A few weeks ago, I received an email from a young woman who’d just moved to Ypsi from Brooklyn, after a brief layover in Ann Arbor. She was looking for studio space, and thought, I guess, that I might be able to help. I couldn’t. But, one thing led to another, and I ended up [...]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Ann Arbor Derby Dimes, artists, bandanas, bikes, Boston, bowling alley, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bowl, comics, container gardening, Corner brewery, Erika Hess, FEASTMass, gardening, images of Mark, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, pasta salad, portrayals of Mark Maynard in popular culture, Rebecca Solnit, Riverside Park, Rob Hess, roller derby, Sherlock Holmes, Spur Studios, The Warriors, unflattering portraits, University of Michigan, University of Michigan School of Art and Design | In the not too distant future, thanks to the efforts of a local man by the name of Rob Hess, Ypsilantians, on hot summer days, will be able flag down a vintage bike and purchase an ice cold cone of handmade ice cream. While I’ve yet to sample his work, which I hear is incredible, [...]
Posted in Food, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Andy Claydon, bikes, Bona Sera, chocolate, Dairy Queen, delivery, dessert, entrepreneurism, food carts, food delivery, food entrepreneurship, ice cream, ice cream truck, Patti Claydon, Rob Hess, sorbet, street food, summer, tricycle, vanilla, vegan, Whitmore Lake, Worksman, Ypsi entrepreneurs, Ypsilanti water tower, Zingerman’s Creamery | A few months ago, when I aggregated all of the Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews, I told myself that I’d eventually do the same thing with all of the Ypsi Immigration Interviews that I’d conducted over the past few years. Well, I finally got around to it this evening… Enjoy. And do let me know whenever anyone [...]
By Mark | December 16, 2012 A few weeks ago, I posted an exit interview with Chris Legz Pierce, who, like many others before him, decided to pull up stakes and head west, to the promised land of Portland, Oregon. Well, as luck would have it, the universe intervened, and gave us someone in return. Following is my interview with a [...]
Posted in Michigan, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged animals, Arlo, ashrams, Bird, birds, childcare, Chris Legz Pierce, Clementine, comunes, Costa Rica, Death, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, evil trees, Farm Sanctuary, farming, Heiwa House, Juna, Portland, vegetarian, welcome wagon | By Mark | October 27, 2012 As I’ve never met the folks behind this project, and have no clue as to how good it will be, I probably shouldn’t be promoting it, but, as a huge fan of both H.G. Wells and Orson Welles, and a life-long lover of radio drama, I didn’t feel as though I had a choice. When [...]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1938, community theater, David Fienup, Denene Pollock, extraterrestrials, foley, George Pal, H.G. Wells, Halloween, Jeff Priskorn, Judson Fountain, Mark Bernstein, old time radio, Orson Welles, PTD Productions, radio drama, Sara Shouhayib, Season of the Witch, sound effects, Soundopolis, subliminal messaging, Ted Woods, War of the Worlds, Ypsilanti water tower | 
