By Mark | September 8, 2019
Yesterday evening, I had the pleasure of attending a housewarming party here in Ypsilanti for Washtenaw Community College graphic design instructor Ingrid Ankerson. Here, for those of you who haven’t already had the pleasure of meeting Ingrid, who just moved to Ypsi from Wisconsin — by way of Baltimore and Ann Arbor — is her […]
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By Mark | August 12, 2015
My never-ending search for our region’s most enigmatic super villain, the Ypsi Tooth, led me a few nights ago to a long-closed-up building in downtown Ypsilanti. [You can enter said building by way of a manhole downtown.] While I don’t want to get into specifics concerning what clues I may have found, I did want […]
We tried something new this past episode of the Saturday Six Pack. We cranked the heat in the studio to 120-degrees, nailed the door shut, and watched as our guests slowly melted into their chairs… If you listen closely, you can hear it happening. What starts with tiny droplets of sweat falling gently onto our […]
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By Mark | January 3, 2012
Clementine is about to lose her first tooth. Her friends started losing theirs years ago, but, for whatever reason, hers just weren’t ready to start dropping out of her face until now, at the age of seven-and-a-half. She’s got a mouth full of wiggly ones, but there’s one in particular that’s really getting ready to […]
Just a reminder for anyone planning to join us at the Dreamland Theater this Friday for the next episode of Dreamland Tonight… We’re going to be trying out a new segment called Community Show & Tell, and we’d love to have folks in the audience bring interesting things with them that they can talk about. […]
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