May Angel Food

Angel Food Ministries has good quality food for such a good deal.  (The Bountiful Blessing Box would cost about $109 at the local grocery store!)  There are many other boxes to choose from - depending on your needs. Here are three boxes from the MAY MENU:  

GRANT for Writers

Would you like a Writing GRANT?

2011 GRANT APPLICATION NOW OPEN

Deadline for completed grant applications: June 8, 2011

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program supports individual writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art through grants in the following categories: articles, blogs, books, new and alternative media, and short-form writing. Grants range from $3,000 to $50,000 depending on the needs and scope of the project.

Designed to encourage and reward writing about contemporary art that is rigorous, passionate, eloquent and precise, as well as to create a broader audience for arts writing, the Arts Writers Grant Program aims to strengthen the field as a whole and to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging the visual arts. For guidelines and eligibility criteria, click here.




-Thanks DAM-Detroit Artist Market for providing me with the link via facebook DAM!

Cheap Treats Wednesday

Tonight after 5 pm (until 7:30 pm) Cup.Cake (pronounced Cup Dot Cake) has half priced cupcakes.  Head on over to Crooks, just south of 13 Mile.

Also, tonight is Baskin' Robbin's Scoop Night!  31 cent scoops from 5-10pm.

Clawson Resale Shops are Hip!

Fabulous stuff at Clawson Resale Shops.  

New Location of Regeneration is landing in Clawson!  Finally, after 9 years of being vacant, that big ol' carpet shop next to Dunkin' Donuts is put to good use.  Check out the yelp page and you can like them on facebook too!
Grand Opening from 11 am -7pm Saturday, April 30th. Live music, djs, treats, and celebration sales! 

Clawson also has a new place for curvy women called Hips!  It's between Jolie Nails and the magic shop at 14 & Main.  Here is a link to an article on the Clawson Patch.

Clawson is hoppin' savings!  Sprouting Tots Resale Shop helps those out with their little ones that just keep growing!

DoggyLoot

Oh, here we go!  Another coupon program (like Groupon and Living Social) but this one's for your poochie!


Check out www.DoggyLoot.com


New deals daily.  Today's deal is/was a DawgieGoPack - it stores treats, cell phone, keys...whatever you need $20 deal for $10!

Opening Night at DAM

Northern Lights Opening Friday, April 29th from 6-9pm

April 29, 2011 - May 27, 2011

The Detroit Artists Market proudly presents Northern Lights , an aptly-named exhibition showcasing the work of 20 artists from northern Michigan.  A unique opportunity for DAM, this exhibition introduces talented artists and works not seen before in Metro Detroit, and will surprise and enrich your notions of what “Up North” art can be.

The Northern Lights Exhibition will open at the DAM on Friday, April 29th with a public preview from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Join us for the afterglow at Northern Lights Lounge located at 660 W. Baltimore Street, Detroit 48202. Appetizers for the reception will be provided by Northern Lights Lounge and musical entertainment by Kresge Fellow Joel Peterson and Friends. The exhibition will close on Friday,  May 27, 2011.

Please join us on Saturday, April 30, noon – 2pm,  for a Gallery Talk at DAM with several exhibiting artists who will discuss their work, the unique characteristics of creating art in northern Michigan and the significance of this show.

Featured artwork: Meredith Krell, Coyote Lodge

Also Poet Jimmy Santiago will perform at DAM on Tuesday, May 3rd from 7-9pm 

Hear how poetry transformed award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca from a young man sentenced to a maximum security prison stint, into a metaphor for the power of language and self-expression. The event is open to the pubic with a $5 suggested donation. Proceeds benefit Detroit’s 2011 Youth Poetry Slam as they travel San Francisco.

"I paced my cell with a book in one hand and a knife under my mattress.''