Jul 19 2011 in Review by Tim Adkins
TweetMy closet geek exposed by Google’s best service yet. by Tim Adkins Let me preface this by letting you in on a secret. I love Google. Their products have practically single handedly driven my business the past couple years. Gmail, Docs, Calendar, YouTube, Maps …I could go on, but all have been influential. As a [...]
Tags: app, geek, google plus, google+, review, social network, tech
Jul 19 2011 in Foodie, Review by Tim Adkins
Tweetby Amanda Slater Dining at Real Seafood Company in Ann Arbor is always a pleasant experience. From the relaxing atmosphere to the fantastic food, every time I leave Real Seafood, I’m already looking forward to my next visit. My most recent experience at the restaurant was on a warm Saturday night, during which I was [...]
Tags: foodie, main st ventures, real seafood co, restaurants, review
Jul 7 2011 in Features, Review by Tim Adkins
TweetMy experience at Electric Forest Review and Photos by Bruno Postigo Society follows established rules and norms that the population abides to, but sometimes deviancy occurs and it’s usually in the form of music festivals; Electric Forest is one of the wildest ones. Focusing on the experience more than the music, it was obvious the [...]
Tags: electric forest, electric forest festival, michigan, music, pretty lights, review, rothbury, skrillex, string cheese, tiesto
Jun 20 2011 in Rate It by Tim Adkins
TweetArtist: My Morning Jacket Album: Circuital Tower Rating: 4 out of 5 Review by Aimee Mandle With five albums behind them, My Morning Jacket has explored numerous stylistic avenues. They have dabbled in reggae, folk, rock, and their specialty – head boppin’, jam-out tunes. With no one genre to call their own, they are an [...]
Tags: arctic monkeys, foster the people, music, my morning jacket, rate it, review, sondre lurche
Jun 20 2011 in Rate It by Tim Adkins
TweetFilm: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold Tower Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Review by Paul Kitti The film poster for “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold,” hanging in the lobby of The State Theater, depicts a smiling Morgan Spurlock clothed entirely in advertisements. Hotels, beverage companies, automobile manufacturers, clothing lines and airline companies have their logos [...]
Tags: everything must go, film, greatest movie ever sold, hangover 2, review, super 8, will ferrel
May 3 2011 in Review by Tim Adkins
TweetDaytrotter’s Barnstormer Tour Brings Hot Bands to a Cold Barn by Mary Simkins The Dexter, Michigan leg of Daytrotter’s fourth annual Barnstormer concert series set a few records. It was the first time the five-day barn tour had come to Michigan, it was the first sold- out night of the tour, and, as Romeny Rye [...]
Tags: barn, barnstormer, concert, daytrotter, dexter, guards, hellogoodbye, keegan dewitt, music, performance, review, romany rye, sondre lerche
Mar 25 2011 in Buzz, Review by Tim Adkins
TweetBy Bruno Postigo Most of the time, I’m usually not caught off guard when it comes to live shows. However, Mi Ami took me by surprise, and they didn’t let me down. The show at the Yellow Barn in Ann Arbor featured Mi Ami, Terrible Twos, Skate Laws, and two DJ’s Relaxer and Forest Juziuk. [...]
Tags: ann arbor, detroit, mi ami, music, review, skate laws, yellow barn
Mar 22 2011 in Review by Tim Adkins
TweetKick Some App by Tim Adkins Remember five years ago how cool it was to have a Nextel so you could Push to Talk (PTT) and walkie-talk it up with your buds? Remember how you needed a backpack to lug it around because your Nextel was built to withstand any and all possible damage? And [...]
Tags: android, heytell, ipad, iphone, pod, PTT, review, tikl
Feb 20 2011 in Review by Tim Adkins
Tweet5 out of 5 Water Towers by Tim Adkins We love our iPhones, and, with the recent launch of the Verizon iPhone, we can actually use them to make andreceive calls. But, if you’re like me, you use your iPhone more for taking and sharing pictures and videos than you do for calling and texting. [...]
Tags: android, application, apps, facebook, instagram, iphone, photography, review
Feb 18 2011 in Buzz by Tim Adkins
TweetAs February slowly creeps into March, it was another fun and busy month here at iSPY. We killed it at the FordLake Frozen Leap, Friday night at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival was crazy good, EMU men’s and women’s basketball is getting ready for the MAC and potentially the NCAA tournaments and we got the [...]
Tags: ann arbor film festival, entertainment, february, kevin hart, march, review, wiz khalifa