The former bicycle store at 1200 Packard near Dewey was purchased earlier this year by a partnership including developer Alex de Parry. “I can’t say what his plans are at this point,” says Mike Jurgenson of...
Read MoreOne of Ann Arbor’s oldest companies changed hands in December, when Caryl Arnet sold Arnet’s Inc. to Patten Monument Company of Comstock. Arnet’s great-grandfather Joseph Arnet started the monument business in...
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“And all at once I’m disconnected from what’s happening,” says the...
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As I look around at the work of contemporary poets, I find several of them returning to the great...
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For half a century or so, jazz had been a collective artistic form. When ace saxophonist Coleman...
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My wife and I both hate crowds, but Susan felt she had to go downtown to be part of history the...
Read MoreIn Mary Dunham’s twenty-seven years of selling chocolates for Kilwins, she’s answered a lot of questions about the chocolate-caramel and nut clusters that Kilwins calls “Tuttles.” Many customers assume...
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It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad: Carol Lopez, owner of the Peaceable Kingdom, got a...
Read MoreThe Espresso Bar upstairs in Literati Bookstore is now Literati Coffee–owned by Literati’s Mike and Hilary Gustafson. They’ve promoted longtime barista Jess Harmon to manager, updated some of the equipment, and...
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Peter Warburton wrote to introduce himself as “the most famous duct tape fine artist in the...
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“Lobbyists will lie to a legislator about what something does, or what the impact of it is,...
Read More“You don’t see a lot of second-story restaurants,” says Adam Lowenstein. If you don’t have palpable street presence, he explains, “you have to make it a destination.”He’s talking...
Read MoreIt took four years, but the Jimmy John’s at State just north of Ellsworth is finally open. The city planning commission recommended a proposal to demolish an existing structure and construct a single lane drive-through in...
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A flurry of email messages crossed Jennifer Nguyen’s mailbox after signs from McKinley were...
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We received 136 entries correctly identifying the Fake Ad for the 17th Annual Leutonian Festival...
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“This month’s I Spy is the Drink Coca-Cola mural outside of the reopened Blue Front...
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Brothers Omar and Adnan Dari opened Ali Baba in an old gas station at Packard and Hill in 1991....
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Lutton, president of Charles Reinhart Realtors, is part of a group building a new west-side office...
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