After a Summer of Renovation, Music Venue Fillmore Detroit Revives 93-Year-Old History
Melody Baetens/ Detroit News Click on the audio player to listen. CultureShift airs weekdays at 12 p.m. The music venue...
Ryan Patrick Hooper is the award-winning host of "In the Groove" on 101.9 WDET-FM Detroit’s NPR station. Hooper has covered stories for the New York Times, NPR, Detroit Free Press, Hour Detroit, SPIN and Paste magazine.
Hooper grew up reading the Sunday paper with his dad. That’s where he learned the basics of writing while dreaming of one day writing the stories himself. At 16, he knocked on the door of his hometown paper and asked for a job as a reporter. Since then, he's written extensively for the Detroit Free Press -- the same paper he grew up reading.
Since joining WDET in 2017, Hooper has expanded the station’s arts and culture coverage and received numerous awards from the Michigan Association of Broadcasting along the way. Nationally, Hooper was awarded a 2020 RTDNA Regional Edward R. Murrow award for feature reporting for his story “Would You Rent a Stray Dog From the City of Detroit?“ In 2018, Hooper was named the Associated Press Michigan Editors Broadcast Rising Star in broadcast journalism. He received the prestigious Crain’s Detroit Business “20 In Their 20s” award in 2014. His commitment to volunteerism was recognized by the State of Michigan in 2007.
His juggalo-inspired I.C.Pizza costume was selected by the Huffington Post as one of the best Halloween costumes of 2014.
2018 WDET Michigan Beer Bracket: Who Advances to the Inebri-8?
WDET WDET listeners like you nominated the top 32 Michigan beers in the first-ever 2018 WDET Michigan Beer Bracket with some...
2018 WDET Michigan Beer Bracket: Breaking Down the Top 32 Breweries
WDET Click on the audio player to listen. CultureShift airs weekdays at 12 p.m. The 2018 WDET Michigan Beer...
Will Michigan Beer Buyers Boycott Founders After Their Recent Snafu?
WDET Click on the audio player to listen. CultureShift airs weekdays at 12 p.m. The 2018 WDET Michigan Beer Bracket...
Southwest Detroit Restaurant Week Wraps Up This Weekend
El Nacimiento Click on the audio player to listen. CultureShift airs weekdays at 12 p.m. The first-ever Southwest Detroit Restaurant...
“The Third Murder” Brings Gripping Japanese Crime Cinema to the Detroit Film Theatre
Detroit Film Theatre Click on the audio player to listen. CultureShift airs weekdays at 12 p.m. This weekend, the Detroit...
Genius Detroit Playwright Premieres “Pipeline” at Detroit Public Theatre
Chuk Nowak Click on the audio player to listen. CultureShift airs weekdays at 12 p.m. Pipeline made its Detroit debut at the...
2018 WDET Michigan Beer Bracket: Road to the Sudsy 16
Last year, Michigan's beer economy was worth $10.5-billion and created over 30,000 jobs for the Mitten State. That means there's lots of Michigan beer to...
2018 WDET Michigan Beer Bracket: Nominate Your Favorite Beer
Last year, Michigan's beer economy was worth $10.5-billion and created over 30,000 jobs for the Mitten State. That means there's lots of Michigan beer...
Buried & Forgotten: Why Did This Groundbreaking Black Artist Disappear from Local History?
Ryan Patrick Hooper Click the audio player above to listen to this story. CultureShift airs weekdays at 12 p.m. on WDET...
“Love, Gilda” Brings Gilda Radner Home to Detroit
Detroit Film Theatre Click on the audio player to listen. CultureShift airs weekdays at 12 p.m. This weekend, the Detroit...
Cuba Comes to Detroit: Cuban-Inspired Restaurant Set to Open in Downtown
Via Facebook Click on the audio player to listen. CultureShift airs weekdays at 12 p.m. Downtown Detroit seems to be...