In this world of text messaging, cell phones and email, the population of wordsmiths grows ever smaller. Thank goodness for Jeff Kass. A Pioneer High School teacher, poet and writer, Kass has been using performance poetry to attract Ann Arbor teens to the power of self expression through writing.
For a man who's sunk his roots as deep into Ann Arbor as Rob Reinhart has, it makes a kind of poetic sense that he's built his career spotlighting roots music. For 13 years (that's 700 hundred shows), Reinhart has been locally broadcasting his nationally syndicated radio show, Acoustic Cafe, bringing a pantheon of unplugged musical acts to the Deuce.
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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