Toledo’s Afternoon Briefing: Free AI Training, Wu-Tang’s Thanksgiving Stage and Little Big Town in Detroit
Good afternoon, Toledo. Here’s what landed this hour — a free shot at a fatter paycheck, a Thanksgiving stage picked by Eminem, and a Friday-night drive up I-75 for country fans.
Free AI training opens today — and it could add 62% to your pay
Toledo AI Week is officially underway. Great Lakes AI Week opened today at Bowling Green State University with free, hands-on AI training and certification through AI Ready Ohio — and jobs requiring AI skills now advertise an average 62% wage premium. The big day for readers is tomorrow: Community Day at One SeaGate in downtown Toledo, noon to 5 p.m., built for residents, job seekers, students and small business owners. Here’s how to sign up and what the three-day schedule looks like.
Wu-Tang takes the Lions’ Thanksgiving halftime stage — Eminem picked them
The Detroit Lions announced that Wu-Tang Clan will headline the Thanksgiving Day Classic halftime show on Thursday, Nov. 26, when the Lions host the Chicago Bears at Ford Field. Eminem and Paul Rosenberg are executive-producing the show for the second straight year and hand-picked the Clan. It comes 12 days after the group enters the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this Saturday. Here’s what to know about the Thanksgiving show.
Little Big Town brings the harmonies to Detroit’s Fox Theatre
Grammy winners Little Big Town bring their For The Art Of It Tour to the historic Fox Theatre on Friday, Nov. 20, at 7:30 p.m. — the tour’s only Michigan stop and one of its final shows. Resale tickets were listed from roughly $23–$44 as of today. Tickets, times and what to expect.
Looking ahead to tomorrow
It’s Veterans Day — and the UToledo Veterans Day Breakfast returns to Savage Arena Wednesday morning. Details on the free breakfast and resource fair are here. And if today was your first look at AI Week, Community Day at One SeaGate tomorrow is the day to show up.
That’s the afternoon. More as it develops.
Photo: Students in a computer lab — Narek75, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). The photo is a generic computer-lab image and does not show Toledo AI Week.
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