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The complete Totally Awesome Fest 10 line-up beginning with Sunday’s city-wide Easter egg hunt!

By Mark | April 19, 2014

Since last week’s press conference, Ypsilanti has been in the grip of Totally Awesome Fest fever. You can’t leave your home, it seems, without getting tangled up in drunken beard, wet lips smacking against your ear, speculating as to what Patrick Elkins may have up his sleeve this year. Well, earlier this morning, a bit […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Amanda Krugliak, Andara, Animal Magic, Annie Palmer, B.S.R.B., Ben Miller's take-home fashion show, Brian R. Tucker, Buffalo Coven Party, Chemical Valley, Chit Chat, chocolate tampons, Community Rebirth, Creode, Croidoid, croquet, Curtains, Dan Florida, Deadbeat Beat, Dear Darkness, Disinformants, DJ Buffalo Coven Party, DJ Homonormal Park, Dreamland Theater, Easter, Easter eggs, Emily Jane Powers, Girth, Growth Spert, Happy Campers, Hollis Coats, House of Mole, Izzy Johnson, JAV, Jessie Bott, Jo Pie Whyld, Joey Molinaro, Jovantoes, Juniper Baby, Little Weasel House, Lord of the Yum-Yum, Magic Markers, magical events, Man vs. Indian Man, Manhole, May Pie, MC Trashpedal, Ministry of Boredom, Minus 9, Nausea Valley, Nick Painter, noise music, Ooze Dude, Pajama Party, pancake parade, pancakes, Patrick Elkins, Pie Reading, pizza, Poetry Eating, Princess Xanthipe, Public Urination, Rebel Kind, Richard Album, Riverside Park, Salt City, Sam Finch, secret brunch, Sex Police, Shells, Snesi, Stef Chura, Surprise in the Woods, tampons, Telepathic Telephone, The Blob, The Jols, The Lovelies, The PreMadonnas, The Real Spicollis, The True Love Story of the Wizard & the Swamp Witch, The Understorey, Thom Elliott, Totally Awesome Fest, Truman, Ugly Mug, Unicorn, Van Houten, VG Kids, Video Games, Vomit Express, Voss Acres, Voss's Zas, Water Street Commons, weed, White Dwarf, Woodruff's, Ypsilanti Downtown Library | 8 Comments

Shadow Art Fair performances announced

By Mark | July 11, 2013

I just received word from Ian “MC Trashpedal” Fulcher that the line-up for the The Final Shadow Art Fair has been locked in… Here’s what Ian has in store for those of you who find yourselves trapped outside, in the beer garden, on July 20. (The descriptive phrases are Ian’s… so don’t ask me what […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Shadow Art Fair, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Actual Birds, Almus Magnus, Annie Palmer, Casual Sweetheart, Charlie Slick, Chelsea Jordan, Dan Florida, Dave Richards, Dustin Krcatovich, HISS, Ian Fulcher, Klayton Dawson, Laserbeams of Boredom, MC Trashpedal, Mulugeta, Patrick Elkins, Rainbow Vomit Family Band, Raphael Brim, Rebel Kind, Shelley Salant, SHEMA, Sleep Slang, Stef Chura, Thom Elliott, Van Houten | 5 Comments

Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Thom Elliott

By Mark | April 3, 2013

MARK: So, Thom, I hear that you’re going to be leaving us sometime soon. What’s up? I’m hoping it wasn’t anything that anyone said on my site. THOM: No such luck. My life is in a time of great transition… I’m getting married, finishing my degree at EMU, and trying to decided what to do […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Michigan, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Advaita Vedanta, alcohol, alcoholism, Andrew Antis, Birmingham, bullying, Café Habana, Civil War, debauchery, depression, diabetes, drinking, Dustin Krcatovich, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, Eton Academy, exit interviews, flophouse, Friedrich Nietzsche, gurus, Heraclitus of Ephesus, intestines, John Koolage, lingam, meat, meditation, mental illness, mindfulness, mysticism, noise, Novi, philosophy, Pleasuredome, Ramakrishna Puligandala, rishi, Ritalin, Sarah Heidt, self-medicating, Thom Elliott, Totally Awesome Fest, Tree-house for Earth’s Children, Vedas, vegan, Vinyl Joe’s Café, weirdo culture, weirdos, Ypsi Free Commune, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews | 22 Comments

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The complete Totally Awesome Fest 10 line-up beginning with Sunday’s city-wide Easter egg hunt!

Shadow Art Fair performances announced

Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Thom Elliott

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