Back in November of 2012, Washtenaw Eviction and Foreclosure Defense somehow managed to bring world-renowned hip-hop provocateur Boots Riley and his band, The Coup, to Ypsilanti to play a fundraiser for Ozone House, to support their work with at-risk and marginalized LGBTQ teens. As you may recall, in my interview with Riley, recorded a day […]
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Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You” hits theaters half a dozen years after telling us about it
Posted in Art and Culture, Detroit, Uncategorized Also tagged 21 Grams, Alex Rivera, American Splendor, Atlanta, Boots Riley, community organizing, Danny Glover, Danny Goldberg, David Cross, fast food workers union, film making, foreclosure defense, Happiness, hip hop, Ice Storm, indie film, Lakeith Stanfield, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Sandy, Occupy Wall Street, Ozone House, Patton Oswalt, police brutality, Pride Zone, rap, Sleep Dealer, Sorry to Bother You, Street Sweeper Social Club, Ted Hope, telemarketing, Terry Crews, The Coup, unions, Washtenaw Eviction and Foreclosure Defense 10 Comments
Ypsi Immigration Interview: Forest Juziuk
Back in 2011, I interviewed a young man by the name of Forest Juziuk about his planned relocation from Ann Arbor to San Francisco, California. As it turns out, it would be the first in a long series of exit interviews I’d conduct here, which, in turn, would spawn a second series of interviews with […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized Also tagged academia, Anton LaVey, caves, Christmas, college, construction, Corinne Loperfido, Craigslist, creepy, Fleetwood Mac, Forest Juziuk, free college tuition, grapes, Gregg Turkington, Gretchen Davidson, Had Fair, hard-core porn, helmets, immigration interview, Maya De Paula Hanika, megalomaniacs, motorcycles, musical chairs, porn, putting on shows, San Francisco, Satanists, Slumber Party, sobriety, Steely Dan, street level, Sutra Baths, Sutro Baths, Tan Man, tattoos, tuition, underground film, Universal Indians, whorehouses, witches, Ypsi immigration interview, Zeena LaVey 16 Comments