Last weekend, shortly after having returned home to Michigan from New Mexico, where she’d moved some six months earlier, Ypsilanti artist Kim Demick passed away. While I considered Kim a friend, the truth is I didn’t know her terribly well. I think we first met at the Shadow Art Fair about 10 years ago now, […]
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Remembering Kim Demick
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Amanda Edmonds, Blake Reetz, cancer, Dan Hussong, dancing, David Ketchens, Donald Harrison, EAT, eulogy, Everyone Loves Raymond, fabric art, fashion, food, generosity, hair, Jean Henry, Jefferson Market, Kim Demick, Margot Finn, Marti Gulkeisen, New Mexico, resiliency, Shadow Art Fair, Sleater-Kinney, Walt Whitman 16 Comments
Making way for the further mallification of Ann Arbor, this month Eastern Accents, Herb David, and Mahek all cease operations
Cities are living things. They grow older, like all of us, and they change. They evolve, or they die. I get that. I’ve grudgingly come to accept that the best things in life are transient. That realization doesn’t make it any easier, however, to accept it when good things, that genuinely make me happy, go […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, History, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Uncategorized Also tagged Blue Wolf Grill, coining new words and phrases, Discount Records, Dunkin' Donuts, Eastern Accents, franchises, Harvest Kitchen, Herb David, Iggy Pop, Jean Henry, Lisa Waud, Mahek, mallification, national chains, Pete Larson, Pita Pita, Potbelly Sandwich Shop, Qiznos, retail in Ann Arbor, Sava Lelcaj, Shaman Drum, Small & Mighty, Small and Mighty, Tuptim 49 Comments
Local entrepreneurs Jean Henry, Lisa Waud and Helen Harding on what it means to be “Small and Mighty”
We didn’t announce it until this evening, but the October recipient of the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation’s monthly $1,000 cash grant was Small & Mighty, the scrappy, little entrepreneurial support network created in the fall of 2012 by brilliant local shit-stirrers Jean Henry, Helen Harding and the cheese-loving Lisa Waud. What follows is a transcript […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Detroit, entrepreneurism, Local Business, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged A2Awesome, Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Regional Chamber of Commerce, Blake Reetz, business ethics, business owners who get it, capitalization, Cliff Bell’s, EAT, Jean Henry, Jefferson Market, Lisa Waud, Michael Shuman, networking, Open City, Pot and Box, Small and Mighty, small business, Sweet Heather Anne, The Wedding Party, Think Local First, Young Entrepreneurial People 25 Comments