Q. I am wondering about standards for fixing potholes. Is there a minimum height for the pile of repair tar and gravel (knowing that it will compress over time)? Are some holes deemed too large for filling (requiring a different...
Read MoreEnvironmental education has been part of the AAPS since 1961, when Bill Stapp organized nature field trips at Wines Elementary as a U-M dissertation project. Supported first by a gift from future AAPS environmental specialist...
Read MoreLocal attorney Irv Mermelstein has long argued that the city’s Footing Drain Disconnection Program violates property rights–so far, with no success. In January, judge Tim Connors dismissed his lawsuit on behalf of...
Read MoreWhen Gov. Snyder signed a bill banning straight-ticket voting in January, he set off howls from Democrats.”It was completely partisan,” says county clerk Larry Kestenbaum. “It was pushed by the Republicans in...
Read MoreWhen Camille Brown choreographed Black Girl: Linguistic Play, she had both personal and political motivations: to “remind myself of the beauty of who I was before the world defined me,” she explained at the...
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“The groundhog is coming out!” We were sitting at the kitchen table last year when Jorja spotted the dirt flying up from the ground at the very back of our yard. The mound of excavated earth kept getting bigger and...
Read More“Four or five years ago when I was looking for hiking equipment, I saw it on eBay and thought, ‘Who makes this stuff that sells used for almost as much as brand-new?'” That was manager Matthew Landry’s...
Read More“Eight years ago I had my first craft beer in Traverse City. I didn’t like it at first,” says Brent Payeur. His brother Brad adds: “We started going on tours. We’d hit ten different breweries,...
Read MoreSvoboda is speaking of his and his wife Margaret’s decision to open Arbor Dog Daycare & Boarding in 2006. “Now,” Svoboda says, “pet-related products and services are a $50 billion business.”In...
Read MoreThere’s a good chance that if our era is remembered for any of its literature, it will be as the moment that opened up to new influences on writing done in English. Despite recent nativist screaming on cable news networks,...
Read MorePointless Brewery and Theatre didn’t open last summer when Tori and Jason Tomalia originally announced it would. She has stage-four lung cancer, and they have three young children (Zander, seven, and twins Autumn and...
Read MoreIf there’s a kind of retail that is in no danger of disappearing here, it’s the grocery store, especially the upscale one. Matt and Marc Jonna opened their second Ann Arbor Plum Market on Plymouth Rd. in November,...
Read More“Cheers,” writes Vinal Desai Burbeck. January’s I Spy is “the new Ann Arbor Distilling Company!” “The ‘new spirit in town’ is … next to the Ann Arbor Railroad]...
Read MoreWe received a dozen incorrect submissions this month, all of which named the same ad. We won’t identify it here, but we will say that truth truly is stranger than fiction.The real Fake Ad, on p. 75 of the January issue,...
Read MoreWhen reviewing a Chinese restaurant, I’m usually baffled about where to start. Most menus are so vast it’s almost impossible to test a representative sample. Moreover, everyone has his or her favorite dishes,...
Read MoreBack in December, pianist Igor Levit took on J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations at Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory for a run of seven concerts presented in collaboration with performance artist Marina Abramovic. In...
Read MoreThere’s no prettier performance venue in the area than the repurposed Chelsea Depot. The ornate nineteenth-century former railroad stop with curlicue moldings, wooden floor, high ceilings, and many tall windows is the kind...
Read MoreWhile American comic-book superheroes have only recently become a dominant cinematic genre, Japanese comics (manga) have inspired decades’ worth of animated film and TV adaptations (anime). While many live-action manga...
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