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Apparition & Late Fiction, a Novella and Stories
By Thomas Lynch
www.wwnorton.com

A picture of an antique pocket watch rests on the otherwise totally black cover of Thomas Lynch’s new book, Apparition & Late Fictions, a Novella and Stories. The watch is missing both its hour and minute hands; only the tiny second hand remains, in its separate small circle, and it is stopped at 55. It is an evocative and compelling image and, depending on how you choose to view it, ominous, hopeful—or both—and in any case, completely apt. The phrases, “out of time,” or “no time left,” and also the w...

“We interrupt this program...”

Prepare yourself for a live comedy production that’s out this world. Performance Network Theatre showcases It Came From Mars by local playwright, Joseph Zettelmaier through Sunday, March 21. Featured in the February issue of American Theatre Magazine, It Came From Mars is a hilarious comedy about a troupe of radio actors terrified by Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds broadcast (the show that terrified American audiences with the phrase, “We interrupt this program,” to announce that Martians were invading Earth). Passions ignite and secret identities are revealed when a washed up director, ...

Casey’s Tavern: A “neighborhood bar” for a neighborhood as big as Ann Arbor

Back in the ‘80s, a certain kind of chain restaurant – we’re not naming any names – spread across the nation.  They sent decorators out to buy “memorabilia,” nailed it to the walls in a pseudo-random-but-actually-carefully-planned way, and marketed themselves as “neighbor- hood bars.”  Casey’s, founded in 1986 by a group of nine partners who had access to some property and wanted a really good bar, is exactly the kind of ageless neighborhood hangout that places like those chains can only pretend to be. Sure, it’s got some of the same décor (an antique bicycle high above th...

tree town tees

We’ve all seen ‘em.  From the family of four sporting matching “I survived grandpa’s 75th birthday” tees to the rock band selling merchandise out of a late-‘80s school bus, custom shirts are everywhere.  So, much as toddlers wonder about their younger siblings, we have to
ask — where do they come from?