I got word this past weekend that there was a secret party taking place in downtown Ann Arbor, a posh event inside an upscale restaurant. The windows of the restaurant, I was told, had been “blacked out,” and there was security outside. The man who had rented it out, according to the person who first […]
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Nothing says you care about the people of Flint like hosting an opulent party for your friends in downtown Ann Arbor behind blacked out windows
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Politics, Rants, Uncategorized Also tagged Ann Arbor News, birthday parties, blind items, cake, criminal investigation, FBI, Flint, Flint Child Health and Development Fund, Flint water crisis, Heather Anne Leavitt, Judge Mathis, lead, lead poisoning, Legionnaires' disease, Live, Nordstrom's, parties, poison, public health, public health emergency, Rick Snyder, Sue Snyder, Susan Fecteau, water, West End Grill, Wonkette 90 Comments
Ypsilanti Immigration Interview: Jen Proctor
I’m sure I’ll live to regret it, but I made the decision this weekend, after learning that filmmaker Jen Proctor had moved to Ypsi Township, to broaden the scope of the Ypsi Immigration Interview project to include people moving not only into the city proper, but also the surrounding environs… Could this be the start […]
Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized Also tagged A Movie, Amway, Annex the Township, art films, Art Prize, birthday cakes, Bruce Conner, cats, depression, Dick DeVos, Donald Harrison, Film, ghost hunting, ghosts, Grand Rapids, haunting, Jen Proctor, Jeopardy, One Ypsilanti, Paranormal Convention, Pittsfield Township, San Francisco, Sault Ste. Marie, Spalding Gray, Star Wars, Winnie the Pooh, Ypsi immigration interview 23 Comments
Local entrepreneurs Jean Henry, Lisa Waud and Helen Harding on what it means to be “Small and Mighty”
We didn’t announce it until this evening, but the October recipient of the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation’s monthly $1,000 cash grant was Small & Mighty, the scrappy, little entrepreneurial support network created in the fall of 2012 by brilliant local shit-stirrers Jean Henry, Helen Harding and the cheese-loving Lisa Waud. What follows is a transcript […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Detroit, entrepreneurism, Local Business, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged A2Awesome, Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Regional Chamber of Commerce, Blake Reetz, business ethics, business owners who get it, capitalization, Cliff Bell’s, EAT, Helen Harding, Jean Henry, Jefferson Market, Lisa Waud, Michael Shuman, networking, Open City, Pot and Box, Small and Mighty, small business, The Wedding Party, Think Local First, Young Entrepreneurial People 25 Comments