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Shirley Clarkson is leaving Courthouse Square. Packing boxes are stacked from floor to ceiling in her tenth-floor apartment, along with a few remaining pieces of furniture and a framed print of ancient Pompeii–Clarkson, a...

Among the cognoscenti of Michigan football lore, it is well known that there was not a single African American letterman at U-M between George Jewett in 1892 and Willis Ward in 1932. This forty-year gap is commonly attributed to...

On Sunday night, I was riding an Amtrak train from Chicago to Ann Arbor that struck and killed a person in Jackson shortly before midnight. A bit earlier, closer to Kalamazoo, the train had stopped abruptly between stations for...

The swarms of maize-clad football fans weren’t the only ones stopping traffic around Michigan Stadium after the U-M’s win over Western Michigan in September. Ann Arbor’s most notorious photographer, Harvey...

When the Pioneer girls’ swimming team won the national championship in 2006, Speedo outfitted the team with high-tech LZR (“laser”) suits and has sold them to subsequent team recruits at deep discounts. But as...

When a pet dies, most people hold a brief service and bury it in the backyard. But when local haute couture designer Rebecca Lambers had to put down her rooster, Taver Ishima, she turned him into high fashion.Taver had attacked...

Suellyn Scarnecchia may never be more famous than she was on August 3, 1993, when a photograph of her carrying “Baby Jessica” appeared in newspapers around the world. Today the U-M’s general counsel and...

On a warm, sunny autumn afternoon, a gala university homecoming parade slowly made its way along streets lined with cheerful spectators, following a twisty two-mile course through downtown. Stretching almost half a mile, the...

“You can’t beat finishing in the Big House,” says Andrea Highfield. Highfield organized the inaugural Big House Big Heart race two years ago, inspired by the death of her husband Michael’s law partner and...

“The post-modern pineapple,” writes Alice Ralph, identifying September’s I Spy photo, “tops the building for Liberty Title at 111 North Main.” Adds Siri Gottlieb: “It may have been installed...

“Sturgeon, gar, Borwe bass…er, I know my fish better than that! And maybe the ‘Cash for Lunkers’ ad wouldn’t have been so easy to spot on page 30, if we actually could walk along Allen Creek Drive...