Culture City Calendar & Download of the Week
Download of the Week "Let it Happen" by Tame Impala After a breakout year in 2013 with their sophomore record...
Ulysses S. Grant’s Former Detroit Home is Moving
A home U-S President Ulysses S Grant lived in while he was stationed by the military in Detroit is...
Mexican Folk Dancing Makes a Comeback
Folkloric dance has been has long been a part of maintaining Mexican culture in Southwest Detroit. A few years ago...
New York Billboards Say “Move to Detroit”
Philip Kafka Billboards and graffiti in New York City are telling residents there to move to Detroit. New York entrepreneur...
2,000 Detroit Students to Receive Free Tickets to DIA Rivera-Kahlo Exhibit
Bank of America is sponsoring two-thousand tickets for students to visit the Detroit Institute of Arts' newest exhibit. Students from...
Jazz Guitarists Peter Bernstein And Randy Napoleon Perform Live In WDET’s Studio A
WDET’s Alex Trajano speaks with jazz guitarists Peter Bernstein and Randy Napoleon. Both men are appearing as part of MSU's...
#ISNAstories: Understanding the Line Between Faith and Culture in the U.S.
Last month over 15,000 people attended the 51st Annual Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) Convention in Detroit’s Cobo Center. The...
Youth Poet on the Strength and Frustration of “Detroit”
In our continuing series “Inheriting Detroit," which looks at aspects of life in Detroit through the eyes of youth poets,...
Youth Poet on “Lumberjacks” and Family Trees
This Sunday is Father’s Day. More than 10 percent of households with children in Detroit are headed up by single...
Youth Poet Celebrates a “Sacred Woman”
This Sunday is Mother's Day. Motherhood is particularly significant in the city of Detroit, where about 60 percent of households with children...
The Continuum: Detroit’s Youth Poets Bring Positive Message Home
Detroit’s team of young poets return from an international poetry slam in Chicago over the weekend. WDET’s Laura Weber Davis...
Brave New Voices: Meet The Team!
The 2013 Slam Team is comprised of members of iO's award-winning after-school program Citywide Poets along with youth poets who...