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WDET's Best Of 2025 playlist
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Best music of 2025 on WDET

WDET Staff December 12, 2025

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Mary Sheffield high fives in celebration as her victory in the 2025 mayoral election is announced.
  • Detroit Evening Report
  • Secondary

Detroit Evening Report: Brian White selected as Sheffield’s deputy mayor

Sascha Raiyn December 16, 2025
Israelis demonstrate to demand the release of the hostages from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, during a protest outside of the U.S. Embassy Branch Office in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, March 1, 2024.
  • Politics, Government & Finance
  • Secondary
  • The Metro

The Metro: Explaining antisemitism—and why it’s rising in America

Sam Corey, Robyn Vincent, The Metro December 16, 2025
Candace Nicole poses with a Roland keyboard
  • Culture & Music
  • Progressive Underground

Emerging artist Candace Nicole takes her sound to the next level with new album

Chris Campbell January 12, 2024

Detroit-based composer, pianist and bandleader Candace Nicole has become a presence on the local music scene with a rhythmic blending...

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A variety of public art will be on display at Farmington Hills City Hall through 2025 as party of the city's public art program.
  • Culture & Music
  • CultureShift
  • News

CultureShift: Farmington Hills launches Public Art Program at City Hall

Tia Graham January 12, 2024

Farmington Hills City Hall has been transformed into an art gallery as part of the city's 2024-2025 Public Art Program,...

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Community stakeholders gathered with local dignitaries on Wednesday to announce $14.5 million in MEDC grants that will go toward development projects in Detroit.
  • Community & Quality of Life
  • Detroit Evening Report
  • Jobs & the Economy
  • News
  • Politics, Government & Finance

Detroit Evening Report: City awarded $14.5M in grants for five development projects

Hernz Laguerre January 11, 2024

City leaders announced Wednesday that Detroit received $14.5 million in grants from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) to support...

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Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist sign a slate of bills into law in December that aim to reform the state's juvenile justice system.
  • Community & Quality of Life
  • Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson
  • News
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Detroit Today: Michigan’s juvenile justice reform, explained

Detroit Today January 11, 2024

This week Michigan lawmakers reconvened in Lansing to kick off the 2024 legislative session. And while Democrats begin the session...

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Portrait of Beth Griffith Manley
  • Culture & Music
  • Progressive Underground

Mic Check: Chronicling the musical travels of singer Beth Griffith-Manley

Chris Campbell January 11, 2024

Songstress Beth Griffith-Manley has enjoyed enough music experiences to fill a lifetime. A Detroit native and daughter of the late...

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A rendering of an expanded Second Avenue running between the proposed hotel and Huntington Place.
  • Community & Quality of Life
  • News
  • Politics, Government & Finance

City shares more details on hotel development at former Joe Louis Arena site

Alex McLenon January 11, 2024

Detroit officials shared details this week on the so-called “Hotel at Water Square” project, that would see a new 25-story...

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The intersection of Mack Avenue and E. Outer Drive.
  • Auto
  • Community & Quality of Life
  • CuriosiD
  • CuriosiD
  • News
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CuriosiD: What is the history of Outer Drive?

Pat Batcheller January 11, 2024

WDET’s CuriosiD series answers your questions about everything Detroit. Subscribe to CuriosiD on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts.In this episode of CuriosiD, we answer...

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Republican presidential candidate former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announces he is dropping out of the race during a town hall campaign event Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in Windham, N.H.
  • News
  • Politics, Government & Finance

Christie ends his presidential bid in an effort to blunt Trump’s momentum before Iowa’s GOP caucuses

Associated Press January 10, 2024

WINDHAM, N.H. (AP) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Wednesday suspended his Republican presidential bid just days before Iowa’s leadoff...

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Exterior of the Hilberry Gateway theatre
  • Community & Quality of Life
  • Culture & Music
  • The Metro Events Guide

CultureShift Events Guide: MLK Day in Detroit, where to watch the Lions and more

Sophia Jozwiak January 10, 2024

This week, we've got civil rights celebrations for MLK Day, Michigan music from Motown to metal and more. Plus, where...

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Casino Montage
  • Detroit Evening Report
  • Jobs & the Economy
  • News

Detroit Evening Report: Casinos brought in $1.2B in revenue in 2023, gaming board reports

Jerome Vaughn January 10, 2024

Detroit’s three casinos brought in more than $1.2 billion in revenue last year, according to the Michigan Gaming Control Board. ...

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A "Vote Here" sign outside a voting location in Michigan on Election Day 2023.
  • Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson
  • News
  • Politics, Government & Finance

Detroit Today: Should Michigan’s political maps be changed?

Detroit Today January 10, 2024

In 2018, Michiganders voted to have our legislative maps drawn by an independent commission of state residents instead of by...

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Motown Records will celebrate its 65th anniversary on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
  • Ann Delisi's Essential Music
  • Culture & Music
  • News

Ann Delisi: Celebrating 65 years of Motown Records

Ann Delisi January 10, 2024

Sixty-five years ago, on Jan. 12, 1959, Motown Records was born. No one could have predicted the parade of supremely...

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