The Children’s Orchard chain has been sold and has closed its Ann Arbor store. Taylor Bond, who bought the string of “gently used” kids’ clothing franchises and moved the company headquarters to Ann Arbor...
Read MoreMr. Alan’s Elite sounds like it might sell men’s tuxes, but manager Bill Ruiz explains the name: “Mr. Alan Bishop started a store forty years ago in Southfield on the corner of Ten and Greenfield called Mr....
Read MorePioneer High School students will represent Michigan this month at the National High School Ethics Bowl. But what’s an ethics bowl?Jeanine DeLay says you can think of it as the inverse of a traditional debate club. Instead...
Read More“It was love at first sight,” gushes Nichole Nilsson. She’s speaking of her first visit to Nixon Farms while planning her September 2013 wedding. “The minute we walked into the barn, we thought this was...
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“We’ve had a terrific January and terrific February,” says Martin Betz, COO of the Grand Rapids-based Goodrich Quality Theaters. “Movies like Shades of Grey and American Sniper and SpongeBob and...
Read MoreWhen county administrator Verna McDaniel announced her retirement in February, her bosses on the county commission asked her to stay while they searched for a successor. But they also played a wild card: “We’re...
Read MoreThe controversial student high-rise going up at 413 E. Huron finally has a name: Foundry Lofts. It doesn’t seem like the obvious moniker for a fourteen-story mixed-use building, or even a very appealing one. What were they...
Read MoreArt Is In Market came to Briarwood for the holiday season and decided to stay. It has now moved a few doors down to the smaller but highly desirable inside corner that Coldwater Creek vacated. The store was conceived by Debbie...
Read MoreDetermined to claim the title of Ann Arbor’s most ambitious craft beer bar, HopCat opened with 100 beers on tap, virtually all of them artisanal, small-batch brews, with seventy of those taps rotating. Exactly one tap is...
Read MoreBrendan McCall and his wife, Lili Kostova, searched for a year and a half for a house to buy. McCall, thirty-two, is executive chef and partner at Mani Osteria and Isalita restaurants, both located in downtown Ann Arbor....
Read More“Shakey” Jake Woods’ legend is well known among Ann Arborites, but the late street performer’s legacy has taken on a surprising new dimension: a tribute band. You probably wouldn’t guess at first...
Read MoreLuis Hernandez, Andres Luna, and Nicolas Hernandez Quintana are childhood friends from an Otomi village in Mexico called Doxteje, northwest of Mexico City. Quintana is also technically the uncle of Hernandez, but the three are...
Read MoreWill Dexter’s schools annex Whitmore Lake’s schools? Not anytime soon.”The discussion was put on hold,” says Dexter Community Schools superintendent Chris Timmis. “The cost model really...
Read MoreGuard your hearts, tender people. And you tough ones may want to crack open those aortas. The current exhibit at U-M’s Rackham Hall, Responding to Chaos: Art as action, engagement, and revelation, may flood them with...
Read More“Wynken, Blynken, and Nod?” calls a woman, standing in the doorway of Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles on Fourth Ave. “Check next week!” owner Jeff Pickell shouts back.Pickell (pronounced pick-ELL)...
Read MoreFor the past five years, the Ann Arbor Public Schools have contracted with the Washtenaw Intermediate School District to operate their school buses. But in January, the school board notified WISD that it wouldn’t be...
Read MoreOn the first Tuesday of every month, there’s opera at the Sidetrack in Ypsilanti. Yup–opera–in a bar. Highbrow meets Loewenbraeu. Granted, the Sidetrack’s event space, where Opera on Tap reigns, is not a...
Read More“I don’t get many of these,” writes Steven Huang, “but this month’s [I Spy] is a statue at the entrance of the North Campus Research Complex, or the old Pfizer building.” “The egg and...
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