Craft and Art and Culture on Ellsworth
Cofounder Noah Kaplan has high hopes for Mothfire Brewing Co.’s relocated and upgraded Ann Arbor...
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Marketplace
Bustaurant Rolls to New Station
The double-decker taco “bustaurant” 1923 has rolled on after seven months in the parking lot at the corner of Miller and First. Its new station, less than a mile away at the southern edge of downtown, features a renovated house...
Read MoreRoot’s Rabbit Hole
The cavernous underground bar most recently known as Root has reopened two nights a week as a music venue with an Alice in Wonderland–inspired concept. Rabbit Hole at Root is now down with DJs and an earthy mix of amaros,...
Read MoreFootprints Moves around the Corner
The timing wasn’t perfect for a bucket brigade of Footprints shoes down the alley behind S. Main. Nevertheless, the longtime downtown retailer expects to reopen in June just steps away at 114 E. Washington. It’s a newly...
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Mike Abbott’s Last Spring Surge
After one last “spring surge” of seven-day work weeks through peak gardening season, Mike Abbott...
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Sunny Chapel Is Tired but Happy
Sunny Chapel has already started two very different companies in 2023— her second consultancy as a...
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The Office Glut Comes Home
When Covid shut down Michigan’s economy in March 2020, 400 DTE employees fled from the high-rise...
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Hungry for More
When Ajumma sent me a text message asking me to call her, I was worried that there was an...
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Coffee and Cocktails
Ann Arbor restaurants are awash in workers with wide-ranging resumes, but few can match Terry...
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Choose Fit Nutrition
“It’s a healthy store that you can grab and go,” says Jawdat Hashem of Choose Fit Nutrition in The Oaks Plaza. Up for grabs is a rotating variety of refrigerated meals from a Dearborn kitchen, which cooks up some 10,000 chicken,...
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Turchin Jewelers Opens on Main
A change of direction for downtown Dexter’s barbecue joint has freed up space for a new...
Read MoreRobin Hills Adds a Restaurant
The Nest Cocktail Bar & Kitchen opened in mid-April at Robin Hills Farm on M–52 north of Chelsea. Husband-and-wife chefs Vanessa and Phil Coulson had been parking their food truck, Sanich Union, at area venues, including...
Read MoreTrading Spaces
“This is where I wanted to be,” says Culture Creations owner Laura Scriven from her new location between Bumble’s Dry Goods and the Common Grill. The space became available in February when Scriven’s friend MaryAnne Thomas...
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Chelsea Outfitters
On a weekday afternoon, Mack and Lilly Trenary munch on an after-school snack in the back of their...
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Marci Cameron
When Marci Cameron saw a Little Free Library for the first time in a public park in Madison,...
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Jim Magyar
At 7:10 in the morning, Jim Magyar sits at the counter at the Dexter Riverview Café. As the staff...
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From Nepal, With Love
Curt Winans describes his wife Menuka as “a magnet” for people. When she moved to Chelsea in 2016...
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Imagining Southtown
At a white library desk in Venue, Margaret Poscher is building an empire. Peering into her laptop...
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