Arts, Beats & Eats…and Heat? A Preview of This Year’s Festival [Map+Forecast]
The annual Ford Arts, Beats & Eats festival returns to Royal Oak for Labor Day weekend. The event started in 1998...
Tuskegee Airman Detroiter says Enemy Treated Him Better than U.S. During World War II [Slideshow]
The Tuskegee Airmen are the military’s first black fighter pilots. The mobile tribute to the unit known as the “Red...
Art Deco Movie Theater on Detroit’s East Side to be Restored
Detroit’s Alger Theater is starting to show movies for the first time in 30 years. The non-profit Friends of the...
Massive ‘Fat Albert’ Jet Adds Heft to Blue Angels Air Show
Dawn Uhl-Zifilippo/WDET Some of the world’s best pilots took to the skies at Willow Run Airport this weekend for the...
State Fair Smaller than Original, but Owners Expect Higher Attendance than 2014
The Michigan State Fair returns to the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi this weekend. This is the third year of the...
Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: 8-29-15
Brand new Los Lobos, The Dead Weather, Jose Gonzalez, plus Detroit's own The Bruised Reed, classics from Al Green and...
Sister Ships: Filmmakers Tell the Tale of the Boblo Boats
Filmmakers from New York are working on a Detroit-based documentary titled “Boblo Boats: A Tale of Two Sisters.” Combining old footage...
Books N’ Beats: Musicians Flock to Ferndale To Benefit Bibliotheca
Longtime Detroit music journalist and employee of the Ferndale Public Library, Jeff Milo has brought together top-tier Michigan musicians from...
‘The Design in Everything’: Ruth Adler Schnee’s Illustrious Career in Textile Art
Photo by Ruth Adler Schnee The celebrated textile designer Ruth Adler Schnee is the Kresge Foundation's 2015 Eminent Artist. At...
Sir Paul McCartney To Play At Joe Louis For the First Time!
Ann Delisi, host of Ann Delisi's Essential Music on WDET, sits down with Stephen Henderson on Detroit Today to discuss Paul...
Second Line: Jazz In New Orleans Before And After Katrina
Kevin O'Mara Vincent York, historian and musician, joins Stephen Henderson on Detroit Today to share some of his music and talk about the survival of music and...
Old Farmer’s Almanac Predicts Cold, Dry Winter for Metro Detroit
The Old Farmer’s Almanac predicted last winter would be colder and snowier than normal in the lower Great Lakes region....