This past weekend’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack, roughly speaking, was divided into three equally juicy, and satisfying, parts. First, we talked with Omari Rush about Ann Arbor’s upcoming multi-day contemporary art event POP-X. Rush and I, among other things, discussed the stress that comes along with trying to launch a high-profile public art […]
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The contemporary pop-up art environments of Pop-X, combating poverty with intensive social services, and Alex Haley’s mission to tell the world about Ypsi’s dating scene… on episode 30 of the Saturday Six Pack
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Ann Arbor’s plans to take on Art Prize with Pop-X, Ypsi’s rising fame as a singles city, and empowering the poor …on this weekend’s Saturday Six Pack
[Last weekend the specter of Pa Ingalls loomed large over the Saturday Six Pack. Grass Lake homesteader Joe Trumpey and I talked about Pa’s fiddle playing in the Big Woods, his reliance on spanking, and the homes he built with his family as they made their way across the American frontier. [Trumpey said he would […]
Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged all nude, Ann Arbor Art Center, Art Prize, comic books, Deborah Strong Housing, Deja Vu, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, Gene Rayburn, Hamilton Crossing, homesteading, Institute for the Study of Children Families and Communities, Jean Henry, Joseph Trumpey, Kresge Foundation, Livability.com, Match Game, Michael Landon, Omari Rush, Pa Ingells, POP-X, poverty, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Russ Olwell, sexism, social work, Strong Families Fund 63 Comments