Marketplace

Packard near Platt is, as always, slightly in flux, but the shopkeepers in this multicultural hive of activity don’t devote a lot of time to massaging the media. So the media must massage them. A walk-around and some door...

At Nickels Arcade, the upshot is: Beagle Brain moved and downsized, Johnny closed, and Wendy stayed put, but here’s the more complicated backstory.Wendy clothing store had briefly split into two stores in Nickels Arcade,...

Around the corner and up the block, the retail options at 311 E. Liberty have shrunk slightly in the last year.First, Avtomobile moved out of the basement. The young owners of the eclectic little gallery and craft shop, Maris...

Wenk’s Pharmacy actually ceased to belong to Fred Wenk about seven years ago, when it was bought by the Prescription Shop’s Tom Kundrat. Kundrat needed a new home after the Prescription Shop’s building on...

Hipster is the word crying out to be used here. Today, the new men’s clothing store in the former Project Gallery on Fourth Avenue, is so fearsomely cool that it could itself be an exhibit at that gallery known for its...

Peter Blackshear pulls China: The World’s Oldest Civilization Revealed off the bargain shelf. “It’s put together by an Australian guy, Gordon Cheers,” he murmurs, leafing through it. “He’s...

Wheels in Motion recently took over the building next door on Washtenaw (formerly Naked Furniture, which moved down the road) more than doubling its size–in fact, owners DeWight and Vickie Plotner also have a third...

If you’re wondering what’s up with that rusty-looking metal grillwork over the store entrances at the not-quite-finished Arbor Hills Crossing shopping center, this is what the investors’ brochure says about...

Typewriters were once the norm for doing business around Ann Arbor and nationwide. But now that the tech age is a quarter century old, it’s hard for Ann Arborites who still use them to find places to repair them. So when...