Tag Archives: Bill Nickles

Millions in Asia experience the cultural odyssey that is Ypsilanti

By Mark | March 20, 2011

Do you remember hearing earlier this winter that a representative of the Voice of America’s China branch was going to be visiting Ypsi? Well, it apparently happened. A Chinese correspondent by the name of Sean E Liu not only visited Ypsi after covering the 2011 North American Auto Show in Detroit, but he interviewed a […]

Posted in Media, Ypsilanti | Also tagged China, Chinese television, Cultural Odyssey, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), Firehouse Museum, Five Cent Willy, Larry Thomas, Matt Lee, phallic structures, phallic things, Sean E Liu, Sidetrack, Voice of America, Woody Allen, Ypsilanti water tower | 10 Comments

Ypsi landmark figures prominently in Conan O’Brien gay joke

By Mark | January 13, 2011

Posted in Media, Other, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Conan O'Brien, corporate money, Five Cent Willy, gay history museum, get the money out of Washington, Jimmy Fallon, John Boehner, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, monologues, Most Phallic Building contest, oral history, phallic structures, phallic things, the gay, water towers, Ypsilanti water tower | 9 Comments

The odds that Council will chicken out

By Mark | July 21, 2009

As most of you probably already know, Ypsi City Council voted 4 to 3 earlier this month to allow the keeping of chickens in downtown Ypsilanti. In order for the legislation to past, however, it has to clear one more hurdle. It has to be voted on by Council a second time. And that vote […]

Posted in Agriculture, Civil Liberties, Environment, Food, Sustainability, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Brian Robb, chicken, Growing Hope, Lois Richardson, Michael Bodary, Pete Murdock, Trudy Swanson, urban chickens | 36 Comments

What does Jimmy Fallon have against the leaders of Ypsilanti?

By Mark | May 5, 2009

Word on the street is that producers of NBC’s hour-long suckfest known as Late Night with Jimmy Fallon have been calling around Ypsi today in hopes of laying their hands on photographs of City Manager Ed Koryzno, City Council member Bill Nickles, and Augusta Township Supervisor Pete Hafler. According to what I’m told, when asked, […]