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The Christmans’ Maynard Battery is in the Allen Creek valley on Miller, just east of the railroad bridge. The blue paint on its sign is so chipped and pitted it’s nearly impossible to read, and the cinder-block...

On a humid July morning, the owner of Green Wheel Lawn Care bikes up to Bill and Betty Ingram’s house on the corner of Brooklyn and Westminster in Burns Park. On a trailer behind him Jeff Monchamp tows an electric lawn...

Q. I don’t get why downtown high-rise housing isn’t cheaper than suburban housing.A. There’s one big economy of scale when building downtown, because a high rise puts many more housing units on a given piece of...

Michigan’s film tax credit swept stardust into the life of longtime Ann Arbor cosmetologist Elizabeth Colburn, who’s worked as head makeup artist on four movies filmed in-state. The jobs allowed her to buy health...

Archie Crawford is gearing up for his seventeeth consecutive season of attending every University of Michigan football game–home, away, and bowl games. Crawford’s streak started with the opening game of the 1994...

In the Dakota building on West Stadium, nine-month-old twins Alexander and Sadi Jacobson sit, wide-eyed, on their parents’ laps, while mom and dad sway enthusiastically from side to side and belt out a song about driving...

“This is going to be a popular one!” wrote Greg Napoleon in his entry that correctly identified the “Strippers Wanted!” Fake Ad for Millar-Borweb painting on p. 53 of the August Observer. He was right....

“This World War II Holocaust Memorial of a grieving figure represents the shock and sorrow over the loss of millions of lives,” writes Bethany Hellmann, identifying August’s I Spy (below). “A memorial to...

The sun is starting to set as we drive down the dirt road deep into Stinchfield Woods north of Dexter to U-M’s Peach Mountain Observatory. My eleven-year-old son and I have come for a closer look at the night sky with the...