Have a fancy dinner or cocktails at The Whitney beforehand and feel like an old-timey lumber baron. The tickets are cheaper, but the sound gets better as you move towards the rear of the Max Fisher Music Center. Tickets are less expensive than you may think, and there are all kinds of discounts. The DSO is one of the best symphonies in the entire United States, right here in Detroit. The unamplified music is rapturous (I’ve seen it bring grown men to tears with my own eyes), you can get dressed to the nines and impress your date or your long-term-lover, although you don’t have to. The symphony is one of the most profound metaphors for what we can become when we all work together in the same direction to create something beautiful. Ready Player One and Offworld Arcade are within walking distance from one another Downtown. It’s a bit of a drive from the center city, but well worth it.Īnother classic metro Detroit arcade is Pinball Pete’s in Ann Arbor (and you can get some excellent bubble tea close by if you’re into that sort of thing.) There’s also been a spate of arcade bars showing up in Detroit, which are good options if you’re with folks who want to drink but you want something to do rather than stare into a glass of Diet Coke. It’s a legit small museum holding all kinds of mechanical history, from bizarre wooden art-piece dioramas that come to life with the drop of a quarter, to Dance Dance Revolution, to all kinds of weird circus and outsider kitch. Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum in Farmington Hills is more than just an arcade. THE ARCADE AT MARVIN’S MARVELOUS MECHANICAL MUSEUM Other solid options to get your comedy fix include Go Comedy in Ferndale and Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle in Royal Oak. On the right evening, straight-up nothing is funnier. They hold all kinds of events during the week, including original plays and improv classes, but the improvisation shows on Mondays are classic. Keenan Michael Key of Key and Peele got his start here, there are improvisers that call this place home who are measuring their experience in decades, and it’s legitimately, side-splittingly, ugly-crying next to your date funny. IMPROVE COMEDY AT PLANET ANTĬOMEDIC DATE NIGHT AT PLANET ANT THEATRE. Check it out for yourself- these are heavenly. Contra dancing is a distinctly American old-world dancing style that is like a square dance but way, way faster. $7 every Friday at 8:30 upstairs at the PLAV post 10 in Hamtramck.Īnother great local dance is the contra dance held every first, second and third Saturday in the Pittsfield Grange. If you have Eastern European ancestry and want to learn more about it, if you just want some time with some lovely surrogate grandmothers that can get down, or you just godda dance and the bar is too sudsy, this is the place. But these dancers know their stuff, they are (in my experience) incredibly friendly, and are so, so excited to teach you the dances of their mostly Eastern European cultures that they’re trying to keep alive. Yeah, dancing is easier with alcohol and you’re probably going to be the youngest person at the dance by like two decades. FOLK DANCING AT THE INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE CLUB OF DETROIT Other good options in the metro area include Royal Skate Land and Rollercade.Īnd don’t forget about roller derby! There’s one match a month in the early months of the year and they’re held in the Masonic Temple, which is cool to go see on its own. Northland Roller Rink is the undisputed king of the rinks that look like they came straight out of the ’70s, and they hold adult skates Fridays and Saturdays starting at 10:30.PM. It’s a great way to get some exercise and get those endorphins going while having a good sober time out with friends. Detroit’s real slow roll has always been at the roller rink, and it’s never gone out of style. Roller Skating is a Detroit tradition, particularly in the black community.
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