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You can find murals by Detroit artist Bakpak Durden on walls all across the Motor City. But Bakpak doesn’t limit themselves to just one—or two, or three—forms of creative expression. They’ve styled hair, inked tattoos, worked as an illustrator, and, more recently, co-founded a printing press. Today, we’ll hear from Bakpak about how they use art to support their community, say what words can't, and manage their mental health.

GUEST:

Bakpak Durden is a multi-disciplinary queer hyperrealistic artist based in Detroit, Michigan.

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Ford introduced the world to the Maverick hybrid truck last week. Smaller than the electric F-150 Lightning, the Maverick suggests some new possibilities for an iconic Michigan brand, and the global leader in light trucks. Today, what the little truck means for Ford and its hope for expansion. 

GUEST: 

Sonari Glinton, host of Now What’s Next podcast. He worked for years covering Detroit and the Big 3 for NPR. 

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Walk into the children’s section of pretty much any bookstore or library in Michigan and you’re likely to find Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen’s work staring back at you from the shelf. The illustrator of The Legend of Sleeping Bear has a new book out titled Our Michigan! We Love the Seasons, which celebrates all that makes Michigan uniquely beautiful throughout the year. On today's episode, we talk to the Dutch native about what brought him to Michigan and how he broke into children's publishing after years working at a state magazine. 

GUESTS:

Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen, painter and children’s book illustrator

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A lot of musicians experience some kind of stage fright. Grand Rapids multi-instrumentalist, Jes Kramer, is no different. But for Jes, there’s a therapeutic quality of performing. While she’s on stage, she practices something called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - or EMDR. It’s a psychotherapy tool used to process anxiety and trauma. On today’s pod, we're talking with Jes about how EMDR works, live performance, and maintaining creativity during the pandemic. We’ll also vibe out to some of Jes’s music.

GUESTS:

Jes Kramer, musician

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The adopted son of storied U-M football coach Bo Schembechler went on record today as a survivor of sexual abuse at the hands of University of Michigan doctor Robert Anderson. And Matt Schembechler says his dad knew of the abuse and did nothing.

GUESTS:

David Jesse, Detroit Free Press

Brian Cook, M Go Blog

 

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Warda Bouguettaya’s pastry creations, influenced by Algerian, French, and other traditions, bring together flavor and texture in exquisite ways. Next weekend, Bouguettaya will welcome customers to a new location for her much-lauded bakery, Warda Pâtisserie. On today’s show, we’ll talk to Bougettaya about her love for patisserie and what it means to be part of a larger Detroit food community.

Warda Pâtisserie’s new shop is located at 70 W. Alexandrine. You can also find Bouguettaya’s creations at the original Eastern Market location. You can check out the bakery’s creations on  Facebook and Instagram.

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Warda Bouguettaya, pastry chef and owner of Warda Pâtisserie

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Have you looked at the heat map of Michigan COVID cases lately? It’s blue. 

Not to say we don’t still have some areas of concern and hospitalizations, but we’ve come a long way from the days when our funeral homes and ICUs were bursting. 

Today, we discuss Michigan’s low COVID rates and how pandemics peter out and don’t conclude with a satisfying thud as appealing as that sounds.

GUEST:

Dave Boucher covers government and politics for the Detroit Free Press.

Dr. Howard Markel is a medical historian with the University of Michigan.

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When artist Arthur Radebaugh put his pen to paper in the 1950s and 60s, the resulting vision of the future dazzled millions of people every week. Radebaugh was an illustrator, and a visual futurist whose work appeared in a syndicated Sunday Comics section called “Closer Than We Think”.

GUEST: Rachel Clark from the Michigan History Center

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Michigan-based poet, Petra Kuppers, writes a lot about bodies. She writes about the strangeness and beauty of them; how we live in them. Her work is deeply personal. Partly because Petra is disabled and thinks a lot about disability culture. For her, the process of poetry - observing and distilling her experiences through writing - is a healing one. 

Her latest collection is Gut Botany. On today’s episode: poetry, bodies, queerness, and healing through words.

GUESTS:

Petra Kuppers, poet, disability culture activist, and community performance artist

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If you’ve taken an interest in the Michigan real estate market, you know how wild things are right now. Potential buyers can expect to pay above asking price, if they can even make a competitive offer. Meanwhile, from a buyer’s standpoint, houses are “flying off the shelves,” says one of our guests. Today, we talk with a real estate agent and an urban planner about just what is going on and what it will take to get us OUT of this -- to the benefit of homeowners and renters alike. 

GUESTS:

Marc Norman, affordable housing policy and finance researcher, associate professor at University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, member of the Federal Reserve Board’s Community Advisory Council

Bre’Anna Tinsley, realtor at Thrive Realty Co. 

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