Mary Szybist
The first small poem of Mary Szybist’s first book ended with this remarkable statement: “there are some sadnesses / in which I do not long for God.” I find it remarkable because few contemporary poets admit to...
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Virtual Food Delivery
A thought floating through many adult minds around 6 p.m. is: “I want dinner delivered to my door, but not pizza.” When I Googled “Who delivers in Ann Arbor?” I got several options: EatBlue, EatStreet,...
Read MoreTraining Intervenors
“Ever since the election, people have been calling our office saying ‘What can I do?'” says Chuck Warpehoski, director of the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice (and Ann Arbor city councilmember). The...
Read MoreMissing Money
Yerkey is the treasurer of the Ann Arbor Democratic Party. He’s talking about Mike Henry, the city party’s charismatic, controversial chair. In an October interview, Henry said that he was invited to co-chair the...
Read MoreVedge Cafe
Amanda Ratke is the calm, slightly shy presence behind the Vedge Cafe, a new vegetarian/vegan restaurant that is, like its name, simple and commonsensical. Trained as an accountant, the thirty-seven-year-old first-time...
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Batsheva Dance Company
Two women in white lean toward an unseen prize. Together they tread cautiously, captivated. Tenderly they reach for it, claim it, bathe in it. After a beat, they get a sharp slap in the face—each by her own hand. Meanwhile,...
Read MoreFresh Start
We received 137 entries correctly identifying the Fake Ad for Fresh Start on page 48 of the December Observer. The ad offered between-holiday body cleansing for people who may have overdone it on Thanksgiving and were planning...
Read MoreThe Arc of Justice
On November 5, 1962, Larry Brilliant, in his own words a “completely clueless sophomore,” saw “a very small note and ad in the Michigan Daily. It said that Martin Luther King was coming. To this day I...
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