If all goes according to plan, Tori and Jason Tomalia will soon be the proprietors of new brewery situated between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti that will cater primarily to lovers of improvisational comedy. The brewery, which they’ve dubbed Pointless, will be just a few doors down from our friends at Hut-K Chaats, at the intersection […]
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Pointless Brewery & Theatre to explore the intersection of brewing and improv
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Uncategorized Also tagged beer, cancer, chemotherapy, comedy, Dan Izzo, dreams, Gary Lehman, genetic testing, Go Comedy!, improv comedy, Improv Inferno, Jason Tomalia, Katrease Stafford, lung cancer, Minneapolis, personalized medicine, Planet Ant, Pointless Brewery, Pointless Brewery & Theatre, Tori Tomalia 13 Comments
Danny Fields… the man who signed the Stooges, discovered the Ramones, and changed the world
Almost a year ago now, I received an email from a reader of this site by the name of Bob Nolan, who, knowing of my love for the Ramones and Stooges, suggested that I talk with a friend of his named Brendan Toller. Brendan, he told me, had been working on a film about Danny […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Detroit, History Also tagged 16 Magazine, A Day In The Life, acid, Andy Warhol, animation, archives, bible belt, Bob Nolan, Bob Rudnick, Boswell, Brendan Toller, Brian Epstein, Brooks Brothers, butts, CBGB, Christmas cards, crowdfunding, Danny Fields, Danny Says, Datebook, David Bowie, Dennis Frawley, documentary film, Dolly Parton, Edie Sedgwick, Elektra, Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Fred Sonic Smith, Funhouse, Harvard, Harvard Law, Hedwig, I Need That Record, Iggy and the Stooges, Iggy Pop, Jesus, Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Judy Collins, LBJ, Lenny Bruce, Linda Stein, Lou Reed, Mark's big ideas, Max's Kansas City, Mayor of the Sunset Strip, MC5, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, New York City, Nico, Paul McCartney, public relations, punk rock, Ramones, Rock and Roll, Rodney Bingenheimer, San Remo, Search and Destroy, Seymour Stein, slacks, Stooges, The Beatles, The Doors, the music business, The Stooges, Timothy Leary, Tommy Goodwin, Velvet Underground, WFMU, Yale, Yale University, Younger Jewish Set 48 Comments
Middle class Michiganders to pay considerably more in taxes despite the anti-tax rhetoric of Lansing Republicans
Reading an article in the Detroit Free Press this evening about how taxes are going up precipitously on working class Michiganders, I’m reminded of something that I wrote about a year ago for this site. Here’s how my post began. Why is it that we allow the Republicans to refer to themselves as the anti-tax […]
Posted in Economics, Michigan, Observations, Politics Also tagged anti-university, class warfare, crazy ideas that just might work, Earned Income Tax Credit, Ed Asner California Association of Teachers, EITC, Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Financial Manager Act, higher education, income disparity, income tax, local income tax, Michael Stampfler, Michigan, Michigan Republicans, progressive taxation, public education, revolution, Rick Snyder, tax credits, tax policy, tax the rich, trickle down economics, we need a revolution 20 Comments