Remember how, a little while ago, I mentioned that I’d heard that Burger King was getting ready to make a bid on one of the Water Street parcels? Well, it sounds as though the subject is going to come up in the near future at a City Council meeting. I just received the following from […]
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Showdown on Water Street
Shaman Drum to close June 30
We’ve known it was coming for a while, but now we have a date. The last day to peruse the aisles of Ann Arbor’s beloved independent bookstore, Shaman Drum, will be June 30. I think I speak for a lot of folks when I say, it’s a damn shame, and our thoughts tonight are with […]
Store for a Month
I don’t think it was an original idea. I must have heard it somewhere before. But, for the longest time now, I’ve been thinking that it would be neat to open a store here in Ypsi, in one of the otherwise unused downtown buildings, for a single day. The idea would be that it would […]
Stupor reading in Hamtown tonight
I’d hate to keep anyone away from Totally Awesome Fest tonight in Ypsi, but, for the literary minded among you, I wanted to mention that our friend Steve, the man behind the zine Stupor, would be having a reading tonight at Design 99, in Hamtramck. There’s a beer reception from 7:00 – 9:00, and the […]
Design 99
I want to thank the folks at Model D for featuring Hamtramck’s very cool Design 99 in their most recent issue… Here’s the video. If you look closely, you can see my friend Steve Hughes, the man behind the terrific, little, toilet tank-sized magazine Stupor, standing awkwardly in someone’s bathroom… At least that’s who I […]