Ann Arborites gain new options for getting rid of those old TVs.Hot tickets or Black Friday sale items are usually the reasons behind lengthy customer queues. But drivers whose cars snaked slowly through the Pioneer High School...
Read MoreSitting down at Sweetwaters with Michelle Krell Kydd, I ask, “What exactly can you smell right now?” “The generic smell of a coffeehouse,” she replies. “I can smell cake. I can smell something...
Read More“We don’t consider Fiat our competition, to be honest” says MINI of Ann Arbor general manager Sarah Woolson sweetly, responding to a remark made by Fiat’s sales manager in this column a few months ago....
Read MoreSome businessmen play golf to drum up clients. Gerald Wayne (“GW”) Staton has a nightclub.Staton, a longtime insurance salesman in Washtenaw County, started the Black Crystal Café six years ago. “Initially my...
Read More“Pop-up dinner.” For me, the name suggested a tantalizing meal, conjured out of the air with sleight-of-hand wizardry by a chef wannabe in an inspired setting. My husband’s mind, though, leapt immediately to...
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The Slomovitses are Ann Arbor’s enduring yet youthful musical family, best known to local kids and their parents as Gemini, the children’s musical duo of twin brothers Laszlo and Sandor Slomovits, who have been...
Read MoreWe all know that summer entertainment is traditionally light and fluffy rather than dense and chewy. In theaters, that usually means it’s romantic comedy time, but this summer, most of our locals seem to have gone slightly...
Read MoreHe called it a moving sale, but it was more like a pop-up T-shirt museum, with Ann Arbor’s history for the last thirty-nine years played out on cotton jerseys. Throughout most of July, you could buy them from the person...
Read MoreJuly’s I Spy “picture is of the iron sculpture in front of the U of M Art Museum,” writes Suzanne Butch. Tara Queen identifies it as “the Mark di Suvero swinging sculpture,” while Jim Ferguson adds...
Read More“We’re at a crossroads of politics in Ann Arbor,” says Steve Kunselman, an incumbent city councilmember from the Third Ward on the southeast side seeking a fourth term.”We are at a turning point,”...
Read MoreLast spring a hastily scrawled sign on the door of Great Lake Chinese Seafood Restaurant said “under new management,” but no one there wanted to talk about it. “It’s a private, family matter,” said...
Read MoreWe received 217 entries correctly identifying last month’s Fake Ad for Boundaries Books on page 50 of the July Observer. The ad contained the last name of the previous winner, Janine Shahinian, in the title of the book,...
Read MoreMartha Redbone’s ancestors include Native Americans (Cherokee, Choctaw, and others) and African Americans. She also, writes her website biographer Kandia Crazy Horse, has “deep roots in Appalachian folk and Piedmont...
Read MoreThe performers’ jewelry is big, their hair is bigger, their evening gowns are over-the-top, their nails are long and their heels are high on the Millennium Stage at the Cavern Club on a Saturday night. An elderly couple...
Read MoreDavid Harrison’s picket flummoxed the AAPD—but the state is on his side.David Harrison deliberately chose noon on the Fourth of July to test the bottle return law at 7-Eleven on State Street—not so much because he was...
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