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The Palmer House has found new life as a guest house.The house at 227 Orchard Hills has no TV, small bedrooms, and a galley kitchen–and it’s booked all month at $300-$500 per night. The appeal: a chance to experience...

The stars twinkled overhead with a cruel innocence, mocking my band of adventurers.We were stranded.Our shopping trip now a distant memory, my friends and I were stuck in the store’s parking lot, waiting for a bus back to...

Jay Leno, Madonna, Billy Crystal, Julie Andrews, and Whoopi Goldberg are talented, wealthy, and famous. Less known is their authorship of children’s books–some of which will be on display later this month at the...

A little before four every Wednesday afternoon, a crowd starts gathering at Maryfield Wildwood Park.Just north of Dexter Road, the small park is horseshoed by Linwood, Westwood, and Maryfield streets. It is usually quiet, with...

In mid-September, Ann Arbor artist Margaret Parker packed two semitrailers with art and rode with them to Grand Rapids. It wasn’t a one-woman show–it was a single giant structure that she built in a south-side...

“How fun to see the Lucas Samaras sculpture,” writes Julia Jickling. “Sometimes I know these and sometimes I don’t, but this sculpture I have enjoyed too many times to resist entering!” Katie DeBona...

Writer-director Chris Farah, thirty-four, and producer Mike Farah, thirty-one, shot Answer This! in Ann Arbor in August 2009. It’s a coming-of-age story about a young man who emerges from the shadow of his father, an...

The Blackbird Theare celebrated its new freedom with nude male wrestling.The scene, in the theater’s current production of Women in Love, would never have been possible in its former home on Pauline. While the space in the...

Really? Fifty thousand of you thought Seva really served stewed rhubarb? Really?We don’t know how else to explain that only seventy-eight cagey Fake Adders spotted the ad for the Eat. Write. restaurant review website on...