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Black student demands at EMU, the truth about Rosie the Riveter, an inside look at the Paris climate talks, and a painfully honest critique of the new Monkey Power Trio record… on this weekend’s edition of The Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | December 3, 2015

After two weeks off to focus on the consumption of turkey, mashed potatoes and jello salad, we’re back in the AM 1700 studio this Saturday evening at 6:00 to talk about everything from the recent demands made by representatives of EMU’s black student body, to the climate talks currently taking place in Paris. If you’re […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Monkey Power Trio, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged A Vast Machine: Computer Models, and the Politics of Global Warming, black lives matter, Climate Change, Climate Data, Darius Simpson, Daryl Holman, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, Ethan Wampler, Ford, Global Warming, Henry Ford, Jim Stehlin, Matt Siegfried, Michigan Climate March, Paris, Paul Edwards, race riots, racism, Ricky Rood, Rosie the Riveter, The Black Student 10-Point Plan, Tim Wolfe, UAW, Willow Run | 25 Comments

The History of Wiard’s: From Plows and Cider to Soda and Scare-tainment… an American story

By Mark | October 19, 2014

As a rule, I try not to talk about local businesses unless I have something good to say about them, which is why, over the 12 years or so that I’ve been posting here, I’ve never mentioned the “agri-entertainment complex” that is Wiard’s. Call me old fashioned, but I like my cider mills without paintball, […]

Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged agri-entertainment, apple cannons, apples, Arlo, Batavia, book ideas, cider mills, Clementine, dollar store Disney, donuts, Everett Wiard, furries, George Wiard, haunted houses, hayrides, human dalmatians, Lyman Wiard, mineral water, New York, Night Terrors, orchards, paintball, panic attacks, scare-tainment, soda, Thomas Wiard, Wiard, Wiard Plow Company, Wiard's, Willow Run, Ypsilanti Bottling Works, Ypsilanti's Mineral Water Sanitariums | 18 Comments

Ypsilanti’s Heritage Fest parade

By Mark | August 18, 2013

I know I’m probably unusual in this regard, but I love small town parades. While I can see the attraction of big, overly-produced parades, like the one they have every year on Thanksgiving Day in Manhattan, I’d much prefer a little parade with rickety, homemade floats, where you can find the local Christian motorcycle gang […]