Michael Moore spoke Thursday at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor. Originally part of the Art and Design (A & D) Distinguish Speaker series sponsored by Penny Stamps, it also became the world premiere of his new movie, “Slacker Uprising”. To see the schedule for this year’s lecture series go here: http://www.art-design.umich.edu/ev_lectures.php At times, Moore was funny, other times
The Dalai Lama is coming to Ann Arbor this weekend. There’s been a buzz all week long: articles in the paper, people trying to get tickets, and other events scheduled around the Dalai Lama’s scheduled talks. The scheduled talks actually come in a couple of segments. The paid event is six hours, broken up in two hour chunks Saturday and
About a week and a half ago I went to a concert at The Ark, a little folk concert place here in Ann Arbor. The concert was part of a weekend full of concerts scheduled as a tribute to the guy who started and ran The Ark for decades. He’s retiring and lots of old singers came back for the
Monday I golfed 18 holes with my co-workers Suzanne, Kim, and Janet. I’ve never golfed before and, if I’ve ever had a golf club in my hands, it was in a summer high school gym class. So, it’s been a while. Over the weekend Daniel was a patient teacher/coach and showed me how to hold the club, get in a
Ypsilanti High School’s Drama students will represent the United States at the August 2007 Fringe Festival, the world’s largest performing arts festival, in Edinburgh, Scotland. YHS Drama is the only Michigan high school, and one of only 40 in the US invited to perfom with the American High School Theatre Festival at the Fringe. This evening there was a fund
Hudson Mills Metropark just north of Dexter is full of Russian Olives. They are prolific on the disc golf course and I have a love/hate relationship with them. On occasion, my disc ends up behind a Russian Olive. These big unwieldy bushes are just hard to throw around or over. The are especially my nemesis on the 600+ foot hole
The Ann Arbor Area Disc Indueced Sports Club (A3DISC) runs and April Fool’s Day tournament around this time of year. Sunday there was a full field (limited to 144 players). I was one of the nine amateur woman playing the tournament; four Am I (highest level) and five of us in the Am 2 division. I came in first in