Recycling Rift
After just a week on the job, new city administrator Howard Lazarus terminated the city’s contract with ReCommunity, the company that’s processed recycling at the city’s Materials Recovery Facility for the last...
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Literary Threads
From its earliest days Ann Arbor has been a reading town with enthusiastic library supporters. Its first library was launched in 1827, just three years after the city was founded. Even so, the history of our libraries is not a...
Read MoreSlates Are Back
After nearly a decade’s absence from the local political scene, two slates are on the November ballot, one for the school board and the other for the library board. Eight candidates are running for each nonpartisan body....
Read MoreWind Turbine Towers?
Q: For months now we have been watching what are apparently sections of wind turbine towers being transported in groups westbound on Eisenhower, with police escorts. We’ve been curious as to what the destination is.A: Over...
Read MoreGoing and Gone
“Come in and have a nap!” says Jim Eiben to customers walking through the door of Mattress Geeks in the Colonnade. It’s closing, but he doesn’t know exactly when. “That’s up to the mall....
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Smoothies at the Colonnade
Marie Wood, manager of the new Tropical Smoothie Cafe at the Colonnade, sat down for a minute after steering a health- but calorie-conscious customer through the list of smoothies, eventually matching her to a “Totally...
Read MoreA New Owner at Baskin Robbins
“I was looking for a business that was closer to home,” says Robert Park of Northville. He used to have a beauty-supply business in Detroit, but in July, he bought Ann Arbor’s only Baskin Robbins franchise, in...
Read MoreNeutral Zone director Lori Roddy
“The world is yours, dude!” a skinny teenaged boy in ripped jeans declares grandly to his pals standing in the recording studio at the Neutral Zone teen center. But the kid freezes when photographer Adrian Wylie aims...
Read MoreWadada Leo Smith
The social and artistic revolutions in the mid-twentieth century created completely new spaces for individual and collective expression outside of mainstream American culture. One such center of creativity was the Association...
Read MoreSeeking Sandhill Cranes
Imagine giant prehistoric birds with six-foot wingspans sailing over Ann Arbor. Or step outside during the sandhill cranes’ fall migration and actually see them. Juliet Berger, the Ann Arbor city ornithologist, reports...
Read MoreNew at Washtenaw Commons
The spruced-up Washtenaw Commons at Washtenaw and Yost continues to add new tenants. Most recently, California-based Blaze Pizza joined the T-Mobile store and Ann Arbor Thrift Shop there, and an Olga’s is slated to open in...
Read MoreA New Name on North U
The storefront sushi shop on North University has changed names and configurations many times in the last decade. The first, hugely popular iteration was Sushi.com e (later Sushi.com). New owners upgraded the decor in 2014 and...
Read MoreAnn Arbor Gets a Red Wing Store
Sturdy, reliable Red Wing boots have been hard to find in Ann Arbor since Ehnis & Sons closed ten years ago. “There was a mom-and-pop shop down the street that used to carry them,” Ed Lopez says, jerking his...
Read MoreJoshua Davis
Like Laith Al-Saadi, Joshua Davis was a Michigan artist thrust suddenly into the national spotlight on NBC’s singing competition The Voice. Although Davis didn’t quite make it to the show’s top prize–a...
Read MoreBo Replaces Bread & Butter
In mid-August, Lisa Roberts closed Bed & Butter at 333 S. Main and moved some of its home goods and gifts to her original store, Rock Paper Scissors, at 216 S. Main. Roberts expected Bed & Butter to reach a different...
Read MoreEasy Pay, Easy Go
For years, print newspapers have been trying increasingly desperate measures to boost revenue, but the latest ploy by the MLive Media Group breaks new ground: taking subscribers’ money without their permission.MLive,...
Read MoreSuperwoman
How did this happen? One minute my wife, Kim, was happily planting flowers in containers in front of the house. The next, she was bursting through the door and into the kitchen sweating, agitated, eyes wide open with...
Read MoreEating Maize & Blue
Maize & Blue Delicatessen is neither a true Jewish deli nor a marketing arm of University of Michigan sports. Both traditions are honored, however–or perhaps leveraged, if you want to see it that way. The deep roster...
Read MoreHarmonica Club
“Nobody’s going to become a good musician out of this, because no one’s got the lung power,” says Pat Rubadeau, coordinator of the University of Michigan Harmonica Club. Despite the name, group members...
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