A fine festival weekend indeed. DL! had a booth with some goods at Come Hear Belle Isle on Saturday which was just plain fun. The music was good (Maunder Minimum, Doop and in the Inside Outlaws, Champions of Breakfast) and the crowd a pleasant force of humans. The Remick Music Shell– this retro-looking cement compound of a stage– is just awesome. You can almost picture orchestras and bands playing in the 50s on smooth summery nights with people hand-in-hand dancing in the crowd. It really needs to be used more often. Not only is the stage cool, but the water is twenty feet away providing a nice little atmosphere. There was something special going on. Grass waving back and forth, summer sun, music in the background, people dancing and a bunch of donations to Friends of Belle Isle. Come on. That’s some goodness.

Seperately and simultaneously, the People’s Art Festival took over the Russel Industrial Center with what seemed like about double the vendors from last year. There were giant eagles made from scrap metal, mixtape jewelry and one of the best business cards ever seen– a paper moustache you could wear by attaching to your nostrils. Incredible. I wore mine for roughly 3 minutes, exactly the amount of time it took me to start sneezing uncontrollably. Whatever the case, very cool. All in all, a fine Detroit weekend. On to the week!