This weekend, students in Detroit will showcase and sell handmade furniture they spent the semester creating. The event is part of Small Business Saturday.

Light displays, local holiday shopping, indoor entertainment and more. Here’s how to kick off your holiday season in metro Detroit.

In this pre-Thanksgiving Daily Detroit episode, host Jer Staes and co-host Norris Howard unpack a rare, candid conversation between Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and Rocket Companies founder Dan Gilbert about the future of Detroit and Michigan.

Across the Downriver area, merchants launched campaigns to attract shoppers on Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and right up until Christmas.