Every year, in late April, a free, all-ages, multi-venue festival of weirdness called Totally Awesome Fest descends upon the sleepy little midwestern hamlet of Ypsilanti. There’s no escape from it. No one is immune. Like it or not, you will experience beauty and magic. It permeates every element of village life. Walking through town, one […]
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The Saturday Six Pack Holiday Special
I can’t bring myself to listen to it, but here, as best as I can recall, is what happened on our Saturday Six Pack holiday special. [The above photo comes courtesy of Nick Azzaro.] 1. The show started out relatively uneventful. I had no guests lined up for the evening, and no beer. I just […]
Posted in The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Bee Roll, Brian Little, Brigid Mooney, Christmas trees, classy vaginas, Davey Jones, Ethan Wampler, Everly Sisters, Frontier Ruckus, Great Lakes Brewing, Gregory McIntosh, J.T. Garfield, Jason Wright, Jim Cherewick, Karaage, Karaage Xmas, Kelleys Island, Max Fish, Morath Goethe, Morath Goyette, Patrick Elkins, Pointless Brewery & Theatre, pot, pot cookies, The Who Guy, vaginas, Ypsi Underground, Zachary Nichols 10 Comments
The desperate need for affordable housing in Ann Arbor, the story of the black history mural that brought the community together, and nudity on the radio… on episode 32 of the Saturday Six Pack
Every episode of the Saturday Six Pack, toward the end, devolves into chaos. It’s been that way since we first started the show. We begin each episode with the best of intentions, but, somewhere along the line, things start to careen off in a direction that would wouldn’t have thought possible just a few hours […]
Posted in Art and Culture, History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged affordable housing, Affordable Housing and Economic Equity Analysis, art, Avalon Housing, black history, Brett Lenart, Chuck Warpehoski, Douglas Jones, economic segregation, Elijah McCoy, HP Jacobs, Lynne Settles, Mary Jo Callan, Matt Siegfried, Michael Appel, Minus9, murals, nudity, Platt Road, public art, public nudity, Rob Krupicka, The Who Guy, Tom Perkins, Washtenaw County Office of Community and Economic Development, YCS, Ypsi Underground, Ypsilanti Community Schools 27 Comments