Mark Maynard | Philadelphia

Inside Ann Arbor’s Workantile coworking community

By Mark | April 2, 2013

118 South Main Street in Ann Arbor is home to a coworking community known as Workantile. Over the last several years, I’ve probably scratched out notes to myself half a dozen times, reminding me that I needed to hunt down the folks in charge and interview them for the site. Well, a few days ago, [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Uncategorized | Also tagged agoraphobia, Ann Arbor SPARK, ArbCamp, aversion therapy, Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Brian Kerr, Chamber of Commerce, co-working, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, corporate subsidies, coworking, Coworking Society LLC, Dave Nelson, Dug Song, Ed Shaffran, entrepreneurship, freelancers, independent business, Indy Hall, IT Zone, Jelly, L3C, microcoworking, Mike Kessler, OCD, panic disorder, pêche à la frog, Pete Larson, Primo Coffee, remote employees, Seed Toledo, solopreneurs, Starbucks, Systems in Motion, Tech Brewery, Tom Brandt, Trek Glowacki, work, Workantile, Workantile Exchange | 35 Comments

The forces of holiday darkness are gathering…. Krampus to emerge from an ocean of beer at the Corner Brewery on December 15, and lead a Christmas army of ghouls, monsters and freaks through the streets of Ypsilanti

By Mark | December 9, 2012

I’ve been remiss. I’ve been meaning to mention something for quite a while now, but things kept conspiring against me. Prior to December 2, I’d been focusing my limited attention on The Coup’s show in Depot Town. And, since then, I, like the rest of you, have been completely overwhelmed by the sustained assault on [...]

Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged asshole Republicans, Bloomington, Corner brewery, Elbow Deep, Green Bay, Green Bay Krampuslauf, Krampus, Krampus Ball, Krampusdeep, Krampuslauf, Krampuslauf Philadelphia, Mad Tinkers, naughty beer, nice beer, right-to-work, Santa Claus, Supernatural, unions, war on Christmas | 20 Comments

Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews: Adrianne Finelli

By Mark | August 14, 2012

After living among us for the past half dozens years, Adrianne Finelli will be leaving shortly for Pennsylvania. I took the opportunity to ask her a few questions. MARK: Where will you be moving to and what will you be doing there? ADRIANNE: I’m moving back to Pennsylvania, not back to Philly, but the other [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Special Projects | Also tagged Adrianne Finelli, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Bethlehem, Bethlehem Steel, Dan F. Friedlaender, documentary film, Edinboro University, exit interviews, Film, film making, home movies, independent film, Lehigh Valley, MFA, Nancy Heers, pain, Pennsylvania, Perspective on Pain, Prison Creative Arts Project, Roseto, School of Art & Design, Shadow Art Fair, Shirley Axon, Slate, steel, suicide, teaching, Temple University, The Dance of My Grandmothers, time-based media, University of Michigan, urban farming, Work Gallery, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews | 8 Comments

BALLE founder Judy Wicks on the origins of Urban Outfitters, the birth of the Localist movement, and the necessity of local ownership

By Mark | June 23, 2012

Recently, while in Grand Rapids, I had the occasion to meet Judy Wicks, the founder of the White Dog Cafe in Philadelphia, and the woman who, ten years ago, brought the Business Alliance for Living Local Economies (BALLE) into being. Since the meeting, we’ve been chatting by way of email… Here’s the interview. MARK: Having [...]

Posted in Economics, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Sustainability | Also tagged 1983, American Sustainable Business Council, Amy Goodman, ASBC, BALLE, Ben and Jerry's, Ben Cohen, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, buy local, Chelsea Green, Chiapas, corporations, corporatocracy, democracy, Eskimo, factory farming, Fair Food, fair trade, fast food, Free People’s Store, George McGovern, Going Local, Good Morning Beautiful Business, Guy Bazzanni, Helen Caldicott, Honest Tea, human scale, Jim Hightower, Jim Slama, Joel Soloman, Judy Wicks, Lester Brown, local economy, local food, local food production, Localist, Michael Shuman, national chains, Odawalla Juice, ownership, re-localization, Richard Hayne, sense of place, single-payer system, social change, Social Venture Network, socially responsible business, Starbucks, Stoneyfield Farms, Ted Rouse, The Body Shop, Tom’s of Maine, universal health care, Urban Outfitters, White Dog Cafe, Wicky Wacky Woods, Zapatistas | 10 Comments

The apparent end of public education as we know it in Philadelphia

By Mark | April 25, 2012

We’ve talked at length on this site, over the past several years, about the coordinated campaign to dismantle public education in the United States. Sadly, Michigan is often at the forefront of this national conservative movement. Images of pregnant teenage girls being arrested as they try to keep their schools from closing and boys picketing [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Education, Politics | Also tagged Al Sharpton, Ben Jealous, Bill Gates, Bush tax cuts, Catherine Ferguson Academy for Young Women, charter schools, education reform, Frederick Douglass Academy, Gates Foundation, Good Morning America is crap, Grover Norquist, public education, starve the beast, Thomas Knudsen, wealth inequality | 37 Comments

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Inside Ann Arbor’s Workantile coworking community

The forces of holiday darkness are gathering…. Krampus to emerge from an ocean of beer at the Corner Brewery on December 15, and lead a Christmas army of ghouls, monsters and freaks through the streets of Ypsilanti

Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews: Adrianne Finelli

The apparent end of public education as we know it in Philadelphia

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