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The culture of Ann Arbor, Michigan includes various attractions and events, many of which are connected with the University of Michigan.
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University of Michigan attractions[edit]
Many performing arts groups and facilities are located on the University of Michigan campus, including Hill Auditorium, the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, and the Power Center for the Performing Arts.
The University Musical Society (UMS) presents approximately 60 to 75 performances and over 100 free educational activities each season. One of the oldest performing arts presenters in the country, UMS is affiliated with the University of Michigan and housed on the UM campus. However, UMS is a separate not-for-profit organization that supports itself from ticket sales, grants, contributions, and endowment income.
The University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society, affiliated with the University's School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, has put on two fully staged performances of a Gilbert and SullivanSavoy opera every year since 1947, once in fall semester and the other in winter semester. The society is student-run. Performances take place at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater.[1][2][3][4]
Institutions and venues[edit]
Ann Arbor has a number of performing-arts institutions that are not affiliated with the University of Michigan. They include the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre (a nonprofit community theater group), Ann Arbor Ballet Theater, Ann Arbor Civic Ballet (the first chartered ballet company in Michigan when it was founded in 1954), Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, and Arbor Opera Theater.
Theaters in the city include:
- Michigan Theater - A live-performance venue and movie house. It hosts live performances, independent films, and classic movies while also serving as home to the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
- State Theatre - Independent movie theater located on State Street.
Ann Arbor also has a number of concert halls and nightclubs serving up jazz and other live music:
- Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase
- The Ark - Ann Arbor's folk and acoustic music venue.
- The Blind Pig - A small venue for rock, hip hop, and electronic music. It is known for early performances by Dave Matthews Band, Verve Pipe, and Nirvana, among others.
- The Firefly Club - Jazz club. (Closed in 2010.[5] )
- Kerrytown Concert House
There are several religious sites in Ann Arbor, including:
Sites of interest[edit]
The Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, located in a renovated and expanded historic downtown fire station, contains more than 250 interactive exhibits featuring science and technology. Artrain, located on North Main Street, is a traveling art museum located on a train.[6] A number of other art galleries exist in the city, notably in the downtown area and around the University of Michigan campus. Several buildings throughout the downtown area, like Sweetwaters Coffee and Tea and The Ark, showcase pieces of independent installation art in the form of small 'fairy doors'. Maps of their locations can be found at Sweetwaters, Peaceable Kingdom, or the Chamber of Commerce.
Beer and Brewing[edit]
Aside from a large restaurant scene in the Main Street, State Street, and South University Avenue areas, Ann Arbor has a significant beer-brewing culture. The city is home to four brewpubs located in the downtown area: Arbor Brewing Company, Grizzly Peak Brewing Company, Blue Tractor, and the nationally acclaimed Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales brewpub. Ann Arbor's West Side is also home to Wolverine State Brewing Company. Breweries in the nearby town of Ypsilanti (e.g. Corner Brewery) also contribute to Ann Arbor's brew scene.
Events[edit]
Sunday Morning by Carl Milles in Ann Arbor
Spring[edit]
- Ann Arbor Film Festival - The oldest continually operated annual experimental film festival in North America, this event attracts entries from moving image artists worldwide and screens more than 100 films before audiences at the Michigan Theater during six days in March.
- Hash Bash - First Saturday of April. The event is a collection of speeches, live music, street vending, and the occasional civil disobedience centered on the goal of revising federal, state, and local marijuana laws. The first Hash Bash was held in 1971 to protest the 10-year prison sentence given to cultural activist John Sinclair for possession of two marijuana joints.
- Naked Mile - An infamous event where students would run naked through the streets once a year at the end of the University of Michigan winter semester in mid-April. The last 'Naked Mile' was in 2004 after the University ended the tradition through arrests and threats to students who ran.[7] Participation in the event also reportedly suffered as it attracted the attention of internet pornography operations.[8][9]
Summer[edit]
- Shakespeare in the Arb presents one play each June. Sixteen performances, four a week, take place in Nichols Arboretum, a large natural park near downtown. The plays are performed in the open, moving from site to site, and subject to the weather, other park visitors, and the occasional low flying helicopter.[10] They all begin fours hours before sunset,[11] at 6:30 p.m.[10] local time (EDT). Each performance takes about 2.5 hours.[10] The production travels from spot to spot within the arboretum to create the different scenes.[12] 'As one critic commented, 'The actors used the vastness of its Arb[oretum] stage to full advantage, making entrances from behind trees, appearing over rises and vanishing into the woods.'[13]
- Summer Festival - A three-and-a-half-week event typically held from mid-June through early July at the Power Center and atop the adjacent parking structure (host to the free 'Top of the Park' events). Each night offers internationally known entertainers inside the Power Center, Mendelssohn Theatre or Hill Auditorium, while Top of the Park showcases local, regional, and occasionally national talent starting at 7 p.m. nightly, and movies at 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday. A variety of local food vendors offer limited menus while the non-profit festival organization offers soft drinks, beer and wine for sale to support the costs of offering free admission. Top Of The Park was moved to street level in 2006 due to construction on the parking structure. The move to Washington Street in front of Rackham Hall has proved to be a big success and has become a permanent place for Top Of The Park.
- Art Fairs - Held in the third week of July from Wednesday to Saturday. There are actually five separate juried fairs, and many other artists and retail booths anywhere they can rent space. Disgruntled townies and University students and staff and anyone generally involved in town life long ago adopted the slogan 'It's not art and it's not fair' to decry the fairs' inconveniences.
- Shopping Cart Race - Held sometime late August, the race is not 'official'. Information is spread by word of mouth and stencil art. Participants have brought everything from decorated shopping carts to two-man bicycles that incorporate shopping cart elements into the design. The race is part of Punk Week, a series of events held annually.
- Taste of Ann Arbor - A one-day event held during the first week of June in the heart of downtown Ann Arbor. Local restaurants open concession stands to the public. Local bands, schools, and performers hold free shows and concerts. The event is sponsored by the Main Street Area Association, the Downtown Development Authority, Ann Arbor Jaycees, WEMU 89.1, and the Michigan Theater.
- Dexter-Ann Arbor Run - A running race from Dexter to downtown Ann Arbor along the Huron River.
Fall[edit]
- Blues and Jazz Festival - Held in mid-September at Gallup Park, the festival showcases blues and jazz musicians from around the nation. The event was first organized in 1972 by counterculture impresario John Sinclair, suspended from the mid-1970s through the 1980s, and held again in the 1990s. The 2007 Festival was canceled and the 2008 Festival is scheduled for September.[14]
- EdgeFest - Multi-venue festival of avant-garde and progressive jazz, held each autumn since 1997.
Winter[edit]
- Ann Arbor Folk Festival - An annual benefit concert for the Ark (Ann Arbor's folk and acoustic music venue). Held late in January, it consists of many folk musicians.
Literary culture[edit]
Among U.S. cities, Ann Arbor ranks first in the number of antiquarian booksellers and books sold per capita (although the per capita calculations may not include the large student population).[15] The Ann Arbor District Library maintains four branch outlets in addition to its main downtown building, with a fifth branch set to open in 2008. The city is also home to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
Ann Arbor is also known within the performance poetry scene. The Neutral Zone, a local teen center, is home to the Volume Youth Poetry Project which holds a competition every year to send a team of six youth poets to the national youth competition Brave New Voices. The city hosted this competition in 2001 and 2002, and has sent a team each year across the U.S.
Films and fictional writing set in Ann Arbor[edit]
Ann Arbor (or its surrounding region) is also the setting (or the presumed setting) for a number of novels and short story collections, including:
- Justin McCarthy, Dear Lady Disdain (1875)
- Karl Edwin Harriman, Ann Arbor Tales (1902)
- Lloyd Cassel Douglas, Magnificent Obsession (1929)
- Allan Seager, A Frieze of Girls: Memoirs as Fiction (1964)
- David Osborn, Open Season (1974)
- Edward Keyes, The Michigan Murders (1976) (This is a non-fiction work)
- Marge Piercy, Braided Lives (1982)
- Nancy Willard, Things Invisible to See (1985)
- Susan Holtzer, Something To Kill For (1995)
- Susan Holtzer, Curly Smoke (1996)
- Jerry Prescott, Deadly Sweet in Ann Arbor (1996)
- Susan Holtzer, Bleeding Maize and Blue (1997)
- Susan Holtzer, Black Diamond: A Mystery at the University of Michigan (1998)
- Charles Baxter, Feast of Love (2000)
- Susan Holtzer, The Silly Season (2000)
- Susan Holtzer, The Wedding Game (2001)
- Nicholas Stoller, The Five-Year Engagement (2012)
Ann Arbor is the setting for much of the film The Four Corners of Nowhere (1995). Parts of the film Jumper (2008) are set in Ann Arbor, using both footage shot locally and footage using Peterborough, Ontario as an Ann Arbor stand-in. Ann Arbor is also frequently mentioned in the television series Lost. Because of the Michigan Film Incentive, several major films have been shooting in and around Ann Arbor in the past two years including the Tony Goldwyn-directed film Conviction starring Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, and Minnie Driver. The film's offices and post-production were headquartered in Ann Arbor, using many area landmarks as backdrops. Shooting has been done around Ann Arbor as well as smaller towns like Pittsfield Township, Chelsea and Dexter. Several interior scenes were filmed on location in the neighboring town Ypsilanti at Sidetrack Bar & Grill in Depot Town. Several other films are being made with major stars including Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer and Samuel L. Jackson, who have been seen in and around downtown Ann Arbor.
References[edit]
- Andrews, Clarence. (1992). Michigan in Literature. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
- Brown, Bill. (2010). You Should've Heard Just What I Seen: Collected Newspaper Articles, 1981-1984. Cincinnati: Colossal Books.
- ^'About | University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society (UMGASS) | Ann Arbor'. Archived from the original on 2012-12-20. Retrieved 2012-03-26.
- ^Gilbert & Sullivan's popular 'HMS Pinafore' setting sail at U-M
- ^Another memorable - if slightly surreal - 'Mikado' from U-M's Gilbert & Sullivan Society
- ^Maize Pages - Home
- ^Lelievre, Roger. 'After the Firefly Club: Jazz lives on, but without a full-time home'. AnnArbor.com. Retrieved 3/12/2013.Check date values in:
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(help) - ^'Artrain USA: About Artrain'. Archived from the original on 2006-06-15. Retrieved 2006-06-04.
- ^Construction, police hinder Naked Mile - The Michigan Daily
- ^'Police say nude runners could end up on Internet'. The Item. Ann Arbour: Osteen Publishing. Associated Press. 21 April 1998. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
- ^'Naked Mile may run on Internet'. The Robesonian. Ann Arbour. Associated Press. 21 April 1998. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
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- ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2016-02-29. Retrieved 2015-06-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^Lelievre, Roger (June 11, 2007). 'Cash Crunch Silences Blues Festival'. Ann Arbor News.
- ^'Ann Arbor Guide 2003-4'. Ecurrent.com. 2003–2004. Archived from the original on 2005-07-27. Retrieved 2005-08-17.
External links[edit]
- Arborweb.com - Contains listing of events in Ann Arbor
- University Musical Society (UMS) - Presenting Music, Theater, and Dance in Ann Arbor
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American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile | |
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Directed by | Joe Nussbaum |
Produced by | W. K. Border |
Written by | Eric Lindsay |
Based on | Characters by Adam Herz |
Starring | |
Music by | Jeff Cardoni |
Cinematography | Eric Haase |
Edited by | Danny Saphire |
Distributed by | |
December 19, 2006 | |
Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $15 million[citation needed] |
Box office | $27.5 million (sales)[1] |
American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile is a 2006 American sex comedy film released by Universal Pictures. It is the second installment in American Pie Presents film series, a spin-off of the American Pie franchise. John White stars as Erik Stifler, a high school senior, given a 'guilt free pass' by his girlfriend (Jessy Schram), who visits the Beta House fraternity led by his cousin (Steve Talley) to run a mile naked. Christopher McDonald co-stars as Erik's father and Eugene Levy plays family friend Noah Levenstein.
American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile was released direct-to-DVD internationally on December 12, 2006, and in the United States on December 19, 2006. The film was a financial success, generating US$27.46 million in United States sales. A sequel titled Beta House was released on December 26, 2007.
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Plot[edit]
Erik Stifler (John White) has a difficult time living up to his family name. He is Steve and Matt Stifler's cousin, and is perhaps the only Stifler about to graduate from high school as a virgin. The film opens with Erik feigning illness so that he can stay home and masturbate. Unfortunately, just as he is about to ejaculate, his parents and grandmother unexpectedly walk into the door and are hit with Erik's semen, after which his grandmother dies of a heart attack. Erik's dad later surmises that, as a Stifler, his son should be out having sex instead of masturbating. Erik's girlfriend of two years, Tracy (Jessy Schram), loves him, but is not ready for intercourse. Tracy decides to have sex, their first attempt goes horribly wrong, and she backs out of trying again.
Erik's friends Cooze (Jake Siegel) and Ryan (Ross Thomas) plan a road trip to visit Erik's cousin Dwight Stifler (Steve Talley) in Michigan during an event known as the Naked Mile. Tracy sees this as an opportunity to give Erik a 'guilt free weekend pass,' hoping that he can quench his lust and get sex out of his system since she is not ready.
As soon as Erik and his friends arrive on campus, they witness an over-the-top drinking contest where Dwight is crowned a campus champion. Later, they lose a rough game of football against a bitter rival fraternity composed almost entirely of midgets, and end up in a brawl with those same midgets on several occasions. The first night when the guys are at a college bar, Erik meets a college girl named Brandi (Candace Kroslak) who has a fetish for virgin boys, prompting Ryan and Cooze to make a bet with each other that Erik will not sleep with Brandi and will remain a virgin. At the same time, Ryan and Cooze end up getting turned down by a couple of girls they have met at the bar, Jill and Alexis, who are taken by a couple of the midgets.
The following morning, Dwight gets jumped by the midget fraternity in disguise while walking down the street, landing him in the hospital. Dwight tells the guys he probably will not make it to the Naked Mile, but yet still manages to make it right in time. Right away, he joins up with Erik, Ryan, and Cooze, who are at first reluctant to run, but when Brandi, Jill, and Alexis show up to run with the guys, they are finally prompted to strip down and run with the girls, and end up having a great time. Finally as Erik and Brandi reach the finish line, they steal a kiss, which is then caught on camera for a news report on TV. Watching the news report about the Naked Mile back at home, Tracy is upset and feels guilty that she allowed Erik the free pass. Her friends convince her to also lose her virginity before he gets back.
Later that evening, Erik realizes that he loves Tracy, confesses to Brandi that he cannot sleep with her, and rushes back to see his girlfriend. When he gets to her house, Tracy's dad says she is at a party and Erik arrives at the party just as Tracy has headed upstairs, presumably to lose her virginity to her ex-boyfriend. Erik loudly pounds on the closed bedroom door, proclaiming his love for her. However, Tracy was not in the room because she had decided that she could not go through with her plans. The two decide that they should be each other's first, and they make love.
When Erik returns to the Beta house to pick up his friends the next morning, each boy shares stories of his experiences from the night before. The guys then ask Erik if he 'sealed the deal' with Brandi that night, and Erik tells them no, prompting Ryan to pay up on the bet to Cooze. Erik tells them about his adventure back home to make up to Tracy and finally lose his virginity. The guys are now proud of Erik for officially living up to the Stifler family name, and the three friends finally drive back to East Great Falls.
During the post-Naked Mile party, Dwight spots Vicky (Winkler), the girlfriend of Rock (Prentice), the leader of the midget fraternity, and the two of them head up to Dwight's room to have sex. Later, as the film closes, Dwight sent a DVD to Rock that reads, 'Payback's a bitch.' It reveals both Dwight and Vicky having sex, as Rock yells out, 'Stifler!' As it turns out, Dwight and Vicky start dating, and they end up traveling the world together, as various postcard pictures show their many journeys together as the end credits roll.
Cast[edit]
- John White as Erik Stifler
- Steve Talley as Dwight Stifler
- Jessy Schram as Tracy Sterling
- Ross Thomas as Ryan Grimm
- Jake Siegel as Mike 'Cooze' Coozeman
- Christopher McDonald as Harry Stifler
- Eugene Levy as Noah Levenstein
- Jordan Prentice as Rock
- Maria Ricossa as Mrs. Stifler
- Candace Kroslak as Brandy
- Mika Winkler as Vicky
- Dan Petronijevic as Bull
- Jaclyn A. Smith as Jill
- Angelique Lewis as Alexis
- Jordan Madley as Brooke
- Melanie Merkosky as Natalie
- Jon Cor as Trent
- Alyssa Nicole Pallett as Porn Chick
- Jessica Booker as Grandma Stifler
- Stuart Clow as Mr. Sterling
- Joe Bostwick as Mr. Williams
- Daniel Morgret as Frankie
Production[edit]
Eugene Levy reprised his role from the previous four American Pie films
'The Naked Mile' of the title refers to a real event that was carried out annually by students of the University of Michigan until 2004.[2] The participants, mostly senior students, would run or bike a pre-designed course through campus while partially or entirely naked. The last 'Naked Mile' was in 2004 after the University ended the tradition through arrests and threats to students who ran.[3] Participation in the event also reportedly suffered as it attracted the attention of internet pornography operations.[4][5]
Filming locations[edit]
- Parts were filmed at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and at the St. George campus of the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario. The Naked Mile itself was filmed at Victoria College, a federated college within the University of Toronto. Other parts were filmed at Port Credit Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario.[citation needed]
DVD sales[edit]
![Naked Naked](http://www.ysubs.com/images/movies/movie-3222.jpg)
The DVD was released on December 19, 2006 in the USA. In the opening weekend, 478,336 units were sold, generating revenue of $9,561,937. As of April 2010, over 3,000,000 have been sold translating to estimate amount of $30,000,000 in revenue.[1] The Region 2 DVD was released in the UK on December 4, 2006 in PAL Widescreen and has been certified 15 by the BBFC with the following viewer guidance; Contains strong language, moderate sex and sex references. The movie was passed without any cuts.[citation needed]
The Region 1 DVD was released December 19, 2006 in Fullscreen R-Rated, Fullscreen Unrated, and Widescreen Unrated versions. All feature Dolby Digital 5.1 audio in English, French, and Spanish. Extras include deleted and extended scenes, outtakes, and a full-length feature commentary featuring the director, writer and cast members. The unrated DVD also contains two bonus features.[6]
Reception[edit]
After the commercial success of the direct-to-DVD production American Pie Presents: Band Camp, Universal Studios Home Entertainment decided to produce another sequel to the American Pie film. American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile was released direct-to-video on December 19, 2006. The film was a financial success, generating US$27.41 million in DVD sales domestically.
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 0% approval rating based on 5 reviews, and an average rating of 3.2/10.[7]Tanner Stransky of Entertainment Weekly graded the film with a 'C' and wrote 'although predictable, the opening stays on par with Jason Biggs’ original jaw-dropper. The rest is pretty deadly.'[8] Film critic Christopher Null wrote 'I never thought I'd believe that the characters in American Pie were rich and nuanced, but compared to the disjointed, half-written affair here, they may as well be from Shakespeare.'[9]IGN's Chris Carle gave the film 3/10, writing that it's 'a smorgasbord of gross-out humor, shallow laughs and bigotry.'[10] Steve Weintraub of Collider wrote 'there is something to be said about comedic timing and pacing to even the most basic form of cinematic genres, neither of which this [film] grasps at all.'[11]Common Sense Media's Heather Boerner gave the film 2/5, writing that it's 'another raunchy race toward the first time.'[12] Writing in DVD Talk, Scott Weinberg criticised the acting, directing and screenplay, declaring that 'The Naked Mile is one of the lamest, laziest and most shockingly amateurish comedies I've ever seen'.[13] Sloan Freer of The Radio Times gave the film 2/5, writing that 'even fans of teen sex comedies will find the verbal gags repetitive, predictable and often plain unfunny, while the visual jokes are dragged out to tedious levels.'[14]DVD Verdict's Eric Profancik, in his positive review, found the film was 'filled with a firm, rowdy, and lascivious wit that made you smirk with its aggressive antics', in particular praising the opening scene as 'stunning'.[15] Peter Hammond of Maxim describes American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile as 'hilarious, sexy fun... goes where no American Pie has gone before,' writing that it 'goes the extra mile for laughs and gets them'.[16]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ ab'American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile – DVD Sales'. The Numbers. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^Randall, Laura (2004-08-01). 'Things You Do Only in College'. The New York Times.
- ^https://www.michigandaily.com/content/construction-police-hinder-naked-mile
- ^'Police say nude runners could end up on Internet'. The Item. Ann Arbour: Osteen Publishing. Associated Press. 21 April 1998. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
- ^'Naked Mile may run on Internet'. The Robesonian. Ann Arbour. Associated Press. 21 April 1998. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
- ^Dave Foster, The Digital Fix. 'American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile (R1) in December'. DVD Times. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
- ^'American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile (2006)'. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ^Stransky, Tanner (15 December 2006). 'American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile'. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- ^Null, Christopher (14 December 2006). 'American Pie Presents the Naked Mile'. Archived from the original on 25 September 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- ^Carle, Chris (19 December 2006). 'American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile DVD Review'. IGN. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- ^Weintraub, Steve (21 December 2006). 'DVD Review – 'American Pie Presents – The Naked Mile''. Collider. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- ^Boerner, Heather (18 December 2010). 'American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile movie review by Heather Boerner'. Common Sense Media. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- ^Weinberg, Scott (19 December 2006). 'American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile'. DVD Talk. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- ^Freer, Sloan. 'American Pie Presents the Naked Mile - review'. The Radio Times. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- ^Profancik, Eric (8 January 2007). 'DVD Verdict Review - American Pie Presents The Naked Mile'. DVD Verdict. Archived from the original on 5 April 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- ^American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile (DVD) (Unrated ed.). Universal Pictures. 12 December 2006.
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