Sep 8, 2013 | Marketplace |
Mattress World on Washtenaw across from Arborland is having a closeout sale. All Mattress World stores–Art Van bought all thirty-one of them in 2010–are getting rebranded as Art Van Sleep Centers, says Diane Charles,...
Read MoreSep 8, 2013 | Marketplace |
“Everything is a mess,” Te Phan apologizes, picking his way around large hulks of brand-new restaurant equipment. Though he has no opening date yet for Ginger Deli, it’s clear he has made a major commitment.The...
Read MoreSep 8, 2013 | Marketplace |
Sihem Naghmouchi Benaich has closed her deli, which shared space with Taco King on W. Liberty. The Tunisian deli, named Sihem’s, was expensive to operate, and she decided the concept sat too uneasily alongside the...
Read MoreSep 7, 2013 | Community, Marketplace |
A young woman pulls her car up to one of the four pumps at the Mallek’s service station in the vee where Huron splits into Dexter and Jackson. Holding her credit card, she looks searchingly at the pumps, then asks a fellow...
Read MoreSep 6, 2013 | Marketplace |
Shorter print runs mean big cuts for Edwards Brothers Malloy. A year after the two venerable local printers merged, the company announced that it will sell Edwards Brothers’ sixteen-acre State St. property and consolidate...
Read MoreSep 5, 2013 | Marketplace |
“We never even used the word ‘vegan’ until last year. If people would ask, we’d tell them, but we thought it would deter people if we splashed ‘vegan’ across the cart,” says Phillis...
Read MoreSep 4, 2013 | Marketplace |
We received nearly 200 entries correctly identifying the Fake Ad for Shaker State Quick Oil Change on page 58 of the August issue. Not suprisingly, our nemesis Dean McLaughlin was quick to provide a reason for the plethora of...
Read MoreSep 2, 2013 | Marketplace |
By now, Blimpy Burger on Division is closed, but Rich Magner promises it will be back: “We’ve ended our first sixty years, and when we reopen, it will hopefully be the start of our second sixty years,” says...
Read MoreSep 1, 2013 | Marketplace |
For the first time since 1973, there will be no Old West Side Homes Tour this month. The tour of six homes and one business normally draws visitors from all over southeast Michigan, curious to see how old houses can be made...
Read MoreAug 29, 2013 | Marketplace |
Asked what distinguishes the Cultivation Station from any of the other hydroponic shops in town, assistant manager Kai Brodersen has an instant answer: “We felt we could offer something they don’t have. We have...
Read MoreAug 28, 2013 | Marketplace |
Lisa DeLong was working as executive pastry chef at the Gandy Dancer in Ann Arbor when a mutual friend of Glee and Steve Havens approached her about running Glee Cake & Pastry after Glee’s battle with cancer made it...
Read MoreAug 27, 2013 | Marketplace |
Maren and Jeff Jackson have finally found a home for Seva in the Westgate Shopping Center: their lease in the old VFW hall on Liberty was up in 2012, and they’ve been searching for a new spot since.The vegetarian...
Read MoreAug 27, 2013 | Marketplace |
Mindy and Rob D’Oria opened Bits and Pizzas on Dexter’s Main Street in June. It is something like the seventh pizza restaurant in village, depending on your definition.”I think we make a better pizza than any...
Read MoreAug 26, 2013 | Marketplace |
Foods of India/Kitchen of India, the little Indian grocery store on Broadway with the takeout window in back, is in transition, says “Gandhi,” as he wants to be called. The twenty-four-year-old U-M engineering grad...
Read MoreAug 26, 2013 | Community, Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
In its first summer, the U-M’s new Campus Farm grew kale, Swiss chard, bok choy, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, potatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, and eggplant. This month, students will also harvest squash and...
Read MoreAug 24, 2013 | Marketplace |
Yankee Candle opened in Briarwood–it split the space facing the center court that used to be the Rogers & Hollands jewelry store with Lush, selling natural hand-made cosmetics. So it remains a corner devoted to female...
Read MoreAug 22, 2013 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
A longstanding center of community activity, the Dixboro village green lay uncharacteristically dormant in the early 2000s. But last year, the new Dixboro Farmers’ Market started bringing people back to the...
Read MoreAug 21, 2013 | Marketplace |
Chris and Dave Fichera founded Stucchi’s ice cream in 1986. They sold the company in 2003 but kept the pole barn on Jackson Road that had been their ice cream factory. A few months ago, they put up a retail-like sign there...
Read MoreAug 20, 2013 | Marketplace |
Black Pearl’s fish taco has won either Best of Show, Best Entree, or both at Taste of Ann Arbor three out of the last four years (downstairs neighbor Melange won in 2011). Co-owner Jan Z. Cohen (“there are at least...
Read MoreAug 18, 2013 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
Imagine strolling through the Farmers Market on a hot day while cooling off with little spoonfuls of ice cream flavored with brown butter, sage, berries, lavender, basil, rhubarb, chamomile, or lemon balm. Grange Kitchen pastry...
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