Kelly Hone spends her workdays with Chico the chinchilla, Badger the ferret, and Snowflake the hedgehog. Mice, chicks, bunnies, red-footed tortoises, Petunia the pot-bellied pig, and Nigerian dwarf goats round out her retinue....
Read More“It was love at first sight,” gushes Nichole Nilsson. She’s speaking of her first visit to Nixon Farms while planning her September 2013 wedding. “The minute we walked into the barn, we thought this was...
Read MoreBrendan McCall and his wife, Lili Kostova, searched for a year and a half for a house to buy. McCall, thirty-two, is executive chef and partner at Mani Osteria and Isalita restaurants, both located in downtown Ann Arbor....
Read MoreIf you need a quick doggie fix in downtown Ann Arbor, you’re in luck. There are plenty of pooches, purebreds, and hounds working side by side with their owners who will be glad to oblige–as long as treats and petting...
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Uber in action is nearly impossible to see. Except for an identifying decal in their rear window, “Uber X” cars look like what they are: privately owned vehicles. But they’re out there. Just ask bar...
Read More“I want you to know that I never considered your father an alcoholic because his drinking never interfered with his job,” my mother-in-law confessed to her sons at the end of her life. Until that day, she had never...
Read MoreSoybeans grew last summer in the fields of the three Nixon properties on the city’s far north side. Deer grazed in the woods, and frogs croaked in the wetlands.In February, the fields, woods, and wetlands lay beneath a...
Read MoreFifteen years ago Andrew Kyte, then a teenager, walked into the workshop of Mike Wolfe, a blacksmith on Ann Arbor’s west side, and wrote his name on the wall above the door. “I wanted to leave my mark,” he...
Read MoreIn October, someone called “Wolverine Devotee” posted an email message on mgoblog.com. Supposedly sent by U-M athletic director Dave Brandon to a fan, it ended curtly: “I suggest you find a new team to support....
Read MoreMaurita Holland says the last straw was when the deer ate her rain garden. The retired School of Information prof replaced a patch of turf with a sunken garden of native plants–only to discover that the deer that roam her...
Read MoreFor many, he’s to Ann Arbor what Toulouse Lautrec is to Pigalle, what Al Hirschfeld is to Sardi’s, or what Norman Rockwell is to romanticized Americana. His renderings–signature views of State St. and the...
Read MoreMatt Grocoff foresees a future Ann Arbor where homes and neighborhoods produce their own energy and drinking water, retain their storm water, and recycle their wastewater.”They call it sustainability,” he says with a...
Read MoreMarilyn Tower started her campaign to slow traffic on Covington Dr. on the city’s southwest side in the spring of 2012. For two years, Tower stood outside her house many school days, carrying homemade signs reading...
Read MoreMark and I never really hit it off.I first met Mark Koernke in the late ’80s. Gene Ward, a fellow FBI agent, had asked me to accompany him on an interview of Koernke. We met with Koernke in his basement office at Alice...
Read MoreLurie Terrace, a residence for active seniors of moderate means, was a real groundbreaker when it was built fifty years ago. “There were none [like it] to the best of our knowledge” recalls Bob Chance, one of the...
Read MoreDressed in a teal sterile surgeon uniform, Thiran Jayasundera holds microscissors with latex gloves. Sitting, he leans in to stare through a microscope-like lens aimed straight down over a patient’s eye. Backaches. Bright...
Read MoreSome glide on their skates and others wobble, but in early November members of the new Huron/Skyline women’s high school hockey team are finally on the ice for their first week of practice. As Huron sophomore Miah...
Read More“I was very open in 2012 about why I ran for another term,” says John Hieftje the day after the November election confirmed Christopher Taylor will succeed him as mayor. “I wanted to make sure the city got...
Read MoreLooking back, it had the simplicity of Grover’s Corners in Our Town. Not that Grandma and Grandpa Mann lived on the typical square block. No, think isosceles triangle–or a piece of cheesecake, a small, narrow...
Read MoreOn the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the guns on the western front of the Great War fell silent, ending four of the bloodiest years in the history of the world.The war demolished empires and...
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