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Indie Shopping, John Waters Christmas and Other Things to Do in and Around Royal Oak this Weekend

Weekend picks for local culture lovers include an indie shopping spree and John Waters holiday show.

Independent Detroit Holiday Shopping Quest – Saturday, December 15

SHOPPING

Royal Oak and Ferndale-dwelling city lovers should love this, but, you need to reserve your tickets asap.

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The Independent Detroit Holiday Shopping Quest — created by The Detroit Bus, a special event bus tour company — will host a shopping tour that’s perfect for anyone who’s looking for a new kind of holiday shopping experience. Making pickups in both Royal Oak and Ferndale, the bus will take tour-goers to more than a dozen different downtown Detroit retailers for a day of shopping, schmoozing and fun.

Participating retailers include newly opened mid-century homewares store, Hugh; Pure Detroit; City Bird; Detroit Mercantile; high-end resale shop, the Peacock Room and many others.

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The shopping excursion is a great opportunity to buy one-of-a-kind (not to mention local) Christmas gifts for your loved ones, plus, it’s a nice way to partake in some of the hope-inducing retail growth of the Downtown area.

Tour-goers will receive snacks, drinks and other promotional items; plus discounts with several retailers. Also included is a free lunch at award-winning artisan sandwich shop, Mudgie’s Deli in Corktown.

Special offers provided:

  • Detroit Mercantile Company: 10% off all purchases
  • City Bird: three free Detroit stickers with any purchase
  • Pure Detroit: free coffee or cappuccino at (adjacent) Rowland Cafe with any purchase
  • Nora: beverages and treats
  • Hugh: hot toddies
  • Peacock Room: woozy boozy punch
  • Goods: 15% off t-shirts
  • Mother Fletcher's: 50% off merchandise

Pick up times and locations:

Royal Oak: 11:40 a.m. at Gusoline Alley (309 S. Center St., Royal Oak; 248-545-2235).

Ferndale: Noon in the parking lot behind the Rustbelt Market (22801 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; rustbeltmarket.com)

RESERVE YOUR TICKETS HERE.

A John Waters Christmas - Saturday, December 15

SELF-HELP/COMEDY

Despite his oddball ways, the hilarious king of kitch-perv, John Waters, is a
well-respected man — first Broadway, then Hollywood, Waters’ cachet grew from sub-culture deviant to household name. And while some might still find him freaky, one thing the funnyman’s vast life experience and appetite for the odd has done, is make him a sage, non-judgmental soul. That’s why his spoken-word-cum-self-help-offering, A John Waters Christmas, is surprisingly warming to the soul.

The one-man show will showcase Waters’ Christmas-obsessed take on life, the world, and how to make it through.

8 p.m. at the Royal Oak Music Theatre (318 W. Fourth St., Royal Oak; 248-
399-2980). Tickets are $29.50/ $125 for VIP. For more information: www.royaloakmusictheatre.com

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