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Watch out for the puppet Mark!
I was sitting at the bar at Haab’s a few weeks ago, enjoying a beer, when thickly-bearded local troubadour Patrick Elkins sidled up alongside me and whispered in my ear that, at that very moment, a...
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They made a mate for Puppet Mark!
It’s just been brought to my attention that the wonderful folks at the Dreamland Theater have taken it upon themselves to create a female companion for Puppet Mark. Her name, I’m told, is Syrah...
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Ypsi/Arbor exit interview: Casey Dixon
He would fill my mug with beer at the Corner Brewery, and we’d exchange pleasantries, but I didn’t really know much about Casey Dixon until I conducted this interview with him several weeks after he...
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A year ago last week, I went out on a limb and declared Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street to be the best song ever written. It was a courageous stand, and I took a lot of heat for it, but it was the right...
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Ypsi Immigration Interview: Misha Tuesday
After fleeing Ypsilanti for Chicago several years ago to pursue fame and fortune in the lucrative field of birthday party entertainment, the man who now calls himself Misha Tuesday has returned home to...
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Youth homelessness, the Flint water crisis, and the oral history of rock… on...
This past summer, during the episode of the Saturday Six Pack where we had local teens talking with our Mayor, Chief of Police, Sheriff and Superintendent of Ypsi Community Schools about issues that...
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The story of homeless EMU student Ramone Williams makes it to FOX2 Detroit
Tonight, on an all new episode of The Saturday Six Pack, I’ll be talking with EMU student Ramone Williams, the subject of a recent investigative piece on homelessness among Michigan’s college students...
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Homeless students share their stories, a Flint mother tells about the...
HOMELESSNESS AMONG STUDENTS IN WASHTENAW COUNTY… After kicking things off with the awesome into song written by our recent guest Frank Allison, we jumped right into things with Eastern Michigan...
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