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Tilt-shift Ann Arbor video

sitedad — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:17:23 +0000

I’ve seen this sort of thing before, but it’s kind of cool since I recognize much of the area being filmed here:

Via the Ann Arbor Chronicle.

Double-Parading this Weekend!

sitedad — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:48:10 +0000

I’ve been attending the Ypsilanti Fourth of July parade pretty much every year I’ve been in town since I moved here a dozen years ago, and I always find it to be good-time. Sadly, I never followed through on my idea/suggestion for an area blogger float which I suggested last year. Maybe 2011?

Anyway, [...]

“Fire that killed EMU student suspicious”

sitedad — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:31:30 +0000

Many of you have probably heard the sad news that EMU Senior and College of Technology major Renden LeMasters was killed in a fire in a house fire in Ann Arbor early Saturday morning/late Friday night. Annarbor.com is also reporting that the “Fire that killed 22-year-old EMU student one of four considered ‘suspicious’ near [...]

“AATA to Focus on Ypsi Cost Cuts”

sitedad — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:25:47 +0000

From the Ann Arbor Chronicle: “AATA to Focus on Ypsi Cost Cuts.”

Looming on a six-week horizon for Ypsilanti is the renewal of its Purchase of Service Agreement with the AATA – at a price slated for 10% higher each year over the next three years to make the agreement match actual costs. [...]

Anybody know anything about the movie making at Concordia?

sitedad — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:40:58 +0000

Just thought I’d ask. I was driving by Concordia University this morning, and I noticed there was quite the set-up for some sort of movie-making going on about town: many many trucks, looked like some lighting crews wandering about, a guy directing traffic in and out of the school, and five or six sweet-looking [...]

Farewell, Ann Arbor News

sitedad — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:08:05 +0000

We won’t have the AAN to kick around here anymore: The Ann Arbor News is publishing its last issue today. Follow that link and you’ll get a boatload of articles about all that was at the News.

I guess I’ll mention four things for now:

I might be the kind of AAN reader who [...]

Don’t worry about no AANews– new weekly and other media filling the market

sitedad — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:22:32 +0000

EMU alum Nathan Bomey and Dan Meisler (I’m not sure if Dan was one of ours or not) have an article on MLive Ann Arbor Business, New weekly enters changing Ann Arbor news market. I think the title is somewhat misleading because it’s really about weeklies– as in more than one– coming to Ann [...]

Shaman Drum closing June 30

sitedad — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:29:39 +0000

This might be more Ann Arbor/U of M than Ypsi/EMU, and it might be more interesting to me as a book fan/reader/English major type, but I thought I’d post it here anyway: according to Mark Maynard, Shaman Drum is closing up at the end of this month. But I guess the good news is [...]

Monorail! Monorail!

sitedad — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:02:58 +0000

From the front page of today’s AANews: “Whitmore Lake company’s Mag-Lev train concept: Mass transit solution or idea that won’t get off the ground?” Here’s a quote:

Picture a rail service in southeastern Michigan that runs along a track suspended above the freeway, traveling at speeds up to 200 mph.

Imagine getting from [...]

Ann Arbor News will close in July/going digital and bi-weekly

sitedad — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:15:54 +0000

No kidding. Here are the opening paragraphs:

The Ann Arbor News will close in July after publishing as the city’s daily newspaper since 1835, publisher Laurel Champion announced today.

Heavy losses in revenue drove the decision. Champion said the current “business model is not sustainable.”

“This isn’t about abandoning local journalism, it’s about [...]