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Posted By Jerilyn Jordan on Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 2:46 PM click to enlarge Creem magazine co-founder Dave Marsh will be honored during three-week virtual celebration. When “The Boss” shows up you know shit is serious, and by serious we mean seriously rock n roll, because Bruce Springsteen is just one of several notable names coming together to celebrate pioneering music wri...

Summer on Fire – Peter Werbe publishes debut novel about the 1967 Detroit uprising Kurt Anthony Krug Peter Werbe – who has been a staple in Detroit media for more than 50 years, having hosted “Nightcall” on WRIF-FM from 1971 to 2016 and having contributed countless articles to the counter-culture tabloid called the Fifth Estate – insists he is not the character Paul in his debut novel, “Summer on Fire: A Detroit Novel.” “Paul is not me,” said Werbe, who lives with Marilyn, hi...

Leni Sinclair Author, left, along with Deana Clamage and Leon Linderman, looking out windows of the Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam broken by Breakthrough, a right-wing, violent group. Circa 1966. Peter Werbe is a longtime Detroit political activist, a retired WRIF talk show host, and member of the Fifth Estate magazine editorial group. His new book,...

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 Activist Peter Werbe to hold livestream events to promote his new book, Summer on Fire: A Detroit Novel Posted By Lee DeVito on Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 3:20 PM click to enlarge Leni Sinclair Peter Werbe, left, along with Deana Clamage and Leon Linderman, lo...

Dick Kernen, a giant of Michigan broadcasting who boosted the careers of countless familiar on-air voices and faces, died of natural causes Friday at home in Dearborn, his family confirmed. He was 82. Kernen, who started with WXYZ-AM in the 50s and helped form WRIF-FM in the 70s, was vice president of industry relations at the Specs Howard School of Media Arts in Southfield, where he had worked since 1972. A 2003 Michigan Broadcasting Hall of Fame inductee, Kernen was a guiding hand — both i...