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Fair-weather runners sprout each spring the way plants shoot from moist soil in warm sunshine. Out of their winter caves, they squint and stretch and toe out tentatively, jogging in Gallup and sprinting in Buhr, tightrope...

Restaurateur Dennis Serras has springy, iron-gray hair, deep-set eyes, and a bristling moustache that makes him look a little formidable when he’s not smiling. He often is smiling, though, and his toothy grin removes some...

Mark Culp’s neighbor in Scio Farms didn’t appreciate his hearse.”First thing I see every morning is a hearse, and I know it’s just for me,” Culp recalls his neighbor grumbling–not...

“It was like watching the countdown of my single life,” says U-M alum Kevin Tang (Engineering, 2003). At last month’s Michigan-Western Michigan football game, Tang stared at the scoreboard as the clock ticked...

Last spring, Jennifer Vangelatos took her kids and her dad to Aruba. One of the wild dogs that roam the island’s streets quickly adopted them–sitting on the porch chairs, eating cookout scraps, even running with the...

Deb Gordon-Gurfinkel addresses a dozen children, ages six to eight, in the community center at Carrot Way, a low-income housing complex off Dhu Varren Rd. A compelling, pixie-like figure with a British accent, she wears a...

“We hope to break ground next year,” says Scott Rosencrans of the Friends of the Ann Arbor Skatepark, “and we have several serious deadlines to encourage us.”Very serious deadlines. The city’s...

“When the Session [the church governing body] decided to tear it down and build a church way out there, there was a lot of criticism,” remembered First Presbyterian Church member Paul Lowry in a 2001 interview. In...

“I spy, with my little eye,” writes young entrant Saul Vielmetti, “the alley next to Nickels Arcade, home of many ants, large and small.” “Love ’em!!–those giant bugs … crawling in...

“The Fake Ad is on page 74,” Steven Huang wrote, correctly identifying the Fake Ad for a campaign to recall longtime fictitious Ann Arbor politician Ed Nimby. “If it’s ‘all about education,’...