We wish there were some way in Movable Type to put the last n posts, rather than the last n days of posts, on the front page, so it’s not obvious how lazy we’ve been. We’ll have to keep making posts like this to fill up the page.
It’s easy to make jokes about an A2 crackhouse (”fine artisanal cracks and cocaines…you really can snort the difference!”), but we find it incredible that a team of drug dealers was able to set up shop on Packard Street for 10 years, stockpiling stolen laptops and credit cards, pointing rifles into traffic and trying to get U of M students hooked on heroin.
The Art Fair excitement begins, with Talk About Town profiling the artist who will see to it that the Burton Tower shows up “as either a hat or a growth from the head” in every fair poster. Also, daffodil-planter Susan Skarsgard is featured in O: the Oprah Magazine for her Arb work, which we just now discovered was called “Imagine/Align” (imagine a line, get it???)
“One of Michigan’s coolest cities — one of the nation’s, really — is Ann Arbor, with a population just a little less than Portage and Kalamazoo together,” the Kalamazoo Gazette enthuses. And A2 doesn’t even have what the writer considers his own city’s primary coolness asset, its name.
Ann Arbor is out to get us even when we’re hundreds of miles away. Our flight back to O’Hare today was canceled due to storms throughout southeastern Michigan. We can only hope that downtown A2 doesn’t acquire “a reputation as expensive” while we’re gone, as the owner of Bivouac fears.
It’s been a little quiet around here, but don’t worry - we’re just at our 5th college reunion. We’ll be back later this week.