Music news, local and otherwise! Local Shows to Occupy… Wednesday: Fresh off a successful fundraiser for his medical bills, local songwriter Mike Anton (of the Mantons) is participating in the Nine Mile Sessions at PJ’s Lager House tonight. Celebrating the record release, the show includes Manton, Ian James Pinchback, the band Bastion, and more....
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It’s almost here! Apple will begin shipping its shiny new iPad tomorrow, April 3. All who pre-ordered the tablet computer are probably planning to stick close-to-home for the delivery. I know that’s where I’d be. According to the MacDailyNews Apple analysts are estimating between 200,000 and 300,000 iPads will be sold in this, its...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 marked the final day that residents of Ann Arbor were able to purchase their hometown paper, the Ann Arbor News. After a storied 174-year run, the paper will be replaced by a website. The paper’s 12-page front section was dedicated to a history of the News and the emergence of...
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This is a guest post by Ekachai Pattamasattayasonthi. Chai is a regular visitor to Michigan and is currently studying architecture as a graduate student at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Brandon and I went to the University of Michigan Museum of Art recently to check out the facility’s new extension that Dominique posted about here. The UMMA’s...
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I like riding my bicycle around my neighborhood as a change of pace from walking or going on out to the fitness club for a choreographed group dance session, but sometimes I don’t feel like competing with cars for the road. Much as we love Kensington Metropark in Milford, the rolling terrain of the...
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We recently ate at Zanzibar when we visited the University of Michigan Museum of Art. I reported about those experiences here at The Urbane Life, and Eric suggested that we have more Ann Arbor reporting to do when commenting on that post. I aim to please, so I thought I’d tell you about another...
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Zanzibar—the Spice Island—the name conjures up colorful visions punctuated by the pungent scent of spices co-mingling to produce an exotic reverie of a faraway paradise. While jetting off to the East African location off the coast of Tanzania may be out of the question for most of us, taking a day trip out to...
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Gotta have art? Love intriguing architecture? Then visiting the newly expanded, renovated and reopened University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) is a must-do for you. We were part of the crowd turning out for a special 24-hour reopening celebration at the UMMA in late March, when an estimated 15,000 people checked out the...
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