They sat me down in a room with a table and a bunch of chairs and actually tilted a desk lamp so it shone directly into my eyes. One man did the questioning while other officers rotated in and out of the room. My interrogator was precise and seemingly emotionless. The other officers had lips drawn tight and glared. He asked who I was, where I’d come from, what route I had followed, whether I had seen anyone, had stopped, and had anything happened along the way.
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Ron Warhurst was a U-M coach for thirty-six years—cross-country and track. He was Big Ten coach of the year four times, won nine conference championships, and coached 129 All-Americans, multiple Olympians, and a winner of the Boston Marathon.
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We asked four artists in this year’s Ann Arbor Art Fair why they do it, and what brought them here.
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Washtenaw County sheriff Jerry Clayton is retiring after four terms. Three candidates are vying to take his place in the August 6 Democratic primary.
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Eric Parker was a self-described “earth traveler” who lived by his wits and took great pride in his independence as a schizophrenic, unhoused man. He was highly intelligent, a lover of birds and animals, and a solo explorer of Ann Arbor and southern California. His last year of life was spent under the care of the author, his aunt, who deeply misses her firstborn nephew, a complicated, remarkable human.
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Jeff Hauptman’s office on the seventh floor of the 777 Building at Eisenhower and State has stunning views north to the U-M campus and downtown. But when he toured the building seven years ago, what really stayed with him was what he saw when he looked down—and saw how much space was used for nothing but parking cars.
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Residences designed by renowned Detroit architect Albert Kahn are rare—there are just six in Ann Arbor. But, Barbara Copi confides, she really wanted Noah and Lizzie Hurwitz and their three boys, to bring new life to its ornate spaces.
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With great wealth come great opportunities for financial exploitation. According to a 2023 report from the Justice Department’s Office of Victims of Crime, senior-service agencies that the office funds report that 14 percent of the people seeking their help are victims of financial crimes.
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At the end of February, the city’s Parks Advisory Commission heard an unusual pitch: The local...
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Rosanita Ratcliff is a born traveler. She left Ann Arbor to go to college in Arizona, studied...
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The Ann Arbor area is blessed with great, public collections of local historical artifacts, such...
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“It’s really happening,” laughs Matt Grocoff, his face flushed in the wind. “I can’t tell you the...
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When I arrived home after interviewing physician Ray Rion, executive director of Packard Health,...
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At the start of this new year, a barking dog and a white wisp of smoke heralded a new era in...
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“I joke that other people go to the lake to relax by the water,” says Susan Pollay. “I just enjoy...
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“Do you have a medical marijuana card?” asked a woman from HireRight, the company the U-M uses for...
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A distraught woman stares into the middle distance against an ominous red background; from a jagged voice bubble comes her anguished cry: “… NOW WHAT?”
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On February 27, 1924, Ann Arbor celebrated its first centennial with a big birthday party at the...
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I opened the Fleetwood Diner on January 6, 1972, at 11 p.m. The late start was to catch people...
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In 1963, a fellow U-M art student heard Tom Petiet singing while working in class and suggested...
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