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Linda–not her real name–decided to have cosmetic surgery eight years ago. Then sixty, the U-M prof took a group of her students to Europe during winter break. “Some of the pictures, when we got back–I...

In Three and Out: Rich Rodriguez and the Michigan Wolverines in the Crucible of College Football, the key word is “crucible.” If there’s a single takeaway from John U. Bacon’s account of his three years...

When musician Dan Orcutt’s expensive brand-name guitar turned out to be a lemon, he decided to make his own.”I always made stuff,” explains Orcutt, who’s been playing around Ann Arbor since the 1980s....

When members of the Ann Arbor High School class of 1964 learned that one of their classmates was suffering from multiple sclerosis and feeling depressed, they cheered her up by quickly organizing a lunch at Weber’s...

It’s the monthly staff lunch at Motawi Tileworks, and Nawal Motawi and her thirty-or-so employees have dragged tables together in the middle of the factory floor and thrown open the loading-dock doors to a sun-drenched...

Brothers Mitch and Logan Abrams don’t have far to go to get their teeth cleaned. Students at Ann Arbor Open @ Mack, they’re among the more than 200 kids a year who are seen at the Washtenaw Children’s Dental...

“You can’t bring bags inside the stadium!” Laura Burke yells to the U-M football fans converging on the corner of Main and Stadium. “No bags! No purses! You can check them in Crisler Arena.” A...

Q. How hard was Ann Arbor hit by the 1918 flu epidemic–approximately how many died?A. Between the summers of 1918 and 1919, millions of people around the globe died of a deadly variant of influenza known as the...

When the baby boomers finish their life’s journey, they’ll find plenty of room in local cemeteries.Even as the United Kingdom tries to cope with its overflowing burial grounds, and some U.S. municipalities have...

After the parade of chickens, a duck, a box turtle, and a psychotic rabbit, it feels a bit strange to have so prosaic a pet as a dog. We had held out for years against pleading kids, but we were worn down. So when our eldest...

“I walk past this location all the time and never noticed it until now!” exclaims Cynthia Cipolla. “That’s where I bought my first books … at UM,” writes Natalie Bartolacci. “This...

Throughout history, there have been some notable rivalries. Thomas Becket and Henry II, Hitler and Churchill, Ali and Frazier, Adbusters and Wall Street. Now to that list you can add Dean McLaughlin and the Fake Ad Czar.For...