By Mark | January 1, 2019
I spent a good deal of time between Christmas and New Year’s Day working on our house’s front entryway. I’m not sure how the idea came to me, but, at some point before leaving work for the holiday, it occurred to me that, having now lived here for about 20 years, I should probably start […]
Posted in Mark's Life, OCD, Uncategorized | Also tagged anxiety, Clementine, foyer, house cleaning, Linette, love, New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, tails |
By Mark | October 25, 2017
Ypsilanti, in case you missed it, is back in the national news. According to Eastern Michigan University’s chief of police, Robert Heighes, they believe they now know the identity of the vandal who, on three occasions last fall, spray-painted vile, racist messages targeting black students on University buildings. Here’s how the story in the Washington […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Eastern Michigan University, Eddie Curlin, EMU, hate crime, hate speech, KKK, racism, Richard Spencer, Robert Heighes, spray paint |
By Mark | September 5, 2017
Donald Trump is expected to announced tomorrow that he’s decided to kill the Obama administration immigration policy known as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), which essentially allows those who immigrated to the United States illegally as children, to stay in the country without fear of deportation, so long as they continue to be good, […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ann Arbor Skate Park, Ann Coulter, anti-immigrant, anti-immigration, Apple, Assisting Latinos to Maximize Achievement, Charlottesville, Concordia University, DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, deportation, Donald Trump, Dreamers, immigration, impeachment, Jeff Sessions, Joe Arpaio, La Casa, Latinx, Latinx Alliance for Community Action Support and Advocacy, MAGA, nationalism, North Korea, racism, Robert Sellers, Steve King, the rock, Tim Cook, University of Michigan, white nationalism, white power |
According to what I’m reading on social media this morning, this card was found yesterday at Eastern Michigan University’s Halle Library. It was, I’ve been told, left on a sign next to an elevator. I suspect some will say that not much meaning can be drawn from it, as it could just be the work […]
By Mark | November 6, 2016
Later this afternoon, muralist Dave Loewenstein and filmmaker Nicholas Ward will be at Ypsilanti’s Cultivate Coffee and Tap House. The two artists, who hail from Lawrence, Kansas, will not only be sharing their new documentary film Called to Walls, which is about the power of collaborative, community-based public art, but they’ll also be answering questions […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged activism, Amanda May Moore, Amber Hansen, animation, Caleb Zweifler, Called to Walls, Chicago, collaborative art, Cultivate Coffee and Tap House, Dave Loewenstein, Detroit, development, Diego Rivera, documentary film, Film, Gaia, gentrification, Grand River, Grand River Creative Corridor, Highland Park, Jermaine Dickerson, Joplin, Kansas, Kayj Michelle, Lakota, Lawrence, Lynne Settles, Mid-America Mural Project, Missouri, murals, Nicholas Ward, Oklahoma, Oscar Howe, painting, Port Huron, public art, Sintex, Tonkawa, tornados, University of Kansas, Vincent Chin, Wall of Respect, Will Spotts |
