FestiFools Returns
“I felt some community responsibility to bring it back,” says Tucker, who’s art director and...
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2024 January
Fired for CBD
“Do you have a medical marijuana card?” asked a woman from HireRight, the company the U-M uses for...
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Lowertown, at Last
For a city aiming for carbon neutrality by 2030, the story behind Lowertown Bar & Cafe serves...
Read MoreQuestion Corner | Jan. 2024
Q. I have a question about the Gelman Plume cleanup. After contaminated groundwater is treated to reduce dioxane levels, it is discharged into a tributary of Honey Creek, which joins the Huron River upstream from Ann Arbor’s...
Read MoreCalls & Letters | Jan. 2024
To the editor: Your story in the December 2023 issue, Hospital Headwinds, was a missed opportunity to detail the tremendous impact of the University of Michigan Health specialty pharmacy program. Expanding our pharmacy will...
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Fading Away
The 501(c)(3) charity has given scholarships to more than 500 students, but lately, “we were...
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Mallek’s Mystery
Mallek’s Service closed in June of 2022, after eighty-one years pumping gas and fixing cars at the...
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Christmas Venison Cookbook
“Only someone as cold as Walter Hobbs, Buddy’s mercenary biological father in Elf, could write a Christmas reindeer meat cookbook!”
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Avis Obelisk
“It was erected in 1998 by Warren Avis … the founder of Avis Car Rentals,” writes David Karl.
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SI on S. Ashley?
Michael Watts found out about the proposed sixteen-story building outside his back window in late...
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A Hungry Locavore
For every dollar American consumers spent on produce, dairy, and meat products in 2022, the...
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Saving the Speakeasy
For almost thirty years Johnny Williams hosted concerts in the basement of his home on Dexter Rd....
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Taylor’s PAC
“Mayors all over America have PACs, and I have not had one,” says Christopher Taylor. Not until...
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Barbara McQuade
Jerry Israel first spotted Barbara McQuade’s potential in 1989, when she took his first-year...
Read MoreKouZina and Carite have closed
“This is a pretty big bummer actually, because it was totally out of my control,” says Will Faison, general manager of the downtown Moosejaw, which will close on January 17. The specialty outdoor retail chain, known for its...
Read MoreExotic Bakeries Goes Virtual
A family business in Ann Arbor for more than three decades suddenly lost its Courtyard Shops home last fall. According to a Facebook post, Exotic Bakeries & Syrian Cuisine brought in an investor in hopes of stabilizing the...
Read MoreBin & Pallet is now Graham’s Upscale Liquidation
After five months as the sole franchisee of the Bin & Pallet Company (Marketplace Changes, September), Sara Graham is “parting ways amicably” and rebranding as Graham’s Upscale Liquidation Store. Rather than relying on...
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Do the Humanities Have a Future?
A distraught woman stares into the middle distance against an ominous red background; from a jagged voice bubble comes her anguished cry: “… NOW WHAT?”
Read MoreTous Les Jours arrives in Westgate
Featuring the fusion of French- and Asian-inspired baked goods, Tous Les Jours opened in November in the Westgate-adjacent building fronted by Lewis Jewelers. Translated as “every day,” Tous Les Jours offers an appealing array...
Read MoreMin Kyu Kim Goes Next Level
Last month’s Marketplace Changes featured Min Kyu Kim, the young restaurantrepreneur (to coin a portmanteau) who’d just opened his ninth Kimchi Box fast-casual eatery on Plymouth Rd. He hasn’t dropped his dream of expanding...
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