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A house without a doorbell? A bathtub sticking up in the middle of a room? A window instead of a mirror above a bathroom sink? Who would design houses like these? The answer is: architects, for their own homes.Freed from...

When skies turn gray, leaves fall, and darkness lengthens, I make madeleines.I don’t know why I make them. I’m not French. I’m not literary. I’m not a gourmet. I never ate them before I made them for...

Where my imaginary line bends in woods, and pile of rocks has been founded, Off this corner in the wild, one tree, by being deeply wounded Has been impressed as Witness Tree, and made commit to memory My being not...

Q. For about two-and-a-half years, the U-M Museum of Art has been presenting free live jazz concerts once a month, but at September’s performance it was announced that the concerts will end in October. They didn’t...

“A much larger percentage of people are composting their leaves,” says Tom McMurtrie, the city’s solid waste coordinator. Two years ago, the city stopped collecting leaves swept into the street; though it still...

The Breakfast at St. Andrew’s has a new leader.When she volunteered at the breakfast at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Shannon Chase usually served up pastries and muffins on Wednesdays before dashing off to classes...

When Dan Chace was growing up on Ann Arbor’s northwest side, he and his friends would pretend to be Michigan’s All-American running back, Billy Taylor.When Chace was ten years old, Taylor walked into his classroom to...

After two years sidelined, I’m rolling again. By happenstance, the day I first ventured outside on my new recumbent Terra Trike was two years to the day I last rode my Specialized Expedition “comfort bike” out...

A staffer called in sick, so Bonita Neighbors, blue scrubs and all, starts her day at the Community Dental Center answering the constantly ringing phones. When relief arrives, Neighbors, the clinic’s director, enters her...

Lisa Allmendinger wants to be “the little old lady who knows everybody in town.”In her thirty-two years as a journalist, Lisa Allmendinger reckons she’s “done it all. I started in sports, was the...

Bob DeBona set off on his bicycle in search of October’s I Spy. “I had almost given up right about the time I rounded the corner from Glen to Ann,” he writes. “It’s … beautiful.”The 2006...

“I moved to Ann Arbor this summer and now I think I can finally call myself a resident—this is the first month I have spotted the Fake Ad!” wrote Kristin Labby. “It’s for English Test Prep on page...