Marketplace

AS GREAT AS ANN ARBOR’S restaurant landscape is, sometimes you crave a change of scenery. When summer comes and you feel the need to get out of town–to roll down the windows and cruise while listening to a few...

Sava’s has at last completed the transfer of the promised liquor license that owner Sava Lelcaj inherited from Zanzibar. To complement her student-priced meals, heavy on breakfast food and sandwiches, the alcohol is...

Three women were walking along Liberty, talking among themselves. One of them brushed against a piece of pottery on a stand at the entrance to a booth. It shattered on the pavement with a crash that turned heads up and down the...

AS GREAT AS ANN ARBOR’S restaurant landscape is, sometimes you crave a change of scenery. When summer comes and you feel the need to get out of town–to roll down the windows and cruise while listening to a few...

Say “natural clothing” to some people, and they’ll think hemp tunics, flowing caftans, itchy wool sweaters, and flowery dresses. Catheryn and John Snyder, owners of the new natural clothing shop Perpetua...

Even before BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill created an ecological nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, Michigan shrimp started appearing in Ann Arbor. Sustainably produced in saltwater tanks at Okemos’s Shrimp Farm...

Nostalgic types might call the sale of a ninety-five-year-old family-owned store like Moe Sport Shops to a nine-year-old sports apparel chain store the end of an era. Longtime owners Bud VanDeWege and his son Bud VanDeWege, Jr.,...

“I’ve been looking for space in this area for a long time. First we went to South U, then we went to Liberty, and then we finally got this place,” says Mohana Krishnalal (“everyone knows me as...

Was the success of Cake Nouveau inevitable? Owner Courtney Clark works hard, but she admits her seemingly bottomless well of free national publicity doesn’t hurt. “The wedding cake business is going great,” she...