Feb 28, 2010 | Community |
What to do with an outdated downtown filling station? Garth Bolgos has a plan: give it a new identity, put up a sign, and open a medical marijuana dispensary.Bolgos owns the dilapidated gas station at the corner of Liberty and...
Read MoreFeb 22, 2010 | Community |
More than twenty years ago, I met a new neighbor while we mowed our back yards. We were amused to learn that we both were editors (not a common occupation, even in Ann Arbor). I’d recently taken over the Ann Arbor...
Read MoreFeb 18, 2010 | Community |
When a female sports star visited Ann Arbor last September, dinner at Zingerman’s Roadhouse was high on the agenda. But while her coach dined, Sadie and her fellow competitors spent the evening in a van in the...
Read MoreFeb 16, 2010 | Community |
“We know what it is like to be forgotten,” says John Kinzinger. In 1966, at age nineteen, Kinzinger was drafted into the army. Leaving behind his wife and young son, he spent a year in Vietnam as a battalion radio...
Read MoreFeb 13, 2010 | Community |
“When I was growing up, the music that I liked, like Zeppelin, sure wasn’t played in church,” says Jeff Boriss, director of communications at the 2|42 Community Church.Founded in Brighton in 2005, the church...
Read MoreFeb 6, 2010 | Community |
University of Michigan art history professor David Doris doesn’t go out of his way to tell students he played saxophone for a few years in a rock band called the Raunch Hands. But those who find out are definitely...
Read MoreFeb 3, 2010 | Community |
“I spy the ‘Wave Field’ by Maya Lin,” writes first-time entrant Alex Cao, identifying January’s I Spy. “It’s designed by the same architect/artist as the Vietnam Memorial in Washington,...
Read MoreFeb 3, 2010 | Community |
Last month’s Fake Ad–for the Victorious Egret lingerie shop for bird-watchers–lured 236 clever Fake Adders out of the bush. It also ruffled a few feathers among birders–though only “those who...
Read MoreFeb 1, 2010 | Community |
Guerda Harris fled Haiti as a teenager in 1960. Now Harris, who owns the Back Alley Gourmet in the South Main Market, is organizing a benefit dinner for the earthquake-devastated nation. A native Creole speaker, last year Harris...
Read MoreJan 31, 2010 | Community |
When Nancy Bates told her nine-year-old son, Evan, that she wanted him to learn ice dancing, his first reaction was yuck: “I don’t want to hold hands with a girl,” Nancy recalls him protesting. But she insisted...
Read MoreJan 30, 2010 | Community |
Tom Tocco seems surprisingly calm for someone who’s responsible for spending almost $300 million. Trim and curly haired, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital’s director of facilities, engineering, and construction is attentive...
Read MoreJan 26, 2010 | Community |
It’s a Sunday afternoon in the girls’ locker room at Chelsea’s Arctic Coliseum. “Are we gonna win?” one girl yells. “Yeah!” the others yell back through their face masks. The girls...
Read MoreJan 22, 2010 | Community |
With winter’s arrival, Community Education and Recreation is hoping to lure people looking for indoor exercise to the drolly named sport of pickleball. A hybrid that blends elements of ping-pong, badminton, and tennis, the...
Read MoreJan 18, 2010 | Community |
The answer may hinge on the existence of dark energy: the mysterious force that may or may not bind the cosmos together. U-M astronomer Philip Hughes admits dark energy is “an ad hoc and outrageous postulate” but...
Read MoreJan 14, 2010 | Community |
They have been doing this for so long, no one can recall when it began.On the first Thursday of each month, members of the Ann Arbor High School Class of 1940 meet for a lunch at Weber’s Inn. “This buffet is the best...
Read MoreJan 10, 2010 | Community |
The semi, loaded with salmon, black cod, and halibut, pulled into the Maple Village parking lot roughly one week after departing Washington state. Oran Hesterman and three volunteers made quick work of it: more than 800 pounds...
Read MoreJan 6, 2010 | Community |
Andrew Brix is sick of living in a poorly insulated house. It’s not just the Midwestern chill; there’s the principle of not wasting heat and money. Although Brix, twenty-eight, and his two housemates offered to...
Read MoreJan 2, 2010 | Community |
We received 123 entries correctly identifying the December Fake Ad for A Walk in the Park.The entries came from far. “Finding the Fake ad is one of the traditions my wife and I have when coming out here for the...
Read MoreJan 1, 2010 | Community |
“‘I Spy Red to the North’ at 1221 Beal by the Robert H. Lurie Engineering Center,” emails Vivian Loh, identifying December’s feature. Duane Keahl adds the sculpture’s name and creator:...
Read MoreDec 31, 2009 | Community |
On the night of August 21, according to police, Lisa Reardon appeared at the door of her parents’ house in Dexter Township carrying a 20-gauge shotgun. She opened fire on her father, George Hicks, from a distance of...
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