Going to Detroit this weekend. Any recommendations?

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If you are into hip things like blighted building and street art than Detroit is your city. Tigers games are really fun too. I would also recommend checking out some of the breweries around Ann Arbor.

Sounds like a good time. It's probably not as bad as everyone says.

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Slows BBQ is really good, but in a sketch area near old Tiger Stadium. There is some hipster slider joint called Green Dot Stables that everyone is talking about, but I think it's also in a weird, isolated location. Joe Muer Seafood in the Ren Cen is good for a high end dinner. Pegasus has the best food in Greektown, but I like the vibe at New Parthenon better. Niki's in Greektown has damn good pizza and greek salad.

Downtown, the Old Shillelagh, Town Pump, Hockeytown Cafe, and Cheli's Chili should be fun on gamedays, but will be packed. Away from downtown, the bar scene is probably best in Royal Oak.

There is always the "Windsor Ballet" across the river if you want the noodz.

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In 1966 the Grande was acquired by Dearborn, Michigan, high school teacher and local radio DJ Russ Gibb. Gibb was inspired by visiting San Francisco's Fillmore Theater, and envisioned a similar venue in Detroit for the new psychedelic music and a resource for local teenagers. Gibb worked closely with Detroit counterculture figure John Sinclair and Hugh "JEEP" Holland (agent, producer manager of many local bands) in bringing in bands from San Francisco, Europe and the neighbouring States and the top level of local/regional rock bands, including the MC5, SRC, Jagged Edge, Rationals, Catfish, Frost, Savage Grace, James Gang, Ted Nugent, Wilson Mower Pursuit, Sky, Third Power, All the Lonely people, Teegarden and Vanwinkle, Iron Horse Exchange, and many others who were gathering around Detroit's Plum Street community as well as the suburbs, as far afield as Ann Arbor. With managers Tom Wright, Bill Robbins and others (including, periodically Jeep and Sinclair) and local character Dave Miller, the club booked and presented many national and international acts - as well as future Rock and Roll Hall of Famers - of this period including Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Jeff Beck, Procol Harum, Cream and The Who. The MC5, The Thyme, and The Stooges served as house bands, assuring weekly performances. The Grande also featured the avant garde jazz of John Coltrane and Sun Ra.

Performances of this period were frequently advertised by the distinctive psychedelic handbills of Gary Grimshaw... It was during this period that the Ballroom became known as the "hippie capitalist center of Detroit"

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