Waiting Tables
What do you do if you need a job around here and you don’t have or can’t find a use...
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2019 March
Fast Mediterranean at Brahma House
At the other end of Chelsea’s Main St., Mike Nelson opened The Brahma Haus in January. He says its niche is “fresh and fast” Mediterranean food. Everything from falafel to grilled chicken sandwiches, salads,...
Read MoreFeeding the Famous
Madeleine Albright likes “blond Oreo cookies,” a young woman explained to Scott Newell one recent morning. Newell’s Big City Small World Bakery makes its own (infinitely superior) version of the Hostess Ding...
Read MoreThe Quarterback Who Vanished
James Joy Miller seemed, in the fall of 1909, to be on the golden path to athletic fame at the University of Michigan. Pity it all came to a sudden crashing end. For this, Miller had only himself to blame.Born in 1886, Miller...
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Polar Party
Early one cold February morning, my neighbor Piotr sent an email to the Murray Ave. mailing list:...
Read MoreBig-league Wolverine?
James Bourque was a dominant pitcher at every level in Ann Arbor youth leagues, at Huron High, and then with the Wolverines. But his parents weren’t exactly crushed when he hurt his arm four years ago. During his first...
Read MoreKondo Alternative
Marie Kondo’s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up has sparked a global movement with its challenge to downsize, streamline, and simplify. But “not everyone can–or wants to–do that for...
Read MorePerry’s Tuxedo closes
Perry’s Tuxedos in downtown Saline closed at the end of 2018 after six years in business. Attempts to contact owner Dave Perry went unanswered. His father, also named Dave Perry, owns Perry’s Tuxedos Plus in Adrian....
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Seal of Disapproval
A longtime local techie, Vielmetti is a dedicated follower (and live-Tweeter) of city council...
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Mathias Eick
Downtown Ann Arbor has not had a dedicated jazz club since the Firefly closed almost two decades...
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Water Towers
On Plymouth Rd. near Green Rd., there is a body of water–up to 500,000 gallons of...
Read MoreDonating Magazines?
Q. The library no longer has a magazine exchange rack. Why did they eliminate it, and is there any other place that accepts magazine donations? A. Magazine donation locations often find that supply outstrips demand. This creates...
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Nu2U Again
The Nu2U resale shop in the Commons at Sauk Trail closed last fall after seven years in business....
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From Chelsea Grill to Valiant Bar
Perry Porikos says his longtime family friend Gina Pantely knew “how much I loved...
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Anthony Marra
It has been six years since Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phenomena startled...
Read MoreSmoke’s and The Beaver Trap Leave Town
South University’s Canadian-themed two-in-one student destination, Smoke’s Poutinerie and The Beaver Trap, has closed after only a year and a half. The Trap was a bar and Smoke’s was a franchise of a Canadian...
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Revive Opens
When Maddy Svihra graduated from Eastern Michigan University last summer, she was already midway...
Read MoreBandito’s Moves North
More than a year after closing during construction, Kanwar Sandhanwalia is giving up and moving Bandito’s from downtown to Ann Arbor’s north side. When we last wrote about Sandhanwalia’s ordeal in May 2018,...
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Cayla Samano
It “is not a nature walk,” Cayla Samano tells me when we meet in the snowy, almost...
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