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“For years people have been telling me they can’t get dessert like this anywhere else,” says Glee Havens, a pastry chef and Munith resident who’s been working out of her home for about twenty years,...

Home Store owner Cathy Swan has opened a new home accessories store with partner Laura Telesco just a few doors down Main Street in the former Dexter Card Shop. The elegant-sounding name, Nichols and Stafford, combines...

Terry Thompson is used to getting up early—4 a.m. “I can’t help it,” says Thompson, sitting down for a break after cooking breakfast for a slew of other early birds at his new restaurant, the Downtown Diner, in...

Trade Center Drive is mainly a warehouse district, but retail businesses occasionally pop up. Off the beaten path is putting it mildly–it makes Airport Blvd. look like Main Street. But if you can find the lane that snakes...

“All right, you guys. You ever been here before?” asked Julie, the counter person at the new Pita Pit on East U. That was enough to marshal the attention of several disparate groups of students milling around looking...

“In the closet, I had a mattress and TV,” says Ed Davidson. “The rest was army surplus.” The year was 1971, and even as American campuses boiled over with antiwar protests, students wanted to look like...

Loreen McCalla opened Loreen’s Village Cafe in the former Lighthouse Cafe space on Main Street in June. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say she reopened her business for the second time. McCalla opened the first...

Elisabeth Marcano-Kennedy closed Marcano’s Takeout on Packard in August, less than a year after she opened. “It was doing okay but it wasn’t picking up the way I was expecting,” Marcano-Kennedy says....

“Just remember, HEMMP with two m’s,” says Amanda, helpfully–a useful aid because a correctly spelled Google search is about your only hope of locating this new and sparsely funded nonprofit unless you...

Ann Arbor may be sixth in line to get a La Marsa Mediterranean Cuisine, but manager Aziz Muflahi says the company’s founders have long had the city in mind. He says its new spot in the heart of U-M’s campus–in...

When Kris Vermilye’s favorite consignment shop, the Resale Boutique, left Chelsea for Saline a few years ago, Vermilye continued to visit–even taking an occasional afternoon off work to indulge in her passion for...

The Packard Pub abruptly shut its doors last spring with a sign in the window announcing the place was closed for renovations.In September, the pub reopened–with a new owner, Joseph Goychay, and a new manager, Tom...

After forty-six years on West Stadium Boulevard, Campus TV & Satellite owner Joe Logelin closed his storefront in June, but will continue to serve customers from his home office in Livingston County. Logelin says...

Brent Anderson, forty-six, knows pizza. He started out in the business at age sixteen, putting in stints at Domino’s and Pizza Hut as well as owning three Cottage Inn franchises along the way.Marco’s Pizza may know...

Last October, USDA deputy secretary Kathleen Merrigan delivered a $28,000 check to the Community Farm Kitchen’s stall at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market. One year later, the renamed Harvest Kitchen has a new commercial...

Last year, when rumors swirled about 16 Hands Gallery not renewing its downtown lease, owner Jill Damon was quick to assuage fears that it might be closing after thirty-six years in business. “We’re just...

“Greyhound’s still delivering packages!” exclaimed a surprised Ann Arbor woman when told that a box was waiting for her at the downtown bus station. Like many people, she’d figured that FedEx had made bus...

Dexter-Ann Arbor Road still drops from 50 to 25 mph in the space of a couple stoplights at the eastern edge of the village, but Dexter’s sleepy feeling has been relegated to a time gone by. As of July, the first floor of...

Though Paesano has been around for twenty-seven years, I haven’t eaten there very often. My husband hates strip malls, and although Paesano is a freestanding building, it sits on Washtenaw Avenue–for him, the very...