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 […]
As you might have heard, the Republic, Missouri school board voted unanimously a few weeks ago to ban Kurt Vonnegut’s brilliant anti-war novel Slaughterhouse-Five. The vote, according to the Christian Science Monitor, was set in motion when a complaint was filed by Republic resident Wesley Scroggins. Scroggins, whose children are home-schooled, apparently felt strongly enough […]
For those of you who enjoyed the interviews that I conducted and posted during Saturday’s Shadow Art Fair with folks like Pete Larson, Andy Claydon, Alexandra Dietz, and Patti Smith, I’ve got a few more that I’d like to share. The following interviews, with Andrew Jason Clock, Stef Chura and a young woman named Amanda, […]
I wasn’t going to do anything at tomorrow’s Shadow Art Fair. I’d intended to have a table, and sell something, but things never fell into place. Actually, none of us who plan the event were going to have a table this time around, which kind of sucks. We all want to do creative stuff again, […]
Nineteen years to the day after Peter Falk started work on the film Wings of Desire, I had the occasion to sit down and talk with him for about an hour. He was in Michigan as part of a speaking tour, and it was one of the happiest days of my life. I plan to […]
