Tag Archives: Ann Arbor

pencil paparazzi file: Hillary Swank at Eve

This one is a little late, as the sighting took place several weeks ago, but we’ve got another entry for the pencil paparazzi file. This incident, recorded painstakingly in graphite, involves the actress Hilary Swank, when she was in Ann Arbor, making the Betty Ann Waters biopic. We’d heard through the grapevine that she had […]

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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 […]

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Milla in the Garden

Word is that when actresses Minnie Drive and Drew Barrymore were here in town, they ate most of their meals at the upscale Ann Arbor restaurant Eve. That didn’t much surprise me. I was, however, surprised when I heard that George “Ace from Facts of Life” Clooney, during the time he spent trapped here in […]

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Church shopping

A friend of mine recently asked me to pose the following question to the readers of this site: “I don’t know anyone who goes to church in Ypsilanti. Do you go to church in Ypsilanti? Where? Why?” This friend and his family live here in Ypsi, but attend a church elsewhere, and now they’re looking […]

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Free Comic Book Day brings “Huge Yetis” to Ann Arbor

For those who care about such things, I wanted to pass along this little bit of good news… Vault of Midnight in Ann Arbor is participating in Free Comic Book Day!

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