Mighty Montessori
“It’s part of Montessori pedagogy that there’s supposed to be a community store so students can participate in a microeconomy and interact with the community,” says Erin Milligan, director of the...
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A State of Mind
Like Orwell’s 1984 come to life, Daniel Gordon’s 2003 film A State of Mind documents totalitarianism, complete with ascetic state housing, rations, daily power outages, censorship, and a heavy dose of propaganda....
Read MoreSkating for Glory
U-M freshman Emily Samuelson was in the checkout line at Kroger when the person behind her shyly asked, “Aren’t you the girl going to the Olympics? I saw you on TV.” “It’s strange to be...
Read MoreThe Heidelberg Pulls the Plug
The Heidelberg’s Club Above abruptly shut down its music operation in January, less than eight months after Claudia Leo took over the North Main Street club, spruced up the venue, and inaugurated an ambitious schedule of...
Read MoreFarmers’ Market in Winter
Last February, an average of eighteen sellers showed up each week at the public market on Fourth Avenue–compared to an average of ten or eleven in the previous two Februaries. Manager Molly Notarianni thinks the totals...
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David Doris
University of Michigan art history professor David Doris doesn’t go out of his way to tell students he played saxophone for a few years in a rock band called the Raunch Hands. But those who find out are definitely...
Read MoreSteve Nardella
Well into his third set at Guy Hollerin’s, Steve Nardella asked for a request from the still sizable audience, and someone yelled “Chuck Berry!” It was all Nardella needed to break into the familiar opening...
Read MoreVictorious Egret
Last month’s Fake Ad–for the Victorious Egret lingerie shop for bird-watchers–lured 236 clever Fake Adders out of the bush. It also ruffled a few feathers among birders–though only “those who...
Read More“Wave Field”
“I spy the ‘Wave Field’ by Maya Lin,” writes first-time entrant Alex Cao, identifying January’s I Spy. “It’s designed by the same architect/artist as the Vietnam Memorial in Washington,...
Read MoreThe Swan Thieves
Obsession. It is one of the great cultural themes. Most of us have probably felt some form of it, usually mild, for a person, our work, an art form, or an idea. When we recover our “normal” perspective, we may look...
Read MoreCooking to Help Haiti
Guerda Harris fled Haiti as a teenager in 1960. Now Harris, who owns the Back Alley Gourmet in the South Main Market, is organizing a benefit dinner for the earthquake-devastated nation. A native Creole speaker, last year Harris...
Read MoreCrime Map: December 2009
Click here to view of zoomable map of December, 2009, crime reports from the Ann Arbor Police Department and the public safety departments of the U-M and Pittsfield Township.Crime was down slightly in all tracked categories in...
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