Amtrak Comes Back
On a June weekend, masked folks filled Amtrak’s Pontiac-to-Chicago train both coming and...
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Marketplace
A Songbird Takes a Break
In mid-June, Jenny Song shut the Jackson Rd. branch of her Songbird Cafe. Her original Plymouth Rd. location remains open. “Due to current staffing constraints, we are unable to open this coming week,” read a sign on...
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Spruce Knoll Music Center
We received 148 entries correctly identifying the tribute comedy show at Spruce Knoll Music Center...
Read MoreExiled from Ann Arbor
When the pandemic struck, Caroline Sloss and her husband, Rowan, were living in a brownstone duplex in Brooklyn, New York, with their two-week-old son. “Being near family seemed the safest,” Caroline says, so...
Read MorePointless Brewery and Bookbound Say Goodbye
The curtain has come down for good at Pointless Brewery & Theatre on Packard Rd. It closed its physical operation last September and tried to make a go of offering its improvisation classes online. (Marketplace Changes,...
Read MoreSalon Refugees Return
“He looked like Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber,” Reed recalls. “His bangs were cut straight and short across his forehead, and the hair in back was a blunt cut. ‘It’s a long story,’ he told me....
Read MoreCovid adaptations, continued.
The restaurant world has been in constant flux since the pandemic began, and some of Ann Arbor’s best-known names continue to make adjustments. Aventura, the tapas bar and restaurant on E. Washington, sprang back to life...
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Mohammed Hassan’s New Direction
Mohammed Hassan admits that he let his fitness level decline once he graduated from Eastern...
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Knight’s Heads South
For decades, Ann Arborites have squeezed their cars into the tiny parking lot behind...
Read MoreKay Yourist Leaves Lower Town
Yourist Studio Gallery is taking its leave from Lower Town, where it has operated for the past twenty years at 1133 Broadway. Its new digs will be at the Jackson Road Technology Park. Owner Kay Yourist says the new location...
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Dining Woes, Continued
“When I started this restaurant [in March 2021] a 40# case of wings was $60–$70, now we are...
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From Godiva to Gilbert
For more than 100 years, chocolate lovers have been buying treats from Gilbert Chocolates and...
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BYOC Opens
Chelsea native Emily Hess received her sociology degree from Michigan in May 2020. She’d...
Read MoreMillion-dollar homes are outselling those priced below $250,000
Seventeen houses selling for more than $1 million were recorded since last month, at prices ranging from $1,035,000 up to $2.5 million. As of mid-May, twenty-four homes had hit the million-dollar mark this year, compared to just...
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Marquees of Queensbury
First, the news: 187 entries correctly identified last month’s Fake Ad for Marquees of...
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The Return of Marwan Al-Rabie
Two years ago, Marwan Al-Rabie had to close Alpha Koney Island in the Oak Valley Centre to make...
Read MoreVeridian, At Last?
Grocoff is the lawyer-turned-environmental evangelist behind Veridian at County Farm Park, a 110-unit development that the city approved last year for the former county juvenile justice center on Platt Rd. Based on the Latin...
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A Big Year for Small Farms
Ann Arborites were early converts to the locavore movement. Ann Arbor Farmers Market manager...
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Barnacled!
A local musician says he’s parked for years in the lots at First Baptist and First United...
Read MoreRed Shoes Has Closed
Red Shoes, the beloved gift shop that sold artwork, vintage items, and unusual objects, closed following the death in December of owner Catherine Thursby, who died of complications that followed surgery, according to her...
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