Kit Bennett
After a long weekend wrangling 5,000 high school scullers at the Midwest Scholastic Rowing...
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2023 June
Judith Ann Walton
Judith Ann Walton, beloved friend, community leader, business partner, colleague, and cat mom, died on April 13, 2023. Jude was born on March 6, 1972 in North London, the child of Peter Walton and Sandra Elizabeth Walton. She...
Read MoreBustaurant Rolls to New Station
The double-decker taco “bustaurant” 1923 has rolled on after seven months in the parking lot at the corner of Miller and First. Its new station, less than a mile away at the southern edge of downtown, features a renovated house...
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Eating the Pig
In October 1974, I attended a dinner party hosted by my friends Ric Burns and Stephen Blos. They...
Read MoreRoot’s Rabbit Hole
The cavernous underground bar most recently known as Root has reopened two nights a week as a music venue with an Alice in Wonderland–inspired concept. Rabbit Hole at Root is now down with DJs and an earthy mix of amaros,...
Read MoreFootprints Moves around the Corner
The timing wasn’t perfect for a bucket brigade of Footprints shoes down the alley behind S. Main. Nevertheless, the longtime downtown retailer expects to reopen in June just steps away at 114 E. Washington. It’s a newly...
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Tickling the Wire
Webster Bivens may have been a drug dealer, but his place in law enforcement history is not...
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Mike Abbott’s Last Spring Surge
After one last “spring surge” of seven-day work weeks through peak gardening season, Mike Abbott...
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Sunny Chapel Is Tired but Happy
Sunny Chapel has already started two very different companies in 2023— her second consultancy as a...
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The Office Glut Comes Home
When Covid shut down Michigan’s economy in March 2020, 400 DTE employees fled from the high-rise...
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Hungry for More
When Ajumma sent me a text message asking me to call her, I was worried that there was an...
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The Ypsi-Ann Drive-In Theatre
For three decades the tower supporting the screen of the Ypsi-Ann Drive-In Theatre loomed over...
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Seventy-five Years Ago This Month
Seventy-five years ago: In June 1948, Ann Arbor theaters were in transition. The Majestic Theater...
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“A Very Odd Experience”
“A very odd experience”: That’s how Shutta Crum describes her recent encounter with the...
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A Parking Glut?
The pandemic’s aftereffects continue to reverberate downtown. When employees were sent home with...
Read MoreQuestion Corner | June 2023
Q. I’m seeing signs around town that temporarily prohibit parking for street sweeping. How often does Ann Arbor sweep its streets? A. Street sweeping has many benefits: besides making the streets look better, it lowers pollutant...
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Good News/Bad News
It should have been the best of news for the Ann Arbor–based biotech company. On March 4, the New...
Read MoreFewer Forfeitures
That was in the 1990s, when the future Ann Arbor state senator was still a U-M undergrad. But civil assets forfeitures—police agencies seizing property they believe was involved in drug dealing and other crimes—were still...
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Coffee and Cocktails
Ann Arbor restaurants are awash in workers with wide-ranging resumes, but few can match Terry...
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