Crazy Wisdom Is Back
When Crazy Wisdom closed in early 2022 after forty years, owners Bill Zirinsky and Ruth Schekter...
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2023 December
Karen TenBrink
Whenever Karen TenBrink talks about music, her eyes light up. From her earliest years, it’s brought her joy, and it’s brought people together. For the past decade she’s been sharing those pleasures as director of the Ann Arbor...
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Milk & Froth Arrives
What started as a side hustle for a pair of Detroit twenty-somethings has become a mission to...
Read MoreA Liquor Store Takes a Hiatus
Monthly rent approaching $10,000 is to blame for the summer closure of State Street Liquor Store after thirty years at 340 S. State, according to owner Robert Kesto. Renovation of the building is underway. Kesto says he still...
Read MoreThe Thrivery Is Now Blue Whale Cafe
“Everything is just pure food” at Blue Whale Cafe, says owner Christy Kaledas, who has filled out the all-vegetarian menu at the Lamp Post Plaza storefront formerly known as The Thrivery. Kaledas had co-owned and managed the...
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Broadcasting from Briarwood
On Saturday, December 9, shoppers in Briarwood Mall will encounter ringing bells, singing choirs,...
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Inventing the Fleetwood
I opened the Fleetwood Diner on January 6, 1972, at 11 p.m. The late start was to catch people...
Read MoreA Floor Installer Adds a Showroom
Jeff Louden, a flooring installer and refinisher for twenty-three years, has opened a retail showroom for Superior Hardwood Flooring in Scio Township. The family business gets many referrals from nearby Chelsea Plank Flooring,...
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Art on the Wall
Last summer and into the fall, a constellation of crocheted geometric tapestries graced the side...
Read MoreA Pet Care Showcase at Maple Village
Wag N’ Wash, specializing in supplies and services for dogs and cats, has opened a Maple Village location intended to appeal not only to pet owners but also to potential franchisees. “They wanted something close to the corporate...
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Hydrogen Buses?
Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority CEO Matt Carpenter says transit agencies can do two things...
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Onward and Upward with the Comic Opera Guild
In 1963, a fellow U-M art student heard Tom Petiet singing while working in class and suggested...
Read MoreMochinut’s Frantic Launch
A voucher promotion in advance of the new Mochinut franchise near North Campus yielded an impressive 3,500-plus Instagram followers, but also led to hour-long waits and product shortages in its early days. Franchisee Aiden Chae,...
Read MoreQuestion Corner | Dec. 2023
Q. Were automobiles ever manufactured in Ann Arbor? If so, do any of those vehicles survive? A. Automobile manufacturers proliferated in the early years of the industry. In 1908 there were 253 U.S. manufacturers. The Huron River...
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The Rise of Interventional Radiology
As the child of two surgeons growing up in a loving family in Nagpur, India, Shantanu...
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Auto Labs Flourish
“It’s a facility that’s dedicated 100 percent to processing safety defects,” says Benjamin...
Read MoreMadras Masala Reopens on Packard
Gopal Ramanujam is turning one burnt restaurant into two new ones. It brings to mind Nietzsche’s admittedly overused aphorism, “what doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger.” On January 20, the owner of Madras Masala was expecting a...
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Hospital Headwinds
Over the past two decades, Michigan Medicine has grown increasingly dependent on a controversial...
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