The Tooth Fairy
“The building … in the background is unmistakable!” writes Alexandra Burja. “I can spy those teeth-like pillars of the dental school anywhere!” adds Gaia Stenson–the sculpture shown last month...
Read MoreNov 4, 2013 | Community |
“The building … in the background is unmistakable!” writes Alexandra Burja. “I can spy those teeth-like pillars of the dental school anywhere!” adds Gaia Stenson–the sculpture shown last month...
Read MoreOct 27, 2013 | Community |
Local folks have known and loved the King family’s Frog Holler organic produce for decades.”It’s the best,” gushes Dexter resident Barry Lonik, land preservation activist and President of Treemore Ecology...
Read MoreOct 23, 2013 | Community |
West-side resident Kent Burkhart was incredulous: shining through a lumpy asphalt patch on Jackson Road were a pair of steel rails. Just east of Grandview, the old interurban railroad had resurfaced. “It’s...
Read MoreOct 19, 2013 | Community |
The couple both graduated from Ann Arbor High in 1954–Jack was football captain, and Gratia Smeltzer was homecoming queen. They married two years later, when Jack was an engineering undergrad at the U-M. His mother...
Read MoreOct 19, 2013 | Community |
Q: There’s a cluster of miniature log cabins on Carpenter Road just south of the I-94 overpass. Who built them, and do people still live in them?A. The three cabins and two houses share a surprisingly tranquil...
Read MoreStanding on a footbridge next to Argo Dam, Laura Rubin likes what she sees: a group carries inner tubes toward the new Argo Cascades, bikers and runners whiz by, a couple of paddleboarders balance clumsily on the pond, a few...
Read MoreOct 12, 2013 | Community |
Nineteen U-M students have been in Australia since August, getting ready for this month’s World Solar Challenge. Though student-run teams have been racing solar-powered cars since 1990, the 1,800-mile run from Darwin to...
Read MoreOct 4, 2013 | Community |
“I Spy … the Tiffany window … [in] the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology’s Library,” writes Amber Clark of Ypsilanti. The Kelsey “is a treasure trove for so many reasons!” exclaims Gaia...
Read MoreOct 4, 2013 | Community |
“Unless the commercial scene of Ann Arbor has changed hugely, the fake ad for this month is for Hirsute Yourself on page 84,” Nishant Kheterpal emailed. “I applaud whoever wrote this one–it was really...
Read MoreOct 1, 2013 | Community |
The jobs website Indeed. com provides a forum for workers to review previous employers–or, for Ann Arbor company Ipanema Solutions, a staging ground for a verbal firefight between disgruntled workers and their ex-bosses....
Read More“It was like a movie,” says Ahmed Hamdi. Seven years ago, when he was twenty-one, men with guns burst into his family’s home in Baghdad. They shoved Ahmed and his father to their knees and pushed their heads...
Read MoreSep 23, 2013 | Community |
“What the fans want, and what the players want, seem to be less and less important,” says John U. Bacon, summing up his new book, Fourth and Long: The Fight for the Soul of College Football. Reached by phone from...
Read MoreSep 21, 2013 | Community |
“Can you tell me how to get to the United Way headquarters?”The short answer, to a person on foot at the West Stadium Sunoco, would have been, “farther than you’ll want to walk.”But in hindsight, I...
Read MoreWhat do the painted rock and Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s annual Mud Bowl football game have in common?If you answered that they’re both beloved and messy U-M traditions on Washtenaw Avenue, then you’re right, up to a...
Read MoreSep 19, 2013 | Community |
“I hate honey,” says Richard Mendel, the king bee of Ann Arbor’s backyard beekeepers.”But I like bees,” Mendel adds. “They’re the most amazing creature that exists.”Mendel can, and...
Read MoreSep 16, 2013 | Community, Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
In its first summer, the U-M’s new Campus Farm grew kale, Swiss chard, bok choy, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, potatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, and eggplant. This month, students will also harvest squash and...
Read MoreDan Saferstein knows how important sports are to a lot of Ann Arbor kids–and to their families. “In this city, parents have high expectations,” he says. “College [athletic] scholarships become kind of a...
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