Cicadas Are Coming
Not according to Thomas O’Dell, natural areas and collections specialist for Matthaei...
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Sharon Gillespie
At the corner of N. Fourth Ave. and Beakes, Sharon Gillespie is dancing. While an Observer...
Read MoreCovid adaptations, continued.
The restaurant world has been in constant flux since the pandemic began, and some of Ann Arbor’s best-known names continue to make adjustments. Aventura, the tapas bar and restaurant on E. Washington, sprang back to life...
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Mohammed Hassan’s New Direction
Mohammed Hassan admits that he let his fitness level decline once he graduated from Eastern...
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Knight’s Heads South
For decades, Ann Arborites have squeezed their cars into the tiny parking lot behind...
Read MoreBack to School, Back to Work
The halls of a community college are filled with a sense of urgency. Whether it’s rushing to make it to class before getting marked late or hurrying out the door just in time for work, the atmosphere is filled with hard...
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Tragedy at Barton Dam
“It was the grandest thing I ever experienced. The most beautiful comradeship, love and...
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Signs Against Stigma
“Support NAMI,” a digital billboard on W. Clark and Huron River Dr. announced in May....
Read MoreKay Yourist Leaves Lower Town
Yourist Studio Gallery is taking its leave from Lower Town, where it has operated for the past twenty years at 1133 Broadway. Its new digs will be at the Jackson Road Technology Park. Owner Kay Yourist says the new location...
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Dining Woes, Continued
“When I started this restaurant [in March 2021] a 40# case of wings was $60–$70, now we are...
Read MoreEncore Theater’s Next Stage
Few cities with a population under 5,000 can boast their own musical theater company, but Dexter is lucky. The idea to open a musical theater came to Anne Koch shortly after moving to Dexter in 2007 with her husband Paul. Koch...
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From Godiva to Gilbert
For more than 100 years, chocolate lovers have been buying treats from Gilbert Chocolates and...
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Cape Ann Arbor?
An email arrived in the Observer’s Question Corner mailbox asking what was going on at the...
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BYOC Opens
Chelsea native Emily Hess received her sociology degree from Michigan in May 2020. She’d...
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Gunnar Birkerts’ Brutalist Church
“Man, that I Spy was brutal,” quips Bryan Mangnuson. “It’s a Brutalist...
Read MoreMillion-dollar homes are outselling those priced below $250,000
Seventeen houses selling for more than $1 million were recorded since last month, at prices ranging from $1,035,000 up to $2.5 million. As of mid-May, twenty-four homes had hit the million-dollar mark this year, compared to just...
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Marquees of Queensbury
First, the news: 187 entries correctly identified last month’s Fake Ad for Marquees of...
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Cutting the U-M?
In May, the Michigan House Appropriations Committee advanced a bill that would radically change...
Read MoreIt’s been a year, and it’s been A YEAR.
In the first issue of a2view, I wrote about our family and how we were coping with our new world. A year later I sit writing on my porch listening to the drone of cicadas emerging from the woods around me. It puts a picture...
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The Return of Marwan Al-Rabie
Two years ago, Marwan Al-Rabie had to close Alpha Koney Island in the Oak Valley Centre to make...
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