Strange Fruit
Summer Festival board member Julie Fritz reiterates Judy McGovern’s point that the event’s workers are temporary. And young! Why do they need to be paid as much as real workers? Especially when it might mean that Ann Arborites could be deprived of “free performances of that colorful, pole-perching performing arts group from Australia called ‘Strange Fruit.’”
Strange Fritz, you mean?…
posted by David Boyle on July 16th, 2007 at 11:13 pm>The festival is held every night for three consecutive weeks - that’s 24 days of nonstop entertainment.
–are you thinking what i’m thinking, pinky?
posted by TD on July 17th, 2007 at 2:22 am–uh, yeah brain, but when did we switch to an eight day week.
Y’know, I might have supported their continued existence grudgingly (see earlier posts, and imagine a paragraph here of “It was better in the old days,”) but no, if we’re inviting antipodean pole-perchers under the rubric of community entertainment, then it’s better that the summer fest end now so that kids can talk about it wistfully in the future, like punk rock.
posted by JS on July 25th, 2007 at 3:48 pm