July 10, 2015
Bye-bye, Zombieland: Park Avenue Hotel bites the dust
Tomorrow morning, demolition crews will use 200 pounds of TNT to level the 91 year-old Park Avenue Hotel, a storied...
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June 26, 2015
Gay marriage legalized!!! in GIFs, memes, video — and a Heino drinking song
Today the U.S. Supreme Court struck down bans on same-sex marriage — including Michigan’s, booyah — capping a remarkable cultural turnaround for...
June 23, 2015
Bikes, trains and buses: A week of positive transit-related news for Detroit
Could the Motor City, long defined by its increasingly pothole-ridden road network and an unreliable bus system, be ready to...
June 21, 2015
This Father’s Day, hug your children a little closer
Since having kids more than seven years ago, Father’s Day has taken on new meaning for me. I always appreciated...
June 19, 2015
Music Corner: Preview the new album from trippy San Francisco songwriter Meg Baird
The last decade or so has seen a renaissance of left-field psychedelic folk-rock, led by bands like Grizzly Bear, Akron/Family,...
June 13, 2015
‘Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit’ exhibit explores a pivotal period in both artists’ lives
No matter how frustrating life can get in the Motor City, the Detroit Institute of Arts is one of those...
June 10, 2015
What’s it like to run a record store in 2015? My interview with Wazoo owner John Kerr
“Notebook dump” is an old newspapering term for material gathered in the course of reporting a story that never gets...
June 6, 2015
Vinyl’s resurgence a welcome trend for Ann Arbor’s long-running record stores
I recently wrote a freelance story exploring the business of running a record store in my home town: It wasn’t...
May 30, 2015
Book review: ‘This Town’ an entertaining skunk crashing D.C.’s garden party
A few years ago, during a trip to Washington D.C. for a conference, I visited an old college friend who...
May 18, 2015
The 8-Wood Blog Manifesto; or how I overcame inertia
Being that it’s now mid-2015, I figured it was high time to finally launch my own blog. Plus I hear...
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