2014 December

Rossini’s William Tell

Attention opera lovers: on December 9, the orchestra, soloists, and chorus of the Royal Theatre of Turin will deliver a concert performance of Gioachino Rossini’s William Tell, a seldom-staged work of epic proportions....

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Fleming Administration Building

“Those windows belong to the Fleming Administration Building!” says Deborah Wyse, a former Ann Arborite now living in Philadelphia.”I’m two thousand miles away,” writes Peter Herbert of Sun City...

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Tamaki Retools as Taste Kitchen

Dan Van is the chef who opened Tamaki on East Liberty last December. He says it was partly the brutal winter that did it in before it ever really got going. His cafeteria-line sushi and rice bowls tailored to a student budget...

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Annapurna

Clattering around his bleak, dirty beige mobile home in Colorado, with a jagged mountain peak outside the window, Ulysses is trying to die quietly, until his ex-wife Emma appears. He cocks a suspicious eyebrow, looks her over,...

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The contrarian vote

In his successful mayoral campaign, Democrat Christopher Taylor got 27,979 votes. Independent Bryan Kelly got just 5,141. Measly as it is, that 15 percent showing was in line with those of other recent independent mayoral...

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Road Tax

The new tax is being collected for Washtenaw County, which expects to raise just over $7 million. City treasurer Matthew Horning says $2.5 million of that will come from Ann Arbor taxpayers. It is a one-time levy, and all...

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A Designer’s Odyssey

For over a decade, the Pangborn Collection had a high-profile shop at Detroit Metro Airport. Many airport shops had been unhappy that heightened post-9/11 security took effect just as the McNamara Terminal opened at DTW in early...

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