Jul 16, 2014 | Featured |
Ann Arbor native Helen Gotlib earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the U-M in 2003, with concentrations in printmaking and scientific illustration. That led her to develop what she calls “a process-oriented drawing...
Read MoreJul 15, 2014 | Community |
In a lot of ways, “Ann Arbor Townies ONLY!” resembles thousands of other nostalgia-fueled online groups, haunted by people of a certain age who want to share memories and photos of their hometown with similarly...
Read MoreJul 13, 2014 | News |
The number of Ann Arbor cars and light trucks equipped for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication is about to triple.The high-tech gear required for vehicles to communicate with one another about their location, speed, and...
Read MoreJul 12, 2014 | Marketplace |
A couple doors down from Shabby Chic, Heidi and Eric Langenderfer have opened Little Conductors, a toy store and train rental business. Eric, a carpenter by trade, built a colorful lawnmower engine-powered trackless train out of...
Read MoreJul 12, 2014 | Marketplace |
If you recognize these brands–Hardy, Winston, Keystone–you know what to expect in the white house next to Terry B’s restaurant. Bailiwicks Outdoors opened in time to outfit 2014’s trout fishers with these...
Read MoreJul 12, 2014 | Marketplace |
There’s still a phone store on the corner of Washington and Fourth, but instead of Wireless Toyz, it’s now T-Mobile. With a radiant white interior you can see from across the street, it looks like an art gallery....
Read MoreJul 11, 2014 | Community |
“I thought it was so cool. I couldn’t resist it,” says Scott Lankton about Black Betty, the 1976 Volkswagen Beetle he purchased three years ago. (The Ram Jam 1977 cover hit “Black Betty,” playing on...
Read MoreJul 10, 2014 | Community |
“Do you know Jesus?” the man growled at a couple walking near Kerrytown on a spring night. He was tilting to one side and held a beer can in each hand. “Good evening, sir,” the man said, not making eye...
Read MoreJul 10, 2014 | News |
Standing at the corner of Miller and West Delhi roads, Dagmar Moore points to an array of pink flags dotting the green field to the northeast.”That’s where they’ll go,” she says. “Oil derricks with...
Read MoreJul 9, 2014 | Marketplace |
A New Yorker cartoon by David Sipress depicts a couple sitting in a Starbucks cafe. Its caption reads, “Are we in this Starbucks or the one down the street?”The same could be said for Subway. In fact, when it comes...
Read MoreJul 9, 2014 | Marketplace |
Get Some Burritos opened in the former Oriental Express on Packard. It’s the first time in awhile you could get some anything on the block. The Blue Front closed several months ago, making four contiguous empty storefronts...
Read MoreJul 8, 2014 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |
A Louis Vuitton quiver and a dream catcher bra.Translucent coyotes spun from packaging tape.And, coiled like a white snake, a MacBook Pro power cord beaded with a peyote stitch.Created by contemporary Native artists, these works...
Read MoreJul 7, 2014 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |
For many the main defining aspect of jazz is improvisation. And yet many of the most creative artists who have been associated with this kind of music, however broadly defined, have explored the deeply running continuum between...
Read MoreJul 6, 2014 | Marketplace |
“We’re far more technical than any other bike shop in town, without a doubt,” says Oscar Bustos, owner of Great Lakes Cycling, which has moved into a new space on West Stadium. “Not many bike shops have...
Read MoreJul 5, 2014 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
It’s hard to assess the offshoot of a popular local institution without comparisons. So here’s the short version: the new Knight’s Downtown Steakhouse is better-looking than its Dexter Ave. parent, but the menu...
Read MoreJul 4, 2014 | Community, Marketplace |
Over the years, the Fake Ad Czar has been called many things. Devious. Unfair. Lanky. And his favorite, clever. Until this month, however, he’d never been called a theological scholar.That changed with Marty...
Read MoreJul 4, 2014 | Community |
“That’s the moon over the rainbow of colors at Anderson Paints,” writes Joshua Rabinowitz. “2386 W. Stadium Blvd.,” adds Pamela Kittel. Founded downtown in the 1950s, the Anderson Paint Company...
Read MoreJul 3, 2014 | Marketplace |
John Davis’s Colton Bay Outfitters slid out of the world just as another high-end outfitter of trout fishing equipment slid into it. Lauren Kingsley, one of the owners of the newly opened Bailiwicks Outdoors in Dexter,...
Read MoreAt the Blind Pig, Hiawatha Bailey says, “they know how to treat a rocker right.” When he’s not crooning behind the mic or listening to other acts in the bar’s main room, you may find him downstairs in the...
Read MoreOn my bike rides this spring, I pedaled past Mitchell Field and Riverside Park. At Mitchell, four of the six softball fields I played on for years with the Observer’s O Team have been plowed under. At Riverside, where I...
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