The Class of 1940
They have been doing this for so long, no one can recall when it began.On the first Thursday of each month, members of the Ann Arbor High School Class of 1940 meet for a lunch at Weber’s Inn. “This buffet is the best...
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Nick Panos Buys a Big Boy
When it comes to pancakes, some people think globally, as in the International House of. Nick Panos thinks locally, as in Nick’s Original Pancake House, which was on schedule to open in the former Lohr Road Big Boy in...
Read MoreCoveted Minorities
More than three years after Michigan voters passed Proposal 2 outlawing affirmative action in state institutions, the U-M is feeling its effects: just 8.2 percent of 2009’s freshman identify themselves as African American...
Read MoreWild Salmon Minyan
The semi, loaded with salmon, black cod, and halibut, pulled into the Maple Village parking lot roughly one week after departing Washington state. Oran Hesterman and three volunteers made quick work of it: more than 800 pounds...
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Revive, Replenish, Chow Down
Residents of Zaragon Place, the ten-story apartment building on East University near South University, now have an in-house resource: a double business called, with trendy punctuation, revive + replenish. Revive is a cafe and...
Read MoreCarol Ann Duffy
They do things differently in Britain. British poets have always seemed more comfortable with received forms and with various kinds of reference than American poets. Here, our writers always work hard to establish the absolute...
Read MoreCreative Migration
“What happened to my graphics staff?” muses Jean Jennings, president and editor-in-chief of Automobile magazine, repeating a question asked of her. “Well, that’s pretty easy. They went to Car and...
Read MoreAndrew Brix
Andrew Brix is sick of living in a poorly insulated house. It’s not just the Midwestern chill; there’s the principle of not wasting heat and money. Although Brix, twenty-eight, and his two housemates offered to...
Read MoreCrown Jewel
I’ve always been an east-west kind of guy. Among restaurants, that means I favor those that run along Washington and Liberty streets to those running north-south along Main. The West End Grill, a fourteen-year mainstay,...
Read MoreBen Jansson
When one thinks of great Michigan jazz, it is usually Detroit that comes to mind rather than cities like Ann Arbor. But this city has had a rich tradition of high school jazz instruction, perhaps best represented by Mike Grace,...
Read MoreAAHC v HUD
Thanks to good records–and a helpful bureaucrat–the city has dodged a half-million-dollar bullet.It was a financial nightmare that nearly caused a human tragedy: a bookkeeping error that threatened to force the Ann...
Read MoreA Walk in the Park
We received 123 entries correctly identifying the December Fake Ad for A Walk in the Park.The entries came from far. “Finding the Fake ad is one of the traditions my wife and I have when coming out here for the...
Read MoreALDI Joins the Fray
You’d think the west side of Ann Arbor had seen all the possible ways to sell groceries–from small produce and ethnic markets to big grocery chains like Kroger, Busch’s, and Meijer to upscale health-conscious...
Read MoreCrime Map: November 2009
Sexual assaults increased to 12 reports (including attempts) in November 2009, 10 of which were assaults by acquaintances. The other 2 were attempted assaults, one by a stranger, the other by an acquaintance. The total is up...
Read MoreBegob Sculpture
“‘I Spy Red to the North’ at 1221 Beal by the Robert H. Lurie Engineering Center,” emails Vivian Loh, identifying December’s feature. Duane Keahl adds the sculpture’s name and creator:...
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