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Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Rita Jane Riggs

By Mark | August 2, 2015

At the end of August, one of my favorite Ypsilanti artists, Rita Jane Riggs, will be packing up and heading west to see what the universe has in store for her. Please join me in wishing her well on her journey. MARK: What first brought you to Ypsilanti, or were you born here? RITA: I […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Albuquerque, angels, animal spirits, astrology, Bee Roll, Binkie, blankets, blood, Breaking Bad, Buddha, cartoons, Deja Vu, Demons, Dreamland Theater, eastern religion, EMU, EMU Art Department, exit interviews, extraterrestrials, fairies, First Fridays, ghosts, God, halos, hamsters, Huron River, iconography, illustration, innocence, Jesus, Krishna, Mary, meth, multidimensional realities, New Mexico, Normal Park, painting, plant spirits, psychic abilities, rats, reincarnation, religious icons, Richard Brautigan, Rita Jane Riggs, Robert Spier, saints, sausage gravy, spirit guides, spiritual practice, stripping, T- Hardy Morris, tarot, Video Games, vulnerability, watermelon, watermelon sugar, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews | 8 Comments

What does it say about our society when even our priests are proudly declaring that they’re prepared to dispense lethal force?

By Mark | April 22, 2015

Ann Arbor Catholic priest Ed Fride is in the news today for encouraging his parishioners at Christ the King Catholic Church to arm themselves. In a letter sent out this past weekend to his flock, Fride explained why he carried a weapon, and why the church would likely be hosting more CPL classes on their […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Also tagged "cling to guns or religion", anti-Muslim violence, Ave Maria, Ave Maria College, Catholicism, Christ the King, Citizens Alliance for Life and Liberty, Columbine, CPL, Dearborn, druggies, Ed Fride, Father Gabriel Richard High School, Floyd Dent, gun rights, gun violence, guns, guns in schools, Inkster, Jay McNally, Josh Wade, Joshua Wade, Mayberry, mixed metaphors, Muslim, pacifism, paranoia, police violence, priests, pro-life, racism, rape, rape fantasy, threats, threats of violence, Tom Monaghan, toto, Vietnam, Word of God | 38 Comments

Reverend Dr. William Barber II on reclaiming the moral high ground and building a majority coalition around issues of social justice

By Mark | September 2, 2014

Reverend Dr. William Barber II, the North Carolina minister who founded the Forward Together moral movement, is in the press today. It would seem that a young man in his group was arrested yesterday in Charlotte, at one of Barber’s Moral Monday events, for putting voter registration information on the windshields of parked cars. As […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, History | Also tagged abortion, affirmative action, assassination, Barack Obama, Brown v. Board of Education, busing, Charles Koch, Charlotte, Christianity, civil disobedience, civil rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil War, Committee on Equal Employment, economic justice, Emmett Till, entitlements, family values, Forward Together Moral Movement, George Wallace, guns, health care, higher ground, homosexuality, JFK, Jim Crow, Kevin Phillips, Koch brothers, labor, LBJ, Lee Atwater, Medgar Evers, Medicaid, Medicare, MLK, moral fusion, Moral Monday, morality, Netroots Nation, North Carolina, Otto Scharmer, Plessy v. Ferguson, political strategy, populism, poverty, prayer in the school, progressive politics, public education, race and poverty, race card, racism, reconstruction, Redemption Movement, religious right, RFK, Richard Nixon, Rosa Parks, snake line, social justice, Southern Coalition Leadership Conference, southern strategy, states rights, tea party, voter suppression, voting rights, William Barber | 18 Comments

Art, Food, Sex and Trauma: Mark Maynard shoots the shit with the most important artists to ever draw breath on the planet earth… Episode 3: Peter Sickman-Garner

By Mark | May 7, 2014

Today we’re joined by Peter Sickman-Garner, the cartoonist behind the beloved series Hey, Mister. Pete’s new book, the 192-page graphic novel Come Hell or Highwater Pants, will be be released by Top Shelf this Saturday at the Toronto Comic Art Festival. MARK: When did you first start drawing? And, what, if you can recall, was […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged art school, Brett Warnock, Capital City Distribution, Charles Schultz, Come Hell or Highwater Pants, comics, Dan Clowes, graphic novels, Hey Mister, independent bookstores, independent press, Jeff Kelly, Keffo, lies, Madison, Peter Sickman-Garner, Pic a Book, Pissed Christ, Pittsburgh, porn, Satan, small press, Small Press Expo, sports, Temp Slave, Top Shelf, Toronto Comic Art Festival, University of Wisconsin Daily Cardinal, VG Kids, Wisconsin, zines, Zippy the Pinhead | 8 Comments

A Question for the People of Ypsilanti… “What’s up with the Miracle Center?”

By Mark | September 8, 2013

Quite often, when I’m interviewing new Ypsilantians for the Ypsi Immigration Interview series, I ask if there are things that they have questions about that the readers of this site might be able to help with, any weird little things that they’ve encountered in town that just don’t make sense, like why the handle on […]

Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Bishop Dave Chikosi, faith healing, Grace Christian Fellowship International Church, miracles, questions to the readership, Washington Street | 50 Comments

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Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Rita Jane Riggs

What does it say about our society when even our priests are proudly declaring that they’re prepared to dispense lethal force?

Art, Food, Sex and Trauma: Mark Maynard shoots the shit with the most important artists to ever draw breath on the planet earth… Episode 3: Peter Sickman-Garner

A Question for the People of Ypsilanti… “What’s up with the Miracle Center?”

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