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Jeff Jackson, owner of Seva restaurant, didn’t return calls or emails asking if he had renegotiated his lease with his longtime landlord, the VFW. But it seems that Seva will not be moving to Fourth Avenue, previously...

“A little piece of New York,” is how Lois Kane described the Gallery Project when she passed along the news that it had closed its Fourth Avenue location. (Kane has sharp eyes for openings and closings–she...

If you squint your eyes, blur out the semis, and gaze down the main drag in Saline from atop its tallest commercial building, you can almost imagine what the road might have looked like a century and a half ago, back when it was...

For months there was a sign in the window of Town Center Plaza, next to the now-closed Eastern Accents, announcing a forthcoming Blue Lotus Carryout and Blue Lotus Hookah Lounge. Thirty-six-year-old Khaled Mohamed was excited...

Kip Barry’s Tricks & Treats and Performing Arts Center in Braun Court opened last November, and now it has closed. “I’m sorry things didn’t work,” says owner/magician Kip Barry. He’s says...

“Yep, I’ve used the alarm a handful of times,” says Megan Chichila, manager of the new Planet Fitness franchise on West Stadium. That’s the company’s trademarked “Lunk Alarm,” which is...

The fate of local medical marijuana clinics may be in the hands of the state legislature.When the Michigan Supreme Court upheld a ruling that shut down a Mt. Pleasant medical marijuana dispensary for violating Michigan’s...

The Maple-Miller intersection has a gas station again: a shiny new Speedway opened on the northeast corner, on the site of the derelict Marathon that closed in 2008. The intersection used to have two gas stations–even...

Is it a stretch to compare a raincoat made in California to a jug of beer made on South State Street? Maybe less of a stretch since Elizabeth Cline’s book Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion shot up the...

“It’s evil. It’s insidious,” says Keith Moorman, speaking of a certain business practice–his own. Moorman owns Overture Audio, newly reopened in the former O’Leary Paint building on West...

We had a nice note from Diana Ellis this month! “I think I found the Fake Ad on page 48–the Ola! Dressing ad!” she wrote. “Every time I come back home for a visit, the first thing I do is dive into the...