2010 June

Bidding War at King School

At King School’s ice cream social on June 11, principal Kevin Karr will be triumphantly wearing maize and blue. This may not seem out of the ordinary for a U-M alum who special-ordered a big block M on his parking space...

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Janitors’ Blues

While Ann Arbor’s teachers negotiate a proposed 4 percent pay cut, the district’s custodians quietly agreed to give up twice that much.AFSCME negotiator DeAngelo Malcolm says he believes that “Everybody should...

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Barclay’s Urgent Eclecticism

The window displays at Barclay Gallery began to get intriguingly eclectic two years ago when Dan Heikkinen bought the Main Street art store that specialized in Japanese woodblocks and added his own collection of Alberto Vargas...

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Record Resurgence

Twenty people were lined up outside Wazoo on State Street by the time employee Will Lovick opened the store at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 17. Over on Liberty, Underground Sounds’ owner Matt Bradish found fifteen people...

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Hope’s Helpers

St. Joe oncologist Phillip Stella was volunteering at Ypsilanti’s Hope Clinic when he saw a patient with a nagging cough–which turned out to be treatable early stage lung cancer. Without the clinic, which provides...

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Michigan Radio Rules

“We want to sound like someone you’d invite over for Sunday brunch,” says Michigan Radio program director Tamar Charney: “smart, informed, interesting, and polite.””In other words,”...

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Travel Guide

As Odysseus discovered while flailing about the western Mediterranean, the region isn’t always hospitable. Even when the sky is blue and the seas are calm, there’s an ever-present danger of encountering an enslaving...

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Ya’ssoo Greek Festival

I always smile when I drive down Scio Church Road and see the big copper dome topping St. Nick’s Greek Orthodox Church. I remember when they built it and moved from their former Main Street location, how proud the children...

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Cold Pizza for Breakfast

After a show at the Ark, a woman asked Christine Lavin if she had ever been a nun. No, the singer-songwriter replied, but she had gone out drinking with two nuns and a priest when she was a teenager. She’d also baptized...

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A2 Musical Theater Guild

You know how annoying it is when the media takes incomplete, flawed data and uses it to draw a really broad conclusion? Well, prepare to be annoyed.Last month’s Fake Ad was the most difficult to find in months. We know...

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Jefferson Market 2010

“Let them eat cake,” writes Noah Levin, adding, “I spy the Jefferson Market.” Make that the “fabulous Jefferson Market and Cakery, across…from my daughter’s school,” writes Linda...

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Shakespeare in the Arb at 10

Originally conceived as a one-time event, the outdoor theater debuted in June 2001, after Ford Motor Company gave the U-M Arboretum funds for three years of outdoor arts programming, one each devoted to theater, music, and...

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“Acquaintance” assaults rise

Click here to view of zoomable map of April, 2010, crime reports from the Ann Arbor Police Department and the public safety departments of the U-M and Pittsfield Township.Sexual assaults took an alarming jump in April: seventeen...

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