A Sampling Of Upcoming Events Sponsored By The Ann Arbor District Library
Film and Discussion: Award-Winning Documentary “The Fabulous Ice Age” With Discussion Led By Director Keri Pickett
Thursday March 20, 2014: 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm -- Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room
Can’t get enough of skating after…
Months Before Retiring, County Head Start Director Paid For $1,846 Waikiki Sheraton Charge With County Credit Card
ON MARCH 11 The Ann Arbor Independent published its results of an analysis of almost 14,000 credit card charges made by Washtenaw County employees between 2011 and 2014. That analysis revealed multiple charges for luxury lodging, meals out…
Performance Network Hosting Dreamcast Fundraiser in April
ANN ARBOR’S Performance Network Theatre presents its second annual Dreamcast fundraiser — an evening of entertainment and bidding to support Ann Arbor’s professional theatre. The event begins at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 11 2014. Tickets cost…
UMHS CEO Dr. Ora Pescovitz To Step Down After Five Years
In January, The Indy revealed that UMHS had signed a 5-Year $45M deal with Life Technologies (LIFE), that Dr. Pescovitz held stock in LIFE and served on LIFE’s Board.
ON MARCH 17 Dr. Ora Pescovitz sent an email to her system’s faculty…
Koch Brothers PAC Pumping Money Into Michigan’s U.S. Senate Race
Democrat Gary Peters is being targeted by the Koch PAC for his support of Obamacare.
DEMOCRATS ARE FACING their toughest Michigan Senate fight in two decades.
A sour national political climate, a little-known candidate and big…
Commissioners Ask County Administrator To Report On Employee Stays At Vegas Casinos
County Administrator Verna McDaniel says Ann Arbor Commissioners Rabhi and LaBarre asked her to prepare a report that addressed The Ann Arbor Independent’s March 11 story that documents county employee and elected officials’ stays at Las…
ARTS & LEISURE: Rooster iPhone app Crows About Good Books, Young and Old
YOU DON’T NEED to wait at the docks for the latest installment of Charles Dickens’s Old Curiosity Shop. But what if your iPhone could recreate the excitement — and convenience — of reading a novel in serial form?
Check out a new app…
ARTS & LEISURE: An Interview With Dror Burstein
by Jesse Kohn
Dror Burstein is a telescope. To read Netanya, the Israeli author’s new memoir, is to pass inside the Givatayim observatory where Burstein’s grandfather once accompanied him, where the magnified vision of the moon so…
OP-ED: Going “Green” Is More Than Shopping at Whole Foods and Driving a Prius
By Marc Joseph
AS ENVIRONMENTALISM goes mainstream, corporations are marketing the word “green” as a panacea for the world’s climate crisis. Today the word describes a set of prescribed, mostly consumerist actions: buy local, organic and…
THE FOODIST: It Doesn’t Take Much Sugar for It to Wreak Havoc on Your Body
by Jill Richardson
NICOLETTE HAHN NIMAN, author of Righteous Porkchop, just coined a new catchphrase that ought to go viral: “Sugar is NOT just an empty calorie.” Her statement contradicts the notion we’ve had for years that the worst…