Director, actor, and musician Travis Reiff joins the podcast to talk about everything that's happening in Detroit this week, including Snoop Dogg's musical, a Detroit-area actress in Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House, and a street named for Bob Seger. Also, 101.1 WRIF's afternoon DJ Meltdown remembers Mike Clark from the Drew and Mike show and writer/director Stonechella talks about University LIVE!, the Halloween slasher play at the Charles H. Wright Museum.
Here's what's happening in metro Detroit for the week of October 22nd, 2018:
Concerts
- Wednesday 10/24: 21 Pilots with Awolnation & Max Frost at Little Caesars Arena
- Thursday 10/25: Wicked Moon at Ant Hall Hamtramck
- Friday 10/26: MC5 50th Anniversary of Kick Out Jam at Saint Andrews Hall
- Saturday 10/27: MC5 50th Anniversary of Kick Out Jam at the Filmore
On Stage
- Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle: Zoltan Kaszas
- Punch Line Comedy Lounge in Southfield: Torrei Hart
- Wednesday 10/24: Live Podcast Taping with Stacking Benjamins and Shanon Cason at Go Comedy in Ferndale
- Thursday 10/25: So You Think You Can Dance at Fox Theatre
- Friday 10/26: NPR's Snap Judgement taping at the Royal Oak Music Theater
- Friday 10/26 Mike Bonner's Uptown Friday Night at Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle in Royal Oak
- Friday 10/26: Night of Knockouts XIV at the Sound Board
- Wednesday 10/31: House of 1,000 Corsets: A Halloween Burlesque Show at Planet Ant in Hamtramck
- Wednesday 10/31: University LIVE! at the Charles H. Wright Museum
- Opening: As You Like It at Wayne State's Hillberry Theatre
- Opening: The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Other Eric Carle Favorites at the Music Hall
- Closing: Evil Dead: The Musical at City Theater
The Haunting of Hill House stars Bloomfield's Elizabeth Reaser
Around Town
- Friday 10/26: Creepy Cheapy XI at Crofoot in Pontiac
- Friday 10/26: Surrotica at the 333 Midland Annex Gallery
- Friday 10/26: Aretha Franklin Exhibit at Detroit Historical Museum
- Sunday 10/28: Trick or Treat at the shops of the Fisher Building
- Sunday 10/28: Cleary Culinary Academy presents Chef Max & Friends A Sunday Brunch
- Tuesday 10/30: Deadly Sins Exhibit at AtomArt in Ferndale
- Visit Haunted Blake's in Armada
Other Stuff
- Listen to Meltdown's (soon to be renamed) Radio Chatter podcast.
- Seth enjoyed an evening tour of Detroit from Max Flight Helicopter Service on Sweetest Day
- Help kids with food sensitivities enjoy Halloween through the The Teal Pumpkin Project
- Bob Seger Boulevard was named in the musician's honor in Allen Park
Travis' Picks
- Favorite Place for Cocktails: My Place in Wyandotte
- Favorite Song by a Detroit Artist: Baby Won't Ya by the MC5
- Favorite Place to Go on a Romantic Date: Belle Isle Conservancy
- Weird Detroit Trivia: The Purple Gang ran booze through the Atlas Building on Gratiot
- Favorite Places to See Concerts: The Crofoot and Saint Andrews Hall
- Favorite Place to Go on a Sunny Day: Belle Isle
- Favorite Coney Island Joint: Lafayette or Duly's Place
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