skilled in all of the performance skills requiring a double bass, he is the “first-call” for many [...]

The Detroit Derby Girls at the Masonic Temple

[ March 28, 2009; 6:00 pm; ]

   DETROIT  DERBY GIRLS VS.     WINDY CITY ROLLER GIRLS
Sat Mar 28, 2009 – doors open at 6:00PM
Game begins at 7:00PM

Masonic Temple Drill Hall, Detroit MI
Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door, and kids under 12 get in free when accompanied by an adult. Get your tickets online at ticketmaster.com and at the following locations:

• Detroit Threads – Hamtramck, [...]

Call for Entries: Youth Environmental Short Film Festival

The‘09 Green Screen
The ‘08 winner: Zack Kilgore and Austin Schultz (pictured left) from
Smith Middle School in Troy, featured a film entitled,
‘No Time to Lose’.
Every year, East Michigan Environmental Action Council (EMEAC) invites Detroit –area youth to impact the environmental world around them through media arts. Detroit is both unique and explosive by way [...]

Futur at the Crofoot

[ March 27, 2009; 10:00 pm; ] Always pushing the boundaries by providing some incredible regualar night and, of course, a variety of brilliant one-off concerts and shows, the Crofoot will be introducing a brand new dance party Friday night.

The Crofoot calls it, “an upbeat dance night that draws thematic inspiration from a schizophrenic blend of 1920s futurism, post World War II [...]

Detroit Guerrillas at the Loving Touch

[ March 27, 2009; 9:00 pm; ] Detroit Guerrilla Queer Bar
Invites You To
Spring Break Road Trip 2

Loving Touch
22634 Woodward Avenue
Downtown Ferndale
Friday, March 27 2009 – 9:00pm

It’s Spring Break and that means we’re going on a road trip! While we’d love to head to Puerto Rico, we’re headed for the suburbs instead. Ferndale, in fact! Yes, we’re leaving the city limits. Shocker, we [...]

The 400 Blows at the DFT

[ March 27, 2009 12:00 am to March 29, 2009 12:00 am. ] (France-1959-Francois Truffaut)
François Truffaut’s first feature, The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups), is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut’s life-long cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), The 400 Blows sensitively re-creates the trials of Truffaut’s own difficult childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would [...]

Six in Paris at the DFT

[ March 27, 2009 12:00 am to April 5, 2009 12:00 am. ] (France/1965—multiple directors)
Decades before the new multi-part Tokyo! was conceived, a group of six celebrated directors of the French New Wave collaborated with producer Barbet Schroeder (Reversal of Fortune) on this remarkably engaging, rarely-seen compilation of six short tales, each set in a different neighborhood of Paris. As every neighborhood everywhere has a distinctly different character, [...]