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...

The Progressive Underground Show 120

Kristian Hill On tonight's episode we interview filmmaker Jennifer Washington, founder of the Micro Music Film Festival who will chop...

Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: 4-25-15

This week on RREM... Neil Young tickets, a new song from Lianne La Havas, My Morning Jacket, a studio take...

The Life and Legacy of Frida Kahlo

In conjunction with the Detroit Institute of Arts' ongoing exhibition, “Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit,” author and art historian Hayden Herrera...

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...

“My Heart is an Idiot” Author Davy Rothbart Talks About Adventures, Love, and the Origins of Found Magazine

< Midwest Literary Walk Found Magazine Davy Rothbart is the creator of "Found Magazine", a collection of odds and ends...

The DIA’s Inside|Out Program is Expanding to Grand Haven and Bay City

Replicas of some of the Detroit Institute of Art’s famous works are taking a tour of Michigan this summer. Museum...

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...

Rodney Whitaker’s Two Jazz Disciplines: Playing And Teaching

Rodney Whitaker Rodney Whitaker, Professor of Jazz Bass and Director of Jazz Studies at Michigan State University, joins WDET's Alex Trajano...

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...

The Story Of A House Over Changing Decades

Angela Flournoy "The Turner House" is Angela Flournoy's debut novel. It tells the story of a home that’s stood on Detroit’s Eastside...

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...