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Sounds Like Detroit 2025 - MI Local
  • Culture & Music
  • MI Local

MI Local: Best of the year (so far); songs from Sounds Like Detroit contenders + more

Jeff Milo June 25, 2025

The year is flying by! This week, I'm featuring some of my favorite songs of the year released by metro...

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  • Culture & Music
  • In The Groove

In The Groove: New releases from The Beths, Say She She, Wet Leg

Ryan Patrick Hooper June 24, 2025

Loved playing new tracks from The Beths, Say She She, Joy Crookes, Vulfmon, Wet Leg, Bon Iver and many more. ...

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The Motown Museum announced it will pause public tours for a year beginning Oct. 1, as it moves into the final phase of the museum's expansion.
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  • Detroit Evening Report
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Detroit Evening Report: Motown Museum to pause public tours for a year for final phase of expansion

Jerome Vaughn June 18, 2025

The Motown Museum announced this week that it will pause tours of the Detroit institution for one year so that...

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A new InsideOut mural completed by Oshun Williams on the side of Yoshi Hibachi Grille on Livernois Avenue.
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  • Detroit Evening Report
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Detroit Evening Report: InsideOut Literary Arts celebrates 30 years with new mural

Hernz Laguerre June 6, 2025

Detroit’s "largest and oldest literary nonprofit," InsideOut Literary Arts, celebrated its 30-year anniversary last week by unveiling a new Detroit...

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Detroit Composer Laureate Patrick Prouty shakes hands with then Deputy Mayor Todd Bettison during Prouty's appointment announcement, Sept. 5, 2024.
  • Culture & Music
  • News
  • The Metro

The Metro: Detroit’s composer laureate is creating music inspired by sounds of the city

Cary Junior II, Nadia Ziyad, The Metro June 6, 2025

The Detroit Office of Arts Culture and Entrepreneurship appointed its first Composer Laureate in December, Patrick Prouty. Embracing his role...

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  • Culture & Music
  • In The Groove

In The Groove: Music from Robert Glasper, Detroit Cobras, Brian Eno + more

Adam Fox June 4, 2025

Adam Fox filling in for RPH again! Today on In The Groove, tracks from Robert Glasper, Detroit Cobras and Brian Eno.Plus,...

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Detroit-based singer-songwriter Jon Mikal-Bartee of The Idiot Kids joined "MI Local" in the studio this week.
  • Culture & Music
  • MI Local

MI Local: Idiot Kids premiere and in-studio interview; new music from Jackamo, Jah Connery + more

Jeff Milo June 4, 2025

Identity and self-empowerment imbued with fast punk-tempos and ferocious guitars: it's "Zeros & Ones," the brand new single from Detroit-based...

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Inside Detroit's Fox Theatre.
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  • The Metro
  • Youth

The Metro: More than 700 Detroit students ready to showcase artistry on Fox Theatre stage

Nadia Ziyad, Tia Graham, The Metro May 13, 2025

Detroit Public School Community District is hosting its 56th annual "Evening of Fine Arts" at the Fox Theatre on Wednesday,...

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This combination of photos show Anna Wintour, from top left, Pharrell Williams, Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo, from bottom left, A$AP Rocky, who will serve as co-chairs, and LeBron James, who will serve as honorary chair for the 2025 Met Gala.
  • Culture & Music
  • News
  • The Metro

The Metro: Superfine tailoring breaking the mold at the Met Gala

Nadia Ziyad, Tia Graham, The Metro May 8, 2025

Earlier this week, the Metropolitan Museum of American Art hosted its yearly Gala as part of its fundraising efforts for...

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Black Panther, drawn by artist and Detroiter Arvell Jones.
  • Culture & Music
  • News
  • The Metro

The Metro: ‘Heroes vs. Villains’ exhibit shining a light on Detroit’s comic book history

Tia Graham, The Metro May 1, 2025

In 1938, two young Jewish kids decided they wanted to tell a story of an invincible man, who could move...

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The Gun Violence Memorial Project, National Building Museum.
  • Community & Quality of Life
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  • News
  • The Metro

The Metro: New MOCAD installation tells the human story behind gun violence statistics

Cary Junior II, The Metro April 29, 2025

Almost 700 people a week died of gun violence in 2018 across the U.S., and that number has only gone...

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Making-Waves
  • Detroit Evening Report
  • News
  • Racial Attitudes

Detroit Evening Report: Book launch, film screening to encourage inclusion of Asian American history in schools

Nargis Rahman April 28, 2025

The Asian American nonprofit Rising Voices is hosting an educational event this weekend to kick off Asian American and Pacific...

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