Q. I could swear that when I first moved to A2 in 1960, there was a road named Glacier Way that is now known as Glazier Way. Am I hallucinating or was the road that was named for a geological phenomenon at some point changed to...
Read MoreElaine Selo, co-owner of the Selo/Shevel Gallery, calls its longtime location at 301 S. Main “the best corner in Ann Arbor. The building’s changes over the past 142 years mirror downtown’s evolution. Built in...
Read MoreJosh Greenberg has just landed in Uganda. It’s the summer after his sophomore year at Duke, where he founded a nonprofit called the Progressive Health Partnership. He’s raised the money to start a small medical...
Read MoreThe Thurston Community Players (TCP) celebrate their fortieth anniversary this year with a musical called “Thru the Fairy Door!” (see Events, March 27). Most of the 100-plus actors are elementary school students, but...
Read MoreUpstairs at the Vault of Midnight, customers peruse comic books, toys, and other pop culture knickknacks. Downstairs, past a smattering of superhero posters, past shelves of indie comics, past a room full of board games and back...
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The White Lakes Township resident would go on Facebook game binges at 3 a.m., then couldn’t focus during meetings the next day. “Half the time, even when I was awake, I was moving too slow and speaking too...
Read MoreWhen Susan Chastain started a weekly Scrabble game at her Firefly Club on Ashley in 2005, Merriam-Webster was just bringing out its new Fourth Edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (famous for its game-changing...
Read MoreThe sun likes to play peek-a-boo with the clouds during the winter, but there are plants that do a pretty good job of catching whatever light shines through. Some dormant ornamental perennial grasses fall within this category....
Read MoreHammond and partner Paul Ellerholz of Midwest Outdoor Service plowed and shoveled seven days a week during the harsh midwinter weather. January alone recorded more than three feet of snow–the official total was 37.8...
Read MoreWhen a theatergoing friend and I finally made it to a production of Detroit’s celebrated Mosaic Youth Theatre, I had an ulterior motive: I hoped we might run into Rick Sperling, Mosaic’s founder and director. I...
Read More“This is the log cabin adjacent to Cobblestone Farm,” writes Janine Chey, “where my kids used to attend summer day camps.” Pamela Kittel calls it “a fine example of efficient home design for frigid...
Read MoreWe received seventy-eight entries correctly identifying the February Fake Ad for the e-book My Father, My Portnoy, by Ira Roth. The ad appeared on page 82 of the issue, nestled among the Services ads.”Philip Roth at age 80...
Read More“Do you need any tree trimming?”I had just pulled into my driveway when he hailed me: a young man in work clothes and a knapsack, coming up the walk. He handed me a badly Xeroxed leaflet and explained that he was a...
Read MoreArmadillos in a basement, swans in a pond, sloths on the ceilings, kangaroos in a field, kids in a classroom, an alligator in a van. Is this place a zoo, an animal sanctuary, a traveling circus, or a school?”It’s...
Read More“A beautiful secure life, love & joy awaits your cherished newborn,” read a recent classified ad in the Ann Arbor Journal, the Heritage chain’s free weekly paper. Another ad offered “A loving...
Read MoreThey’ve created a line of raw energy bars, established a small farm, and revived the “Yellow Barn” community arts venue. But Evan Dayringer, thirty-two, and Britten Stringwell, thirty, agree that their latest...
Read MoreQ. I like the old street clocks that I see in so many towns and cities. Isn’t it odd that Ann Arbor doesn’t have one?A. Sometimes called “post clocks,” these would traditionally stand in town squares,...
Read MoreWhen a west side resident stopped by the donation boxes at the edge of the Westgate Kroger parking lot one morning in December to drop off a bag of clothing, the prospect was appalling. The gully between the lot and Maple Road...
Read MoreI have long been curious about the late Ralph W. Hammett. A U-M architecture professor, he designed many local buildings, including an addition to the Ann Arbor (then Women’s) City Club on Washtenaw, the Congregational...
Read MoreThe 2006 fire that destroyed all the merchandise in its South State Street location didn’t stop it: the board found a better location on South Industrial, along the booming “resale row” with Recycle Ann...
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