I’ll be spending today at the “Creating Cool” conference held as part of the Governor’s statewide cool cities initiative. The keynote speaker will be Richard Florida, who is behind this whole fixation with “coolness.” I’m sure the conference will be a bunch of urban hipsters mixing with state politicians telling them to get liberal and […]
According to a letter to the editor that has been written to the Daily, student volunteers with the U-M Dance Marathon organization have been gift-wrapping merchandise at a local store as part of their efforts to raise money for pediatric rehabilitation programs. One problem: that store is Borders, whose employees have been on strike since […]
Yes, those LCD projectors keep vanishing from the classrooms of local colleges and universities – at the rate of 25 since last March. Although none of the local media reports the total stolen since they first began to be installed in the 1990s, I wouldn’t be suprised if the total losses were rather high, hence […]
This is in addiiton to the U-Club’s annual holiday buffet, this year running from December 17-19. “Need Brain Food? or Just a Break? FINALS SURVIVAL BREAKFAST (all you can eat!) Sunday, Dec. 14 10pm-1amMichigan Union’s U-ClubSpecial guest servers..can you guess who they will be?Contests, giveaways and more! Eggs, pancakes, hashbrowns and more!only $3.00 per person […]
Washtenaw County Government is holding a series of workshops to help create a plan for the county. Their next meeting is Tomorrow (Wednesday) at 7PM at Washtenaw Community College: “The public is encouraged to attend the following free workshops to help shape a comprehensive plan for Washtenaw County’s future. Topics of discussion will include open […]
Apparently, the XCitySucks.com genre extends beyond Ann Arbor: a suite of critical websites about Seattle motivated the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to write a story about the online dissident culture, “Seattle-bashing takes hold in cyberspace,” concluding: “Brewster, though, perceives the anti-Seattle sentiment as a self-effacing brand of civic pride. He doesn’t see the Seattle-slamming Web sites as […]
Michigan IMC has posted a story about Moment, a progressive magazine whose second copy had a run of 4,000. Although I like what they’re doing, their website could use some help.