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
Being there for The Replacements Minneapolis homecoming
I spent this past Saturday with an old high school friend in the suburbs of Minneapolis… The trip had been in the works for over three years. It started in early 2011, when I scored two hard-to-get tickets for the big Stooges reunion show at the Michigan Theater commemorating the passing of Ron Asheton. I […]
Every cop with a gun should also be outfitted with a video camera
Earlier this week, after an inquest jury essentially vindicated London police officers in the 2011 killing of 29 year old Mark Duggan, authorities announced that, henceforth, some number of London’s 2,300 firearms-carrying officers would begin wearing vest-mounted video cameras. And, as much as I consider myself a privacy advocate, and despise our ever expanding surveillance […]
3 minute film smackdown at Saturday’s Shadow Art Fair
For the second year in a row, we’re happy to announce that our friends at the Ann Arbor Film Festival will be hosting a one-day film competition at the Shadow Art Fair. Following is a quick interview about the competiton with AAFF Director Donald Harrison. MARK: For those folks who weren’t at last summer’s Shadow […]