This past weekend marked the 22nd meeting of my one-day-a-year pseudo-band, the Monkey Power Trio. For those of you who might not be familiar with our origin story, it all began back in 1995 with a promise between old friends one hot, summer afternoon in Brooklyn. On the spur of the moment, we’d decided to […]
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Being reminded of David Blair at POP-X
When my friend David Blair, the much loved Detroit poet, passed away unexpectedly about five years ago, I said here on the site that I thought it was likely, given the kind of man that David was, and the poetry that he’d produced during his lifetime, that we’d continue to be reminded of him through […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Detroit, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Andrew Thompson, cartography, David Blair, Donald Harrison, FLY Children's Art Center, Lisa Waud, maps, Marie Tharp, Martin Thoburn, Omari Rush, Philip Levine, poetry, POP-X 5 Comments
Three awesome women share their stories about the day Bernie came to town
If you’re interested in finding out what presidential candidate Bernie Sanders talked about on Monday, when he was here at Eastern Michigan University’s Convocation Center, there’s quite a bit of documentation out there. Of what I’ve seen, my favorite is an article in the Washington Post titled “‘Single-issue’ candidate Bernie Sanders touches on 20 issues […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Bee Roll, Beezy's, Bernie Sanders, Clementine, Convocation Center, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, Howard Dean, long lines, Presidential politics, rallies, standing in line 11 Comments