Neda Ulaby

WEMU's Neda Ulaby and local author John U. Bacon talked about the new paperback release of his bestselling book about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It's called "The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald."

Jeff Daniels has transformed Chelsea, Mich. into an arts and culture destination with the Purple Rose Theatre Company and now a new music venue, JDs Stage Bistro. For the first installment of WEMU’s new segment, "‘Round Every Corner," the actor tells us about why he chose to prioritize the economic development of his hometown.

Skerritt was Captain Dallas in Alien, Viper in Top Gun, and a small town sheriff in the TV series Picket Fences.

Hockney moved from London to Southern California in the 1960s and was an innovative painter, photographer, stage designer and printmaker.

A painting of George Washington is being used by the Trump administration to argue the founders were devout Christians, but historians have doubts about whether the moment depicted actually happened.

When John Cage composed an opera commemorating the American bicentennial audiences walked out. Now, it's being reinterpreted by new artists in a Detroit Opera production, as the nation turns 250.

Eleven historically significant sites across the country will receive $25,000 from the National Trust for Historic Preservation to commemorate the country's 250th anniversary.

For Mother's Day, we bring to you a consideration of motherhood by a poet who's brought up two sons.

President Trump wants to paint the Eisenhower Executive Office Building white, but experts and preservationists are pushing back, warning it could permanently damage the historic granite.

Award winners include authors Daniel Kraus, Jill Lepore and Yiyun Li, opinion writer M. Gessen and staffers and contributors at The Washington Post, Reuters and AP.