Insomnia Cookies entered Ann Arbor last year on a truck, which used to park on State St. near William from dinner time until the wee hours, selling a dozen flavors of hot cookies baked right on the truck. Students loved it, but...
Read MoreThe local iteration of Dearborn’s Roma Bakery has more going on inside than you might expect from its funky, chalet-style facade. Located on Washtenaw just west of Golfside, it’s serving up quick,...
Read More“Everybody just loved it. I got so many compliments on it, it was insane. I used it as a coat one day and a blazer the next,” says one of the customers Johnny Vaughn “dresses,” who dropped into the newly...
Read MoreOn the Saturday before Mother’s Day, letter carrier Ozzie Williams parked his truck by the triangle where Oakland, Tappan, and South University come together, picked up a shovel, and joined the crowd of people planting...
Read MoreThis is the twelfth year Kate Mendeloff has produced Shakespeare in the Arb. She stages scenes in different parts of the park, moving the audience around several times during the evening with strolling musicians leading the way....
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The first classical music concert I ever reviewed was a piano recital by James Tocco in Rackham Auditorium. That was 1983, and Tocco and I were the two youngest people in the hall by a good three decades.Twenty-eight years...
Read MoreScattered throughout the Old West Side is a surprising collection of antique barns, relics from horse-and-buggy days. Some are clearly derelict; some are updated, spiffy-looking garages or studios. But the most unconventional is...
Read More“Your mission,” my editor intoned, “should you decide to accept it, is to see if the rule holds true.” The rule is one of six laid down in May’s issue of the Atlantic magazine. Writer Tyler Cowan,...
Read MoreAt Bach School on a recent Saturday, a teacher reads a Spanish-language picture book on grocery shopping to a group of five-year-olds. When she asks where their parents buy food, the kids shout “Meijer’s!” and...
Read MoreOf the more than fifty stereographs on display in the exhibit “Michigan in 3-D,” one appears to be a fake.The exhibit, presented by the U-M Bentley Historical Library, brings together new and old 3-D technologies....
Read MoreWhile city-dwellers luxuriated in March’s record-high temperatures, fruit growers at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market started to fear the worst for their crops. And unfortunately for many, the worst happened.”We lost...
Read MoreOn a clear, cold night in April, on the high hillside of Leslie Science Center, the Ann Arbor District Library introduced its latest checkout items: Orion Starburst 4.5-inch reflector telescopes. Members of the U-M Lowbrow...
Read MoreTom Fournier, eighty-seven, ex-Seabee, his mop of white curls topped by a blue cap that announces “WWII Vet,” says that he was “too young and dumb” to be really nervous on the morning of June 6,...
Read MoreAnn Arbor on the RiverA sunny day in late spring. You grab your sweetheart, buy a sack of cookies from a nearby bakery, and wander along the river. Soon you’re strolling the Argo Cascades, a scenic walkway along tumbling...
Read MoreIt’s “the old Big Ten Party Store sign now in front of Morgan & York at 1928 Packard,” spies Tess Roth. “Way too easy for any townie!” writes Beth Berenter, voicing the disappointment of many....
Read MoreWe received 182 entries correctly identifying last month’s Fake Ad for Creme de la Creme foods. Many entries referred to our new system of identifying the Fake Ad, in which the name of the contest winner from the previous...
Read MoreAnn Arborite Natalie Bakopoulos has done some wonderfully unexpected things in her debut novel, The Green Shore. In addition to the textured family drama we might expect in a first novel, she has taken on much larger themes of...
Read More“We’ve been wanting to launch an international film festival for over ten years,” says Russ Collins, executive director of the Michigan Theater.There are already 4,000 “international film festivals”...
Read MoreIf you’re a film buff, you’re surely geeked about Cinetopia, the Michigan Theater’s new film festival. Spanning everything from the silent era to contemporary films and from box-office gold to indie cred,...
Read MoreThe country genre has its own classical music: bluegrass, with its acoustic rural string band raised to startling virtuoso heights. But as the classic barroom country ensemble, with its electric guitar, steel guitar, and small,...
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