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The sidewalks along Main Street are overflowing again, with restaurant staffers wiping off tabletops and restocking silverware, student types strolling along looking for coffee or something stronger–and some colorful...

When Alex Young was seventeen, his mom dropped him off at the San Francisco airport with a ticket to New York. One way.The teenager got a job as a busboy at “a cool little restaurant” that did a lot of catering to...

To understand how single stream has changed city recycling, ride on a recycling truck and talk with the man who drives it. Allen Kennedy, Recycle Ann Arbor’s curbside manager, sets up the ride. He tells me he’s...

Q. What is that odd little building on Miller that abuts the eastern side of the train tracks, right before Knight’s Market? I remember walking past it twenty years ago, and it still looks the same, though a little worse...

Four years ago, Ralph Pasola bought a standard schnauzer puppy from Ackley Kennels in Northfield Township. He named him Petey. Petey goes everywhere with Ralph–he even follows him into the bathroom in the morning. Ralph...

Five years ago, Sgt. Demond Johnson was told he could choose either Michigan or California as the next stop in his army career. Sunny San Diego beckoned, but after Johnson finished catching his breath at the cost of homes there,...

My grandfather adapted easily to change, which may be why he lived to ninety-seven. He defied the usual expectations of age that companies use to rationalize hiring only people with pre-pubescent arteries.Ernest was born in a...

“Finally one I know!” exclaims Kara Rumsey about July’s I Spy. “I see it every Saturday when I go to the Farmers’ Market.” It’s the “lemonade … hut,” writes Sarah...

“The Fake Ad this month is on page 58 for the ‘Prenup Clean-Up’ teeth cleaning with Drs. Barbor, Webster, and Seaugh,” emailed Kristen Schleick, underlining “arborweb,” the name of the...