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Even in Ann Arbor, not everyone has air-conditioning–a truth apparently lost on some young local hoodlums. On a hot night in early August, a couple living on Ann Arbor’s south side were cooling off in their darkened...

Pat Green is rarely at a loss for words. But even she winces when asked about The Salary.Whenever the Ann Arbor Public Schools’ financial struggles are discussed on local blogs, it’s certain that someone will gripe...

Jack Briegel lives off a quiet dirt road, in a home he shares with Jeannette, his wife of fifty-three years. If you go straight in from the front door, you’ll enter a living room decorated in Zen-like soft greens and earth...

Faced with death, W. C. Fields said he’d “rather be in Philadelphia.” Faced with old age, the postwar generation says they’d rather stay home.”In 2008, the economy changed, and that helped change...

Town Center Plaza on S. Fourth Ave. looks just as it has for years: Eastern Accents, Bandito’s, and Salon Vertigo are going about their respective businesses, and even Fred, landlord Dale Newman’s parrot, is still...

When a west-side resident asked why he was seeing new varieties of squirrels in his backyard, U-M zoologist Philip Myers decided to check it out for himself.What he found was “squirrel heaven” in Eberwhite Woods....

My bar mitzvah present to my nephew Jake, born and raised in Minneapolis, was a trip to the city that never sleeps. When I was twenty-three, I’d lived in Manhattan for five months, sadly departing when my funds run low and...

“Those letters … have to spell out Mediterranean Restaurant,” write Mary and Katie DeBona, a daughter-and-mother duo who, while never having seen the mural featured in August, “recognized the writing on...

According to the dictionary, “conflate” is defined as “to fuse into one entity; merge.” We know that because we had to look it up when we read Marty Pernick’s edifying entry identifying the Fake Ad...

“It was Mr. Monaghan’s idea,” says Todd Crocker.Many years ago, Domino’s Pizza founder Tom Monaghan requested mass plantings of summer sunflowers at the company’s headquarters. Though Monaghan sold...

As an intern in Madison, Wisconsin, Grace Hong lived in a windowless campus apartment without air conditioning. When the native of the Philippines moved to Ann Arbor to enroll in the U-M’s Global MBA program, she says, it...

In the summer of 2010, I registered my ten-year-old son for a writing workshop at 826michigan. Trouble was, he didn’t want to go. Writing outside school hours? Not going to happen. Executive director Amanda Uhle says...

Ann Arbor’s Downtown Kiwanis Club has been “getting to give” since holding its first thrift sale in 1927. Over the years, the club has raised more than $5.75 million by collecting donations of used clothing,...