The End of an Era on South U
The Oct. 31 closure of Ulrich’s Bookstore ended an eighty-eight-year run as a campus-area...
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Business
Cabbie Life
Years ago, while driving for Checker in Detroit, he dropped off a passenger at the downtown...
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Trial by Fire
It wasn’t to be. Kim is co-owner with her husband Kurt of Ann Arbor Muffler Brakes and Shocks on...
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Back to the Farm
While farm-to-table has become an important movement in restaurants, Tonya and Rich Lockwood are...
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The Metamorphosis of 212 S. State
A year ago, 212 S. State was a vacant lot. Hidden away behind Sava’s restaurant, it was accessible...
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Robots Roll at Palm Palace
Plagued by post-pandemic staffing shortages, Palm Palace has found an oddball solution that might...
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Christmas Tree Town
When Flatsnoots’ vintage 1951 Vagabond Airstream trailer pulled into the Arbor Farms parking lot...
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The North End Zone
When Pioneer High School forbade U-M fans from reserving extra parking spots to tailgate this...
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Helpers in Need
Ten Thousand Villages has seventeen retail locations and thirty-eight contract retail locations in...
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Pandemic Pivot
Akervall is CEO of Saline-based Akervall Technologies, manufacturer of surgical and sports mouth...
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On Broadway
Johnnie Rush Jr. closed his corner barber shop and retired after forty-five years working out of...
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At Venue, Dining Meets Coworking
If you’ve been to Silicon Valley, you’ve seen the vast open workplaces at tech giants, who bring...
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Eiro and Cove
They meet in the visionary brain of Noah Kaplan, a 1995 U-M art grad and founder of Leon Speakers,...
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Pickleball Power
The paddle squarely connects with the neon orange ball, sending it sailing over the net. “That’s...
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Building at Last
“There had been a few different times where it was under contract but then fell through for one...
Read MoreQuestion Corner, August 2022
Q. Can you explain Michigan’s rules for ordering wine shipments? A. Michigan’s laws governing alcohol sales are labyrinthine. When the 21st Amendment ended Prohibition in 1933, the state set up a three-tier regulatory system: a...
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Marijuana Money
Being the dope capital of the Midwest finally pays off—in tax dollars. Of the state’s $150 million...
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Give My Books
That was the revelation on which Whalen founded his company, Give My Books in 2008. He was...
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