Woodward Dream Cruise in full swing

Happy Saturday!

⛅ The high is expected to be 80 degrees . We'll see both clouds and sun, and it'll be breezy and humid with a couple of showers and a thunderstorm.

The Woodward Dream Cruise begins

Today is the 2024 Woodward Dream Cruise — an event that attracts around 1 million car enthusiasts to the metro Detroit area, for better or for worse. Some of the festivities have already started earlier this week and yesterday, but today is when the cruise actually happens on Woodward Avenue from Ferndale to Pontiac.

Here's what to know if you're looking to join in on the fun :

• Want to make the most of the Dream Cruise? Find out where to park, how to get there and what to do in each city along the event's route.
• Watch out for rain in the forecast while you're watching — make sure to bring an umbrella with that lawn chair.
• If you're looking for a bite to eat along the 16-mile stretch of the cruise — or some other events with food — we've got you covered with 12 restaurants to visit along the route .
• Speaking of food, the Achatz Pie Collective is bringing back the Achatz Cadillac pie for the first time since 2020, just in time for this weekend.

Also worth reading

📰 News: Detroit judge Kenneth King was set to teach two courses in the fall 2024 semester at Wayne State University. But after he was removed from his court docket for threatening a teen girl with jail time and having her handcuffed — all because she fell asleep in his courtroom — he's been removed as a part-time faculty member , and his classes have been reassigned to other instructors.

🗳️ Politics: Vice President Kamala Harris has greater support among Black voters in Michigan than President Joe Biden did as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, a new poll indicates. Also, presidential candidate Cornel West has been disqualified from appearing on the ballot in Michigan over a technical violation.

🏠 Economy: In an event in North Carolina yesterday, Vice President Kamala Harris announced her down payment assistance proposal. Some Detroiters might feel déjà vu — that's because Mayor Mike Duggan says the city's plan served as a model for Harris' national initiative .

🏈 Football: Connor Stalions, who was thrust into the spotlight last October as the center of Michigan football's sign-stealing scandal, landed a new gig at Detroit Mumford High School as its defensive coordinator.

🎤 Entertainment: When we arrived in Detroit, my fellow intern, Carmela Guaglianone, noticed that karaoke seemed especially popular. Now, she's got the reporting to back it up — and she found there's karaoke every night of the week in Detroit and Hamtramck.

On a personal note, this will be my last newsletter for the Free Press. My summer internship has come to an end, but I'm incredibly thankful for the opportunity to have gotten to know Detroit a bit better over the past 10 weeks. If you've read any of the newsletters I've had the privilege to anchor, or liked any of the social media content I've made, thank you so much! It's been an honor. — Diamy

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