2022 March
Crazy Wisdom Closes Its Store
Crazy Wisdom Bookstore shut its doors on Main St. for the last time on Feb. 15. Founded by Aura Glaser in the Kerrytown area in 1982, purchased by Ruth Schekter and Bill Zirinsky in 1989, and moved to a building they bought on...
Read MoreBelly Deli Disappears
In 2013, Eric Joh, who was friends with the founders of the No Thai noodle chain, came up with a suggestion. How about a restaurant that specialized in the Vietnamese sandwiches called banh mi?The idea led to Belly Deli. Taking...
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From Bowling to Teslas
It’s official: Bel-Mark Lanes has decided to sell its property on Jackson Rd. to an Ohio...
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The Broken Egg Closes
Thirty years ago, Gina Pantely took over a spot at the corner of Main and Miller that had operated...
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Songbird West Flies Again
The west-side branch of Songbird Cafe reopened in February. Owner Jenny Song had closed it last June, citing staffing shortages; her original cafe on Plymouth Rd. continued to operate. I kept driving by the closed cafe, looking...
Read MoreGrizzly Peak Gets an Update
In late January, Grizzly Peak Brewing Co. announced with fanfare its return from extensive renovations, alerting customers to its revised menu and lineup of craft beers. But after reading through the new items, which included a...
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“People Pay for Different.”
“Make no little plans,” Chicago architect Daniel Burnham was known for saying....
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Making Room for Everyone
Cliff Sheldon recalls that when he served on Ann Arbor’s city council from 1978 to 1982,...
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The Day Zingerman’s Deli Almost Closed
Sunday, March 15, 2020, marked Zingerman’s thirty-eighth anniversary, normally a time to...
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What’s Next for AAATA?
Last September, “I thought I could see the light at the end of the tunnel,” says Ann...
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Nursing Scholarship
“Our belief is that nurses … are the backbone of a hospital, even if doctors are...
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Jessica Nelson
Before Jessica Nelson started at the U-M law school last fall, a friend warned her she might...
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End of the Line
In a 2019 interview with Carol Dunitz, Dale Leslie explained why he named his series of Ann...
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Walden in Pittsfield
According to Realtor.com, 4533 Carpenter Rd. was on the market for more than four years. From the...
Read MoreGelman Plume a Superfund Site?
Q. Why do local governments want the EPA to declare the Gelman dioxane plume a Superfund site? A. From the 1960s into the 1980s, Gelman Sciences discharged manufacturing wash water into ponds on its Wagner Rd. property. Bacteria...
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Spaced Out
Paas, a retired architect, was inspired by a Midland fourth grader’s drawing of the sun and...
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For the Love of the Game
Growing up in Ann Arbor, Wiseman listened to Detroit Tigers announcer Ernie Harwell religiously....
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Safety-Net Ambulance
HVA saw its staffing fall more than 20 percent during the pandemic (“Paramedics...
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Le Mot Juste
We received 219 entries correctly identifying the Fake Ad for “Le Mot Juste” on page...
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