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Amanda Sari Perez on winning this month’s A2Awesome grant, and the geodesic dome she’s built with the money

By Mark | June 4, 2012

Today, the trustees of A2Awesome handed over $1,000 to Amanda Sari Perez for the creation of an enormous geodesic dome, which she hopes will serve as a platform on which others in the community can express their creativity. Following is my interview with her. MARK: To start out, could you tell us a bit about [...]

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Ypsi/Arbor exit interview: Casey Dixon

By Mark | October 16, 2011

He would fill my mug with beer at the Corner Brewery, and we’d exchange pleasantries, but I didn’t really know much about Casey Dixon until I conducted this interview with him several weeks after he left Ypsilanti to travel the globe. It kind of makes me think that maybe I should start focusing more on [...]

Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Casey Dixon, Corner brewery, Eastern Michigan University, evil trees, exit interviews, found art, Jackson, Magic, mysticism, new age, sculpture, Seattle, time travel, Water Street, weird stuff, wolf temple, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews | 20 Comments

I knew if I waited long enough, Ypsi’s gay soldier statue would become relevant

By Mark | September 20, 2011

It’s been several hours now since our military officially turned gay, and, as far as I can tell, we’ve yet to be invaded. – Mark Maynard, about five minutes ago on Facebook I didn’t know it until this very moment, but this statue, which stands in the shadow of Ypsilanti’s incredibly phallic water tower, isn’t [...]