It was the single largest change in Ann Arbor mail delivery history: on April 2, twenty city carrier routes were eliminated. According to Ted Sims, officer in charge of the Ann Arbor post office, ninety-eight of the remaining...
Read MoreUndergraduates like to live in a cashless society, and when the new Subway opened at the corner of Washington and Division with a nonperforming credit card reader, a less-experienced franchise owner might have had a meltdown....
Read MoreFounder Margaret Brusher remembers the Ann Arbor Antiques Market at its peak. “We had shows from April through November–that was the standard for decades–and we’d have 500 dealers, and attendance was...
Read MoreA year after the Native American dioramas were removed from the U-M Museum of Natural History, it looks like homo sapiens won’t be back. Though children were fascinated by the miniature scenes of Indian life, “We...
Read MoreWhat brings a pair of Pulitzer Prize winners to town in May? Nope, it’s not the U-M commencement. Novelists Richard Ford and Jeffrey Eugenides will be at 826Michigan’s “Storymakers Dinner” at...
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I love the State Theater. To paraphrase Shakespeare, I clasp it to my bosom with hopes of steel.Many Ann Arbor moviegoers will likely snort at my affection, and not without reason. What adjectives would one apply to the State in...
Read MoreGet Your Game On owner Alex Horvath liked his old space on Packard a few doors down from the Blue Front party store just fine, but he got tired of people walking in every day who’d never known they were there. “Four...
Read MoreWhen the South University Area Association approached city council to request the rezoning of its district six years ago, its argument was simple: existing demand for development was being stunted by restrictive...
Read MoreMy great affection for the Buster Keaton classic Sherlock Jr. was the reason I didn’t get hired as the Detroit Free Press film critic back in the 80s. At least I presume it was, because when as part of the application...
Read MoreWe received 137 entries correctly identifying the Fake Ad for Castle’s Steak House on p. 42 of the April issue. The ad, which referred to the hanger steak the Fake Ad Czar recently discovered on a menu, was a (very) thinly...
Read MoreMotorcycles go faster than riding mowers, but mechanically they’re not that different. “Even the sizes are equivalent,” says Dan Weingartz. So when his family opened its fifth Weingartz outdoor power equipment...
Read MoreBreakin’ Curfew is marketed partly by way of flyers that flower on utility poles all over town with the coming of spring. It’s a teen talent show, and those with experiences of dutifully attending such things may...
Read More“Quasimodo. He definitely looks like Quasimodo,” says U-M freshman Courtney Beleck. Craning her neck while gazing up at Burton Memorial Tower, she’s speculating about who the tower’s bell ringer might...
Read MoreWhen times are bad, conventional wisdom says, crime goes up. The idea is that desperate times can drive even law-abiding citizens to desperate crime.Not this time. During the worst economic downturn most people can remember, the...
Read MoreApril’s I Spy “is a mural of Ann Arbor Veterans,” writes Melodie Marske. It’s “‘Peaceworks Through Art’ by Mary Thiefels,” writes Connie Kerr, “at 112 W. Liberty.” Our...
Read MoreJeni Lee Richey and lead guitarist Fred Beldin first met and became friends in the mid-1990s, while working together in East Lansing. Beldin tried to convince Richey to sing in one of his bands, but she was too shy to do it, and...
Read More“Hello, I’m the parent of a special ed student,” began a recent robocall, asking voters to say yes in today’s vote on a special education millage renewal. Special ed parents have the most obvious...
Read MoreOn April 2nd, Sumi and Swaroop Bhojani had a festive, merry ribbon-cutting ceremony to launch their Hut-K Chaats, in the former Bombay Grocery (Bombay moved a few doors west last year). The brand-new restaurant was bursting with...
Read MoreWhatever you do, don’t let the rather hokey title Unhooked from Time dissuade you from visiting the new show at Gallery Project. There are some real gems here.Nicole Gordon’s Asylum is one. A large...
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