The Eve and Annie Boutique launched online in 2018 with “a blend of Australian and Michigan lifestyle” dresses, tops, skirts, and pants, almost all priced under $50. Australian-born owner Jenny Ryle opened her first store in...
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“It’s been beautiful and painful,” Jason Povlich says. In October 2020, Povlich and his wife,...
Read MoreWhen Slurping Turtle closed last September for its first major renovation since opening in 2014, it estimated the overhaul would take six to seven weeks. (Observer, November 2021.) Instead, it took the Liberty St. restaurant...
Read MoreLast May, Marwan Al-Rabie opened the Alpha Diner on Jackson Rd. in Scio Township. It was his long-sought successor to the Alpha Koney Island in the Oak Valley Centre, which he’d operated for seventeen of the restaurant’s thirty...
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Working as an engineer in his hometown of Troy, Steve Nardone was a frequent customer at its...
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By Ann Arbor standards, the opening night at Condado Tacos on Liberty brought out the VIPs. Creative Washtenaw CEO Deb Polich came with husband Russ Collins, executive director of the Michigan Theater. Don Knight, who runs his...
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Jordan Sparrow can probably give any Fitbit user a run for their money with the number of steps he...
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The first thing you spot when you enter Luca Pastry on Washtenaw is a mural depicting a fluffy...
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For the previous five winters, Cultivate, the Ypsilanti coffeehouse and tap room, set up a tent...
Read MoreThirty years ago, Craig and Donna Common opened the Common Grill in Chelsea, bringing sophisticated casual dining to a town more used to pubs and diners. At the time, Common thought the restaurant might draw patrons from a...
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Not to overstate the obvious, but, like most, I’ve missed eating out this last year and a...
Read MoreThe pandemic was tough for Ann Arbor restaurants. Favorite names such as Logan and Mikette disappeared; others, like Gratzi and Carson’s, went on hiatus. The Espresso Royale Coffee chain shut down. Yet most places wove...
Read MoreAfter recently deciding to increase my recycling efforts at home, I wondered what I could do to reduce food waste. A family member reminded me that they’d seen a Flash Food cooler at a local Meijer. That led me to the...
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On a mid-April afternoon a sudden downpour pelted the big white open-air tent behind Cultivate...
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Ann Arbor has always been a town where you could find delicious baked goods, from the elegant...
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Though dining rooms opened at reduced capacity in February, for reasons of age, preexisting...
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A New Orleans vacation was the inspiration for Juicy Oistre. Douglas Botsford and Sean Morin have...
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With winter here and a ban on indoor dining still in effect at press time, a handful of intrepid...
Read MoreBohmey Beauty, selling nontoxic and “ethically-made” hair, skin, makeup and home items, has opened on the second floor of the Kerrytown Shops. It is the second location for owner Angeline Pratt, whose first shop is...
Read MoreKrishna Nakka and Kiran Rampa first met as undergraduates in India studying computer science then went their separate ways, winding up in places like Singapore, Sydney, Silicon Valley, and New York City.When Nakka met his wife,...
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