|
Date |
Title |
Producer |
| 1/9/04 |
Hill's
New Look: The Rennovation |
Tamar
Charney |
| |
Description
Since May of 2002 there've been no performances, no lectures, and
no graduations held at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor. But construction
workers have been busy repairing and restoring the auditorium. And
now the work is done. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney got a look
at the changes during a
ceremony celebrating the re-opening of the auditorium.
Interviews
Ken Fischer - President, University Musical Society
Hank Baier - Associate Vice President for Operations, University
of Michigan
Various residents of Ann Arbor & Plymouth at Hill Auditorium
Opening Ceremony |
1/28/04 |
Raising
Money to Expand: Turning to Individuals |
Gretchen
Millich |
| |
Description
Several art museums in Michigan are in the midst of raising money
to expand and upgrade their facilities. The Detroit Institute of
Arts, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Kresge Art Museum
at Michigan State University and the Grand Rapids Art Museum are
all planning major renovations or expansions. In the past, these
museums have counted on
public funding and corporate support for such projects. But now,
as WKAR's Gretchen Millich reports, they're relying more on the
generosity of individual patrons.
Interviews
Linda Nelson - Donor, Kresge Art Museum
Sue Mills - Director, Lansing Arts Council
David Greenbaum - Volunteer, Kresge Art Museum.
Graham Beal - Director, Detroit Institute of Arts |
| 2/13/04 |
Handmade,
Homemade Soap: Bubbling Up |
Tamar
Charney |
| |
Description
Along with chocolates and flowers you may find yourself giving or
receiving handmade soap this valentine's day. Soap isn't something
that's just found at the grocery store or drug store. In recent
years it has slid into galleries, gift boutiques, craft shows, and
farmers markets. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports.
Interviews
Kim Brooks - Soap Maker, Annie Goatly
Patty Pike - Nature's Echo Goat Milk Soap & Kindemere Alpines
Jim Johnson - Manager of Special Programs, The Henry Ford |
2/20/04 |
Artrain
USA |
Tamar
Charney |
| |
Description
This spring Art Train USA leaves its home station in Ann Arbor to
spend the next 4 years transporting its latest on-board exhibit
to communities across the country. As Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney
reports, this unusual and popular cultural institutions got its
start over 30 years in Michigan.
Interviews
Debra Polich - President & CEO, Artrain USA
Connie Brown - Architect, Hobbs & Black Associates
Damian Farrell - Architect, Hobbs & Black Associates |
3/2/04 |
Create
Detroit: Cool in Detroit |
Tamar
Charney |
| |
Description
For years people have been trying to figure out how to revitalize
downtown Detroit. A new grassroots organization in the city is hoping
the ideas of economist Richard Florida might help. As Michigan Radio's
Tamar Charney reports, the group is hosting a brainstorming session
on Wednesday and Thursday with Richard Florida to discuss the future
of the city.
Interviews
Ann Slawnik - Co-Founder, Create Detroit
Rod Franz - President of the Richard Florida Creativity Group |
| 3/22/04 |
Diversity
Theater: Workplace Training |
Kaomi
Goetz |
| |
Description
A Grand Rapids woman is trying to start dialogue about differences
at the workplace. Race, gender, sexual orientation and religion
are all fair game for Alice Kennedy and the people who attend her
diversity workshops. The discussions are frank and may be unusual
for a workplace setting; but as Michigan Radio's Kaomi Goetz reports,
they also take on a form of art.
Interviews
Dave Barrett - Employee, Cascade Engineering & Co-facilitator,
Diversity Theater
Alice Kennedy - Creator, Diversity Theater
Reverend David May - Racial Justice Institute |
3/25/04 |
A
New Center: Holocaust Memorial Center |
Nora
Flaherty |
| |
Description
The Holocaust Memorial Center was the nation's first when it opened
in Bloomfield Hills 1984. But this winter, it moved from its old
building to a new one that's five times its size in Farmington Hills.
Organizers also added multimedia exhibits that they hope will tell
the story of the holocaust in a new way. Michigan Radio's Nora Flaherty
has this report.
Interviews
Rabbi Charles Rosensvieg - Director, Holocaust Memorial Center
Gary - 14-year-old Student from Monroe |
4/6/04 |
Hairdresser:
A Vision for Hair |
Gretchen
Millich |
| |
Description
For over 40 years, David Presley has been teaching hairdressers
at his school of cosmetology in Royal Oak. But his career as a hairstylist
goes back decades before that ... to the 1920's. Presley is 97 years
old and continues to play an influential role in the hair styling
business.
Interviews
David Presley |
| 4/16/04 |
Fiction
Re-Introductions: Midwest Literature Returns to Print |
Tamar
Charney |
| |
Description
Every year more than 20-thousand new works of fiction are published
in the United States. Many of which soon end up out of print. But
this spring a Michigan based publisher has begun to put lost works
of fiction about the Midwest back into print.
Interviews
Keith Taylor - Co-Editor, Sweetwater Fiction Reintroductions Series
Charles Baxter - Co-Editior, Sweetwater Fiction Reintroductions
Series. |
5/3/04 |
Rock
Band Studies: How They Do It |
Erin
Toner |
| |
Description
Rock bands are often more famous for their offstage antics than
they are for their music. And band breakups are constant fodder
for music magazines and entertainment TV shows. In Michigan, one
researcher is looking into how bands get past
squabbles and actually make music. But she's not studying the Beatles
or Bon Jovi. This band has just arrived on the music scene. Erin
Toner reports for Michigan Public Radio. |
| 5/3/04 |
Plant
Tours: An Automobile Heritage Attraction |
Michael
Leland |
| |
Description
For the first time since 1980, public tours are being offered at
an auto assembly plant in Southeast Michigan. People can buy tickets
through the Henry Ford to tour the Ford Rouge Plant in Dearborn.
Visitors to the historic plant will see a brand-new assembly line
where workers are building Ford's F-150 pickup trucks. Michigan
Radio's Michael Leland has more.
Interviews
Steve Hamp - Executive Director, The Henry Ford
Tim O'Brien - Spokesperson Ford Motor Company |
5/6/04 |
The
Changing Garden: Art from the Flower Beds |
Nora Flaherty |
| |
Description
Spring may have been off and on this year outside, but one exhibit
at the University of Michigan Museum of Art is in full bloom. The
exhibit, "the changing garden", looks at how garden design,
and the ways that people use gardens, have changed over the last
few centuries. Michigan Radio's Nora Flaherty has this report.
Interviews
Betsy Fryburger - Curator, Stanford University Art Museum
Carol MacNamara - Curator University of Michigan Museum of Art |
5/14/04 |
River
Rouge Lighthouse: Honoring Maritimers |
Michael
Leland |
| |
Description
The the city of River Rouge will dedicate the newest lighthouse
in the region. It's called the Mariner's Memorial Lighthouse. Michigan
Radio's Michael Leland has the story. |
| 5/24/04 |
Tourism
Part 1: The Sector's Impact |
Tracy
Samilton |
| |
Description
When it comes to tourism, Michigan has no shortage of tourist
attractions - even if you don't count the Great Lakes. In the past
30 years, the state's economy has become increasingly dependent
on tourism, which is now the state's second-largest industry. In
the first of our five-part series, Michigan Radio's Tracy Samilton
explores the state's strengths -- and its weaknesses.
Interviews
Mike Erris - Ohio resident and Cabela's customer
Dave Lorenz - Vice President of Travel Michigan
Dave Holocek - Director of Michigan State University's Tourism Resource
Center |
5/25/04 |
Tourism
Part 2: Celebrating Festivals |
Kaomi
Goetz |
| |
Description
More than 3500 festivals take place in Michigan each year. Wooden
shoe clomping and cherry pie eating contests have become synonymous
with the passing of summer for many Michiganders and even out-of-state
visitors. As part of our
series on tourism, Michigan Radio's Kaomi Goetz takes a look at
how festivals affect the local communities that support them.
Interviews
Brett VanderKamp - Co-owner, New Holland Brewery Pub
Soren Wolff - Holland City Manager
Mike Norton - Traverse City Convention and Visitors Bureau
George Heartwell - Grand Rapids Mayor
Sue Bila - Michigan Festivals and Events Association
Eileen Schwarz-Duty - Festival of the Arts Exectuive Director |
5/26/04 |
Tourism
Part 3: Going Back in Time |
Michael
Leland |
| |
Description
Many people spend their vacation time in Michigan sailing on the
lakes, hiking in the woods, or shopping. Others learn about the
past. Michigan has countless historical museums and attractions.
As part of our series on Mchigan tourism, Michael Leland says some
of those attractions are known nationwide, while others are still
trying to make a name for themselves
locally.
Interviews
Brian Higgins - Spokesman, Yankee Air Museum
Bob Hines - Public Relations Director, Yankee Air Museum
Norm Ellickson - Volunteer Pilot/Mechanic, Yankee Air Museum |
| 5/27/04 |
Tourism
Part 4: Traveling the Two-lane Roads |
Bill
Poorman |
| |
Description
Most travelers will use the state's freeways as they rush to get
to their vacation destination this summer. But some drivers take
a different route. As part of our tourism series, Michigan Radio's
Bill Poorman takes a look at the attraction of the state's two-lane
roads.
Interviews
Christine Vogt - Professor of Tourism, Michigan State University
Jamie Jensen - Author, "Roadtrip USA"
Paul Beckman - Tourist
|
5/28/04 |
Tourism
Part 5: The Great, Rainy Outdoors |
Tamar
Charney |
| |
Description
If you live among the big box stores and traffic filled streets
of
Michigan's cities and suburbs, it might come as a surprise to hear
that over 20% of the state is public recreation land. This would
be parks, forests, shorelines, and game areas managed and owned
by county, state, or federal government. In the final part of our
weeklong series about tourism, Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney explains
how this public land opens up all sorts of possibilities to vacationers.
Interviews
Bob Papp - Executive Director North Country Trail Association
Rob Corbett - Director of Trail Management North Country Trail Association
Tom Carney - Outdoor Writer
Chuck Nelson - Professor of Natural Resource Policy and Management,
Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies,
Michigan State University |
6/14/04
|
DSO
In The City
|
Tamar
Charney |
| |
Description
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is an example of an orchestra that has had
its share of difficulties. On top of many of the usual problems faced
by orchestras, the DSO has had to figure out how to be successful
in a run down city. Just months ago the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
cut the ribbon on a new performing arts complex called the Max M
Fisher Music Center. "The
Max" includes the orchestra's historic concert hall, an education
center, and a new performance space. It is part of a development
that the orchestra's leaders hope will help the symphony by helping
the city. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports.
Interviews
Randy Hawes - Trobonist, Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Stephen Millen - General Manager, Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Henry Fogel - President, American Symphony Orchestra League.
Stephen and Linda Williams - Concert Goers
|
| 6/17/04 |
Repatriation:
Returning Remains
|
Tracy
Samilton |
| |
Description
The remains of several Australian aborigines will be returned to their
native land this week. The bones were given recently to University
of Michigan anthropologists, who arranged the repatriation. As Michigan
Radio's Tracy Samilton reports, the process of repatriation is often
a rocky compromise between the needs of scientists and native people.
Interviews
Ted Bailey - Boomerang Inventor and Collector
John O'Shea - Univerity of Michigan Curator of Great Lakes Archeology
C. Loring Brace - University of Michigan Anthropologist,
Bonnie Eckdall - Director, Zibawing Cultural Society Saginaw Chippewa Indian
Tribe
Bob Weatherall - Aboriginee
|
6/17/04
|
Old
Mac Lighthouse
|
Michael
Leland |
| |
Description
There's a new reason to stop your car just before crossing the Mackinac
Bridge. The Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse is once again open to the
public. The state is restoring the light and the property around
it to look as it did nearly 100 years ago. Michigan Radio's Michael
Leland recently had a chance to tour the lighthouse, to see the work
that's been done.
Interviews
Steve Brisson - Mackinac Point Lighthouse Chief Curator
Tim Putnam - Marking Director, Mackinac State Historic Park
|
| 7/8/04 |
Elephants
& Zoos: Winky & Wanda's Fate
|
Tracy
Samilton |
| |
Description
The Detroit Zoo is preparing to abandon an 81-year tradition of
having an elephant exhibit. The Zoo wants to give its two elephants a better
life at an animal sanctuary. Michigan Radio's
Interviews
Tracy Samilton reports on the controversial decision.
Rick Wendt - Detroit Zoo elephant handler
Ronald Kagan - Detroit Zoo Director
Michael Hutchins - Research Director, American Zoological Association
Caroline Sisero and Michelle Holtz - Detroit Zoo patrons
Winky and Wanda - Elephants
|
7/19/04
|
Phoenix
Theater: Reviving A Neighborhood
|
Nora
Flaherty |
| |
Description
There are a few places in Detroit where you can go see an IMAX or an art
film, but there's only one place in the city where people can go
to eat a tub of popcorn and see a blockbuster action or comedy movie.
Michigan Radio's Nora Flaherty visited
Interviews
Detroit's Phoenix Theatre, and she filed this report.
Charlie Murray - Owner, Phoenix Theatre
Cory Jacobsen - Owner, Phoenix Theatre
Michael Doyle - Author, Michigan's Movie Theatres
Marie Borden - Manager, Phoenix Theater
|
8/12/04
|
Hip
Hop Folk
|
Chris McCarus |
| |
Description
The Great Lakes Folk Festival starts this evening (Friday) in East Lansing.
But the music the festival is bringing to town goes way beyond what
many of us think of when we hear the term "folk music." As
in past years there will be bluegrass performers, Celtic musicians,
Zydeco bands, and Caribbean music. But reporter Chris McCarus tells
us about the newest musical addition to the festival line-up.
Interviews
Will Vance - Musician, Mad Prophets
Marsha MacDowell - Director, Great Lakes Folk Festival
Employees Elderly Instruments
|
8/12/04
|
Bring
Film to Detroit: Motor City International Film Festival
|
Chris
McCarus |
| |
Description
The second annual Motor City International Film Festival began yesterday
in Detroit. The festival is showing films from all over the world.
But its main goal is to bring more filmmakers to Detroit to shoot
their movies. Michigan Radio's Nora Flaherty has that story.
Interviews
M.L. Davis - Executive Director, Motor City International Film Festival
|
8/20/04
|
Freedom
Center: National Museum Tells Michigan Story
|
Nora
Flaherty |
| |
Description
This month, a brand new museum commemorating the underground railroad,
has opened in Cincinnati. The museum is in Ohio, but as Michigan
Radio's Nora Flaherty reports, it tells a lot about Michigan history
as well.
Interviews
Carol Lloyd - Curator, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Michele Johnson - Coordinator, State of Michigan Freedom Trail
|
8/20/04
|
The
Meaning of Maps: A Road to Where
|
Nora
Flaherty |
| |
Description
As travel season is wrapping up, a recent exhibit is prompting people to
take a second look at the tool many of us use to find our way from
point A to point B. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports.
Interviews
Tim Utter - Curator, Call of the Open Road & Map Librarian,
Hatcher Library
|
9/3/04
|
Cool
Returnies: Gravity Rapids
|
Kaomi
Goetz |
| |
Description
The US Census Bureau says during the 1990's, nearly 100-thousand young
people born in Michigan left the state before they turned 30. This "brain
drain" among the state's young and educated has Michigan officials
concerned. The governor's "cool cities" initiative is trying
to create hip, interesting urban centers to convince enough of the
state's young people to stick around. Yet, research suggests that
many people who leave Michigan don't stay gone for long. Michigan
Radio's Kaomi Goetz reports.
Interviews
Chris Jasinski - Grand Rapids Resident
Paul Bishop - Holland Resident
Kenneth Darga - Michigan State Demographer
Brian Hoey - Researcher - Center for the Ethnography for Everyday Life,
University of Michigan
|
9/18/04
|
Cool
Contest: Looking For Creative Ideas
|
Michael
Leland |
| |
Description
The State of Michigan is giving a total of two-million dollars in grants
to 20 cities this year, to support proposals for making their cities
more attractive places to live and work. Now, the Urban Land Use
Institute and the University of Michigan are offering cash to young
people who have their own ideas for how to create a "cool city." Michigan
Radio's Michael Leland has more.
Interviews
Jim Kosteva - Director, Community Relations, University of Michigan
Peter Allen - Lecturer, Business and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
|
9/28/04
|
Survival
& Extinction: Arts Organizations Budget Cuts
|
Tracy
Samilton |
| |
Description
This year's state budget will apparently not cut the arts. But many arts
groups are still feeling the pain from previous years' cuts - along
with Michigan's continued poor economy. Michigan Radio's Tracy Samilton
has this report on the fine line between survival and extinction
in the arts.
Interviews
Jennifer Norrell - Patron, Charles Wright Museum
Pamela Gallina - Former Director, Cherry County Playhouse
Barbara Kratchman - Director, Artserve Michigan
Tyrone Davenport - Chief Financial Officer, Charles Wright Museum
|
9/30/04
|
Growing
Wine: The Appeal & Allure
|
Tamar
Charney |
| |
Description
Over the past 30 years Michigan's wine industry has been concentrated in
2 parts of the state -- Southwest Michigan and the area around Traverse
City. But the number of wineries in the state has more than doubled.
Ten years ago Michigan had 17 wineries, today there are over 40.
And now there is a 3rd area of the state that is trying to make a
name for itself. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney has a look at the
history and appeal of wineries.
Interviews
Holly Balansag - Vintner, Sandhill Crane Vineyards
Norman Moffat - Founder, Sandhil Crane Vineyards
Linda Jones - Director, Michigan Grape and Wine Industry Council
Donald Getz - Professor of Marketing, University of Calgary
|
9/30/04
|
Preserving
Industrial Plants: Manufacturing Heritage Industry
|
Bill
Poorman |
| |
Description
You're probably familiar with at least one historical site. Maybe you went
on a field trip as a kid - to a museum, or a vintage farm, or a battlefield.
But what about visiting an old manufacturing plant? One group in
Detroit has become part
of a movement toward preserving the country's industrial heritage -- in
this case, the plant where car culture began. Michigan Radio's Bill Poorman
reports.
Interviews
Gerald Mitchell - Founder, Model T Automotive Heritage Complex
Bob Casey - Transportation Curator, The Henry Ford
|
10/7/04
|
The
Mystery Muses of Michigan: An Artistic Secret
|
Sarah
Hulett |
| |
Description
An exhibition is opening later this month at the Michigan Historical Museum.
It features the works of an artist whose legacy can be seen by visitors
to the state Capitol every day. But until recently, the identity
of the artist has been a mystery. Michigan Public Radio's Sarah Hulett
reports.
Interviews
Kerry Chartkoff - State Capitol historian
Geoffrey Drutchas - Reverend
|
10/11/04
|
Yankee
Air Museum: Looking Past the Wreckage
|
Michael
Leland |
| |
Description
State inspectors are looking for the cause of a fire that destroyed the
Yankee Air Museum near Ypsilanti Saturday night. The museum was a
total loss, and several vintage aircraft were also destroyed. Museum
officials say they will rebuild the facility. Michigan Radio's Michael
Leland has more.
|
11/5/04
|
Poetry
Bus Route: Robert Hayden & The No. 5 Bus Route
|
Nora
Flaherty |
| |
Description
This year, the American academy of poets picked 31 poetry landmarks across
the country. Most of them were houses where famous poets lived or
places where they wrote some of their best-known poems, but one is
very different. Michigan Radio's Nora Flaherty reports
Interviews
Sharon Weiland - Ann Arbor Resident
Larry Goldstein - Professor of English, University of Michigan
Tree Swenson - Executive Director, Academy of American poets
|
11/5/04
|
The
Real Polar Express: Pere Marquette 1225
|
Nora
Flaherty |
| |
Description
"The Polar Express" is a popular children's book, about a little
boy's trip to the North Pole on a magical train at Christmas time. Now
that book, by Grand Rapids Native Chris Van Allsburg, is being made into
an animated movie, starring Tom Hanks. But it's not just the author of
the polar express that's from Michigan. So is the train you'll see and
hear in the movie. It is the Pere Marquette 1225 steam locomotive. The
movie's animators drew the train to look like the Pere Marquette. And the
audio producers of the movie used the Pere Marquette's actual sound. Michigan
Radio's Nora Flaherty has this report on what they did to get that sound
Interviews
Dennis Braid - Executive Director, Steam Railroading Institute
Tim Neilson - Sound Technicians, Skywalker Films
|
11/11/04
|
Bums
Paradise: Detroit Docs Festival
|
Nora
Flaherty |
| |
Description
This weekend, the 3rd annual Detroit Docs international film festival will
bring about 100 documentary films to venues in and around Detroit.
Michigan Radio's Nora Flaherty has this report how the festival is
helping some people to tell stories that wouldn't normally get told.
Interviews
Robert Baringer - Narrator and Subject of "Bum's Paradise"
Chris Walney - Executive Director, Detroit Docs International Film Festival
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