The city of Royal Oak has declared 2 states of snow emergency so far and were sure more is to come. Keep your eyes glued to your email for those postings from the city at 10pm or you’ll be like me and wake up to a $50 parking ticket on your car.

After months of weekly meetings at The Coffee Beanery in Berkley,  i3Detroit has made its home located downtown at 322 East 4th Street Royal Oak Mi.
Weekly meetings are held currently each tuesday at 7PM at the new location.  If you are interested in finding out more about the group and would like to be apart of it please visit! i3 is actively accepting new members.

The grand opening will be hosted the first weekend of October, opening the doors to the public to come and see what i3Detroit is all about.  With the first class
“Intro to Small Scale Web Advertising (Part 1)” scheduled for Monday, October 05, 2009 from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM (ET) i3 will feature many lectures available to the public to learn topics presented by various hosts.

Anyone is allowed to visit i3Detroit, though Membership allows full access to the premises 24/7 onsite storage, voting rights,  and other various perks.  Non-members are allowed to visit the space while another member is willing to accompany them.

http://www.i3detroit.com

“Fall in love with the Detroit Zoo all over again at this exclusive after-hours event for guests 21 years and older ONLY.  Summer Zoomance invites guests to revisit their childhood memories of the Detroit Zoo while creating new ones during a peaceful twilight stroll among the Zoo’s award-winning habitats from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The evening will include live entertainment and animal enrichment.  Adult beverages and food will be available for purchase.

Guests must be born on or before August 18, 1988 to enter event.  IDs will be checked at the Main Gate entrance.  Admission is $8 for all guests and parking is free for Detroit Zoological Society Members. Parking is $5 for non-members.  This event takes place rain or shine..”

Summer Zoomance

Royal Oak is known for a few things, Live music being one of them. Occasionally you will be walking downtown, or eating at one of the patio cafes and hear the sounds of an acoustic guitar in the distance and some young out of key guy singing, or you will get lucky and be at the corner with the saxophonist.  Though RO’s live music has its up and downs of musicians, its always entertaining to hear something going on while downtown.

So back to my point, The Decemberist are a larger touring band, and over the past hour has been pushing publicity via twitter to get people down to Royal Oak to come check them out.  Not like they are a loud scream-O band.

Well I score this one Artists 1 RO Police 0

Around 3am this morning a fatal hit and run accident caused the entire city of Royal Oak to wonder WTF.
“WTH is going on with the helicopter hovering over Royal Oak/Ferndale? It’s no traffic copter.”
“wtf is this big ol’ helicopter doing flying back and forth over Royal Oak at 4:30am??”

During the hours of 3am and 6am a US Coast Guard helicopter was call in to help search and capture the hit and run suspect on westbound i696 to Woodward ramp.
As of 6am it is reported the suspect is in police custody.

Well, my adventures of July 10th. of course.  Day started out receiving a tweet from the city I live in, informing me of a free trolley ride between the regional 5 local downtown cities.  Trolley #1 made a round trip every 30 mins to Royal Oak,  Pleasant Ridge, Ferndale.
Trolley #2 visited Royal Oak, Berkley, and Huntington Woods. 

While visiting around Royal Oak, walking down Fifth Ave I came across Fifth Ave Billiards to find a IRS seizure posted on the door.  Apparently 5th Ave Billiards owed 2 years in back taxes, so the government seized their building and equipment.  Sad to see another one go down in Royal Oak, from my understanding they just recently lost their dance license.. WTF, a license to allow people to DANCE?

To end the night, I celebrated an early birthday with a gift to myself by catching the midnight showing at the Royal Oak theater. 1984′s Ghost Busters,  being 26 catching a movie that came out on big screen 25 years ago was pretty awesome.

In a way we plan to bring back the community that was ROSO but with our twists on things, we will be building a much bigger community.

So stay tuned….  we have more to come..