Chain Restaurants Are Popping Up All Over Downtown Detroit
Jake Neher/WDET It was only a matter of time before the chain restaurant renaissance took hold in Detroit, says Metro Times...
The Scoop on What’s Playing During the Detroit Film Theatre’s New Season
Jake Neher/WDET The new season at the Detroit Film Theatre begins in September, and is filled with “passion” says Elliot Wilhelm. As curator of...
Detroit Jazz Fest President Talks About How Jazz Binds Detroiters Together
Credit: Len Katz (Courtesy of Detroit Jazz Festival) Labor Day Weekend is fast approaching, and that means so is the...
Sterling Heights Officials say No Bias in Rejection of Mosque Plan
Officials in Sterling Heights say they did not discriminate against Muslims when they denied a request to build a new...
Growing Business And Community on Michigan Avenue in SW Detroit
The stretch of Michigan Avenue running through Southwest Detroit is one of the city’s most diverse and burgeoning neighborhoods. It’s...
New DNA Evidence In Decades Old Murder Case
Joe Gratz, flickr A man serving life in prison for multiple murders across several counties could get a new trial...
Long Rebuild of I-75 Starts in Oakland County
The Michigan Department of Transportation has started the first phase of a project that will last more than a decade--the...
Must Detroit Shrink to Survive?
Dawn Uhl-Zifilippo/WDET When the city of Detroit emerged from the nation’s largest-ever municipal bankruptcy almost two years ago it...
Superior Takes Audiences On a 1,300-mile Adventure In Michigan’s U.P.
Next week Metro Detroit native and director Edd Benda takes his first feature film on the road for the...
Two Nights of X: Punk Icons Play First 2 Records Over 2 Nights at El Club
X Three decades after the punk movement gave birth to the band X in southern California, the songs continue to stand on...
After a Three Year Delay, “The Damn Bridge Is Fixed” Over Rouge River
"The Damn Bridge is Fixed" Jefferson drawbridge b/w River Rouge & Detroit opens for the first time since 2013 @wdet...
Niyo In Rio: Second Week of Summer Olympics Brings More Drama, Controversy
Michael Hayball We’re seeing the greatest athletes ever in some of the marquis sports in the Olympic Games. But we’re...