Wake doesn’t live up to Michigan playwright Carey Crim’s first play, Growing Pretty, which made its debut last spring at the Purple Rose. Growing Pretty followed a misfit teenager as she bloomed into a successful...
Read MoreFor undocumented immigrants, the recession is especially brutal.”I’d say my income has gone down about 40 percent,” says “Manuel,” a dishwasher in a local restaurant. “There aren’t many...
Read MoreBeWon Korean Cuisine is not new, but it’s new to me. So nondescript is its setting in a strip mall alongside Busch’s on Green Road that it feels like a real discovery. The room is pleasant, with comfortable tables,...
Read MoreWe’re putting these Austinite sisters, whose name is pronounced with a hard “G”–like gutsy or girls, they say–under the Americana umbrella. iTunes calls them singer-songwriters. If you listen to a...
Read MoreWe received 192 entries correctly identifying the Fake Ad for a Hungarian restaurant, Bewrobra, on p. 77 of the July Observer. “Bewrobra” is, of course, our magic word, “Arborweb,” spelled backward, a...
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UAW trainer Luis Vazquez is planning a protest. Not at GM–what’s the point?–but at the Ann Arbor Farmer’s Market. The former market commission chair says he plans to target Kapnick’s Orchards, which...
Read More“Suddenly, they’re not there,” says Scio Township resident Eleanor Lord.When Lord and her husband, Tony, immigrated to the United States four years ago, they were delighted by the nightly display of fireflies,...
Read MoreElaine Kuperman identifies July’s feature as “my favorite place–Gallup Park.” Specifically, “the bridge spanning the Huron River at the east end of Gallup Pond,” adds Phyllis Valentine....
Read MoreEmma wants to study journalism at a secular college. Her parents, both pastors at their evangelical church, have saved to give her a Christian education that won’t expose her to heretical ideas, like the theory of...
Read MoreOne out of every three Yellow Cabs in Ann Arbor is now a Toyota Prius.Dave Reid bought his first hybrid cab in June 2008, when gas prices were around $4 a gallon. Reid, the president of Yellow Cab’s parent company,...
Read MoreAnnArbor.com has far fewer journalists than its predecessor, the Ann Arbor News, but far more bloggers. Ed Vielmetti, the social media pioneer hired to wrangle the independent web publishers, expects the site to launch with...
Read MoreIn dark blue Ann Arbor, the August Democratic party primary is the local vote that matters. No Republican has won a seat on city council since 2003.But the end of partisanship hasn’t meant the end of politics....
Read MoreClick here to view a zoomable map of June crime reports.Burglaries, a seasonal crime, rose slightly in June compared to May. Vehicle thefts also increased slightly month-to-month, but both crimes remained well below last...
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