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Ken Grossman was experimenting with beer before he was old enough to buy it. As a high school student in the late 1960s, he bought his first home brewing kit and mixed the ingredients in a bucket, hiding his early batches from his mother. About ten years later, before most Americans knew what craft beer was, Ken decided to build a brewery in Chico, California. With $50,000, a few piles of scrap metal and some hand-me-down dairy tanks, Ken and his partner built Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, and crafted a beer with a distinctive, hoppy bitterness. Today, as the third largest craft brewer in the U.S., Sierra Nevada Brewing Company – like so many other businesses – faces unprecedented challenges due to the Coronavirus crisis.

On May 25, 1955, a powerful F5 tornado with winds estimated at 300 mph roared through Udall, Kan., destroying all but a handful of buildings and leaving 80 people dead and 270 injured. The twister helped change America's response to one of nature's most powerful forces.

Coal jobs have been declining for generations. Now in the town of Keyser, West Virginia, there's a different energy source on the horizon.

The Cinetopia Film Festival hits Ann Arbor later this month, and the director of one of the movies stopped by the WEMU studio. Andrew Templeton is the director of "1969: Killers, Freaks and Radicals." That movie has a focus on the Michigan murders of John Norman Collins right here in Washtenaw County, He spoke about the film with WEMU's David Fair. Plus, David talked about the latest films and special screenings with Marquee Arts cinema programming director, Nick Alderink.

The cinema world rolls on for the month of July with a combination of comedy and horror! WEMU's Mat Hopson and Marquee Arts' own Nick Alderink meet up at the WEMU studio to talk about the new arrivals to the silver screen, along with more special screenings than we can count coming to downtown Ann Arbor! Plus, you'll find out about the Michigan Theater getting a brand new marquee!

Many are unaware that August is Black Philanthropy Month. The Reverend Mashod Evans Sr. is senior pastor at Bethel AME Church in Ann Arbor. He joined WEMU's David Fair to discuss the longstanding tradition of charity and philanthropy in the African American community and the generational impacts it has made.

After nearly two weeks at the Cannes Film Festival, Russ Collins returned to the WEMU studio! He shared his film festival stories and what's coming to the big screen locally over the next few days with WEMU's David Fair!

Despite the fact Democrats won control of the state Legislature for the first time in four decades in November, there are ongoing efforts at voter suppression. WEMU's David Fair is joined by first-term state representative Jason Morgan of Ann Arbor to discuss how best to legislatively combat those efforts in the new session.

Dominic Dorset is warming up the floorboards as Kristoff in the national tour of "Frozen." He joined the company after graduating from the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre, and Dance in the spring. Dominic joins "creative:impact" host Deb Polich to talk about touring across the country and having a reindeer as a best friend.

2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the Ann Arbor Greenbelt program. It makes use of millions of dollars from grants, landowner donations and other locally funded programs to protect thousands of acres of farmland and open space around the city. With the anniversary comes the announcement of a new farmland accessibility opportunity. The program's land acquisitions manager, Rosie Pahl Donaldson, joined WEMU's David Fair with all of the details on a new and exciting component to the Ann Arbor Greenbelt program.