A report about Eminem’s lyrics have put that Detroit artist in hot water with the Secret Service, luckily they’ve decided not to investigate further. Sounds like another case of “you have freedom of speech, but” that has dogged the First Amendment since the days the alien and sedition acts made criticism a crime. “[…] The […]
My friend and MSA-LSA representative Sam Woll has created a blog, Not Just Another Brick in the Wall, making her one of a handful of female Ann Arbor bloggers.
It’s not clear to me whether or not any of these people are in Ann Arbor, but they sure seem to be taking seriously the Borders’ boycott.
Have you ever been to Del Rio? Apparently things aren’t so pleasant there right now for the employees, one of whom has started a Del Rio Workers Union blog, which I heard about on this Borders Readers United blog comment. “Dear friends of the Del Rio, I know that many of you, like myself, consider […]
Arts at Michigan is sponsoring a contest where student artists can compete to have their artwork exhibited on AATA busses from February through September 2004. But hurry, the deadline is December 15!
The Ann Arbor News is crowing about reduced complaints about panhandling. I think the key here is to understand pan handling isn’t down, only the reporting of it – and I suspect the only think to change is that the overly vocal wealthy elites that oppose student participation in city politics and write reactionary letters […]
This from an article linked to by Ben: “There is this yearning to live not in a faceless suburb anymore but in a real community with a downtown in it,” said James W. Hughes, a professor of urban planning at Rutgers University. “These people don’t want their town to be known by the big mall […]