What follows is our official exit interview with writer, filmmaker, and professional critic Jeff Meyers, who, earlier this winter, escaped Ann Arbor for Palo Alto, California. While in Michigan, Jeff, among other things, was the managing editor of Concentrate Media, and a film critic for the Detroit Metro Times. He also served as the president […]
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Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Jeff Meyers
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged A Clockwork Orange, A2 Civic Theater, adoption, Alan Moore, Ann Arbor Arts Alliance, Ann Arbor Hills, Ann Arbor is Overrated, Ann Arbor Public Library, Casanova, change, Charter Townships, childhood memories, college radio, comics, Concentrate, Contra dancing, Corrugated Films, DC comics, density, Detroit Metro Times, diversity, Donald Trump, Doug Schulze, dysfunctional families, economic segregation, Festifools, Film, film criticism, Fire Island, growth, Herbert Dreiseitl, Home Rule, horror, horror movies, hostility to change, income inequality, inequality, Issues Media Group, Jeff Meyers, Keith Jefferies, Krampus, Lance Henrikson, Logan Act, Lour Reed, memories of childhood, Metromode, Michigan film incentives, Michigan Film Office, microbiology, Mimesis: Night Of The Living Dead, nature vs. nurture, Newcome Clark, Palo Alto, Portland, public art, public transit, public transportation, Rosemary’s Baby, Sayville, Seattle, Shadow Art Fair, silos, Stranger Things, Straw Dogs, suicide, surgery, Swamp Thing, Tamara Real, The Blood of Love, the gay, the Stranger, Tio's, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, walkability, yellow curtain, zombie apocalypse 31 Comments
A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Ypsilanti’s Dreamland Theater
The folks at Ypsilanti’s Dreamland Theater will premiere their new production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream this Saturday. In advance of that, I thought that I’d ask our friend Naia Venturi a few questions. MARK: Would it be an exaggeration to say that you’ve been working on your puppet version of A Midsummer Night’s […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A.K.A. Jimmy Picard, Andy Mitchell, Arnaud Desplechin, Benicio Del Toro, Bottom, Britney Spears, Cannes Film Festival, Christine Bruxvoort, Demetrius, Diana Rigg, Dreamland Theater, fairies, gay marriage, Helena, Hermia, Hippolyta, Jimmy Picard, Kevin Kline, Lysander, manipulation, Naia Venturi, New York Film Festival, Oberon, Patrick Elkins, puppet Mark, puppetry, puppets, Quince, Robin Starveling, Sarah Palin, shadow puppets, Shakespeare 6 Comments
“Michiganians mine bodies for cash to make ends meet”
Yup. This, according to the Detroit News, is what it’s come to. Here’s a clip: …Fetzner is among those realizing that, in these tough times, the body isn’t just a temple. It can be a gold mine… A few weeks ago, it was a story on people in Detroit eating trash-fattened raccoon, and now we […]
Posted in Economics, Rants, Ypsilanti Also tagged body as gold mine, Detroit News, IBR Plasma Center, mining bodies for cash, selling kidneys, the Michigan economy 10 Comments