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The Art of Community Building: Saline's TwoTwelve Art Center

Patrick Dunn Wednesday, February 27, 2013
How do you turn a community of artists into an arts community? It's a question many in Washtenaw County struggle to answer. In Saline, Margie Bovee has helped to make the TwoTwelve Art Center part of the solution, creating a space that teaches, exhibits, and advances both the expression and profession of art.

Now Playing: Spontaneous Art

Tanya Muzumdar Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The name kind of says it all. Then again, maybe it doesn't. Spontaneous Art is a trio of guerilla (and sometimes gorilla) performance artists who have dedicated themselves to making life in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti region a little funkier, a little sillier, and, most importantly, a little less predictable.

Game Day Entrepreneurship

Jon Zemke Wednesday, November 02, 2011
The mantra for many an entrepreneur is: Where there's a need, there's a dollar to be made. So, what do you get when twenty five thousand cars are looking for a parking space at the same time? A business opportunity. Concentrate's Jon Zemke chats with Taylor Bond, co-founder of the game day parking finder ParknParty.

Game Theory: A Q&A with Matt Toschlog

Jeff Meyers Wednesday, April 27, 2011
The computer gaming industry rakes in nearly $9 billion each year. Michigan has only a very small sliver of that pie, and part of that sliver is Quantum Signal in Saline. Concentrate chats with Matt Toschlog, who heads up the company's simulation and gaming division. He weighs in on the state of the industry in Michigan, our film and video game incentive program, and the strategic advantage of having dreadlocks.

Total Investment: A Q&A with Bhushan Kulkarni

Jon Zemke Wednesday, March 09, 2011
From an engineering job with Ford to a serial entrepreneur in the process of launching his fourth company, Bhushan Kulkarni epitomizes the immigrant success story. A passionate booster for his community, family, and the state's economic future, Kulkarni chats with Concentrate about the challenges of start-up culture and the need for more mentorship.

MASTERMINDS: Andy & Tim Patalan

Chris Handyside Wednesday, June 25, 2008
After 20 years and two million record sales, it's safe to say that Saline's Loft Studios is an unqualified success. Meet Tim and Andy Patalan, gold record engineers who turned their family's 150 year old barn into the recording home for some of Metro Detroit's best-selling rock bands.

Ready, Set, Print

Shannon McCarthy Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Jokingly referred to as the 'Michigan Mafia', book printers like Edward Brothers, McNaughton And Gunn, and a veritable bookshelf of other binding, printing and publishing companies bring millions of dollars and well over a thousand jobs to Washtenaw County. Whether it's Harry Potter, college text books, or U-M's partnership with Google's book digitization project, it's clear that the last chapter in our publishing history has yet to be written.
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