Author Jeffrey Eugenides Returns To Detroit As “The Virgin Suicides” Turns 25

Jeffrey Eugenides Author Jeffrey Eugenides was born and raised in Detroit, so it’s fitting that two of his most noteworthy...

Playwright And MacArthur Award Winner Dominique Morisseau Returns Home To Detroit For “Pipeline”

Dominique Morisseau is a world-renowned playwright who was awarded a MacArthur Genius award this year. She’s also a native of Detroit...

WDET EXCLUSIVE: The Origin of the MJR Clap

Some moviegoers will clap after a really good film. At MJR, a Southeast Michigan theater chain with ten locations, patrons clap...

Snap Judgement Host Glynn Washington Talks Growing Up In A White Supremacist Cult In Michigan

Jake Neher, WDET Glynn Washington is the host of SNAP Judgement, the storytelling program set to a beat. Washington and SNAP...

Jeff Milo’s Best in Local Music 2018: The CultureShift Playlist

Daniel Topete CultureShift airs weekdays 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. on WDET 101.9FM Detroit public radio. Every week on CultureShift,...

Remembering Ted Lucas’ First and Only Solo Album

 Click on the audio player to listen. CultureShift airs weekdays at noon.  Detroit rocker Ted Lucas first made a name...

Postcards from Eastern Market: Making Indian Food Fast Food

During one of her most recent trip to the Eastern Market, Food Journalism fellow Dorothy Hernandez visited Curry Fresh’s stand...

Postcards from Hamtramck: A Shopping Cart to the the World

Established 18 years ago, Al-Haramine International Foods caters to the region’s diverse and growing immigrant population. They sell Yemeni, Bangladeshi, Indian, Polish,...

CuriosiD: Detroit’s Citywide Address Change and the Search for 203 Pingree

Listener Kathy Hall Knall has a question about a home from her family's past in Detroit: My father grew up...

Theatre Bizarre Orchestra Takes Over WDET’s Studio A and It Was Loud and Wonderful!

The annual Theatre Bizarre event in Detroit is made all the more exotic and exciting with Joshua James and his...

Detroit News Film Critic Adam Graham Picks His Favorite Movies of 2018

Laura Weber Davis/WDET 2018 brought us another round of great popcorn flicks for the movie theater, and expanded the reach...

Flint Native Tunde Olaniran Reflects on Big Year for His Music

Gus Navarro/WDET Our region has been known for generations as a hub of innovation in music. Artists from our area...