Weekend Events for Shelby, Utica and Detroit

Check out the Detroit scene, or stick closer to home. Up first, Detroit:

Hunk Mansion: Interactive Male Revue Show
$20 (individual) – $850 (entire table)
Detroit’s “Best Male Revue Show” has a diverse cast, and offers steamy fun for bachelorettes and other partying women in the area. 21+. For more information, visit Hunk Mansion online.

2017 Detroit Historical Society Ball
$75
Sat, Dec 9, 2017, 9:00 p.m. – midnight
The Detroit Historical Society Ball offers a gala evening with proceeds going to the society’s educational programs. Tickets range from $75 for the Afterglow reception, for $850 for Benefactor status. The event is black tie. Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and silent auction followed by a seated dinner, brief program, live auction and incredible entertainment by Ben Sharkey. Visit theThe Detroit Historical Society online for more information.

A Very Electric Christmas
$10-$20.
Dec. 10-11. Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, 350 Madison, Detroit.

Christmas Cheer Swing Dance with the Dearborn Big Band
$20 a person, $35 couples.
7 p.m. Dec. 9, Historic Fort Wayne, 6325 W. Jefferson, Detroit.
This fund-raiser for the Historic Fort Wayne Coalition is an evening of dancing with a live big band.

12 Days of Grizmas
$60
Sat, December 9, 2017
7:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Midtown QLine Stop
(near Hopcat Bar)
This event to benefit Little Kids Rock invites Metro Detroiters to “join the brigade of Santas as we descend upon downtown Detroit for a walking bar tour full of merry drinking and holiday debachery…Dressing up in your best santa and holiday wears in HIGHLY encouraged.” For more info and tickets, visit the event's webpage.

Christmas Concert with Tedde Gibson
$10.00, (Childen 12 & under: $5.00)
Redford Theatre
17360 Lahser Rd
The Redford Theatre celebrates the holidays with a very special performance by Tedde Gibson playing a program of Christmas favorites on the pipe organ. Tickets available in advance at Eventbrite.

Meanwhile, in Shelby and Utica:

Christmas tree lighting & Jingle Jam
Free - registration required via Eventbrite
Shelby charter Township, MI 48317, 47488 Dequindre Rd.
Friday, December 8, 2017 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Come for the first annual Christmas tree lighting. There will be hot chocolate, and carol singalongs, the tree lighting, and then the Jingle Jam, “A Christmas party big enough for the whole family. Kids and adults will enjoy skits, refreshments and cookies, will take home crafts that the kids will make that night”
Tickets are free, but the township asks people to register via Eventbrite for planning purposes.

BYOB Tour of Detroit, Wild Lights, Rochester Light Departing from Utica
$50
Saturday, Dec 9. Bus departs from Red Ox Tavern at 5:30; boarding is at 5:15.
Red Ox Tavern, 45411 Park Ave, Utica
This 21 and older event nets you a complimentary Santa hat and bus transportation to Detroit and the Campus Martius ice rink and Christmas tree, followed by a jaunt to Royal Oak for Wild Lights at the Detroit Zoo and Rochester for the big bright light show at 9. The bus departs Rochester after the light show at around 9:45 and is expected to return revelers to the Red Ox around 10:15 p.m. Tickets via Eventbrite.

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