Persistence and Protest
The protesters appeared like a holy procession, holding flickering candles in perfect silence,...
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2020 August
Baseball in Bo’s Fieldhouse
When you think about baseball spring training, Ann Arbor is about the last place that comes to...
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The Londons
It isn’t the summer the Londons expected. Scarlett and Malcolm planned to go to...
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Jim and Jack Briegel
When Jack Briegel was a young boy, he’d watch for his father walking home from work. They...
Read MoreCampus Closings
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...
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Reuben Tour
This summer, Zingerman’s is taking its sandwiches on the road to seven stops in Michigan...
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The Piluttis
Graphic artist/illustrator/author Deb Pilutti spent the early quarantine days organizing and...
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Look Down to Look Up
In 1585, an Englishman named John White joined Sir Walter Raleigh’s voyage to establish a...
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Tenants Organize
Seventeen years after it disappeared, the Ann Arbor Tenants Union is back. “We started...
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Books with Borders
After years in the making, local writer Debotri Dhar’s latest book, Love is Not a Word: The...
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Grand Re-opening
Light showers were forecasted on August 16, the Sunday Artisan Market’s reopening day. No...
Read MoreA Positive Decline
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...
Read MoreFormer U-M President Jim Duderstadt?
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...
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Landing Lurie
Raab is president of the board of the nonprofit Senior Citizens Housing of Ann Arbor, Inc., which...
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David DeVarti and Ellen Rabinowitz
At first it was fun. They attended Zoom celebrations–a bat mitzvah and a bridal...
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100 Year Old Right
On August 18, 1920, the decades-long nationwide struggle to expand access to the ballot box...
Read MoreThe Standard Bistro Reboots.
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...
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Eating Out
“It was a dark and stormy Sunday night, and I met my friend Jennifer Conlin for dinner at...
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