Feb 12, 2014 | News |
The city has a water problem: the southwest side floods during rainstorms—and the bigger the storm, the bigger the flood. The county has a solution: spend $8.6 million to dig three water retention ponds along Scio Church Road....
Read MoreFeb 11, 2014 | Marketplace |
Austin McCurdy worked his way through college as a delivery driver for Papa John’s, and, after a stint as a high school math teacher, he decided to return to the pizza business. Now he owns five Papa John’s...
Read MoreFeb 10, 2014 | Marketplace |
Business consultant and Ann Arbor resident Nick Ferris plans to open an Old Carolina Barbecue Company franchise in mid- to late February in the Cranbrook Village outbuilding currently shared by Potbelly subs and Tony...
Read MoreFeb 9, 2014 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
Open for business under the giant TAPAS sign on Washington St. only since November, Aventura has already established its ambition and potential to provide an outstanding night out. Eating here is a social adventure, with...
Read MoreFeb 8, 2014 | Marketplace |
Walgreens opened a two-story location across from the U-M’s Central Campus on New Year’s Eve. It’s at the corner of State and North University in the former Michigan Book & Supply building–not far...
Read MoreFeb 7, 2014 | Marketplace |
In 2005, a single-wide trailer appeared in a nondescript gravel lot at the northwest corner of Liberty and Maple. The trailer served as the sales office for the West Towne condominiums.Inside was an impressive scale model of the...
Read MoreFeb 6, 2014 | Community |
The 2006 fire that destroyed all the merchandise in its South State Street location didn’t stop it: the board found a better location on South Industrial, along the booming “resale row” with Recycle Ann...
Read MoreIt’s not like I’m crazy. I would have stayed inside like everyone else.It was the second day after the “polar vortex” hit us. The wind chill was something like forty degrees below zero, and the police...
Read MoreFeb 4, 2014 | Uncategorized |
“The relatively new sculpture,” says Cathy Behrendt of January’s I Spy image, is “in front of the Earl V. Moore building on U-M’s North Campus.” The paired, larger-than-life heads are the work...
Read MoreFeb 4, 2014 | Marketplace |
“What a treat it was to see Gerald V. Hern’s Boston Post poem, ‘Spahn and Sain and Pray for Rain’ from 1948 used in your ad!” wrote Bruce Conforth in his entry this month. “Sain was such a...
Read MoreFeb 3, 2014 | Community |
Dave Queen noticed the work crews setting up for the NHL Winter Classic a couple days before the big game. “There was this huge event going on down the street, and I couldn’t ignore it,” says Queen, who lives...
Read MoreFeb 2, 2014 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |
The skies will begin to thicken and swarm next year, when the Federal Aviation Administration opens up U.S. airspace to unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones. Initially developed and used by the military, drones are now being made...
Read MoreFeb 1, 2014 | Marketplace |
Back in 2008, E.T. Crowe’s neighbor, Trevor Thrall, plunked down some bottles of beer on Crowe’s dining room table. He and his friend Matt Roy had brewed it, and they wanted her help marketing it. A couple years, a...
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