Not many people know this, but the Fake Ad Czar’s single favorite line ever on Saturday Night Live was when Kate McKinnon, portraying an Australian actress playing a death bed scene, was asked if she had any last words. In a terribly exaggerated, inaccurate Australian accent, McKinnon responds, “Kangaroo, I guess.”
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Buff City Soap distributed over 10,000 product samples before their August 25 opening, and it...
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“Those flowers (I always think of them as asparagus) flanked the door next to a long gone and lamented bookshop on State St.,” says Spencer Thomas. “I really like that doorway design,” writes David Karl, adding that it always makes him smile remembering the late Karl Pohrt’s “amazing” Shaman Drum Bookshop.
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6/27/30–11/6/22 William (Bill) R. Solomon passed away peacefully the morning of November 6, 2022....
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To the pioneer settlers of Washtenaw County and Ann Arbor in 1829, a newspaper was much more than...
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Jim was born in LaPorte, Indiana on May 22, 1956, the youngest of four children. He lost a...
Read MoreStairway to Heaven, a student-focused store that inadvertently became a head shop, closed September 30 after thirty-five years in business, a casualty of the pandemic. Arleen Kosak chose the Led Zeppelin song title for the...
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