By Mark | August 27, 2015
On Saturday, October 24 there’s going to be a big zine show at Ypsilanti’s 22 North Gallery. [Doors open at 6:00 PM and close at 10:00 PM.] Here, with details on what to expect, is a quick interview with two of the show’s curators, Erin Anderson-Ruddon and Katy Shay, the latter of whom will also […]
Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 22 North Gallery, Beloved Favorite, DIY, Empire Records, Erin Anderson-Ruddon, Famous Freak-Outs, Grace Rother, hot pants, Hot Tee, Izzy Johnson, Katy Shay, Laugh it Up Fuzzball, Linette, Lucy Cahill, Matthew Nisbett, underground press, Vault of Midnight |
I enjoyed the hell out of last Saturday night’s episode, and I’d like to thank everyone who had a hand in it. If you missed the live broadcast, and you’d like to check it out, you can either download the podcast by way of iTunes or stream it on Soundcloud. Or, if you want, you […]
Posted in Awesome Foundation, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alan Almond, AM 1700, Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation, Back Porch Video, Beef Rag, Dave Eggers, Detroit Metro Times, Detroit River, Doug Holland, Factsheet Five, film school, Hamtramck, hipsters, inauthenticity, Inspector 18, Keta Cowan, Matt Siegfried, McSweeney's, Michael Jackman, New York City, Pathetic Life, Pete Larson, Pillow Talk, punk, Rick Moody, suicide, Synod Community Services, The Painted Lady, Underground Literary Alliance, undocumented resident, undocumented workers, Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners, Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department, Washtenaw ID Project, Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights, WICIR, Williamsburg, Zine World |
By Mark | February 26, 2015
This coming Saturday’s show, if nothing else, will be eclectic. Among others, we’ll be talking with hip hop artist and philosopher Brandon Mitchell (aka MC Kadence), Colin Moorhouse from the local zine Ypsi Underground, and a group of folks who will be coming by the AM 1700 studio to discuss the possibility of an on-air […]
Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1700 AM, Brandon Mitchell, Brigid Mooney, Colin Moorhous, FLY Children's Art Center, hip hop, Jim Cherewick, Kate de Fuccio, MC Kadence, Morgan Cox, Ypsi Underground |
By Mark | January 27, 2015
Earlier this month, in a post about the first annual MarkMaynard.com Ypsilantian of the Year award, I mentioned several people who had been nominated for the distinction. One of those was a 9 year old girl named Juna, who publishes a small newspaper called the Oakwood Seed. She was nominated by Rob Hess, the man […]
By Mark | August 10, 2014
Many of us attribute the so-called golden age of zines to the rise of Kinko’s, and their notoriously lax oversight of night shift employees, who could always be counted on to fire up a copier and look the other way in exchange for a beer. Perhaps just as importantly, though, Tower Records was entering an […]
Posted in Crimewave USA, Mark's Life, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged Adrian Tomine, Answer Me, Beautiful America, Boiled Angel, Bud Martin, California, Chloe Colpé, Cometbus, Deftones, Desert Moon, Dishwasher, Don Junk, Doug Biggert, ESS, Factsheet Five, George Horton, hitchhiking, Japan, Maximum Rock’n’Roll, Pete Jordan, Peter Principle, photography, propaganda, pubic hair, Russ Solomon, Sacramento, sandals, Tim Yohannon, Tony Valerio, Tower Mag Hell, Tower Records, Ulysses, Vancouver, Xavier Carcelle, Zasshi Jigoku |
