Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: 5-7-16
This week on RREM, new Corinne Bailey Rae, Radiohead, tributes to The Cure and Grateful Dead, Motor City songs from...
Dilla’s Delights, Nektar Mead Fest ’16 & inside the Kresge Arts Support Grants!
Travis Wright We're totally nerding out on the new Radiohead song, “Burn the Witch,” with WDET’s Jon Moshier. Also, we're going...
Art Birmingham Kicks Off Summer Art Season [MAP LINK]
Metro Detroit’s first major outdoor art festival begins this weekend. Art Birmingham is celebrating its 35th anniversary May 7 and 8...
Growing Numbers of High School Seniors are Taking “Gap Year” Before College
President Obama’s oldest daughter, Malia, announced this week that she has been accepted to Harvard and plans to attend the storied institution...
“Detroit Hustle” Chronicles Finding and Rebuilding a Home in Detroit
Credit: Stacy Cowley There have been many stories over the past decade of people from outside of Detroit buying up...
Grand Hotel Opens for 130th Season Friday
The Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island opens its 130th season on Friday, May 6. A few guests paid for an early...
$10 Bill Gets Image of First Female Slave to Sue a White Man and Win
The U.S. treasury announced this week that Sojourner Truth, among others, will be featured on the back of the $10 bill. Her name...
The Progressive Underground Show 168 feat. JMSN
White Room Records On tonight's show we interview emerging soul crooner (and Michigan native) JMSN and talk about his upcoming...
Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: 4-30-16
This week on RREM, upcoming Ann Arbor Summer Festival artists Gregory Porter, Bruce Hornsby and Michael Franti, plus Water Hill...
Michigan Poet Named Finalist for Pulitzer Prize
Credit: Gabe Montesanti Pulitzer Prize jurors are calling the poetry collection Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss (Graywolf Press) "a richly improvisational poetry...
Artist Brendan Patrick Re-Envisions the Canvas, Plus Music from Animal Collective, Glen Hansard & Much More!
WDET's Travis Wright interviews artist Brendan Patrick. Photo by Rob Cousineau We're doin' a little something different on today's show....
Detroit’s Food Scene: Flavored with Impact [MAP]
Jake Neher In his new role as the Detroit Free Press' restaurant critic, Mark Kurlyandchik is back where he started. “I’m...