07-08-2025
Things to do this weekend in Metro Detroit: Aug. 8-10
🥒 Get more pickles in your life — attend Pickle Fest at Blake's Orchard and Cider Mill.
Saturday, 10am-9pm; Sunday, 10am-5pm. Tickets: $6.20.
🖼️ Ready for a giant summer festival? Try Milford Memories with art, music, beer and corn hole.
Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-7pm; and Sunday, 10am-5pm. Free to attend.
⛴️ See and explore some tall ships as they dock along the Detroit River this weekend for the Sail Detroit festival.
Friday-Sunday, 10am-6pm. View the ships from the riverwalk for free. $25 for dockside tours.
🍖 What's better than meat and music? Check out the Ribs and R&B Music Festival on the riverfront.
Friday-Sunday, 11:30am-11:30pm. Free Friday until 4pm and Saturday and Sunday until 1pm. $15 after that.
🎙️ Join local publication Daily Detroit for its party and live podcast on Saturday at the Old Miami, with some free Johnnie Walker samples, too.
Saturday, 3-6pm. Free to attend.
📕 Celebrate the release of a new cookbook, Potluck Desserts, with author Justin Burke and local chef and content creator Jon Kung at Vesper Books and Wine.