The snow was a bust so here are 5 things to do this wekened in and around Royal Oak and Ferndale. Royal Oak Music Theatre: Events for two very different audiences. Big Gigantic from the electronic music genre plays tonight, February 24. $17 for a night of lights and...

It takes a special kind of family to work under the same roof, and it takes a really special family to pull off a Mexican-Asian fusion restaurant like Maria’s Comida. Especially when that family, the Pronkos, is neither Mexican nor Asian. Trust me, what they’re doing is great. I’m...

What a world we live in, eh? A famous singer dies and we all find out immediately. So immediate, in fact, that her own friends and family find out about it from the TV and not from each other. And now people are showing up to the funeral with...

A while back on Food Network’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, there was a segment about a diner probably not a drive-in or a dive that made a porchetta sandwich. If you’re not familiar with this dish, you take pork belly, tenderize it and wrap it around a pork loin....

Here is another “Cool Stuff” Idea from our cool Urbane Life friend, also a noted speaker and author Michael Angelo Caruso. Michael will be providing interesting Cool Stuff Ideas here every Saturday going forward. We hope you find them helpful. If you see Michael around town, tell him you saw him here first, we will give...