Life on the Streets
I’m an Ann Arbor transplant, and I hail from “enemy” territory: I moved here six...
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2018 December
Getting the Lead Out
In May 2017, a few months before Abby Dumes’ son was to start kindergarten, she thought it...
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Reporter in Exile
When he wrote the stories that would ruin his life, Emilio Gutierrez Soto had no concept of their...
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Charlie Frank
Standing over a cauldron of melted chocolate, Charlie Frank says approvingly, “It has a...
Read MoreNoisy Motorcycles?
Q. Do the police ever ticket the drivers of noisy motorcycles or cars for “disturbing the peace”?A. Ann Arbor has ordinances limiting vehicle noise. Mopeds, for instance, are limited to eighty-two decibels. Outgoing...
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Blue Apple Closes
The Blue Apple convenience store (and Mobil gas station) has closed after seven years at Packard and Platt. You can still grab gas and snacks at the Exxon station across the way and a Citgo further down the road. Soon you can...
Read MoreDrought and Pieology Close
Two downtown businesses closed quietly in November, leaving only brief announcements on their doors. Plymouth-based raw juice vendor Drought closed its S. Fourth Ave. location a little over a year after it moved in. Four metro...
Read MorePoindexter Coffee
The Graduate Hotel chain has rebranded its coffee bars as Poindexter Coffee. The general manager of the hotel on Huron, Jason Nelson, says that they’ve added new breakfast sandwiches (available all day), plus beer and...
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Crisler Fervor
The day after the U-M men’s basketball team played Villanova in November, two men overheard...
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Pole Puzzle
DTE has more than two million electricity customers, and to serve them it owns more than one...
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About Time
Three clock towers that stand out in their surrounding landscapes reflect different aspects of the...
Read MoreK.WEST Skin Body Soul
“My whole philosophy of skin care is really about everything. Lifestyle and diet and even spirituality,” says Katie Westgate, owner of K.WEST Skin Body Soul. Her shop, which carries a variety of crystals, books,...
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Smell & Tell with Michelle Krell Kydd
Michelle Krell Kydd’s free “Smell & Tell” sessions usually meet downtown on...
Read MoreDoing Chinese at Christmas
Ann Arbor’s restaurant scene gets unnervingly quiet on Christmas, when most restauranteurs and their employees take the day off. That makes it the biggest day of the year for Chinese restaurants.Evergreen Restaurant in...
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Joyce DiDonato
Classical music is not for the faint of heart. This is especially true of opera, a mind-altering...
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Resisting Testing
“We need to push back,” says newly elected schools trustee Bryan Johnson.Candidates...
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Flying Trunk
Hastings, the longtime head of Summers-Knoll School, entered a new phase of her life after her...
Read MoreAn Abundance of Baked Goods
In a perfect world, we’d always have homemade cookies from an old family recipe on hand for guests and gifts during the holidays. In reality, we usually dash out into a snow-globe world to buy the next best thing....
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Serious Comics
“Businesses we love have gone,” says Yribar (pronounced “why-bar”)....
Read MoreBeloved Businesses in Transition
When a Tumblr post encouraging people to order from the struggling Common Language Bookstore went viral last spring, husbands Keith Orr and Martin Contreras thought at first that the Internet might save their small LGBT...
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