Poetry Stars
“You never forget about the cameras,” says Carolyn Blessing, one of our teen-age Ann Arbor poets featured in a recent HBO series on the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam in Washington D.C. While all...
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Sailing to Canton
Suburban Canton is an easy twenty-minute drive from Ann Arbor. Although its big-box “downtown” sits squarely at the corner of Bland and Stripmall, it’s also got restaurants unlike any you’ll find in Ann...
Read MorePianist Joel Hastings
A Scandal at the Symphony? How could a performance by the venerable Ann Arbor Symphony possibly be considered scandalous? While I was out of town for the March 21 concert, my plant in the audience filled me in.Towards the end of...
Read MoreInfinium Unveiled
“This year, we want to win the World Solar Challenge,” says U-M Solar Car Team business director Julia Hawley. In the past twenty years, the U-M team has won five of nine biennial North American Solar Challenges—but...
Read MoreSerious Soccer
The Ann Arbor Football Club missed playing in the nation’s most prestigious tournament by a single goal.On May 9, the club’s top men’s outdoor team, AAFC Elite, lost a 1–0 defensive battle at Pioneer...
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Crime Map: April 2009
Click here to view a zoomable version of this month’s Crime MapReported sexual assaults rose in April compared to one year earlier. Both burglaries and robberies fell, while vehicle thefts remained...
Read MoreHayes Carll 2009
Texan Hayes Carll made a splash last year with “She Left Me for Jesus,” an outrageous little portrait of an apparently religiously unaffiliated redneck who laments, “She says that He’s perfect. How could...
Read MoreTios Moves to Liberty
After twenty-three years on Huron Street next to City Hall, Tios Mexican Café got the boot when the city bought the building last year. Owner Tim Seaver was scrambling to find a new space before his lease ends June 30, and he...
Read MoreCounty Layoffs
“If the unions don’t make concessions, we’ll have to cut jobs,” warns Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners chair Rolland Sizemore.Falling home values and disappearing state funding are expected to...
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