2018 March Archives - Page 2 of 3

The Ann Arbor Film Festival 2018

Mar 18, 2018 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

The concept of tradition seems inescapable in today’s world. How important is it? How much...

A Walgreens that’s–Surprise!–Just a Pharmacy

Mar 17, 2018 | Marketplace |

Community, a Walgreen’s Pharmacy has opened in Washtenaw Commons. The pharmacy is only a half-mile away from the main Walgreen’s location at Washtenaw Ave. and Huron Pkwy., but that store’s assistant manager,...

Lucky’s Market

Mar 17, 2018 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

Nearly every day, Lucky’s Market hosts what could be the happiest happy hour in town. Bubba, Luis, Thomas, and Jose are just some of the regulars who were happy to explain the nightly drill. To a first-timer, it feels like...

LaFontaine Kia

Mar 17, 2018 | Marketplace |

We reported in our October issue that Ann Arbor Automotive had sold its Acura, Nissan, and Hyundai dealerships to Detroit-based Fox Motors. We neglected to mention that Ann Arbor Automotive had also run a Kia dealership and...

Steve Lehman’s Selebeyone

Mar 16, 2018 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

Jazz studies have come far in the century that separates young Louis Armstrong picking up the cornet at the New Orleans “waif’s home” from today’s graduate music programs at major universities. What was...

Piffaro

Mar 15, 2018 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

Anyone who experiences Philadelphia’s world-famous Renaissance band Piffaro in concert at...

Joel Mabus

Mar 14, 2018 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

Joel Mabus has been performing and teaching since the early seventies–long enough that some...

Winter Harvests

Mar 13, 2018 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

Every year, my brother’s neighbor plants a substantial garden–mostly rows of...

Library Redo?

Mar 12, 2018 | Community |

Vander Broek, who moved here in 2005, is recalling her first reaction to the AADL’s downtown...

True North Jerky Gets New Owners

Mar 11, 2018 | Marketplace |

When Joe Wesolowski was ready to retire from True North Jerky & Foods, he says he wanted one...

Hot Block

Mar 11, 2018 | Marketplace |

It looked like a typo: in the data collected for the Observer’s Home Sales Map, a small...

Sculpted Heads on North Campus

Mar 10, 2018 | Community |

These two brightly colored sculpted heads stand on stainless-steel tables in front of the Earl V....

One Bowl Asian Cuisine

Mar 9, 2018 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

After a couple acquaintances commented enthusiastically about One Bowl Asian Cuisine, it seemed...

BP to Shell to Mobil

Mar 8, 2018 | Marketplace |

If you look at the gas station at S. Main and William on Google Maps, you’ll see the building shows up with three labels: Mobil, Shell, and BP. The overlap is the result of a rapid cycle of ownership and branding. The...

From the Colonnade to cyberspace

Mar 8, 2018 | Marketplace |

After five years in the Colonnade shopping center on Eisenhower, Stamatopoulos & Sons Olive Oil has left its brick-and-mortar home. “We really liked our time at the Colonnade,” says owner Greg Stamatopoulos,...