Essential Cooking: 100th Anniversary of Prohibition
What did Prohibition have to do with America’s appreciation of Italian food? A lot, it turns out. Essential Cooking host...
Between Takes: The Motown Sound That Started in the Upper Peninsula
Welcome to Between Takes; where artists and musicians tell stories about what happens behind the scenes. WDET’s Sam Beaubien has been...
Exploring America’s Historic Thirst for Crap
In Wendy A. Woloson’s new book “Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff In America,” she connects our present day consumption...
Hang Out With WDET (Virtually) at the 2020 Detroit Podcast Festival
The Detroit Podcast Festival returns this year as a virtual conference. A weekend full of workshops and panel discussions will...
The Motor City’s Techno Legacy Arrives at the Detroit Historical Museum
When the Movement electronic music festival launched in 2000 under the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF) banner, no one knew...
Essential Conversations: The Day Jeff Buckley Performed At WDET
Subscribe to Ann Delisi’s Essential Conversations iTunes — Stitcher — Spotify Essential Conversations' Ann Delisi spoke with former WDET staffers Jason Schusterbauer and Mike...
Between Takes: Motown, Armed and Funky In the Deep South
Welcome to Between Takes; where artists and musicians tell stories about what happens behind the scenes. WDET’s Sam Beaubien has...
PBS at 50: Revisiting the Trusted Brand’s Legacy
PBS is the home for everything from the Cookie Monster to Ken Burns’ acclaimed documentaries. But PBS President Paula Kerger...
Detroit Arts Face Reckoning In MOCAD, DIA Toxic Workplace Allegations
It didn’t take long for Detroit, home to two of the most high-profile museums in the state, to be dragged...
Essential Conversations: Record Producer, Songwriter, and Musician Billy Mann
Subscribe to Ann Delisi’s Essential ConversationsiTunes — Stitcher — SpotifyEssential Conversations' Ann Delisi spoke with record producer, songwriter, and musician Billy Mann.Billy Mann has worked...
Why We Can’t Stop Watching Movies About Political Corruption
Politics in American film has been a constant since Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” was released in 1940. Since then,...
Drawing On Global Languages To Find New Ways to Be Happy
Joy, glee, cheer, exhilaration: These are all synonyms for the word 'happiness' in the English language. Ask anyone and they'll...