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Using free space in a previously vacant downtown Ann Arbor building, TechArb is providing a place for UM student entrepreneurs to kick-start their new ventures. [Full Story]
Red Solo cups are blowing down Hill Street. Community Standards staff are out in force.
The date and time for the Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority’s board retreat, discussed at its last board meeting, has been set: Wed., Sept. 22, from 9 a.m. to noon in the DDA board room, located at 150 S. Fifth Ave., Suite 301. The purpose of the retreat will be to discuss the status of negotiations between the DDA and the city on the agreement under which the DDA manages the city’s parking system.
The Detroit Free Press reports on the Michigan Creative Film Alliance, a venture of UM, Michigan State, and Wayne State University. The students’ work, a 30-minute movie titled “Appleville,” is still in post-production, though UM professor Jim Burnstein feels the program’s intention – to get film students to stay in Michigan – has already been fulfilled. The article quotes MSU alumnus and former chief of 20th Century Fox Bill Mechanic: “I get calls and letters from Michigan kids who want to come out and talk. I’m right now telling them you’ve got a better shot getting into a picture in Michigan than you do a picture in Hollywood.” [Source]
The NRF Stores blog posts a Q&A with Bridgett Barnes, co-owner of Ace Barnes Hardware in Ann Arbor. One question asks her to describe a “dream dinner party”: “The menu would be centered on having fun – nothing formal – so we’d start with sweet potato empanadas, followed by lime avocado salad, then red snapper tacos as the main course. For dessert, we’d have warm cookies with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream. I’d also serve French 75 [cocktails] and fresh peach margaritas.” [Source]
In a report on a recent meeting of the Ann Arbor public school board, we incorrectly spelled the name of the director of the Early College Alliance at Eastern Michigan University (ECA at EMU). The ECA is headed by David Dugger. We note the error here and have corrected the spelling throughout the original article.
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