Ann Arbor Obscura
We recently discovered The Atlas Obscura Guide To Ann Arbor: 12 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things...
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2022 July
Missing Trustee
“On Friday, a bulletin board taken over by the Youth Activism class that [we] are a part of was...
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Overdose Deaths Rise Again
As recently as twenty years ago, the county saw only a few heroin deaths a year—mostly older men...
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Give My Books
That was the revelation on which Whalen founded his company, Give My Books in 2008. He was...
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Class Gifts
It’s a tradition that goes back to the school’s first graduating class, in 2000: the five seniors...
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Farmers Dream Big
Steady streams of cars turn into the parking lot of the Washtenaw Food Hub, their drivers arriving...
Read MoreHeart Attack, Meet Covid
Yet compared to last winter’s Delta variant surge, Omicron’s spring visit was mild. In Delta’s worst week in January, twenty-one county residents died of Covid-19. In May and early June, the death toll never exceeded three a...
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AAATA’s Big Ask
TheRide has a 2.38 mill tax request on the August 2 ballot, up from the current 0.7 mills. If...
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Chalk Artist David Zinn
When Lula June Cook told David Zinn, “You need a TikTok,” he said to himself, “Well, she’s never...
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A Rainy Day:
The day began inauspiciously. When I started the car; the radio came on and the unappealing voice...
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The Furniture Makers
How do you make a living with a degree in the arts? Blake Ratcliffe and Sherri Moore have built...
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The Art Fair Journey
“Their lives are characterized by travel, hard work and a richness of experience uncommon to the...
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Election 2022
In overwhelmingly Democratic Ann Arbor, where the mayor and all ten city councilmembers belong to...
Read MoreQuestion Corner, July 2022
Q. “Not infrequently the mail delivery person will stomp across my front yard, and through my garden, to get to the next delivery, next door. Isn’t she/he expected to stay on the sidewalk?” A. A USPS communications specialist...
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Missus Smanson’s
We received 199 entries identifying the Fake Ad for Missus Smanson’s Restaurant on page 69 of the June Observer. The winner’s name, “Sussman,” was barely hidden in the establishment name.
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Embracing Our Differences
I spy “the art installation at the SE corner of Huron Parkway and Geddes,” writes Ellen Bauerle. “These are the ‘Embracing Our Differences’ banners in Gallup Park,” says Marilyn Knepp. “Wonderful billboard-size pieces on diversity and equality,” adds Amy Barnett.
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Edward Alexander Stopke
9/7/31–4/4/22 Artist, storyteller, Great Lakes fisherman, bleeding-heart liberal Ed Stopke was...
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Mark Henry Schlanderer
Mark Henry Schlanderer, age 85, passed away at his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Thursday, May...
Read MoreRestaurant on Hold
Cesar Ochoa is ready to open his second restaurant on N. Main—if he can find enough employees. With a gleaming bar, colorful wall art, and a basement speakeasy with a secret entrance, Havana is otherwise set to offer...
Read MoreYour Media Exchange Opens
Broc Curry opened Your Media Exchange (YMX) June 20 in Roeda Studio’s former space on S. Main selling new and used music, movies, and video games. It’s Curry’s second location; the first, in Toledo, opened in 2020. Sporting a...
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