Heat from the Ground
When it’s completed next year, the $10 million, 11,000-square-foot Edward and Rosalie Ginsberg...
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Archives
Angkor Complex: Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia
Sopheap Pich’s 2012 Seated Buddha—Abhaya Mudra, made of bamboo and rattan, greets visitors to the...
Read MoreMarketplace Changes & Closings, Apr. 2024
A friend was eager to tag along for a trip to Ross Dress for Less, which opened March 9 in the Oak Valley Centre plaza anchored by Target. In the fifteen minutes it took me to track down and talk with supervisory staff, she...
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Orange Market is Open at Last
Within days of the occupancy permit being granted for the long-delayed second Beekman on Broadway...
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Magazine Seedlings
On Facebook’s Buy No Things Ann Arbor page, Stacie Cowie recently put out a request for old copies...
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Planting a Pocket Forest
At the end of February, the city’s Parks Advisory Commission heard an unusual pitch: The local...
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Bookshop in Motion
The Friends of the Ann Arbor District Library Book Shop will leave the downtown library for a...
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A Dean Departs
“I have long believed that careers should have chapters,” says LSA dean Anne Curzan....
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Fake Ad Update | Apr. 2024
We received 154 entries correctly identifying last month’s Fake Ad—including one from the winner’s...
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I Spy Update | Apr. 2024
“March’s I Spy is on the exterior of the Clements Library at 909 South University,” writes Susan...
Read MoreQuestion Corner | Apr. 2024
Q. Lately I’ve noticed a few purple street lights in Ann Arbor—why? A. That wasn’t intended; those LED lights aren’t working properly. After a few years of operation, some improperly manufactured LED bulbs turn purple. This...
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No-Kill Shelter
American shelters killed 690,000 dogs and cats last year—up 19 percent from 2022 and the highest...
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The USS Washtenaw County
The United States Navy has named seven ships for Boston, six for Baltimore, and four each for...
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Building Faster
In December, assistant city administrator John Fournier presented city council with the staff’s...
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Bookseller Jay Platt
Every time Jay Platt walked past the building on his way to work, he thought it would be an ideal...
Read MoreMore Brothers
Dos Hermanos—Spanish for “two brothers”—is a familiar name in Ypsilanti, where Reyes and Nicolas Arreola run a bustling Mexican supermarket on W. Michigan Ave. and recently added a restaurant a few doors down in the former Abe’s...
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Caregivers in the Family
Rosanita Ratcliff is a born traveler. She left Ann Arbor to go to college in Arizona, studied...
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Jay Stielstra
Jay Stielstra died peacefully at home of heart failure on March 1. In keeping with his...
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Annabel (Annie) Stein
Annabel (Annie) Stein passed away peacefully on Wednesday, February 14, only nine days after...
Read MoreDavid Edward Shipman
Following a brief illness, David Edward (Dave) Shipman passed away peacefully at his home, on February 24, 2024, with his loving wife Susan by his side. Dave was born and raised in Ann Arbor, graduating from University High...
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