• The Detroit Jazz Festival announced its 2025 lineup, featuring prominent national and international jazz acts. • Jason Moran will be the 2025 artist-in-residence. • The free festival takes place Labor Day weekend, Aug. 29 to Sept. 1, in downtown Detroit. • Local musicians can still apply to perform until June 1. The Detroit Jazz Festival – the world’s largest free jazz festival – announced its 2025 lineup on April 15 during a livestreamed preview event at the Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center, on the campus of Wayne State University....

Bill Belichick’s first game as a college head coach will take place in a familiar broadcast slot for the NFL lifer: Monday night football. North Carolina’s 2025 season opener against TCU will kick off at 7:30 p.m. ET on Monday, Sept. 1, the ACC announced Thursday. The conference also unveiled its full schedule for Week 0 and Week 1. The UNC-TCU game will be broadcast on ESPN. The Labor Day prime-time game is a staple of college football’s opening weekend. Boston College defeated Florida State in the standalone game this...

It may feel like summer has just begun, but shorter days and cooler nights are already around the corner. Some travelers, hoping to make the most of the final days of summer, have already begun booking last-hurrah trips for Labor Day weekend. The holiday weekend comes as many in the travel industry are raising concerns that Americans are vacationing less in the face of economic uncertainty. Airbnb, for example, recently announced that it was experiencing its slowest pace of growth since 2020, when the pandemic decimated the travel industry. Co-founder...

The Detroit People Mover (DPM) will close for about 11 weeks after Labor Day for track improvements, officials say this week. According to the DPM, the project will replace about 7,000 feet of track on nine curves and adjacent connect straight track along the DPM route. It's about 20% of the track on the 2.9-mile loop. Officials say contractors will remove and replace sections with new track. Officials say this is the third rail replacement project in the history of the DPM, with others in 2008 and 2016, but this...

An average of 4,000 passengers ride Detroit’s People Mover every day. In September, the 2.9-mile, one-way rail system in downtown Detroit will shut down to replace a portion of original tracks that are 37 years old. Beginning after Labor Day, construction is estimated to last around 11 weeks, with a planned reopening in November before Thanksgiving Day. Almost 7,000 feet of rail — about 20% of the track — is being replaced on nine curves and connecting straight sections along the Detroit People Mover route. The rest of the system...

Detroit's People Mover will stop moving downtown workers and visitors for 11 weeks starting in September while the city replaces about 7,000 feet of rail on the 37-year-old elevated train. The rail set for replacement makes up about 20% of the 2.9 miles of track on the People Mover route, according to the Detroit Transportation Corporation, the agency that operates the system. The work will take place on nine curves and adjacent straight track. The city estimates the project will cost nearly $5 million, using federal and state grant funds....

The Detroit People Mover will shut down for 11 weeks after Labor Day to replace sections of track that are original to the 37-year-old system, according to a recent announcement. The system, which is free to ride at least through the end of next year, is expected to reopen before Thanksgiving, and the Detroit Transportation Corp., the entity that oversees the system, has scheduled in-person and virtual public hearings July 25 and 30. The almost $5 million project, which is to be covered through state and federal grants, is part...

The inaugural Kitsap Blues Festival will kick off Labor Day weekend, with local and national acts coming to the Kitsap Fairgrounds for a three-day event organized in partnership with the Admiral Theater. “We’re going to have so much live music at the fair the week before that it just created the opportunity. The stages will be set, the sound systems will be in place, so Labor Day weekend seemed like a perfect opportunity to bring artists of this caliber and this level.” Jamie Jensen, the entertainment director for the Kitsap...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland National Air Show will get “loud and proud” celebrating 60 years with historic military demonstrations in The Land this Labor Day weekend (Aug. 31 & Sept. 1-2) at Burke Lakefront Airport.

The U.S. Navy Blue Angels Jet Demonstration Team, U.S. Air Force A-10C Thunderbolt II and the U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II are among the event highlights.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The fourth annual Butter Fine Art Fair is scheduled to take place in Indianapolis over Labor Day weekend. The multi-day art fair, organized by GANGGANG, features artwork made by Black artists from Indiana and across U.S. Deonna Craig, director of the Butter Art Fair, stopped by WISH-TV to chat with Daybreak’s Jeremy Jenkins about this year’s event. “This year, we have 27 artists you may recognize, such as Ashley Norwood, Gary Gee, and Harriet Watson,” Craig said Wednesday. “We also welcome a brand new crew, including 11...