Marketplace

In recent times, “slider has just come to mean a mini hamburger,” says Kelly Cobb, third-generation owner of Hunter House. Sliders, a recent fad on the fancy restaurant trail, aren’t a new invention, nor is...

Pam Behjatnia had never met Alice Liberson, owner of Dogma Catmantoo, but when she learned that Garbo, Carrie, and Bernie’s food and toy supplier was going out of business, “I called her, met with her, and two hours...

Roger Feeney says this time the Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase really will be open by the end of the month in its new space in the basement of 212 S. Fourth Ave. He has scheduled acts beginning with Andy Pitz the last week of...

“Sanjay bought me out,” says Sandy Cadotte-Keys, the owner of Dragon’s Lair Futons. Though it’s not a separate store anymore, Sanjay Panjwani is retaining Sandy’s “Dragon’s Lair”...

For awhile there really was no Thai in the Kerrytown area, with both No Thai! and Siam Cuisine shuttered for remodels. A fresh, newly configured No Thai! reopened August 29. “It’s a little more efficient,” said...

The State-Liberty shopping district has got its groove back. A few years ago, Abraham Hejazi memorably complained that even the panhandlers were leaving as he closed his E. Liberty women’s clothing store, Allure, across...

Painting with a Twist, a Louisiana company that bills itself as “the largest franchisor in the paint-and-sip category,” opened on Oak Valley Dr. in April. Owner Letitia Tenner considers the two independent social...

The Argus Farm Stop has three owners, husband-and-wife team Kathy Sample and Bill Brinkerhoff, and a third investor, Scott Fleck, but Sample is the presence you see. Tanned, hair in a braid, wearing loose-woven cotton and clogs,...

Cirilla’s–an adult toy, lingerie, and novelty shop–opened in July in a Carpenter Rd. strip mall. The franchise, which has nine Michigan locations, carries the Fifty Shades of Grey official product line. An...