2015 July

2AZ

In 2AZ, Michael Brian Ogden’s apocalyptic zombie drama premiering at Chelsea’s Purple Rose Theatre, the undead are the least of the characters’ problems. Sure, these zombies won’t hesitate to devour a...

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Same Pets, New Vets

Since the shopping center at S. Main and Ann Arbor-Saline opened, feline and canine members of local families have received care from four different vet practices occupying the same storefront–a sole practitioner, a...

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Fancy Cakes in the Coutyard Shops

Rubina Sadiq and her family worked frantically to open her new bakery, Cakes by Rubina, on schedule at the end of May. “We could hardly sleep,” says Sadiq. Fortunately, she’s had experience working while...

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Detention art

“It’s good for stress relief,” says one red-haired girl. “It gets our creative juices flowing so we can be like a kid.””It helps you build character traits–so you can stay out of...

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Boycott Eden?

A revitalized local chapter of the National Organization for Women wants the People’s Food Co-op to boycott Eden Foods. They’re angry at the Clinton company’s lawsuit challenging a provision of the Affordable...

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The Elusive Collector

On July 15, Arthur Nusbaum will set out from his home in Burns Park to walk all four Ann Arbor art fairs. He’ll eye every booth but will always return to certain favorites, where he’ll be greeted warmly and often...

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Schools Showdown

With 300 furious teachers, parents, and students filling Skyline High School’s auditorium, the June Ann Arbor school board meeting inevitably turned ugly.During the meeting’s public comment period, fourteen speakers...

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The M-Den Takes La Marsa’s Spot

At Marketplace Changes, it’s been a truism that once a restaurant takes over an Ann Arbor location, it will never be retail again. Restaurants cost so much to build, our theory goes, and make so much more money per square...

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Edan Lepucki

We had postapocalyptic literature even before we realized that our species might actually destroy itself. Writers (and readers) evidently find it more interesting to imagine human beings facing extinction than bumbling along for...

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Big Gulp

In early June, Hiller’s Market in Arborland had a ghostly look. Only a few canned goods stood on once-packed shelves, empty coolers gaped, and signs at the checkout lanes cautioned, “We no longer accept...

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Casablanca

My husband retired this spring, and after throwing a party for 150 colleagues, friends, and relatives, we’re planning to go to Morocco this fall. He went to Morocco once, more than thirty years ago, after a month of...

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Vintage Pleasures

In Timbertown Park on a warm Sunday in May, the clock magically turns back to 1860. Squirrel Bait, the umpire, tosses a bat to Honest John, captain of the Chelsea Monitors, playing their first home game of the season after a...

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Jeff and Marc Taras

In the summer of 1981, Marc Taras went out for breakfast with his good friend Paul Joseph Ryder. After steak and eggs, the two took a stroll and passed a vacant shop in the 600 block of Packard St. “Wouldn’t this be...

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Flat-Out Success

Fifteen years ago, with Stacey Marsh about to deliver their first daughter, her husband Mike rushed to her hospital bedside, his clothes covered in flour.The birth of their daughter coincided with the opening of their bakery in...

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A Home for All Ages

“The Lord sends us those fragile and abandoned brothers and sisters who, like the paralytic in the Bible, come crying out, ‘Lord, I have no one.'”—“Those words by Father Louis Guanella set the...

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Washtenaw Dairy

“The answer to this month’s I Spy is the one and only Washtenaw Dairy on Madison and Ashley!” says Terri Klein Gordinier. “Or, Wah-Dee as we call it around here,” shares Anne Heise. “I just...

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Telemarketer Calls

Last month’s Fake Ad asked readers to tell politicians to stop telemarketers’ tactics. Of course, being a Fake Ad, it asked people to accomplish that by calling an expensive pay-per-call phone number. Carol Mousigian...

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Flag Memories

When a state is admitted to the Union, it has to wait till the next Fourth of July to get its star added to the American flag. Michigan joined the union in January 1837. The twenty-six-star flag served from that July until...

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Junglefowl

It’s easy to make a comparison between Ypsilanti duo Junglefowl and the White Stripes, as even Junglefowl’s own publicity materials do. Both bands play raw, blues-­influenced garage rock, and both are composed of a...

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Ashley MacIsaac

Every now and then a certain Nova Scotian fiddler descends upon our town, boards the Ark, rips the veil, and stands us on our ears. Ashley MacIsaac accomplishes this by whipping up strathspeys, reels, and jigs with astonishing...

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