Coach Mac
Bacon’s new collection of sports writing, The Best of Bacon, includes a pair of essays about his boyhood baseball coach, Mac McKenzie. They’re slightly condensed here from the versions that appeared, a year apart, on...
Read MoreGoaded by the election of Donald Trump and enticed by open seats in both the state senate and...
Read MoreJul 28, 2018 | Uncategorized |
“It’s just such a surprise about the millennials,” says Hope Meadows....
Read MoreJul 27, 2018 | Community |
An orange butterfly we recently saw in the distance looked like a monarch—but might actually have...
Read MoreJul 26, 2018 | News |
Greater Chelsea breathed a collective sigh of relief in late 2014 when word got around that a deal...
Read MoreJul 26, 2018 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |
In a 2011 interview with Michigan Quarterly Review, the poet (and Observer contributor) Keith...
Read MoreJul 25, 2018 | News |
Residents of Loch Alpine, the golf course subdivision off W. Huron River Dr., are spending their...
Read MoreJul 23, 2018 | Marketplace |
Great Plains Burger Company on Plymouth closed abruptly in May. Owner Mo Farha could not be reached for comment.from August Calls & LettersLast month’s Marketplace Changes item on the closing of Great Plains Burger...
Read MoreJul 22, 2018 | Marketplace |
Sylvia Nolasco-Rivers is downsizing Pilar’s Tamales. She closed the dining room next door to her original restaurant in June to devote more time to her new nonprofit.She says she has been holding various fundraisers in the...
Read MoreJul 21, 2018 | Marketplace |
If you blinked, you might have missed the transformation of the Bread Basket Deli, at Ellsworth and Carpenter, into the new Lefty’s Cheesesteak. Owner Jehad Dakroub, who goes by “JD,” closed for just one week...
Read MoreJul 20, 2018 | Community |
Q. Recently I saw a funeral procession with a police escort. Can anyone call the police or sheriff’s department and request an escort? Is there a fee?A. AAPD Sergeant Bill Clock emails: “AAPD Special Services and...
Read MoreJul 19, 2018 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
Years ago, growing up in a small Michigan farming community, our family saw little seafood outside...
Read MoreJul 18, 2018 | Marketplace |
Magiera is president of the board of the People’s Food Co-op, and Angie Voiles was the...
Read MoreJul 17, 2018 | Featured |
Creating Quiet SpacesArtists hope fairgoers will react to their work. But when they get to Rose...
Read MoreJul 16, 2018 | Marketplace |
Despite its many long-standing food options, Briarwood has never had an official “food court.” Technically it still doesn’t, but according to Max Steir, Briarwood is developing a “dining pavilion”...
Read MoreJul 15, 2018 | Uncategorized |
The house in Scio Twp. is one of Wright’s “Usonian” designs. Intended to be...
Read MoreJul 14, 2018 | Community |
“Making a new opioid user is now the most common complication after surgery,” Chad...
Read MoreJul 14, 2018 | Marketplace |
Last summer, people were talking about what sounded like a chilly competition in downtown Dexter. The Dexter Creamery had just opened, dishing up soft-serve yogurt right across Main St. from the venerable Dairy Queen. Meanwhile,...
Read MoreJul 13, 2018 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |
Last spring my editor at the Observer asked if I’d ever done One Helluva Ride, the Ann Arbor...
Read MoreJul 12, 2018 | Marketplace |
On a recent cloudless day in Saline, a petite white barn stood sentinel on a 3.9-acre plot of land...
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