Murals & Beyond
Murals have been popping up like wildflowers on downtown buildings. Since 2019, fifteen have been...
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Culture
Pulling the Goalie
When Hiag Avsharian closed the door to his room at an Ann Arbor fertility clinic, making a movie...
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Back to the North Country
Forty years ago, when he was fourteen, Aaron Stielstra was prop master when his father Jay...
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That’s the Ticket
The digital age is tough for memorabilia collectors like Ken Magee. The law enforcement consultant...
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Question Corner | October 2022
Q: The purple canoe sculpture in Bandemer Park is gone! What happened to it? A: That’s “Tulip,” ten aluminum canoes standing vertically and meeting at a point in the middle. In 2020 a vehicle crashed into it, and creator Ray...
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Eiro and Cove
They meet in the visionary brain of Noah Kaplan, a 1995 U-M art grad and founder of Leon Speakers,...
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Family Secrets
“As amazed as I have been by the horrors my parents endured,” the U-M clinical psychologist adds,...
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Embracing Our Differences
When Nancy Margolis, retired executive director of the Jewish Federation of Washtenaw County,...
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Ann Arbor Obscura
We recently discovered The Atlas Obscura Guide To Ann Arbor: 12 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things...
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Give My Books
That was the revelation on which Whalen founded his company, Give My Books in 2008. He was...
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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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The Art Fair Journey
“Their lives are characterized by travel, hard work and a richness of experience uncommon to the...
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Question Corner: June 2022
Q: Craning our necks as we passed the corner of Huron and Fourth Ave. the other day, my spouse and...
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Unseen Worlds
Who else but Jim Cogswell, the Stamps School prof who previously enlivened the U-M Museum of Art...
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Home at Last
For the first time ever, Veronica Brandon’s three teenagers each have their own rooms. As a...
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Meetings: Face-to-Face with a Stranger
I admit I was nervous. Who would I be matched with? How would it feel to be grilled by a stranger?...
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Parker in Pictures
I met Josie Barnes Parker soon after she became director of the youth department at the Ann...
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