[The text is taken from an anonymous email I received this evening. The image of our downtown water tower is from the Ypsilanti Area Visitors and Convention Bureau’s new Ypsi Real video.]
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A love letter from Ann Arbor
Posted in Ann Arbor, Architecture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged insults, water tower, Ypsi Real 17 Comments
Ann Arbor’s art scene isn’t really completely dead, despite what I might have said in The Ann
No one has brought it up to me yet, but I suspect some readers of The Ann magazine are probably pissed at me. The new issue came out yesterday, and I was apparently quoted as having said that the arts scene had died in Ann Arbor with the closing, burning and subsequent bulldozing of the […]
Raja Rani to close its doors at the end of the month as a result of rising rents in Ann Arbor
At the risk of further infuriating those who see these reports of mine about long-time downtown Ann Arbor businesses going belly-up as “tired tirades,” I feel compelled to share that yet another Ann Arbor staple will soon be closing its doors as a result of rising downtown rents. According to my source, the owners of […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Uncategorized Also tagged Ann Arbor history, Dug Song, Indian restaurants, local business, Raja Rani, restaurants, tired tirades 70 Comments
Awesome Things You Should Know About: The Ann Arbor District Library has theremins, guitar pedals, synthesizers, solar chargers, telescopes and all kinds of other cools things available for checkout
A few days ago I found myself wandering around the main branch of the Ann Arbor District Library (AADL). As I’m on the Ann Arbor Ypsilanti Reads 2015 selection committee, I’d been asked to come in and pick up copies of the two books we’d be choisng between, and, as I hadn’t been in the […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Uncategorized Also tagged 3D printers, All Hands Active, Ann Arbor District Library. AADL, Ann Arbor Ypsilanti Reads, art, art prints, awesome things you should know about, cake pan libraries, Finch Robots, GoPro, guitar pedals, Jody Harnish, librarians, library collections, local bands, Maker Works, music, music tools, PAs, public libraries, realia, robots, Sabertooth Cat skull, synthesizers, telescope, the changing role of libraries, thermal imaging cameras, U-M 3D Lab, University Lowbrow Astronomers, Unusual Stuff to Borrow 20 Comments
AnnArbor.com draws much-needed attention to Ypsilanti change-stealing home invasion epidemic
If anyone is interested, I’m thinking about driving into Ann Arbor tonight, and stealing a mason jar full of pennies from someone’s home… It’s not so much that I need the money. I’m just curious to see how, if at all, AnnArbor.com would cover it. Here’s how they covered the theft of a jar full […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti Also tagged change jar, crime, crime blotter, home invasion, theft, WTF 18 Comments
