Marketplace

Magic has arrived in Ann Arbor. We’re home to just about every other performing art–even a highly respected comedy club–but magic doesn’t happen all that much around here.Kip Barry says, with an air of...

Q. What is Carrara glass, and are there examples in Ann Arbor?A. Carrara glass is a trade name for a colored “structural glass” that was developed about a century ago as an inexpensive substitute for marble. Smooth...

“From everyone’s first turn behind the wheel, we were all really blown away,” says Automobile Magazine deputy editor Joe DeMatio.He’s speaking of the Ann Arbor-based publication’s nervy choice for...

Middle Kingdom closed in November but may be up and running soon under different ownership. Both the property and the business were owned by Johnny Tam and his wife, Wing Shan, who opened the Chinese restaurant in 1981.Bill...

Passport restaurant and lounge on South State closed October 15. Owner Jenny Wu, who also owns two Lucky Kitchen restaurants, said she couldn’t talk because of pending legal issues. State licensing records show the...

Ever since the Argieros’ short-lived Italian grocery in the mid-nineties, the fine nineteenth-century brick building on the corner of Catherine and Fifth has cried out for a tenant whose trade matched its lovely Old World...

A few years ago I interviewed Graham Kerr, the “Galloping Gourmet” of cookbook and olde TV fame, and he fingered franchise baked goods as hidden-calorie contributors to America’s obesity epidemic. A health...

What people most want with a fill-up is a fresh donut–that’s the independent conclusion of two experienced gas station owners, though they went about getting their donuts in slightly different ways.Chuck Gallup was...

“Was this too easy?” asks Jim Ferguson, who gets his dark chocolate-covered cherries from the building highlighted in December’s feature. “As a ‘cherry junkie,’ I’ve been a customer from...

The December Fake Ad was for the Christmas Bazaar Overstock Sale at the Birch Cedar Outlet Mall. The previous winner’s name, “Thibodeau,” was spelled out in the first letters of the ad copy. How well was it...

Chelsea gained two new consignment shops this year. In May, Diana Rodgers relocated The Sewing Shoppe, her three-year-old alterations, repairs, and tailoring business, from a tiny 300-square-foot space near the Parts Peddler to...

Google the phrase “Landmark Ann Arbor,” and chances are an ad will pop up that reads, “Landmark–Live at Zaragon West.” Instead of the Landmark–the new student high-rise at the corner of South...

As digital “e-meters” take over downtown, time may be running short for Ann Arbor’s mechanical meters. However, drivers who prefer the coin-powered clunkers shouldn’t panic–yet. The DDA’s Joe...