Dave Friedrichs
Dave Friedrichs is a man of dreams. Not of fast cars or extravagant luxuries, but of making...
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Profiles
Chalk Artist David Zinn
When Lula June Cook told David Zinn, “You need a TikTok,” he said to himself, “Well, she’s never...
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Molly Dobson
“I’m not going to tell you any secrets,” says Molly Dobson with a smile, as I ask if it’s okay to...
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Living with Lung Cancer
On the last Sunday in November 2021, I was directed to a freezing-cold trailer adjacent to St....
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Stacie Sheldon
Stacie Sheldon believes Native people have an invisibility problem. “We’re often an afterthought...
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Sharon Silke Carty
On September 11, 2001, Sharon Silke Carty was working for Dow Jones Newswire in a building across...
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The Original Fool
After fifteen years, Tucker is saying goodbye to Ann Arbor’s giant puppet parade for new creative...
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Jessica Nelson
Before Jessica Nelson started at the U-M law school last fall, a friend warned her she might...
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Lynne and Michael Vestergaard
“Love is lovelier the second time around,” Frank Sinatra crooned. “I totally...
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Catherine Badgley
Catherine Badgley became director of the U-M Residential College in the summer of 2019, just in...
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Phil D’Anieri
Phil D’Anieri sits by the front window of the downtown Sweetwaters in a baseball cap and...
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Tyrone Hicks
“It was probably the hardest coaching year of my life,” says Pioneer High girls’...
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David Malcolm
David Malcolm noticed his neighborhood changing. He was standing at the bus stop on Brooks St.,...
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Carlye Crisler
There’s a streak of blue on Carlye Crisler’s nose. The artist, seventy-one, has parked...
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Raquel Arevalo
Raquel Arevalo recalls her mother waking her and her sisters up so early that “we’d be...
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Melissa Schacht
On a picture-perfect morning in June, bees buzz, birds nest, and a massive lawn mower gives the...
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Sharon Gillespie
At the corner of N. Fourth Ave. and Beakes, Sharon Gillespie is dancing. While an Observer...
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Ryan Padgett
For several years, early on any Saturday morning between April and November, Ryan Padgett could be...
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Jimena Loveluck
Jimena Loveluck was only a few months into her new job as ‘Washtenaw County’s health...
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Mary Jean Raab
Mary Jean Raab was plenty busy in 2016 when her uncle Doug Raab told her he needed help at the...
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