October 4, 2009
Mark Metcalf on Mad Men tonight
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October 4, 2009
Jib Kidder: Windowdipper
As a youth, I spent my college summer breaks at home in Michigan, working at Guitar Center in Southfield by day and storming M14 by night to get to Ann Arbor, where my friends at the University of Michigan smoked pot on their rooftops, watched strange films, worked at coffee shops and radio stations and led bold charges into late-night escapades with exhilarating regularity.
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September 29, 2009
Unusual number of centenary celebrations of great men
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September 28, 2009
We learned something
For one, that Grace Coolidge had a pet raccoon.
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September 24, 2009
Jetsetters
The beau and I are leaving tomorrow afternoon for a long weekend in sunny, swampy Washington D.C. – we’ll be attending the National Book Festival,
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September 22, 2009
Miss America 2008: BTYB Farmington Hills
Making a Michigan left on Grand River yesterday, on the southerly side of Farmington Hills, I saw a Welcome to Farmington Hills sign that said: “Welcome to Farmington Hills: Home of Kirsten Haglund, Miss America 2008.”
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September 21, 2009
How to go to a gallery opening: BTYB Real Detroit
On the cover of this week’s Real Detroit: a five-point beginner’s guide for attending gallery openings entitled “Free Booze, Expensive Art.”
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September 15, 2009
The abandoned future at MOCAD
MOCAD opened a new show on Friday — two solo exhibitions by two Scandinavians that occupy the raw concrete gallery space (yes, we know it used to be an auto dealership) with an outstretching emptiness, blanched of color, goverened by shape and movement, flickers of shadow and whiteness, mechanical noises and unpeopled silences.
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September 11, 2009
Secret Velazquez
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