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Alex Thomas of the What's Up in the Willow video podcast

From neighborhood news to comic reviews, local podcasts connect with community

We chatted with three local podcasters about the stories behind their podcasts, which respectively focus on author interviews, the world of comic books, and Ypsi Township's West Willow neighborhood.

Latest in Entertainment
Yen Azzaro, Maggie Brandt and Steve Pierce at First Congregational United Church of Christ
FIRST LOOK: Inside the historic church set to become Ypsi’s newest performance venue

The Ypsilanti Performance Space, or "the YPSI" for short, will offer a concert hall, reception hall, conference room, a basement space, and office space.

Participants dance at a Riverside Arts Center event.
New event to celebrate Ypsi’s arts and culture ecosystem

Riverside Arts Center's new Fly Trap event will offer a variety of free activities that are open to all, while also doubling as a fundraiser for the center.

Matt Bradish at Underground Sounds
Digital is dead, but Ann Arbor’s independent record stores are keeping vinyl in rotation

Vinyl isn't just "back" anymore. It's become a consistent bright spot for the tumultuous music industry, particularly local businesses like Ann Arbor's four long-running independent record stores.

Rob Eisman, Liz Marek, Greg Lobdell and Jon Carlson at the Thompson Block redevelopment on April 2, 2018
FIRST LOOK: Inside Ypsi’s long-awaited Thompson Block redevelopment

An Ann Arbor-based development company's plans are well underway to restore the structure and open a new restaurant, bar, and loft apartments there sometime in 2019.

Conceptual renderings for Grove Studios' shipping container studio spaces.
Grove Studios finds new location, adjusts plans for shipping-container studio spaces

Although the move was done out of necessity, it's presented positive new opportunities for the studio, which offers low-cost rehearsal space for local creatives.

InfoReady chief operating officer Maurice Collins
How the Ann Arbor Film Festival and InfoReady developed a simpler way to sort through 3,000 films

The festival collaborated with software company InfoReady to develop a platform that streamlines the once-complicated process of managing film submissions, and they're hoping to make it an industry standard.

Emily Tuesday and Cheyanne Jeffries in the theater at the Riverside Arts Center
Riverside Arts Center seeks to scale up as a community hub

Following staffing changes and a merger with another Ypsi nonprofit last year, the center has introduced a wide variety of new community-oriented programming.

A performance at the 2016 Threads festival.
Threads interdisciplinary art festival moves to Ypsi, scales up for 2018

The festival, which includes music, poetry, dance, film, and visual arts, started in Ann Arbor but has found a new home.

Jermaine Dickerson of Hero Nation with YCHS students at a Black Panther screening at Rave Cinemas
“We can accomplish anything”: Ypsi students react to free “Black Panther” screening

Students described an empowering and inspiring experience at the screening, the result of a crowdfunding campaign that raised more than triple its $3,000 goal.

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