The crowds were thick on Main Street [photo 1] and seemed to be extra happy welcoming the Jim Toy Center paraders [photo 2] and Jim Toy himself riding in a place of honor in Ann Arbor’s 4th of July parade. [photo 3].
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D3 Fife and Drum Corps closes out the Ann Arbor 4th of July parade. [photo]
Milestone: Zooey, Ukes, Parades, Calendars
In this monthly update, I will explain what Zooey Deschanel and Ann Arbor, Michigan have in common.
I’ll hazard a guess that some regular readers of The Chronicle’s local government news coverage might wonder: Who is Zooey Deschanel? OK. So here it goes. She’s that actress from New Girl – not the one who plays CeCe, but the one who plays Jess. Right. So Jess is the one who might wind up with Nick, but we don’t know for sure, but we’re still totally rooting for them to get together as a couple – because they’re both so, like, you know, quirky that nobody else would have them.
Extract of The Chronicle’s calendar listing for July 4, 2013. Other events between this “double entry” were digitally removed.
Ah, yes. New Girl is a TV sitcom, broadcast on FOX.
If that doesn’t give Ms. Deschanel enough cred for you to read any more of this column, try this: She gave a musical performance at Hill Auditorium last night, as part of the duo “She & Him.”
She was performing around the same time when regular readers of The Chronicle were following along with our live updates from the meeting of the Ann Arbor city council. [Spoiler alert: The council was all sorta Nick-and-Jess about their agenda last night, and postponed a bunch of stuff.]
Those city council meetings, by the way, are listed out on The Chronicle’s new-and-improved event listing display, along with myriad other happenings in Ann Arbor. I wrote about the basic technology behind that event listing earlier this year. If you’d like to add all your organization’s events to our listing all-in-one-go, it’s pretty easy.
The lead art for this column is made out of a screenshot taken from The Chronicle’s event listings. For calendar purists, this might be evidence that we are doing it wrong: The 4th of July parade is listed twice. Twice? That’s like making Jess and Nick go on a double date with CeCe and Schmidt, am I right?
Actually, I think that “double listing” illustrates perfectly why our approach to event listings is exactly right. [Full Story]