Between Takes: The High Schooler That Skipped School For Motown

Welcome to Between Takes; where artists and musicians tell stories about what happens behind the scenes. WDET’s Sam Beaubien has...

Metro Detroit: Local Issues On Your Ballot In November 2020

101.9 WDET, Detroit's NPR Station, is committed to providing fair and accurate coverage of the 2020 November presidential election.  Our newsroom is taking...

DFT’s Elliot Wilhelm’s Must-Watch Horror Movies For Halloween

Stretching all the way back to the silent era of film, horror movies have always held a special spooky place...

Metro Detroit Voters Share What’s On Their Minds Ahead of 2020 Election

The November election is a little over two weeks away. It’s almost hard to believe it’s so close after all...

It’s More Than Exhaustion: You’ve Reached “Surge Capacity”

After eight months of pandemic-related self-isolation, illness, and disruption of daily life, it's no surprise that many of us are...

12 Implicated in Detroit Police Corruption Investigation

A corruption investigation focusing on the Detroit Police Department’s narcotic unit has implicated 12 members of the force.  Officers are...

COVID-19 Tests Before Sex. This Is Dating During a Pandemic

"Is anything casual anymore?" That's the question writer and stand-up comedian Ginny Hogan poses in an article published earlier this year in...

Essential Conversations: The War and Treaty

Subscribe to Ann Delisi’s Essential Conversations iTunes — Stitcher — Spotify There’s something special about the husband/wife vocal powerhouse The War and Treaty, and...

Publisher Lawsuit Against Internet Archive Puts Future of Book Ownership In Question

This past March, the Internet Archive created the National Emergency Library in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  The lockdown...

The Progressive Underground’s Primer to Trip-Hop

Over 26 years ago, before it was made famous by the likes of Massive Attack and Portishead, trip-hop was a...

2020 Race Could Test “Nation’s Creaky Electoral Machinery”

Normally when America’s elections draw to a close, there’s a smooth transition from one leader to the next --even back...

Amy Coney Barrett, “Court Packing,” and the Future of the Supreme Court

If you’ve been paying any attention to the news in recent weeks, you’ve likely heard the term “court packing.” Simply...