Tag Archives: John Sinclair

Juan Cole, Leni Sinclair, and the YpsiGlow project …on this weekend’s edition of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | September 22, 2016

The Saturday Six Pack will be back on the air this weekend, and it has all the makings of a great show. Our first guest will be esteemed University of Michigan history professor Juan Cole. An expert on the Middle East, Cole came to be a household name shortly after 9/11, as our nation geared […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Detroit, Michigan, Politics, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged Adriana Zardus, Detroit Artists Workshop, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Festifools, FoolMoon, Geore Bush, Iraq war, Isreal, Jeri Rosenberg, jihad, Juan Cole, Leni Sinclair, lies in the run-up to the Iraq war, Middle East, SDS, Stephen Colbert, The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East, White Panther Party, WonderFool Productions, YpsiGLOW | 4 Comments

John Sinclair on his efforts to bring down the U.S. government, superintendent Ben Edmondson on the state of Ypsi schools, and musician Cash Harrison on the inspirational power of heartache… on episode 49 of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | September 19, 2016

The last episode of the Saturday Six Pack is now available online. If you’re so inclined, you can either scroll to the bottom of this post, where you’ll find the Soundcloud audio embedded, or just click over to iTunes, were you can download it in podcast form. I know it doesn’t mean much coming from […]

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Talking revolution with John Sinclair, discussing the state of Ypsilanti schools with Superintendent Ben Edmondson, and exploring the bummercore world of Cash Harrison … on this weekend’s edition of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | August 19, 2016

After our long vacation, the Saturday Six Pack will be back on the air this weekend with poet, activist John Sinclair, the former manager of the MC5. While I’m sure we’ll talk at length about both his time with the “The Five”, and the ten year sentence he received for selling two joints that made […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged '60s, Alan Haber, Ann Arbor Sun, Benjamin Edmondson, Black Panther Party, Bob Rudnick, bummercore, Cash Harrison, CIA, communes, Danny Fields, Dennis Frawley, Detroit Artists Workshop, drug busts, Elektra, FBI, Fifth Estate, Flint, government spying, hippies, informants, Jackson Prison, John Lennon, John Sinclair Freedom Rally, Kick out the Jams, Kokaine Karma, Leni Sinclair, liner notes, Luther House, marijuana, MC5, Michigan Supreme Court, old hippies, paranoia, police setups, police stings, pot, Richard Nixon, SDS, Students for Democratic Society, Supreme Court, The Beatles, Tom Hayden, Trans-Love Energies, White Panther Party, yippies | 4 Comments

Ann Arbor’s proposed “Ambassador” program, while laughably stupid, is the best thing to happen in Ann Arbor in a long, long time

By Mark | January 25, 2015

I realize that the Ann Arbor DDA’s uniformly mocked “Ambassador” program is likely going to die on the vine, given the overwhelming backlash that we saw last week, but I refuse to just let it go. This is the first spark of life I’ve seen in Ann Arbor in a long, long time, and I’m […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, History, Ideas, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ann Arbor DDA, authenticity, Block by Block, Edward Vielmetti, mall cops, mallification, Psychedelic Rangers, sense of place, SMS Holdings | 29 Comments

Iggy and the Stooges, or the MC5… Who were the real runaway sons of the nuclear A-bomb?

By Mark | February 22, 2012

Iggy Pop had some nice words to share today about Michael Davis, the bass player for the MC5, who just passed away a few days ago. Here’s what Pop, who got his real start in the music business opening for the MC5 in Detroit, had to say: For me, Michael was the original cool guy. […]