What’s Past Is Prologue: Mosaic Youth Theatre & NYC’s Public Theatre Team-Up on “The Tempest”
Courtesy of Lumumba Reynolds New York’s Public Theater has delivered Shakespeare to the masses in Central Park for decades. Now, for the...
Travis Wright talks to strangers. Maybe it’s his Viking roots, but the man is an ice-breaker personified. He says it’s because he moved around a bunch as a kid (but maybe it’s more of a compulsion of curiosity). When he’s not enraptured in a conversation, it’s because he’s listening to a song. Or watching the Pistons.
Wright’s an award-winning writer, broadcaster and photographer who’s covered Detroit’s vast music, arts and culture scenes professionally since 2006 (before that, he was doing “field research” at Wayne State University, where he earned a Bachelors of Arts in English).
He left print in mid-2011 to join WDET as a reporter and anchor of All Things Considered. He guided listeners through local, state and national elections, as well as sports, storms and national tragedies. But it was Wright’s interviews with artists, musicians, chefs and other creatives that lead to WDET’s “Culture City,” which premiered in January 2014.
Two years later, an evolution.
Wright co-hosts WDET’s Culture Shift, which he describes as “The realization of a dream every English major raised by Subaru station-wagon-driving, mandolin-playing, Cohen-Brothers-movie-quoting parents has dreamt.”
Don’t call him a Millennial. Or do ... but be prepared.
Move Naturally: Kristi Faulkner Dance Shakes Up Detroit
Courtesy of Kristi Faulkner Kristi Faulkner Dance has been shaking up the Detroit dance world with new, original productions...
Culture City Calendar & Download of the Week
"Undercover Wildflower" by Junglefowl The first and only single from this Ypsi based fun ‘n’ fuzz duo out of Ypsilanti is, as...
Afrotopia & Race in the Art World with Ingrid LaFleur
Courtesy of Ingrid LaFleur A new film festival exploring the contemporary “Afrofuturism” art movement is underway at at the Charles H. Wright Museum...
Bird Flight: TQM Recordings Co. At United Sound Systems
Courtesy of Top Quality Music Toronto-based producer Ron Skinner's Top Quality Music project makes unique recordings in unique spaces. Together with the Detroit...
Culture City Calendar & Download of the Week
"Gestalt" by Nigel & The Dropout Nigel & The Dropout is among Detroit’s most promising new indie bands. Since coming on the...
The Timelessness of “Turn To Crime”
Photo by Uri Korn Singer Derek Stanton writes songs that bite, as he did with Brooklyn-based psych-rockers Awesome Color. But since moving back to...
Eddie Logix Eats Beats for Breakfast
Courtesy of Detroit Grams "I've never been somebody who just listens to rap music... it was just a matter of seeking...
Punk’s Not Dead: Death Return With “N.E.W.” Music
"He always believed that the Death music would be discovered." Death's Bobby Hackney on brother and bandmate David Proto-punk phenoms Death entered...
Are You Reddy?: Director Diane Cheklich Brings The “Doctor Reddy Experience” To Art X Detroit
“You don’t expect someone to walk in a biker karaoke bar and pick out a Bollywood song from the book,...
Culture City Calendar & Download of the Week
"Hearts on Fire" by LALA TRIPS
Ale To the Victors: Jolly Pumpkin Brews Midtown
Courtesy of Jolly Pumpkin Jolly Pumpkin has been bringing quality brews to the state of Michigan for over a decade. With...