Community Calendar

It’s engagement season and 20 something Kinzley, an assistant and aspiring writer for BANGS! Magazine, is still single and turning 30 on Christmas Day! She returns home to her small town of Whispering Pines to celebrate the double engagement of her sister and dad (not to each other). If she can win the affections of Eric Silverspoon, she can make it a triple engagement, receive a promotion, and make all her dreams come true this Christmas!
December 5-7 and 11-14 | Thur-Sat at 7:30pm, Sun at 2pm

We need multilingual volunteers for the Salvation Army Christmas programs.
Be an Elf. "Believe in the magic of the season."
Wednesday or Thursday
December 17-18
9 am-5 pm
734-668-8353
kimberly.castillo@usc.salvationarmy.org

Gerald Ford became president at an unprecedented time of intensifying media scrutiny and growing public cynicism. To build back public trust in the presidency, he reluctantly turned to entertainment television, like the new late-night show, Saturday Night Live. His embrace of humor ultimately elevated expectations for presidents to entertain audiences and inadvertently changed what it meant to be “presidential” in the United States. Join us for a discussion with professor and author, Dr. Kathryn Cramer Brownell.

Following the event there will be a dessert reception.

It’s engagement season and 20 something Kinzley, an assistant and aspiring writer for BANGS! Magazine, is still single and turning 30 on Christmas Day! She returns home to her small town of Whispering Pines to celebrate the double engagement of her sister and dad (not to each other). If she can win the affections of Eric Silverspoon, she can make it a triple engagement, receive a promotion, and make all her dreams come true this Christmas!
December 5-7 and 11-14 | Thur-Sat at 7:30pm, Sun at 2pm

2 Stones Events will be bringing in metro Detroit’s finest jazz artists for a new series — Sessions @ The Vinyl Society, in the heart of downtown Detroit’s Paradise Valley. Two shows every Wednesday: 8:00 and 9:45 p.m. — and NEVER a cover charge!
Oct. 8 Heather Black Project
Oct. 15 Ben Sharkey
Oct. 22 Noah Jackson & Full Circle
Oct. 29 Jim Alfredson's Dirty Fingers

We need multilingual volunteers for the Salvation Army Christmas programs.
Be an Elf. "Believe in the magic of the season."
Wednesday or Thursday
December 17-18
9 am-5 pm
734-668-8353
kimberly.castillo@usc.salvationarmy.org

Experience the joy and wonder of Christmas from the comfort of your car at Ann Arbor Baptist Church’s Drive-Through Christmas Experience, held Thursday through Sunday, December 11–14, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at 2150 South Wagner Road, Ann Arbor.
Held for the sixth year in a row, guests will enjoy a light display featuring more than 100,000 lights, a lighted tunnel, towering 25-foot Christmas trees, a free drive-up cafe, caroler choir, live nativity and a mini movie - all designed to be viewed from the warmth of your car.
The full experience takes approximately 20–30 minutes and is free and open to all. To ensure safety and ease of access, guests should enter southbound to ensure right turn only.
For more information, visit www.aabaptist.church or call (734) 995-5144.

Picture it: live music and dinner, right here at Marrow in The Market. We’ve teamed up with 2 Stones Events to bring you the Marrow in the Market Dinner & Music Series!!!

Here’s the plan: four ticketed dinners where Chef and Culinary Director Andrew Shedden creates a menu inspired by the music you’re hearing live that night. Motown gets a Detroit-themed menu. Mardi Gras brings Cajun flavors. Cinco de Mayo, Latin-inspired courses. And Detroit Jazz gets its own celebration. Two seatings per night: 6:00 PM or 8:30 PM.

What's included: each ticket ($105 + fees $8.89) includes your four-course dinner, 20% gratuity, and 90 minutes of live music. Drinks available à la carte.

First up: Holiday Motown with Ben Sharkey!

Over the past ten years, Ben Sharkey has been one of Detroit’s premiere live entertainers. He infuses his live performances with a hip and sultry fire, bringing his artful swagger to the stage with a colorful fusion of old-school cool, contemporary jazz, soul, and pop.

Since the charismatic vocalist posted his first raw home videos of himself singing Michael Buble and Frank Sinatra classics to YouTube in 2007, he has amassed over 5 million views worldwide for over 70 clips. By increasingly popular demand, the Michigan native has amassed hundreds of performances at jazz hotspots like Cliff Bell’s and a five-year and counting residency at the Axis Lounge at the MGM Grand Detroit.

He’s been compared to everyone from Frank and Buble to Dean Martin, Mel Torme and Harry Connick, Jr. – yet he’s evolved from being a stellar vocal interpreter to master storyteller and songwriter. Collaborating with his pianist Chris Codish, Ben has written clever, crafty tunes expressing every aspect of love, deep heartfelt connections and the sheer joy of living life to the fullest in the sexiest, naughtiest, most sensual and playful way possible. Stylistically, he lets his muse lead the way to booming percussion driven landscapes infused with jazz, pop, swing, R&B, Latin and crisp, edgy house-dance beats that make him the ultimate contemporary hipster as well as a masterful throwback artist.

It’s engagement season and 20 something Kinzley, an assistant and aspiring writer for BANGS! Magazine, is still single and turning 30 on Christmas Day! She returns home to her small town of Whispering Pines to celebrate the double engagement of her sister and dad (not to each other). If she can win the affections of Eric Silverspoon, she can make it a triple engagement, receive a promotion, and make all her dreams come true this Christmas!
December 5-7 and 11-14 | Thur-Sat at 7:30pm, Sun at 2pm

Ypsilanti Community Choir presents: Light Up the Holidays with Song, Thursday, December 11, 2025, 7:30 p.m. Morris Lawrence Auditorium at Washtenaw Community College. Ariel Toews Ricotta will direct selections including The Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth, We Need A Little Christmas, Sweet Silent Night, Antiphonal Deck the Halls, The Alfred Burt Carols: Caroling, Caroling, All On A Christmas Morning, We’ll Dress the House and more.