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If you want a mattress, Art Van has them. But if you need to buy more than that to help you sleep, you can go to the Art Van PureSleep store, a stand-alone emporium that opened in the former Blockbuster space on Jackson across...

As obesity rates attest, people will eat just about anytime and anywhere there’s food. Grocery stores have figured out that people will even eat while they shop for groceries. Subhash Patel figured it out too.He owns a...

Habitat for Humanity celebrated the fifth anniversary of ReStore, their second-hand retail store on Aprill Dr., by opening a second ReStore just a few hundred yards north of the first one October 1. Vic Whipple, director of both...

Jason Smith started brewing beer at home when he was twenty. “I couldn’t buy it, so I made it,” he says. Smith, now thirty-eight, has been brewing beer at home ever since. In 1999, he started helping other home...

“You already had lunch? You’re not hungry?” asked Michael DeCola incredulously of the idiot reporter who showed up at an Italian restaurant on a full stomach. “Let me get you something. A meatball....

Steve Abouna and Kilo Hassan opened Bongz & Thongz on September 10, after they’d taken some hazing from the city. The city’s problem was with the thongs rather than the bongs–the idea of a sex toy shop...

When Kevin Lo opened his small Asian Legend restaurant on William St. near Cottage Inn in 2007, he was in a quiet backwater. Now he’s in a construction zone, but when Zaragon West, the new private student dorm going up a...

Long before there were Asian restaurants all over Ann Arbor (including more than a dozen Japanese), Miki held court downtown. With soft lighting and screenlike partitions making the large space feel intimate, it was a popular...

Taqueria La Fiesta closed temporarily last winter after the cook, Memo Cardenas, got sidelined with a knee injury. His nephew, George Roman, a waiter at the time, says a temporary shutdown turned out to be a good thing....

When House of Sofas began its liquidation sale last winter, owner Matt Murphy, son of original owners Bob and Juanita Murphy, hinted he had something up his sleeve. That something was Cozy Home Solutions, his new furniture store...

Whew. I may have overdosed on sausages. And I love sausages–their spicy, salty meatiness, their crackling skin, the spurt of hot juices when you bite into a fresh link, the taste of wood fire in a smoked one. I vote for...

When she opened Poshh exactly ten years ago, Wendy Batiste-Johnson says she was the only “contemporary boutique” on the campus end of Liberty. The way she tells it, opening Poshh was almost a form of social work...

When Dick Scheer closed Village Corner on South University last November to make way for a high-rise apartment building, he put his 5,000 bottles of wine in storage and announced that Village Corner was in hibernation. Eleven...