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Documenting Detroit’s City of Chefs
Keith Famie is really putting this 84-year-old man through his paces. It’s like an acuity test for seniors.When the gentleman begins to answer one...
50 Years of Film
A half-century ago, Elliot Wilhelm, then the news director at radio station WCHD, had for some time pestered the Detroit Institute of Arts about...
Made in Michigan: CNN’s Ryan Kadro
Today, his name is attached to six Emmys. But when Ryan Kadro graduated from Seaholm High School in 1993, he had no aspirations to...
Independent Filmmaker Roger Corman Dies at 98
American film director Roger Corman died surrounded by family in his Santa Monica home on Thursday, May 9, according to a statement posted on...
HGTV’s Cristy Lee Opens a Design Studio in Metro Detroit
Cristy Lee may be known best for her television career — but recently, she added “metro Detroit business owner” to her resume. MotorCity Built,...
New Series with Diarra Kilpatrick and John Salley Premieres Thursday, March 21
Have you ever been ghosted? It's okay; most of us have (unless you're the one always doing the ghosting). But have you gone so...
This Upcoming Documentary Highlights Detroit’s Chefs
You may have dined at one of Farmington Hills-born Keith Famie’s renowned metro Detroit restaurants in the ’80s or ’90s (Chez Raphael, Les Auteurs,...
Detroit at the Oscars
March 10 marked the 96th Academy Awards. To celebrate, we’re looking back at a handful of metro Detroit and metro Detroiter appearances at the...
Assembled in Hollywood: Producer Roger Corman
For Roger Corman, it was only natural to bring assembly-line practices to Hollywood as he became king of the B pictures. By 1954, when...
Cristy Lee Returns to HGTV Amid Health Battle
Cristy Lee, a former Detroiter and home renovation expert, is returning to HGTV for the first time after being diagnosed with Graves’ disease and...
Emmy Nominees with Michigan Ties
After being postponed for the writers’ and actors’ strikes in September, the 75th annual Emmy Awards will broadcast a three-hour show at 8 p.m....
6 Christmas Movies with Michigan Connections
Cozy up with hot cocoa – or a cocktail — and stream these flicks at home
Eric Saarinen Returns to Bloomfield Hills
When your last name is Saarinen and your father (Eero) and grandfather (Eliel) were internationally renowned architects who helped usher in the modernist movement,...
Rebels with a Reel Cause: The University of Michigan’s Film Societies
Because a friend across the hall my freshman year (’89-90) was both a film studies major and a member of the University of Michigan’s...
Writer Joya McCrory Talks Her Work on ‘Abbott Elementary’
Tales of would-be starlets heading to Los Angeles in droves in the hopes of making it big on the screen have been the narrative...