2017 June Archives - Ann Arbor Observer

Midcentury Mail

Jun 30, 2017 | Featured |

When Kelly Salchow MacArthur needed a curbside mailbox for the Midcentury Modern house she shares...

Driving for Tips

Jun 29, 2017 | Featured, Marketplace |

Our pizza was late–very, very late. The store said delivery would take about an hour, but...

Renting Radon

Jun 28, 2017 | Community, Featured |

A friend has rented an apartment in a duplex near Vets Park for thirteen years. At $200 a month...

Life on Probation

Jun 27, 2017 | Community, Featured |

“Work the steps!” the older member of Alcoholics Anonymous tells us. Our AA meeting...

Q. I see cars parked outside churches on Sundays in areas that are normally no-parking zones. Do churches get special parking exemptions? If so, doesn’t giving them special privileges violate the Constitution’s...

Everyday Wines

Jun 25, 2017 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

Mary Campbell, owner of Everyday Wines, is bracing herself for a recurring summer conversation, when vacationers returning from the Upper Peninsula inform her that her Kerrytown store has a twin in Marquette. Everyday Wines on...

Eating for Mom

Jun 25, 2017 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

My mother died this past winter of a wasting disease that left her mind healthy and her body useless. At the end, as she lost control of her limbs and her guts and her speech, we were helpless to offer any comfort. In our...

Hippotherapy

Jun 24, 2017 | Community |

Kathy Hinderer says she and her husband, Steve, went “way out on the twigs of the...

A New School in Dexter?

Jun 24, 2017 | News |

On August 8, the Dexter Community Schools will ask voters to approve a $71.7 million bond...

Health Care “Coopetition” in Chelsea

Jun 23, 2017 | News |

“Health care’s local,” says Nancy Graebner, president and CEO of St. Joseph...

The Uncool Underground

Jun 23, 2017 | Community, My Town |

The Ann Arbor Area Pipe Society is in session near the window at Tobacco Rose cigar shop. Mike...

The Forestry Crew

Jun 23, 2017 | Community, My Town |

I live on a street lined with old crabapple trees. Early last summer, a city forestry crew came...

Gwilym Simcock

Jun 22, 2017 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

Jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock’s Ann Arbor debut was as thrilling as it was surprising. I doubt...

Life Offline

Jun 21, 2017 | Featured, News |

When Nikki Sunstrum and her husband purchased their home in Dexter Township in January 2014, she...

A New Restaurant by Alex Young

Jun 21, 2017 | Marketplace |

After nearly fifteen years, Zingerman’s Roadhouse cofounder and executive chef Alex Young is leaving to open a new restaurant in the space formerly occupied by the Creekside Grill at 5827 Jackson Rd. “This is the...