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What to do with an outdated downtown filling station?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...

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...

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...

“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...

“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...

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...

“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,...

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...

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...