On Christmas Eve 1944, in Southampton, England, George Bigelow and the U.S. Army’s Sixty-Sixth Division boarded the Leopoldville, a converted Belgian cruise liner bound for France. They were rushing to reinforce depleted...
Read MoreIn the summer of 2014 Trish Heusel attended a design planning session for the former Washtenaw County Juvenile Detention Center site on Platt Rd. The plot, just north of Platt’s intersection with Huron Pkwy., directly...
Read MoreAn academic star in his Detroit charter high school, driven and confident, Darren Gordon felt “a little annoyed” to learn that his acceptance at the University of Michigan was contingent upon attending...
Read MoreQ. Why does the U-M School of Natural Resources and the Environment have an address of 440 Church St., when it is located a block west, on what used to be East University?A. East University between North University and South...
Read More“City Council and I have invested a significant amount of time preparing for and commissioning an independent review of the Saline Police Department,” mayor Brian Marl announced in his January State of the City...
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Think of it as Taste of Ann Arbor–category, theatre; subcategory, U-M students. The Wall-to-Wall Theatre Festival, held in North Campus’s Walgreen Drama Center March 26 and 27, is roaming theater, with the audience,...
Read More“I still dream of Bill Knapp’s chocolate cake. It was the best,” a dessert enthusiast was overheard saying recently. Despite the restaurant chain’s bankruptcy in 2002, that dream is about to rematerialize...
Read More“It is critical that we address the vacuum of leadership at city hall,” Third Ward councilmember Zach Ackerman said late last year. “That has to be one of our priorities for the new year,” agreed his...
Read MoreAnn Arbor Thrift Shop volunteer Sarah Minor says that donated purses, suitcases, and clothing are routinely searched for valuables that donors didn’t realize were there. “Once we received a donation of suitcases...
Read MoreOn March 20, spring will begin in the Northern Hemisphere. The photo above, of an American robin perched on top of a Norway spruce, was taken around the time of an earlier vernal equinox. A bittersweet Ojibwe legend explains the...
Read MoreTen years ago, friends Lizann Anderson and Suzie Miller started making mixes in an eight-by-ten-foot kitchen built onto Anderson’s Ann Arbor garage. Now their whole grain, gluten-free creations can be found in more than...
Read More“It probably adds up to 1,000 people,” says Alexander Deatrick, tallying local volunteers for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. A former star of Huron High’s chess club, Deatrick, eighteen, is...
Read MoreA high-energy executive with the Boy Scouts of America, Stricherz was previously based in Omaha as development director for the BSA’s Mid-America Council. In February, she moved to Ann Arbor as the new “scout...
Read More“Thirty years! That’s three-zero! And four months!” said Kyung Kim over the phone, marveling at how long she’s operated the Town Cobbler at Briarwood (and it actually opened in 1973). She’s now...
Read More“I don’t want to be dodgy, but even I don’t know how this one is going to turn out,” says Roger Pothus, owner of Renaissance clothing store. Renaissance widely disseminated a “moving sale”...
Read MoreThe court’s ruling in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges last summer was a boon for same-sex Michigan couples who’d been waiting to get married. It also brought long-awaited relief for those who’d previously wed...
Read MorePerhaps the biggest surprise of Brett Story’s film The Prison in Twelve Landscapes–and certainly its biggest stroke of genius–is that a prison is never seen. In the documentary, which will have its world...
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