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A recent Groupon Deal of the Day offered a $35 colon hydrotherapy session at Ann Arbor’s Creative Lifeflow–half the regular price to “polish the pipes.” Center owner Nancy Gurney says it’s the third...

In her leopard-skin leggings, leather jacket, and long blonde hair, she’s out there every day, rocking in her antique chair. She seems to be looking for something, and she is–not a lost love, but customers for...

Boxwood Cottage and Home is located in the pretty nineteenth-century Greek Revival house across from the Dexter Farmers Market, and the building has some awesome history: it once housed the nurses who worked in the tuberculosis...

A sign on the door of the former Biwako Sushi at Woodland Plaza says a Mediterranean restaurant, Damas, is “coming soon.” Owner Andy Kwon’s original Biwako Sushi, in Saline, is still open.

Robert Kellar, new PR guy for the Ann Arbor public services department, recently issued a list of “Commonly Flushed Items That Should Not Be.” Topping the list is “Flushable Wipes.”Municipal sewer...

This isn’t the first time there have been eulogies for the Blue Front, but this time, it’s actually closing. Back in 1988, Lois Kane noted in this column that it had already changed owners three times since its...

Wally and Cindy MacNeil first met in 1984, when they were in their mid-twenties. Each worked at the old Maude’s restaurant in downtown Ann Arbor. They got married, started a family, and in 1996 opened their own restaurant,...

“We’ve expanded into gifts, handmade items, scarves, jewelry, starting at $8.50. There’s a lot in here for under $100,” reports Graham Mitchell, who started working in the Pierre Paul Art Gallery four...

Chelsea resident Susan Pickering Rothamel has moved her art supply business, USArtQuest, from Grass Lake to a warehouse on W. Old US-12 and added a huge selection of art papers as well as classes open to the public. “I...

For free entertainment you could do worse than stop in at the magic show that always seems to be going on at Oreck Clean Home Center, as the chain calls its stores now. It isn’t just a vacuum cleaner store anymore. Mike...

Kuroshio closed. The building’s landlord, Ed Shaffran, explains that the father and son team Ken and Alan Wang “are wonderful people, but I think Ken would tell you, they’re not restaurant people.” Son...

“I don’t know what prompted this media interest,” says Nicola Rooney about the news that her eponymous Nicola’s Books is for sale. For a year she has been quietly trying to find a buyer by “talking...