Two-week festival features all nine symphonies, 32 piano sonatas, and five live webcasts.

AAUP-AFT chapter says it would help protect the union from Michigan's right-to-work law.

Users hope regional transit authority will offer stable, reliable service throughout Southeast Michigan.

Cass Community Social Services and Operation Get Down give homeless people a place to get out of the cold.

Find out when and where to look, and learn meteor-right-from-wrong.

Museum is expected to reopen after Christmas.

New exhibits honor Detroit legends, the Underground Railroad, and the Arsenal of Democracy.

Cass Community Social Services opens Detroit Urban Legends Haunted House this weekend.

Pat Batcheller and Jason Smith preview the 2012 season for UM, MSU, and WSU

It’s been almost a decade since Detroit artist Niagara has hosted a new show of work in her hometown. Her latest show “War Paint” opens at Re:View Contemporary Gallery in Midtown Detroit, Saturday night. WDET’s Rob St. Mary spoke to Niagara recently about her newest series of images featuring femme fatales lacing up their boots in a World War Two era style born out of her love of history.

Light rail supporters see positive signs from USDOT, but no dollar signs yet.

The Detroit Windsor International Film Festival is back for its fifth year. The festival starts tomorrow and runs through Saturday on the Wayne State University campus. Suzanne Janik is Director of Operations for the festival. She spoke recently to WDET’s Rob St. Mary - who is also a judge for the upcoming festival.

Detroit’s business community has pledged millions of dollars to build a light rail line along Woodward Avenue, but the Federal Government still has questions before it commits funding.

Preservationists are disappointed at the prospect of the demolition of the American Beauty Iron Building. But Wayne State CFO says it is necessary in order to build a state of the art biomedical research facility.

The Detroit branch is the 11th Urban Partnership Bank in the nation.

Wayne State football team plays spring scrimmage, prepares to make another run at a national championship in 2012.

Rare Rembrandt exhibit draws largest crowds in years.

Sad news from the art world today, a respected contemporary artist, and Detroit native, Mike Kelley has died. He was 57. WDET’s Rob St. Mary spoke to Travis Wright about Kelley. Rob interviewed with Kelley recently.

An artist transplanted to the Detroit area is being celebrated with a one-man show in Midtown on Saturday. WDET’s Rob St. Mary spoke to Bryan Christopher Baker about “an evening of Order and Other Formations” – his one-night only show at Review Contemporary Gallery.

Concerns over the city of Detroit's financial crisis have apparently spelled the end of plans to build a light rail line along Woodward Avenue.

Saturday night is Noel Night in Midtown Detroit – a chance for the public to get into the holiday spirit while visiting various businesses, museums and galleries. WDET’s Rob St. Mary spoke to one of the hosts of the event – Simone De Sousa of Re:View Contemporary Gallery. De Sousa’s gallery is opening a special year end group show called “Re:Collect 2011”.

A Detroit area fashion designer is seeking the community’s help to warm those in need this holiday season. WDET’s Rob St. Mary spoke to Sarah Lapinski about her second annual coat drive which starts today.

The DIA brings a rare collection of the Dutch master's works to town.

Rembrandt's works come to Detroit for three month exhibition.

The Detroit Institute of Arts opened a new photography exhibit yesterday called “Detroit Revealed: Photographs 2000-2010”. It’s a contemporary look at the city through the lenses of several local and international artists including Carlos Diaz who spent time in Southwest Detroit’s Mexican-American community.

Detroit musician Warren DeFever, best known for his two-decade plus run as the leader of the band “His Name is Alive”, is branching out and bringing some New York musicians to town to perform a newly composed classical piece, this weekend. WDET’s Rob St. Mary explains.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a fundraising party on Friday. WDET’s Rob St. Mary spoke to Marsha Miro – the President of the museums’ board of directors.

This is Detroit Gallery Week. Over the next several days art institutions will welcome the public with special programing. One of the larger community events is called “Memory Cloud”. The art piece features input from the community thanks to the web and will premiere in front of the Detroit Institute of Arts on Friday evening. WDET’s Rob St. Mary spoke to Theo Spyropoulos, one of the creators of the work.

A new exhibition opens Friday night at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit in Midtown. It’s the second part of the show entitled, “Barely There”. WDET’s Rob St. Mary spoke to Luis Crouquer (Crocker) – the Director and Chief Curator of MOCAD – in the spring about the first part of the concept. Today, he follows up with a look at “Barely There 2”.

Detroit artist Mark Dancey has had many jobs over the past 25 years - a cartoonist, a publisher, a rock musician – and for over a decade now he’s sought to make a lasting impression as an oil painter. WDET’s Rob St. Mary introduces us to the artist as a new series of Mark Dancey’s paintings are about to go on display.

Organizers of an event this week hope a little bit of street theatre will motivate better land use in cities worldwide. WDET’s Rob St. Mary spoke recent to Claire Nelson… the owner of Bureau of Urban Living in Midtown Detroit and one of the organizers of the local Park(ing) Day event.

Two Detroit artists, who previously worked together in the late 90s arts collective AWOL, have come together for a two-man solo show but with a twist. WDET’s Rob St. Mary recently interviewed Matt Zacharias about “BOLTH” – a one night only art event featuring Zacharias and Greg Fadell at Review Contemporary Gallery in Midtown on Friday night.

This weekend’s outbreak of violence in Detroit is on everyone’s minds.

WDET wants to know what each individual in the area is willing to do the change the equation.

We’re talking with newsmarkers, changemakers and area residents all this week to find out.

WDET’s Rob St. Mary spoke to Austin Black – the president of City Living Detroit – a real estate firm that specializes in selling properties in Detroit’s Midtown neighborhood about how the violence affects his business and what he feels can be done to fight crime.

The second season of the Detroit City Futbol League is coming to an end with a tournament on Saturday on Belle Isle. WDET’s Rob St. Mary spoke to League Organizer Sean Mann about the second annual Copa Detroit.

A new rotating multi-artist retail space is opening in Detroit’s midtown neighborhood on Saturday. WDET’s Rob St. Mary spoke to Margarita Barry – the creator of 71 POP.

Following the lead of the “Live in Midtown” incentive program introduced earlier this year… five downtown Detroit companies are hoping to lure their employees to the city. Denise Starr is Chief Administrative Officer for Compuware - one of the companies taking part. She spoke to WDET's Rob St. Mary.

From the factory floor to the freeway, noise is all around us. But is it music, or even art, when performers make it? The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit plans to talk about it tomorrow night. WDET’s Rob St. Mary takes a listen.

For the second year in a row… residents will take to the streets of Midtown in an effort to rid Detroit of a demon which folklore says has plagued the city for centuries. WDET’s Rob St. Mary reports.