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Spur Studios
Conor O’ Neils State Theatre
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Ann Arbor Film Festival Adventures in Food Taste of the Month Style
[features] 14 15
Ann Arbor Film Festival + pg 08
Earl Boykins + pg 27
Kevin Hart
The Get Up Kids
[around YOU] 16
Local Events
[review] 19 20
Kick Some App: Verizon Review Rate it!
[campus] 23 32
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[depot town rag] 34 35
Amanda Conte + pg 23
The Get Up Kids + pg 15
Dog Days
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After a year and a half of success in Ypsilanti, SPUR Studios’ owner, James Marks, will open an additional studio in Ann Arbor (Pittsfield Township). “We’ve got about six or seven new units that we’re renting out,” Marks said. “The people that I’ve got in mind for this are creative professionals—graphic designers, photographers, people like that.” SPUR Studios was made possible by VGKids, Marks’ screen-printing company that has had a direct role in getting SPUR Studios off the ground. “This is our way of giving back,” Marks said. “The Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor community has always supported our company, and it’s great to get the opportunity to give back a little bit.” When SPUR Studios first launched in July 2009, the response was overwhelming. “We leased a little over a third of the
building in that first weekend. Within a few months, we filled the rest of it up,” he said. Clearly the area was in need of some creative space, and that’s just what Marks had in mind. “It’s about bolstering the creative economy and giving people the space to take their work up a notch,” said Marks. “People obviously wanted it and have taken great care of the building.” With one location already in Ypsilanti, Marks wants this new location to cater to the Ann Arbor community and reach out to people in that area. However, he said that the people the new studio attracts may or may not fall into that demographic, adding, “what you get in life isn’t always what you had in mind, and that’s fine.” For more information about SPUR and information on leasing a space, please visit www.spurstudios.com.
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st. patrick’s day with conor o’neils CONOR O’ NEILS IS LOCATED AT 318 S. MAIN ST, ANN ARBOR 48104. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL 734-665-2968.
midnights at the state theatre MICHIGAN STATE THEATRE IS LOCATED AT 233 STATE STREET ANN ARBOR, MI 48104. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL 734-761-8667.
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BY JOSEPH STROMSKI II >>>>>>>> Designed and built in Ireland, Conor O’Neill’s, located on Main St., offers the true pub experience that can’t be found anywhere else in the area. In addition to serving up the best Irish fare and stouts around, Conor O’Neill’s always has something fun and exciting going on — Monday and Wednesday nights feature trivia, and the weekends bring in live music from a variety of artists. “We just focus on the Irish hospitality and atmosphere,” Conor O’Nell’s manager Eric Bodley said. “We’re as close to Ireland as you can get in the area.” With the biggest Irish holiday of the year right around the corner, you can bet that Conor O’Neill’s is going to be the place to be on St. Patrick’s Day! Opening at 7 a.m. on March 17, Conor O’Neill’s is going to be
offering Irish-themed food and drink specials that will change on the hour every hour until the pub closes at 2 a.m. Bagpipers, Irish dancers and live Irish music from Detroit-based band The Diggers will provide entertainment throughout the day. “St. Patrick’s day is our most fun day of the year,” Bodley said. “We pride ourselves on providing that true Irish setting for all to enjoy.”
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the film is experienced, and this is where the State Theatre delivers. It’s not unusual for there to be some sort of comical live performance preceding the movie, and “audience participation” often surfaces in a number of ways, as can be expected when a large group of people experiences one of their favorite films together. In the months to come, the State Theatre will offer an exciting collection of undisputed classics (Troll 2?!) and, at six dollars per ticket, there’s a good chance I’ll be at every one.
On select Saturday nights in Ann Arbor, the red and green neon tower of the State Theatre becomes a beacon of hope for movie lovers, ushering in crowds for one of the greatest State Theatre movie experiences: the midnight showing. Only the most revered films (as approved by the college crowd) are chosen for this occasion (past screenings have included “Black Dynamite,” “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” and “Enter the Void”). It’s no secret that the impact of a film stems largely from how
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In today’s cinematic culture, it’s difficult to get a movie made if it’s not based on a comic book and starring a shape-shifting Camaro robot or a19-year-old in a bustier. Big explosive movies are an expensive business, and studios are careful to hedge their bets toward films they know will sell at the box office. Thank God for festivals that still celebrate filmmaking as an art – like the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Held March 22-27, this year’s festival will feature approximately 180 films with more than 100 entered into competition for $20,000 worth of cash and prizes. The film that wins Best of Festival will also be eligible for Oscar nomination in the short film category, an honor given to only a handful of film festivals. “We’re different than most other film festivals in that we’re really focused on film as an art form. We really feature a lot of short films that don’t fit into the theatrical model of making a movie and putting celebrities in them,” said Executive Director Donald Harrison. “You really end up seeing a lot of work that is experimental, more challenging.” The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the second oldest film festival in the country,
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with roots that date back to 1963. “This festival started before independent film was really a term,” Harrison said. “We definitely have a history that’s different from most other festivals. They were visionaries. They were breaking new ground.” Over the course of the six-day festival, more than 15,000 film fanatics will catch more than forty screenings and programs at the Michigan Theater and the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Expect to see a lot of short films, animation, and documentaries. If it’s experimental and independent, there’s a good chance AAFF will show it, Harrison said. Screenings range from one featurelength movie to 15 shorts, some with panel discussions and interactive events giving festival-goers a chance at an inside glimpse at the making of these films. Look for former U of M student and Academy Award-nominated Sam Green (“The Weather Underground”) during the festival as he presents his latest piece “Utopia in Four Movements,” a modern “live documentary” performance that explores the battered state of utopian impulses at the dawn of the 21st century.
Or check out the program by Japanese animator Keita Kurosaka, whose careful labor of animated love took more than ten years to make. Or catch the screening of “Foreign Parts,” a documentary that uncovers a collection of auto shops and junkyards fated for demolition in Queens. This year, Harrison expects to see a lot of documentaries – but these are not your grandmama’s documentaries. “We find right now that there’s a lot of exciting risk-taking work within that genre and that’s going to be reflected in this year’s festival – really even challenging the ideas of what documentary is,” Harrison said. Tickets to the Ann Arbor Film Festival will be $9 general admission for each event and $7 for students and seniors. True film lovers can purchase a full festival pass for $95. If you’re strapped for cash, don’t stress. There will be at least nine free events over the course of the event. To see the full lineup of films and programs at this year’s festival, visit the Ann Arbor Film Festival website at http:// www.aafilmfest.org.
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adventures in local food #3 INFINITE GREEN TOMATOES BY STEFANIE T. STAUFFER >>>>>>
Ok. So last time we spoke about the Food Safety Modernization Act (S510) and how its passage will have a detrimental impact on the local economy, environment, and our health (not to mention on the food system itself). Specifically, we saw that although industrial food production is a root cause of the rampant food-borne illness outbreaks this legislation aims to fight, S510 will actually result in more industrialized agriculture. But how did industrial agriculture become so dominant in the first place that our eating habits and purchases continue to expand its power largely without our knowledge? Is it the convenience of being able to eat the same food all year? Is it the low sticker prices that make us think we are getting a great deal regardless of the many hidden production costs involved? Personally, I think it’s a stretch to think that consumer demand is driving industrial food production. While working in food service, I can’t remember how many times I’ve heard someone order a sandwich with ‘no tomato’, so I doubt that industrial agriculture is expanding simply because people have a strange urge to eat tomatoes in February (when they taste nowhere near as good). Therefore, it seems to me that the problem of industrial agriculture starts with the supply. In other words, we don’t necessarily want to eat tomatoes that were picked green and shipped from greenhouses in the California desert, yet they are universally available in restaurants and grocery stores so we do anyways. The result is that now we feel like we have to buy those products, those unripe tomatoes, whether we really want them or not. In this sense then, the all-pervasive fear of food that inspired legislation like S510 has also convinced us that even though industrially-produced food is not desirable, it is the only kind available. And this cultivated dependency may be a reason why the government has recently been able to pass legislation that enables giant industrial growing operations to dramatically increase
profit margins while organic growers and producers fight to stay in business. The most recent example of such legislation is the USDA’s decision on January 31st to completely deregulate the use of Monsanto’s Genetically-Engineered “Round-up Ready alfalfa.” Since alfalfa is the 3rd most valuable and 4th largest crop in the US, and since it can easily crosspollinate with plants in neighboring fields and contaminate them with non-organic, GE alfalfa, this move has been fiercely criticized by the Organic Consumers Association, the Ecological Farming Association, organic dairy producers, and many others. In particular, these critics point out that not only does the decision jeopardize the existence of the organic dairy and organic meat industries, but that is also unnecessary, as 93% of US alfalfa growers don’t even use herbicides. In fact, Michael Pollan described the decision as a “bad solution to a problem that doesn’t exist”. Thus, if we’re serious about both retaining and even expanding access to delicious, healthy and sustainably-produced food for ourselves, families, and communities, we need to voice our concerns that S510 and the USDA’s deregulation of GE ‘Round-up Ready alfalfa’ will further impede our personal access to organic, locally produced food. As it stands now, only slightly over 3% of US agriculture is organic, so we clearly don’t need more anonymous factory farms producing ingredients that make people sick. Instead, we need more vibrant local producers and thriving local food businesses to challenge the assumption that industrial agriculture is the only agriculture—especially in these rough economic times. After all, it’s the only way food will taste good in the future. If you’d like to know more about Monsanto’s GE “Round-up Ready” alfalfa and its potential impact on the organic dairy industry, the environment, and health, check out: http://www.centerforfoodsafety. org/pubs/Alfalfa_WORC_Factsheet.pdf and http://www.eco-farm.org/programs/ge/.
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taste of the month CAFÉ OLLIE FEATURES VEGAN AND VEGETARIAN OFFERINGS, LIVE MUSIC AND MORE BY ADRIENNE ZIEGLER >>>>>>>>
When Danielle Schwerin and Mark Teachout opened Café Ollie, they had no idea just how busy they would be. Schwerin and Teachout opened the coffee house and café on Feb. 1 in Depot Town in the same space where Café Luwak used to be after Luwak closed in December, citing losses stemming from employee theft. Learning lessons from their predecessors, Teachout and Schwerin vowed only they and their close friends would be behind the counter – which only gave them four total employees and a couple of volunteers. But that’s left them with little time for things they used to enjoy … like sleep. “We just need to get more people in here so we don’t have a heart attack,” Teachout said. But the 15 hour days seem to indicate that their restaurant is doing well in the first couple weeks that they’ve been open. Since early January, the couple has been busy repainting, remodeling, fine-tuning their menu and finding local vendors for food and coffee products. “We knew it was going to be long hours,” said Schwerin, a former bar manager at Corner Brewery and long-time restaurant employee. “We’ve been trying to do most of the work ourselves.” The couple remodeled the inside of the café with dark, rich colors and new art. They made way for a shelf of independent music by Ypsilanti bands, and they brought in tons of local food vendors like HenriettaHaus Coffee Roasters out of Wyandotte, espresso from Jackson, local bread from the Ypsilanti food Co-op,
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PHOTO CREDIT: ADRIENNE ZIEGLER pickles by AnnArbor.com writer Tom Perkins, and cupcakes and cookies by Ellen Ruddock who drives all the way from Flint to bake the goodies in-house. “A big part of our goal is to try to be conscious about what we’re doing without being snobby,” Teachout said. The philosophy behind the Café Ollie menu is “Comfort food for the vegans and vegetarians,” Schwerin said. The pair built their menu around favorite vegetarian dishes Schwerin used to make for Teachout, who as a vegetarian himself could appreciate a meat-free shepherd’s pie or Reuben sandwich. But Café Ollie has left plenty of room for those who still dig bacon, corned beef, and the occasional fowl, because a third of their menu is also meatbased, with two separate meat and veg stations in their kitchen to keep the food prep “kosher” if you will. “It’s actually pretty equal right across the board,” Schwerin said of customer
orders for meat, vegan, and vegetarian dishes. Every day the couple receives more positive feedback from their customers, with special compliments for their baked goods and non-meat options. “People have been loving it, and excited that there’s a place in Ypsilanti with a lot of vegan and veggie options,” Schwerin said. “There are vegetarians and vegans of all generations,” Teachout said. “It’s just as common that we get a person in here who’s 80 years old who is strictly vegan who’s been waiting for a restaurant to be able to provide food that they know for sure [is] actually serving it the way that we say – untainted by any of the other sections.” As they grow into their new restaurant, Teachout and Schwerin hope to
expand their menu further, add beer and wine, and really push their new baked goods and sweets, including a couple vegan recipes. They also hope to have acoustic shows once or twice a month. Teachout, who used to be a band manager in New York, has plenty of musician friends who would love to swing through the café for a show while on tour. “We have no interest in it being a financial thing. It’s just for fun,” Teachout said. To find out who will be playing at Café Ollie in March or to check out their daily soups and specials, search for the Café Ollie page on Facebook.
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The dictionary.com definition of “androgyny” is “having both masculine and feminine characteristics,” and, in the fashion world, this term refers to the masculine and feminine characteristics of clothes, accessories and more. The past 30 years have seen an upswing in the intersexualloop of pop culture; early 1980’s pop culture icons such as David Bowie, Annie Lenox, Boy George and Michael Jackson have all brought this to the forefront. This cultural explosion would have been unheard of 40 cut I colour I texture years ago, but now we see a multi-sexual blend of fashion on a day-to-day basis. In the 1990’s, Fashion Empire Calvin Klein made this the staple of his advertisement, asking consumers to “just be,” and, at the turn of the millennium, boy bands made it okay for gents to be pretty again, making the term “metrosexual” the most Google-searched word of the year in 2003. Now, I offer to you a modernistic approach to the “androgynous zone.” Let’s get you in touch with your other side in these gender-bending threads.
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job involved selling shoes. However, all that changed during one fateful amateur night at a Philadelphia comedy club where he tried his hand at stand-up and found that he was instantly hooked. Shortly after, he quit shoe salesman job and began performing full time at clubs such as The Boston Comedy Club, Caroline’s, Stand-Up NY, The Laugh Factory and The Comedy Store in Los Angeles, which eventually led to work in feature films and television. Hart currently lives in Los Angeles with his family and, in addition to acting, continues to pursue his passion for stand-up, touring the country and performing sold-out shows. He recently took over as host of BET’s classic stand-up comedy series, “Comic View: One Mic Stand,” when the show relaunched in 2008. In January 2009, Hart premiered his new one-hour comedy special, “I’m a Grown Little Man” on Comedy Central. The special debuted as one of the highest rated specials for the network. Hart will perform at the Convocation Center on March 10, 2011 at 7 p.m. Tickets start at $25 and can be purchased at www.emutix.com or over the phone at 734-487-2282. For more Kevin Hart, search him on YouTube or visit his website at www. khartonline.com
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breaking rules with the get up kids BY AMANDA SLATER >>>>>> When it comes to bands, the general rule of thumb is that once a band breaks up, even if all members reunite in the future, the band will never be as good as they once were. However, the Get Up Kids have shown that this isn’t necessarily the case. They are back and better than ever, complete with a new album and a tour that will be stopping at St. Andrews Hall in Detroit on March 10. Recently, we had the opportunity to discuss the band, the new album and more with lead singer and guitarist, Matt Pryor. Here’s what he had to say: iSPY: How does it feel to be back together with the band for a new album? Pryor: It feels really good, as individuals, and, as friends, I think we’re tighter than we were leading up to our breakup. We’re probably closer now than we were when we started. iSPY: Why? Pryor: I think getting away from each other for three and a half years …When we first started playing together, [the band] was the only thing that we had. Then, as you start to get older, you start having other things in your life that you want to spend your time doing, so you have to find the balance between those
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iSPY: Are any particular tracks on this album near and dear to your heart? Pryor: I have my favorites, certainly. I tend to like the weirder stuff, but that seems to always be the case. With every record we’ve put out, my favorite song is never “the hit.” One of my favorite songs on the new record is called “The Widow Perish??,” It’s a really dark, almost Latinsounding song in the beginning. It’s not like anything we’ve ever done before, and it just feels really cool. We even considered not putting it on the record because we thought it might be too weird, but then we were like, “Fuck it—it’s a good song. We like it.”
iSPY: What do you think is better— continuing to produce stuff that you know will sell and your fan base will like or to keep reinventing, even if that means your efforts won’t always be perceived as successful? Pryor: I would have to say that I think that staying true to our artistic side is first and foremost the most important. It isn’t necessarily the path to commercial, two things, and I think the breakup was wide, mainstream appeal, but I can look probably part of that early process and myself in the mirror every day and say, that transition. “You know what? I made the record that I wanted to make, and I’m really proud iSPY: With the change of your sound over of it.” Besides, I don’t want to be the time, have you noticed a change in your biggest band in the world. fan base or audience? Pryor: Since we’ve gotten back together, iSPY: Why not? we’ve noticed that our crowd seems to Pryor: I think it’s a rat race. I think it’s kind of be a little older. So they drink more than like being a politician. People think you just they used to. And then there are also make a record and put it out, and all of the younger people that never got a chance sudden you’re on the radio. It’s not like that. to see us play in the first place. It’s a lot of hard work and back scratching and
ass-kissing that I’ve never been very good at.
“I THINK THAT STAYING TRUE TO OUR ARTISTIC SIDE IS FIRST AND FOREMOST THE MOST IMPORTANT. IT ISN’T NECESSARILY THE PATH TO COMMERCIAL, WIDE, MAINSTREAM APPEAL, BUT I CAN LOOK MYSELF IN THE MIRROR EVERY DAY AND SAY, ‘YOU KNOW WHAT? I MADE THE RECORD THAT I WANTED TO MAKE, AND I’M REALLY PROUD OF IT.’” iSPY: How does “There Are Rules” differ from previous Get Up Kids albums? Pryor: It does sound different, but it feels like a really natural progression and evolution of the band to me. I feel like every record we put out, we piss somebody off because we’re trying something new.
iSPY: What was your songwriting process like during the creation of “There Are Rules”? Pryor: This was very much a collaborative effort. It’s similar to the way we wrote our first album, but it’s not similar to the way we wrote our second, third and fourth,
in that, from our second album on, it would be me or Jim coming in with either a complete song or a mostly complete demo of a song. The way this record was written was all of us getting in a room, and, with no preconceived ideas whatsoever, throwing ideas out. It’s not as efficient of a way to write, but it’s an interesting creative process, because you’re literally having five guys writing a song at the same time. iSPY: Were there any particular inspiration behind the album? Pryor: I don’t know that there was, necessarily. There’s still a decent amount of anger and irritation in the lyrics, although I can’t be a lot more specific than that. A lot of times the lyrics were kind of written around one line or one word that was coming up in the initial songwriting process. So we would come up with one really cool stanza and write all the lyrics around it. I wanted things to have interesting alliteration, almost like the lyrics were another instrument. iSPY: Would it be true to say that the Get Up Kids are back together and aren’t going anywhere anytime soon? Pryor: I think we’ll continue to play music, if not make music, together as long as we’re still enjoying being around each other, and nothing as of yet has proven to be unpleasant. iSPY: Anything you’re looking forward to? Pryor: I’m looking forward to the bands we’re touring with. They’re both really, really good, so that will be fun. It always makes for a better concert overall if all the bands are good. iSPY: What should audience members expect? Pryor: We have five new songs in the set, so we will play a lot of the old chestnuts that everyone gets excited to hear. I don’t think anybody has left any of the shows disappointed, even if they don’t like the new record. They get plenty of what they want. The band is loud and energetic, and, depending on the proximity of band to audience, the audience can be pretty rocking, too. I got hit in the mouth with the microphone at our last show because of a stage diver. I’ve gotten very good at dodging microphone knocking stage divers. It’s a good skill to have in my line of work.
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Besides having the fullest beard in the indie/folk music scene, Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam has also been putting out some of the best albums. Propelled in part by the success of the single “Such Great Heights,” his first two albums garnered more attention than the rootsy, mild-mannered musician seemed inclined to accept. His hushed vocals and beautiful acoustic finger picking graced music-lovers’ playlists like a calming breeze passing through a cottage window, proving that there existed a large audience for delicate melodies and soft-spoken, heartfelt lyrics. With his third album, 2007’s “The Shepherd’s Dog,” Beam fleshed out his bare-boned sound with a full band – without sacrificing the intimate feeling of his songs or falling under the weight of overproduction. More intricate instrumental arrangements were implemented, giving his whispered vocals a newfound sense of urgency. He carries on this urgency in “Kiss Each Other Clean,” an album that combines his distinctive natural sound with his continued instrumental innovation. Album opener “Walking Far From Home” finds Beam describing his surroundings over soft, hazy background noise, with layers of modest piano accompaniment, soaring backup vocals, and steady percussion gradually building around his
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Kids, and they were awesome. So awesome, in fact, that they inspired and influenced many other groups you and I have come to love over the years—groups like Blink 182, Fall Out Boy and ARTIST: The Get Up Kids The Early November. But then, ALBUM: There Are Rules because life and babies got in the 5/5 TOWERS: BY JOSEPH STROMSKI III way, The Get Up Kids broke up. It’s been seven years since The But fear not—because even though Get Up Kids last released a studio the The Get Up Kids split, the band’s album — and we can’t forget about members didn’t stop making kicktheir not-so-pretty breakup and ass music. oh-so-exciting reunion — but with The bands Reggie and the Full Ef“There Are Rules,” The Get Up Kids fect, The New Amsterdams, The Terare back in full-force. rible Twos, New Found Glory, Spoon As much as I’d like to be able to and My Chemical Romance, just to dive headfirst into this review to get name a few, all received talent from to the punch-line, that’s not my style, the demise of The Get Up Kids. so first here’s a bit of backstory: And now, to bring it full-circle, Once there once was a punk/emo/ “There Are Rules” goes like this: alternative band called The Get Up
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James Cameron’s latest project, “Sanctum,” follows a group of cave divers’ struggle to survive being trapped in the world’s largest cave after a rain storm starts flooding the cave, blocking the most convenient exit. The divers’ only hope of escape is to follow the flow of a river within the cave that leads to the ocean. Now, fancying myself a weekend-adventurer, I was excited to see “Sanctum” when I first saw the trailer for the film. In my mind, it made “Sanctum” seem like it was going to be the next big adventure flick. And, with James Cameron attached as an executive
producer, it had to be a great film, right? Wrong. Cameron’s involvement started and stopped with the 3D filming techniques he created to film “Avatar.” As for the film itself, it was a train wreck — the acting was bad, the Australian accents were hard to stomach and it was predictable from start to finish (although for an R-rated film, there was a surprising lack of f-bombs, nudity and violence). The only thing I liked about “Sanctum” was that it was one of the only films I’ve watched in 3D that didn’t resort to using the traditional campy actions of
throwing/exploding objects toward the audience for added effect. However, as much as I wanted to like this film, I just couldn’t. However, if you do find yourself a fan of “Sanctum,” check out these other movies that are almost, if not just as bad or worse: “Vertical Limit,” “The Last Airbender” and “The Cave.”
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling give emotionally arresting performances as they experience relational love and hate on screen in extreme measure. The film pulls the viewer into the intricacies of their relationship, subtly depicting the couple’s differences and aggravations, without succumbing to melodrama. Through creative use of flashback, both the rapid decay of their marriage as well as its promising beginning is exposed in striking realism, resulting in what seems like bits of FILM: Blue Valentine reality assembled on film. DIRECTOR: Derek Cianfrance Amidst the grueling love affair rises one 4/5 TOWERS: BY PAUL KITTI predominant theme: love is a choice. From their Starring: Ryan Gossling and Michelle Williams charm-infected first date to their string of violent fights five years into their marriage, love is always Fueled by powerful performances, “Blue Valentine” is But could that inspiration be dangerous? Is it possible something they have the option to pursue. The film an unflinching – and at times, exhausting – dissection of that the relational disenchantment experienced by so implies that love doesn’t necessarily disappear – it marriage. many individuals is a product of naïveté, fostered by just becomes harder to give and accept over time. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen the hidden, years of plastic love on movie screens? “Blue Valentine” As these characters come closer to finalizing their misunderstood beauty finally catch the attention of the is an honest, gritty examination of love, presented as choice towards the end of the film, viewers are football captain or the peasant boy win the affection of tangibly as any other film I’ve seen. It is not always reminded that relationships don’t always follow the princess. I grew up witnessing the bold, forbidden enjoyable, and it doesn’t seek to inspire. It tears down the Hollywood formula and that real love demands love of Romeo and Juliet and the smiley, Sunday the heart-patterned curtain in front of love and marriage, choice and sacrifice. morning marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Cleaver. We love it exposing the conflict and human inconsistency that when the slipper fits – it’s enjoyable and inspirational. plagues so many relationships.
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MODEL, ENTREPRENEUR AND EMU STUDENT EXTRAORDINAIRE Amanda Conte embodies EMU determination. She carries this off with a glowing personality, admirable work ethic and a large dose of ambition. Born in Dearborn, she lived there until moving to Plymouth when she was five years old. Conte graduated from Plymouth Canton in 2000 and got her Liberal Arts degree from Schoolcraft, enrolling at Eastern Michigan Unversity shortly thereafter. She’s 100 percent Italian, and says, “Both my parents are from the small island of Ponza off the coast of Rome, Italy,” adding, “I’ve been to the island, its 9 by 11 kilometers, the seafood is incredibly fresh and the natural scenic beauty of the island is breathtaking.” She enjoys music, piano, songwriting and reading motivational books. She also makes a pointed effort to give to charities like Children’s Diabetes Foundation and Disabled American Veterans, and she loves EMU. “I wasn’t always at the EMU College of Business. I originally intended on becoming an educator,” she says. However, she said that she got into marketing upon realizing that she needed a more flexible and creative career—and she feels that she made the right decision. “EMU has an excellent Business School. The professors are outstanding, and I love the marketing classes here!” she says, adding that her favorite EMU professor is Dr. Sheila Sasser. However, Conte’s hard work has extended beyond the classroom as well. She is a model with Chicago-based Avant Garde Models and is starring in an upcoming television commercial for sugarcoated walnuts. In addition to this, she has an entrepreneurial spirit, and is currently in the process of forming her own company, although she remains somewhat secretive about the details. “My greatest accomplishment was
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putting together a Bikini Calendar for an entertainment complex in Livonia,” she says. She says that it took five months—and a lot of time and effort on top of full-time work and school—to complete the project. “It may not seem like a big deal, but it was an incredibly long and difficult process. I had several people networking together, hired a photographer to do photo shoots, we built a stage, dealt with restaurant reps and over 30 female models, but in the end everything came together, and the entertainment spot increased their sales by 30 percent,” she says. Conte is also involved on campus and will be participating in an all-night event on March 13 at the College of Business. “We’re helping the Ad Club kick off Ethos Week, which celebrates the importance of business ethics. Students are locked in the C.O.B. overnight from Midnight to 9 a.m., and there will be a live radio broadcast. It should be a great time!“ she says. This will be Conte’s last semester before she completes her bachelor’s degree. However, she would like to pursue a master’s degree at EMU in the future. Upon graduation, Miss Conte would like to work for Proctor & Gamble’s Product Department, creating new products.
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There are days Eugene Lundy must feel like Job, the Old Testament figure given all sorts of trials and tribulations by God to test his faith. When Lundy was emYOU! The Magazine’s Student Spotlight for the January 2010 issue, he was on crutches after tearing his Achilles, an injury necessitating rehab that caused him to miss this summer’s season with the semi-pro Ypsilanti Yellowjackets. He has had his share of heartache as well—both of his parents and his sister are dead. Whereas these kinds of setbacks would cause some to give up on things like school and grades, through incredible strength he has been able to work through the obstacles life has thrown at him, even earning a 4.0 GPA in the fall of 2009, but it hasn’t been smooth sailing for the past 12 months. After getting his crutches and walking boot removed, Lundy could barely walk, much less get up and down a flight of stairs. He was forced to withdraw from classes in the winter 2010 semester. Then, in late July, he heard shocking news. His friend, Trevor Gaines, a former basketball player at the University of Vermont, died of a heart attack at the age of 29. Gaines had called Lundy a couple days before his death. He knew Lundy was looking for a new car and was delighted to hear he’d found one. “I heard him in the background, he was just jumping up and down like he had got a new car. That was the last time I spoke to him,” Lundy said. “He wanted his friends to shine. He never had a selfish bone in his body.” Lundy said he cried every day for
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months after Gaines’ funeral. “It was more hard dealing with that than when my own parents died,” said Lundy, who lost his mother in a shooting when he was young and lost his father as a teenager during what was supposed to be a routine operation. “You might expect to bury your parents, but this was a guy I expected to grow old with—stay next door to each other and raise kids together. When he died, a part of me died.” However, Lundy has continued to persevere and accomplish a lot. Early in 2010, he and cousin Chris Roberson, an EMU football standout and former NFL player, started Top Notch Tax Service,
recognized him from the first emYOU! article, started crying and saying the story changed his life. Lundy has also gotten positive feedback from friends who hadn’t realized all he’d been through,
“I’M UNDEFEATED IN THE GAME OF LIFE. I MIGHT BE LOSING IN THE EARLY ROUNDS, BUT WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO IT AT THE END OF THE FIGHT, I’M GOING TO WIN.” which has offices in Southfield and Oak Park. The two also run basketball and football camps for youths, getting Braylon Edwards and Mike Hart, among others, to speak. (Lundy said Roberson injured his knee at Cleveland Browns training camp this year and is rehabbing, hoping to get another shot at the NFL.) Lundy hopes to graduate in April 2012 with an education degree and wants to start a mentoring program at Eastern. Ultimately he wants to teach and coach. Kids are “where my heart is at,” he says. Lundy said a kid came up to him and
all the things his easy-going, laid-back personality hides. “I’m not going to walk around with a chip on my shoulder,” Lundy said. “I stay focused and I got a good heart, and I know anything God puts in front of me that I’m going to overcome it.” One regret Lundy had about his emYOU! student spotlight story was that he neglected to thank the aunt and uncle who raised him after his parents’ death. Lundy said he couldn’t stand his uncle at first and thought he was too strict, but now realizes he acts just like him. He told
his aunt recently: “Thank you for always being there. I don’t know if I would be alive if it weren’t for you. I don’t know where I would be. I don’t know if I would be in school, I don’t know if I would be mentoring kids, I don’t know if I would be trying to play football. “She was always my backbone,” Lundy said. “They shaped and molded me and I love them to death.” They shaped and molded him into a confident young man, one who‘s used his setbacks to mold him into a stronger person. “I’m undefeated in the game of life,” Lundy said. “I might be losing in the early rounds, but when it comes down to it at the end of the fight, I’m going to win.” Especially since he’s got some extra help, in the form of a fallen friend. “Sometimes, I don’t want to go to class or I don’t want to go speak,” Lundy said. “Every day, every morning, I have him on my shoulder giving me that little extra oomph that I need. “Now I got an angel on my shoulder in Trevor. He’s up there with my parents. They’re smiling down, ‘Look at our boy. He’s doing it. He’s making us proud.’”
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“I TRY TO GET STUDENTS TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES AND [I] CREATE A VERY INTERACTIVE COMMUNITY IN THE CLASSROOM.” PHOTO CREDIT: RYAN M. PLACE On April 19th, 1995, some 168 people were killed when Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb in front of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. “I was on my way to the Federal Building that day to the Social Security office inside to get a new card when, at the last minute, I decided to go home and take a nap. I worked nights and was exhausted. It was a great decision,” says EMU instructor, Tony Spicer. Spicer’s brush with death back in 1995 pretty much sums up Spicer’s overall good fortune. He survived an intensely abusive childhood and has had many near-death experiences, like almost being shot in the face by his mother’s drunk boyfriend and being struck by lightning twice, of which he says, “There’s been a series
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of long-term effects from the second strike. The charge entered my foot but didn’t leave. I had electricity circulating through my body and couldn’t touch metal for a while without getting shocked, but it gradually worked its way out.” Born in 1969, Spicer grew up in Northeast Arkansas near the Mississippi Delta, where he lived until he moved to Oklahoma at the age of 12. He later moved to Michigan, which he said was somewhat of a culture shock in terms of adjusting to the lack of southern hospitality and abundance of frigid weather and snow. After graduating from Western Michigan University in 1999 with a master’s of fine arts in creative writing, Spicer began teaching English composition, poetry and fiction at Eastern Michigan
University. “It’s fun being a lecturer and getting to teach a lot of freshman classes,” says Spicer. “I really try to help diffuse [freshman students’] fears and help them through the adjustment process.” In the classroom, Spicer is neither harsh not pretentious, and he doesn’t play favorites. His humble, laid-back, zen lifestyle and love of poetry makes for often crazy and hilarious, yet very challenging class periods. He says that he adopts a very nonlinear teaching style. “I’m all over the place but I pull it back together—very similar to American Indian styles of teaching,” he says. “It’s unusual and effective. Most people are conditioned by others’ expectation levels, and I try to get students to think for themselves and create a very inter-
active community in the classroom.” Not only does Spicer love EMU, but he also loves Ypsilanti. “I’m very supportive of the burgeoning underground art community in Ypsi and try to help who I can when I can,” he says. “My favorite thing about Ypsi is the very straightforward, down to earth people here.” Spicer is married and has been with his wife since February 1999. He loves music, writing poetry and growing his own food, citing Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” and “Zorba the Greek” as his “spiritual guide books.” His favorite poets are Whitman, Pablo Neruda and Rainer Maria Rilke.
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honorable mention for an All-American selection as a senior. Currently, Boykins is the all-time assists leader in EMU history with 624 assists and fifth alltime in career three-point field goals made (181). After graduating from EMU in 1998, Boykins went on to play for the New Jersey Nets, and has since played for seven NBA teams, the most recent being the Bucks. This season, Boykins is averaging 8.3 points per game, 1.10 rebounds per game and 2.5 assists per game. Because of his continued success in professional basketball, EMU will be honoring Boykins by retiring his jersey at halftime of the EMU vs. Western Michigan game to be played on February 27.
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As far as genetics goes, Hendrix was dealt a pretty good hand athletically. His father played six sports in high school and college basketball. His mother was a runner. He went to high school in the Toledo area and tried out for the track team. Things were seemingly going well, but Hendrix was dealing with the realization that he was attracted to guys and not girls. He made the conscious decision not to tell anyone, even dating girls in high school in attempt to convince himself he would become straight. As Hendrix recently wrote on outsports.com, “My personal life was a mess and my internal struggle grew worse. The emotions and feelings I was experiencing had become overwhelming and unbearable. Although I was still not accepting of myself being gay, I had acknowledged that I was.” But it got better. Hendrix came out to a few close friends near the end of his high school career and was met with support. Awkwardly, word got back to his mother, and Hendrix regretted not being the one to tell her. His senior year of high school was filled with success in running, and he decided to come to EMU because of its tradition of excellence in cross-country and track. However, while many find the experience of college and living on their own liberating, Hendrix took back one of the freedoms he had in Ohio. Fearing rejection, not wanting to be a distraction, not wanting to be pigeonholed, he hid his sexuality in order to be a better teammate. But it didn’t work. If anything, it made him worse. That struggle, while dealing with injuries, led to a miserable start to his collegiate sports career. But it got better. Hendrix, now a junior, decided to come out to his teammates, and the reaction was basically a yawn. Nothing changed …except it made for a stronger bond between them. “I feel like I was really fortunate coming here and having a diverse culture, overall acceptance; I know a lot of schools don’t even have an LGBT resource center,” Hendrix told iSPY. While it wasn’t a factor in his college choice, “it ended up working out really well.” EMU won the Mid-American
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saying that they’ll be accepting of minorities and LGBT athletes. And speaking of the “It Gets Better” campaign, Hendrix has become one of the people to add his story. The video is on YouTube (Hendrix’s cat makes a cameo), and, while it may not get the same number of views as Ellen DeGeneres or Suze Orman did, the presence of an out, well-spoken, understated college athlete telling his story can’t hurt. At the rate he’s progressing, both on and off the field, he’s earning the nickname he got a few years ago while running with the high school varsity team in his first week of practice as a freshman: Awesome Austin.
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Things are going to come together for the Michigan Wolverines. Their 10-2 season start has been clouded by their following Big Ten record of 4-7, and those hoping to see the Maize and Blue take to the NCAA Tournament courts in March are still holding their breath. But this is a team worth holding your breath for. Their aggressive play tells a story different from their record: this team is tenacious. And tenacity always finds a way. By this point in the season, the Wolverines have established themselves as a team capable of beating anybody. They took number three ranked Kansas to overtime, shocking one of the nation’s best teams before running out of steam in the final minutes. Even Big Ten powerhouse the Ohio State Buckeyes, now ranked number one in the nation,
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had to summon all their energy to capture a four point win at Crisler Arena and overcome a second-half Michigan lead only three weeks later on their home court. But on January 27, in the game that meant the most to Wolverine fans, Michigan was able to hold on until the end against the Michigan State Spartans in East Lansing. This 61-57 victory saw all of the Wolverines’ strong points come together at the same time: incredible three-point shooting, considerable bench contribution, solid rebounding and aggressive defense. January 27 marked the first time the Wolverines have beaten the Spartans with John Beilein as head coach, and stands as an indicator of the team’s improvement over the four years he has held the
position. They currently have three more wins than they did at this point last year, and they are right on pace with their ‘08‘09 season, where they qualified for the NCAA Tournament. And, with no seniors on their starting lineup, we can expect this Michigan team to be even stronger and fiercer come next season. With the Big Ten Tournament quickly approaching (March 10-13), the Wolverines appear to be attaining sharper focus. Junior guard Zack Novak has been deadly from the 3-point line, and sophomore guard Darius Morris was recently recognized as the Big Ten Player of the Week. Even the bench has been making a vital impact: they contributed 20 of Michigan’s 65 points in yet another impressive road win over Penn State on February 6, with junior guard Stu
Douglass claiming 14 of those points. Coach Beilein affirmed Douglass in an interview following the game, saying “Stu Douglass comes off the bench for a reason—because we want a guy coming off the bench who’s fearless in shooting.” It’s that sort of fearlessness that will make other teams fear the Wolverines in the Big Ten Tournament. “Our kids have a lot of positive vibes going on right now about how we could play, and should play to win, and that’s all we’re trying to do,” said Coach Beilein, following the victory over Penn State. “A lot of people can play in the Big Ten, but who can win in the Big Ten? That’s what we’re trying to preach every day.” Time has proven that only a strong and focused team can win in the Big Ten. Only a tenacious team.
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Dog Day here again: March of the Mutts, Saturday, 19 March Dear dog friends, this report is for those of us who did not attend last year’s inaugural March of the Mutts and may be attending for the very first time. I must admit, I was a bit intimidated when I first saw what seemed to be the Largest Dog Pack In The Whole Wide World. Sure, there were the usual chatty two-leggers at the ends of our leashes, but it was the other four-leggers who especially intrigued me: hundreds of us! Last year’s event (that’s a two-legger year––seven for us) was the most exciting pack event in my short life. My nose was out of order for days afterward. Let me tell you what to expect: First of all, we gather at the Market Plaza, between the Old Caboose and the Freighthouse. Two-leggers sign up for various awards, but the big event is all those other dogs to check out. This huge dogs-mostly event is probably the closest thing ever to Doggie Heaven. While the two-leggers are busy categorize everything (What’s his name? What kind is that? How big? Boy or girl? How old? etc.), we start what is surely the most exciting event of the day: butt-checking. This is not a dog show with cages and name tags; this is the March Of The Mutts! You will see all kinds of lovely dogs in this crowd: puppies and grey-muzzled geezers, tall ones and short ones, short-hairs and long-hairs, plain and exotic, but all with one thing in common: happy dogs, dogs making new friends and greeting old ones, dogs finally connecting all those territorial markings. This could be the most satisfying morning of your life. You’ll even see some dogs dressed like two-leggers; sweaters, jackets, scarves, bow ties, booties, sun glasses, and cute little clown-like hats strapped to their heads. What they heck? If you’re into that kind of thing, go for it!
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Conversely, you’ll find some two-leggers dressed like dogs but they don’t fool us a bit––they’re still walking around on their hind legs! Don’t even bother trying to smell them; they are not authentic. These are the agendaladen two-leggers. They chatter about “taking a bite out of crime,” “animal rescues,” and “worm pills.” They are well-intentioned, but wear all the wrong colors. Tolerate them. They mean well. Say, “Good Dog!” In addition to the two- and four-leggers, you will also encounter a few threeleggers. Although taken for granted by us, many two-leggers just go nuts over them. We encourage them to join another of the neighborhood’s big parades––the one in which we wear pink ribbons and walk in the up-coming Race for the Cure for women’s breast cancer awareness. After the two-leggers try to line us up, the Big Parade starts at the railroad tracks on E. Cross and goes past all those lamp posts and fire hydrants toward the Huron River. On this day, we go right down the middle of the street. Two-leggers’ cars are parked in the surrounding Barking Lots and on the side streets. We’re safe out here today. While the streets are full of us dogs and our leashed two-leggers, the sidewalks are nearly empty except for a few lonely and dogless two-leggers who bring only memories of dogs from the past. Watch for them to squat down and you will make their day if you just pause and give them a big, sloppy kiss on the face. They are easyto-please sentimentalists. The rest of the parade route is unlike the neighborhood’s other such events: no bands playing, no soldiers marching in lines, no floats to run us over. This parade is a doggie parade and we run in as close to pack formation as we can with those pesky leashes attached. We meander and turn.
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Noon: Registration at Market Plaza 12:30 p.m.: Parade west on E. Cross St. 1-1:30 p.m.: Awards in Riverside Park We walk sideways. We sometimes run in tight circles. We’re dogs and this is our day! For this glorious event, we do not need condescending pats on the head. And we don’t need those reassuring reminders that we are “good dogs” all the time. As much as we love those responses on other days, today we have risen to our natural level of wonderfulness and we walk proud, our noses and tails raised high. We are surrounded by doggie comrades and we just love it. After a block of strutting, we leave the concrete and trot into Riverside Park where there are acres of green grass and lots of tree trunks. Many of us have come here before to run in big circles, play Frisbee, smell trees, and poop, but we don’t have to check out the marked boundaries now because, on this day, the whole place
belongs to us! Everybody who’s been leaving markings is here and it’s a swell canine reunion. We make a huge circle around the park and line up near the bank of the Huron River where some of us jump in the water to wade or swim. If you’re one of those Big Water Dogs, you can provide the twoleggers with their favorite distraction: run out of the river into the biggest crowd and shake the water off your back. They love it! Two-leggers giggle and scream and run around happily when we shower them this way. Spread the joy. Give them a thrill. Other two-leggers gather with their dog friends at the dock that hangs over the rushing water to receive awards for silly two-legger criteria and then we go home to take a nap. Good dog! Good dog!
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meals for members who purchase subscriptions. Working directly and indirectly with 20 small farmers and producers, Harvest Kitchen currently serves 60 families and has garnered excellent reviews for its tasty, creative menus and commitment to the local food movement. The grant was awarded under the Farmers Market Promotion Program run by the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, which supports programs that
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make fresh, local, and healthy produce more readily available to consumers. The funds will be used toward the purchase of commercial grade kitchen equipment in the company’s newly leased space, the former Queen of Hearts bakery at 32 E. Cross Street. “This grant and the new space will allow us to significantly increase our capacity to receive, process, and store the bounty of our local farmers and produc-
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Marketing antiques, collectibles, folk art and general resale items for over 40 years, specializing in primitive furniture, folk art and advertising. Kim (Bonnici) Ion started in the resale business in 1966, when she was just six years old, hanging on the shirttails of her parents. In 1981, Kim met her husband Reggie while exhibiting at the Ypsi flea market. Partner Dan Aguirre, a specialist in handpainted chalkware made from antique candy molds, shares their love for primitive furniture and folk art. Look for creative interior displays, outdoor displays in the Market Plaza behind the shop, and auctions in the historic Freighthouse once that venerable venue reopens.
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