In his first two years as head coach, Brady Hoke brought Michigan football back from the land of the undead. He did it by humbly adapting his style to the talent he inherited–something his predecessor, Rich Rodriguez,...
Read More“It was like a movie,” says Ahmed Hamdi. Seven years ago, when he was twenty-one, men with guns burst into his family’s home in Baghdad. They shoved Ahmed and his father to their knees and pushed their heads...
Read More“We’re all marching toward the cliff,” says Glenn Nelson, treasurer of the Ann Arbor school board, “and we want Ann Arbor to be far back in the line.”The cliff is the seemingly inevitable bankruptcy...
Read MoreA Roadhouse collection celebrates the humble saltshaker.When Zingerman’s had the produce market in Kerrytown for a time in the late 1990s, it was decorated with fifty or so produce-themed salt and pepper shakers. After the...
Read MoreMarc Chagall created his stained glass America Windows for the Chicago Art Institute to commemorate the American bicentennial. The piece was installed in 1977, the same year Hubbard Street Dance Chicago was founded, and the two...
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For three years, while she was earning a master’s degree in sustainable enterprise at the U-M business school, Vienna Teng lived in Ann Arbor. Which meant that, besides the occasional formal concert, such as her 2011 show...
Read MoreOnetime Lions quarterback Eric Hipple has joined the former players suing the NFL–but he’s not in it for the money.Hipple got concussed on the field many times. Like the 4,400 other former players who’ve filed...
Read More“What the fans want, and what the players want, seem to be less and less important,” says John U. Bacon, summing up his new book, Fourth and Long: The Fight for the Soul of College Football. Reached by phone from...
Read MoreAnn Arbor’s third Noodles & Company opened on West Stadium in a much-remodeled former KFC. All three (the others are on State St. and in Arborland) and about a dozen more in Michigan are owned by Pasta Per Trio. Mike...
Read More“Can you tell me how to get to the United Way headquarters?”The short answer, to a person on foot at the West Stadium Sunoco, would have been, “farther than you’ll want to walk.”But in hindsight, I...
Read MoreWhat do the painted rock and Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s annual Mud Bowl football game have in common?If you answered that they’re both beloved and messy U-M traditions on Washtenaw Avenue, then you’re right, up to a...
Read MoreR.J. Rzeppa has never owned a coney island or any other kind of restaurant before, but he’s seen the inside of plenty of them, working for “transportation companies in the Detroit area, delivering dry goods to...
Read MoreHelen Killer, Sock-It Wench, Michelle O’Bomb Ya, Skim MILF 0%. In roller derby, a skater’s pseudonym can be as lurid as the bruises that result from this all-female, full-contact sport. The mock-violent names play up...
Read More“I hate honey,” says Richard Mendel, the king bee of Ann Arbor’s backyard beekeepers.”But I like bees,” Mendel adds. “They’re the most amazing creature that exists.”Mendel can, and...
Read MoreIn early August, Megan Blackshear said she and her husband, Peter, “are receiving books. We’ll open the store when we receive the 10,000 books we’ve ordered.” She was guessing Bookbound would cross that...
Read MoreThe Old German, an annex to the Grizzly Peak, opened in July in the long, skinny stone grotto of a basement on the corner of Ashley and Liberty. Most of the space is underneath what used to be the Del Rio (a space the...
Read MoreThe Battlefield Band, named for the members’ hometown of Battlefield, Scotland, proclaims the motto “Forward with Scotland’s past.” That can be read two ways: as a defiant assertion of Scots musical...
Read MoreIn its first summer, the U-M’s new Campus Farm grew kale, Swiss chard, bok choy, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, potatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, and eggplant. This month, students will also harvest squash and...
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