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JXN’S Cuterebra

Jul 18, 2013 | , |

JXN’s REPORT7/20/2012Patient information: Name: JXN. Species: Feline. Sex: MN. Breed: DSH. Birthday: 7/26/2011. Age: 1 year old. Color: Grey. Weight: 10 lbs. 12 oz.Presenting concerns: fever.History: Still febrile, ate...

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Fairy Hotel

Jul 17, 2013 | |

Sure, there are fairy houses and fairy doors scattered throughout Ann Arbor, but where will Art Fairy tourists find sanctuary and sustenance at this month’s Ann Arbor Art Fairs?One option is nestled within the bucolic...

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Library Lane’s Width

Jul 15, 2013 | |

Q. I was perplexed to see that Library Lane is designated on its street sign as a private road. Didn’t municipal bonds pay for this project?A. Yes, municipal bonds paid for both the underground parking structure and the...

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Carpenter Blues

Jul 13, 2013 | |

Plenty of local musicians–Mr. B, Dick Siegel, and Jay Stielstra, to name a few–have also worked as carpenters. Though the careers are seemingly very different, both involve the use of one’s hands to create...

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Kiki Markovits

Jul 13, 2013 | , |

You must “build right angles,” Kiki Markovits instructs in a heavy Austrian accent as she points at her perfectly positioned chin and neck. A petite woman dressed in a stylish cotton top, black leggings, and...

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Going Native

Jul 7, 2013 | |

The Great Lakes Garden “grew out of a sense I’ve long had that botanical gardens have a responsibility to reflect the region where they’re located,” explains Bob Grese, the U-M landscape architecture prof...

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Summer Adventures

Jul 6, 2013 | , |

When I was a young girl, I spent most of the year dreaming and pining for those wonderful months of summer—days filled with sandy feet and sunburnt noses and evenings spent lying outside, looking up at the sky with my sister and...

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Burton Tower

Jul 4, 2013 | |

“My daughter and I are entering our first I Spy b/c we think it’s Burton Tower,” say Jason Kahn and six-and-a-half year-old Renia Kahn. “You can just see the top of the clock face at the bottom of the...

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Slave of Softball

Jun 25, 2013 | , |

Return with me now to those thrilling days of yesteryear–well, one of them, anyway–when smoke-filled rooms and hot lead were the stuff of which newspapers were made …For a couple of summers in the early 1970s I...

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Missing Marker?

Jun 22, 2013 | |

Q: For several months I have walked past the small park at the corner of Liberty and Division. There are two empty stanchions standing in one corner of this pleasant area.There used to be a very nicely engraved glass marker,...

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The Perfect Home for Walking

Jun 22, 2013 | , |

My wife and I live downtown on the edge of Kerrytown. My brother lives in a suburb of Charleston, SC. We have normal-size homes with relatively normal American lifestyles, in every way but one: my Walk Score is 100 and my...

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Taking Flight

Jun 20, 2013 | , |

“Man, it was hard,” says Grant Grimard, nineteen. The former Pioneer High basketball captain broke with the pack after graduation in 2011: Instead of college, he joined the nonprofit City Year program, where he...

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Ann Arbor’s Wikipedia

Jun 18, 2013 | |

When Matt Hampel started arborwiki.org, he says, “I wrote about things I knew about.” Since Hampel was still in high school in 2005, that meant writing “about Community High School. I wrote about Kerrytown. Some of the content...

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Godfrey Moving and Storage

Jun 11, 2013 | |

The Godfrey Building, a former warehouse anchoring the southwest corner of Kerrytown Market & Shops, is now used for upscale shops and offices. Built in 1899, it still retains its basic structure–wide plank floors,...

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St. Joe’s Staff Farmer

Jun 7, 2013 | |

As an undergrad at the U-M at the turn of the century, Bair put together his own degree program in urban planning, then earned an organic farming certificate at Michigan State. “I thought I was going to start my own...

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Remembering Vietnam

Jun 6, 2013 | , |

The guys at the 2013 reunion of the 3/27 Marines were lucky enough to make it home from Vietnam, and maybe even luckier to make it to Weber’s Inn all these years later. But maybe none is luckier than Melvin Cox. “I...

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RoosRoast Coffee Truck

Jun 4, 2013 | |

“That’s the RoosRoast Coffee Lobster Butter Love truck!!” exclaims Diane McIntyre. “I love their coffee … too bad they’re not an advertiser in case I would win!!!” “While I’m...

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Retirement at Sea

Jun 1, 2013 | |

Jim and Angie George are charting a different course. The retired Ann Arbor teachers have devoted much of the last twenty years to photography, traveling by van, and sometimes by canoe, through much of Canada, the United States,...

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The Last Engineer

May 31, 2013 | |

My father passed away last year at the age of eighty-nine. By all measures, Russell Hurst lived a full and happy life. A member of the “Greatest Generation,” he served bravely in WWII and then came home to marry the...

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Groundcover’s Crisis

May 30, 2013 | |

Susan Beckett changed lives when she founded the city’s homeless newspaper. But she’s getting tired and its future is uncertain.—Greg Owens is a Groundcover success story.For six months, he stood outside the...

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