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...
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Who’ll Go to Lansing?
Goaded by the election of Donald Trump and enticed by open seats in both the state senate and...
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Young Grammarians
“It’s just such a surprise about the millennials,” says Hope Meadows....
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Viceroy Butterflies
An orange butterfly we recently saw in the distance looked like a monarch—but might actually have...
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Saving the Cunningham Tract
Greater Chelsea breathed a collective sigh of relief in late 2014 when word got around that a deal...
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Keith Taylor
In a 2011 interview with Michigan Quarterly Review, the poet (and Observer contributor) Keith...
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Loch Alpine in Limbo
Residents of Loch Alpine, the golf course subdivision off W. Huron River Dr., are spending their...
Read MoreThree Summer Closings
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 MoreSylvia Nolasco-Rivers Reprioritizes
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 MoreBread Basket Deli Is Now Lefty’s Cheesesteak
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 MoreFuneral Processions?
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...
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Poke Fish Sushi
Years ago, growing up in a small Michigan farming community, our family saw little seafood outside...
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Four Locals
Creating Quiet SpacesArtists hope fairgoers will react to their work. But when they get to Rose...
Read MoreSalads UP tries Briarwood
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”...
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Below Zero
The house in Scio Twp. is one of Wright’s “Usonian” designs. Intended to be...
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Drug Dangers
“Making a new opioid user is now the most common complication after surgery,” Chad...
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One Helluva Ride
Last spring my editor at the Observer asked if I’d ever done One Helluva Ride, the Ann Arbor...
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Fairer Skies for Fairdene
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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