Mar 18, 2009 | Marketplace |
The late adolescent male is a marvel of nature, with a hypercharged appetite and the metabolism to go with it. One Saturday afternoon at Maru, the new Korean place on East William, we watched in awe as a quartet of athletic...
Read MoreMar 16, 2009 | Marketplace |
Thirty years ago this fall, the U-M celebrated the 100th anniversary of its football program. In February an eBay auction offered an original ticket to the kickoff of the centennial festivities, held September 8, 1979, in...
Read MoreMar 14, 2009 | Marketplace |
A lost dog found shelter at Motte & Bailey, Booksellers.”We had the door open on a warm day, and a dog without a leash wandered into the store,” recalls co-owner Gene Alloway. “He ended up curled up under...
Read MoreMar 12, 2009 | Marketplace |
On a Friday night in January, the young crowd at Blue Tractor stood three deep at the bar, their puffy down coats bulking up an already beefy mob and presenting something of an obstacle to the newcomer. But on closer...
Read MoreMar 7, 2009 | Marketplace |
In early February a pair of microwave ovens at the south-side Kohl’s store had inch-wide plastic badges attached to their printed price tags. In blocky LCD numerals, they announced the ovens were on sale for $64.99—a big...
Read MoreMar 3, 2009 | Marketplace |
After five years in the back of beyond at the rear of Boulevard Plaza, Great Lakes Cycling & Fitness is moving to a new location just down the street. “We’re bursting at the seams,” says Oscar Bustos, who...
Read MoreFeb 26, 2009 | Marketplace |
Quickie Burger & Dogs, which opened last year at State and Hill with a sexually suggestive logo that delighted the frat boys and infuriated the campus feminist contingent, now has a Class C liquor license. It’s the...
Read MoreFeb 23, 2009 | Marketplace |
If you’re a disc golf fan and you’ve dreamed of opening your own disc golf store, Matt Cyrulnik can get you off to a good start. He figures that when he closes Fly—his combination disc golf and urban clothing store...
Read MoreFeb 20, 2009 | Marketplace |
With shelves picked clean, Bello Vino Marketplace closed its doors on January 8, a week ahead of the schedule it had announced shortly before Christmas.”It actually wasn’t Pfizer,” says Jennifer Ferris,...
Read MoreFeb 18, 2009 | Marketplace |
For local cooks looking to relearn old tricks, a group called Preserving Traditions is reviving an earlier concept of community: starting this month, it will be using the kitchen at the Pittsfield Grange to teach food...
Read MoreFeb 15, 2009 | Marketplace |
There aren’t five guys named Moe in this story. But there are two guys named Mo, one restaurant named Moe, two properties named Pittsfield, and a lot of juggling of names and concepts.Mo (short for Mohammed) Kasham opened...
Read MoreFeb 11, 2009 | Marketplace |
When the developers of Plymouth Green Crossings decided their office-retail mix should include a coffeehouse, they surveyed people in the area about which one they’d like to see move in. “I think [the developers]...
Read MoreFeb 5, 2009 | Marketplace |
The new Melting Pot on Main Street may be the quintessential winter restaurant, a gemütlich gathering place that taps into the primal urge to draw together around a fire when snow falls. There will be no loners here hunkering...
Read MoreFeb 2, 2009 | Marketplace |
The U-M’s latest restaurant may lack the aged patina of its brethren in the Michigan Union and Michigan League, but it more than makes up for that in wonderful food. The Glass House Cafe opened quietly this past fall in...
Read MoreFeb 1, 2009 | Marketplace |
When transplanted to a new land, even the most adventurous diners will miss the tastes of home—and yearn to rekindle family memories connected to food. Maite Zubía, thirty-one, came to Ann Arbor four years ago from Chile when...
Read MoreJan 28, 2009 | Marketplace |
It sounds as if it has something to do with investment banking, but Citi Trends, which opened in December in Glencoe Crossing Shopping Center on Washtenaw, calls itself “a value-priced retailer of urban apparel and...
Read MoreJan 24, 2009 | Marketplace |
Aikenhead’s business, Boulevard Postcards, may be the only one in the area that deals exclusively in old cards—most postcard merchants also trade in magazines or books. The Detroit native and trained photographer has a day...
Read MoreJan 22, 2009 | Marketplace |
With one master’s degree in clothing and textiles and a second in the history of clothing, Monica Ladd is uniquely qualified to run a costume shop. But after twenty-three years of dressing people up, Ladd’s ready to...
Read MoreJan 18, 2009 | Marketplace |
Lisa Pearce’s dog, Pepper, sleeps on a bed made of pop bottles, and it’s a lot more comfortable than it sounds. The bottles have been recycled into a soft, fluffy fiberfill called IntelliLoft that cushions dog beds...
Read MoreJan 16, 2009 | Marketplace |
All 250 Steve & Barry’s stores, including the Ann Arbor location on State Street, were scheduled to close by early 2009. The twenty-year-old chain’s rapid growth was based on a single idea: selling...
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