Playground of Dreams
Rich Brisson woke up at 3 a.m. on a Friday last October with an idea.All week, the first-grade...
Read MoreRich Brisson woke up at 3 a.m. on a Friday last October with an idea.All week, the first-grade...
Read MoreMar 30, 2020 | Featured, Marketplace |
At Ann Arbor’s chic restaurants, expansive farmers’ markets, and fine groceries,...
Read MoreGreen and white paint is peeling off the home where Jordan Anderson lived during his sophomore...
Read MoreIn May 2019, the Leslie Science & Nature Center’s friends, supporters, and staff were...
Read MoreMar 27, 2020 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
“Why am I eating this?” my husband asked, looking down dubiously at the pizza slices...
Read MoreMar 27, 2020 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |
Although many in-person events have been put on hiatus, there are still community-supported activities that you can enjoy while social distancing. Please reference the daily calendar for more up-to-date online events....
Read MoreMissy Stults seems to be everywhere these days. The person leading Ann Arbor’s ambitious...
Read MoreMar 24, 2020 | Marketplace |
Robin Hills Farm, a 129-acre “eco-destination and recreation farm” along M-52 just...
Read MoreMar 23, 2020 | Marketplace |
The Local Bike Shop on S. Fourth Ave. closed just shy of its fourth birthday. In an email, owner Brad Stark cites “a variety of reasons–high downtown rent, stress of managing & running a business, and not being...
Read MoreMar 23, 2020 | Marketplace |
Elevation Burger announced the closure of both of its Ann Arbor locations with signs left in the windows of the chain’s Liberty and Washtenaw Ave. restaurants. The abrupt late January closure leaves the California-based...
Read MoreMar 23, 2020 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |
Three outstanding documentaries in competition at the 58th Ann Arbor Film Festival focus on...
Read MoreMar 22, 2020 | Community |
We were having dinner out the other night and overheard a woman in the booth next to us remark...
Read MoreMar 21, 2020 | Marketplace |
Lucky’s Market, on South Industrial Ave., announced its closure in late January. Both its opening and closing can be traced to decisions by Kroger, the largest grocery chain in the U.S.When its decades-old lease at South...
Read MoreMar 21, 2020 | Marketplace |
Though posters in the window of Suburban Fiat Alfa-Romeo on W. Stadium still celebrate a victory in a Car and Driver comparison test, the lot is bare, and Google now lists an address on Jackson Rd. The last unsold Fiats and...
Read MoreMar 20, 2020 | Marketplace |
The Subway in Saline’s Country Creek Plaza is closed. Messages left with the Swisher Properties leasing agent went unanswered. Saline still has two Subway locations, one inside the Walmart at 7000 E. Michigan, and another...
Read MoreMar 19, 2020 | Community |
Q. Who, if anyone, is responsible for maintaining the small walkway from the rear of the Thayer St. parking structure to State St.? Hundreds of people daily, myself included, use this narrow passageway—families and most...
Read MoreMar 19, 2020 | News |
“Now everybody’s hiring, and you can’t find enough people,” then-Ann Arbor...
Read MoreMar 18, 2020 | Marketplace |
Ann Arbor’s second PetPeople store opened in Cranbrook Village at the end of January. It’s the seventh Michigan location for the twenty-year-old Ohio-based chain, which features high-end pet food, toys, bedding,...
Read MoreMar 17, 2020 | Marketplace |
Two more bubble tea shops, Tea Ninja and Ding Tea, opened near Central Campus in January. Each is within a block from Chatime, one of last year’s new arrivals, and a couple of Chinese restaurants on William Street that...
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