Dorothy Lee Collins
Dorothy Lee Collins (Hanks) died peacefully on the evening of February 9, 2023, in Rochester,...
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2023 April
A Life in Radio
“People talk about the good old days of radio, but actually, these are also good days for radio...
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The Case of the Stolen Meteorite
For most of my thirty-one-year career with the FBI, I was assigned to the Ann Arbor office—what...
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Musical Journey
In 1964, when Dunlop was a Stanford undergrad, he found a 1947 vintage Martin D-18 in a San...
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A Fire Closes Lai Lai
A January 16 kitchen fire has closed longtime Chinese restaurant Lai Lai in Arbor Square Plaza at Carpenter and Ellsworth, but the owner aims to reopen there with community support. No one was hurt in the blaze, but the damage...
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Michigan Murders
Browsing through the local interest section of the Ann Arbor District Library, videographer and...
Read MoreRoot is Closed
Root, the underground cocktail bar at 201 S. First St., closed rather suddenly at the end of January, though ownership intends to reopen in some form. Its Facebook post of January 28 reads in part, “This will be the final night...
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Brews and Cookies
Carlson, Greg Lobdell, and Chet Czaplicka founded Grizzly Peak, Blue Tractor, Jolly Pumpkin, and...
Read MoreA Second Sweetgreen
Less than two months after opening on S. State St. downtown, the salad chain Sweetgreen celebrated the launch of its second location on March 21 in the Arbor Hills shopping center. The fast-casual concept prioritizes fresh and...
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Hotel Rebound
The Miami-based developer should know. He won city council approval to build a hotel on Glen Ave....
Read MoreBurlington is Back
The Maple Village shopping center on the city’s west side now hosts a new off-price retail chain to replace the defunct Stein Mart, which closed in 2020. Burlington Stores will mark its Ann Arbor reappearance—there was one in...
Read MoreTesla Opens, Silently
Tesla, the automotive company known for, among other things, disrupting the industry’s dealership model by selling directly to consumers, opened its Ann Arbor retail showroom in recent weeks, as quietly as its electric motors....
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Shoshannah Lenski
On Thursday, February 23, a day of ice-glazed beauty, fallen trees, and downed power lines,...
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Upstairs on State, a Space for Black Women
Sheena McCullers steered her husband Kyle toward U-M for his doctoral program in business, passing...
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The Importance of Latitude
Latitude, a fast-casual eatery fusing Indian and Mexican flavors, has launched in the busy...
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Jim Toy Center Reboots
“We decided not to renew our lease at our physical space,” says Joe Halsch. “We had to figure out...
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Preserving Scio
“When I decided to move to America, my dream was to own a farm that would hand-raise free-range,...
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Rise and Fall
It was the billion-dollar company that most Ann Arborites had never heard of. With offices on...
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Need a Fourth?
“I thought the idea of ‘need a fourth’ was a great one, and I decided to check out the website, only to find it isn’t a registered domain name!!” Stacy Mero writes. “Very sneaky, but now I’m left disappointed not to have somewhere to find euchre games.”
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