After a long cold winter, the sun has returned, and flowers have sprung up from the earth. The new life that the springtime brings serves as a reminder that even after the seemingly never-ending winter, there is hope for a fresh...
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With dining rooms closed for much of the year and hungry consumers sheltering in place,...
Read MoreLauren Roumayah has opened her second Detroit Cookie Company location at 609 E. William, previously Hunter House Hamburgers. Though she got her degree from Wayne State in fashion merchandising, the lifelong baker says she...
Read MoreIn December 2015, Nick Ma opened Nagomi Sushi Downtown, an offshoot of the original Nagomi Sushi on Plymouth Rd. (Observer, March 2016).This past December, the lease came up for renewal, giving Ma’s cousin, Tiffany Kim, a...
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s April recommendation that restaurants pause indoor dining for...
Read MoreAfter recently deciding to increase my recycling efforts at home, I wondered what I could do to reduce food waste. A family member reminded me that they’d seen a Flash Food cooler at a local Meijer. That led me to the...
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The Top Drawer consignment clothing shop on South Industrial Hwy. closed briefly at the end of...
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The Fake Ad for April is at the top of page 38, ‘Arborville Restaurant,'” wrote the...
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On a mid-April afternoon a sudden downpour pelted the big white open-air tent behind Cultivate...
Read MoreWith inventory at record low levels, more homes in Ann Arbor are selling above their asking prices. In March, homes sold through the Ann Arbor Area Board of Realtors’ Multi-Listing Service averaged 103 percent of their...
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Jeff Mortimer had no idea it would be so hard to adopt a cat. “My friend who is a volunteer...
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Ann Arbor has always been a town where you could find delicious baked goods, from the elegant...
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On a Friday in March, cars with out-of-state plates lined Covington Dr. as people set up lights...
Read MoreNew boba tea franchises keep bubbling up in Ann Arbor. Now, a newcomer has taken over the spot of Ann Arbor’s original boba specialist: Quickly boba cafe has replaced Bubble Island in the South University Galleria....
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For the past half decade, Bon Bon Bon has been all the rage with Detroit-area chocolate lovers....
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It’s understandable if passers-by on Jackson Rd. are puzzled when they spot the sign for...
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A total of 285 Fake Adders spotted last month’s Fake Ad for the American Party. We’d...
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Jordan Balduf is used to people asking, “What did this place used to be?” about his...
Read MoreWith inventory still precipitously low, new construction is playing a bigger role in the market. Fifteen percent of the homes whose title transfers were publicly recorded since last month’s map are newly built. National...
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Sean Westergaard remembers the first time he explored Valhalla Dr. On one side, all he could see...
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