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For a decidedly short span, there was a tiny speck of hope the Tigers were going to shock the world.Then, to quote an old song, "Boom...Boom, out go the lights.."But the Tigers still have 64 games remaining.These are 5 things the Tigers need to get accomplished:1. Release Victor Martinez, call up Christin Stewart - For the month of July, VMart has an OPS of .

Assistant Conductor Michelle Merrill takes the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to the neighborhoods this weekend to play Britten, Mozart and Mendelssohn at 8 p.m. Friday in Plymouth, 8 p.m. Saturday, July 21 in Bloomfield Hills and 3 p.m. Sunday in Grosse Pointe. Call 313-576-5111 or visit

The state Court of Appeals upheld the convictions and sentence of a man who led a group of five culprits in the robbery of a woman's Christmas gifts, cash and other items in her Mount Clemens home.

Detroit artists Carole Harris and Allie McGhee open a new exhibit, "Repetition, Rhythm, and Vocab," on Friday, July 20. It runs through Nov. 4 at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave. The two will talk about their works at 4:30 p.m. Friday. Call 313-833-9700 or visit

The Ann Arbor Art Fair - actually four fairs united - runs through Sunday, July 22, bringing art-loving hordes to the city in numbers that make a football Saturday seem like a quiet weekend gathering. Spanning 30 city blocks, it's the largest juried art fair in the country. Get details at

The 31st Michigan Indian Family Olympics, hosted by the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan, will run Friday, July 20, at University's Bennet Track & Field, 2239 W. Campus Drive, on the Central Michigan University campus in Mt. Pleasant. Visit sagchip.org/mifo/.

The Vans Warped Tour makes a 24th and final stop in the metro area at 11 a.m. Friday, July 20, for its first-ever residency at the Meadow Brook Amphitheatre on the Oakland University campus, Rochester Hills. Tickets start at $45. Call 313-471-7000 or visit 313Presents.

This year's Port Huron to Mackinac Island sailboat race on Lake Huron was so slow that the awards were handed out as some competitors still were headed to the finish line.The Bell's Beer Bayview Mackinac Race started Saturday under light winds and the weather didn't make for quick progress.

RocketFest will launch fun into the New Haven community this weekend with children's activities, a craft show, a softball tournament, fireworks and more.This year's event is scheduled to run from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. July 21 at New Haven High School.The New Haven Education Foundation, which hosts the event, is hoping to raise $3,000 to $5,000 at this year's RocketFest to provide mini-grants to teachers at New Haven Community Schools.

A buildup of sediment in a number of pipes that fed a manhole cover on Jefferson Avenue in Harrison Township that could have caused a sinkhole was discovered during routine maintenance recently.Macomb County Public Works Office crew members discovered that the pipes, part of the Murdock-Ballard drain that runs underneath Jefferson just south of Crocker, were filled with sediment, had structural weaknesses and other issues.