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Weekend Countdown: 'Home for the Holidays'

It's a brand new week, with plenty of events to fill your calendar pages.

Posted Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 5:40 am ET|Updated Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:00 am ET

Christmas is less than two weeks away, and there's plenty going on to get you into the holiday spirit.

Today we pick:

Where: Penn Theatre
When: 6 and 8 p.m. Thursday
Pricing: $10 student, $18 senior, $22 general admission
Why Go: OK, it's a Thursday event, so it's technically not the weekend, but it is a weekend kind of thing to do. See the Michigan Philharmonic's "Home for the Holidays" shows, full of holiday favorites such as "Sleigh Ride" and "A Charlie Brown Christmas." The 6 p.m show is the family concert, and for the 8 p.m. show the Michigan Philharmonic's principal oboist, Nermis Mieses, will perform solo. There also will be a Christmas carol sing-along and a rendition of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus.

Visit us again tomorrow for more weekend things-to-do.

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