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Eight ways to spend the first weekend of 2024 in Detroit | One Detroit Weekend

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January 5, 2024

Eight ways to spend the first weekend of 2024 in Detroit | One Detroit Weekend

It’s the first weekend of 2024, and here’s what’s coming up in and around metro Detroit. Get moving in the new year with a Hustle Class and Disco Party at the Detroit Public Library Chaney Branch; check out northern lights at Beacon Park in Detroit; or catch Cirque du Soleil “Crystal” show at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. Plus, there is a dance film series at the Detroit Opera House and a workshop recognizing women at the Detroit Institute of Arts. See what’s coming up around town on “One Detroit Weekend” with Peter Whorf and Dave Wagner of 90.9 WRCJ.

List of Upcoming Events:

Share stories and experiences of women at the Recognizing Women Project Workshop, a monthly multi-disciplinary arts event at the Detroit Institute of Arts Lecture Hall on Jan. 5.
Get your dance on at the Detroit Public Library’s “Hustle in the New Year: Hustle Class and Disco Party” happening at the Chaney branch on Jan. 6.
Audition for the Detroit Youth Choir during its mid-season auditions at Marygrove Conservancy in Detroit on Jan. 6. The auditions are open to kids aged 9-18.
View the next installment of Detroit Opera’s Dance Film Series at the Detroit Opera House’s Ford Center for Arts and Learning on Jan. 9.
Head over to The Creature Conservancy in Ann Arbor to learn about animals and conservation. The Conservancy is open on weekends and the first Fridays of every month.
Take in the beauty of Beacon Park’s “Northern Lights” installation, which features a 15-foot infinity snow globe, photo opportunities and more. The installation is open through Jan. 16.
Explore more than 60 award-winning movie costumes from “Black Panther,” “Malcolm X,” and more at Ruth E. Carter’s “Afrofuturism in Costume Design” exhibit at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.
Be amazed by a new performance from Cirque du Soleil coming to Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on Jan 7. “Cirque du Soleil: Crystal” combines skating and circus acrobatics into one unique performance.

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PWHL players bond with women’s hockey pioneers at Detroit clinic | NHL.com

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March 28, 2026

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PWHL players bond with women’s hockey pioneers at Detroit clinic | NHL.com

Both generations on the ice Friday are intent on growing the game for today’s kids. Hartje and the Polar Bears believe an important step for women’s hockey in Michigan would be starting a Division I college team.

“I think if the PWHL establishes a team in Detroit, it will put a lot of pressure on the colleges to make sure there’s a D-I team in the state,” Hartje said. “Michigan has the second-highest number of players in the league, and it would have been a dream for us to be able to stay in the state to play.”

It’s been a problem for decades. Pierson had to turn down the offer from Boston University, because her family couldn’t afford to send her to New England for college. Hartje ended up at Yale University, and Megan Keller, who scored the gold medal winning goal for the U.S. in the 2026 Winter Olympics and plays for the PWHL’s Boston Fleet, went from suburban Detroit to Boston College.

Meanwhile, 2026 U.S. men’s Olympic team members and Michigan natives Dylan Larkin of the Red Wings and Zach Werenski of the Columbus Blue Jackets were able to stay in the state to play with the USA Hockey National Team Development Program, then based in Ann Arbor, before moving on to the University of Michigan in the same town.

“Megan’s brother played at Michigan State, and I’m sure she also would have stayed here to play for a Michigan school,” Skarupa said. “It’s imperative that Michigan gets a college program.”

Skarupa is serious about growing the game. She is working with Keller and the NHL Foundation U.S. to identify recipients for its $100,000 Empowerment Grant Program for Girls Hockey.

“Every time I go back to a city, there are new teams, new girls and new faces,” she said. “It’s a testament to growth all over the world, but it is tremendous inside the U.S.”

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Retired Detroit sergeant faces new sexual assault charge involving 14-year-old victim from 2002

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March 27, 2026

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Retired Detroit sergeant faces new sexual assault charge involving 14-year-old victim from 2002

Updated on: March 27, 2026 / 12:23 PM EDT
/ CBS Detroit

An additional case, this one involving a victim who was then 14 years old, has been added to the sexual assault investigation against a former Detroit Police Department sergeant.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced the latest charges on Friday against Benjamin Martin Wagner, 68, who now lives in Greenville, N.C. He had retired from the Detroit Police Department in 2017.

The victim in the additional charges was 14 years old when the assault happened in October 2002 in Detroit, Worthy said. The prosecutor alleges that Wagner approached the victim, pointed a handgun at her, ordered her away from the location and then sexually assaulted her.

In this case, he faces charges of kidnapping, two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct. An arraignment hearing took place Friday in the 36th District Court in Detroit. A probable cause conference is scheduled for April 7.

The woman is now 37 years old.

“She has lived with what happened to her for 23 years and has now bravely decided that she wants to be a part of holding him accountable,” Worthy said.

Wagner participated in a court hearing Thursday and was remanded to jail, one week after he was charged with 15 counts of kidnapping and rape in five separate sexual assault cases. All of those incidents happened between 1999 and 2003 in the northwest side of Detroit, with the victims being young women between the ages of 15 and 23.

The court dates for the earlier list of charges are April 7 for a probable cause hearing and April 14 for a preliminary exam.

Wagner joined the Detroit Police Department in 1989 as a police officer and was eventually promoted to sergeant. He retired in 2017 and moved to North Carolina.

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Metro Detroit weather forecast, March 26, 2026 — 11 p.m. Update

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March 27, 2026

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Metro Detroit weather forecast, March 26, 2026 — 11 p.m. Update

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