What To Know And Where To Go In Southeast Michigan
Detroit's used to flyover or drop-in parachute coverage about our city. Stuff that's kind of sloppy and gets minor details wrong. And nowadays, there's food and drink coverage here and around the country written mostly by robots, curating Yelp reviews into articles with artificial intelligence. But apparently, one of our oldest and hottest neighborhoods got renamed when …
Today’s episode hits on three topics. First, journalist Darren Nichols joins us to add context around a racially charged incident in Royal Oak that’s made national headlines. A white woman called police on a black man who she said looked suspicious. And Royal Oak Police questioned him for about 20 minutes outside of a popular restaurant, while a bystander broadcast the …
On today's show, we go to the Two Way Inn to talk about celebrating the 198th birthday this weekend of Colonel Philetus Norris. The civil war veteran who fought on the Union side built a place now known as one of the best dive bars in America - the Two Way Inn - and more in a village called Norris. Now, it's the Nortown neighborhood of Detroit, and they're looking to …
Our public school system in Detroit has a lot of needs. Not just for the district itself, but as a lot of families don’t have money, a lot of programs that kids in the suburbs just do? Well, they don’t in Detroit. Like travel and fees to robotics competitions, for instance. Often in the suburbs, parents pick that up. In Detroit, often, the families don't have the …
On today's show: Wahlburgers opens in Royal Oak, Jeff Goldblum descends upon Detroit on a bicycle, Jack White is re-releasing some great stuff, there's a cat film festival coming and Arts Beats and Eats releases their lineup. Also: Sister Mary Jane Herb stopped by the studio to talk about the future of the Marygrove campus after the closure of the college later this year. …
A new disclosure, reported first by the Center for Public Integrity, sheds light on a large Detroit-based company and their contribution to President Donald Trump’s inauguration. According to the report based posted earlier today, Quicken Loans donated $750,000 to the 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee this January. The full disclosure document can be found here. Per …
