,r w - a. _ Ask AddbL AML MM 0 0 a 0. B et Of Ann Arbor Sixth Annual Reader Poll We've made it; this our last Weekend Magazine of the academic year. Here we present the results of our reader poll. We received a record number of ballots this year, and we thank you. The following copy was written by Weekend Editors Stephen Gregory and Alan Paul and Daily staffer Joshua Levin. Best Food BEST BURGER: Blimpy's For the sixth consecutive year, Krazy Jim's ran away with this award. Nothing else was even close. BEST POPCORN: Tice's For some reason, popcorn seems to have exploded and be- come a pretty big thing around campus lately. Tice's edged out some heavy competition from those pushy new kids on the block, Stuchi's, as well as the Michigan Theatre and Stop 'N' Go. BEST HOT DOGS: Red Hot Lover's Another runaway winner. This place has only been around for four years, and it somehow has managed to come off like an age-old tree-town institution. They'll top your dog with anything your heart desires, and your stomach fears. BEST BAGLES: Bagel Factory Its remodeling may leave a little to be desired, but its bagels are tops with our readers, though several respondents clearly felt they didn't have many options. The fishbowl did get one vote. BEST ITALIAN FOOD: Cottage Inn Last year's winner held out again this year over the vener- able Trattoria Bella Ciao and the pushy new kid, Gratzi's. The more things change, the more they stay the same. BEST KOREAN FOOD: Steve's Lunch It edged out Kana by a mere three votes. Tight race. Hur's Campus Cafe also did themselves proud. Maybe Steve's won, because it is the only Korean restaurant to advertise "4char-grilled steaks." INTERVIEW Continued from Page 28 A: I was in my school newspaper, but not because I was a journalist. They had a picture of my dorm room for new stylesand concepts for how to decorate your dorm room. I had all my record albums taped on the wall. I never wrote a word. D: What were you involved in while in college? A: I did do a radio show, an oldies show from 2-4 a.m. No one was listening, so we did it for each other. Two of us would go up there to the station and the other eight guys would be back in our suite we lived in. We'd all be up until four. We'd talk to each other over the radio. My best friend, his nickname was Mendel, we'd stop a record right in the middle and say, "Mendel, if you're listening, call right now." Sure enough, the phone would ring. D: What's your impressions of Michigan? E A: I didn't know it was such a good d school when I came up here. I thought it was just a big school. The students here are so bright. They're on top of it. You will go anywhere in the world, and you will find someone with a Michigan shirt on. Tommy George, my best friend at the Free Press, who just joined the New York Times, was in Hawaii with me in some little tiny jazz place and there's a guy with a Michigan shirt. We're walking down in Australia - there's a guy with a Michigan shirt. I was in Mexico, and there's a Michigan shirt. D: What's your impressions of Bo Schembechler? A: Bo's a great coach and a really interesting guy. It's been a real challenge to get underneath that exterior to see that there's a pretty decent man underneath all that crust and gristle. One day I just came in to do an interview and it just happened to be at the end of the day. He didn't have anyplace to go and after the-inter- view was over and we actually talked for about 40 minutes. In those 40 minutes I saw a whole side of him that was different. He put his feet up on the desk, he let himself become a regular guy for a couple of minutes. He's quite a good man in principal and he knows right from wrong. He knows what's important in life. Once I.saw that, every other time I dealt with him I always looked -at him a little differently. D: Any interesting stories to tell on, Bill Frieder? A: The best story I have with Frieder is when I went recruiting with him. We rode in the car to- gether, and it was snowing out, and he went all the way... I don't know, 50 miles, just to see these two seven foot guys who were sophomores. All he did was stand outside the locker room and they came out and he kind of poked his head out. Then they ran off and he said, "Well, that's it." I said, "That's it? We spent two hours getting out here and that's it?" He said, "That's it, be- cause we aren't allowed to talk to them." Boom, he went back in the car. Just spending that night with him - he was babbling on and on, he was talking to fifteen people at one time, they're all telling him about this recruit and that recruit he should go after. It was funny. It was interesting. It was enlightening. It really showed you how his mind was like a computer. It can be working on several disks at once. D: What's your relationship with Willie Hernandez since he dumped the bucket of ice on you? A: Willie and I are now okay. On opening day in Boston I made a point of going up to him and I said; "Hey, I hope you have a good sea- son." I shook his hand and he said; "Thank you, man." D: You've received some criticism for the commercial that aired poking fun of the Hernandez incident. Was this your idea? A: No. No. It was not my idea. I was not for it. I think the Free Press wanted to show justice had been done and that there were no hard feelings. I didn't think it was any- thing malicious. I never thought it was a good idea. I did finally give my consent to it, so I cannot ab- solve myself from blame. D: How did you get your start in sports writing? A: Originally, I was a musician. I was not having much success in it, I was not very much of a drug person, and all the deals seemed to be made over drugs. I said; "Where's the mu- sic?" and they said; "We'll talk about music later, let's do some drugs." I was looking for something creative that you could still use a little brains - which I found being in the popu- lar music business in New York City to be a liability. So I volun- teered for a weekly newspaper, The Queens Tribune. It's the kind of pa- per they give out at supermarkets. D: What kind of work did you do there? - A: I was covering school board meetings, and I thought it was a presidential election. I'd ask ques- tions like "What do you mean you're not going to put a parking meter in there?" I thought that's what you had to do. I covered 'no name' politi- cians. Well, two of the people I covered were Geraldine Ferraro and Mario Cuomo. I remember talking WCBN disc jockey Chris Lindensmith spins records in the Fishbowl to promote the radio station. I ..just a Little Out of the Way from High Prices to to th by the c releases and Fer dent an next D never I meet al got ele down ti "Yo, M, D: Whe you wa A: Firs that ty sportsw did her stuff is this is rememt SH Contin the pec with. I time g gets ha Yeah college througl liqueur meanin one? ( blurred mentali You through versity. dent, y you are When overwo nior, yE ahead. someb you p houses To le akin t months ment a like pl fact th can't d time ar about i Kurt two w again. Me? terms ships v "What' Red W you bri go hav God the tirr develoj everytl make i haven' you ha and I di My e up wit have t I thii Arbori I thir The Like we she BEST CHINESE FOOD: Sze-Chuan West Everyone's favorite cave won convincingly despite strong challenges from Middle Kingdom, last year's winner, and the two new joints, China Gate and the Great Wall. It seem that everyone time you turn around, a new Chinese restaurant has opened up. BEST JAPANESE FOOD: Donburi This place is the only fast food Japanese restaurant in town, but don't let the speed of the service throw you - Donburi's got some good food. And it's pretty cheap - well, maybe not for fast food but definitely for average Japanese cuisine. BEST SEAFOOD: Real Seafood Com- pany Okay, this no surprise, and you all know that this place has great seafood. But here's something you may not know and should; you get a free meal on your birthday. So, it's the perfect place to take dates on their special day. Word has it that the rolls and coffee are not to be missed. BEST JUNK FOOD: Stop 'N' Go We guess the place deserves this award since it is the only store in town where everything in its stock is, indeed, junk food. The problem with this category is that people have different ideas on what junk food really is - McDonald's, Village Corner, and Sully's were the runner-ups. BEST MEXICAN FOOD: Chi- Chi's Hey, we don't do the voting. We just type these things up. 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