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Culture Vulture: Borders Argues Bankruptcy "No Fault" of Top Execs And Requests Six-Figure Bonuses
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Borders executives are getting in one last punch below the belt of the company's 10,000 workers who lost their jobs. As laid off workers battle for their remaining compensation, and on the…
Foodist: Is Bourgeois Sustainable Food A Folly When 45.8 Million Americans Use Food Stamps?
Is it possible for gluttony, purity, and morality to coexist with affordability? Or is this utopian vision a myth?
The Culture Vulture: Michigan Art Gallery Exhibit Pairs Republican Governors (Including Snyder) With Nazi Iconography
Marquette, Michigan averages 141 inches of snow each year, and is the home of Northern Michigan University. The city is not exactly renowned as a hot bed of either political posturing or cutting edge artistic envelope-pushing. All that…
Foodist: Food Deserts Hit The Political Stage in Michigan
When was the last time a big city mayor rode into office making “food deserts” one of his campaign issues?
That’s just what Chicago Mayor (and former White House Chief of Staff) Rahm Emanuel did. And he has wasted no time following…
The Culture Vulture: U2 Stamps Godzilla’s Carbon Footprint on Michigan
by Chris Savage
This past Sunday I got an unexpected call with an offer to purchase tickets to the East Lansing stop of U2's 360° tour later that evening. The show was a rescheduling of the original tour which had been postponed because…
Foodist: Urban Gardens and Heavy Metal (And No, I Don’t Mean Black Sabbath)
Ann Arbor's Project Grow is an extremely popular and often over-subscribed program under the auspices of which gardeners without the space (or who may want more space) can pay a fee to have their own little slice of black to grow gardens…
Foodist: Is the Rise of Food Prices All Bad?
by Francis Lam
Slayers of elitists and other warriors of the downtrodden: Look! I bare my throat to you, fleshy and fat and ripe for the kill. But before you draw your blade, let's talk about this for a minute. Is the increasing cost of…
Foodist: Yelping About Ann Arbor’s Worst Restaurants
Yelp. Yelpers. Yelping. If you've not visited the online food community Yelp.com, you're missing out on some of the most frank, honest and spot on restaurant reviews around. The Ann Arbor Yelp.com community is full of reviewers whose…
The Culture Vulture: Ann Arbor Fourth Best Read City in the U.S.
Today, Amazon.com released its list of the Top 20 Most Well-Read Cities in America. The company compiled sales data of all book, magazine and newspaper sales in both print and Kindle format since January 1, 2011. According to that…
Foodist: Styrofoam Takeout Containers Are Killing Us All (Maybe)
TKWU, my favorite Chinese restaurant, doesn't use Styrofoam takeout containers, but our favorite burger place does, and so do loads of other local restaurants, as well as local food carts. Takeout orders at TKWU are packaged in durable…