Between Christmas and New Year’s Day, Ypsilanti has traditionally played host to the incredible Michigan music festival known as Mittenfest. Last year, unable to find a home in Ypsi, however, the festival wound up in Ann Arbor. Now, though… starting tonight… Mittenfest is back in Ypsi, where God intended it, and things are once again […]
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Mittenfest X returns to its roots, kicks off in Ypsilanti tonight
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Amanda Uhle, Bermudas, Bonny Doon, Brandon Zwagerman, Chris Bathgate, Emily Jane Powers, Fred Thomas, Frontier Ruckus, Jeremy Peters, Jes Kramer, Linda Ann Jordan, Loose Teeth, Matt Jones, Misty Lyn, Mittenfest, New Year's Eve, Patrick Elkins, Rebel Kind, Sugar Shakers, The Bootstrap Boys 3 Comments
Singing about heartbroken monsters with Fangs and Twang, discussing the condition of Michigan’s roads with Representative David Rutledge, and reliving the horrors of Totally Awesome Fest… on episode 16 of The Saturday Six Pack
My favorite moment of this week’s episode happened within just the first few minutes. I was looking at State Representative David Rutledge’s face when Fangs and Twang performed the opening theme song that they’d written for the show, and he was just beaming. While I think he genuinely liked the song, which was admittedly pretty […]
Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged AM 1700, Amber Fellows, Autumn Nicole Wetli, Ben Miller, Black Jake, Black Jake and the Carnies, Bob Krzewinski, Danica Danger, David Rutledge, Debbie Dingell, Fangs and Twang, Michigan House of Representatives, Patrick Elkins, Riverspirit, Totally Awesome Fest 13 Comments
The complete Totally Awesome Fest 10 line-up beginning with Sunday’s city-wide Easter egg hunt!
Since last week’s press conference, Ypsilanti has been in the grip of Totally Awesome Fest fever. You can’t leave your home, it seems, without getting tangled up in drunken beard, wet lips smacking against your ear, speculating as to what Patrick Elkins may have up his sleeve this year. Well, earlier this morning, a bit […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Amanda Krugliak, Andara, Animal Magic, Annie Palmer, B.S.R.B., Ben Miller's take-home fashion show, Brian R. Tucker, Buffalo Coven Party, Chemical Valley, Chit Chat, chocolate tampons, Community Rebirth, Creode, Croidoid, croquet, Curtains, Dan Florida, Dear Darkness, Disinformants, DJ Buffalo Coven Party, DJ Homonormal Park, Dreamland Theater, Easter, Easter eggs, Emily Jane Powers, Girth, Growth Spert, Happy Campers, Hollis Coats, House of Mole, Izzy Johnson, JAV, Jessie Bott, Jo Pie Whyld, Joey Molinaro, Jovantoes, Juniper Baby, Little Weasel House, Lord of the Yum-Yum, Magic Markers, magical events, Man vs. Indian Man, Manhole, May Pie, MC Trashpedal, Ministry of Boredom, Minus 9, Nausea Valley, Nick Painter, noise music, Oak Openings, Ooze Dude, Pajama Party, pancake parade, pancakes, Patrick Elkins, Pie Reading, pizza, Poetry Eating, Princess Xanthipe, Public Urination, Rebel Kind, Richard Album, Riverside Park, Salt City, Sam Finch, secret brunch, Sex Police, Shells, Snesi, Stef Chura, Surprise in the Woods, tampons, Telepathic Telephone, The Blob, The Jols, The Lovelies, The PreMadonnas, The Real Spicollis, The True Love Story of the Wizard & the Swamp Witch, The Understorey, Thom Elliott, Totally Awesome Fest, Truman, Ugly Mug, Unicorn, Van Houten, VG Kids, Video Games, Vomit Express, Voss Acres, Voss's Zas, Water Street Commons, weed, White Dwarf, Woodruff's, Ypsilanti Downtown Library 8 Comments