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Talking breeders and their larvae with Minus9, driving Björk around Detroit with author Steve Hughes, putting mousetraps outside of Ann Arbor’s fairy doors, and open heart surgery in a Hamtramck bar… on episode 19 of The Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | June 17, 2015

Ok, I’m finally getting around to listening to episode 19 of The Saturday Six Pack. I’m not sure why I put it off so long. It’s actually a pretty good show… If you’d like to join me, you can either download the podcast by way of iTunes or stream it on Soundcloud. Or, if you […]

Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Andy Claydon, Björk, breeders, Build Records, Colin Moorhouse, fairies, fairy doors, Good Tyme Writers Buffet, Greg Hughes, guerrilla theater, Hamtramck, Jack White, juice boxes, local theater, Marisa Dluge, Minus9, misanthropy, Normal Park, Pete Larson, punk rock, Regal Beagle, Steve Hughes, Steve Marton, Stupor, The Monarchs, The Nightman Cometh, Three's Company, Too Many Cooks, tourists | 5 Comments

The Untold History of Zines…. Steve Hughes on Stupor

By Mark | December 27, 2013

Over the years I’ve mentioned my friend Steve Hughes and his zine Stupor several times on this site. I’ve shared videos of him reading at the Shadow Art Fair, and interviewed him about his various projects in Hamtramck, where he makes his home and runs an art space called Public Pool. To my knowledge, though, […]

Posted in Detroit, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bill Rohde, blood, Christianity, Clinton Snider, collaboration, DIY, Dorota Coy, eastern mich, EMU, Factsheet Five, Hamtramck, Hope College, horrifically sad stories, Hygienic Dress League, interviews, Janet Kauffman, Jessica Frelinghuysen, Kickstarter, Kresge Foundation, Linette, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Michael Jackman, mud, New Orleans, oral history, poison, Public Pool, rust, seedy, self-publishing, sex, Shadow Art Fair, Steve Coy, Stupor, The Untold History of Zines, toilet, true stories, truth, truthiness, University of New Orleans, zines, Zug Island | 14 Comments

“Wringing Art Out of Rubble in Detroit”

By Mark | August 3, 2010

It must be that time of year again… The New York Times today has another story on how artists are revitalizing Detroit. It’s actually a pretty good article. I don’t mean to come across as cynical. It’s just that, for the past few years, it seems like this same story keeps getting recycled. The good […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Detroit | Also tagged arts centered development, Banksy, Corine Vermeulen, Design 99, Detroit, Garden of the Gods, Gina Reichert, Jerry Paffendorf, Jessica Hernandez, Kate Daughdrill, Kevin Putalik, Loveland, Maker Faire, MexicanTown, Mitch Cope, Phil Cooley, ruin porn, Scott Hocking, Slows Bar BQ, soup, The Yes Farm | 11 Comments

Detroit, attractive to artists?

By Mark | March 8, 2009

Some folks out there say that, by the time something hits the New York Times, it’s culturally irrelevant. I don’t know that I believe it, but it sure seemed to be the case a few weeks ago, when the esteemed paper of record ran the feature on the “bacon explosion.” After it appeared, the once […]

Posted in Michigan | Also tagged Ancient Evenings, bacon explosion, Design 99, Detroit, Detroit Unreal Estate Agency, Financial Times, General Motors, Gina Reichert, hipsters, Kwame Kilpatrick, Mitch Cope, New York Times, Steve Hughes, Stupor, Toby Barlow, Tyree Guyton, Van Abbemuseum | 27 Comments

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Talking breeders and their larvae with Minus9, driving Björk around Detroit with author Steve Hughes, putting mousetraps outside of Ann Arbor’s fairy doors, and open heart surgery in a Hamtramck bar… on episode 19 of The Saturday Six Pack

The Untold History of Zines…. Steve Hughes on Stupor

“Wringing Art Out of Rubble in Detroit”

Detroit, attractive to artists?

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