Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening begins with a dress that the character Wendla’s mother wants to lengthen to hide her daughter’s emerging sexuality. In The Spring Awakening Project (TSAP), by Jason Sebacher in...
Read MoreAnother ethnicity has joined the united nations of Packard/Platt, which includes Bombay Grocery (Indian), Euro Market (Russian), and multiple Middle Eastern shops. Though the name Galleria doesn’t give off much of an...
Read MoreHousecleaning can be tough on your knees, as a local homeowner was reminded when she overheard her cleaning woman on her cell phone, discussing an upcoming knee replacement procedure. “I wanted one of those feminine...
Read MoreLast month, several homeowners on Arborview watched in amazement as heavy equipment pulled up in front of their houses and workers started jackhammering the sidewalk slabs that they had installed just two years ago during the...
Read MoreThe past couple of years at the Chocolate House of Ann Arbor haven’t been all that sweet.For the first six years of its tenure, owner Vicky Ponitz juggled the business while holding down a series of day jobs. When that...
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The three Democratic council primaries on August 3 each have their own issues–core services, the Stadium bridges, and flooding among them. But beyond the incumbents’ loyalty to current mayor John Hieftje and the...
Read MoreThe smiling face of continuity greeting the regular customers these days at Great Shanghai, previously New Garden Buffet, at Westgate isn’t Chinese, it’s Mexican. Raul Lopez, originally from Chiapas, has worked there...
Read MoreQ. Where is all the dirt that’s being removed for the new underground parking garage next to the library going? A. Most of the soil removed from the site is sand and gravel, so it’s been in demand: 3,800 cubic yards...
Read MoreAS GREAT AS ANN ARBOR’S restaurant landscape is, sometimes you crave a change of scenery. When summer comes and you feel the need to get out of town–to roll down the windows and cruise while listening to a few...
Read MoreChicago is notorious for many things: stockyards, railroads, architecture, theater, rough politics, and old jazz. But during the last few decades, the great city has also become known all over the world for its vibrant and...
Read MoreSava’s has at last completed the transfer of the promised liquor license that owner Sava Lelcaj inherited from Zanzibar. To complement her student-priced meals, heavy on breakfast food and sandwiches, the alcohol is...
Read MoreThree women were walking along Liberty, talking among themselves. One of them brushed against a piece of pottery on a stand at the entrance to a booth. It shattered on the pavement with a crash that turned heads up and down the...
Read More“I don’t know that we’ve always played well together,” says Mo Riley, the newly hired director of the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, the Original. Though the fairs have often cooperated in the past, relations...
Read MoreAS GREAT AS ANN ARBOR’S restaurant landscape is, sometimes you crave a change of scenery. When summer comes and you feel the need to get out of town–to roll down the windows and cruise while listening to a few...
Read MoreAnn Arbor residents facing the city’s mandatory footing drain disconnection–which aims to keep rainwater out of the city’s sanitary sewer system and reduce the chances of basement backups–also may be...
Read MoreSay “natural clothing” to some people, and they’ll think hemp tunics, flowing caftans, itchy wool sweaters, and flowery dresses. Catheryn and John Snyder, owners of the new natural clothing shop Perpetua...
Read MoreEven before BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill created an ecological nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, Michigan shrimp started appearing in Ann Arbor. Sustainably produced in saltwater tanks at Okemos’s Shrimp Farm...
Read MoreCardiologist Rob Steele is running for Congress–from Ann Arbor, as a Republican–against Democrat John Dingell. At a fund-raiser in Barton Hills at the end of May, he schmoozed, moving from couple to couple and...
Read MoreNostalgic types might call the sale of a ninety-five-year-old family-owned store like Moe Sport Shops to a nine-year-old sports apparel chain store the end of an era. Longtime owners Bud VanDeWege and his son Bud VanDeWege, Jr.,...
Read More“I’ve been looking for space in this area for a long time. First we went to South U, then we went to Liberty, and then we finally got this place,” says Mohana Krishnalal (“everyone knows me as...
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