Inventing the Fleetwood
I opened the Fleetwood Diner on January 6, 1972, at 11 p.m. The late start was to catch people...
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Onward and Upward with the Comic Opera Guild
In 1963, a fellow U-M art student heard Tom Petiet singing while working in class and suggested...
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The Rise of Interventional Radiology
As the child of two surgeons growing up in a loving family in Nagpur, India, Shantanu...
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The Trouble at West Park
On a late summer night in West Park, a young basketball player one-arms a pass to a teammate for...
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The Survival of a Small-Town Paper
“Every community deserves a local newspaper that covers high school sports, civic affairs, local...
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Chatbots Go to College
“This could be what makes the next rocket to Mars possible,” says Ravi Pendse, his voice sparking...
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Keeping Zingerman’s Zingerman’s
“But what if we both die?” Paul Saginaw, cofounder of Zingerman’s Community of Businesses, has a...
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Swift Decision
On Sunday, August 6, the Ann Arbor board of education canceled its meeting scheduled for the...
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Volunteering with FedUp Ministries
Each Wednesday, seventy-one-year-old Phil Huhn and seventy-two-year-old Barbara Steer volunteer at...
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Restaurants’ New Normal
There’s a low-profile country store display in a dusty corner of Ann Arbor’s otherwise noisy and...
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Ringing the Good Luck Bell
The nurses, techs, clerks, and advanced practice providers all eagerly gather at the end of the...
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Friends of the Library
From cookbooks to crime novels and poetry to prose, Rachel Pastiva says customers can find “gems”...
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For the Birds
Photos by Bill VanderMolen The banner photograph of the Facebook Page “Michigan Bird Listing” is...
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Affordable Housing, At Last
Roberto Isla Caballero, sixty-four, spends his days selling Groundcover News at the intersection...
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Transit in Transition
At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority’s ridership...
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The Rise and Fall of Westside Barbecue
On a fall afternoon in 2015, Petra Bartosiewicz was walking her daughter to the pool when her nose...
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Art Is Life
“All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.” —Potter and painter M.C....
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Eating the Pig
In October 1974, I attended a dinner party hosted by my friends Ric Burns and Stephen Blos. They...
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Tickling the Wire
Webster Bivens may have been a drug dealer, but his place in law enforcement history is not...
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The Office Glut Comes Home
When Covid shut down Michigan’s economy in March 2020, 400 DTE employees fled from the high-rise...
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