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Danny Sherbin, who owns Exercise Warehouse in Livonia, is crystal clear on what kind of customers he’s looking for in his new Exercise Warehouse on Jackson Road: rich ones. “The motivation was to go to an area...

By the time you read this, Frames Unlimited might already be back in its familiar Maple Village address, the freestanding building it shares with Village Kitchen. That space is now being remodeled to accommodate two new...

It’s probably safe to say that People’s Food Co-op regulars are generally not big fans of ultra-conservative Fox News. But the staff at the Detroit Fox affiliate has at least one devoted fan of the co-op. “I...

Say the word nonpareil, and a lot of folk will think of those sugar-coated chocolate drops sold in candy shops. But the larger meaning of the word is unique, fine, and without equal. So it’s an apt moniker for Michelle...

Does my ten-year-old son still believe in Santa Claus? Or does he believe that if I believe he believes in Santa Claus, he’ll get more presents? I can’t be sure, but I think I’m being played. Last week a...

The Wolverine State Brewing Company Brewery and Taproom, housed in the back half of the original Big George’s building, had promised an opening last summer. Like most new businesses, especially those involving food or...

Elizabeth Marcano-Kennedy painted the facade of the former Big Ten Burrito on Packard the rich, red shade of a robust South American wine. Marcano-­Kennedy’s a soccer fan, and since wine red is the official color of the...

Tom Richardson says Liberty Title’s “big white-knuckle moment” came in the fall of 2008. Richardson and his wife, Michele, had just purchased LandAmerica’s Ann Arbor branch when lending froze that...

Old friends come to town, and for hours at the Farmers Market and Kerrytown we’re talking food: new recipes, how our gardens fared, ­restaurants galore. I’m looking forward to dinner at the ­Earle, a treat for fellow...

“I was screaming like a kid at Christmas!” says Heather DuPuis. DuPuis, co-owner of Vie Fitness and Spa, is naturally a calm, cool, and collected kind of woman. But she went bonkers in October 2009, when she learned...

Maher Jaboro of A&L Wine Castle says his sales “easily double” at year-end. “Christmas is bigger in liquor,” he says. “Thanksgiving is bigger in wine.” “We typically expect the day...

“I haven’t even started looking for another job yet,” said a multiply pierced Village Corner cashier the week before the VC closed in early November. She was talking to a former employee who’d moved on to...