Home Brew <-> Brew Pub
When Arbor Brewing Company opened in 1995, it was the city’s first brewpub. But owners Matt...
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2017 May
EPA in the Crosshairs
When he ran for president, Donald Trump vowed to “get rid” of the Environmental...
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Solid Gold Sorors
If you don’t recognize the woman in the purple hat on the new Black Heritage postage stamp,...
Read MoreActive on One Leg
Evelyn Horwitz was eighty-four when doctors told her they had to amputate her right leg to prevent the spread of villonodular synovitis sarcoma, a rare form of cancer. But she maintains a good sense of humor about the...
Read MoreShehan-Shah?
Q. For many years my family used to eat at Shehan-Shah restaurant on Washington (where Aventura is now). Can you find out how the really nice family that ran it is doing?A. Sukhdial and Ravinder Singh are retired, living in...
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The Dave Tuck Skate Jam
Some of my best friends are skateboarders, but for the life of me I can’t stand up on one of...
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Anarchist Press
When Zingerman’s co-founder wrote Zingerman’s Guide to Good Eating, he recalls,...
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Tides of Change
My wife and I have lived in the area now known as Water Hill for thirty-seven years, in two houses...
Read MoreBourbon Latte at Milan Coffee Works
That’s what a sign in Matt Bjurman’s Milan coffeehouse advertised. I ordered one, more to honor the thought that goes into creating a house special than in hopes of discovering a great new thing.But it was a great...
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The Session Room
When a new restaurant boasts upward of sixty draft beers and ciders, plus colorful tap handles for...
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Choir! Choir! Choir!
Canada’s Choir! Choir! Choir!–C!C!C! for short–got started as a group of people...
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The Return of the Trumpeter Swans
“[T]he boy’s mind was full of the wonder of what he had seen. Not many people in the...
Read MoreStorm-Water Solutions
City administrator Howard Lazarus’s fiscal 2018 budget calls for an 8.5 percent increase in storm-water fees–$585,000 a year, or $24 annually for the average household. It’s a down payment on implementing the...
Read MoreShoe stores out and on the brink
The Famous Footwear store in the Oak Valley Center has closed. Some employees from that store have found work at the Arborland Famous Footwear, which remains open. A national chain with more than 1,000 stores, Famous Footwear...
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Laura Hulthen Thomas
Laura Hulthen Thomas includes expansive short stories in her first collection, States of Motion. A...
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Hygge Anyone?
Eager to learn why Denmark regularly lands in first or second place on the United Nations’...
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Luay Shalabi
“Hello! How are you?” Luay Shalabi calls out to a boy arriving at Central Academy. The...
Read MoreRunning to Kerrytown
While many downtown stores are heading for outlying shopping districts, Ann Arbor Running Company owners Nick Stanko and Ian Forsyth have reversed the trajectory. The former U-M runners, who started out in the Oak Valley Center,...
Read MoreSozo Opens at Briarwood
“The word ‘hibachi’ is really a made-up Americanized word,” says Sean Green, co-owner of the new Sozo Japanese Grill in Briarwood. “The original [name] is teppanyaki, teppan meaning...
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