The D Brief

TV and film costumer Renee Allen has dressed some of the biggest names to come to Detroit, including Jack White. She also owns Retro Girls, featuring usherettes wearing fashions from the 1940s. She joins the podcast to talk about what's happening in Detroit this week.

Drummer and percussionist Juuni is one of the organizers of D.Cipher, a "music mastermind collective" that aims to grow Detroit's music economy by helping musicians networks, learn, and perform. He drops by the podcast to talk about the organization, as well as his bands, ONEFREQ and the Gabriel Brass Band.

Director, actor, and musician Travis Reiff returns to the podcast to talk about everything that's happening in Detroit this week, including teal pumpkins, hand-crafted guitars, and a slasher play at the Charles H. Wright Museum.

Director, actor, and musician Travis Reiff joins the podcast to talk about everything that's happening in Detroit this week, including Snoop Dogg's musical, a Detroit-area actress in Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House, and a street named for Bob Seger. Also, 101.1 WRIF's afternoon DJ Meltdown shares his favorite memories of Mike Clark from the Drew and Mike show.

Earlier this year, Brandon Zarb left his role as the chef behind Imperial and Public House in Ferndale to become a paraprofessional educator at Rising Stars Academy in Centerline, where he teaches students with mental disabilities to work with food. He join us to tell us about his journey.

Detroit stand-up comedian Mike Green has been making audiences laugh for over three decades. He joins the podcast to talk about his new comedy club in Waterford, One Night Stan's. Also, Ann Delisi of WDET checks in with a musical update. 

Chef Max Hardy of River Bistro and COOP talks about returning to Detroit to launch restaurants after being a personal chef for NBA star Amar’e Stoudemire and a stint on the Food Network's 'Chopped.'

Detroit rapper and hip hop ambassador Mahogany Jones joins the podcast as we preview the Erebus haunted house, Zoo Boo, the Game of Thrones concert experience, Evil Dead: The Musical, and more.

Every October, thousands of costumed guests descend upon Detroit's Masonic Temple for Theatre Bizarre, the annual Halloween masquerade party. The event's creator, John Dunivant, talks to Seth Resler about its illegal roots, what it goes into pulling off this spectacular production, and how Star Wars inspired him.

The Heidelberg Project's CEO / President, Jenenne Whitfield, talks about the project's 30+ year history, founder Tyree Guyton's plans to dismantle it as part of Heidelberg 3.0, and the upcoming Heidelberg 360 conference.