Madras Masala was in its twentieth year as a full-service Indian restaurant with a popular lunch buffet. Vape City had shared its Maynard St. building for fewer than two years when both businesses went up in smoke the morning of...
Read MoreVerbena, the student-focused women’s clothing boutique at 309 S. State St. since 2014, is expected to close by the end of February. The store was a father-daughter partnership between longtime Ann Arbor businessman Bob Duerksen...
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How did a photo of Ruth Reynolds’ refrigerator end up at MoMA? Location, location, location. In...
Read MoreOn Ellsworth, the party store near University Townhouses has transitioned from liquor to ganja: After an extensive renovation, it’s now Dispo. Though nine other Michigan locations share the name, Dispo (short for “dispensary”)...
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Peace Neighborhood Center is on the west side of Ann Arbor, yet sixty to seventy percent of its...
Read MoreIt’s been fourteen years since Michigan voters approved medical marijuana and just three since they opened the door to recreational sales, but already the decades of prohibition are taking on a retrospective glow. Before bud...
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February’s Ann Arbor climate hero, Bill Razgunas, set up a recycling program at an apartment...
Read MoreQ. Has the Ann Arbor Municipal Airport banned leaded fuel in aircraft flying into/out of the airport? A. No. The airport manager, who asked not to be named, says that most of the planes using the airport have piston engines that...
Read MoreMike Kelleher already had one heyday, as a captain on the Huron High School football team that made it to the state finals for the only time in school history back in 1997. A quarter-century later, he’s back for another. Heyday...
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We received only eighty-three entries correctly identifying the Fake Ad for Everything in Moderation Life Coaching on page 80 of the February Observer. That might be because of where it was placed: hidden among the service ads on a page after the Back Page (not sure how that’s even possible).
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