In August, its first full month online, AnnArbor.com drew 129,000 unique visitors, according to Nielsen. The audience-tracking firm says that readers devoted an average of 17.5 minutes a day to reading the online replacement for...
Read MoreRon Jeffries loves beer so much that he once tried to design his own master’s degree at the U-M–in beer brewing. But after one term, “I got pretty depressed at the state of the world,” he says. “So...
Read MoreThe bass clarinet is not an instrument that readily comes to mind in a discussion of jazz; indeed, most people have probably not even seen one. This big, curved low version of the standard clarinet is relatively young. Adolph...
Read MoreSuellyn Scarnecchia may never be more famous than she was on August 3, 1993, when a photograph of her carrying “Baby Jessica” appeared in newspapers around the world. Today the U-M’s general counsel and...
Read MoreShaman Drum has closed, and Borders is struggling, but after three expansions comics emporium Vault of Midnight is celebrating yet another profitable year–and looking beyond Ann Arbor.Co-owner Curtis Sullivan says...
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“This is quite the landmark settlement,” says Paul Wright, editor of Prison Legal Review. Wright is referring to a $100 million deal reached this summer by the state attorney general and lawyers representing hundreds...
Read MoreKevin Choi and James Bee bought Miki Japanese Restaurant, one of Ann Arbor oldest, noblest sushi restaurants, six years ago from founder Ann Lin, who went on to start Yotsuba Japanese Restaurant. There’s now a second...
Read MoreOn a warm, sunny autumn afternoon, a gala university homecoming parade slowly made its way along streets lined with cheerful spectators, following a twisty two-mile course through downtown. Stretching almost half a mile, the...
Read MoreIn Laura Kasischke’s new novel, In a Perfect World, an airline pilot, a widower, marries a stewardess, Jiselle, primarily so she can take care of his three troubled children while he flies off to various exotic cities....
Read MoreThe recession is taking its toll on Ann Arbor’s arts and culture world, and local community foundations are picking up the slack. The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan ran a high-profile online matching funds...
Read MoreAutumn always brings lots of restaurant openings, but in the last few years they have been mainly sandwich shops and cafes. This fall, though, three ambitious new restaurants (and one ambitious remodel) have opened downtown. All...
Read More“The post-modern pineapple,” writes Alice Ralph, identifying September’s I Spy photo, “tops the building for Liberty Title at 111 North Main.” Adds Siri Gottlieb: “It may have been installed...
Read More“You can’t beat finishing in the Big House,” says Andrea Highfield. Highfield organized the inaugural Big House Big Heart race two years ago, inspired by the death of her husband Michael’s law partner and...
Read More“Sturgeon, gar, Borwe bass…er, I know my fish better than that! And maybe the ‘Cash for Lunkers’ ad wouldn’t have been so easy to spot on page 30, if we actually could walk along Allen Creek Drive...
Read MoreClick here to view of zoomable map of August crime reports from the Ann Arbor Police Department and the public safety departments of the U-M and Pittsfield Township.Burglars were hard at work in August, tallying 108 break-ins...
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