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UPDATE: The VIP+Shirt level is now available.

This is what it sounds like. A comedy roast, by professional roasters, bloggers, and radiomen, of John U. Bacon, online, live, at 8:30 PM EST of March 6, 2021, with all proceeds going to the Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase, because if we don’t we probably won’t have it anymore.

If you want to see it, it’s $10 for the first 150 people and $15 after.

Also there’s a VIP hangout after.

Right, we’ll also do a VIP hangout/Q&A with Bacon and the roasters after the show for those who want to give a bit more.

Also a Shirt

And oh right, there’s a shirt option on the Eventbrite too. We’re still getting the design ready but it’s based on this:

I’ll have a post when we have it ready. We’ll run the shirts the way we do for HTTV: I’ll email you a link you can take to put in your order and then it will track through Underground Printing.

TIERS

ARGH there’s an error on the signup that will get fixed this morning in Pacific Time, but this is the plan:

• $50: Gets you into the show + the t-shirt + the VIP chat after the show.
• $30: Gets you into the show + the t-shirt
• $15: Gets you into the show
• $10: Same as the $15 for the first 150 people who sign up.

The error is there’s a $25 show+VIP option on there right now.

[After THE JUMP: How it came together]

A lot of our favorite places in Ann Arbor were hurting with the pandemic and no football traffic, so we partnered this fall with Underground Printing to do a t-shirt a week for the places we love. All proceeds went to the restaurant/bar/whatever. The plan was to take all the orders we could in a week, mass-produce them, send the institutions a big fat check, and let that be it.

So change of plans. Since it's the holiday season, and you probably know somebody who likes Ann Arbor, we're putting ALL OF THEM BACK UP in our store, and adding a code for free shipping—A2FREESHIP—if you get three of them or more.

[After THE JUMP: a run through the shirts]

Even with football back on a lot of our favorite places in Ann Arbor are hurting. Hoping to soften the blow a bit, we're partnering this fall with Underground Printing to do a t-shirt a week for the places we love. All proceeds go to the restaurant/bar/whatever.

Previously: Good Time Charley's, the Brown Jug, the Blind Pig the State and Michigan Theaters, Mr. Spots, Literati, Dominick's, and Ashley's.

This week: The Pretzel Bell

I want to use this space to talk a little history.

The reason Division Street is called such is because it's the line that divides the campus of the University of Michigan from the town. But much of the city's history it was the line between Dry and Wet Ann Arbor. A "student riot" at Hangsterfer's Hall, the favorite watering hole of the town's first century, caused city officials to ban alcohol east of the street, first with a handshake agreement in 1856, and 48 years later with a law. In 1918 (in large part thanks to their rival party's mishandling of a deadly pandemic), Republicans swept into office and enacted a statewide Prohibition. The Michigan law was soon superseded by the national one.

[After THE JUMP: History]