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Totally Awesome Fest 10: an epic eight days of egg hunts, pajama parties and genre defying works of musical expression

By Mark | April 2, 2014

Every year, at about this time, Patrick Elkins, the director of Ypsilanti’s Totally Awesome Fest (TAF), calls a big press conference to formally kick-off the festivities. And, every year, invariably, I’m the only member of the professional press to show up. This year’s press conference, which took place yesterday evening on an outbound #4 bus, […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AAATA, bearded circle jerk, beards, Dreamland Theater, hipsters, Manhole, Patrick Elkins, Totally Awesome Fest, Ugly Mug Cafe, VG Kids, Voss Acres, walking tours, Water Street Commons | 11 Comments

The totally confrontational Totally Awesome Fest press conference

By Mark | April 25, 2012

Ypsilanti’s more densely bearded, somewhat less murderous, and considerably less black version of Don King, Patrick Elkins, called a press conference yesterday to announce the lineup of the 8th annual Totally Awesome Fest, which begins this Friday evening at 5:00, in the field behind VG Kids. I suppose, in retrospect, that it should have been […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Absolute Beginners, Animal Magic, Ben Miller, Charlie Slick, child labor, Chris Sandon, delinquent hipsters, Detroit Party Marching Band, Don King, Dreamland Theater, Duane the Teenage Weirdo, Fucking Awesome Fest, holograms, interviews with Mark, Jambo Man, Jamboman, Little Weasel House, Lord of the Yum-Yum, Manhole, mascots, microfiche, music festivals, pancake walk, pancakes, Patrick Elkins, Patrick's Weird Beard Goes Wandering, Penelope, Playboy Mansion, pooping in the river, press conferences, Ripper Field, Swimsuit, The Bungalow, thickly-bearded local troubadours, Totally Awesome Corp, Totally Awesome Fest, Tupac, VG Kids, Ypsi festivals | 18 Comments

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