In Holland, “a city where Tulip Time is all but sacred,” the Cool Cities program is invoked to explain the unauthorized presence of 19 teens dressed like pirates at the city’s Tulip Time parade, for which they were each fined $100.
A poster at the Ann Arbor News forums blames the landlord at the Packard Street drug house that was busted recently for the criminal activity taking place there - the rent he charged was too low to “keep out the riff raff.” (Is “riff raff” one word or two?)
Jason Berry’s letter defending the Blind Pig from accusations of sign-placing doesn’t settle the one question we’ve never been able to answer: how is “Funktell” a reasonable abbreviation of “Funktelligence”?
Rolling Stone exposes the attempts of local officials in college towns to suppress the student vote.
“This is just how we’ve always done it,” county election commissioner Patricia DiSpirito told Rolling Stone. “A dorm is not a permanent residence — it just isn’t.”
In fact, DiSpirito is flat-out wrong. Federal and state courts have clearly established that students have the right to vote where they go to school, even if they live in a dorm.
Surprise - NPR callers may be disproportionately likely to be from A2.
Realtors who speak in disconcertingly long complete paragraphs and forget to close their quotes have nothing but good things to say about A2: “A small large city, Ann Arbor has all the culture and amenities of a large metropolitan area but minus the overcrowding and hectic lifestyle. It’s not just a college town, but a multifaceted community that is hard to resist once you’ve been here, full of recreational, cultural, and employment opportunities.”
Townwheel sandwich is a mystery. But will it fool you?
Ann Arbor’s lameness causes a rift between friends: “Crazy e is such a horrible bitch. she went to ann arbor for anna’s graduation and told me that ann arbor is a complete dump and that she would never want to live there and THEN proceeded to tell me how midwestern i am and she could see why i would fit in so well there.”
Talk About Town appears to think that any Ann Arborite would just know, but we’re perplexed: what is a “peace tree” and why did the Downtown Development Authority hire Republic Parking to hire Heritage Landscaping to replace one?
The News seems to think that only 21 cars’ tires were slashed. More on the inexplicable random property destruction front: flowers at a Northfield Township greenhouse were poisoned.