May 17, 2013 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |
I’m not sure what other people expect when they read a writer and his or her teacher. Maybe they think the influence will be so great that it is overwhelming. I, on the other hand, usually think that the student will try...
Read MoreMay 16, 2013 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |
Pairing Igor Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat and Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire for a chamber music evening at the Kerrytown Concert House on May 18 seems an obvious decision, given that they were...
Read MoreMay 15, 2013 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |
Singer-songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips came on the scene in the early 1990s in Los Angeles, performing rural-gothic, sometimes political rock in a band called Grant Lee Buffalo. Many rockers of that era have tried to make the...
Read MoreMay 13, 2013 | Community |
Q: When Fifth Avenue reopened after construction of the underground parking garage, the post office reversed the path of its drop-off drive. Now one has to go past the drop-off area, then turn in counter to the flow of Fifth...
Read MoreMay 13, 2013 | Marketplace |
Great Shanghai in the Westgate Shopping Center closed. “They were at the end of their lease,” says co-owner and leasing agent Jim Chaconas. “They were nice people, but they weren’t making any money. They...
Read MoreMay 13, 2013 | Marketplace |
“We started the store because we wanted to see a kitchen store in Kerrytown,” Tom Hollander recalls. The kitchen was already in there, courtesy of Mary Campbell’s short-lived experimental...
Read MoreMay 12, 2013 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |
Shinyribs is Kev Russell, front man of the rootsy and durable Austin party band the Gourds. He got the nickname from a homeless woman whom he treated to some barbecue, and he began to develop a side band project under the...
Read MoreMay 11, 2013 | Marketplace |
According to Jessica Hammond, a lot of people say, “I like your gimmick,” when they see the ladder, pole, sledgehammer, and fire hose nozzles on the wall at Firehouse Subs.”But it’s not a gimmick,”...
Read MoreMay 11, 2013 | News |
In February, Michelle Rogers’ position of managing editor of Heritage Media-West was eliminated. Rogers oversaw eight Heritage weeklies, including the Chelsea Standard, Dexter Leader, and Saline Reporter. She says that she...
Read MoreMay 10, 2013 | Community |
More than fifty years after surrendering her son for adoption, Judy Wirth will remember him on May 11.When her son was born out of wedlock in 1960, Wirth was told to forget about his birth and get on with her life. But like most...
Read MoreMay 10, 2013 | Marketplace |
After spending five tumultuous months in Sweden as an au pair for what she describes as a “crazy, dysfunctional family,” Natalie Burg knew her experience would make a great book, but she wasn’t sure how to get...
Read MoreMay 9, 2013 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
Liberty from Main to Fifth Ave. already offers cherry treats, chocolates, handmade ice cream cones, cupcakes, and fruity-plump muffins. In the early weeks of 2013, with the opening of What Crepe? and the Wafel Shop, it added two...
Read MoreMay 8, 2013 | Community |
Dick Gordon, host of NPR’s “The Story,” is based in Chapel Hill, but his path to Ann Arbor this month passed through Haiti. Last year, for a follow-up story on the deadly 2010 earthquake, Gordon went to the...
Read MoreMay 7, 2013 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |
33 Variations, at the Purple Rose, is about the beauty of intellectual engagement. Its two central characters feel their value to the human race is so crucial, and their time so short, that they bumble and crash through their...
Read MoreMay 6, 2013 | Marketplace |
Literati may be the sentimental favorite, but it’s only one of many changes on the street. Washington, which has always seemed like a back alley to Liberty, is suddenly looking like the new Main Street. Mark’s Carts,...
Read MoreMay 6, 2013 | News |
The abrupt resignaton of schools superintendent Pat Green may give pause to school board members who, in November 2010, decided to dramatically raise the superintendent’s salary. Green’s predecessor, Todd Roberts,...
Read MoreMay 5, 2013 | Marketplace |
On March 31, Easter Sunday, “We flipped the ‘open’ sign at noon, and as soon as we did, we had three people,” says Mike Gustafson, who with his fiance, Hilary Lowe, owns the Literati bookstore. “By...
Read MoreMay 4, 2013 | Community |
“This month’s Fake Ad is on page 78 and is ostensibly for a law firm,” wrote Tom Weeks in his entry last month. “In fact, you adroitly hid last month’s winner’s name in the name of the firm:...
Read MoreMay 4, 2013 | Community |
April’s “I Spy is above The Ravens Club,” writes Dan Romanchik–“the top level of the building at 207 S. Main Street,” adds Sarah Schaefer. “At first I thought you were going for the...
Read MoreMay 3, 2013 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |
The rain was just letting up as we pulled into Cobblestone Farm for its annual Spring Fling (to be held this year on May 5). At first, it looked as if the event had been rained out–there were only us and the animals. My...
Read More