Unmasking the Joker
In the spring of 1989, a drama fraught with irony began playing out in Austria. A Jewish American...
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2017 December
Making a Megachurch
In August, 2|42 Community Church’s new building was a work in progress. One corner of the...
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Just Reward
In 1988 Jim Shayman, a thirty-four-year-old assistant professor in the U-M medical school, faced a...
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The Pete Siers Duo Featuring Mr. B
When some years ago my daughter, as a young teen, was working her way through the first four...
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The Pond on Traverwood?
Q. What is going on with the pond on Traverwood just south of the Oak Cliff apartments? It looks like they were “draining the pond,” but the city posted a stop-work order.A. “In July, the property owner dredged...
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Tectonic Shift
The word hit downtown like a bomb in mid-November: the city had lost its lease on the 222-space...
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Holiday Windows
Partial as we are to the piney woods on a crisp winter day, some of our favorite December walks...
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Basketball Rebound
Last year, the U-M men’s basketball coach had an experienced team but two new assistant...
Read MoreThe Todoroffs Are Back
Juicy Kitchen founders Susan and George Todoroff are once again running day-to-day operations after a planned ownership transfer fell through. “We decided to step back in, at least for the time being, because there are...
Read MoreTexas Barbecue at Dickey’s
Dickey’s Barbecue Pit is now serving traditional Texas barbecue in Washtenaw Commons. Will Kaufman and his wife, Rebecca, opened the franchise location in late October after another franchisee’s agreement with...
Read MoreJustin Walter
Discussions about jazz education most often focus on the university programs that have blossomed all over the world in recent decades and have had a formidable impact on the very nature of the music. As important as these are in...
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Howard Markel
When Howard Markel was a U-M medical student in the early 1980s, the world was just beginning to...
Read MoreShawarma at an East-Side BP
The owner of the new Shawarma Grill at the Golfside and Washtenaw BP station is twenty years old. Reda Alnahi, who goes by Ray, says he has been working at restaurants in Dearborn since he was seventeen and saw a place in the...
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Pedestrian Protective Posts
That’s what traffic engineers call the bright-yellow wands that sprouted from local streets...
Read MoreBuddy’s Arrives
For more than seventy years Buddy’s Pizza has been a beloved Detroit tradition–serving the original Detroit-style square pizza at family gatherings, celebrations, and postgame parties. Its gradual expansion finally...
Read MoreMillage Wins
Smith, who himself narrowly won reelection in the Fifth Ward (Up Front, p. 9), wasn’t the only observer stunned that the county’s mental health and police services millage was approved by a landslide in November....
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Couch Surfer
“Who are you?” I nervously asked the unfamiliar young man sleeping on my couch. Barely...
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