Calmly focused, Jesse Blumberg stands gazing into the audience, his eyes agleam with a warmly arresting intelligence. Songs composed in the 1820s have taken root within this man; he is dedicating part of his life to their...
Read MoreMy memories of the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum begin in the old museum’s preschool room, with my toddlers crawling on and around the big red fire truck, trying on different firefighter coats, and cooking up strange...
Read MoreIf you find gold, the precious yellow metal, in its native form in your backyard, please do let us know. We will certainly consider an Outside article about it. However, this article is about living gold that, in its own way, is...
Read MoreOffice Depot has eaten OfficeMax, though it seems like the opposite. Office Depot at Cranbrook is the one closing its doors on May 31 and passing out $10 coupons to shop at the OfficeMax at Oak Valley, which for the time being...
Read MoreBehind Downtown Home and Garden, Mark Hodesh’s Mark’s Carts and its sidekick Bill’s Beer Garden opened, in theory anyway, on April 4, a Friday when the temperature hardly broke the forties and rain lashed down...
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Modern jazz is a messy business. There are traditionalists who steadfastly reproduce the sounds of yesteryear, dedicated to preserving and strictly adhering to a narrowly perceived tradition. But there is another world of...
Read MoreBy the end of the year, Ali Ramlawi hopes to have Jerusalem Garden moved around the corner into its new East Liberty address, formerly Seva. He submitted plans to the city in April and plans to begin construction after the Ann...
Read MoreLauren Naimola’s ensemble is polished, elegant, and not easily categorizable. It seems to be vintage–since she’s the proprietor of the newly opened Dear Golden vintage store, that’s a safe bet–but...
Read MoreWhen there’s a late-night crisis at Alpha House, the local shelter for homeless families, shelter director Latania Fair gets the call. It may be a staff member wondering whether a client needs to go to the emergency room....
Read MoreCity street sweeping vehicles cleaned the beautiful riverside pathway through Bandemer and Argo parks at the end of March soon after the snow finally melted. But they didn’t touch the nearby sidewalk on N. Main, which was...
Read MoreSoon after Gail Solway–an Ann Arbor pharmacist, massage therapist, and nutritionist–purchased the property at 500-504 Spring Street, she and her architects, Brad and Theresa Angelini, decided that renovating the...
Read MoreBlimpy Burger found a new home. According to an April post on the fundraising site indiegogo.com, after a few relocation attempts fell through, owner Rich Magner found what would seem to be the perfect location: next to the...
Read MoreWhen Jeff Daniels founded the Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea, he was often quoted about his desire “to build an audience for live theater” where one had not existed previously and where some thought such an audience...
Read MoreFour years in the making, the documentary Never a Bystander premieres this month at the Michigan Theater as part of the Jewish Film Festival (see Films, p. 73). First-time filmmaker Evelyn Neuhaus (Ann Arborites, January 2012)...
Read More“The overriding influence on the pension plan over the past five years was the recession and the stock market crash,” says city administrator Steve Powers.Nancy Walker, executive director of the city’s...
Read MoreSince the 1970s, Seva has been king of the 300 block of East Liberty, a neighborhood once dominated by beads, guitars, gauzy cotton, and whole wheat. There’s still some of that counter-culture flavor left in the area, but...
Read MoreThe corner of Fourth Ave. and Liberty will be much changed this spring. Nick Stamadianos will not be sunning himself in his favorite spot outside his Cloverleaf restaurant, as he always did at the first sign of warming weather....
Read MoreWith a few days’ notice about President Obama’s April visit, the U-M spread more than a red carpet. Apparently, when the White House decided the eighty-plus-year-old Intramural Building was a choice spot for a...
Read MoreIn An Archaeology of Yearning, Kalamazoo College English professor Bruce Mills gives a completely loving but totally honest account of living with his autistic son, Jacob, now a young adult, and the ways Jacob’s needs and...
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