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 […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Economics, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Retail Also tagged Aunt Agatha’s, Crazy Wisdom, Dawn Treader, Great Lakes Literary Arts Center, independent bookstores, Karl Pohrt, LA Times, Motte & Bailey, Nicolas’s Books, Shaman Drum, Vault of Midnight, West Side Books 7 Comments
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 […]
Posted in Church and State Also tagged churches, churching, communities of faith, Mega Church, Northridge, Plymouth, Unitarian 63 Comments
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!
Posted in Art and Culture Also tagged comics, Free Comic Book Day, free stuff, Vault of Midnight, yetis 2 Comments