Ann Arbor

In today’s book-centric episode, an artistic opera director’s opinion on how to keep opera alive. Additionally, a Michigan native is publishing a book about Black thinkers and their manifestation of Black utopias amid deprivation and repression. Then, an Ann Arbor novelist discusses her second novel.

A former Nine Inch Nails drummer shares his journey from performing on stage to teaching the next generation.

The owner of Ann Arbor's Q Bakehouse talks about the journey of trial and error that led her to fusion cuisine, her quest to recreate the flavors of her childhood, and her tips for incorporating East Asian flavors.

Ann Arbor voters soundly rejected proposals C and D, which would have eliminated the city's primaries and partisan identification for candidates, and approved Proposal A, which sets up an optional renewable energy utility to supplement the energy from DTE Energy, and Proposal B, which renews the city's millage to maintain its extensive parks system.

Across the state voters will decide what their communities should do with marijuana sales, school or library funding, public safety, elections, energy, and more.

Proposal A on the city of Ann Arbor's ballot asks voters if they want to authorize a "Sustainable Energy Utility."

Artist Philippa Pham Hughes joined Stateside to talk about her exhibit, the Common Sense Diner, which aims to build understanding through conversation over a meal surrounded by art.

As part of its carbon emission reductions plan, Ann Arbor will begin sending many of the trees it must cut down from city parks and other properties to companies that make furniture and other long-lasting products, rather than making compost or mulch from the trees.

Today, Kalamazoo’s community partners come together to boost child welfare with a cash prescription. Also, a new buddy comedy in which an improv theater becomes roommates with a craft brewpub…. And hijinks ensue. We’ll meet the founders of "hear.say brewing + theater", the new spot in Southeast Michigan.

The city released rate estimates for a sustainable energy utility, an optional public utility on the ballot in November.