By Mark | October 21, 2014
At the risk of further infuriating those who see these reports of mine about long-time downtown Ann Arbor businesses going belly-up as “tired tirades,” I feel compelled to share that yet another Ann Arbor staple will soon be closing its doors as a result of rising downtown rents. According to my source, the owners of […]
Several days ago I was approached by a young woman named Megan Maurer, asking if she could interview me for her master’s thesis. I agreed on one condition. I told her that, for every question she asked me, I’d ask one of my own. What follows are her responses to my questions. MARK: As I […]
Posted in Environment, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AAATA, AmeriCorps, Beezy's, civic engagement, civic life, Columbus, community gardens, cultural anthropology, Deja Vu, dissertations, Dos Hermanos, environmentalism, FernGully, gardening, gateway drugs, graduate school, Growing Hope, immigration interview, Kenyon, Kenyon Lords and Ladies, local food, Megan Maurer, More Buses, Ohio, Philander Chase, Portland, public space, race, research, social justice, Sustainability, tamales, urban gardening, Ypsi immigration interview |
One of my favorite local restaurants is an Indian street food place on Packard, between Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, called K-Hut Chaats. Following is my interview with Dr. Swaroop Bhojani, the visionary healthy food evangelist behind the small, family-run operation… If you’ve never been, I’d encourage you to stop in, say hello, and try a […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Food, Health, Uncategorized | Also tagged amino acids, Back2Roots, cardiovascular disease, childhood obesity, depression, diabetes, entrepreneurism, food as medicine, food entrepreneurship, high cholesterol, Hippocrates, Hut-K, hypertension, Indian food, insulin shock, lifestyle diseases, nutrition, obesity, prevention, restaurants, roti, Swaroop Bhojani, University of Michigan, whole grains |
By Mark | January 30, 2012
A former Ypsilanti resident, who, the last I heard, had gotten married and run off to become a farmer in Hawaii, sent me a short, cryptic message a few weeks back, suggesting that I look up a friend of his who just moved to Ypsilanti, and interview her as part of our Ypsi Immigration Interview […]
Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Alexandra Sarkozy, Anthology Film Archives, architecture, Brooklyn, Chavella's, Depot Town, farmers market, Growing Hope, hacker space, independent bookstores, independent press, Issue Project Room, Kalamazoo, Kevin Dole, Prospect park, public transportation, retail in Ypsilanti, Sustainability, third spaces, thrift stores, tool library, Transition Ypsilanti, Unnameable Books, walkable downtown, Ypsi Food Co-op, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews, Ypsilanti District Library, Ypsilanti Historical Society |
If we’re to believe this article from the Ann Arbor News, the number of tables one can eat at in Ypsi is about to almost double. While part of me gets concerned that this might mean that gentrification, and all the shit that comes along with it (higher prices, less diversity, etc), might be right […]
