Tag Archives: heroin

Melvin Parson and the campaign to create a world-class urban farm in Ypsilanti

By Mark | February 26, 2019

Melvin Parson and I have been working off an on for the past two years on an interview for this site. It began as an Ypsilanti Immigration Interview, and, over time, as we dug deeper into his work with We The People Growers Association, evolved into something more about his dream of establishing a world-class […]

Posted in Agriculture, Ann Arbor, Detroit, entrepreneurism, Environment, Food, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 13th, addiction, Ann Arbor, Avalon Housing, Black Beauty, community gardens, culinary arts, Dawn Farm, Detroit, Doug Coombe, drugs, Edible Avalon, Emanuel Tyus, food hub, fundraising, Great Migration, Henry Ford, Henry Ford Museum, inequality, Kerrytown, Kerrytown Farmers Market, local food, local food production, matching grants, Melvin Parson, Michigan Department of Corrections, Parkridge Homes, Port Huron, prison industry, prison reform, Shaka Senghor, social justice, St. Joseph Mercy, substance abuse, the hiring on ex-fellons, urban farming, Washtenaw County Jail, We The People Growers Association, We The People Opportunity Center, white flight, Wizard of Oz, YCS, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsilanti Community Schools | 9 Comments

Totally Quotable Arlo: Velvet Underground edition

By Mark | July 2, 2016

This morning, while Linette and Clementine were out running errands, Arlo and I spent a little time cleaning up his bedroom. And, because he’s too young to know of any music that isn’t my music, we listened to Wire’s Pink Flag and The Velvet Underground & Nico. For the post part he just sat and […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Special Projects | Also tagged Pink Flag, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Velvet Underground, Wire | 4 Comments

Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Kayla Mishler

By Mark | April 12, 2016

I got word a few days ago through my network of informants that a young woman by the name of Kayla Mishler might be planning to pack up and leave Ypsilanti, so I headed out to find her. Here’s her official exit interview. I hope you enjoy it. MARK: So I’ve heard a rumor that […]

Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged addiction, Chicago, exit interviews, social work, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews | 12 Comments

Home alone with Macaulay Culkin, trading heroin for cheese

By Mark | December 9, 2013

If you’re a young American celebrity rumored to have a serious heroin addiction, it may not be the best idea in the world to start a Velvet Underground cover band. That, however, is apparently what actor Macaulay Culkin has done. Gathering together a number of musicians from the New York anti-folk scene, the actor has […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-folk, Austin Kilham, Deenah Vollmer, folk, glockenspiel, Home Alone, Macaulay Culkin, Mila Kunis, music, National Enquirer, Phoebe Kreutz, pizza, Pizza Underground, Velvet Underground | 8 Comments

Life after prostitution in Ypsilanti

By Mark | August 4, 2009

It doesn’t happen terribly often, but occasionally something will happen on this site that will remind me why I spend several hours each night, hunched over this little computer screen, churning posts out into the abyss. Today, was one of those days. An amazing comment was left in an old thread about local prostitution, and […]