ALMONT -- A shaky start never got much better for the Father Gabriel Richard football team on Friday night. The Fighting Irish bobbled the opening kickoff and nearly snapped the ball through the end zone on their first play from scrimmage. Before the 42-14 loss to Almont was over, the ...
"Born On A Blue Day: Inside The Extraordinary Mind Of An Autistic Savant" has been chosen as the subject for the 2012 edition of Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads. The book is the autobiography of Daniel Tammet, an autistic savant. Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads is a program that encourages everyone in the community ...
The University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. As usual for an academic department, they have all sorts of lectures and films and art exhibits and concerts and performances and colloquia and conferences planned. Kicking it all off is the New Millennium East ...
FINAL SCORE: Michigan 28, San Diego State 7 FOURTH QUARTER Michigan 28, San Diego State 7: Vincent Smith bulled up the middle for a 7-yard touchdown run. Michigan scored on a four-play, 57-yard drive, all of them runs, including a 30-yarder by Denard Robinson. THIRD QUARTER Michigan 21, San Diego ...
Here is the daily Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle for September 24: 20110924pzdxl-a.pdf
The wall of 52 faces at the Eastern Michigan University (EMU) Looking Both Ways contemporary art exhibit is striking. The styles are all different — formal, casual, realistic, cartoonish, playful, even black and white and fake-photoshopped. There are old men and young women, hipster rock stars and craggy-faced workers. There ...
Friday night, the sign on the door said, “Last 4 days.” Borders, Store Number 1, was going out of business along with the rest of the chain. I didn’t intend to shop the liquidation sale. It felt too much like helping a vulture that had swooped in to pick over ...
The Mid-Autumn Moon Festival is this Monday. That means mooncakes! A harvest festival, the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival is a Chinese (Zhong Qiu Jie), Vietnamese (Tet Trung Thu) and Korean (Chusok) festival that celebrates the end of the harvest, family and food. It's sort of like Thanksgiving (without the turkey), Octoberfest (without ...