2017 March Archives - Ann Arbor Observer

A Sobering Experience

Mar 31, 2017 | Community, Featured |

I don’t remember much of my first week at the Washtenaw County Jail. The first four days I...

Talking Literature

Mar 30, 2017 | Featured |

On a rare sunny winter morning, eight women gather around a long harvest table in Leigh...

The Trouble with EHR

Mar 29, 2017 | Featured, News |

The doctor worked late last night at home, got to his Ann Arbor office two hours early this...

DakhaBrakha

Mar 27, 2017 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

If you Google “Ukrainian tall hats,” the first result is a series of images of people...

Saline’s Mangiamo Closes

Mar 26, 2017 | Marketplace |

Pete and Laurie Toarmina bought Saline’s tallest downtown building in 2010, and over time...

Queen of the Prom

Mar 26, 2017 | Uncategorized |

“The dresses are pretty themselves, but when the girls put them on, it’s just like a...

OWS Canines

Mar 25, 2017 | Community |

After returning from family obligations in Texas last summer, Janice Milhem felt the need to...

Unplanned Duet

Mar 25, 2017 | Uncategorized |

At the Prague Philharmonia concert at Hill Auditorium in January, soloist Sarah Chang was nearing...

Medical VR

Mar 24, 2017 | Community |

While most high-tech gadgetry at Mott is for medical care, five-year-old Brinley Jungnitsch...

We received thirty-four entries correctly identifying the Fake Ad for CommuniCare on page 18 of the Winter Community Observer.”Found it!” wrote Cindy Collins. “You know it’s fake because getting to a room...

Municipal Broadband in A2?

Mar 23, 2017 | Community |

Q. Is the City of Ann Arbor looking into municipal broadband Internet for its citizens? This seems to be a growing idea worldwide with many benefits to the cities served.A. Municipal broadband systems seek to deliver low- or...

Fifty Men, Thirty Trucks

Mar 23, 2017 | Marketplace |

The year was 2010, and Oversmith was on his first vacation since his honeymoon nearly a decade...

Richly Radiant

Mar 22, 2017 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

Over the course of his four-year trek through Beethoven’s thirty-two piano sonatas, EMU...

The Conns Do Wine

Mar 22, 2017 | Marketplace |

After decades in the boot business, husband-and-wife team Bill and Pam Conn opened Wines on Main...

Frames to Fish in Dexter

Mar 21, 2017 | Marketplace |

“Everyone wants to expand their businesses,and here we want to shrink ours,” says Mary...

From Restaurant to Barbershop

Mar 21, 2017 | Marketplace |

Le Shish opened last fall near the Packard/Carpenter intersection where La Fiesta Taqueria used to be, only to close its doors around the end of last year. Folks at House of Liquor a few doors down didn’t know what...