Tag Archives: sausage

Wurst Challenge III: May 22

By Mark | May 8, 2016

On the evening of Sunday, May 22, competitors from across the northern hemisphere will once again face off in the shadow of Ypsilanti’s historic water tower to attempt the impossible… to see whether or not they can succeed where others have failed, and force an entire “20 Feet of Meat” down their gullets as crowds […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Cre Fuller, FLY Children's Art Center, Knifebeard Sausagehawk, Kurt Anschuetz, Kyte Metalwerks, Lagunitas Brewing, Team Smoot, Undercover Shutdown Investigation Ale, Wurst Challenge | 12 Comments

Challengers take on 200 feet of meat and raise $6,000 for Fly Children’s Art Center at Ypsilanti’s second annual Wurst Challenge

By Mark | March 30, 2015

If you weren’t at the Wurst Bar last night for the second annual Wurst Challenge, you missed a hell of a good time. Ungodly amounts of sausage were eaten, many laughs were had, and, by the end of the night, we’d raised just over $6,000 for the FLY Children’s Art Center Creativity Lab in downtown […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged bratwurst, competitive eating, Cre Fuller, eating challenges, Jason Tallant, Jason Youngs, Jesse Kranyak, Jim Engman, Julian Weisenel, Kate Stroud, Knifebeard Sausagehawk, Nick Azzaro, Patrick Dunn, Quinn Phillips, Team Smoot, William Henderson, Wurst Bar, Wurst Challenge | 10 Comments

Who should I back in this year’s Wurst Challenge?

By Mark | March 24, 2015

I’ve got $20 set aside to support this year’s Wurst Challenge, but I’m torn as to which competitor I should back… Should I put my money behind defending champion Jason “Knifebeard SausageHawk” Youngs, reclusive roboticist Cre Fuller, local midwife turned professional sausage eater Kate Stroud, or one of the many others who are presently locked […]

Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 20 feet of meat, competitive eating, fundraisers, Jason Tallant, Jason Youngs, Kate Stroud, Quinn Phillips, Wurst Bar, Wurst Challenge | 9 Comments

The state of hip hop, the eating of 20-foot-long sausages, and the erotic drawings of fictional amphibians… on episode 7 of The Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | March 2, 2015

If you missed the last episode of The Saturday Six Pack on Ypsilanti’s AM 1700, you missed one hell of a good time. I don’t want to give too much away, as I think you should listen for yourself, but here are a few of the highlights. [If you’d like to listen to the episode […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged bias, blackface, Brandon Mitchell, Charlie's Angels, Chris Sandon, Colin Moorhouse, Cross Street Station, cults, Dabrye, Degrassi Junior High, Derek Whitaker, discrimination, Encoded Flow, FLY Children's Art Center, George Lucas, hip hop, Iggy Pop, Jason Youngs, Jim Cherewick, Knifebeard Sausagehawk, Kyle Kipp, Leonard Nimoy, MC Kadence, Morgan Cox, Oddside Ales, penises, Pete Larson, Pete Townsend, Pylon, race, rap, science fiction, smeet, smeet penises, Sprout, Tadd Mullinix, Wurst Challenge, Ypsi Underground | 13 Comments

Art, Food, Sex and Trauma: Mark Maynard shoots the shit with humankind’s most important artists… Episode 6: Polly Yates

By Mark | January 4, 2015

This past summer, as I was killing knapwed at Water Street Commons, I had the good fortune of meeting Polly Yates, an artist from England who happened to be spending several weeks in Ypsilanti. After chatting with her a bit about her work, and the several pieces of artwork which have sprung up on Water […]