Tag Archives: Wurst Challenge

The Wurst Challenge: the magic of giant sausage brings the community together, quality arts programming to kids, and the nation’s attention to Ypsi

By Mark | March 22, 2014

Thursday night’s philanthropic sausage eating event was incredible. Not only did we raise a hell of a lot of money for the FLY Children’s Art Center, but we had a damn good time doing it. Following are my somewhat disjointed and admittedly incomplete notes, interspersed with whatever images, audio and video I’ve been able to […]

Posted in Food, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Arbor Brewing, arts education, beard face, beards, Brad Perkins, cheating, Chris Sandon, Cre Fuller, eating challenges, FLY Children's Art Center, FLY Creativity Lab, food television, FOX News, fundraisers, Jake Morgan, James Engman, Jason Youngs, Jay Zocher, Jesse Kranyak, Julian Weisensel, Justin O'Neill, Knifebeard Sausagehawk, knitted beard, Kristin Schrader, Linette Lao, Mark in the press, Meg Miramontes, Melissa Wingett, Morgan Cox, neck beard, New Holland Brewing, Paul Schreiber, people we know from television, pork, roller derby, Susan Martin, television, Terry Londy, tofu sausage, VG Kids, vomit, WEMU, Wurst Bar, WWJ, WXYZ | 8 Comments

Only 373 people show to watch the EMU Eagles win their first postseason game since 1996… Let’s make it up to them if they get another home game

By Mark | March 19, 2014

Eastern Michigan University men’s basketball team had the distinction of making it onto the front page of Deadspin last night after the popular sports website was made aware of a series of justifiably angry social media posts made by starting EMU forward Glenn Bryant following the team’s 58-54 victory over the Norfolk State Spartans at […]

Posted in Ypsilanti | Also tagged basketball, college sports, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, Glenn Bryant, NCAA, NPR, WEMU | 21 Comments

Consuming 20 feet of meat is apparently newsworthy… Seattle and San Francisco take notice of the Wurst Challenge

By Mark | March 10, 2014

Earlier today, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden appeared on a video screen before a large group of individuals gathered at South by Southwest (SXSW) to discuss civil rights in an era of rampant domestic spying. My intention had been to watch the ACLU’s video of the event this evening, after putting the kids to bed, and […]

Posted in Food, Local Business, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 20 feet of meat, animal rights, Associated Press, domestic spying, Eastern Michigan University, eating challenges, Edward Snowden, EMU, FLY Children's Art Center, FLY Creativity Lab, Jesse Kranyak, meat, NSA, Paul Schreiber, philanthropy, sausage, Susan Martin, SXSW, vegetarianism, Wurst Bar | 44 Comments

Choose your Champion! Our “20 Feet of Meat” fundraiser is now just two weeks away.

By Mark | March 6, 2014

For those of you who missed the debut of the ad for the Wurst Challenge that debuted during last Sunday’s Oscar broadcast, here it is again. We’re less than two days into the campaign, and already we’ve raised almost $500 for Ypsilanti’s FLY Children’s Art Center. Sadly, though, several of our participants have yet to […]

Posted in Food, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Brad Perkins, bratwurst, eating challenges, FLY Children's Art Center, fundraisers, Jason Youngs, Paul Schreiber, sausage, Wurst Bar | 5 Comments

FLY Children’s Art Center to launch Fabulous Contraptions series with A2Awesome grant

By Mark | February 2, 2014

Earlier today the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation awarded $1,000 in cash to representatives of Ypsilanti’s FLY Children’s Art Center to help fund the launch of a community-wide event called Fabulous Contraptions. After our meeting, I took the opportunity to ask FLY board members Christine Bruxvoort, Linette Lao and Morgan Cox (seen above after receiving their […]