Spores Cafe has no seating but offers a range of to-go coffee drinks sourced from Caribbean Roasters of Trinidad & Tobago, where Kasgorgis lived for about a decade. Infusion with mushroom extracts is optional.
Read MoreFive years ago, LaFontaine Automotive Group bought the large parcel at the northwest corner of Wagner and Jackson “without a clear plan of how we were going to activate it,” according to Max Muncey, its director of corporate communications.
Read MoreStaffed entirely by relatives, Rotisserie King features traditional Middle Eastern preparations that may seem like everyday fare here, but even the basmati rice—cooked with tomatoes, onions, and garlic seasonings—is special-occasion food back home, Ebrahim says.
Read MoreA new owner is planning a more casual and affordable Vietnamese restaurant called Saigon Social House, he says. It will combine Taste Kitchen with Van’s adjacent plant-based offshoot Red Lotus (Marketplace Changes, January), which he’ll continue to operate until the new venture is closer to launch.
Read MoreA century-old building near Kerrytown has its first tenant since undergoing major renovations. Bayt Almocha is now the area’s fifth Yemeni coffee shop to open within the past few years. The name translates as “Mocha House,” and it’s not just an allusion to the beverage: founder Abdulla Alysofi and operating partner Rafed Al-Serri grew up near Mocha, the Red Sea port whose coffee exports gave mocha its name.
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Taybor Pepper knows that the National Football League’s initials can also mean “not for long,” so he’s diversifying his career beyond special teams into specialty retail.
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Ji Hye Kim’s upscale Korean restaurant, Miss Kim, has become hard to patronize without making a reservation. The chef-owner wants Little Kim to be “more approachable in both flavor and price point. I just wanted to serve more people.”
Read MoreEven the headless unclad mannequins are 60 percent off at Briarwood Mall’s Eddie Bauer, which will close July 29.
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These aren’t old favorites like Monopoly. These are board games invented by some of those in attendance. Their creators brought them to Sylvan Factory, a hobby store in Westgate, to have others test them out.
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“It will be heartbreaking for a lot of people if it is allowed to dry up and die.”
Read MoreMates watched the passage of President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” in July with alarm. It will slash Medicaid funding by about $1 trillion over ten years—and the “big juicy target” is support for people with disabilities like her son Corbin.
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As a lawyer for the City of Detroit in the 2010s, Savit says, “I saw the ways in which President Trump’s policies had harmed communities—and I also saw the ways in which state attorney generals were uniquely equipped to fight back.” People had been asking him if he planned to run for higher office ever since he was first elected in 2020, and Trump’s return was the tipping point.
Read MoreQ. Why aren’t the wood planks used in the Argo boardwalk and elsewhere in our parks ever painted? Wouldn’t that help them last longer? And what about using composite materials?
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Chelsi Preuc at the Washtenaw County Health Department says that through June, the department received reports of eighty-five cases of Lyme disease, up from fifty in the same period last year.
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Eva Rosenwald, the actress who initiated and is developing the series she calls “Acting Out,” told spectators that actors like to get together to read plays when they’re between productions. Why not read them in public? she wondered. Why not take the opportunity to bring the community together for a free theater experience?
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“It’s probably the biggest sale in town,” says bookseller Gene Alloway. He plans to line up early on Friday, September 5, when the three-day event begins at WCC’s Morris Lawrence Building. “The books are in fine shape,” says the owner of Motte & Bailey Booksellers, “and they have lots of different subjects.”
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Hats. Hats. And more hats!
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Church members, neighbors, and passersby all enjoy seeing the tower, but they will have to live with a shorter one for several months. At almost seventy years old, its spire—the metal section on top—is about to be removed for repair.
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At ten o’clock on a Sunday night, my eighty-six-year-old mother received a call from a girl who sounded like my daughter, then a college student. Crying, the caller said that she had gone to Canada with friends, their car had broken down, and they were stranded without money. Could Grammie please wire $700 right away, so they could get back to campus?
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I spy “the ‘Tree of Life’ statue on the corner of State St. and North University,” writes Catrin Koselka.
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