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Summers builds electrified bicycles in his Pittsfield Village condo. He calls the business Human-Electric-Hybrids, and says it was born of frustration.In 2012, he was working as an industrial controls engineer in Canton, and...

Mr. Alan’s Elite sounds like it might sell men’s tuxes, but manager Bill Ruiz explains the name: “Mr. Alan Bishop started a store forty years ago in Southfield on the corner of Ten and Greenfield called Mr....

The Children’s Orchard chain has been sold and has closed its Ann Arbor store. Taylor Bond, who bought the string of “gently used” kids’ clothing franchises and moved the company headquarters to Ann Arbor...

For Easter, Crystal Metzger will once again put out treat-filled plastic eggs in her downtown toy store, Lexi’s Toy Box. But Nathaniel, the store’s fluffy white rabbit, is likely to remain in seclusion...

“We’ve had a terrific January and terrific February,” says Martin Betz, COO of the Grand Rapids-based Goodrich Quality Theaters. “Movies like Shades of Grey and American Sniper and SpongeBob and...

Determined to claim the title of Ann Arbor’s most ambitious craft beer bar, HopCat opened with 100 beers on tap, virtually all of them artisanal, small-batch brews, with seventy of those taps rotating. Exactly one tap is...

Art Is In Market came to Briarwood for the holiday season and decided to stay. It has now moved a few doors down to the smaller but highly desirable inside corner that Coldwater Creek vacated. The store was conceived by Debbie...

Luis Hernandez, Andres Luna, and Nicolas Hernandez Quintana are childhood friends from an Otomi village in Mexico called Doxteje, northwest of Mexico City. Quintana is also technically the uncle of Hernandez, but the three are...

If the early crowds at Lucky’s Market are any indicator, going to a new grocery store is entertainment on a par with, if not the Ohio State game, at least a pretty good hockey game or the Ark’s annual folk festival....