The meeting in July was amazing enough: all four mayoral candidates in the August Democratic primary faced 500 homeless people and their advocates at Genesis of Ann Arbor, the interfaith partnership between St. Clare of Assisi...
Read MoreAnn Arborites cavorting in the Argo Cascades, or communing with nature out by the rapids at Delhi, may not realize that these wonderful spots are actually relics of industrial sites created by the region’s first European...
Read MoreWith its rows of golden corn and deep green soybeans leading to a big red barn, Bur Oaks Farm in Webster Township is a picture-perfect farm.”Crops this year are generally excellent,” emails Tom Bloomer, who bought...
Read MoreQ. What became of the panhandler initiative, with a fellow on the street helping panhandlers connect to services, and donations collected at downtown stores?A. The Dawn Farm program was described in the November 2001 Observer,...
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In recent times, “slider has just come to mean a mini hamburger,” says Kelly Cobb, third-generation owner of Hunter House. Sliders, a recent fad on the fancy restaurant trail, aren’t a new invention, nor is...
Read MorePam Behjatnia had never met Alice Liberson, owner of Dogma Catmantoo, but when she learned that Garbo, Carrie, and Bernie’s food and toy supplier was going out of business, “I called her, met with her, and two hours...
Read MoreHarissa is a dried chili paste originating in Tunisia but used throughout North Africa as a table condiment and a flavor component in stews and salads and rubbed on meats and vegetables. As with most recipes of this type,...
Read MoreLast month you found us visually embracing a single tree. This month we go for the entire forest.It is autumn in a town populated by deciduous trees. October will show us oranges brighter than marmalade, reds more intense than...
Read MoreMoni Mulepati, thirty-three, has shared her remarkable wedding story so often you sense she’s a little impatient with yet another retelling. But the Nepal native knows her headline-making marriage in 2005 helps promote the...
Read More“Sanjay bought me out,” says Sandy Cadotte-Keys, the owner of Dragon’s Lair Futons. Though it’s not a separate store anymore, Sanjay Panjwani is retaining Sandy’s “Dragon’s Lair”...
Read MoreFor awhile there really was no Thai in the Kerrytown area, with both No Thai! and Siam Cuisine shuttered for remodels. A fresh, newly configured No Thai! reopened August 29. “It’s a little more efficient,” said...
Read MoreEditor’s note: This film is now no longer part of the Ann Arbor Korean Film Festival. For updated schedule, see http://www.ii.umich.edu/ncks/eventsprograms/filmscreenings. An interviewee in the documentary Manshin: Ten...
Read MoreThe State-Liberty shopping district has got its groove back. A few years ago, Abraham Hejazi memorably complained that even the panhandlers were leaving as he closed his E. Liberty women’s clothing store, Allure, across...
Read MorePainting with a Twist, a Louisiana company that bills itself as “the largest franchisor in the paint-and-sip category,” opened on Oak Valley Dr. in April. Owner Letitia Tenner considers the two independent social...
Read MoreThe Argus Farm Stop has three owners, husband-and-wife team Kathy Sample and Bill Brinkerhoff, and a third investor, Scott Fleck, but Sample is the presence you see. Tanned, hair in a braid, wearing loose-woven cotton and clogs,...
Read MoreCirilla’s–an adult toy, lingerie, and novelty shop–opened in July in a Carpenter Rd. strip mall. The franchise, which has nine Michigan locations, carries the Fifty Shades of Grey official product line. An...
Read MoreOver the past four years, Jim Smith III figures he’s donated 6,000 donuts to staff and patients at the U-M Cancer Center. After seeing a kid in a wheelchair waiting for radiation treatment, the co-owner of Washtenaw Dairy...
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