The Cavern Club complex, whose sale and imminent closing we reported in February, reopened under the same name later that month. New owner Jessica Rakowicz-Allen appears to be continuing founder Nick Easton’s format of...
Read MoreSam Argiero closed Argiero’s Italian Restaurant on Mother’s Day. The timing was fitting: in 1978, the Observer described his late mother, Rosa, as the restaurant’s “chief cook and principal...
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Thanks to a HUD pilot program for low-income housing financing, the Cranbrook Towers senior...
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Washtenaw County road maintenance issues may now be reported online using the same system the city...
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Valerie June Hockett grew up in Jackson, Tennessee, working alongside her brothers at demolition...
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It is around 7 p.m. on the Saturday of U-M graduation weekend, and fourteen of the Fleetwood Diner’s eighteen seats are filled, plus four outside. Waitress Dayna Logerquist, the lone server on duty, keeps chaos at bay. The...
Read MoreS&S, meet D&D. Sun & Snow’s store on Jackson Rd. has a problem that plagues seasonal businesses: what to do in the off-season. The winter gear store’s solution: partner with D&D Bicycles, out of...
Read MoreMark’s Carts opened for its sixth season in April on Washington just west of Ashley. Returning this year are Pita Cruiser, El Manantial, Simply Spanish, Hut-K, and Great Grilled Sandwiches. Owner Mark Hodesh is also...
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Growing up in a tiny Midwestern college town, I relished the special occasions when our family of...
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“We’re trying to create our own hubbub,” says Joe Kouza, one of the owners of...
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When we spoke to Launch Board Shop owner John Causland in April, he’d just relocated his...
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Just before the railroad tracks and river meet on Huron River Dr. between Delhi Metropark and...
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Ann Arbor hosts a diverse range of musical acts, but Cajun music is rare here–or anywhere in...
Read MoreIn May, mayor Christopher Taylor and his allies mustered the eight votes needed to sell the air rights over the “library lot” underground parking structure. Yet they insist that they don’t have a supermajority...
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Celeste Kanpurwala is hoping for a sea of orange T-shirts on the back lawn of Community High...
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Poets are always looking for constraints, limitations that push them toward new words and new...
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The HOMES Brewery mnemonic is a familiar one: a simple way to remember the Great Lakes. Water is a...
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Zou Zou’s Cafe owner Marie-Ann Fody closed her restaurant at the end of March to expand and...
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“‘Replacing the old,’ is the University of Michigan Biological Sciences...
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