When you walk into a U-M a cappella event, the audience’s deafening cheers and raucous cries of adoration might lead you to expect a rock god on stage. But the performers are all U-M students, and the performances are...
Read More“The situation was going downhill rapidly,” Dan Ezekiel remembers. It was the spring of 2009, and the Forsythe Middle School science teacher had gone out to 3013 W. Huron River Dr. to meet the property’s owner,...
Read More“I did everything I set out to do,” says mayor John Hieftje of his seven terms in office.Sitting in city hall’s south-facing first-floor conference room the day after the winter’s heaviest snowfall, Ann...
Read MoreQ. I could swear that when I first moved to A2 in 1960, there was a road named Glacier Way that is now known as Glazier Way. Am I hallucinating or was the road that was named for a geological phenomenon at some point changed to...
Read MoreBy the time you read this, the Wild Bird Center in Plymouth Mall should be closed. “I don’t have a definitive date,” says Lisa Haanpaa, who’s owned the franchise since 2009, but she planned to close...
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Elaine Selo, co-owner of the Selo/Shevel Gallery, calls its longtime location at 301 S. Main “the best corner in Ann Arbor. The building’s changes over the past 142 years mirror downtown’s evolution. Built in...
Read MoreIn her leopard-skin leggings, leather jacket, and long blonde hair, she’s out there every day, rocking in her antique chair. She seems to be looking for something, and she is–not a lost love, but customers for...
Read MoreA recent Groupon Deal of the Day offered a $35 colon hydrotherapy session at Ann Arbor’s Creative Lifeflow–half the regular price to “polish the pipes.” Center owner Nancy Gurney says it’s the third...
Read MoreAround 2010, when a certain modest, good-natured young guitarist began sitting in with established traditional jazz masters James Dapogny and Paul Klinger, it became clear once again that no style or genre belongs exclusively to...
Read MoreJosh Greenberg has just landed in Uganda. It’s the summer after his sophomore year at Duke, where he founded a nonprofit called the Progressive Health Partnership. He’s raised the money to start a small medical...
Read MoreBoxwood Cottage and Home is located in the pretty nineteenth-century Greek Revival house across from the Dexter Farmers Market, and the building has some awesome history: it once housed the nurses who worked in the tuberculosis...
Read MoreThe only restaurant besides Zingerman’s to get its own number in Huffington Post’s “Nine Reasons to Eat in Ann Arbor” was Vellum, a collaboration between John Roumanis (Mediterrano and Carlyle Grill) and...
Read MoreThe Thurston Community Players (TCP) celebrate their fortieth anniversary this year with a musical called “Thru the Fairy Door!” (see Events, March 27). Most of the 100-plus actors are elementary school students, but...
Read MoreThe University of Michigan’s Javanese gamelan, named Kyai Telaga Madu (“Venerable Lake of Honey”), was purchased by U-M musicologist Bill Malm in 1966. Two years later music prof Judith Becker formed an...
Read MoreThe city of Los Angeles receives an often-withering examination in two noteworthy films screening at this year’s Ann Arbor Film Festival. The first, Los Angeles Plays Itself, considers the city as portrayed on film with...
Read MoreNot yet forty, Curtis Sittenfeld has published four big books that navigate the difficult space between literary fiction and the expectations of a large audience. The main character of her first novel, Prep, was the consensus...
Read MoreA sign on the door of the former Biwako Sushi at Woodland Plaza says a Mediterranean restaurant, Damas, is “coming soon.” Owner Andy Kwon’s original Biwako Sushi, in Saline, is still open.
Read MoreUpstairs at the Vault of Midnight, customers peruse comic books, toys, and other pop culture knickknacks. Downstairs, past a smattering of superhero posters, past shelves of indie comics, past a room full of board games and back...
Read MoreThe White Lakes Township resident would go on Facebook game binges at 3 a.m., then couldn’t focus during meetings the next day. “Half the time, even when I was awake, I was moving too slow and speaking too...
Read MoreWhen Susan Chastain started a weekly Scrabble game at her Firefly Club on Ashley in 2005, Merriam-Webster was just bringing out its new Fourth Edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (famous for its game-changing...
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