Don Chisholm’s Ann Arbor
When you’re driving through campus, downtown, or the Briarwood area, chances are...
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2017 August
Pipeline Protest
It’s a muggy July morning, and a boisterous group of campers is being led in games by...
Read MoreStop Sign at Oakbrook
Q. On Northbrook next to the old Office Depot, there is a stop sign at Oakbrook. Does the left lane turn left only? Is the lane to enter straight into Oakbrook condos in the right lane? There have never been any arrow...
Read MoreCoffee Makes Way for Wellness
On Friday, August 11, Main St. staple Espresso Royale will serve its last cup of joe. The closing will not affect the company’s other cafes in the Ann Arbor area.”This space served us well for years,” says Lisa...
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Stumps and Rumps
Nine years ago, a chainsaw carver turned a large tree stump there into an enormous hand with its...
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Computer Transition
Affordable Computers off South Industrial closed its doors on May 31 after twenty years of offering refurbished computer equipment and repairs. We were unable to contact owner Mike Nadeau, but his former business partner Bart...
Read MoreDoctor Shortage
One local clinic is booked so far in advance that in late May it wasn’t even making appointments—just taking contact information for a wait list. It’s not much comfort, but the shortage in the subspecialty is...
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George Bedard 2017
When Chuck Berry died in March at age ninety, George Bedard knew right away that he would build...
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Return to the River
In 1958, crews were digging the basement for a new U-M dorm, and Ann Arbor parks superintendent...
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Ollie Food + Spirits
In the six years it was open, I might have been in Cafe Ollie once. With front windows too high to...
Read MoreEmoji Optional
The liquor store on Packard east of Platt, formerly Chiparu’s Party Shoppe, is now I Love Liquor. New owner Dennis Zaitona uses a heart emoji symbol on his sign rather than the word “love” and says that he...
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Sprint for Flint
Since 2009 Braun, aka Mr. B, Ann Arbor’s internationally acclaimed blues and boogie-woogie...
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Full Service
Catholic Social Services is adding medical care to its social services. In June, the catchall...
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Save the Bagel
Rudi Bachmann stopped at Bruegger’s Bagels on South Main at Woodland Plaza a few months ago...
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Sonny Landreth
Louisiana guitarist, singer, and songwriter Sonny Landreth is very much a creature of the Gulf...
Read MoreFrom Wet Seal to Love Culture
Love Culture opened on the JCPenney side of Briarwood Mall in late June. Employees of the “on-trend cute cheap” women’s and teen clothing store were friendly but insisted they could not give any statements to...
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Becky Warren
It’s striking how rarely, over fifteen years of war, the Iraq conflict and the experiences...
Read MorePita Pan at State and Eisenhower
In March 2016 we reported that Joseph Kafi, who owns the Shell station at State and Eisenhower, would be renting space to a Mediterranean restaurant to be called Phoenician Thyme. It finally opened this April, as Pita Pan. It...
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Susan Bryan
On a hot summer afternoon, Susan Bryan, Washtenaw County’s rain garden coordinator, leaves...
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Spruce Trees Are Suffering
Winter is the time to hear and feel crunching underfoot. But it happened to me in May, on the...
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