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Last month’s Fake Ad referred to the Fifth Forum theater, a real place that was once a downtown home for art movies; its former building is now the Fifth Quarter nightclub. “The fake ad for August is at the top of...

“They say old watchmakers never die, they just get run down,” says Campus Jewelers owner Lee Pickett. A trim and tireless sixty-two, Pickett is anything but run down. But after repairing watches for more than four...

Michael Rockette was just twenty when he bought Bagel Fragel two years ago. In early July he took another big step, moving two doors down in Plymouth View Center, doubling his space and boosting seating capacity from seven to...

Andy Gulvezan’s long-running game of musical bar stools continued in July when he reopened the former Monkey Bar and Grill on Main Street as the Full Moon Restaurant and Saloon. It’s been the Full Moon at least twice...

Carl Luckenbach is one of the best known and busiest local architects. In recent years, his firm designed three new Ann Arbor District Library branches, the South Forest parking structure, and the planned underground parking...

The Corner Brewery, the three-year-old Ypsilanti offspring of Arbor Brewing Company, is a place I wanted to like. Arbor Brewing’s owners, Matt and Rene Greff, were among the pioneers of the local food movement when they...

Gladys Ponce opened Burrito Borimex on South State in early July. No one needs to have “burrito” translated, and “mex” is obvious–but what’s a “Bori”?Ponce, who was born in...

BeWon Korean Cuisine is not new, but it’s new to me. So nondescript is its setting in a strip mall alongside Busch’s on Green Road that it feels like a real discovery. The room is pleasant, with comfortable tables,...

We received 192 entries correctly identifying the Fake Ad for a Hungarian restaurant, Bewrobra, on p. 77 of the July Observer. “Bewrobra” is, of course, our magic word, “Arborweb,” spelled backward, a...