King Sunny Ade
King Sunny Ade’s April 14 performance at the Ark is canceled, the Ark announced today.”Following a tragic car accident on March 26, 2010, which left two of his key band members dead, King Sunny Ade and the African...
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Corned Beef Contender
Lovers of Jewish delis, prepare to swoon, especially if you live on the east side. The Bread Basket Deli, Al Winkler’s vision of corned-beef heaven, has spawned an Ann Arbor outpost. Unlike the five Bread Baskets in the...
Read MoreThis Old House
It’s one of those quintessentially low-key Saturday nights, the kind that involves flannel pajamas and a very comfortable couch. I’m reading an old Ann Arbor Observer article that lists local participants in the...
Read MoreThe U-M Chamber Choir
Two things are immediately apparent the first time you hear the U-M School of Music Chamber Choir under Jerry Blackstone. First, that the Choir is a crackerjack group of thirty-four singers with a richly varied tone, a smoothly...
Read MoreBob Guenzel Bows Out
“Last year was very stressful,” admits county administrator Bob Guenzel. “I worked more than I’d ever worked, and I had trouble sleeping. My wife said I didn’t talk in my sleep, I yelled.”His...
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Flowers on Felch
Lisa Waud knows exactly how much space she has to work with in her new flower shop in the former Ann Arbor Art Center Art Factory off Felch: 93.6 square feet. The building is zoned for industrial use, so only 10 percent of its...
Read MorePianist Danilo Perez
It is difficult to be an iconoclast and a traditionalist at the same time, but pianist Danilo Perez has managed to do it. There are countless well-trained keyboard artists who can play any tune in any key, improvising with skill...
Read MorePowwow in Exile
After nineteen years at Crisler Arena, the U-M Native American Student Association (NASA) moved its annual Dance for Mother Earth to Saline Middle School last year to protest what it terms the university’s...
Read MoreTwo Restaurant Closings 2010
Paula Fader-Garff says it’s hard to pinpoint a single factor that led her to close Paula’s Place, her five-year-old ice cream and sandwich shop. It was mostly the economy, but “the lack of visibility...
Read MoreCheap Seats
If you’re looking for high art at a low price, you could end up sitting high–very, very high–in Hill Auditorium. The University Musical Society sets aside 275 seats at its Hill concerts to sell for $10 apiece,...
Read MorePassing the Buck
Just a few months into reviewing development proposals for the city-owned property known as “the library lot,” city council member Stephen Rapundalo sounds weary.”I don’t know where the conspiracy...
Read MoreTwo Worlds
A friend and I had two distinctly different experiences at Asia City, the huge new Chinese restaurant on Washtenaw just east of Golfside. My friend was born in southern China and knows the restaurant business in and out. She...
Read MoreCover Story
Sharp-eyed visitors to the Traverwood branch of the Ann Arbor District Library–or readers studying the cover of this month’s Observer–may wonder about the names written on a ceiling beam. The beam is supported...
Read MoreFebruary 2010 Crime Map
Click here to view of zoomable map of February, 2010, crime reports from the Ann Arbor Police Department and the public safety departments of the U-M and Pittsfield Township.Burglaries continued their seasonal recovery from the...
Read MoreThe Quest for a Perfect Pie
When it comes to making pizza, Rich Runles is into precision and balance. You might even call him obsessive about it. Runles opened Rich’s CountrySide Pizza in early January, taking over the space formerly occupied by My...
Read MoreWags to Whiskers gets Bigger
When Dena Gilmore opened Wags to Wiskers Pet Supplies on Chelsea’s south side five years ago, she wanted it to become a “community gathering spot” where customers would feel welcome, get questions about pet...
Read MoreCoffee and Sandwich Musical Chairs
It started when Tim and Tracy Horvath parted ways with Chelsea-based BearclawCoffee Co. and changed the name of their downtown Dexter Bearclaw franchise to the Corner Cup Café in January. Tracy says it was “a mutual...
Read MoreVulcan’s Anvil
“I Spy ‘Vulcan’s Anvil’ on North Campus,” writes Alex Cao. “Who knows why Spock needs a hammer in the 24th Century?” Who indeed, but in the twentieth century Vulcan’s Anvil, by an...
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