Science and Nature on the North Side
When Eugene Leslie and his wife, Emily, left their northside home to the City of Ann Arbor for a...
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2017 February
Did We End Homelessness?
Two years ago, the county’s social service agencies signed onto a national initiative called...
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Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge
Guitarist Julian Lage (say “Lahzh”) was a jazz prodigy who became the subject of a...
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Looping Detroit
Traffic on the Detroit People Mover surged in January. The additional riders, though, were not...
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What’s in a Name?
Does Ms. Dawn T. Bo sell Tae Bo exercise equipment? Do people hock their used exercise equipment...
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Private Walk?
Q: There’s a sign on the walkway that runs between Liberty Plaza and the Library Lane parking structure that says, “Private Walk/Use by permission only.” Is someone apt to apprehend me if I walk through? A: The...
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Hospice Departs
Twenty years ago, the nonprofit built a state-of-the-art end-of-life caregiving facility on Oak...
Read MoreNick Easton Finds a Buyer
The Cavern Club complex on First Street will close its doors on February 9. Nick Easton bought the onetime brewery in 1994 to house an antiques mall but soon turned the basement lagering tunnels into a music venue, the Cavern...
Read MorePizza Overload?
David Cesarini opened his fourth Domino’s franchise in Ann Arbor (he has a fifth in East Lansing) on January 1, though by mid-month he was still completing the build-out. “We’re swapping out equipment. Boring...
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Taking Down the Tree
The 2010 cancellation of the city’s curbside Christmas tree pickup service has created an...
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Pale Flower
The term film noir calls to mind both formal characteristics and a very specific time and place:...
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Parker to Gallup and Back Again
I went over to Parker Mill Park on New Year’s Day with the idea of stretching my lazy winter...
Read MoreOnce Upon a Grill
This last summer, circumstances conspired to force my husband and me to stop at a McDonald’s for more than coffee and a bathroom. While the fries were edible–the fat and salt of fried potatoes are nearly always...
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Sibling Switch
Changing the original babo on Washington and Division into Fred’s, a casual café, sounds like a win-win decision for the Lelcaj siblings, Sava and Fred.When Sava opened babo in 2011 on the ground floor of Sterling 411...
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Kay Kendall and Rudy Haertl
Kay Kendall and Rudolf (Rudy) Haertl will celebrate their second anniversary this June. She had...
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Dave Douglas
Historians may quibble, but to me the history of the jazz trumpet began in 1924, when the young...
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Terrance Hayes
When I teach contemporary poetry to the young, I tell them to pay attention to everything about...
Read MoreThe Perfect Valentine Dinner
It’s a well-worn, even tired, question–what constitutes the perfect Valentine dinner? This month, reservations will surge in the city’s restaurants as people try to suss out the answer, likely with mixed...
Read MorePTO Thrift Shop Expands
In a 2014 Observer interview Janet Fritsch, then president of the Ann Arbor PTO Thrift Shop, said she was hoping for “bigger and better things” in the organization’s future. Her wish came true with the opening...
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