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“I came back from vacation,” recalls Sherry Knight Bedolla, “and they said, ‘You’re moving over there.'””They” are her father, Ray Knight, and her brother Don—founder and manager,...

Gwen Kassa bought the University Flower Shop in Nickels Arcade from longtime owner Dolly Holek in February. Holek, who’s in her early sixties, owned the store for twenty years and she’ll be working there part time...

Liz Zimmerman posted a note at her Flying Sheep Yarns shop saying “I’m sorry to say I have to close the shop. I’ll be here until March 31st at least and I can be reached by email.” But she didn’t...

I think sometimes that what makes America the shining city on a hill is the glow of all the restaurant signs of brave immigrants who’ve come here to redefine their future—and ours. Twenty years ago, the Blue Nile was Ann...

After fifteen years at 329 South Main, Alan Freedman took Four Directions in a new direction at the end of March—one block north, to 211 South Main. The move’s been in the works for a couple of years, ever since Freedman...

An eviction notice on the door of Earl of Sandwich, on State Street, pretty much explained everything, but former employee Andrew Schaeferle, on site cleaning up, rounded out the picture. He began with the two words on...

I’d heard so much buzz about Beezy’s that I was surprised to find so little flash to this Ypsi cafe. But maybe that’s the point—Bee Mayhew has created something simple and real, with a lot of...

Tom and Cindy Hollander, who already own Hollander’s paper goods emporium on the first floor of Kerrytown’s Godfrey Building, and Hollander’s School of Book & Paper Arts in the basement below it, are...

After last winter, it’s hard to believe there will be long, sultry nights when we will yearn for an ice cream. But if you can’t wait for a double-dip mint-chip or a length of chocolate-almond bark, Kilwin’s on...