Detroiters Recognized as Finalists for Innovative Ideas for Digital Era

Jake Neher/WDET The MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge (IIC) and its North America Region Collaborator, the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation, have announced the...

Who Are These People We’re Voting For or Against in November?

MPRN We now know all of our choices for statewide races in November. This past weekend, Democrats and Republicans both...

The Milo Minute: Hamtramck Labor Day Festival, Double Winter, Saxophonist Tia Fuller at the Detroit Jazz Fest

Listen with the audio player above. CultureShift airs weekdays at noon. Longtime Detroit music journalist Jeff Milo’s byline appears in publications...

Come Sail Away: Norma G’s Brings Trinidadian Cuisine to Detroit’s Eastside

Norma G's Facebook page Click the audio player to listen. CultureShift airs weekdays at 12 p.m. Has the Detroit restaurant...

Let’s Go Nightclubbing: Tracing the DNA of Iggy Pop’s 1977 Hit Throughout Popular Music

Timber Timbre Click the audio player to listen. CultureShift airs weekdays at 12 p.m. David Bowie and Iggy Pop were...

“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 this summer reading with listeners, discussing some...

Shooting at Jacksonville Video Game Tournament Claims Multiple Lives

 A gunman opened fire Sunday at an online video game tournament that was being live-streamed from a Florida mall, killing...

Playwright Neil Simon Dies at Age 91

Playwright Neil Simon, a master of comedy whose laugh-filled hits such as "The Odd Couple," ''Barefoot in the Park" and...

Esperanza Spalding and Terri Lyne Carrington Perform at the 39th Annual Detroit Jazz Festival

Bassist Esperanza Spalding and drummer, Terri Lyne Carrington, have a lively and introspective conversation with Essential Music Host, Ann Delisi, as...

Detroit Production Company, Paxahau, Marks Its 20th Anniversary at Bert’s Warehouse on September 8th.

Essential Music Host, Ann Delisi talks with Paxahau founders, Jason Huvaere and Jason Clark as they look back on their humble...

Senator John McCain Has Died at Age 81

Sen. John McCain, who faced down his captors in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp with jut-jawed defiance and later...

Long Live the Queen: Five Days To Honor Aretha Franklin

Getty Images Over the course of a week, people from around the world will gather in Detroit to pay their...