And Two in Transition
Blimpy Burger–Krazy Jim’s Blimpy Burger, until Rich Magner bought the business from Jim Shafer in 1992–will still be occupying its current location through August. Magner says the building was sold out from...
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The Sardine Room
For romance, we choose the bar. Perched side-by-side, we can chat with our neighbors or bartenders, or turn toward each other in an intimate proximity that’s hard to duplicate across a table. Too, sharing a...
Read MoreFour New Eateries
Four restaurants-in-progress finished tinkering and threw open their doors within days of each other at the turn of the year. You might say they’re the culinary embodiment of north, south, east, and west. That’s a...
Read MoreMany Lives of 2390 Winewood
You wouldn’t think a simple 1940s industrial building would have much of a history, but 2390 Winewood, the new home of the Ann Arbor Observer, has a surprisingly diverse past: it has housed a manufacturer of trading stamp...
Read MoreJanuary’s I Spy
“Be Where Now? Be Hair Now … at the corner of Miller and Ashley,” writes Christine Schopieray in answer to January’s I Spy clue. It’s “the little hair salon at the northwest corner,”...
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Fake Ad January 2012
Every month in this space, it’s a challenge to work in last month’s Fake Ad, the winner’s name from the ad the month before, its page number, and, most important, a compliment to ourselves.So this month,...
Read MoreWater Street Rescue
The city of Ypsilanti has been trying to redevelop thirty-eight empty acres on Michigan Ave. since 1999. The challenge is that although the city owes millions of dollars on the land, it’s been unable to close a deal for...
Read MoreUnsticking the left
Ann Arbor’s academics, political progressives, and people of faith talk a lot–just not necessarily to each other. That’s why the Reverend Joe Summers of the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation helped organize...
Read MoreAnything Goes
This year’s Burns Park Players musical production–Anything Goes, a 1930s farce set at sea and powered by the catchiest of Cole Porter tunes–is the neighborhood theater group’s thirtieth outing. The show...
Read MoreDo You Ever Wish?
“Do you find you’re alone most of the time?” “Do you understand your rightful place in the world?” “Do you love your siblings?” “Do you wish that you could be somebody else?”...
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