2009 December

The last typewriter repair shop in Ann Arbor is located in a nondescript single-story office building on Collingwood. But the folks at M & M Typewriter Service don’t actually do the repairs themselves: they contract...

With its bright mustard- and ketchup-colored burger-shaped logo and self-congratulatory name, Famous Hamburger projects a cheery, in-your-face chutzpah. It’s no act: the tiny chain opened its fourth store in October in the...

“What has affected us most over the years is the construction. Liberty or Stadium has been worked on for five out of the last six summers, and summer is our season,” says Ben Stahl, who with his wife, Lynda, bought...

Bob Gregor has moved his Singer Sewing Shoppe from Jackson Road to a much larger location on South Maple, across the street from Kroger. He’ll use the added space to host sewing and quilting classes that bring in customers...

In October, baker Jeff Renner celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the “Best French Bread in Town”–that’s the actual name of his business–and lost his biggest outlet with the closing of Fresh...

In late October, Underground Printing moved across the street and up the block to a bigger location next to Good Time Charley’s on South University. How much bigger? Co-owner Ryan Gregg put it this way: “Our new sign...

Sheng Han’s parents bought him his first computer when he was nine years old, and he promptly tore it apart. Then he put it back together. “I took apart every toy and game they ever gave me, from cars to...

Since September, more than a dozen local chefs have been dishing up on Wednesdays and Sundays at Hollander’s new upstairs kitchen store. They include familiar chefs dating back to the old Kitchen Port days–like Marge...

“I would like to think of people walking or biking up to my restaurant,” says Sylvia Nolasco-Rivers, who in late November opened Pilar’s Tamales in the space on West Liberty vacated when Tienda la Libertad...

Kerry Thompson says you can find a lot of good Coney Island hot dogs around town, but “nobody in Ann Arbor I know of offers the Vienna hot dog anymore.” So in September Kerry and his younger brother, Kasey, opened...