Everyone's a Critic Archives - Ann Arbor Observer

Still Shopping in My Closet

Nov 3, 2023 |

As I am a confirmed shopper continually looking for retail therapy, I am also perusing my closet...

ANN ARBOR, by Sam Cain (Age 13, Demarest, NJ)

Dec 11, 2021 |

My favorite place, Ann Arbor, my grandparents’ house. I go once or twice a year, my whole life.I imagine the smell of the turkey on Thanksgiving Day, prepared by grandma. I imagine the smell of grandpa’s old books,...

REMEMBERING PROFESSOR DON CAMERON, by Jeffrey A. Stacey

Oct 8, 2021 |

This summer the University of Michigan / Ann Arbor family, just lost one of its greats: the...

ANN ARBOR’s FORGOTTEN MOVIE STAR, by Tim Athan

Sep 17, 2021 |

Mickey Rooney was marred eight times. He quipped, “Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted a whole day.”His third wife, the model and actress Martha...

GEEZERS AT SONIC LUNCH, by Jeff Duncan

Jun 28, 2021 |

At the Sonic Lunch Concert SeriesElla Riot playing one day, a band of five, all in their twenties, doing their thing, electro, techno, funk, fusion, rock– don’t know exactly what to call it– and people of all...

INSIDE MY JOURNEY TO GET A COVID VACCINE, by Micheline Maynard

Mar 18, 2021 |

Like many Ann Arborites, I was frustrated this winter in securing an appointment to get a COVID-19...

SHOPPING IN MY CLOSET by Nancy Harrington

Oct 28, 2020 |

After a trip to the basement to store my summer clothes, I realized that most of them had not even...

B-17: A FLYING FORTRESS, by Meghan Prindle

Aug 30, 2020 |

She’s beautiful, our Yankee Lady.Her wings huge and wide and low,Chrome that shines on a...

DANGER AT THE DOG PARK: What Every Visitor Needs to Know.

Jul 2, 2020 |

Inspired by Kathleen Perry and written by Nancy DrubelLet me first say that we’re PRO dog...

A DAY IN A MASK, by Erin Fedeson

Jun 10, 2020 |

What is it likeA day in a maskAt a coffeeShop in this crisis?We fill our dayWith daily tasks...

PANDEMIC PONDERING, by Erin Fedeson

Apr 28, 2020 |

What do people ponder in this pandemic?We are sharing in this status of social distancing.Yet what...

ANN ARBOR, a poem by Meaghan Prindle

Oct 29, 2019 |

Mid-morning dawns slow over arbored lawns,Where collegiate airs mix with quirky town affairs.Now traverse Washington & State, downtown cosmopolitan and quaint;Breath stilled at the view long west ‘cross...