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,...
Detroit Today Hosts Robust Conversation on Housing Insecurity in Final Book Club Event
In 2018, Detroit Today hosted a summer community read of Matthew Desmond's book "Evicted", a Pulitzer Prize winning look at poverty and...
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...
Canadians Face Travel Ban for Talking With U.S. Pot Industry While Michigan Dispensaries Fear Product Shortage
Investors are smelling the profit potential in legal marijuana. And the latest fertile field for financiers is Michigan, the 10th...
“We’re the Richest Democracy With the Worst Poverty,” says EVICTED Author Matthew Desmond
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson has spent much of 2018 reading with listeners, discussing some...
Former Head Of ACLU Of Michigan Talks About Her Big Year
Jake Neher/WDET Over two decades, Kary Moss turned the ACLU of Michigan from a tiny office in the Book Building...
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...
‘World’s Smartest Intersection’ in Detroit: Like Adding a Smartphone on Traffic Lights
Quinn Klinefelter/WDET Imagine a traffic light that stays yellow long enough for cyclists or pedestrians to get across, no matter...
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...