It is customary to write about a successful large jazz ensemble by asking the rhetorical question “Who says the big bands are dead?” But the sad truth is that the steadily touring big bands are indeed gone forever....
Read More“The board is trying to bring us out of the mid-twentieth century,” says Marta Manildi.Last March, the city of Ann Arbor demolished its housing commission, terminating three of five board members. Manildi, one of the...
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“Only one place in Ann Arbor has such a wonderful display of keys,” writes Angad Singh. “It’s Vogel’s Lock and Safe (of course!)” exclaims Ingrid Ault. “In business since 1913!”...
Read MoreThree guys own the local Five Guys, but “I’m the hands-on guy,” Mike Abrams says. Abrams, Brian Adelman, and David Pittaway opened Five Guys Burgers and Fries in the former Shaman Drum bookstore on State Street...
Read MoreThe Lighthouse Café, on the west of end of Dexter’s Main Street, quietly closed its doors at the end of February. “We’re gonna go out like we usually do,” Sandi Varney said a few days before the closing....
Read MoreWhen thieves broke into the rectory of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church on a Sunday morning in January, the priests who live there were just steps away–one working in the parish office, the other presiding at mass....
Read MoreWhen Jolly’s restaurant owners were ready to sell their business after a brief go at serving sandwiches and salads at the Clocktower Commons, it was the right time for Judy Radant and her family to buy. Radant—a lifelong...
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