2020 August Archives - Ann Arbor Observer

Persistence and Protest

Aug 30, 2020 | Community, My Neighborhood, Real Estate |

The protesters appeared like a holy procession, holding flickering candles in perfect silence,...

Baseball in Bo’s Fieldhouse

Aug 29, 2020 | Community |

When you think about baseball spring training, Ann Arbor is about the last place that comes to...

The Londons

Aug 28, 2020 | Community, My Neighborhood, Real Estate |

It isn’t the summer the Londons expected. Scarlett and Malcolm planned to go to...

Jim and Jack Briegel

Aug 27, 2020 | Community, Profiles |

When Jack Briegel was a young boy, he’d watch for his father walking home from work. They...

Restaurant closings are hitting campus, too: in addition to the Espresso Royale cafes on State and South University (Marketplace Changes, July), Sava Lelcaj’s Wilma’s (ne Fred’s, ne Babo market) and Piada...

Reuben Tour

Aug 25, 2020 | Marketplace |

This summer, Zingerman’s is taking its sandwiches on the road to seven stops in Michigan...

The Piluttis

Aug 24, 2020 | Community, My Neighborhood, Real Estate |

Graphic artist/illustrator/author Deb Pilutti spent the early quarantine days organizing and...

Look Down to Look Up

Aug 22, 2020 | Community |

In 1585, an Englishman named John White joined Sir Walter Raleigh’s voyage to establish a...

The Geers

Aug 21, 2020 | Community, My Neighborhood, Real Estate |

When the Covid quarantine began, countless small businesses began what they hoped would be a...

Tenants Organize

Aug 20, 2020 | Community |

Seventeen years after it disappeared, the Ann Arbor Tenants Union is back. “We started...

Books with Borders

Aug 20, 2020 | Uncategorized |

After years in the making, local writer Debotri Dhar’s latest book, Love is Not a Word: The...

Grand Re-opening

Aug 20, 2020 | Community |

Light showers were forecasted on August 16, the Sunday Artisan Market’s reopening day. No...

A Positive Decline

Aug 20, 2020 | News |

Washtenaw County continues its downward trend in the number of Covid-19 cases, in contrast to the rapid climb across much of the state. The health department’s Susan Ringler-Cerniglia believes Southeast Michigan’s...

Landing Lurie

Aug 19, 2020 | Marketplace |

Raab is president of the board of the nonprofit Senior Citizens Housing of Ann Arbor, Inc., which...

Former U-M President Jim Duderstadt?

Aug 19, 2020 | Community |

Q. What is former U-M president Jim Duderstadt doing now?A. James Duderstadt served as president from 1988 to 1996, living with his wife Anne in the president’s house on South University. He started out as an engineering...

David DeVarti and Ellen Rabinowitz

Aug 19, 2020 | Community, My Neighborhood, Real Estate |

At first it was fun. They attended Zoom celebrations–a bat mitzvah and a bridal...

Big Money

Aug 18, 2020 | News |

Two political veterans could probably ignore their neophyte opponents and still win Ann...

100 Year Old Right

Aug 18, 2020 | Community |

On August 18, 1920, the decades-long nationwide struggle to expand access to the ballot box...

The Standard Bistro Reboots.

Aug 17, 2020 | Marketplace |

Two years ago, Ann Arborites watched the painstaking process as the former Creekside Grill on Jackson Rd. was transformed into the Standard Bistro and Larder–the French restaurant that former Zingerman’s Roadhouse...

Eating Out

Aug 16, 2020 | Dine, Marketplace |

“It was a dark and stormy Sunday night, and I met my friend Jennifer Conlin for dinner at...