Yemeni woman honors culture and traditions with catering business Taste of Aden

“Communities of Hope" features Detroiters from communities of color who have been looking for ways to persevere during the pandemic. Cathy Manna...

“The Birds Aren’t Real” movement hopes parody can save us from false conspiracies

The Gen Z-fueled "The Birds Aren't Real" movement says birds are all actually government drones sent to surveil us from...

Khana Detroit brings Pakistani street food to Michigan, one pop-up at a time

Khana Detroit is likely the only place in metro Detroit where you'll see twists on Pakistani and Desi dishes like...

“Book Smugglers” exhibit arrives at the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills

"Would you risk your life to save a book?" That's the question at the new exhibit "The Book Smugglers: Partisans,...

Wayne State Word Warriors offer a grandiloquent list of words to use in 2022

Looking to beef up your vocabulary? Wayne State University's Word Warriors can help. The school has published its 13th annual...

James Webb Space Telescope is a huge leap forward for understanding the universe, Wayne State astrophysicist says

There was big news from NASA recently with the launch of a new telescope that could reveal some of the...

The People’s Oracle Provides Insight Into What 2022 May Bring

For many of us, the last couple of years may have felt like a constant roller coaster. From wave after wave of...

That’s So Cheugy: Here’s the Most Mispronounced — and Misunderstood — Words of 2021

What were the words and ideas that we struggled to understand in 2021? Even if we did get them down...

From Award-Winning Journalist to Recording Artist: the Musical Journey of Evrod Cassimy

From a young age, Evrod Cassimy gravitated to music, singing in his church’s choir and showing an early acumen for...

Best of 2021: The WDET Playlist

WDET music hosts had a lot to celebrate in 2021. Ed Love of Destination Jazz celebrated 60 years on the...

Groundbreaking Quartet Kraftwerk Forever Revolutionized Electronic Music

Spawned from the late 1960s German experimental music community, Kraftwerk was formed in Dusseldorf, West Germany, in 1970 by Ralf Hütter...

New Book “Poetic Song Verse” Explores When Poetry and Popular Music Collide

University Press of Mississippi A new book is inventing a new musical genre. “Poetic Song Verse: Blues-Based Popular Music and...