Lives of the Poets
One wintry January in 1986 four poets—Wendell Berry, Galway Kinnell, Seamus Heaney, and Donald...
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2021 February
Staying Alive
On June 27th, 2020, I hopped on my bike to go to the store. I felt so free as I rode through the...
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Road Runner
Parag Bohyar is running the length of every street in Ann Arbor. Bohyar, an ergonomist in the auto...
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Jatin Dua and Sanne Ravensbergen
It’s hard to keep up with Jatin Dua. Polite and upbeat, he first showed up in Ann Arbor in...
Read MoreBlue Llama Pauses Its Food Services
In the first months of the pandemic, Blue LLama Jazz Club at 314 S. Main turned its kitchen into a pop-up incubator for different types of cuisine. They included Jibarito, with Latin-inspired dishes; Of Rice & Men, which...
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Resident Parking?
Q. On some streets there are signs about a residential parking permit.I am a city resident; do I have to worry about them?A.You do. In several neighborhoods near downtown and campus that face heavy parking pressure, the city has...
Read MoreLoves Quickly Follows Art Van into Bankruptcy.
It’s been a tumultuous year for the former Art Van Furniture location on Eisenhower. Last March, Art Van closed the store after the parent company filed for bankruptcy.The store reopened last fall as a branch of Loves...
Read MoreMoe’s Opens
Moe’s Neighborhood Bar & Grill at 711 North University opened in early January for delivery only. It features a menu of bar food that includes burgers, sloppy joes, fried chicken, fish, and fries. Plant-based versions...
Read MoreCosa Sabrosa at the Grotto
Cosa Sabrosa’s colorful food truck has become a familiar sight outside the Zal Gaz Grotto on W. Stadium Blvd., serving tacos and other Mexican fare. Until the weather turned cold last year, diners would pick up their...
Read MoreTriple A Farm Stops
Manchester’s food horizons are looking a bit brighter. An indoor farmers market, conceived as a response to the closing of the village’s only grocery store in early 2019, is up and running in a shoebox storefront. By...
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From Bowls to Seafood
Jenny Wu and her husband Jin Huang opened JJ Crab House in October. They previously owned Naked...
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HouseN2Home
“It’s our princess home!” exclaimed three-year-old Rima Bullard after crossing...
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International Students
“The Chinese are discriminated against,” says the U-M PhD candidate, who asked not to...
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Pinball Rescue
Closed by state order from mid-March until mid-September, and with limited hours and traffic since...
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Direct Primary Care
A Plymouth native, Klaes graduated from MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2004. After...
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Shalimar Branches Out
Pedestrians or motorists traveling down Main St. can be forgiven if they think they are seeing...
Read MoreMore Pressure to Re-open Schools
Supporters of school reopening ramped up pressure on the AAPS in February, with psychologists joining physicians in calling for classes to resume by March 1, as recommended by Governor Whitmer. In January, the district announced...
Read MoreBack to School
The “in-school hybrid learning option” AAPS announced in mid-‘January will offer two days of in-person instruction per week, along with two days of online instruction and one of “asynchronous”...
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Virtual Library
The Ann Arbor District Library closed even before the statewide shutdown last spring. “We...
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From Ribs to Tacos
Tmaz Taqueria Dexter is in Ann Arbor, not Dexter. But it is on Dexter Ave., hidden away behind the...
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