2020 September

Satchel’s BBQ closed its location at 221 W. Liberty in August after three years in business. In an email and a Facebook post, owner Hugh Morgan wrote that “some hard decisions had to made. Parts of our business are...

The Lunch Room Diner and Canteen in Kerrytown has been shut since mid-March, when owner Phillis Engelbert consolidated operations in her nearby Detroit Street Filling Station. Many items on the Lunch Room’s menu were added...

Chang is not your average tech entrepreneur. Instead of spending his days steeped in code or pouring over spreadsheets, he is trying to create the conditions for a tech savvy applicant pool to emerge in Washtenaw County so that...

“Hello, I’m Electric!” reads a replica of a nametag on the window of Human Electric Hybrids in the Kerrytown Shops. In August, the electric bike and cargo bike shop consolidated its locations in Ypsilanti and...

In March, the Blue LLama Jazz Club on S. Main was supposed to be celebrating its first anniversary. Instead, it was forced to end live performances, due to the state’s Covid-19 shutdown order. “This isn’t how...

Brian Kung is no stranger to the restaurant business. His parents owned local Chinese places including Champion House and Emerald City, where he helped out as a youngster.But he emphatically did not want a culinary career....